In addition to issuing presidential memos to revive the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, President Trump and his team have taken several other actions that have alarmed environmentalists. All references to climate change have been removed from the White House website. Reuters is reporting the Environmental Protection Agency has also been ordered to remove its climate change page, which contains links to scientific global warming research as well as detailed data on emissions. The EPA has also been prohibited from issuing press releases, publishing blog updates or even posting information on social media. In addition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has abruptly canceled a major conference on climate change and public health. We speak to Annie Leonard, executive director of Greenpeace USA.
Images of a light fixture swallowed by flames, smashed windows, battered ATMs and black-masked demonstrators throwing firecrackers at police officers were broadcast on TV screens across the US earlier this month when protests erupted at the University of California, Berkeley.
In the joint letter, the officials objected to being thrust into ‘new and sometimes problematic tasks’ that will undermine the balance between serving their communities and the federal government. Photograph: Charles Reed/AP
Police chiefs from across the US, including several from states that voted for Donald Trump, are resisting White House moves to force them to become more involved in deporting undocumented immigrants.
Image copyrightBILL NICHOLLSImage captionA group of squatters moved into Osney Mill, owned by Oxford University, after being told to vacate a car showroom owned by Wadham College
Squatters who took over a building owned by an Oxford college have moved to another university building.
The group, known as Iffley Open House, took over a car showroom owned by Wadham College in the city but left earlier after being told to move out.
However, on Sunday, 25 people, the majority of them homeless, claimed squatters' rights in an old power station owned by Said Business School.
A spokeswoman said the university was working to resolve the situation.
'Sympathise with plight'
The group had been using an old car showroom as a homeless shelter since New Year's Eve.
Wadham College told the squatters to leave because pre-demolition work was set to begin.
It plans to build a 135-bedroom development for students at the site on Iffley Road, in east Oxford.
For those of you who think that we dreaded baby boomers are to blame for all the suffering of the young, it may please you to know that many of us are also having a tough time. More than three million of our adult children are living with us, have never left, or are coming back, and we are all stuck together in one dwelling, like it or not, possibly for ever. Or we’ve bankrupted ourselves, or downsized into a bedsit, if we had anything to downsize from, to help those children buy or rent a home, because the housing market has zoomed up into la-la land.
The end 2015 marks ten years since I first picked up a camera to document the events I wanted to cover as a journalist.
Initially I intended the footage to only be reference material for written work, like my first paid assignment covering the 2005 G8 summit for the Sunday Herald in Scotland.
A combination of 10 previous years in the computer game industry on Photoshop, Premiere and various 3D programs, a three year course at the London School of Journalism, a rapidly increasing footage library and the sales moving faster in video than the written work, all led into the career I maintain now.
Decade of Dissent, initially cut for the Oxford exhibition Resistance is Fertile, is a montage of 10 years of that footage covering international protest and some of the issues that spark them.
Tonite! Magic Garden Battersea, MENTAL BLOCK, THE MAJESTIC and DJ DEX RAY SPEX. free b4 8pm. Best pub in London. Punk/ska/dub/reggae festival superstars
Pass it on to anybody lonely this Friday night. The revolution happens in the real world, not online
Get away from those fakebook screens, meet me by the sound son, where u been?
Feat. MADPSY & MC BUZZBEE
The Magic Garden
Best live music venue in London
MENTAL BLOCK
TONITE
231 Battersea Park Rd, London SW11 4LG
Open today 10:30am–2am
Show your support for gender equality and be part of our movement for change by joining the #March4Women in London at 12.00 on Sunday 5th March.
Kick-starting a month of action for a more equal world, CARE’s annual celebration to mark International Women’s Day is a great way for everyone – women, men, girls, boys and people of all genders and identities – to come together for a day of inspiration and entertainment.
Last year, celebrities and activists including Annie Lennox, Bianca Jagger and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan launched the event with speeches and debate, then joined us on a circular march around London ending with a live performance by Sister Sledge.
Calling all activists, campaigners and like-minded people. The Lush Summit is a celebration of all of the above and more. It will bring together charities, speakers and grassroots organisations from around the world and give them a platform to talk about their work. Of course, there will be exclusive products too. Does this tickle your fancy? If so, scroll up and book your space. We will see you there!