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Frequent action against frequent flying
At the start of October activists staged an action at Schiphol Airport, demanding an end to KLM’s frequent flyer programme. It was the latest in a series of actions at the airport, demanding the airline take the climate crisis seriously and stop it’s attempts to incentivise people to fly more. Below, an activist explains what took place on the day and why ending frequent flyer programmes is so…
‘Rail over runway’: Youth engagement in Tanzania
Tanzania’s aviation sector is seeing rapid growth, with investment being put into expanding airport infrastructure and an increase in flights. Against this backdrop, End Fossil Occupy Tanzania, ran a youth engagement workshop to make the case for sustainable transport systems and to raise awareness of the devastating environmental impacts of airport expansion. In this blog post…
Euro Tour stop #6: ‘Climate, health, and life’ in Catalonia
Social movements in Catalonia are back on the streets of Barcelona to say “no” to airport expansion. Five years after a historical demonstration marked the defeat of the expansion of the El Prat airport, the project to build a new terminal and lengthen the third terminal is back on the table. But Zeroport, a platform for the degrowth of the port and the airport in Barcelona and a Stay Grounded…
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