Here are the people who regularly contribute to TelltheTruthSheffield.org
Graham Wroe is a retired lecturer and teacher who taught in schools and colleges throughout South Yorkshire, as well as in Uganda. He is a lifelong environmental campaigner who has stood for the Green Party on multiple occasions and joined Extinction Rebellion when it began in 2019. Graham has been involved in many campaigns over the years, including campaigns to shut down Sheffield’s highly polluting waste incinerator, the campaign to keep the pedestrian bridge at Sheffield Station open to the public, the campaign to protect Sheffield‘s Street Trees from the Council’s chainsaws and the Campaign to stop the Council spraying poisonous Glyphosate on our streets and playgrounds. Currently, Graham is most concerned about the ongoing Genocide and Apartheid in Palestine and the Climate and Nature Emergencies, which threaten all our futures.
Karine Nohr is a retired Sheffield GP who has campaigned on a number of issues that include the Environment and Human Rights.
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Darcy White is a retired academic and art historian who has written on local sculpture and, more widely, on Northern Landscape photography, and Visual Activism. She has been an active campaigner for most of her adult life on issues of peace, social justice and environmental politics. She has recently been engaged with thinking on degrowth.
Chris Broome has been a campaigner, mainly with what is now South Yorkshire Climate Alliance, since 2007. He has campaigned on energy, transport and industrial decarbonisation.
He believes that the extent of the several environmental crises we face is now too great to be solved purely by rolling out lower carbon technologies. He advocates an approach with much greater emphasis on reducing unnecessary material consumption and protecting our natural environment.
Stephen Pennells is a Christian now living in Nether Edge who has campaigned since 1999 on issues of international economic justice, climate and environment.
Formerly a TESOL teacher in inner-city schools in Manchester, his internationalism was kindled by experiencing Apartheid in South Africa in the mid-80s. When organising Christian Aid Week fund-raising for his church, he read a magazine enclosing a Jubilee 2000 campaign card to send to your MP. He dutifully did so and got a signed response from the House of Commons by return of post. ‘I calculated that for every 19p stamp on a card, we won about £2,000 pounds of debt cancellation. This seemed like a good return to me, so I started writing and organising and have carried on ever since. I feel I have a privileged position and should use my abilities and energies for those who haven’t got a vote in our system but whose lives are determined by it. Many talk about People Power from the streets, but you need to get to those with the levers of power, by direct relationship-building meeting, lobbying, by post, through public media rather than just social media bubbles, and prophetic action.
Rosalind Dean spent her working life in overseas development, research for local government and social housing.
Her deep concern about inequalities has carried into retirement and linked to the unfair impact of climate change and other environmental crises at home and abroad. She tries to keep abreast of social, economic, technological and political developments, as well as finding ways to act effectively on specific local issues.
