Fossil Free Books
Book workers organising in solidarity with Palestine, and against fossil fuels ✊📖🍉
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- 📢 Every author who left the SoA belongs in their union! 🚪 You and hundreds of other authors have left the Society of Authors over the past year. 🚫 It has consistently worked to alienate you for your divestment actions. 🇵🇸 It has demonised you for demanding union solidarity with Palestine. [1]
- 🗣️ Every woman writer belongs in their union! 🤦🏻♀️ With a gender pay gap between male and female authors of 41.4%, women writers experienced a 21% drop in their income between 2017 and 2020.
- 📣 Every queer writer belongs in their union!
- 📢 Every disabled writer belongs in their union! 📈 Disabled people in the UK face a higher cost of living. With author pay at an all-time low, the industry has never felt more excluding. ‼️ From cuts to state support, lack of accommodations and inaccessible events, disabled writers deserve better.
- 📢 Every poet belongs in their union! 💸 2024 was a record-breaking year for poetry book sales. Despite this giving poets more power in the market, so few make money from sales. 💪 Being a poet today remains precarious, and you deserve a trade union that will better serve you as a worker. [1]
- 📢 Every illustrator belongs in their union! ✏️ Illustrators across the UK are already losing work to AI. With the government increasingly prioritising the interests of AI companies, important voices of opposition aren’t being heard. [1]
- 📢 Every translator belongs in their union! 🛑 The Society of Authors recently targeted Meta for its use of pirated books (including works in translation) to train its AI. 🤐 But why does it remain silent when major publishing houses announce their intentions to use AI to translate their books? [1]
- 📢 Every working class writer belongs in their union! 📚 In a survey by The Bookseller a staggering 78% of working-class authors said their background had hindered their career. [1] www.thebookseller.com/news/survey-...
- 📢 Every writer of colour belongs in their union! 💸 Research commissioned by ALCS in 2022 shows that pay for writers of colour is 51% lower than for their white counterparts (in real terms). [1] www.alcs.co.uk/news/why-wri...
- Every writer against genocide belongs in their union. The Society of Authors does not stand for a free Palestine. Not yet. Amid Israel’s destruction of libraries, bookshops, printing presses and publishing houses in Gaza, the SoA’s lack of solidarity is driving members to leave the union. [1]
