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“There is no purity, only tension. Only a consistent state of becoming.”

an envelope put together by a friend and i on the idea of ‘uncivilisation’ put forward by ‘Dark Mountain’, a literary project and festival that we were invited to attend.

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A zine I put together with a comrade pre-COP15.  COP15 was the fifteenth time the UN had tried to bring together nations to sort out climate change. Held in Copenhagen last December it was also the site for a mobilisation of social movements, which in the run up to the event was being compared  to the protests that shut down the WTO summit in Seattle ten years previous.

The non-result of the conference was the Copenhagen Acorrd. The protests too turned out to be smaller than expected, facing intense police repression. With this in mind Evo Morralles invited social movements from accross the globe to attend a World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. The Conference took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia, at the end of April this year. Some interesting reflections on it can be found here.

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A short series of questions, observations and poems. A contribution to a collective writing project called envelopes.

Voilà

A collection of poems.

Words like axes – because words are powerful. Words fire guns. Words stand between tanks and the future. And alone, words fall trees.

“i wander what it is you gave them to pick up

in crisis

what you could of made them stand there for

in front of tanks?”