Post-mortems that are deadening…
We're now at the stage where "movement" "intellectuals" are willing to say in public what anyone with two brain cells (#NotAllMovementIntellectuals) has known for years - that the GretaXR 'wave' of...
View Article“COP This!”– Climate activist publication from December 2000 abt COP-6 at The...
Just a nice bit of history, from a generation ago.... Can't say we didn't know...
View ArticleThe kids are not alright, alright? I blame… the ‘adults’, and ‘the system’ (man)
Another on-the-fly post because I need to be working. Three immediate things Anxiety referrals through the roof for kids - Guardian reports NHS referrals for anxiety in children more than double...
View ArticlePodcast worth your time –“To Stay in the Fight we must navigate Trauma and...
This is good. To Stay in the Fight we must navigate Trauma and Find the Healing We need https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5N5nDHr81U Doesn't talk enough about movement organisation pathologies, or the...
View ArticleMarc’s Andon Board
Why? As part of the “How Do We Honour The Soup Throwers?” thing #CollectiveCourage (Trying to put yourself under SOME discipline. Ha. Ha.) Because I need to help other people kick me in the ass so I...
View ArticleOn “onboarding” and “inclusive spaces.” The Rantomatic-3000 grinds through...
Deny the passengers, who want to get on. That’s a reference to a fun (ymmv) Elton John song from a few years back (40, to be precise). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB86UzewPdo All will be revealed...
View ArticleSo, you have a meeting with your MP…. Solicited advice.
Solicited advice sheet Author: Marc Hudson Date 29 Sept 2024 Situation Members of [group] have a face-to-face (and online?) meeting with the newly elected Labour MP for the area on [date] They have...
View ArticleJSO – why are you trashing your brand for pennies?
JSO is now an official nominee for the most cringe and WTAF email of 2024. Why? Just WHY? Just Stop Oil is a divisive organisation. They’re cool with that. Some lean into it, for good and baddish...
View ArticleSeeing things that aren’t there (yet): “The promise and peril of...
A Looting the Ivory Tower on Sovacool, B. 2024. The promise and peril of sociotechnical visions of the future. Nature Reviews Physics. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-024-00774-5 Not all academic...
View Article“When the stresses get tectonic”– brilliant guest post about ‘What is to be...
A couple of weeks ago Australian novelist Tim Winton wrote a really provocative piece called Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread, which...
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