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Activism

July 2024

  • Climate activists demonstrate inside the Science Museum against sponsorship by Equinor, BP and Adani

    London’s Science Museum forced to cut ties with oil giant – and faces pressure over other sponsors

    Campaigners welcome ‘seismic shift’ and urge museum bosses to review links with other fossil fuel sponsors
  • A figure holding a light while another cringes behind prison bars

    Leading questions
    I feel despair about the state of the world. How can I find the courage to not abandon hope?

    Hope is something we choose – and sustain for the sake of others, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Seek out others who are looking for reasons to keep going
    • 'Spy cops' scandal
      Spy cop who led special branch admits wrongly accusing activist of bomb plot

    • ‘Our backs are against the wall’: French grassroots mobilise against far right

    • Other lives
      Joan Winfield obituary

June 2024

  • Advertising for Baillie Gifford at the Hay Festival.

    Baillie Gifford boycotts achieve nothing

  • Tom Jeffreys

    Our Baillie Gifford boycotts aren’t about tearing down the arts – they’re about building them up

    Tom Jeffreys
  • Pilgrims wearing fluorescent vests and carrying Palestinian flags

    The rural network, Victoria
    A Gaza ceasefire pilgrimage walks 45km through central Victoria – in pictures

  • Martha Gill

    Woke capitalism is not to be sneered at. Gen Z is a mighty force for change

    Martha Gill
  • New York’s Fat Beach Day gives plus-size people a space to be themselves

  • Kenya’s first nuclear plant: why plans face fierce opposition in country’s coastal paradise

  • Ugandan oil pipeline protester allegedly beaten as part of ‘alarming crackdown’

  • Baillie Gifford book festival protesters are losing the plot

  • ‘It’s our duty to fight for freedom’: the Los Angeles teen who fought for change and won

  • Nils Pratley on finance
    Book festival activists are making absurd demands over Baillie Gifford

    Nils Pratley
  • ‘It’s all we have’: young climate activists on the state of politics around the world

  • Climate activist defaces Monet painting in Paris

May 2024

  • A crowd of activists stand behind two large banners that say 'democracy on the streets' and 'together for climate justice'. Some people hold large yellow stars with slogans including 'defend democracy', 'climate justice' and 'protect human rights'. Signs advertising the European elections are visible on buildings in the background

    Activists hold three-day protest in EU election run-up as green agenda slips

    Campaign groups in 127 cities demand urgent climate action amid fears of far-right gains
  • A police officer carries materials gathered during the search of a building in Berlin after a Letzte Generation protest in 2023.

    Alarm as German climate activists charged with ‘forming a criminal organisation’

    Action against Letzte Generation could have ‘immense chilling effect’ on climate protest, campaigners say
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Why is New York University making protesters watch The Simpsons as punishment?

    Arwa Mahdawi
    In what a professor calls an ‘intellectual embarrassment’, the school is requiring students to complete a bizarre training
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