climate activism Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/climate-activism/ Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:39:31 +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 climate activism Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/climate-activism/ 32 32 184391167 THE UNION OF LAUGHTER Raymond Antrobus  https://writersrebel.com/the-union-of-laughter/ Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:36:11 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5738   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 https://writersrebel.com/no-books-on-a-dead-planet/ Wed, 11 Oct 2023 21:32:37 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5687   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  https://writersrebel.com/what-prison-has-taught-me/ Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:14:33 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5670   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 https://writersrebel.com/leave-the-car-at-home/ Thu, 13 Jul 2023 07:00:51 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5589   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 https://writersrebel.com/hope-is-a-verb/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 07:00:47 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5548   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 https://writersrebel.com/why-the-climate-crisis-is-a-health-crisis/ Thu, 25 Aug 2022 06:00:22 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=4881   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 https://writersrebel.com/dont-be-like-me/ Thu, 10 Mar 2022 08:00:10 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=4150   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 https://writersrebel.com/the-vicar-the-priest-and-the-former-probation-officer/ Thu, 03 Feb 2022 08:00:29 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=3949   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 https://writersrebel.com/where-the-river-runs-gold-sita-brahmachari/ Tue, 01 Feb 2022 12:55:37 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=4365 [...]

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