Last month I chaired a panel at the Climate and Nature Education Festival (is climate change a working class issue?)
I've written some reflections & to share the great points raised by Tahir Latif, Catherine Porritt & Suzanne Jeffrey.
Spoiler - of course it is!
wccalliance.org/is-climate-c...
Join us & Degrowth London on Sat 18th April, 5-8pm at LARC, London. We'll be screening Earth's Greatest Enemy.
The doc reveals the U.S. military's role as the world's largest institutional polluter, & makes the link between war, empire & ecological destruction.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/earths-gre...
Unfortunately, an incredibly challenging funding climate means that we have closed down the campaigning and membership side of the organisation. We’ll be taking a short break to update the website and plan what comes next.
Read the statement in full:
wccalliance.org/wcca-operati...
Next week on 25 March I'm at East Bristol Books talking about my book Or Something Worse w @wccalliance.bsky.social co-director Sasha Josette
Or Something Worse exposes the bleak realities of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. So what are we going to do about it?
tinyurl.com/27rvuf84
As resource scarcity intensifies, access to these resources is increasingly framed as a matter of national security, and the prospect of achieving Environmental Justice appears to be little more than a pipe dream.
Read the latest article on our website:
wccalliance.org/demilitarisa...
"It’s hard to come up with any other explanation for the way the ruling class go into panic mode the moment there's any sign of mass mobilisation, and especially mass direct action, and usually try to distract attention by starting some kind of war."
- David Graeber
Due to demand we have added an extra date for our interactive workshop about democratising environmental decision-making on Monday March 2nd, 2pm-3:30 pm GMT (over zoom). There's still some spaces remaining - all are welcome!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whose-envi...
"One shock could spark social unrest & riots in the UK according to dozens of the country’s top food experts, because chronic issues have left the food system a “tinderbox”. 80% said large-scale violence caused by a food crisis was possible in the next 50 years."
www.theguardian.com/food/2026/fe...
At the Climate & Nature Education Festival (London, Mar 14th) I'll be chairing the 'Is Climate Change a Working Class Issue?' panel featuring
Suzanne Jeffrey, @campaigncc.bsky.social
Tahir Latif, Greener Jobs Alliance
Catherine Porritt, National Education Union
All are welcome
tinyurl.com/ytvk454s
If you care about the social responsibility of scientists, don’t miss this mid-March talk at the @royalsociety.org
Jeff Waage, @abiperrin.bsky.social & @charliejgardner.bsky.social are courageous colleagues who lead by example.
You’ll want to hear what they have to say!
Arts organisations in the UK can now apply for Gulbenkian Exhibitions Fund! Our new initiative will support showcases of contemporary art from Portugal and Portuguese-speaking African countries. Learn more...
Clara Paillard, a great comrade to myself and many others is fundraising for a woman in Afghanistan, to develop education workshops for women about environmental issues. Please share round and donate if you can 👇
www.gofundme.com/f/support-mu...
Join @wccalliance.bsky.social for our monthly reading group session on Monday 23rd February 6pm-7.30pm GMT (over zoom) about working class storytelling and climate justice. We'll be reading from the Just Transition themed edition of Lumpen Journal.
www.eventbrite.com/e/working-cl...
By 2050 1 in 4 UK properties will be at risk from flooding.
Currently, a third of railways are at risk of flooding. In less than 25 years this will rise to more than half of the rail network being at risk, according to the government's own figures.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Climate change is getting personally expensive in the North...
Insurance payouts due to storms and flooding are exploding. UK payouts for 2025 totalled £1.6bn, up from £1.3bn in 2024, and double the average payout from 2017-2021
We'll be running this workshop in-person at the Malet Place Engineering Building on 17 February 2026, 2-4.30pm, as part of UCL's 28 Days of Sustainability programme. Please note this is for UCL students and staff only.
Book your spot here: 👇
www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/...
Flyer for talk by Nicholas Beuret, 'Or something worse: why we need to disrupt the climate transition' at Queen's university Belfast on 25th February
'Or something worse: why we need to disrupt the climate transition'
@nicholasbeuret.bsky.social
Wednesday 25th Februrary
Queen's University Belfast
Free and open to all
Join us for our monthly reading group session on Monday February 23rd, 6pm-7.30pm GMT (over zoom). For this session we'll focus on storytelling & climate justice, by reading from the Just Transition themed edition of Lumpen Journal.
Register your spot 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-cl...
I'm doing a book talk in Belfast 25th Feb at Queen's University - if you're in town come say hi!
7pm Canada Room/Lanyon Building
Hosted by the Centre for Sustainability,Equality& Climate Action
Free to register!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/qubseca/t-xd...
Coaches to and from the march are planned across England and Wales. Some coaches require a contribution towards the cost of travel, but some providers are offering free or discounted travel for low or unwaged individuals. Find out more below:
www.togetheralliance.org.uk/transport
At the demonstration, we’ll march together against the far right. Teachers, care workers, families – standing shoulder to shoulder. We know we can change things when we stand together.
Find out more at the Together Alliance website:
www.togetheralliance.org.uk
We may not all agree on how to address the problems we face. But do know this: we can only address them if we face them together.
We're one of 100s of orgs representing over 7 million people, building towards a major demonstration in London on Sat, 28 March, starting at 12pm.
Will you join us?
Neocolonialism in subtle forms also:
"For both companies the mechanism of impact is the same: to convert technical capacity into a policy package, and normalise a governance regime that privileges commercial extraction and private investment over locally governed, commons-based alternatives."
The Citizens' Cultural Plan is the first of its kind, with recommendations from public spaces to creative education proposed through a citizens assembly.
Read about our involvement and next steps to test the ideas with support from @esmeefairbairn.bsky.social
gulbenkian.pt/uk-branch/ne...
How have Israeli companies transformed water into an instrument of settler rule & profit?
We took a deep dive into two Israeli companies, laying out their roles in the occupation of Palestine & ongoing genocide, & how they profit from it on a global scale 👇
wccalliance.org/making-apart...
💪🏼Protest the Old Kent Road AAP
💪🏽Don't let the council cleanse the community!
💪🏿Outside Council Assembly
Wednesday 18 March, 6:30pm
Southwark Council Offices
160 Tooley Street
London
SE1 2TZ
Thank you to everyone who has submitted to the new issue on work 🛠
If you were thinking about contributing, the deadline is February 21st ⏰
As inspiration, we have published a flashback to Lumpen 13 with a testimonial on shit jobs by Some Migrant.
theclassworkproject.com/talking-abou...
Why are certain forms of knowledge held in higher regard than others? How can we ensure that all forms of knowledge are valued equally?
Join us on Feb 16th 2pm-3.30pm GMT (over zoom) for our bi-annual workshop on democratising environmental decision-making.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whose-envi...
