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THE UNION OF LAUGHTER Raymond Antrobus

Raymond Antrobus — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:36:11 +0000

First we laughed with prickly legs and stubble beards at police in polished riot vans. Then we laughed shivering like candles at the Prime Minister’s heated swimming pool. We carried our laughter like The Big Issue and hurled it at the Education Minister and his ten-thousand- pound Rolex. When they took our right to [...]

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NO BOOKS ON A DEAD PLANETFossil Free Books

Fossil Free Books — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 21:32:37 +0000

LITERARY INDUSTRY WORKERS CALL ON BOOKS FESTIVAL SPONSOR BAILLIE GIFFORD TO DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS Over 170 literary industry representatives – including booksellers, literary events staff, and authors such as Naomi Klein, George Monbiot, Robert Macfarlane, Emma Dabiri, Rebecca Solnit, and Ben Okri – have signed Fossil Free Books’ statement calling on Baillie Gifford to [...]

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WHAT PRISON HAS TAUGHT ME Morgan Trowland

Morgan Trowland — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:14:33 +0000

Jail has taught me a lot. But it’s not what the government hoped. During the 17 years I practised civil engineering I wrote a steady stream of reports and journal papers, alongside occasional industry magazine articles. All of that was dry compared to most things, especially to the issues raised by civil resistance and [...]

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LEAVE THE CAR AT HOME Emma Must

Emma Must — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 07:00:51 +0000

I am flicking backwards and forwards between my poem Human Chain, published 30 years after the anti-road protests at Twyford Down in Hampshire – and the photo from March 1993 which inspired it. It begins: Looking at the blocks of chalk passed hand to hand by the protesters – silhouettes of black against the white [...]

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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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Why the Climate Crisis is a Health CrisisKatie Percival

Katie Percival — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 06:00:22 +0000

A short while ago I cared for a patient who was admitted to the hospital with breathlessness. He’d developed heart failure, a condition with a cruel name which describes a state where the heart muscle ceases to pump efficiently enough to deliver blood and oxygen to the cells that need them, often leading to [...]

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Don’t Be Like MeMark Engineer

Mark Engineer — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 08:00:10 +0000

I have a confession to make. I’m a world class procrastinator. A heavyweight champion faffer-abouter. An Olympic standard timewaster. (This isn’t the confession. I’m just setting the scene.) It’s not great. It drives my friends and family nuts. It’s of practically no use in a climate and ecological emergency, which is all about acting [...]

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The Vicar, The Priest and The Former Probation OfficerJessica Townsend

Jessica Townsend — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 08:00:29 +0000

A vicar, a priest and an elderly former probation officer sat on a train. Not in a train, you understand: on it. It sounds like the beginning of a joke but it’s not. Far from it. These are the facts that were established at the beginning of a court case in which three people [...]

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Where the River Runs Gold | Sita Brahmachari

Katie Percival — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 12:55:37 +0000

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