Before the October Rebellion of 2019, we interviewed Dr Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, for the Everybody Now podcast. However, the whole conversation was so utterly fascinating that we wanted to upload it in its entirety, especially at a time when the freedom to protest is under threat.
We talked to Gail about climate emergency and civil disobedience, and also about prayer and spirituality, science and wonder, sacredness, love and the radical power of women.
We talked to Gail about climate emergency and civil disobedience, but also about prayer and spirituality, science and wonder, sacredness, love and the radical power of women.
After the interview, Nomad hosts Tim Nash and David Blower chat about Gail’s activism and spiritual journey and ponder how it might shape their own spirituality.
Interview starts at 19m 21s
WEBSITE
RESOURCES
This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
Three Lessons of Revolutionary Love – Valarie Kaur
QUOTES
“The price of love is grief, and grief opens the space for love. And I think that’s what’s happening right now, we’re facing what we’ve been doing to our home. And our home is heaven on earth.”
“If you are deliberately deciding to break the law, it has an element of ‘trickster’ in it as well – it has an element of mischief in it potentially – but certainly an element of sacred service.”
Thank you for this very thought provoking listen.
I was really troubled by the question, of how we can live well on a dying Earth, and I attempted some kind of answer.
https://andreaskevington.com/2021/04/23/a-poem-for-earth-day-what-might-it-mean-to-live-well-on-a-dying-earth/