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From Bezos’ wedding to Sevilla’s streets: A global demand to tax the super-rich
On June 23rd, just days before Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s Venice wedding, Greenpeace Italy and UK grassroots group called Everyone Hates Elon dropped a 20-meter banner in Piazza San Marco: “If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax”.
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Bezos’ Venice wedding divorced from reality: Why it’s time to tax the super-rich
On June 23rd, together with “Everyone Hates Elon”, we took over Venice’s Piazza San Marco with a 20-meter banner of billionaire Jeff Bezos.
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One year on: reaffirming the right to peaceful protest and civic participation in Kenya
As we mark one year since the Finance Bill demonstrations of June 25, 2024, Greenpeace Africa expresses its solidarity with the people of Kenya, particularly young Kenyans, who continue to engage constructively in national conversations around justice, accountability, and inclusive governance.
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62 years on: it’s time to repair, reclaim and rise
As the African Union (AU) marked 62 years since the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the occasion was more than a celebration of history -it was a clarion call.
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Thank you for being part of this movement!
Thank you for being part of this movement. Our work is far from over, and with your support, we will continue to rise, resist, and reclaim our planet.
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Historic breakthrough: over 40 Nigerian civil society organisations unite to launch climate justice movement
Abuja, Nigeria: May 7, 2025 -In a watershed moment for the promotion of environmental justice in Nigeria, more than 40 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) joined forces to launch the Nigerian Climate Justice Movement (CJM).
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100 days of Trump & his billionaires’ war on the environment
Across the world, right now, billionaires, oligarchs, and corporations are using their wealth to silence dissent, undo decades of social and environmental progress, and manipulate the game in their favour.
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Stakes high as G20 ministers miss opportunity to pursue solidarity, wealth tax
Washington, D.C. – A meeting of G20 Finance Ministers has failed to deliver a key signal of solidarity as ongoing economic turmoil led to difficult talks in Washington D.C. and slowed progress on critical reforms to tax the world’s super-rich.
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Billionaire joy rides to space: the ultimate symbol of privilege and pollution
While millions of people around the world are struggling to afford basic necessities like food, healthcare, and shelter, and nature destruction skyrockets, the Blue Origin company, founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, has been launching super-rich people and their friends into space on joy rides that cost tens of millions of dollars.
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Greenpeace Africa hosts groundbreaking training in The Gambia to confront ocean and food system threats
Banjul, The Gambia – 09 April 2025 – Greenpeace Africa, in partnership with civil society organizations (CSOs) and local communities, has concluded a three-day capacity-building workshop in The Gambia aimed at addressing the escalating threats to marine ecosystems and food security posed by the fishmeal and fish oil (FMFO) industry.