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Tag: United Kingdom

“Everything must change:” Drone action with picnic at Heathrow Airport

20 May 2019 Mik Aidt World affairs

Video from three EU election candidates’ press conference at Heathrow Airport in United Kingdom, calling for Heathrow Airport to pause all flights.

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School-strikers inspire governments to declare a climate emergency

2 May 2019 Mik Aidt World affairs

On 1 May 2019, the British Labour party moved a non-binding motion in the House of Commons to declare ‘an environment and climate emergency’, which was passed by members of the Parliament across the floor.

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No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response

26 April 2019 Mik Aidt Recommendation, World affairs

“It is our responsibility to act with clear urgency to protect the planet and all its inhabitants. We are rebelling for life, for our future, for the future of all species.”~ Extinction Rebellion “From this moment despair ends and tactics

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British arts organisations declare a climate emergency

11 April 2019 Mik Aidt World affairs

More than 190 UK institutions and individuals from the arts and culture sectors have pledged to declare a climate emergency and in this way become part of a first wave of climate emergency declarers in the country.

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Why you should be concerned about ‘fracking’

13 July 2014 Mik Aidt Recommendation 6 comments

‘Fracking’ is moving in — very possibly to an area near you. People all over the planet are protesting against it. In the UK, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Romania, Argentina, South Africa, and also increasingly in the United States and

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Uprise among artists against ‘dirty oil money’

30 August 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary, World affairs One comment

Art and oil. More and more artists are starting to speak up against the fossil fuel industry. While students are putting pressure on their colleges and universities to divest – dis-invest – in fossil fuel projects, others are putting pressure

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World leaders: ‘No, we will not get our act together’

3 April 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary, Petition 2 comments

In this blog-post I explain why — in our efforts to create climate safety — I believe we must focus less on our politicians and more on the public, the popular and the personal. In particular the youth movements and

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