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Ruth Padel supports the Tufton 3Ruth Padel

20th October 2021 by Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel is a conservationist, prize-winning poet, novelist, short-story writer, academic and broadcaster. […]

Anouchka Grose supports the Tufton 3Anouchka Grose

18th October 2021 by Anouchka Grose

Anouchka Grose gives her support to the Tufton Three in this short moving film. A writer and clinical psychoanalyst, she herself spoke at the Tufton event in September 2020. […]

Jonathon Porritt Supports the Tufton 3Jonathon Porritt

13th October 2021 by Jonathon Porritt

Writers Rebel have just now received this wonderful video from Jonathon Porritt, expressing his support for the Tufton 3 whose case will be heard on the 28th October. […]

#PaintTheLand Launch

5th July 2021 by Laura Toms

Writers Rebel’s Paint the Land project was launched with the help of Booker prize-winning writer Ben Okri, artist-activists Ackroyd & Harvey, Capital Choir, Damon Albarn and countless dedicated volunteers. Okri’s message to world governments, “Can’t you hear the future weeping? Our love must save the world” was grown on an 16x4m carpet of living grass […]

Can’t you hear the future weeping? #PaintTheLand PerformanceDamon Albarn and Mirabella Okri

30th June 2021 by *

Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz joined Mirabella Okri and the Capital Children’s Choir to delivered a reflective performance at Writers Rebel’s Paint the Land launch 25.06.21. Watch it here. #PaintTheLand was launched with the help of Booker prize-winning writer Ben Okri and artist-activists Ackroyd & Harvey. Okri’s message to world governments, “Can’t you hear […]

Simon Bramwell’s #PaintTheLand launch speechSimon Bramwell

30th June 2021 by Simon Bramwell

XR Co-founder, Simon Bramwell, delivered an urgent and powerful speech at Writers Rebel’s Paint the Land launch on 25.06.21. Within his speech, Bramwell reminds us why action is necessary and how art can be a powerful agent in this change. #PaintTheLand was launched with the help of Booker prize-winning writer Ben Okri and artist-activists Ackroyd […]

Ackroyd & Harvey’s #PaintTheLand launch speechHeather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey

30th June 2021 by Ackroyd & Harvey

Co-founders of Culture Declares and renowned artist-activists, Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey spoke at Writers Rebel’s Paint the Land launch 25.06.21. Within their speech, Ackroyd & Harvey describe the quiet miracle of grass. Ackroyd & Harvey created a 16x4m living grass banner that was floated on the Thames at Bankside Beach on Friday 25th June […]

Kelly Hill’s #PaintTheLand launch speechKelly Hill

30th June 2021 by Kelly Hill

On Friday 25th June, dedicated activist and organiser, Kelly Hill introduced the crowd to Writers Rebel’s latest project, Paint the Land. #PaintTheLand was launched with the help of Booker prize-winning writer Ben Okri and artist-activists Ackroyd & Harvey. Okri’s message to world governments, “Can’t you hear the future weeping? Our love must save the world” […]

Ben Okri’s #PaintTheLand launch speechBen Okri

30th June 2021 by Ben Okri

Booker prize-winning novelist, poet and activist Ben Okri made a moving speech at Writers Rebel’s Paint the Land launch 25.06.21. Within his speech, Okri reminds us that love is the only thing that stands between us and extinction. Okri’s message “Can’t you hear the future weeping? Our love must save the world” was displayed on […]

Ver: Entrevista con Defensora Amazónica Alexandra NarváezBeth Pitts

24th June 2021 by Beth Pitts

Beth Pitts entrevista a Alexandra Narváez, una defensora indígena Kofán de la región norte de la Amazonía del Ecuador. La comunidad de Alexandra, Sinangoe, es famosa por ganar una batalla legal histórica contra la minería de oro en 2018, que protegió mas que 30.000 hectáreas de selva primaria megabiodiverso y las cabeceras de […]

