Direct Action

Greenpeace protesters scale Unilever headquarters in plastic pollution protest.

A new fundraiser has been launched to support Jan Goodey with everyday costs of living and legal fees this Christmas.

Activists are facing repression and the fossil economy is fighting to grow - there is no point crying over spilt soup.

Extinction Rebellion is to target five UK cities with civil disobedience in July in a bid to force politicians to take faster action on climate change.

'The police are right to treat the area like a crime scene. But the real crime is not what our volunteers are doing...'

The campaigners are demanding that BP immediately ends all exploration for new oil and gas.

A legal support organisation ends work with Extinction Rebellion (XR) following 'serious concerns' about the safety of protesters.

New XR recruit describes how rebellion has brought her fresh hope.

Children lead Greenpeace action at Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders gala dinner.

We must rebel against capitalism's destruction of our common future.

Gas-related earthquakes stirred Groningers into action a long time ago, but they are now joined by over 700 activists from all over Europe, who put their bodies before a crucial gate for tankers right now. NICK MEYNEN reports

Extinction Rebellion is a new group advocating for direct action to confront climate change. ROGER HALLAM reports

Police have arrested two activists taking part in a protest against an open cast coal mine in County Durham. Campaigners claim the eviction could collapse tunnels and injure protesters inside. CATHERINE EARLY reports

A new interactive map shows the rise of Blockadia - the direct-action phenomenon of people putting their bodies in the way of fossil fuel projects. Co-ordinators ALICE OWEN and DARIA RIVIN provide an insiders' guide.

The women said they had travelled from Leeds for fear of impact on water supplies and treatment after discovering that waste water from the Cuadrilla site would be travelling to the Knostrop treatment works in Leeds.

Marie Mason is five years into a 22-year sentence for participating in non-violent - but highly destructive - actions with the Earth Liberation Front. David Rovics met with her at the Carswell Federal Women's Prison in Fort Worth, Texas.

The unspoilt pastoral landscape of Transylvania is the latest battlefield in the war against aggressive fossil energy extraction. Jim Wickens reports on the farming communities fighting back against multinational energy companies.

After the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks, the undercover police scandal, the disbanding of Climate Camp - and the sudden rise of UK Uncut - Bibi van der Zee takes the temperature of Britain's green activism movement

A new film launching on July 15th gives an in-depth look inside the clandestine world of environmental direct action

The Earth Liberation Front targeted dozens of businesses they accused of destroying the environment. As a new film charting its rise and fall premieres in the US, Matilda Lee speaks to director Marshall Curry about the fine line between activism and terrorism

Top tips on getting and sustaining media attention for your campaign, from one of the leading campaigners around...

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Eifion Rees reports on the video journalists producing environmental and social justice films that influence public opinion - and consistently get closer to the issues than the mainstream media

'Is it art?', a bystander asked of the demonstration against a ceremony at the Tate celebrating BP's support for British art. A good question - if it ain't, it's certainly effective