Posts Tagged ‘protests’

• Heavy anti-nuclear protests in Germany

  These past days there have been heavy protests and blockades in Germany against a train carrying nuclear waste from France. Der Spiegel writes: "A train loaded with radioactive waste ended its controversial journey through Germany on Monday. Its path had …

• Unknown People in Masks and Police Attack Environmentalists in Russia

  As seen on Global Voices: Russia: Unknown People in Masks and Police Attack Environmentalists From 20 to 40 young people in white masks attacked the camp of the defenders of the Khimki forest park [RUS], Igor Podgorny [RUS] and Novaya …

• Naomi Klein: We want a good deal. And that’s what tomorrows demonstration is going to be about.

  Tomorrow morning another large and important demonstration will be held in Copenhagen. This time the Climate Justice Action network is organizing a huge non-violent demonstration where the demonstrators are planning to march into the Bella Center, where the climate talks …

• Atomkraft? Nein danke! 50.000 people protest against nuclear energy in Germany

  This past weekend around 50 000 people from around Germany protested in Berlin against nuclear energy. The demonstrators protested against threats from the current right wing government to extend a deadline for the country’s 17 nuclear reactors. “In Berlin an …

• We are twittering about G8 and climate action today!

  So much is happening today in and around Italy as the G8 meeting is taking place. That is why we are trying out something new here on Green Blog. We will be reporting about all the climate-related news coming from …

• Watch: Greenpeace activist violently attacked by bluefin tuna fishermen

  John Hocevar, from Greenpeace’s flagship the Rainbow Warrior, writes about the assault on the Greenpeace staff blog: “We are in Valletta Harbor in Malta. We learned that there were two vessels here owned by Fuentes, the tuna tycoon who controls …

• Indigenous Peruvians and police in deadly clashes at oil and mining protests

  Sometimes researchers are blamed of being alarmists stirring up fears of a fictional dystopia by the business-as-usual crowd. But it seems a forewarning of conflict over oil in Peru is proceeding according to exactly such a warning. The news first… …

• Highway madness in Sweden faces protests from climate activists

  The banners says: “Stop detour Stockholm” And: “A climate catastrophe is being built here. Stop the sham. We want to bicycle.”. Photos by: Klimax If the third runway in the UK is the proof of the country’s climate hypocrisy then …

• Unlawful, repressive and disproportionate policing at Kingsnorth Climate Camp

  After the Kingsnorth Climate Camp in August last year I heard that the police had been in overwhelming numbers and that there had been some “clashes” with the protestors. But I could never imagine how ruthless the actions from the …

• Environmental activists violently attacked by timber workers

  Peaceful environmental activists who were protecting an old-growth forest in Tasmania, Australia, have been violently attacked by timber workers as they were blocking the road for them. The timber workers attacked the car that the protestors were using to block …