Boon Breyne
@boonbreyne.bsky.social
Activist | @foeeurope.bsky.social | he/him
Hanging between despair and radical action. Forget GDP, embrace degrowth. Listen to MAPA. Confront. Choose life. 🫂
TEDx: http://youtu.be/ig0OzTrrz_Y
Hanging between despair and radical action. Forget GDP, embrace degrowth. Listen to MAPA. Confront. Choose life. 🫂
TEDx: http://youtu.be/ig0OzTrrz_Y
Reposted by Boon Breyne
Train manufacturer Alstom plans to cut 150 jobs at Bruges plant
Train manufacturer Alstom plans to cut 150 jobs at Bruges plant
French train manufacturer Alstom plans to cut 150 jobs at its Bruges site. The company announced the intention on Thursday after a special works...
www.belganewsagency.eu
December 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Train manufacturer Alstom plans to cut 150 jobs at Bruges plant
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November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Ever heard of cheesing?* 🧀
It's the perfect way to describe the game that's played by decisionmakers to destroy environmental & human rights protections:
1. Cheap tricks
2. Unfair
3. Overly easy
Watch & let us know who you nominate for BIGGEST cheese⁉️
#Deregulator
youtu.be/IyWvUzR5y2M?...
It's the perfect way to describe the game that's played by decisionmakers to destroy environmental & human rights protections:
1. Cheap tricks
2. Unfair
3. Overly easy
Watch & let us know who you nominate for BIGGEST cheese⁉️
#Deregulator
youtu.be/IyWvUzR5y2M?...
The deregulator
YouTube video by Friends of the Earth Europe
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Ever heard of cheesing?* 🧀
It's the perfect way to describe the game that's played by decisionmakers to destroy environmental & human rights protections:
1. Cheap tricks
2. Unfair
3. Overly easy
Watch & let us know who you nominate for BIGGEST cheese⁉️
#Deregulator
youtu.be/IyWvUzR5y2M?...
It's the perfect way to describe the game that's played by decisionmakers to destroy environmental & human rights protections:
1. Cheap tricks
2. Unfair
3. Overly easy
Watch & let us know who you nominate for BIGGEST cheese⁉️
#Deregulator
youtu.be/IyWvUzR5y2M?...
As the European Parliament debates today taxing the ultra rich, remember: 3600 Europeans (richest 0.001%) own as much wealth as 181M people (poorer 50%). Extreme wealth fuels inequality, GHG emissions and political influence. Europe must adopt an ambitious extreme wealth tax to #TaxTheSuperRich ✊💥
December 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
As the European Parliament debates today taxing the ultra rich, remember: 3600 Europeans (richest 0.001%) own as much wealth as 181M people (poorer 50%). Extreme wealth fuels inequality, GHG emissions and political influence. Europe must adopt an ambitious extreme wealth tax to #TaxTheSuperRich ✊💥
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There is a blossoming movement in Europe for a just economic and social system, nurtured by a vision of degrowth.
Here is a recap of the key degrowth events of the past few months 👇
friendsoftheearth.eu/news/degrowt...
There is a blossoming movement in Europe for a just economic and social system, nurtured by a vision of degrowth.
Here is a recap of the key degrowth events of the past few months 👇
friendsoftheearth.eu/news/degrowt...
Degrowth: A blossoming movement in Europe’s grassroots and civil society - Friends of the Earth Europe
There is a blossoming movement for a radical and systemic shift away from the current social and economic rules, fired by a vision of degrowth. In the past months, Friends of the Earth attended the In...
friendsoftheearth.eu
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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There is a blossoming movement in Europe for a just economic and social system, nurtured by a vision of degrowth.
Here is a recap of the key degrowth events of the past few months 👇
friendsoftheearth.eu/news/degrowt...
There is a blossoming movement in Europe for a just economic and social system, nurtured by a vision of degrowth.
Here is a recap of the key degrowth events of the past few months 👇
friendsoftheearth.eu/news/degrowt...
PROTEST BIJ EU RAW MATERIALS WEEK
"Het is tijd dat het Westen zich bezint: niet alleen over de vraag wáár onze grondstoffen vandaan moeten komen, maar vooral over de hoeveelheid materialen die wij verbruiken."
