A eulogy for Zoe Cohen’s Institute of Directors membership

Samantha Suppiah
9 min readFeb 22, 2023

Zoe Cohen is a prominent member of the infamous at-large “Barclays 7” group of climate activists who recklessly, unfathomably caused violent criminal damage to Barclays Global HQ in Canary Wharf in April 2021 — and was convicted in December 2022, receiving a suspended sentence in January 2023.

The Institute of Directors is a society for the preservation of colonial hegemony. For some reason Zoe Cohen was actually invested in the IoD — had been for a whole decade — and in fact was surprised at being kicked out — via email no less —…

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Samantha Suppiah

Southeast Asian trickster. Design strategist for decolonial sustainability & regeneration. www.possiblefutures.earth/samantha