Blockade Australia protesters charged under Perrottet government crackdown receive only minor penalties
Protesters who faced a $22,000 fine or two years in prison for demonstrating in Sydney under tough laws championed by the Perrottet government have instead walked away without convictions or with modest financial penalties, a lawyer for the activists says….
Students occupy schools and universities across Europe in climate protest
A wave of student occupations has shut down schools and universities across Europe as part of a renewed youth protest campaign against inaction on climate breakdown. Twenty-two schools and universities across the continent have been occupied as part of a…
Fire and concrete: will France’s model of radical climate protest catch on?
In the UK, when climate activists want to block a road, they sit down on it. When their fellow activists in France want to do the same, they build a wall across one side, and set the other side on…
How Tasmania’s anti-protest laws drove Bob Brown back to frontline activism
This isn’t what Bob Brown had planned. At 78, the man who launched the Australian Greens and whose decades of activism remain a lodestar for much of the country’s conservation movement had imagined a shifting focus in the final act…
North Sea drilling: Greenpeace prepares to challenge ‘disastrous’ UK decision
Greenpeace has attacked the government’s “disastrous” decision to award new licences for oil and gas drilling in the North Sea as it prepares to challenge the move in the high court. A court hearing on Tuesday will determine whether the…
Climate protesters gather in Parliament Square as fossil fuel deadline passes
After four days of peaceful demonstrations, climate activists gathered in Parliament Square as a deadline for the government to act to end all new fossil fuel projects was reached. The actions involved a wide range of groups, including Extinction Rebellion,…
‘Appalling’ Earth Day greenwashing must not detract from message, says protest founder
Corporate greenwashing should not undermine the message behind Earth Day and has nothing to do with its original aims, one of the founders of the annual environmental event has warned. Denis Hayes, the American environmental activist who coordinated the first…
Big tent for the Big One: Extinction Rebellion shows softer side in London protest
Thousands of climate protesters picketed government departments and filled the streets of Westminster on the first day of the Big One, a mass demonstration by 200 different groups headed by Extinction Rebellion (XR). The goal was to build a wide…
Climate diplomacy is hopeless, says author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline
International climate diplomacy is hopeless, the author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline has said, as the film adaptation of the radical environmentalist book is released. As activists around the world take increasingly desperate actions against destructive projects, Andreas…
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