Stel naast de middelen ook het doel in vraag!
www.dewereldmorgen.be/artikel/2025...
"Het is tijd dat het Westen zich bezint: niet alleen over de vraag wáár onze grondstoffen vandaan moeten komen, maar vooral over de hoeveelheid materialen die wij verbruiken."
Stel naast de middelen ook het doel in vraag!
www.dewereldmorgen.be/artikel/2025...
Twee werelden botsen bij 'EU Raw Materials Week' in Brussel
In het luxueuze Plaza Hotel praatten mijnbouwbedrijven, lobby’s en EU-beleidsmakers over de ‘groene’ energietransitie. Buiten stonden zij die de echte prijs betalen - Inheemse vertegenwoordigers, loka...
www.dewereldmorgen.be
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
PROTEST BIJ EU RAW MATERIALS WEEK
"Het is tijd dat het Westen zich bezint: niet alleen over de vraag wáár onze grondstoffen vandaan moeten komen, maar vooral over de hoeveelheid materialen die wij verbruiken."
Stel naast de middelen ook het doel in vraag!
www.dewereldmorgen.be/artikel/2025...
"Het is tijd dat het Westen zich bezint: niet alleen over de vraag wáár onze grondstoffen vandaan moeten komen, maar vooral over de hoeveelheid materialen die wij verbruiken."
Stel naast de middelen ook het doel in vraag!
www.dewereldmorgen.be/artikel/2025...
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reposted by Boon Breyne
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”, zei John F. Kennedy.
Wel, we bevinden ons op een hellend vlak richting autocratie, waar het recht op (geweldloos) protest en een kritisch middenveld onder druk staan. Dat zou ons allemaal zorgen moeten baren.😦
Wel, we bevinden ons op een hellend vlak richting autocratie, waar het recht op (geweldloos) protest en een kritisch middenveld onder druk staan. Dat zou ons allemaal zorgen moeten baren.😦
November 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”, zei John F. Kennedy.
Wel, we bevinden ons op een hellend vlak richting autocratie, waar het recht op (geweldloos) protest en een kritisch middenveld onder druk staan. Dat zou ons allemaal zorgen moeten baren.😦
Wel, we bevinden ons op een hellend vlak richting autocratie, waar het recht op (geweldloos) protest en een kritisch middenveld onder druk staan. Dat zou ons allemaal zorgen moeten baren.😦
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what a headline
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
what a headline
The liberalisation & austerity of #rail transport in #Europe. 🚆
Our expectations were: terrible.
And they have been met.
They said market competition makes services more performant, and true, they're currently especially performant in:
1) inaccessibility and
2) failure
(Yes I'm on a late train)
Our expectations were: terrible.
And they have been met.
They said market competition makes services more performant, and true, they're currently especially performant in:
1) inaccessibility and
2) failure
(Yes I'm on a late train)
November 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It all comes down to this!
A ground-breaking #EU law crucial to secure dignified lives and work places called the #CSDDD was voted in right before the 2024 elections.
Now, the EU's conservative forces want to destroy it already. On 21/10, elected representatives choose to stop or continue this way
A ground-breaking #EU law crucial to secure dignified lives and work places called the #CSDDD was voted in right before the 2024 elections.
Now, the EU's conservative forces want to destroy it already. On 21/10, elected representatives choose to stop or continue this way
October 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
➡️Het weigeren van onderdak aan asielzoekers na >10 000 veroordelingen.
➡️Het niet toelaten van rechtmatige betogingen.
➡️Onvoldoende middelen om justitie ordentelijk te laten functioneren.
De rechtsstaat in België staat steeds meer onder druk! #FIRM
federaalinstituutmensenrechten.be/nl/rechtssta...
➡️Het niet toelaten van rechtmatige betogingen.
➡️Onvoldoende middelen om justitie ordentelijk te laten functioneren.
De rechtsstaat in België staat steeds meer onder druk! #FIRM
federaalinstituutmensenrechten.be/nl/rechtssta...
