About Us
Transition Heathrow is a grassroots action group working to build resilient Heathrow communities, capable of collectively coping with the injustices and threats of climate change and peak oil.
Transition Heathrow aims to bring to light the environmental damage and misery future airport expansion at Heathrow will bring to local residents and businesses.
Our objective is to build permanent and sustainable communities within threatened areas to offer and show a viable alternative to the bulldozing of green spaces, houses, lives and history.
We aim to promote, green, living, working fellowships – equipped to deal with the impacts of climate change and peak oil – controlled by those directly affected by expansion plans – the Heathrow workers and residents.
This, in turn, empowers the community and helps it fight the profit-driven decisions imposed by Governments and corporations, rather than simply suffering the consequences.
Grass root solutions will lead towards a sustainable and resilient Heathrow for all, while the decision of the authorities will mean maximum profits for a few – at the expense of job losses, community destruction and environmental devastation.
Transition Heathrow hopes to bring together the democratic innovation of the Transition Town network and environmental direct activism.
Combined with the tenacious resistance of local communities, the project aims to grow resilience that not only can see off future threats, but can also bring Heathrow communities together to secure a better life for all.
Aims and Objectives
- We aim to further Heathrow in becoming an iconic point of positive resistance, of transition justice and as a high profile example of a grassroots solution to climate change and peak oil.
- To engage the Labour movement and the transition movement in a wider political movement that fights for and creates grassroots solutions to climate change and peak oil.
- To develop a replicable example of worker and community resilience which can help to bring about a just transition to a sustainable future. Such resilience should also stave off future threats to the community of all kinds, as well as the threats of climate change and peak oil.
- To galvanize the radicalism mobilised by the resistance against Heathrow expansion into long-term community empowerment and resilience.
- To raise awareness of the impacts of climate change and peak oil in the local Heathrow area.
- To engage the wider transition movement beyond sustainability into the more contentious politics of ‘transition justice’.
- To engage the wider Labour movement in the politics of peak oil and climate change and the need for grassroots, worker-based solutions.
- To create an ongoing radical transition movement in the Heathrow area where airport workers and local residents share a sense of solidarity.
