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Sarah P Corbett was 'Craftivist in Residence' at Greenbelt Festival in August 2025.
Photos by Paul Chambers
Festival capacity 12,000. Kettering UK
Inviting festival-goers to slow down, reflect on how to be a loving activist and citizen, and hand-make healthy and strategic responses to injustices harming our world. Expect thoughtful provocation and threads of radical hope woven through every session across the weekend.
There were so many opportunities to find out more about – and take part in – Sarah’s gentle, quiet and creative campaigning.
A packed weekend for Sarah who wanted to do even more but there was no capacity:
1. Sold out and oversubscribed 'Stitchable Changemakers' 90min workshop for 50 participants to learn how they could use their gifts, talents, content and power to be the most effective and compassionate gentle protesters on issues they care about
2. 1. Sold out and oversubscribed 'Dream-Making ' 90min workshop for 50 participants to channel their anger and sadness at injustices they see into focusing on what utopian visions they want to see, hear, smell, touch and even taste as their dream
(e.g. save the bees changes to 'I dream of happy bees') which then helps each maker learn ways they can be part of the dream they wish to see - all based on neuroscience.
3. "Crafterthoughts' evening session where craftivists brought their own projects to Show and tell us about including the successes, challenges, learnings and answer any questions by others. Some people came with half formed ideas they wanted advice on from the group on how to deliver effectively and strategically. Some people came just to listen and learn. All made new connections and friends and you could feel the solidarity and encouragement in the room!
4. Sunday sunset last event was our climate craftivism performance: Craftivist Collective members joined members of Leena Norms’ Gumption Club wearing their upcycled 'Canary Craftivists' outfits to walk silently through the festival and sit as a flock to send photos and a handmade happy lifesized canary to the local MP and the owner of the festival grounds to encourage them to protest Greenbelt festival from the climate crisis and do what they can to act faster and bolder to create a healthier world
5. Planned pop-up appearance at The Caravan of Love for passersby to take part in a 10minute drop in craftivism workshop supporting Fashion Revolution to take home and 'shop drop'
6. Planned pop-up appearance under a free in the festival's mini forest area for passersby to take part in a 15minute drop in craftivism workshop choosing one of 5 Gentle Nudge messages on woven labels to sew into their clothes or accessories to encourage them as kind citizens and stewards of our planet
7. Overflowing tent of hundreds of people for Sarah interviewing Patrick Grant: BBC Great British Sewing Bee judge and fashion designer interviewing him about his work and book 'Less' whilst 3 craftivists sat on stage with us silently make Mini Fashion Statements during the session that Patrick then threw out into the audience encouraging them to 'shop-drop' these handwritten mini scrolls into fast fashion shop pockets or their friends pockets to encourage shoppers to ask 'who made these clothes' and be curious consumers
8. Sarah wrote and handstitched a prayer she was asked to read at the Sunday Communion on stage infront of thousands of attendees.
9. Throughout the festival Sarah was interviewed for social media teams for Greenbelt, Christian Aid and podcasts and had informal conversations with festival goers
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"Saale main Brahmin hokar bhi Communist hoon iabki tum Arf" . .
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Resist the Communist Onslaught on Humanity Across the Worl~ .
Fight Against the Violent Game-Plan of Communist Lumpensn .
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Friends, 18.03.200S .
The communists on the campus are trying to outdo their masters in West Bengal, Kerala and China. .
In an extremely violent attack on the ABVP activists, the SFI lumpens have physically assaulted Manoj .
Kumar (Secretary, ABVP, JNU), Saurabh Dubey (Vice President, ABVP, JNU) and Santosh Pathak (ABVP .
Coucillor candidate from SSS) beating them brutally after mobbing them in a pre-planned manner without .
any provocation. The SFI lumpens were led by Dhananjay Tripathy (Ex-JNUSU President), Roshan Kishore .
