Organising lessons
Soundings - Print ISSN 1362-6620 - Online ISSN 1741-0797
Volume 2025 Number 89
Organising lessons
Rosie Hampton pages 92‑105
DOI: 10.3898/SOUN:89.05.2025
Abstract
David Featherstone and Jenny Morrison interview Rosie Hampton, Friends of the Earth Scotland Oil and Gas Campaigns Manager and Living Rent Partick member. The discussion focuses on Hampton’s involvement in Friends of the Earth Scotland and Living Rent, organisations involved in very different kinds of campaigning. The first section looks at issues in relation to a Just Transition, reflecting on FoE’s discussions with trade unions in their Our Power campaign, which sought to co-create demands for the energy transition with offshore oil and gas workers. This is of particular significance given the closure of the Grangemouth-Petrochemical plant/refinery in 2025. It also engages with community organising in the North-East of Scotland. The second section considers some of the different strategies of organising associated with Living Rent, a tenants’ union which is a grassroots mass-membership union of tenants, carers, workers and residents. The interview reflects on some of the challenges and possibilities that have been opened up in relation to the spaces of devolution; and also at some of the current pressures on organising. It notes the impact of current authoritarian political culture on even the relatively reformist style of organising of an NGO like Friends of the Earth Scotland.
To cite this article
Rosie Hampton (2025) Organising lessons, Soundings, 2025(89), 92-105 . https://doi.org/10.3898/SOUN:89.05.2025