Ewa Jasiewicz

This clip is from a series of 100 life history interviews with environmental campaigners in the UK, 1970-2020. It will feature in a book published by UCL Press in 2026. The full interview, along with the rest of the collection will be searchable on the British Library’s Sound and Moving Image catalogue and the interviews will be accessible onsite at the British Library in St Pancras from February 2026. For more information visit www.royalholloway.ac.uk/ohemQuotation:Saskia Papdakis: What kind of activism were you doing?Ewa Jasiewicz: I think fuel poverty action at that point because it was all about, okay climate camp is great but it happens one a year. We do this, all this action, what are we doing all the rest of the time? We need to do stuff that connects with working class people. We can’t just do direct action. So FPA was set up and we were targeting the big six energy companies. So we were doing protests around the excess winter deaths. So all the people who die because they can’t afford to heat, it was 20,000 people one year, and it’s all the elderly, the disabled people. So we were in partnership with Disabled People Against Cuts. There was also a lot of the anti-austerity movement going on and a lot, a lot to do around that. And protests and supporting DPAC, UK Uncut started, got involved with that. The student movement was really buoyant, you know. Was it Millbank? People did what they did. And there was lots of activism on the streets. It was, it was a very exciting time.British Library catalogue number: C2037/85 Project clip number: 186