Two years jail for denouncing Lisbon’s airport expansion?
From Inês Teles and Francisco Pedro, Aterra (member organisation Stay Grounded), originally posted on Movement Hub. The Portuguese government and VINCI corp plan to expand Lisbon airport and build a second one on a natural reserve. In response, the ATERRA campaign...
Safe Landing: A Just Transition with Aviation Workers
How do we envision a transition process that cares for the climate and the people whose livelihoods depend on aviation and tourism? How can this be done together with workers and trade unions, instead of against them? And what can we learn from the coal transition...
Underwater runways
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...
New Research: Airport projects responsible for human rights violations and ecological destruction around the world
Interactive map documents 80 cases of airport-related injustices and resistance Barcelona/Vienna – 8th of April 2021: All across the globe airport projects are generating serious conflicts and social and environmental impacts: land acquisition, displacement of...
What we have learned after one year of aviation bailouts
Exactly one year ago, at the beginning of the pandemic, the first airlines sought state bailouts. Stay Grounded, together with 350 organisations worldwide, demanded to #SavePeopleNotPlanes: if bailouts are granted, they need strong environmental and social conditions....
Destination Degrowth – Ein gerechter Übergang vom Flugverkehr zur klimagerechten Mobilität
Seit Beginn der Corona-Pandemie ist der Flugverkehr am Boden. Seit vielen Jahren schon ist klar, dass Fliegen die klimaschädlichste und ungerechteste Form der Mobilität ist. Wie geht es nun weiter? Zurück zum business as usual oder ein Umschwenken in Richtung...
Lives over Profit – People over Planes
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...
Release: Just Transition of Aviation Discussion Paper
London/Vienna - 8th of February 2021: Today, the UK trade union PCS and the global network Stay Grounded published together a paper entitled “A Rapid and Just Transition of Aviation - Shifting towards Climate-Just Mobility”. Tahir Latif, PCS Aviation Group President,...
This is your pilot speaking
This is your pilot speaking: brace for the greatest emergency of our lives Written by the pilot Dan Tipney It might seem hard to believe that just 17% of the global population have ever set foot on a commercial aircraft. However, no doubt like many who read this, for...
