3. March 2022: Pirkanmaa district court has issued its judgment on the case related to Extinction Rebellion demonstration in Tampere, Finland on 14 August 2021. The district court has found the 12 activists guilty of disobedience towards police officers, but has decided to waive the punishment. As grounds of the...
There are currently several crises going on in the world, including the war started by Russia in Europe. Pandemics and wars, together with climate crisis and global biodiversity loss, pose a serious threat to the very existence of humanity and life on Earth. Particularly the major countries producing fossil energy...
Demonstrations by Extinction Rebellion Finland in the capital Helsinki have been going on since Wednesday 16th June. Approximately 140 demonstrators blocked the main street in front of the Parliament on Thursday 17th June, holding the block overnight. The next day the protestors, now practically a camp with tents and sleeping...
Approximately 140 activists from Extinction Rebellion Finland blocked the major city street Mannerheimintie in front of the Finnish Parliament building overnight last night. The peaceful demonstration began at 1PM yesterday with activists blocking the street with image-banners and signs, demanding urgent climate action.
The energy company Fortum’s stalling of climate action is shameful to Finland. With its majority ownership of Fortum, the Finnish state has the greatest responsibility for the company’s actions. The Fortum leadership should not be dischanged from responsibility at the company general meeting today.
The action aimed to bring attention of the decision-makers and the public to the damaging of the precious swampland area Pyyryväissuo in Northern Ostrobothnia. However, the protest faced a serious and unexpected turn of events when one of the truck drivers drove through the sheet the protesters were holding and...
Protesters of Extinction Rebellion Finland are currently gathering in front of Sanomatalo, the office building of the daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, to demand more comprehensive and truthful coverage of the climate crisis from media houses. The demonstration begins Extinction Rebellion Finland’s campaign #kirjoitakriisistä (“write about the crisis”), which includes a...
This morning at 8:50 am, the protesters of Extinction Rebellion Finland cut off traffic in front of the Department of Agriculture of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry at Mariankatu 9, Helsinki. The demonstration challenges the current reform of the EU’s common agricultural policy, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which...
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