Yesterday I was at the BBC Written Archives Centre, in Reading. Here's me. I think there's three things that make it so fun. First, there is the physicality of it - having objects/bits of paper in your hands, and the little touches - I'd not seen Treasury tags that connect to each other before, for... Continue Reading →
While I wait to receive "no, not shortlisted" and "thanks for doing interview, but no thanks" emails, I am going through piles of printed off articles and putting in three piles - a) for (re)reading and blogging about soon b) for "one day" and c) can go in the recycling (once blank A4 and A5... Continue Reading →
Groundhog Day or End of Days is a project I am doing to find out people's thoughts on the cyclical nature of UK climate activism. You can read more about it here. I'm interviewing various folks, some of whom I already know, and others I don't. The first interview was with Alastair McIntosh, and you... Continue Reading →
Last week I put up a leaflet from November 2000, with activists from Rising Tide trying to explain what was at stake around COP6, in the Netherlands. Well, I've just stumbled on a copy of an Earth First! Action Update from 2002. Here below are the first two pages. Btw, gee, it turns out the... Continue Reading →
I am making short (under 2 min 20 seconds) videos. For the shiggles. Here are two, hopefully self-explanatory. Anxiety Management Rituals https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1640357505271488513 Marches as a Zombie Repertoire https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1640608156458835969
I set myself a bunch of targets last Sunday. Missed most of them, but did over-achieve on making short (under 2 mins 20 seconds) videos about things I think other people might benefit from knowing/I would have benefited from knowing when I was young. Most of them are "Looting the Ivory Towers", and the others... Continue Reading →
So, when I was doing climate campaigning in Manchester there was a subset of people who either wanted to meet or were happy to meet for reasons I didn't really understand at first. Eventually I realised that what was going on was that these people wanted to see real action on climate in Manchester, they... Continue Reading →
So, as per yesterday's blog post about how those pretending to be the adults in the room are unable to admit that the dirty hippies were right, here's an A5 leaflet from Rising Tide, the activist group that was trying to get a movement going about climate change... They were at Den Hague, site of... Continue Reading →
In the last couple of weeks we've seen big big protests in Israel about the direction of travel of the state. We've had another IPCC summary report (number 6 in the franchise - the body count ever higher, the deaths more elaborate) and just yesterday Boris Johnson in front of the Privileges Committee. What all... Continue Reading →
Alastair McIntosh, the Scottish writer and activist, kindly did an interview last month, the first for my "Groundhog Day or End of Days" project (see here). You can (and in my opinion should!) read the transcript here, but here's a few clips to whet your appetite. And then I started to notice, you know, when... Continue Reading →