(Secy, SFI, JNU), Anup Singh (a non-Student and SFI history sheeter) and other outsiders. In the assault .
that occurred in the night of Sunday the 16th March 2008, Manoj Kumar's left hand and Santosh .
Pathak's right hand were fractured and Saurabh Dubey has received internal injuries. It is first .
time in the recent years that the students have been so severely assaulted that they got their limbs .
fractured. What was most shocking was that Manoj Kumar, a Scheduled Tribe student was abused 'P) .
on caste line in a very derogatory manner. Dhananjay Tripathi abused him saying that, .
"Saale main Brahmin hokar bhi coomunist hoon, jabki tum adivasi hokar ABVP main .
ho... Tumlog hamesha se nich ho aur rahoqe!" .
A complaint has been already lodged with the Delhi Police and the JNU Administration. It is .
unfortunate to note that the JNU Administration and the Police has not yet acted on the complaints. This is .
despite the fact that the incident occurred in the presence of Group 4 security guard and the Delhi Police. .
The SFI lumpens also misbehaved with one of the faculty member Atul Johri who was trying tf ' .
stop the mob. The inaction on the part of JNU Administration is not only unfortunate but condemnable. We .
demand that Anup, a non student should be immediately declared out of bounds and Dhanajay .
and Raoshan Kishore should be immediately expelled from the university. We also demand that .
the University should stop shielding the communist lumpens at the d ictates of Karat and Yechury .
and start dispensing justice to the students. If the JNU Administration fails to deliver justice we .
will approach the National SC/ST Commission and Human Rights Commission simultaneously. .
It seems that the communists on the campus have got emboldened by the increasmg assault by their .
masters on the civil society and marginalized groups in I ndia and China. While the CPM government have .
massacred the farmers and poors in Nandigram and Singur dispossessing them of their lands and livelihood, .
in Kunnur a systematic murderous assaults were launched on RSS-BJP-ABVP activists at the behest of the .
state government in Kerala. The Chinese massacres of the protesting Tibetans remind one of the brutal .
genocides in Tian Mann Square and killings of millions by the communist dictators like Stalin, Mao and Pol .
Pot. On the campuses, the SFi and its cohorts have always resorted to violent methods seeking to eliminate .
them physically. We still remember the gory incident in which over 15 heavily armed SFI/CITU/DYFI/CPM .
activists stormed into the Examination Hall of Guruvayur Sree Krishna College and hacked the College Union .
Chairman and ABVP leader Shri Sanoop while he was wnting his exam. Other students writing the exam .
were chased out of the examination hall before they brutally hacked. Sanoop received injuries all over his .
head face and legs. He was admitted in the hospital tn a critical condition with very serious injuries in his .
eyes and legs. Doctors attending him have expressed strong apprehensions about his losing vis1on owing to .
the injury. Also, there are multiple fractures in his right leg and arms. .
The silence of the communists over the Tibet issue is yet another reminder of their double speak. .
While hundreds of Tibetans are killed and Chinese army is gearing up for a Tian Mann Square like incident, .
Sitaram Yechuri dubs it to be an internal matter of China. It is the same left which creates a lot of .
ruckus when something happens in other countries and takes false pride in raising international .
issues; it has chosen to maintain a studied silence over Tibet. They are again proving themselves .
to be the henchmen of Chinese imperialism on the Tibet issue when the peaceful demonstrators .
are trampled upon and killed. It is but natural to see the communists supporting China against .
the Tibetans as they are the same anti-nationals who had supported the Chinese aggression of .
India in 1962. Thev are pleading for the clemency for Afzal but they are silent on the execution of .
Sarabjit in Pakistan. .
