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Part Two: A long time gone, memory and mining from Silesia to the Ruhr

“During the industrial era people were forced to endure long and bitter conflicts in their struggle to participate in the political system…It remains to be seen whether the transformation of traditional industrial societies will be accompanied by a regress of democratic structures or whether progress towards more democracy is already culturally anchored and irreversible.”

Part One: Old-Fashioned Loyalties

"Across the continent, millions do not recognize themselves in the climate movement."Green New Deal for Europe, Blue Print for Europe’s Just Transition"The consumer is essentially somebody who feels, or is made to feel, lost, unless he or she is consuming. Brand names and logos become the place-names of the Nowhere."John Berger, Ten Dispatches...

The Language of Limits

This is the first in a series of articles reflecting on the last three weeks traveling for the Enough Routes programme. Gehan Macleod describes time spent helping out at two expressions of migrant solidarity at Calais and Ventimiglia.VentimigliaLanguage can be limited in situations when people speak Arabic in many dialects; Kurdish; French; borrowed Italian, English learned...

Radical Route 3: In Search of Culture and Community in Dark Places

‘…in the era of global warming, nothing is really far away; there is no place where the orderly expectations of bourgeois life hold unchallenged sway.’Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the UnthinkableSetting out at a moment of profound disconnection and disruption – in mid-winter – my journey will trace...

From white environmentalism to climate justice

by Nish Doshi“Why is environmentalism so white?” With well over a decade in and out of the climate movement in the UK, this is a question I’ve often been asked, and it’s a question that makes me cringe a little. Climate change isn’t an environmental issue, in my opinion, it’s an issue of human...

Housing justice is climate justice – how neighbourhoods are organising in Barcelona

picture of la base in Barcelona with cars in front and a man and child on the right

Nishma Doshi travelled around Europe with our Routes programme. Here they describe how fighting for housing rights is a part of climate justice in Barcelona.What is climate justice? What are we fighting for when we talk about stopping climate change?Climate breakdown is a problem because it threatens our lives. It threatens our lives because...

Acting Out

Gehan Macleod is one of the people traveling around Europe with our Routes programme. Here she describes where she's coming from and where's shes headed to.Coming from a 90s background in environmental and anti-nuclear activism, I found myself involved in the beginnings of GalGael - a community organisation that originated around a protest fire...

Open Call for Enough Routes Project

The Enough! Collective is supporting an individual to undertake a month’s travel through Europe this Autumn.Enough! Is supporting three routes journeys during 2019. We work collaboratively with individuals and support them to create their route-map and equip them with the skills and tools required to get the most out of the...