How To Spread The Word About Climate Justice? Charlie Waterhouse, XR & Magid Magid, Union Of Justice | Tour de Moon

How To Spread The Word About Climate Justice? Charlie Waterhouse, XR & Magid Magid, Union Of Justice

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Charlie Waterhouse is a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion’s Art Group, responsible for the naming and identity of the nonviolent direct action movement that has spread to 96 countries in two years, and is one half of creative practice This Ain’t Rock’n’Roll. Working at the intersection of culture and causes the agency are currently helping the Unitarians reimagine 21st century spirituality and working with badass lawyers Foxglove in their battle against the surveillance economy. Designers of the Brixton Pound and inventors of nation state-of-mind Brixtopia, they were instrumental in the mass removal of work from the exhibition Hope To Nope, when the Design Museum hosted arms manufacturers during the show. They put the show back on for free in Brixton, renamed From Nope to Hope. 

Magid Magid is an activist, writer, and politician. He was born in Somalia and came to the UK as a refugee. He was elected as a councillor in his beloved home city of Sheffield and subsequently became the youngest and first green Lord Mayor of Sheffield and then an MEP (Member of European Parliament) representing Yorkshire & the Humber. Magid was also recently named one of Time’s 100 rising stars shaping the future of the world. Magid has garnered international recognition for his creative and alternative ways of campaigning and doing politics. He mainly campaigns on climate justice, anti-racism/discrimination, and protecting the rights of refugees and migrants. Magid is a board member of the tuition-free charity University of the Underground and he is the head of their “New politics and Afrofuturism” programme. Magid is one of the director of Tour de Moon.

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