Protest - Revolt

13/04/23
Author: 
Julia Conley
A woman takes part in a protest against fracked gas exports on June 15, 2022 in New York. (Photo: John Smith/VIEWpress)

Apr. 12, 2023

"Every LNG terminal that comes online risks locking in decades of avoidable climate pollution and environmental injustice."

Ahead of a planned global summit on the climate and environment in Japan, campaigners on Wednesday urged the Biden administration to resist pressure from Japanese officials to expand public investments in liquefied natural gas, which is derived from fracking and the drilling of oil and gas wells, warning that proponents have wrongly claimed the gas is a "clean" alternative to other fossil fuels.

08/04/23
Author: 
Sanjana Karanth and Chris McGonigal
Railway workers and others storm a building containing an office for U.S. financial company BlackRock on Thursday in Paris.VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS

Apr. 6, 2023

08/04/23
Author: 
David Klein ,
Environmental activists chain themselves to construction equipment at a Line 3 pipeline pumping station near Itasca State Park, Minnesota, on June 7, 2021. KEREM YUCEL / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Apr. 7, 2023

As corporations build fossil fuel infrastructure despite protests, we must take the tactic of sabotage seriously.

The environmental movement has offered waves of demonstrations, petition drives, lobbying and other forms of protest. Yet, despite all that, Earth and its inhabitants are losing the war waged against us by capitalism. It follows that a reevaluation of strategy and tactics of the environmental movement is in order, including a closer examination of how nonviolence should be understood and practiced.

06/04/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs Gisdaya and Na'Moks and other representatives from the nation attend RBC's annual shareholder meeting in Saskatoon on April 5, 2023. Photo by Katie Wilson

Apr. 6, 2023

Indigenous leaders and climate advocates say they were met with the “highest insult” Wednesday as security guards turned them away from the main room of RBC's annual shareholder meeting in Saskatoon.

31/03/23
Author: 
Angelique Chrisafis
Protests in Nantes, western France, against Macron's attempts to change the official retirement age. Photograph: Jeremías González/AP

Mar. 28, 2023

Fury over policing tactics has changed dimension of protests against plan to raise retirement age

The depth of the domestic crisis facing Emmanuel Macron can be measured by the growing university barricades and packed student assemblies where angry young people have gathered in recent days to intensify protests and help teenage high-school pupils blockade their lycées.

20/03/23
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Vancouverites protesting in 2018 after Trudeau pledged $4.5 billion to buy Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The public cost has leapt to $30.9 billion. Photo by Darryl Dyck via The Canadian Press.

Mar. 20, 2023

Shameless spin can’t excuse the burgeoning boondoggle and ‘global warming machine’ called TMX.

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