20 Riot Cops to Nick 2 Chickens
by Pete Barker (dixibooks, ISBN 9781913680565) dixibooks.com
Climate activism has a long and honourable history in the UK. Many of the U-turns and concessions made by successive governments, who have acted as though global heating will just go away if it is ignored, have been the result of sustained pressure and ingenious feats of direct action by dedicated groups of campaigners.
We have all read the negative headlines and heard the grumbles of politicians and those inconvenienced by the protests (indeed, we may even have grumbled ourselves, perhaps stuck in traffic or unable to get into a petrol station because it has been blocked), but what the public seldom gets to hear are the voices
