We are Mayans who inhabit the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, people who love our land, our culture and our identity as indigenous people; we carry within us the memory of a people with great wisdom. Our ancestors taught us respect for Mother Earth, gratitude for life...
Translation from the original Spanish statement by Espejos del Sur Global, which Stay Grounded signed. For more than 500 years, the Global North has sought to turn Abya Yala (Latin America) and the Global South into a sacrifice zone for capitalism. First, colonial...
Residents of Barbuda have been fighting the construction of an international airport - which would serve as a gateway to an even larger development - that began as islanders were in the midst of dealing with the impact of Hurricane Irma. This article, written by...
From the Annual Global Meeting of the Stay Grounded Network, the Coordinadora de Pueblos y Organizaciones del Oriente del Estado de México en Defensa de la Tierra, el Agua y su Cultura (CPOOEM) organizational effort member of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) and...
After walking onto the runway at Växjö Småland Airport in Sweden last October, Ella and Björn, two parents with young children are now sentenced to two months in prison. The disctrict court in Växjö found the activists guilty of entering the airport illegally. It is...
An unbelievable ruling by the Court of Appeals has reversed the decision of the Lisbon Local Criminal Court. Last February the court acquitted Francisco Pedro, a journalist and activist of Stay Grounded member ATERRA. Pedro was initially charged after interrupting a...
Transformation not Expansion! Transform LEJ recently protested against the expansion of Halle/Leipzig Airport Leipzig - On July 29, 2022 the new action and protest alliance Transform LEJ held a vigil in front of the state directorate, for opposing the expansion of the...
This article was originally published in Portuguese on 10 January 2022 on the ATERRA website to call for a solidarity protest at the trial of the Portuguese activist Kiko, who protested against the construction of a new airport in the metropolitan area of Lisbon back...
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...
On October 3rd, Stay Grounded took the French March on Airports beyond borders. Our Méxican member organisation Coordinadora de Pueblos y Organizaciones del Oriente del Estado de México (CPOOEM) joined the March on Airports in Mexico City, together with groups at 17...
All around the world people from our member groups are fighting against new airports or airport expansions. But a just and climate safe mobility is not only about reducing aviation and airports. It is about building a transport system and infrastructure that supports...
Filipino fisherfolk fighting against Bulcan Aerotropolis and wider infrastructure development, which is destroying wetland in Manila Bay, have started a mobilization called 'Fishers Rise Up!' 20/02/2020: Bulakan, Bulacan - The Fishers Rise Up! initiative includes a...
Local authorities finally listen to affected farmers - After first success Stay Grounded Network sends follow-up letter to Prime Minister of India urging to stop Karad Airport expansion On September 19, the Stay Grounded Network had sent out an open letter to the...
Stay Grounded Network sends open letter to Prime Minister of India urging to stop Karad Airport expansion – and expressing solidarity with affected farmers On September 19, the Stay Grounded Network sent out an open letter to the Prime Minister of India and...
Karad, Maharashtra, India, September 4th, 2019: For 36 days, small-scale farmers have been protesting days and nights with a sit-in in front of the district's planning administration (Satara Collector Office) against the expansion of Karad Airport in Maharashtra...
Barcelona is the fourth most-visited European city, the first destination of Mediterranean cruise ships and the seventh largest European airport. While there were 3,7 million bookings in 1990, in 2016, Barcelona had more than 31 million bookings. Barcelona’s tourism...
This complaint was is filed by CPOOEM on March 23, 2019 and originally posted on the website of the Mexican National Indigenous Congress (CNI) ---Spanish version below--- ALERT! URGENT COMPLAINT TO THE NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS (CNI) TO THE INDIGENOUS COUNCIL OF...
Stay Grounded Network sends open letter to Maldivian President urging to stop new airport infrastructure projects - making the archipelago even more vulnerable to the climate crisis. On Febuary 26, the Stay Grounded Network sent out an open letter to the President of...
Update: February 2019: No immediate prison sentences The Stansted 15 are a group of anti-deportation protesters who blocked a UK government deportation flight at Stansted Airport last year to make the links clearer between climate change, colonialism,...
