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The graphs in this post provide you with all the fascinating statistics.

We are most proud that people from Abisko in the north to Ystad in the south have visited the website and voted in a national disobedient referendum. It is truly powerful. Every NO vote represents a democratic mandate to shut down the peat industry! Let’s do just that!

Thank you to everyone who voted❤️ Thank you to everyone who worked like mad on the Disobedient Referendum.❤️ We’ve been seen and heard, and we’ve spoken to people about the extremely harmful peat extraction and about democracy. And we’ve learnt an enormous amount. And we’ve had an absolute blast! Now we have a Blueprint for how people can hold disobedient referendums on vital issues they’re passionate about.

Now we’re shutting down that bloody peat industry for good.
Come to Grimsås this summer and sign up for the presentation on Sunday 14 June!

Today marks the start of Axel Smith’s world record attempt in blindfold chess against no fewer than 49 players at the same time. Follow the games on ace-chess.com or watch live on YouTube

The attempt is being made to draw your attention to the ongoing democracy project ‘Olydig Folkomröstning’, where everyone can vote YES or NO on fossil peat extraction in Sweden!

With a campaign booth at Sergels Torg!

Votes are rolling in during both slow walks and Culture Night!

Are you in Stockholm and feel you need to do more than just vote? Join us out and about campaigning and taking part in slow walks. There’s something happening every day throughout April! ofor.se/april

Elin and Malin stopped Sarah Sjöström in the final of the Swim Open Stockholm

“I’ll do everything I can to ensure a ‘no’ vote on peat extraction in the referendum, even if it means sitting in a wet cell for eight hours. With the climate spiralling out of control, we must dismantle the fossil fuel industry step by step,” says Elin Sjöholm from Återställ Våtmarker

Six months ago, Neova submitted a request, at its own initiative, to switch from the extraction of energy peat to the extraction of horticultural peat at Grimsås mosse. The Västra Götaland County Administrative Board listened to Återställ Våtmarker, the company Nexans and the residents of Grimsås. There will be no extraction of horticultural peat in Grimsås.

During the performance of “Rage” at Dramaten in Stockholm, Roxy Farhat, an artist and activist with the Restore Wetlands campaign, took to the stage with a banner and shouted a message to the audience. The protest took place in connection with Restore Wetlands’ new project, the Disobedient Referendum.

Anki and Frida from the NEJ campaign, as part of a new democracy project called ‘Olydig Folkomröstning’, stormed the Gothenburg Horse Show in the middle of a live TV broadcast, unfurled a banner in the arena and then chained themselves together.

On the morning of 22 January, we carried out a graffiti protest outside the Ministry of Finance in Stockholm. Four women aged between 28 and 78 took part in the protest. The group represents the ‘NO’ campaign for the democratic initiative ‘Olydig Folkomröstning’ (Disobedient Referendum).

The Ministry of Finance is appointing a hand-picked group from the lobby organisation Svensk Torv for its inquiry into peat for horticulture.
We accuse them of going behind the public’s back!