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The Path to Prison Adam Beard

Adam Beard — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:00:57 +0000

I sit in a small cubicle in the back of a police van and brace myself so I don’t slide off the plastic seat as we are driven through west London. After about half an hour a grand portcullis-like doorway between two brick towers is framed in the small window. As we enter, a [...]

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Fast-Track ActivismAnna Durance

Anna Durance — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:16:04 +0000

On 23rd January I attended City of London Magistrates’ Court to support three women at their court case who had been charged with breach of Section 12 of the Public Order Act. They had briefly disrupted traffic as they slow marched down Shaftesbury Avenue in July 2023 to raise the alarm about climate and [...]

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HOPE IS A VERBDillon Creedon

Dillon Creedon — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 07:00:47 +0000

I was surprised at my emotions upon arrival at my first XR march. As the sun warmed my skin, I looked at the faces around me: I saw smiles, I heard chanting, and I sensed solidarity. So why do I feel sad? I wondered. I couldn’t escape emotions of guilt, shame and loneliness, feelings [...]

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Now is the time to set up a local Writers RebelRebecca Stonehill

Rebecca Stonehill — Thu, 11 May 2023 09:36:08 +0000

In 2022, a writer friend and I began talking about how we wanted to draw local poets and writers together, to build community around those who were addressing (or wanted to address) the climate and ecological emergency in their writing. We put some feelers out and on a warm evening in June, twelve of [...]

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Art and ActivismTom Hardy

Tom Hardy — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:43:41 +0000

Picture this… a man walks into a gallery and throws black ink over a renowned artwork. Not, as you would be forgiven thinking, a Just Stop Oil intervention but a 1994 reaction by artist Mark Bridger to Damien Hirst’s pickled sheep creating a new work he called “Black Sheep” which was in turn absorbed [...]

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Does Throwing Food Help?Diana McCaulay

Diana McCaulay — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 08:00:50 +0000

Recently two women threw a can of soup onto the glass protecting Vincent Van Gogh’s Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers in London’s National Gallery, and then glued their palms to the wall. Watching the YouTube video, I’m struck by how young they are. Their hands shake as they apply the glue to their palms, and [...]

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Q&A with Rob HopkinsLiz Jensen

Rob Hopkins — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 06:55:52 +0000

First, have the dream. Then make it happen. In conversation with Liz Jensen, Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transitions Movement and author of What If to What Next: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want discusses the power of the imagination and how stories can frame the future we want, [...]

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Persons Unknown: Q&A with Simon CrumpSally O'Reilly

Simon Crump — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:56:51 +0000

In 2012 Sheffield City Council and the Department of Transport signed a 25-year contract with Amey plc to renew the city’s highways in a programme called ‘Streets Ahead’, at a cost to the taxpayer of £2.2 billion. As part of this contract, some 17,500 trees were due to be felled, most of them healthy. [...]

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A Citizen’s ArrestCarsten Jensen

Carsten Jensen — Thu, 12 May 2022 07:00:18 +0000

“What if I got to jail?” I thought, when Extinction Rebellion Denmark asked me to speak at the opening of its week of protest. Because this is the point we’ve reached: the point where states come down more heavily on climate protest than on tax evasion. When he was jailed for his role in [...]

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