by Mira Kapfinger | Nov 3, 2021 | Actions, Members, Press Release
Stay Grounded UK co-ordinates events at 10 airports. Part of global action days against greenwashing of air travel, organised by the international network Stay Grounded as part of the COP26 Coalition Global Action Days. At 11am on Saturday 6th November, protests will...
by Mira Kapfinger | Apr 9, 2021 | External Article, Members
This article first appeared on the Flight Free UK blog and is published here with friendly permission and minor edit. Airlines have finally realised that climate change is a problem. The rest of us cottoned onto this a few decades ago now, so it’s nice of them to...
by Mira Kapfinger | Mar 3, 2021 | Members, Solidarity
The last remaining families that resist an airport expansion, at Vila Nazaré, Porto Alegre, Brazil, are currently being cited to appear to online hearings concerning their dispossession. In spite of the extremely high Covid-19 cases in Porto Alegre, the families who...
by Mira Kapfinger | Dec 11, 2020 | Actions, Members
In Austria, a coalition of local producers, citizens’ initiatives and climate activists created the “3rd Runway Flour” made from organic wheat grown on the fields that Vienna International Airport wants to seal for a planned third runway. With the...
by Mira Kapfinger | Nov 8, 2020 | Conflicts, Webinar
Despite climate crisis and global pandemic, airport expansion and construction projects are being planned or continued around the world. Those projects involve new land acquisition, the destruction of ecosystems, displacement of people – sometimes including...
