Police have raided a Quaker meeting house and arrested six women attending a gathering of the protest group Youth Demand. Youth Demand describes itself as “a youth-led nonviolent civil resistance campaign…Continue readingMet raids Quaker meeting house and arrests six women at Youth Demand talk
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In a two-day hearing last month, the activists, who were jailed for taking part in various disruptive protests in 2022, argued that their trial judges had erred by failing to offer…Continue readingJust Stop Oil protesters’ jail sentences shortened after appeal
The Burrup Peninsula, in Western Australia’s northwest, known as Murujuga to traditional owners, contains the world’s largest and oldest collection of petroglyphs. Disrupt Burrup Hub claims Woodside’s operations in the area…Continue readingClimate activists fined over protest outside Woodside boss Meg O’Neill’s Perth home
I was one of a group of Just Stop Oil activists given the longest-ever UK sentences for peaceful protest after blocking a motorway. Six months into my incarceration, this is what…Continue readingWhat the UK government does to those who protest against fossil fuel production
On the issue of oppressive laws, Australia has become something of a leader. Novel pieces of legislation that chip away and smother civil liberties is something of a speciality down under, encouraged…Continue readingTargeting Climate Change Protests
A climate activist who graffitied the word “liar” on the federal environment minister’s office has stood by his highly publicised actions, urging the public to stand up for their beliefs. The…Continue readingClimate activist who graffitied Tanya Plibersek’s office says he stands by his actions
A 77-year-old environmental activist will spend Christmas in prison despite having been released on an electronic tag, because the authorities cannot find an electronic device small enough to fit her wrists.…Continue readingElderly activist to spend Christmas in prison because tag does not fit
Forty people, aged from 22 to 58, will be behind bars on Christmas Day for planning or taking part in a variety of protests relating to the climate crisis or the…Continue readingRecord number of protesters will be in UK prisons this Christmas
British police arrest environmental protesters at nearly three times the global average rate, research has found, revealing the country as a world leader in the legal crackdown on climate activism. Only…Continue readingBritain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds
More than 20 Rising Tide protesters have been arrested for blocking a road to federal Parliament House after they took their protest from Newcastle to Canberra on Wednesday. It comes after…Continue readingRising Tide protesters arrested in Canberra for blocking road to Parliament House
Protesters formed a “blockade” in the Port of Newcastle on Sunday in the third day of unrest, calling on the federal government to rule out new coal and gas mines and…Continue readingPolice arrest 170 at NSW Rising Tide protest as activists temporarily block coal ships
Australia and Turkey are vying to host COP31, and the Australian government hopes Turkey will exit the race in time for an announcement before next week. The hypocrisy of Australia’s bid…Continue readingClimate criminal Australia competes to host Climate-COP
A plan by climate activists to shut down the Port of Newcastle for 50 hours has been challenged by New South Wales police who have argued in a court challenge against…Continue readingNSW police take legal action to prevent climate activists blockading Port of Newcastle
Since 2016, 21 [US] states have passed a total of 56 laws criminalizing protest or dramatically increasing the penalties for engaging in it. The state of Alabama, for example, can now punish a…Continue readingOutrageous Anti-Protest Laws Can’t Silence the Climate Movement
The sentences were handed down just as Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina. As homes were smashed, trucks swept down roads that had turned into rivers and residents were killed, in the…Continue readingAs the waters rise, a two-year sentence for throwing soup. That’s the farcical reality of British justice.
