Revolution in The 21st Century

Istanbul dam levels drop below 20% amid worsening drought Experts warn that without significant rainfall in December and January, Istanbul faces serious water shortages due to critically low reservoir levels

Istanbul’s reservoirs have plunged to 20%. That’s not a warning - it's a system failure!

16 million denizens are drifting towards water and electricity collapse because our leaders treat climate science as optional.
www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/ista...

Sign up for the new Downstream Newsletter here: https://novaramedia.com/newsletters/the-downstream-newsletter/ This week on Downstream, Ash Sarkar is joined by one of the most controversial… The Blueprint for System Change | Ash Sarkar Meets Extinction Rebellion Founder Roger Hallam

My first long interview after prison — talking not just about ‘the climate’ but how we actually win. Mass mobilisation, repression, class, love, strategy. We’re out of time to keep getting this wrong.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC2V...

Why community assemblies will change British politics forever Systemic change requires people power

Community assemblies are the new frontline of class conflict: the administrators vs the administered. They’ll try to derail the common will with “engagement” and pompous speeches, but change is coming.
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...

Elites are bulldozing our life-support systems for short-term profit. Resist!

💀 COP Has Finished. The Death Project Continues. A billion lives are on the line, yet COP answers with fanciful roadmaps, false promises, and the polite performances of mundane evil.

Indigenous people broke through COP’s doors. The system built to kill them, and us, responded with fanciful roadmaps and empty promises.

This new piece explains why anyone taking part in this obscenity becomes complicit. Resistance is the only path now.
rogerhallam.com/cop-has-fini...

Sign up for the new Downstream Newsletter here: https://novaramedia.com/newsletters/the-downstream-newsletter/ This week on Downstream, Ash Sarkar is joined by one of the most controversial… The Blueprint for System Change | Ash Sarkar Meets Extinction Rebellion Founder Roger Hallam

Roger’s first in-depth interview after prison is a reminder of our focus: strategy, organising and power. From door-knocking and assemblies to love as a political force — this is the roadmap we need.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC2V...

Sign up for the new Downstream Newsletter here: https://novaramedia.com/newsletters/the-downstream-newsletter/ This week on Downstream, Ash Sarkar is joined by one of the most controversial… The Blueprint for System Change | Ash Sarkar Meets Extinction Rebellion Founder Roger Hallam

Roger’s first in-depth interview after prison is a reminder of our focus: strategy, organising and power. From door-knocking and assemblies to love as a political force — this is the roadmap we need.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC2V...

Study after study now says the quiet part out loud: Human civilisation is under threat!

99% of us breathe unsafe air, drink unsafe water, or live in an unsafe climate. Nearly half face three or more threats at once.

And still our "leaders" expand fossil fuels.

💀 COP Has Finished. The Death Project Continues. A billion lives are on the line, yet COP answers with fanciful roadmaps, false promises, and the polite performances of mundane evil.

Indigenous people broke through COP’s doors. The system built to kill them, and us, responded with fanciful roadmaps and empty promises.

This new piece explains why anyone taking part in this obscenity becomes complicit. Resistance is the only path now.
rogerhallam.com/cop-has-fini...

Across the world, 460M people live in sacrifice zones — rings of smoke and sickness around fossil fuel sites. Amnesty says billions are harmed so a handful can profit.

This is the cost of the old world. It cannot continue.

At least 16% of global fossil fuel sites sit on Indigenous land.

This is not an accident. Extraction follows colonial lines.

A new study in Eco Research Comms finds 99% of humanity is exposed to at least one violation of our basic environmental rights.

Clean air. Safe water. A liveable climate.

It's all being destroyed.

The world’s biggest mining company, BHP, has been found liable for Brazil’s worst environmental disaster.

Millions of tonnes of toxic sludge, villages destroyed, lives shattered.

Polluters must pay – and people must take back power.

under the guise of economic growth, they {fossil fuel companies} have served instead greed and profits without red lines, violated rights with near-complete impunity and destroyed the atmosphere, biosphere and oceans...” -- Amnesty report, Extraction Extinction.

states and corporate actors have relied on lawfare, abusing legal action, including criminal proceedings, to silence, delegitimize and intimidate defenders…. 2/

“The ever-expanding fossil fuel industry is endangering billions of lives and irreversibly altering the climate system….the number of oil and gas projects is set to increase across all continents while the number of coal plants and mines is increasing mostly in China and India…. 1/

Tip the Scales: Take Back Power Britain is broken because the super-rich are pocketing billions, whilst most of us struggle to get by. Hungry kids, freezing pensioners and unemployed youth is not what we voted for. The UK is…

Take Back Power launches today. The horrors in Palestine and the destruction of our Climate show how far elites will go to protect their wealth. It’s time for a House of the People and real democracy. Join the 17 Jan launch and support it if you can.
chuffed.org/project/take...

Amnesty calls for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Just like nuclear weapons, fossil fuels are an existential threat.
It’s time we treated them as such.

If the world is serious about protecting human rights, there is only one path:
full, fast, fair and funded phase-out of fossil fuels.

Starting now.

Elites are bulldozing our life-support systems for short-term profit. Resist!

Whilst COP wraps up with another year of nice words and statements, please remember that more than 3,500 new fossil fuel sites are planned or under construction.

We are being gaslighted to our extinction.

At least 16% of global fossil fuel sites sit on Indigenous land.

This is not an accident. Extraction follows colonial lines.

Fossil fuel infrastructure puts rights of 2 billion people at risk 520 million children live within 5km of fossil fuel infrastructure.

Interviews from Brazil, Senegal, and Wet’suwet’en territory expose the same pattern:
pollution, intimidation, criminalisation.

The fossil fuel industry survives by silencing the people it poisons.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

New mapping shows fossil fuel sites overlap with critical ecosystems in at least 32% of cases.

We’re poisoning the very places that keep the planet alive.

Extraction = extinction.

Amnesty: the fossil fuel industry is “endangering billions of lives and irreversibly altering the climate system.”

We’ve known this for decades, yet Governments still expand production.

Remember that this is a political choice to murder the young.

Across the world, 460M people live in sacrifice zones — rings of smoke and sickness around fossil fuel sites. Amnesty says billions are harmed so a handful can profit.

This is the cost of the old world. It cannot continue.

People power wins.

Serbia’s mass protests have forced Rio Tinto to abandon its $3bn lithium mine. When citizens rise, the extractive giants fall.

This is how we beat the system: organised, loud, unstoppable.

GOOD NEWS 🗞️

The world’s biggest mining company, BHP, has been found liable for Brazil’s worst environmental disaster.

Millions of tonnes of toxic sludge, villages destroyed, lives shattered.

Polluters must pay – and people must take back power.

Trump administration planning to allow oil and gas drilling off California coast Plan, which Gavin Newsom, the governor, has said would be ‘dead on arrival’, will allow six lease sales from 2027 to 2030

California’s coastline — birthplace of Earth Day — is being dragged back into the oil age. Trump’s plan to drill six new offshore fields risks black tides, dead beaches, poisoned seas. A beautiful coast sacrificed for oil barons profit.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...