‘There has been nowhere I would rather be, spiritually and physically.’
What prompts someone, at the age of sixty-two, to get arrested? Children’s author Sue Hampton explains
I am officially a rebel – so much so that I was arrested on Thursday 18 April for the first time in my sixty-two years. When a Friend asked me why this was my answer:
Everything that makes me an activist is deeply connected: peace and the arms trade, justice for refugees, and this climate emergency which we face together as one human family. But if one issue is bigger than the rest it’s this threat to our existence and the challenge to live differently or die.
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