@anthlawson1

Campaigner and author | Lifting the lid on our attempts to change the world THE ENTANGLED ACTIVIST, Perspectiva Press | a TLS Book of The Year 2021

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I've had exciting news this week, amid Omicron gloom: The Entangled Activist is in @TheTLS's Books of the Year list!
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For years, both Conservative and Labour governments ripped into the regulations designed to protect human life, workers, consumers and the living world, favouring corporate interests over the public interest. The Grenfell Tower disaster is one of the results. 🧵
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1. This is a thread about a new form of political organising, which proved spectacularly successful in this election, and that other constituencies would do well to adopt. It’s a means of navigating our unfair, unrepresentative first-past-the-post electoral system. 🧵
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Fascinating report about the visions that emerge when refusal to accept human interdependence meets big money
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I wrote a piece about startup societies for @noemamag noemamag.com/chasing-utopia-…

Chasing Utopia, Startup Style | NOEMA

A group of Silicon Valley’s most powerful figures are building startup societies that they believe will set them free.

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Lucy Easthope@LucyGoBag6 Jun 2024
Lots of interest at the moment in citizen preparedness, tins in cupboards and go bags. While I am a big fan of a bit of a prepping do you know what would make an even bigger difference to communities in an emergency….🚨
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IMPORTANT This is the story the Government don't want you to read about /watch @ChrisGPackham is taking #Sunak Govt to court on its back pedalling on climate policy So No 10 & right wing media start an attack on Chris about protest Don't be fooled by the distraction 👇WATCH👇
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What a start to Transition Alive! Next week’s line up is amazing as we explore the power of building alternatives in energy, food, economy & ways of organising. With Josiah @Hodmedods Pete @BWCE Craig @ScotCCAN @TransitionLeic @anthlawson1 and Nick Romeo. events.transitionmovement.or…
Transition Alive - Part two - Tuesday 5 March, 7-9pm “Alive to the power of building alternatives”. With Pete Capener, Bath & West Community Energy, Josiah Meldrum, co-founder Hodmedod's, Craig Dunn, Scotland Communities Climate Action Network, Samantha Woods and Taruna Mistry, Leicester Community Climate Connectors. Keynote listeners: Nick Romeo, Journalist/Author of “The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy” and Anthea Lawson, Campaigner/Author of “The Entangled Activist”, pllus inspiring projects born in the Transition Movement. Logos of Transition Together and the Community Fund. A colourful graphic shows the letters ALIVE pulsing with electricity and generating tiny lightning bolts.

ALT Transition Alive - Part two - Tuesday 5 March, 7-9pm “Alive to the power of building alternatives”. With Pete Capener, Bath & West Community Energy, Josiah Meldrum, co-founder Hodmedod's, Craig Dunn, Scotland Communities Climate Action Network, Samantha Woods and Taruna Mistry, Leicester Community Climate Connectors. Keynote listeners: Nick Romeo, Journalist/Author of “The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy” and Anthea Lawson, Campaigner/Author of “The Entangled Activist”, pllus inspiring projects born in the Transition Movement. Logos of Transition Together and the Community Fund. A colourful graphic shows the letters ALIVE pulsing with electricity and generating tiny lightning bolts.

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Nick Anim@NickGreenergy21 Nov 2023
Ahead of #COP28, I’m delighted to share the 1st large scale academic study in the UK asking ethnic minorities about their opinions & experiences of #ClimateChange Research conducted alongside @charlesogunbode @JeremyKidwell @sen_solanki @amiera_tales 👉🏾 climateexperiences.org
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Nick Anim@NickGreenergy26 Oct 2023
“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year….Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work…” - W. E. B. Du Bois Session on #urgency & #activism November 16 ⬇️
Anthea Lawson@anthlawson122 Oct 2023
I'm hosting a new online course in November: *Unlearning the Activist Script* How can we change the world without reproducing its systems of harm? Book here eventbrite.com/cc/unlearning… more info in thread below:
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Anthea Lawson@anthlawson122 Oct 2023
I'm hosting a new online course in November: *Unlearning the Activist Script* How can we change the world without reproducing its systems of harm? Book here eventbrite.com/cc/unlearning… more info in thread below:
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I'm hosting a new online course in November: *Unlearning the Activist Script* How can we change the world without reproducing its systems of harm? Book here eventbrite.com/cc/unlearning… more info in thread below:
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The script tells us 'we know the answer' or 'we must be heroes' or 'we must make things perfect'...
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I'm offering 5 workshops with @GuerrillaFound and 5 amazing co-hosts whose work embodies alternatives to the classic 'activist script'. Come to just one, or a few - or all five! Free but limited places available here: eventbrite.com/cc/unlearning… thanks @darkolina for design
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'I grieve for whoever set out into that storm with a chainsaw, because we have failed them just as surely as we have failed nature' Me too. DH Lawrence on my mind: 'we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars'
ROB COWEN@robbiecowen3 Oct 2023
I mourn the Sycamore Gap tree. But I also grieve for whoever chopped it down | Rob Cowen theguardian.com/commentisfre…

I mourn the Sycamore Gap tree. But I also grieve for whoever chopped it down | Rob Cowen

The felling of this much-loved tree reflects a society that has become utterly disconnected from the non-human world, says author Rob Cowen

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Kimwei@kimweidotcom11 Sep 2023
10 days left of my album crowdfunder tinyurl.com/KimweiCrowdfunde…! Progress has slowed so please pledge & share to help us make it. Watch to the end for my semi-clothed, semi-aquatic performance supporting #wildswimming rights #Dartmoor with @Right_2Roam @curiousways @guyshrubsole
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Clara Todd@claratee1 Sep 2023
Wise words from @anthlawson1 in interview with @robintransition. Activism often entangled in the problems it seeks to solve. One for booklist! robhopkins.net/2022/01/06/fr…

From What If to What Next: Episode Thirty Six

Oh wow, you're in for a treat. In this episode we bring together Anthea Lawson, author of the fabulous new book 'The Entangled Activist' and Alastair McIntosh, author of 'Soul and Soil' and 'Riders...

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Many congratulations to our brilliant co-director @underscrutiny for his wonderful first novel 'Red Smoking Mirror' published today. Do read his essay and introduction about the role of fiction and alternative history play in imagining other futures. dark-mountain.net/enchanted-…

Enchanted Visions - Dark Mountain

To mark the publication of Red Smoking Mirror, Nick Hunt explores how alternate histories can help imagine different futures

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📣 @anthlawson1 author of 'The Entangled Activist' in conversation 📆24May ⏰7-8:30pm Explore ideas in the book and how these might apply to peace activism in this challenging time All welcome! Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/8120376408… @BritishQuakers @nfpb1 @paxchristiEW @StopTheArmsFair
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Reminded of @anthlawson1's work in relation to activists. When we "do not see that we are part of what we are trying to change, it is hard for us to see the ways in which the problems that we are trying to tackle end up manifesting, too, in us."
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