Press release: Gas conference: BlockGas criticizes criminalization, announces further protests

Press release: Gas conference: BlockGas criticizes criminalization, announces further protests

Vienna, 30.3.2023 - After its successful week of action against the European Gas Conference (EGC), the BlockGas alliance criticizes the extreme repression by the police and announces further protests. Since last Saturday, thousands of people protested with various protest actions against the gas conference in Vienna, which ended yesterday.

Press release: Gas conference: After climate strike, movement announces next protests

Press release: Gas conference: After climate strike, movement announces next protests

Vienna, March 3, 2023 - At today's global climate strike, the climate movement around Fridays for Future is sending a strong signal against Austria's "climate blockers". Under the slogan "Stop climate blockers - Everyone on the streets!" the demonstration will move from Maria-Theresien-Platz past the party headquarters of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the Green Party (Grünen) to Ballhausplatz.

How the gas lobby gave us an inflation crisis

How the gas lobby gave us an inflation crisis

What does the European gas lobby have to do with the current inflation? Plenty. The NGO Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) exposes the influence of corporations and lobby groups on the EU. Staff member Pascoe Sabido explains how the gas lobby sowed the seeds for this crisis long before the war in Ukraine, what role it is currently playing, and why we need to get rid of private fossil fuel companies.

THE PRAISE EXHIBITION

THE PRAISE EXHIBITION

gives an intimate insight into Austria's largest environmental movement, which has been driving Vienna's politics and population for months. Through a compilation of footage of the occupied construction sites, interviews with activists, and background information on the Lobau and city highway, you will learn more about the #LobauBleibt movement.

Press release: Urban highway construction site "desert" reoccupied by hundreds

Press release: Urban highway construction site "desert" reoccupied by hundreds

Since 7 o'clock this morning, hundreds of people from LobauBleibt have been blocking the construction site of the city highway near Hausfeldstraße. It is a reoccupation of the construction site, which was cleared at the beginning of February. Shortly before the party conference of the SPÖ Vienna, the activists demand an immediate construction stop and the expansion of bike paths and public transport in the Donaustadt.

System Change, not Climate Change!