Category: Reposts
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Volunteers uncover £50 million from Oil, Arms and Big Pharma
People & Planet volunteers are starting to uncover the hidden connections between research and corporations at our Universities. Freedom of information requests sent to 17 universities shed light on £50.7 million of funding from the UK’s five biggest oil, weapons, and pharmaceutical companies. This includes research grants of £5.2 m from oil company BP and £2.7 m…
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France v Mexico: 600,000 pesos is a lot for a pastry shop
In 1838 in a period of unrest during the fledgling years of the Mexican Republic, a French pastry chef living in Mexico City had his shop destroyed by looting soldiers. Receiving no sympathy from the Mexican Government, he turned to his native France for assistance. Paris responded by demanding 600,000 Pesos from Mexico in compensation…
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From Facebook to the Streets: The Humble Spray Can Still Holds its Charm
Don’t just vote with a cross (seen in Hereford). The internet is a wonderful place to share ideas. It’s an even better place for sharing inane crap. Sometimes the two crash together to create something quite brilliant, like wikipedia and last month’s hilarious tory-advert meddling at Mydavidcameron.com. The net’s utterly anarchic structure, having something of…
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Message to RBS: We’re Just Getting Started
People & Planet joined by scores of others at the RBS Week of Action In 2007 People & Planet and Platform launched a campaign for the Royal Bank of Scotland to stop funding fossil fuel extraction and “ditch dirty development”, with groups across the country putting on talks, asking difficult questions at careers fairs, protesting…
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Mass Action Disables UK’s 3rd Largest CO2 Emitter
People & Planet members peacefully encircled Ratcliffe-on-Sour coal-fired power station in Nottinghamshire last weekend in a public attempt to shut down the site. Many members of the protest, known as “the Great Climate Swoop” [1], successfully removed sections of fence and entered the station, the 3rd largest source of CO2 in the UK. Sources are…
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G20: Our Record of Events
18 March 2019. Some Indymedia content has started to dissapear from the web, so I have copied remaining sources into the body of the article. This is a collection of stories about the G20 actions on the 1st and 2nd of April created by Panda members. Giving them a proper read if you can, as…
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You don’t need a weatherman…
…to know which way the wind blows (so said Mr. Dylan). That’s right, you don’t need a weatherman, you need me: this is my first post of Activist Winds, my point source emission-contribution to the activist babble. And the title of this post (a reference to the militant off-shoot of the 60s US student peace…