This week, activists in Cambridge took action against Churchill College, where this year’s Multi-Generational Leadership Program was taking place.

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More and more ecocidal companies at the Nature Action Dialogues in 2026. Concerning. We ran through the list and summarised the harms.

On May Day lunchtime, activists staged a protest against the University of Cambridge’s ties to weapons companies Rolls Royce, BAE Systems and Boeing.

Protest against Cambridge Uni’s greenwashing programme against billionaire families. Location: Great St Mary, Cambridge Time: May 17, 2026. 2pm

On April 10, 2026, ORCA activists staged a demonstration at Jesus College, protesting its partnership with Suzano, and in solidarity with the resistance movements against Suzano in Brazil.

In 2024, Jesus College entered into a long term partnership with Suzano (a huge multinational paper and wood pulp corporation based in Brazil), accepting an initial donation of £10,000,000 to fund “education and research into areas including the conservation of biodiversity, enhancing business sustainability and the restoration of natural habitats“. The reality… Read more: Jesus College: Say NO to Suzano

Statement by Riley Wade, activist against genocide and supporter of Prisoners for Palestine “Currently in the UK 33 prisoners are being held without trial or conviction for over the bail limit of 6 months. They are accused of taking action against Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems and British military jets used… Read more: All eyes on the hunger strikers

The University of Cambridge is complicit in the massacres in Sudan via its “sustainability” institute, CISL.

Press release: On November 23rd 2025, a group of activists representing ORCA tagged the office of CISL, highlighting its links to murderous companies.

CISL supports mining giant South32, which is also involved in Trump’s latest mining plot.

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An informational post about CISL’s involvement in arms production.

On Thursday 31 July, environmental liberation group ORCA picketed a “sustainable innovation” project launch run by Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) in collaboration with the Crown Estate. This is part of a wider campaign against CISL’s corporate ties to arms manufacture, mining and fossil fuels, in which ORCA highlight dissonance… Read more: Press release – Environmental liberation group pickets Cambridge Sustainability Institute

Following our exchanges with CISL, we are reflecting on our targets for cutting ties: we are adding two sector targets, fossil fuel and arms, and keeping three company focuses, Coca-Cola, Anglo American, and Axa.

Since we launched our CISL & Sustainable Lies campaign, we’ve had some contact with members of staff from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. We have decided to put the email chain online because we want to be transparent. We’ve removed names, and annotated in places. From: CISL | Date: 01/04/2025… Read more: CISL: the convo so far

Earth day is a cursed experience, usually. Like pride month but for the planet, it provides an opportunity for companies to post hypocritical propaganda while continuing their path of exploitation. ANYWAY, we’ve chosen today to start a new thing called LEARN with ORCA. The idea is that we’ll go out and… Read more: LEARN with ORCA

Today we are disrupting The Nature Action Dialogues conference hosted at Jesus College. This conference is hosted by the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)  and their Proteus Partnership and listed attendees include Ipieca, HSBC, Drax, Nestle, AngloAmerican and RWE. Through the Proteus Partnership the UN helps oil and gas and… Read more: Press release – Cambridge sustains green colonialism

Why did we stick anti-rich posters up all over Cambridge? The Multi-generational Leadership Course From the 11th of November till the week’s end, the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership will be running their week-long ‘multi-generational leadership program’. Costing almost £13k a head, the course promises to teach ‘wealth and business owning… Read more: Why eat the rich? Climate Change and Class War

The far right is opportunistic As climate breakdown becomes undeniable, they will exploit climate anxieties to push an agenda of hate. This isn’t someone else’s problem – far-right ideas can take hold in our own groups and movements. The narratives below normalise far-right framings and legitimise oppression, sowing seeds for more… Read more: How to spot Ecofascism

XR Youth Cambridge are now O.R.C.A. (Organisation of Radical Cambridge Activists)! For a long time, we have felt that our focuses, methods and politics have differed from XR UK. We have found we don’t closely align with XR in several ways, specifcially XR’s relationship with the police and the state has been… Read more: ORCA is born