Fossil Free Books

We’re organising as workers for a genocide free, fossil free books industry.

Email [email protected] to join us.

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🧵 BREAKING: New data reveals Baillie Gifford holds £61million in Babcock, an arms company significantly involved in arming Israel.

@wawog_now @NaomiAKlein @PalFest

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Nguyen and Flanagan’s actions send a clear message to Baillie Gifford, one that so many writers and book workers have been supporting for months: the time to divest from the fossil fuel industry and from Israeli apartheid, occupation and genocide is now.

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We stand with authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Richard Flanagan who have called for asset manager Baillie Gifford to divest.

These honest and courageous shows of solidarity demonstrate just how important the issues of climate change and Israeli violence are to writers worldwide.

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For more details on the resolutions, and to register to attend on Thursday, head here: https://t.co/9A2l6IsQsG

Can't make it? Find the proxy voting instructions sent to you by the SoA by searching 'Cast your proxy vote for the AGM' in your inbox.

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SoA Full Members: registration and proxy voting for this Thursday's AGM close TODAY at 5PM GMT.

We've put forward one amendment and one resolution to be voted on, to protect democratic process and freedom of expression. Here's all you need to know + our voting recommendations:

[Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow @commapress]

🗣️To Tell Our Stories: the journeys of Palestinian narrative

Basma Ghalayini & Sami Hermez join Edinburgh's #RadicalBookFair, seeking to untangle the ways Palestinian narratives are framed, rejected or passed on in the world.

🗓️Nov 21 (7:30-8:30pm)
🎟️https://t.co/bp3rk7xnjI

[Palestine Festival of Literature @PalFest]

Since launching last week 5,500+ more authors and publishing professionals joined the boycott of complicit Israeli cultural institutions.

https://t.co/EtkDpuvUCZ

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Book workers everywhere: join writers including Sally Rooney, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Naomi Klein, Hisham Matar and more in the largest cultural boycott of Israeli institutions in history: https://t.co/kD2VrNii8v

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BREAKING: More than 1,000 authors launch a boycott of Israeli publishers complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. Read, sign and share: https://t.co/9Z569h12UA

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On Monday hundreds of authors will launch a collective position to refuse to cooperate with Israeli institutions complicit in the dispossession and oppression of Palestinians.

Authors and book workers everywhere: join the pledge on Monday, when it will be published on @lithub.

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A brilliant insight into authors' experiences of literary festivals and what the future of festival funding could look like. If you're a literary festival organiser wanting to move towards ethical funding models do get in touch - we want to work together! https://t.co/RGgkQSTlhV

[Jeda Pearl Time Cleaves Itself 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇯🇲 @JedaPearl]

Are you a member of Society of Authors union? The SoA Management Committee elections are happening just now by post only, deadline 23rd October. Do you have questions for candidates? Here are some that @fossilfreebooks who are SoA members have asked.

[Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop @Lighthousebks]

Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair 2024 program is live!

21-24 Nov: 4 days, over 70 publishers, stalls free to browse & more than 20 events @AssemblyRoxy (and your living room! Yes! It’s all hybrid!)

Browse print: https://t.co/i7ylKhTDz7
Book tix: https://t.co/aRP23zx1lK
Pls shrare!