civil disobedience Archives - Writers Rebel

Q&A with Roman KrznaricLiz Jensen

Liz Jensen — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 07:00:28 +0000

Political thinker and philosopher Roman Krznaric is interviewed by Writers Rebel’s Liz Jensen. Roman shares an excerpt from his latest book, The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World, here. Liz Jensen: The title of your book is taken from a quotation by the medical researcher Jonas Salk, [...]

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Hungry for a FutureCharlie Gardner

Charlie Gardner — Thu, 19 May 2022 07:00:16 +0000

Soon after laying down our fork at the end of a meal, our body starts to protest. At first it’s a subtle, uneasy feeling in the belly; a sense of absence, a hole that needs to be filled, but ignore it for long and the reminders become less subtle as the stomach contracts in [...]

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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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Satisfying, empowering, life-affirming: civil disobediencePeter Kalmus

Peter Kalmus — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:08:15 +0000

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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Read: Tear Gas or Tea? A Very English ArrestBeth Pitts

toby — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 07:40:53 +0000

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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