Tag: Climate Protest
Climate activist ‘Violet’ Coco’s quashed jail sentence highlights police lies
Australian climate emergency protester Deanna “Violet” Coco last week won her appeal ato the delight of supporters. A 15-month jail sentence imposed on her...
‘It’s time to be the crowd’, Knitting Nannas tell protest against...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Wendy Bacon in Sydney
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is pleased that a Sydney magistrate jailed protester Deanna "Violet" Coco on Friday. But...
Fiji police block Suva climate change march marking COP26 protests
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Police stopped a climate change march in Suva today and forced activists to remove their banners.
They also warned demonstrators against making...
Oil companies get caught spying on NZ children and the story...
COMMENT: By Martyn Bradbury
Less than 24 hours after New Zealand investigative journalist Nicky Hager’s latest extraordinary story of how oil companies have been spying...
Big week for climate action rallies and democracy – pro-coal in...
By Megan Darby of Climate Home News
It has been a big week for democracy, starting with a pro-coal verdict in Australia and ending with...
‘We haven’t known a world without climate change’ – school strikers
By Natalie Sauer in London and Rachel Waldholz in Berlin
In more than 100 countries on Friday, young people spilled out of schools and into...
Thousands of NZ students demand urgent climate action
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Thousands of school students, teachers and climate advocates gathered at cities across New Zealand today to kickstart the global Strike 4...
Students across NZ to kick off global climate change day of...
By Hannah Williams of Te Waha Nui
Students across New Zealand are striking today as part of a worldwide day of action over global warming...
NZ climate change protesters blockade oil conference in Taranaki
Climate change protesters blockaded the Petroleum Summit in the New Zealand city of New Plymouth today where the government was expected to announce the...
Crime scandal shows NZ’s climate policy is ‘hot air’, says Greenpeace
Greenpeace New Zealand has called for the "linchpin" of New Zealand’s climate policy to be thrown out following a report released today that shows...
Protests mount over massacre of Filipino farmers in climate demo
WARNING: Shocking images. Citizen video footage of the Philippines security forces in their increasingly savage use of force against the protesting farmers. Video: Kilab...
Images: Climate change advocacy brings colour, vibrancy to SkyCity protest
Asia Pacific Report photographer Del Abcede captures some colourful and poignant moments at today's SkyCity climate change protest against the New Zealand Petroleum Conference.
Images: Police mount ‘Operation Drag’ to remove protesters inside Sky City
Most news media took pictures of the climate change "civil disobedience" protest today at vantage points outside the SkyCity Auckland Convention Centre.
But Asia Pacific...
Climate change activists stage singing blockade at NZ oil summit
"I hear the voice of my granddaughter saying climate action now," sing protesters at the main entrance to the SkyCity convention centre. Video: Del...
Climate change protesters blockade oil summit in Auckland’s Sky City
More than 200 protesters converged on New Zealand’s largest oil industry conference at dawn today, blockading its entrances as part of a Greenpeace-organised demonstration...
Hundreds protest at oil conference – #Real Climate Action live news...
LIVE NEWSFEED: Peaceful civil disobedience in Auckland, March 21 - Greenpeace
Hundreds of climate change protesters were today blockading entrance to the oil industry conference...
‘Stand up for our planet’ plea by 350.org founder Bill McKibben
350.org founder Bill McKibben's message to New Zealand. Video: Greenpeace NZ
Environmentalist Bill McKibben today appealed to New Zealanders to take part in peaceful civil...
‘Life and death’ climate action needed now after February heat spike
The month of February has experienced a whopping temperature rise not seen before in the history of record-keeping, according to just-released global satellite data,...
Climate Warrior: ‘It’s scary … you’ve seen what they do to...
By Thomas Leaycraft of Scoop
Praying for action on climate change and a kava ceremony in the heart of the Catholic Church were all part...