It is very much clear that the SFI got highly perturbed by the candle march against the violence by CPM in Kerala. The attack on the ABVP activist is a well planned assault aiming to terrorise the activists through their methods of Goondaism. The JNU-Administration has a habit of letting away the communist lumpens. It did not act when the ABVP activists were attacked during 2004 JNUSU elections, it shielded them when they disrupted the meeting of the Prime Minister, they were allowed to return unscathed after writing an apology in the case of the detention of the JNU Registrar, and they were not punished when they attacked the protesting JNU students on the issue of Bhagwan Shri Ram in the last JNUSU elections. In such circumstances, there is little hope from JNU Administration. But we still demand that Dhananjay Tripathi and Raoshan Kishore ot be expelled and Anup to be declare out of bounds. In case of JNU Administration choosing to defend them, ABVP would take the course of agitation. We call upon all the nationalists & democratic minded students of JNU, to rally behind ABVP and defeat the divisive, undemocratic, anti-poor, anti-farmer & anti-national designs of the CPM and SFI. .
Vandemataram! Bharat Mata ki Jai!! .
Sd/-Amit Singh, President, ABVP, JNU. Sd/-Debendra Sahoo, Vice-President, ABVP, JNU. .
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Sarah P Corbett was 'Craftivist in Residence' at Greenbelt Festival in August 2025.
Photos by Paul Chambers
Festival capacity 12,000. Kettering UK
Inviting festival-goers to slow down, reflect on how to be a loving activist and citizen, and hand-make healthy and strategic responses to injustices harming our world. Expect thoughtful provocation and threads of radical hope woven through every session across the weekend.
There were so many opportunities to find out more about – and take part in – Sarah’s gentle, quiet and creative campaigning.
A packed weekend for Sarah who wanted to do even more but there was no capacity:
1. Sold out and oversubscribed 'Stitchable Changemakers' 90min workshop for 50 participants to learn how they could use their gifts, talents, content and power to be the most effective and compassionate gentle protesters on issues they care about
2. 1. Sold out and oversubscribed 'Dream-Making ' 90min workshop for 50 participants to channel their anger and sadness at injustices they see into focusing on what utopian visions they want to see, hear, smell, touch and even taste as their dream
(e.g. save the bees changes to 'I dream of happy bees') which then helps each maker learn ways they can be part of the dream they wish to see - all based on neuroscience.
3. "Crafterthoughts' evening session where craftivists brought their own projects to Show and tell us about including the successes, challenges, learnings and answer any questions by others. Some people came with half formed ideas they wanted advice on from the group on how to deliver effectively and strategically. Some people came just to listen and learn. All made new connections and friends and you could feel the solidarity and encouragement in the room!
4. Sunday sunset last event was our climate craftivism performance: Craftivist Collective members joined members of Leena Norms’ Gumption Club wearing their upcycled 'Canary Craftivists' outfits to walk silently through the festival and sit as a flock to send photos and a handmade happy lifesized canary to the local MP and the owner of the festival grounds to encourage them to protest Greenbelt festival from the climate crisis and do what they can to act faster and bolder to create a healthier world
5. Planned pop-up appearance at The Caravan of Love for passersby to take part in a 10minute drop in craftivism workshop supporting Fashion Revolution to take home and 'shop drop'
6. Planned pop-up appearance under a free in the festival's mini forest area for passersby to take part in a 15minute drop in craftivism workshop choosing one of 5 Gentle Nudge messages on woven labels to sew into their clothes or accessories to encourage them as kind citizens and stewards of our planet
7. Overflowing tent of hundreds of people for Sarah interviewing Patrick Grant: BBC Great British Sewing Bee judge and fashion designer interviewing him about his work and book 'Less' whilst 3 craftivists sat on stage with us silently make Mini Fashion Statements during the session that Patrick then threw out into the audience encouraging them to 'shop-drop' these handwritten mini scrolls into fast fashion shop pockets or their friends pockets to encourage shoppers to ask 'who made these clothes' and be curious consumers
8. Sarah wrote and handstitched a prayer she was asked to read at the Sunday Communion on stage infront of thousands of attendees.
9. Throughout the festival Sarah was interviewed for social media teams for Greenbelt, Christian Aid and podcasts and had informal conversations with festival goers