To Prevent Ecocidal Climate Change we Need to Tell Better Stories: Lessons from Ratcliffe-on-Soar.
In April 2009, I was one of 114 people who were arrested hours before closing down 's Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station, the second biggest in the UK. It was one…
Undercover cops: political or commercial?
The reaction to the news that an undercover police officer, Mark Kennedy, spent seven years infiltrating green campaign groups has been genuinely fascinating. Quite understandably there’s been the strong sense…
“When injustice becomes legal, resistance becomes duty.”
Words: Will McCallum. Photo: Phil McIver via flickr Guilty of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass: so states the unanimous jury verdict. Fifteen days of court and the twenty defendants who…
Climate activists stand trial
By Will McCallum As I write, twenty activists are currently standing trial in Nottingham Crown Court for conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass. The night before the plan to occupy Ratcliffe-on-Soar…