arrest Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/arrest/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 06:51:45 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://i0.wp.com/writersrebel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/index-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 arrest Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/arrest/ 32 32 184391167 The Path to Prison Adam Beard https://writersrebel.com/the-path-to-prison/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:00:57 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=6191   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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]]> 6191 A Citizen’s ArrestCarsten Jensen https://writersrebel.com/a-citizens-arrest/ Thu, 12 May 2022 07:00:18 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=4610   “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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]]> 4610 The last speech I gave before I became a criminalCarsten Jensen https://writersrebel.com/the-last-speech-i-gave-before-i-became-a-criminal/ Mon, 09 May 2022 09:52:25 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=4595     If you think you can live the way you have always lived, you are wrong. If you think your kids will have a life like yours, you are wrong. If you think politicians have a bigger horizon than the next election, you are wrong. If you think that the problems you don’t solve [...]

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]]> 4595 Satisfying, empowering, life-affirming: civil disobediencePeter Kalmus https://writersrebel.com/satisfying-empowering-life-affirming-civil-disobedience/ Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:08:15 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=4442   Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist, known as @ClimateHuman on Twitter, founder of ClimateAd and a  number of other organisations responding to the climate crisis. Last week he was arrested with Scientist Rebellion. Yesterday (Tuesday 12th April 2022) he spoke at the a launch event of the new A22 global climate change civil resistance [...]

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]]> 4442 Read: Tear Gas or Tea? A Very English ArrestBeth Pitts https://writersrebel.com/tear-gas-or-tea/ Thu, 02 Jul 2020 07:40:53 +0000 http://writersrebel.com/?p=1164   As I lay in the middle of the road outside Downing Street, surrounded by police, awaiting my imminent arrest, I looked up at a cloudless blue sky. It felt like a sign that the rain had finally stopped and, as I enjoyed the sun on my face, one of London’s famous parakeets flew overhead. [...]

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