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Month: November 2021

COP26 demo on Glasgow Green
COP26 Posted on18th November 20213rd January 2022

Six Sides of COP26

I In the early hours of 13th November human and environmental rights defender Alessandra Munduruku’s home was invaded. Having made the case against the ongoing depredations […] Read More

COP26 Posted on12th November 20214th January 2022

COP Resistance Report 6: ‘We will outlive these empires’

Grief, rage, burnout, anguish, fear, despair, despondency are all perfectly rational responses to the failure of the planet’s most powerful people to place their immense […] Read More

Govan Free State
COP26 Posted on8th November 20215th January 2022

Welcome to the new world of Govan

‘I, Ana Laide Soares Barbosa, great granddaughter of the enslaved, Granddaughter of peasants and fishing people, fisherwoman, accept the invitation to this new world of […] Read More

COP26 Posted on5th November 20213rd January 2022

COP Resistance Report 4: Life and death in George Square

Most of COP26 is spectacle: on both the inside and the outside of the official proceedings, the point is to be seen to be there. […] Read More

Cover image © Daniel Seex 

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