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Why we are in civil resistance Our system is killing us. The root of the wreckage we see around us is a broken democracy, not a broken climate. Climate chaos is just a symptom of the endless greed of the powerful – who won’t stop until they’ve trashed even what they need to survive.  This

Dear Daniel, Susanna, Richard, Ben and Charlotte, I was booked by your producer, Patrick, to appear in the Studio this morning for your discussion on whether Just Stop Oil should be made to pay for its own policing. After making a series of plans for my kids to be looked after in my absence overnight,

The secret ingredient that makes nonviolence so powerful Just Stop Oil supporters have been accused of being ‘destructive’, but equally, of not being forceful enough. On the one hand, we’re seen as yobs who rampage around smashing up petrol pumps; on the other, as hippies who hold hands in front of oil terminals. The way

When Just Stop Oil describes the Government as criminal, genocidal or guilty of mass murder, how do you feel? To some people, these words sound implausible and melodramatic. Far from it. Of course, they express rage but they also have a rock-solid justification in international criminal law. We all wish it wasn’t the case. Our

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