Tamsin Omond

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Tamsin Omond
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Tamsin Omond in 2011
Personal details
Born (1984-11-19) 19 November 1984 (age 36)
Political partyGreen Party of England and Wales
EducationWestminster School
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Open University (MA)

Tamsin Omond (born 19 November 1984) is a British author, environmental activist and journalist. They have campaigned for the government of the United Kingdom to take action to avoid climate change.[1]

They are running as a candidate on a joint platform with Amelia Womack to be co-leaders of the Green Party of England and Wales.

Early life and education[]

Tamsin Ormond was born on 19 November 1984.[2] They were educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge.[3] They went on to complete a masters' degree in ecology and social justice with the Open University.[3] Their grandfather was the baronet Thomas Lees.[3][4]

Climate activism[]

In 2009, Omond's book Rush – The Making of a Climate Activist was published.[5] In 2009 Omond was placed in the Sunday Times's Top 30 Power Players Under-30.[6] They were also placed in 56th place in the Independent on Sunday's 2009 "Pink List", a list of the 101 most influential gay men and women in Britain.[7] In 2010, they created a political party called The Commons which planned to engage young people in voting and promote sustainability in the local area.[8] It was praised by the journalist Giles Coren.[9] They received 0.2% of the vote.[10]

Omond originally campaigned as a member of the activist group Plane Stupid, although the group said in 2012 that Omond had stopped working with them.[11] They are a founding member of the activist group Climate Rush.[12] They have organised a number of high-profile protests, including scaling the roof of the House of Commons to protest against aviation, for which they were arrested and bailed on the condition that they did not enter Parliament. In October 2008, they breached this condition by organising a 500-person "rush" on the Parliament of the United Kingdom.[3] This led to them being re-arrested and threatened with imprisonment due to their breach of bail. Instead they were then bailed with a strengthening of their bail conditions to ban them from going within one kilometre of Parliament.[13]

Omond has also organised protests against the expansion of London Heathrow Airport.[14] Omond has said that their activism has been inspired by the Suffragettes, who had campaigned using direct action for Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century. An independent film has been made about Omond's connection to the campaigning techniques of the women's suffrage movement. Omond dressed as a suffragette for an anti-car protest targeting Jeremy Clarkson.[15]

They were a founding member and activist in the climate protest movement Extinction Rebellion.[16] In that capacity, they spoke at the Port Eliot Festival in 2019 about the group's campaign for people to not buy any new clothes for a year.[17]

Green Party[]

Omond later joined the Green Party of England and Wales.[18] In the 2015 general election, they were the party's candidate for East Ham, where they received 2.5% of the vote.[19]

Omond is currently standing as a candidate for the co-leadership of the party with the deputy leader of the party Amelia Womack in the 2021 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election.[16] Omond's candidacy is believed to be the first time a non-binary person has stood for the leadership of a national party.[16] Omond and Womack said that their joint candidacy "was aimed at getting more young people involved in the party" and offering "young intersectional feminist leadership".[16]

Personal life[]

Omond is trans and non-binary, and uses they/them pronouns.[20] They married their partner, another Extinction Rebellion activist, on Westminster Bridge in October 2019.[21] They previously worked as head of global campaigns at the cosmetic company Lush.[22]

References[]

  1. ^ Bramley, Ellie Violet (26 July 2019). "Extinction Rebellion: 'Fashion week should be a declaration of emergency'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  2. ^ Tamsin Omond Archived 13 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine, 'YourNextMP' (retrieved 25 June 2011).
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3197706/Cambridge-graduate-banned-from-Palace-of-Westminster.html The Telegraph 14 October 2008 Cambridge graduate banned from Palace of Westminster
  4. ^ Tamsin Omond: Eco starlet The Sunday Times 14 December 2008
  5. ^ Unwin, Henry (6 October 2009). "Rush! The Making of a Climate Activist". Ecologist. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  6. ^ Warrington, Ruby (8 November 2009). "The top 30 power players under 30". The Times. London.
  7. ^ "56 Tamsin Omond eco activist One of the protestors who last year scaled Parli". London: Independent.co.uk. 28 June 2009. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
  8. ^ Eoghan (5 May 2010). "Eoghan O'Neill: Living in a marginal (3): Hampstead & Kilburn – the final showdown". Eoghan.org.uk. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
  9. ^ Coren, Giles (3 April 2010). "Vote for someone you can trust Yourself". The Times. London.
  10. ^ "Hampstead and Kilburn – Camden elections 2010". .camden.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
  11. ^ "Climate activists get frosty with the glam face of Plane Stupid". The Evening Standard. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
  12. ^ "Jerome Taylor The Independent 15 October 2008 'Green suffragette' is freed despite breach of bail conditions". London: Independent.co.uk. 15 October 2008. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
  13. ^ Taylor, Jerome (15 October 2008). "'Green suffragette' is freed despite breach of bail conditions". The Independent. London. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
  14. ^ "'People loved the idea of a posh girl falling on her face': Tamsin". The Independent. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  15. ^ http://www.tatler.com/the-tatler-list/o/tamsin-omond
  16. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Green party to offer 'young, intersectional feminist leadership'". the Guardian. 12 August 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  17. ^ "Extinction Rebellion: 'Fashion week should be a declaration of emergency'". the Guardian. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  18. ^ carotomes, Author (22 March 2015). "Meet the candidates: Tamsin Omond".
  19. ^ "East Ham parliamentary constituency - Election 2019" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  20. ^ "Green party to offer 'young, intersectional feminist leadership'". the Guardian. 12 August 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  21. ^ Jones, Harrison (7 October 2019). "Extinction Rebellion activists marry during protests on Westminster Bridge". Metro. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  22. ^ Jarvis, Chris (12 August 2021). "Amelia Womack to stand for Green Party leadership with Tamsin Omond | Chris Jarvis". Bright Green. Retrieved 13 August 2021.

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