Written by Eric Lombard While the aviation sector and governments promise a new era of “sustainable” aviation fuels (SAF), we know that it will divert much-needed resources away from other sectors and take decades to happen, if at all. Yet there is an efficient way to...
Category:Solidarity
Solidarity against repression in San Gregorio Atlapulco, Xochimilco, Mexico
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...
Swedish activists sentenced to prison for airport action
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...
Anti-airport expansion activist faces continued persecution
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...
Action Against Expansion of LEJ Airport Leipzig!
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...
Where is the crime? Judging those responsible for ecocide, acquitting those who defend the planet!
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...
Voices from affected communities and overview of cases
Covid-19 and the Climate Crisis In spite of the steep decline in air traffic since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic planning and construction of new airports, and expansion of existing airports, with the associated social and environmental injustices,...
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...
March on Benito Juarez Airport – Those who fight for life, never die!
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...
Not every train is good – Why we have to say “NO to the Maya train”
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 fishers join global climate strike
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...
First success and next round: Global Solidarity with Protests against Karad Airport Expansion
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...
Open Letter: Global Solidarity with Protests against Karad Airport Expansion
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...
Sit-in of farmers for more than a month against Karad Airport expansion
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: A City Exploited by Tourism and Air Traffic
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...
Illegal construction works associated with New Mexico City International Airport
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...
Open Letter: Solidarity with Save Maldives
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...
Solidarity with the Stansted 15
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,...