Sommer Ackerman of the Helsinki local group of Extinction Rebellion began a hunger strike at Kampintori by Euroopasali on Sunday November 15th at 12 o’clock because of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) that was accepted by the European Parliament on October 23rd. She invites people to participate in short...
Extinction Rebellion Finland (Elokapina) demands the Finnish government to declare a climate emergency and to start following the Paris Agreement. Because of this, a group of protesters stopped the traffic on Unioninkatu in Helsinki for five hours. Despite the street blockade being peaceful, the police repeatedly used pepper spray against the...
XR Finland’s Queer rebels (Queerkapina) initiated a demonstration during Helsinki Pride Week 2020 against rainbow capitalism, pinkwashing and greenwashing. We demonstrated on the biggest shopping street in Helsinki, on social media, and on the show windows of H&M, where 6 rebels glued themselves to the windows in order to address...
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