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Morgan Trowland goes on trial today at Basildon Crown Court, charged with causing a Public Nuisance after scaling the QE2 bridge to demand no new oil and gas. In this essay, he shows how the government should be prosecuted under exactly the same charge he faces. It’s a prophetic essay in which we can see […]

If you’ve read Lord of the Rings, you’ll remember the hobbits living comfortably in the green, cosy Shire – oblivious to the gathering of the darkness elsewhere in Middle Earth. According to Roger Hallam, they’re alive and well, and working in a courtroom near you. They’re the judges and prosecutors sending people to prison for

The climate crisis is spoken about today by almost everyone – academics, scientists, civil society, activists, intellectuals and so on – as the greatest crisis facing humanity. It’s always described in global terms: a universal crisis facing humanity as a whole. Juan Pablo Gutierrez is a human rights defender, activist, decolonial teacher and international delegate

In their second post on the German village lost to coal, Lexy Ray shares how Lützerath captured people’s imagination and created a vision of how we all could live ‘They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.’ Dinos Christianopoulos Now Lützerath has fallen, the climate justice movement in Germany has reached a

In the first of a two-part series on Lützerath, Lexy Ray shares their deep connection with the village lost forever to a coalmine January 10th, 2023: Night has already fallen upon the small village of Lützerath. Small spots of light  are dancing in the dark as people scurry around with their headlamps, preparing for the

It sounds like a dystopian sci-fi film: people too scared to speak or reach out to each other as flood waters pour through their communities and close in on their homes.  But it’s not a movie – it’s reality in the making. Recently, as flooding got so bad swans swam through Worcester city centre, the

The risk of prison couldn’t deter Phoebe – not when climate breakdown is bringing something infinitely worse My name is Phoebe Plummer, I’m 21 and a social anthropology student from London. I was recently released from HMP Bronzefield after spending 28 days on remand there. It still feels surreal to say that: “I’ve been to

English Gulag Wandsworth, London, December 2022 About nine weeks ago, I did a 20-minute speech on the crisis. Just like the 100+ public talks I have done over the past year. Destroying sovereign states, creating billions of refugees, shitting on our children’s inheritance, and wiping out what’s left of the natural world justifies concrete acts

Louise shares the deep experience of love and grief which propelled her into action. My name is Louise Harris, I’m 24 years old, and just over a month ago, I spent eight days in Bronzefield prison for non-violently fighting for my life. I climbed up a gantry on the M25, the video of which I’m

Just Stop Oil supporter Jan Goodey is being held in Wandsworth Prison for taking part in last November’s M25 action. Here, Jan tells us what it’s like in ‘Wanno’ and describes some of the obscene policies that pushed him to take action.   Banged up in Wandsworth D Wing is a tough regime. Lots of hecticness.