Watch: Interview with Amazon Defender Alexandra NarváezBeth Pitts

24th June 2021 by Beth Pitts

Beth Pitts interviews Alexandra Narváez, an indigenous Kofán defender from Ecuador’s northern Amazon region. Alexandra’s community of Sinangoe is famous for winning a historic legal battle against gold mining in 2018, which protected 79,000 acres of mega-biodiverse primary rainforest and the headwaters of one of Ecuador’s most important rivers. As the first woman to […]

Who Breaks a Butterfly Upon a Wheel?Terry Tempest Williams and Eva Aridjis

10th June 2021 by Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams and Eva Aridjis took part in Writers Rebels’ Insectageddon event on May 24th 2021, at which they both spoke piercingly about the fate of the Monarch Butterfly. In this video, we share Terry’s contribution. Known for her impassioned and lyrical prose, Terry Tempest Williams is the author of the environmental literature […]

Save Mexico’s Vaquita PorpoiseHomero Aridjis

4th March 2021 by Homero Aridjis

Mexican poet, novelist, environmental activist and journalist Homero Aridjis makes an impassioned appeal on behalf of the vaquita, the world’s rarest marine mammal, as it balances on the brink of extinction. Please sign this petition to show your support. […]

What Will You Tell The Future?Liz Jensen

6th February 2021 by Amber Massie-Blomfield and Liz Jensen

Iggy Fox and Liz Jensen at the October 2019 Rebellion.

A year ago, my son Raphaël Coleman, aka #IggyFox, died suddenly of an undiagnosed heart condition. Here’s what I have learned, and what he taught me. Even in the most crushing grief, we are hard-wired to survive. The moment a human heart is broken, microscopic seeds of new life begin to germinate. This is your […]

Lily Cole telling the story of the rusty patched bumble beeLily Cole

21st January 2021 by Amber Massie-Blomfield and Lily Cole

Continuing our series of videos from our On the Brink event, here is model, actress & campaigner Lily Cole speaking passionately about the plight of the rusty patched bumble bee. […]

The Snow LeopardJudy Ling Wong

6th January 2021 by Amber Massie-Blomfield and Judy Ling Wong

At our On the Brink event, artist, poet and environmental activist Judy Ling Wong related the story of a magical encounter with a snow leopard, speaking out against the threat of extinction to these wondrous creatures. Video edited by Ben Crabb. […]

The marvellous and mischevious Emma Thompson on the plight of the puffinEmma Thompson

17th December 2020 by Emma Thompson

The marvellous Dame Emma Thompson gave a melancholy and mischievous call out to the Puffin for our On the Brink event when she found herself unable to “research puffins amidst the musty stacks” of the London Library “prevented by this latest lockdown.” She relies, instead on her “straggling and intermittent memory” to give us “everything […]

Watch: Nana Oforiatta Ayim speaks about animal extinctions in Ghana

10th December 2020 by Nana Ofortiatta Ayim

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Watch: The Romanticists’ NightmareBrandon RA Pestano

19th November 2020 by Brandon RA Pestano

‘The Romanticist’s Nightmare’ – An original poem accompanied by long lost historical archive footage of nature, contrasted with horrifying scenes of pollution, as a response to William Morris as a romanticist poet and proto-environmentalist during the time of the industrial revolution and the destruction of natural habitats and ecosystems. I have often thought about our responsibilities […]

Watch: Esther Stanford-Xosei reading Ken Saro-Wiwa

12th November 2020 by Esther Stanford-Xosei

The following reading is from Ken Saro-Wiwa’s speech, which he was prevented from reading in court towards the end of his trial by the Military Tribunal, that sentenced him to death by hanging on October 31, 1995. It gives historical context to the justice-focused activism of communities of resistance in Nigeria, like the Movement for […]

Watch: Paul Hilder lays out the facts of the matterPaul Hilder

10th September 2020 by Toby Litt

Paul Hilder was one of twenty speakers at 55 Tufton Street. His was the most forensic attack on Climate Change denial. After watching this, you’ll be left in no doubt how we’re being played, and who we’re being played by. If you feel strongly about the climate and ecological emergency, join us and help […]