Ruth Jarman, one of the people involved in the XR’s controversial train protest last October, says she has doubts about the effectiveness of the action but wouldn’t rule out doing something similar again.
Tag: Inequality and the environment
No, XR isn’t responsible for its diversity deficit
Accusations that its messaging and tactics exclude working class and non-white people will have affected XR, which undoubtedly considers itself progressive.
Only protests can save us now
Talks like the one delivered by independent researcher and author Dario Kenner at Toynbee Hall on 9.7.19, serve as a reminder that the solutions to our environmental woes lie more in challenging our economic elites than in persuading ordinary individuals steeped eye-ball deep in the ‘me, me, me’ consumer culture to change their behaviour.
