Social Movement Appreciation Project
In our rapidly destabilising world, it's clear that nothing will get better without large numbers of people working together. But social movements remain mysterious and under-studied creatures: the Social Movement Appreciation Project aims to shine a warm and loving light on today's many efforts at collective agency and system transformation.
Social Movement Appreciation Project
Fascism and Fossil Free London
Robin Wells, director of Fossil Free London, joins me to reflect on Green Gathering and the movement evolutions on view there: namely the increasing relevance of fascism to the climate movement, and broader frame/vibe-shift towards a *collapse* framing.
We then follow Robin’s personal journey into activism via the student fees movement to her present role with Fossil Free London.
From this vantage we take a close look at one of the more successful UK climate groups of the last few years: answering questions like ‘what does a protest group actually do?’.
Editor’s note: at about the 15:00 mark I say that Tadzio Mueller was very involved in Reclaim the Streets. This is a slip of the tongue! I meant to say he was very involved in the alter-globalisation movement: related to RTS but not the same thing.
Outro music: A Force of Love sung by Penny Stone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_AL9nIgbfk
Check out Penny's work! http://www.singlouderthanguns.com/
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