About

I’m nomadic, I do all kinds of things to scrape a living, mainly behind the scenes at festivals.

I think co-ops and commons might be the way forward but I’m not very sociable. I hang about on the fringes of Radical Routes (network of co-ops for radical social change). I’m involved in co-ordinating The Green Gathering, a festival ‘beyond hedonism’. I was arrested at Barton Moss for walking too slowly in front of a fracking truck. I’ve done stuff with Dirty Girls of Lesvos Island and Refugee Community Kitchen and Extinction Rebellion.

This blog was inspired by spending four months camped on the cobbles outside St Paul’s Cathedral with Occupy London in 2011-2012. I went to St Paul’s to check out the camp and donate some LED lighting. I stayed and, years later, still count a handful of former Occupiers amongst my good friends.

Some of the writing here was produced for The Occupied Times, a print newspaper and website begun in the first week of Occupy London, which for a year I helped to edit and produce. A few of the pieces on my blog have been published elsewhere (for a while I got quite excited and thought I might become ‘a writer’) – New Internationalist, Reuters Trustlaw, Occupy News Network (ONN), Occupy London, Manchester Climate Monthly, Adbusters, STIR – and one was included in the Utopia edition of The Idler. Other posts are stream-of-consciousness journal jottings; press releases I’ve worked on; or occasionally reblogs of things other people wrote.

Travelling, writing, reading, festivals, fires, friends and dancing are my favourite things. I’d like to save the planet and democracy but it’s a big job.

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I’m on Twitter: @emweirdigan but now more often on Mastodon: @emweirdigan@social.coop