Barclays is funding the climate crisis. Now students are fighting back.
Another day, another climate crisis headline. We’ve just had the hottest decade ever. Australia is burning, just as the Amazon and the Arctic did before. The human impacts are here,…
Building a movement: People & Planet’s Power Shift
Tents, students, vegan food and (hopefully) sun. You could be forgiven for thinking this was a budget Glastonbury with a political edge, but that’s where the similarities end. People &…
Outing the UK Government: Corporate financing at #COP23
Government hypocrisy and corporate interest are very well acquainted, and they were last spotted at COP23 (the annual climate conference to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) nuzzling…
Partial progress as Edinburgh divests from coal and tar sands
Edinburgh students occupied the finance department for 10 days in May. Photo: Ric Lander Nearly a month ago, on Wednesday 27 May, Edinburgh University released a statement signalling its…
The Freedom Bill must restore the right to campaign
By Jim Cranshaw, who works for People & Planet this piece was first posted at Open Democracy and we've been ask to re-publish. It is commonly accepted that a basic…