
activism


Voices Calling from the Water
Alice Attlee
20th June, 2019
Alice Attlee enters the freezing waters of the river Medway in the wake of fellow swimmer-writers and activists. With illustration by Nick Hayes. Latest post in our 'Becoming Human' section.

The Black Snake and the Row of Flags
Ben Mali Macfadyen
16th March, 2017
Shadows draped the tattered canvas of ‘Wounded Knee Kitchen’. Sodden figures, sheltering from the blizzard...

2016: The Reveal
Charlotte Du Cann
27th December, 2016
‘I used to care but things have changed’ – Bob Dylan Afterwards we will climb...

Ted Kaczynski and Why He Matters
John Jacobi
6th May, 2016
The Unabomber Affair In early 1995, the New York Times received a communique from FC...

I Remember
Caroline Williams
23rd December, 2015
In June 2008 twenty-nine people stopped a coal train heading for Drax power station. In...

Activists (what the hell do we do?)
Lydia Eccles
27th May, 2015
Atmospheric greenhouse gases measured by carbon are now approaching 400 ppm [As of May 2015, this...

Us and Them
Mat Osmond
21st April, 2015
Pit’s Letter belongs, then, to a body of animal-rights campaign literature that forms one important...

Art, Protest and Walking the Boundaries
Dougie Strang
19th June, 2012
‘For one long moment in my life, I heard the earthsongs of England. For one...