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  • 27 Mar 2011
    Major disputes over Trafalgar Square 'riot' claims after demo

    Protesters, police, reporters and commentators are in disagreement about claims and counterclaims over violent clashes in central London last night.

  • 8 Dec 2010
    Students are showing us the way

    Since leaving full-time education, I have worked with the student movement in several ways – through backing campaigns, through being employed by a students' union, through giving freelance media training to groups such as People & Planet and the Student Christian Movement.

    And I have never felt more proud to be associated with the student movement than I do this week.

  • 14 Nov 2010
    Radical Christians declare solidarity with students who occupied Millbank

    Radical Christian pacifists have declared their support for students who occupied Conservative Party offices in Millbank during a protest against fees.

  • 8 Nov 2010
    Mark Thomas praises Christian nonviolent resistance in Palestine

    The activist comedian Mark Thomas has praised Palestinian Christians for their role in the growth of nonviolent resistance to Israeli occupation.

  • 28 Jul 2010
    Nonviolent activists shut down BP sales in London

    BP was prevented from selling fuel anywhere in central London this morning, when nonviolent Greenpeace activists shut down every petrol station in the area.

  • 27 Jul 2010
    The plank in BP's eye

    In addition to losing their reputation and mindbogglingly large sums of money, BP also seem to have lost any ability to appreciate irony.

  • 22 Feb 2010
    Christian students pray for courage and commit to activism

    Christian students from across Britain have prayed for courage to engage in activism and mission at the end of the annual conference of the Student Christian Movement (SCM), which took place in Derbyshire this weekend.

  • 15 Nov 2009
    Celebration as judge acquits anti-nuclear campaigners

    Four anti-nuclear activists who took part in a mass protest at the Aldermaston nuclear base have been found not guilty of obstructing the highway after the prosecution failed to improve that they were even on the highway, let alone obstructing it.

  • 12 Sep 2009
    Arms fair owners train their sights on Ekklesia

    The American satirist Tom Lehrer said that satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was given the Nobel Peace Prize “for bombing Cambodia”.

  • 27 Feb 2008
    Airport runway objectors take protest to parliament's roof

    Protesters from the campaigning group Plane Stupid have today mounted a hight profile protest against the proposed Heathrow third runway by waving banners from the roof the the parliament building, in a major breach of security.