The Student

Students from 'XR Universities' supported by various other divestment, anti-racist, climate and decolonisation groups, invaded a private reception during the President's Address at Imperial College this week. President Alice Gast is on the board of Chevron, and the univeristy has so far resisted calls to divest its annual £12 million investments in fossil-fuel and arms companies. Protesters angry at the conflict...

Updated 24th Sept with new information re a return visit on 23rd. As well as the major London and global climate protests on Friday (20th Sept Global Climate Strike), smaller actions and protests were seen all over the country. In Preston, school students went to their local council offices at the County Hall and asked for a council representative to speak...

Big on emotion and big on PR but in this clip Rory Stewart is notably short on actually answering any questions. Filmed in Parliament Square where he was meeting students on the 24th May #SchoolStrike, he was questioned about his supposed support for drastic action on climate change given the particular insight he has from the time he was a...

In our second film from last week’s #SchoolStrike action in London, we teamed up with David Dahlborn, opinion editor at LondonStudent, to interview a few of the young people attending the protest, asking them why some are prepared to cause disruption and even contemplate arrest, in order to get their points across. Police made several arrests at the demonstration including...

"We cause a disturbance because no-one's been listening". A short film of conversation between a young climate crisis protester and a police sergeant acting as a Liaison Officer in Parliament Square during the #SchoolStrike protest. The young protester explains why she believes sitting in the middle of the road and causing disruption is legitimate in the face of the global climate...

Co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, Roger Hallam, is in court over a direct action at Kings College as part of a divestment campaign more than two years ago in early 2017. Together with Dave Durant, an alumnus and graduate of International Politics at the university, Hallam is charged with criminal damage as a result of spray-painting the building with chalk-based aerosol...

“We the youth are rising up because we have no other choice” So says Noga Levy-Rapoport, 17, one of the organisers at UK Student Climate Network. The third major UK youth protest this year began like the others at Parliament Square, but this time there was a much more co-ordinated and pre-defined march, up to Oxford Circus at the heart...

Following yesterday's victory in the High Court, it seems that the fracking industry in the UK is not having a great week. Extinction Rebellion youth activists have targeted a conference in London at the Caledonian Club in Halkin Street near Hyde Park Corner. Eight young people (from 15 to 24) have used arm locks and are sitting locked across the entrances...

The second large scale UK youth strike took place on March 15th, and in London thousands of young people skipped school and headed to Westminster to stand in solidarity with a million youths in more than 100 countries across the world. Starting in Parliament Square, where authorities prevented them from setting up a PA system, they began an impromptu march...

On 22nd February, children, parents, teachers, activists, and academics marched to the Department for Education in London and held a rally and mock climate school on the road outside. Organisers have recently published an open letter to the department, signed by 224 academics, calling for greater truth on issues such as climate change, loss of bio-diversity, failing crops, insect...