Events
Rupert will be appearing at the following events (if you would like to enquire about booking him to appear at your event, please click here).
SEPTEMBER
September 7th:
With a new Labour government and what might on balance be the most ‘progressive’ parliament ever elected, where do those who are genuinely committed to a cooperative approach to political go next? Join Molly Scott-Cato, Rupert Read, and Frances Foley for a crucial discussion about how we can build a truly pluralist democracy in the UK, and the role of the Green Party in that.
Venue details – Date: 7th September
Time: 13.30-14.45
Speakers: Molly Scott-Cato and Rupert Read
Venue: Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St, Manchester M2 5NS
September 7th:
The Greens have quadrupled their Commons representation – to just four MPs. Repeating that feat at the next two general elections would bring them fewer MPs by 2032 than the Lib Dems have now. But we need radical and far-reaching change well before that if there is to be any chance of averting climate and ecological catastrophe. How could four MPs be parlayed into the opportunity for such change?
In this event, part of ‘Hopeful Humanity’ a Green Party Conference Fringe mini-festival of radical thinking and of hope for a better world, Rupert Read, long-standing Green activist and co-Director of the Climate Majority Project, argues for a strategy of transformative truth-telling, drawing on his article just published by Green House Think Tank. John Foster of Green House asks whether the most effective audience for such truth-telling should really be citizens at large – should it instead be a potential vanguard phalanx?
The event, open to the public, will take place in the Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St, Manchester M2 5NS, on Saturday 7th September at 3pm. Speakers will be followed by open discussion, chaired by Christina Coleman, Green councillor and former Chair of Wealden District Council and a recent Parliamentary candidate.
September 24th:
Rupert will be giving the keynote speech (online) at Planet in Crisis – Climate, Sustainability, and Global Governance conference on 24 September. Click here for info.
The title of his speech is: “What is to be done?: Looking to a relocalised future, in an emerging age of AI- and climate- extremes.”
September 25th:
Rupert will be giving the keynote speech at the Leadership Summit in Portugal. His talk, From Dystopia to Thrutopia takes place at 10:10am. For tickets and details, click here.
OCTOBER
October 18th:
Rupert will be leading an afternoon seminar for the New School of the Anthropocene in London from 2pm. Full detail to follow.