Liz Jensen, Author at Writers Rebel

If They Bury Us, We Will Be SeedsAnne Enith Cooper

Liz Jensen — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:57:52 +0000

The October sky blazed blue and the sun shone on a sea of canvas pagodas in a factory car park. Over 700 people sat between banners that read: stop speculation, stop the genocide and stop arming Israel. An exhibition of Palestinian art hung from the fences. A stall offering Working Class Beer stood opposite [...]

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Writing From InsideSophie Holland

Liz Jensen — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:23:45 +0000

How would you spend your time if you were locked in a cell for twenty-two hours a day? Beat the walls? Learn to juggle? Yoga? Learn a language, go mad, write a memoir, cry? I have been writing to activist prisoners, most of whom are astonishingly sane and stoic. I would like to share [...]

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A Young God Grows a CosmosCraig Smith

Liz Jensen — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:18:54 +0000

11. The young god recalls what happened to her people I was not affected yet I was scared. And it was new to me yet I’d been there before. It triggered memories. Empires rise. Empires fall. As it is on earth, so it was with the gods: even in the heavens, wisdom [...]

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HERE WE GO AGAINBrianna Craft

Liz Jensen — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:10:42 +0000

This blog is an excerpt from Everything That Rises: A Climate Change Memoir, following the first election of President Trump in 2016. I envied those with the ability to speak freely, effortlessly filling journalist’s answers to questions about the Paris Agreement with noise. How were they not scared? It didn’t matter how much [...]

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Reclaiming DartmoorWyl Mnmuir

Liz Jensen — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 09:25:13 +0000

The walk had started cheerfully enough. We gathered in the village square, formed a polite circle and introduced ourselves. Many of those who turned up already knew one another, veterans of the Right to Roam campaign. Many had been involved in organizing the protests that had taken place earlier in the year against [...]

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My Damascus MomentNick O'Neill

Liz Jensen — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:21:49 +0000

The shrieking of the young woman covered in fake blood had a visceral effect on me. She’s the same age as my daughter I thought, as the TV presenter thrust her microphone into my face. Like spectators in a Roman amphitheatre watching cowering Christians, the crowd of protesters pushed forward expectantly as if sensing [...]

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Free Paul WatsonForfattere ser Grønt

Liz Jensen — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:24:29 +0000

On 21 July, the whale activist Paul Watson docked to refuel his ship, the John Paul DeJoira, in Nuuk, Greenland. And in response, Denmark – of which Greenland is a part – did something morally incomprehensible. It ordered police to arrest and detain him. What was his crime? Watson, the former Greenpeace activist [...]

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Air as Sweet as Ice CreamShahnaz Habib

Liz Jensen — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:51:57 +0000

“You have to be very lucky to see a snake,” Sam said to me. “They are shy.” I was pulling on long gum boots to wear for a hike in the forest. Sam is the resident guide at a small guesthouse, set deep inside a forest in Wayanad, in the northern hills of Kerala. [...]

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Briefly Very BeautifulRoz Dineen

Liz Jensen — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:01:00 +0000

She knew that there were other parents in the streets nearby silently planning their terror runs, just like her, just then. This was reassuring, like a superstition, or a community. Hot magic-blue night. She said, ‘Whisper.’ ‘What if I’m scared?’ whispered Vito, who was eight. ‘Of the insects, maybe?’ ‘There is nothing to be [...]

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