Committed: How Do Climate Activists Cope in Prison?
Our new podcast goes behind bars with Just Stop Oil.
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Committed: What Kind of Person Goes to Prison for Their Politics?
A new podcast going behind bars with imprisoned Just Stop Oil activists.
Analysis: Goodbye to Just Stop Oil. Or Is It?
Richard Hames
Just Stop Oil has announced it’s hung up the hi-vis. Richard Hames looks back at three years of road-blocking and soup-throwing and ahead to what’s coming next.
Red Flags: Israel’s Genocide in Palestine Fills Me With Sorrow. How Do I Keep on Going?
Sophie K Rosa
Don’t pathologise yourself, Sophie K Rosa tells a reader who feels alone in their despair at events in Gaza. Instead, find like-minded comrades and channel your rage into collective action.
Red Flags: I Can’t Fit It All In: How Do I Do My Job and Also Be a Good Person?
Sophie K Rosa
Work, activism, hobbies, exercise, eating, sleeping and showing up for the people you love: In the second instalment of Novara Media's advice column, Red Flags, Sophie K Rosa advises a burnt-out worker who blames herself for not being able to fit it all in.
Feature: Climate Camp is Back – And It’s Trying Something New
Douglas Rogers
Historically, ‘climate camps’ have faced one common drawback: a persistent divide between ‘activists’ and ‘everyday people’. Climate Camp Scotland is out to change that.
Novara FM: Eat Sleep Protest Repeat
What's it going to take to save the planet? Clare Hymer gets strategic with activists from XR, Just Stop Oil and Ende Gelände.
Feature: After Deflating Thousands of Tyres, Eco-Saboteurs Are Thinking Up New Ways to Tackle SUVs
Clare Hymer
Since March 2022, guerrilla climate activists have deflated over 10,000 SUV tyres across 15 countries. We went out with the Tyre Extinguishers in Bristol to find out what eco-saboteurs might do next.
Opinion: Flat SUV Tyres and Soupy Van Goghs: 2022 Was a Vintage Year for Climate Protest
Clare Hymer
The government's insatiable protest crackdown has forced climate activists to get creative this year, writes Clare Hymer.
Report: This Protester Committed No Crime But Is Going to Prison Anyway
Denise Laura Baker & Josie Argyle
On 23 September, climate activist Elliott Cuciurean was sentenced to 268 days in prison. He hadn't committed any crime, but instead had breached HS2's injunction. Denise Laura Baker and Josie Argyle report on the privatisation of protest policing.
Report: How We Won: The Activists Who Put a Stop to TUI’s Deportation Flights
Sophie K Rosa
After just over a year of organising, a group of activists successfully ended airline TUI’s involvement in Home Office deportation flights. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Opinion: Anti-Vax Canadian Truckers Deserve Our Solidarity
Shanice McBean
Justin Trudeau is freezing the bank accounts of Canadian truckers protesting vaccine mandates. The left should be up in arms, argues Shanice McBean, whatever we think of the protesters’ politics.
Feature: The ‘Colston 4’ Won by Invoking History – And Using It to Build a Strong Legal Defence
Priyanka Raval
Since the Colston 4 were found not guilty last week, the right has sought to claim their win was ideological - an assault on the rule of law. This is simply not the case, writes Priyanka Raval: the group’s legal defence was robust.
Downstream: Were Trans People “Born This Way”?
In debates around the rights of transgender people, a charge often levelled at those fighting for trans inclusion is that their arguments rest on a denial of biological facts. Michael Walker speaks to biologist Julia Serano about what so-called ‘gender critical’ thinkers get wrong about sex and gender, and whether trans activists should embrace the argument that they were “born this way”.
Report: How We Won: The Local Activists That Took on Big Oil on the Isle of Wight
Florence Wildblood
Ending a six-year battle, a group of local activists successfully fought off an oil company’s plans to drill on the Isle of Wight. Florence Wildblood reports.
Downstream: The Capitalist War Being Waged on Disabled People
Ellen Clifford speaks to Michael Walker about her book “The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of Human Catastrophe”, including an explanation of the Social Model of Disability, the history of the Disabled People’s Movement, and the disastrous consequences of austerity policies.
Long Read: How We Won: The Activist Deceived By a Spycop Who Took on the Met
Alex D King
An activist, with the help of other women who had been tricked into relationships with spycops, has achieved a landmark ruling that said the Met’s use of undercover police officers is a violation of human rights.
Analysis: David Graeber Was Right: A Debt Free World Is Possible
Andrew Ross
David Graeber played a vital role in the debt cancellation movement, showing everyone, from activists to policymakers, that mass debt cancellation is not only possible now, it's been happening for centuries. This is the first article in our series exploring the life and ideas of David Graeber on the first anniversary of his death.