Two young climate activists shocked the world in October 2022 when they flung cans of tomato soup over the renowned painting “Sunflowers” by Vincent van Gogh. Now, Phoebe Plummer, 23, and…Continue readingClimate activists throw soup on two Van Goghs, just hours after others are sentenced to jail
A new international coalition is disrupting airports to make one demand: the adoption of a treaty to end fossil fuels by 2030. Under the banner Oil Kills, small groups of activists…Continue readingOil Kills: Inside the International Uprising Disrupting the Aviation Industry
Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth have accused police of acting as “private security” for the UK’s biggest carbon emitter after dozens of pre-emptive arrests forced the cancellation of a climate…Continue readingPolice acting as ‘private security’ for Drax power station, say climate activists
A 20-month prison sentence handed to a 77-year-old woman for a climate protest on the M25 is disproportionate, unjust and a waste of resources, the Green MP Carla Denyer has said.…Continue readingJail term for climate protester, 77, is disproportionate
Protesters from Letzte Generation – Germany’s equivalent to Just Stop Oil – gained access on Thursday to airfields in areas near the takeoff and landing strips of Cologne-Bonn, Nuremberg, Berlin Brandenburg…Continue readingGerman climate activists stop air traffic after breaking into four airport sites
Climate activists acting under the banner “oil kills” have glued themselves to the tarmac and grounded flights across Europe as holidaymakers attempt to make summer getaways. In a wave of protests…Continue reading‘Oil Kills’ protesters disrupt flights at airports across Europe in wave of action
Roger Hallam, Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu and Cressida Gethin were found guilty last week of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance for coordinating direct action protests on…Continue readingFive Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Brad Homewood describes his first steps into a maximum security facility, where he spent the first three weeks of a two-month jail sentence, as intimidating. “You’re in there with the worst…Continue readingClimate activists have received months-long sentences. Are tougher laws eroding Australians’ right to protest?
A rolling series of protests has seen at least 26 people arrested – and more than 200 passenger trains cancelled – over a two-week period. Planned by Blockade Australia, whose protest…Continue readingBlockade Australia plans more climate protests disrupting Newcastle trains, saying disobedience is the only option
The laws, which have been passed in the majority of Australian states, have drawn international scrutiny. For example, global NGO, Human Rights Watch, found last year that the state of New…Continue readingBeware the criminalisation of environmental protest in Australia
An activist with an environmental group campaigning to block a $5bn internationally financed oil pipeline running through Uganda has been released from detention, his employer says. The Environmental Governance Institute (EGI)…Continue readingDetained Uganda anti-pipeline activist released
The head of TotalEnergies has told shareholders that new oilfields have to be developed to meet global demand, as the annual meetings of the French energy giant and one of its…Continue readingNearly 175 arrested as climate protesters target France’s TotalEnergies and key investor
Five members of Letzte Generation, Germany’s equivalent to Just Stop Oil, have been charged with “forming a criminal organisation”. Mirjam Herrmann, 27, Henning Jeschke, 22, Edmund Schulz, 60, Lukas Popp, 25,…Continue readingAlarm as German climate activists charged with ‘forming a criminal organisation’
Two Just Stop Oil protesters have smashed the glass around Magna Carta at the British Library. The Rev Sue Parfitt, 82, and Judy Bruce, 85, a retired biology teacher, targeted the…Continue readingTwo Just Stop Oil protesters attack Magna Carta’s glass case
A doctor who went to jail after a series of climate protests has been taken off the medical register for five months – and still faces being permanently struck off. The…Continue readingRetired UK GP suspended for five months after climate protests
Climate activists in four countries are blocking access to North Sea oil infrastructure as part of a coordinated pan-European civil disobedience protest. Blockades have been taking place at oil and gas…Continue readingClimate activists across Europe block access to North Sea oil infrastructure
Three people have been charged after climate activist Deanna “Violet” Coco and others allegedly used a truck to cause traffic chaos on Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge. Extinction Rebellion members allegedly parked…Continue readingThree charged after climate activist Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco and others block traffic on Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge
A climate activist has been jailed for six months after pleading guilty to taking part in a peaceful slow march protest on a London road. The sentence handed to Stephen Gingell,…Continue readingJust Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march
Two women climbed in the dark down the banks of the Greenbrier River in West Virginia on Thursday morning and locked themselves to a massive drill, stopping work on a controversial…Continue readingUS climate scientist risks felony by chaining herself to pipeline drill
The French government is to shut down a climate protest group over a series of recent demonstrations citing risks to public safety, as the environmental activists called the decision “political and…Continue readingFrance to shut down climate protest group citing public safety risks
All articles sourced from the Adelaide Advertiser, dated May 19, 2023.Continue readingNews Corp endorses the Australian gas industry
If your house was burning down and the emergency services were not answering your call, what would you do? Would you try to put out the fire yourself? This is what…Continue readingThe Tories are going all out to shut down protest. Just Stop Oil activists like me will not be deterred