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You Can’t Kill the MessageAmber Massie-Blomfield

Amber Massie-Blomfield — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 22:04:31 +0000

We marched, that day, towards the Houses of Parliament, leaving the square outside the Tate Britain and forming a procession along the Thames. Someone had brought branches to the protest, green and freshly coppiced from a managed wood, and we held them aloft like we were extras from Macbeth, converging on Dunsinane. As a line of [...]

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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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THE TUFTON PRAGMATISTSZadie Smith

Zadie Smith — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 09:59:14 +0000

Following her appearance at The Big One on April 21st 2023, Zadie Smith has shared the definite text of her piercing speech with Writers Rebel. It is reproduced here exclusively. Hello. I want to speak to you today about a man called Craig Mackinlay, MP. Craig campaigns against flagship green policies, and is [...]

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10 Things We Must RememberTom Bullough

Tom Bullough — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000

For 2100, 77 years from now, the likely range in global temperature increase above the pre-industrial average is 2-4.9°C, with the median 3.2°C. Globally, that is to say, we are set on a course for a barely imaginable catastrophe. As Sir David Attenborough put it, four years ago this month, “It may sound frightening, [...]

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What is the Price of Experience?Writers Rebel

XR Writers Rebel — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 10:58:38 +0000

Today Writers Rebel took action against the Institute of Economic Affairs. We made this statement about why we did so. We choose the Institute of Economic affairs because its work is encouraging those politicians and fossil fuel companies who are right now leading us to a cliff edge. Its utterances constantly deny the [...]

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Lemn Sissay OBE for Writers Rebel’s The Antidote

Lemn Sissay — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 07:00:22 +0000

Here’s Lemn Sissay, OBE, official poet of the London Olympics and all-round legend, at Tate Modern in London on Friday 15 April 2022. He’d just come off stage after giving an amazing, inspiring performance for THE ANTIDOTE, a rebellious literary street festival held during the April 2022 Rebellion. You can watch Lemn’s full [...]

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Watch: Writers Marathon Reading

XR Writers Rebel — Sat, 23 May 2020 17:12:06 +0000

The People of the River Rise reading, hosted by Culture Declares, took place during lockdown on 20 May 2020. It was organised by Paul Ewen and hosted by Toby Litt. The writers who took part were Alfie, Chloe Aridjis, Jeff Goodell, Monique Roffey, Susana Medina, Edward Platt, Clare Morrall, Anoucha Grose, Jessica Townsend, Josh Appignanesi, [...]

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