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Only 5% of UK universities are taking investment in renewables seriously

Chris Saltmarsh 17 July 2019 Only 5% of UK universities are taking investment in renewables seriously2019-07-17T19:30:26+01:00 Comment No Comment
Image credit: Creative Commons, Tom Corser People & Planet has revealed the universities leading the UK higher education sector in investment in renewable energy. The student activist network has published…
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Police disruption of the boat race protest shows our movement is too powerful to ignore

Alice Gilderdale 9 April 2019 Police disruption of the boat race protest shows our movement is too powerful to ignore2019-04-09T21:13:27+01:00 Comment 1 Comment
Image credit: Cambridge Zero Carbon (This image is of the 2018 boat race protest) ‘Oxbridge Come Clean’ was the message we planned to unfurl across Hammersmith Bridge during the 2019…
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Police disrupt student divestment protest at Oxbridge boat race

Chris Jarvis 7 April 2019 Police disrupt student divestment protest at Oxbridge boat race2019-04-15T16:29:39+01:00 News No Comment
Image credit: Cambridge Zero Carbon (This image is of the 2018 boat race protest) More than 50 students, representing Oxford Climate Justice Campaign and Cambridge Zero Carbon Society, today attended…
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Meet the students overseeing People & Planet’s radical campus organising

J Clarke 21 March 2019 Meet the students overseeing People & Planet’s radical campus organising2019-03-23T19:51:32+00:00 Features No Comment
Image credit: People & Planet The People & Planet network has elected four new Student Trustees to guide the radical organisation for the next two years. They will join nine…
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Momentum members join fight against Barclays’ fossil fuel funding

Chris Saltmarsh 21 March 2019 Momentum members join fight against Barclays’ fossil fuel funding2019-03-23T19:51:43+00:00 Comment No Comment
Image Credit: Against the Grain Photography Momentum are treading new ground as they launch a new ‘Bankrupting Climate Change’ campaign against Barclays over their funding of fossil fuel companies. Collaborating…
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Two massive victories for the student divestment movement

Chris Jarvis 8 March 2019 Two massive victories for the student divestment movement2019-03-23T19:49:42+00:00 England & Wales No Comment
Image credit: Creative Commons - Kate Ausburn In the past 48 hours, the student divestment movement took another leap forward. Two more institutions joined the more than 1,000 worldwide that…
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Building hegemony for climate justice – tales from Sheffield

Chris Saltmarsh 5 March 2019 Building hegemony for climate justice – tales from Sheffield2019-03-23T19:49:47+00:00 Comment 4 Comments
Image via Chris Saltmarsh Climate change is happening now. It requires urgent action. Increasingly, it is apparent that only socialists have the ideas and the organisation to lead us out…
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The fossil fuel industry is terrified of students

Chris Saltmarsh 2 February 2019 The fossil fuel industry is terrified of students2019-02-16T18:15:41+00:00 Comment No Comment
Cambridge Zero Carbon The Guardian's report that fossil fuel companies BP and BHP interfered with the University of Cambridge's decision to reject divestment in June 2018 underlines two things we…
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Even with Stormont in crisis, we can still fight climate change

Niall Bakewell 31 March 2018 Even with Stormont in crisis, we can still fight climate change2018-03-31T12:19:16+01:00 *Society* No Comment
Photo credit: Fossil Free Northern Ireland   Northern Ireland’s climate activists have suffered a lost decade. After the passing of the UK Climate Change Act in 2008, the other devolved…
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Queen’s University Belfast students occupy for fossil fuel divestment

Bradley Allsop 12 December 2015 Queen’s University Belfast students occupy for fossil fuel divestment2020-12-11T11:40:09+00:00 Environment No Comment
Queen’s University student activist group Fossil Free QUB are currently occupying the finance office at Queens University Belfast, stating that they will not leave until the university publicly commit to…
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