Reach for the Sky
Focused on plans to expand a local airfield into a regional airport at Swansea, Reach for the Sky examines the environmental case against the expansion of air travel. The film criticises current government policy to react to climate change and reviews the alternatives to growth in aviation.
09.53 - Demonstration against Swansea Airport
12.48 - Activists climb over Heathrow fences to occupy construction equipment in protest over airport expansion
23.30 - Protesters at UN Climate Change Conference in Berlin ("No more blah blah blah. Action now")
24.40 - Activists attack Sir Mark Moody Stuart, formerly Chairman of Shell Oil, and interview immediately afterwards
25.18 - Protesters at UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen
27.23 - Rising Tide activists interrupt a UN-government-oil company meeting to present their criticism of carbon trading
29.12 - Climate change activists break into Schipol Airport, Amsterdam to protest against new runway
30.12 - Protests at Manchester Airport against new runway
31.54 - Manchester activists train people in Swansea to take more drastic action in their protests
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