After racist riots caught the government off-guard, the pre-emptive arrest of climate activists shows a grotesque imbalance of priorities — So what did we have this past week?
Climate camp raid: ‘Two-tier policing’, anyone?
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Climate camp cancelled after police raid seizes infrastructure, 22 arrested
Reclaim the Power activists held for conspiracy to disrupt Drax power station, while violent far right faces no pre-emptive raids — Reclaim the Power has announced the cancellation of the weekend’s climate camp at Drax power station, after morning raids seized key infrastructure.
Mass pre-emptive arrest of Reclaim the Power activists in Yorkshire
22 held as police foil plot to bring compost toilets and wheelchair track to Drax climate camp UPDATE 13.30: the climate camp has now been cancelled — Officers from the Metropolitan police this morning led local forces in a raid in Yorkshire, said eye witnesses.
Immigration Enforcement vans stopped in Portishead
Activists from the environmental and social justice group Reclaim the Power are occupying the roofs of Immigration Enforcement vehicles and stopping them from leaving the Home Office building in Portishead.
Lock-ons and crane occupations as hundreds confront gas power
More than 600 people attending Reclaim The Power’s summer festival of resistance just outside Harlow, along with many more around the country, have been taking action over the last few days to directly shut down polluting firms.
Radical summer gatherings get underway
Kicking off with the Fast Forward Festival, people hoping to get involved with different politics, build up alternative ways of living and fight for the climate with direct action have a full two months of political festivals ahead.
Reclaim the Power announce action camp for climate & migrant justice
This July, Reclaim the Power plans to set up the Power Beyond Borders camp to take direct action against the gas infrastructure fuelling the climate crisis and the UK’s ‘hostile environment” policy targeting migrants.
Anti-fracking next up in new wave of climate action
Following on from today’s school walkouts, next weekend will see the start of this year’s spring offensive against the unpopular gas extraction method, with Bristol being the latest to confirm an action.
Climate protectors gather as frack runs into trouble
Green and anti-fracking groups are getting themselves in gear for a renewed Spring of activity over the next few weeks, with Reclaim the Power mobilising for its next round of anti-frack action and anarcho-greens Earth First!
Reclaim the Power stand with the Stansted 15
Fifteen people are currently standing trial for stopping a deportation flight from London Stansted Airport to Nigeria in March 2017. The group from End Deportations, Plane Stupid and Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants surrounded the plane and prevented it from taking off. As a result 11 people remain the UK whilst their cases for
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Anarchist prisoner released from Belarus
The regime deported 52 political prisoners in exchange for sanctions relief ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Anarchist Nikolai (Mikola) Dziadok was among 52 political prisoners released and deported from Belarus to Lithuania on 11 September, following negotiations between dictator Alexander Lukashenko and US envoy John Colae.