Rechtsstaat onder druk: mensenrechteninstituut vraagt concrete actie
Vandaag publiceert het Federaal Instituut voor de Rechten van de Mens (FIRM) een stand van zaken van de rechtsstaat en mensenrechten in België. Het FIRM wijst op de zorgwekkende erosie van de
federaalinstituutmensenrechten.be
October 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
➡️Het weigeren van onderdak aan asielzoekers na >10 000 veroordelingen.
➡️Het niet toelaten van rechtmatige betogingen.
➡️Onvoldoende middelen om justitie ordentelijk te laten functioneren.
De rechtsstaat in België staat steeds meer onder druk! #FIRM
federaalinstituutmensenrechten.be/nl/rechtssta...
➡️Het niet toelaten van rechtmatige betogingen.
➡️Onvoldoende middelen om justitie ordentelijk te laten functioneren.
De rechtsstaat in België staat steeds meer onder druk! #FIRM
federaalinstituutmensenrechten.be/nl/rechtssta...
EPIC PROTESTS IN #BRUSSELS AGAINST THE RIGHT-WING GOVERNMENT
The 4 km between North and South station were too short to fit the ~150000 people who said NO to #austerity NO to #growth at all costs. YES to #solidarity #compassion and #publicservices ✊🌹 LET'S GO!
#nationalestaking #grevenationale
The 4 km between North and South station were too short to fit the ~150000 people who said NO to #austerity NO to #growth at all costs. YES to #solidarity #compassion and #publicservices ✊🌹 LET'S GO!
#nationalestaking #grevenationale
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
EPIC PROTESTS IN #BRUSSELS AGAINST THE RIGHT-WING GOVERNMENT
The 4 km between North and South station were too short to fit the ~150000 people who said NO to #austerity NO to #growth at all costs. YES to #solidarity #compassion and #publicservices ✊🌹 LET'S GO!
#nationalestaking #grevenationale
The 4 km between North and South station were too short to fit the ~150000 people who said NO to #austerity NO to #growth at all costs. YES to #solidarity #compassion and #publicservices ✊🌹 LET'S GO!
#nationalestaking #grevenationale
Massive win in #cycling, where ongoing protests for months, culminating at #LaVuelta25, caused professional cycling team "Israel Premier Tech" to drop their ties with Israel and their Israeli co-owner.
Protest works. The united people have the power ✊🇵🇸🍉
#PremierTech #FreePalestine
Protest works. The united people have the power ✊🇵🇸🍉
#PremierTech #FreePalestine
Israel-Premier Tech cycling team will drop Israeli ties after multiple protests at the Vuelta a Espana race.
Cycling team to drop Israel name after mass pro-Palestinian Vuelta protests
Israel-Premier Tech cycling team will drop Israeli ties after multiple protests at the Vuelta a Espana race.
bit.ly
October 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Massive win in #cycling, where ongoing protests for months, culminating at #LaVuelta25, caused professional cycling team "Israel Premier Tech" to drop their ties with Israel and their Israeli co-owner.
Protest works. The united people have the power ✊🇵🇸🍉
#PremierTech #FreePalestine
Protest works. The united people have the power ✊🇵🇸🍉
#PremierTech #FreePalestine
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We joined thousands on the streets of Brussels today for the #ClimateMarch, walking with our Belgian groups to say: let’s tip the balance! ⚖️
Listen to us, not big polluters.
For climate justice and a transition that puts #PeopleOverProfits.
Listen to us, not big polluters.
For climate justice and a transition that puts #PeopleOverProfits.
October 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We joined thousands on the streets of Brussels today for the #ClimateMarch, walking with our Belgian groups to say: let’s tip the balance! ⚖️
Listen to us, not big polluters.
For climate justice and a transition that puts #PeopleOverProfits.
Listen to us, not big polluters.
For climate justice and a transition that puts #PeopleOverProfits.
Reposted by Boon Breyne
🇮🇱 Israel-Premier Tech steps back from 🇮🇹 Italian classics amid protest tension
📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/isra...
📸 Cor Vos
📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/isra...
📸 Cor Vos
October 3, 2025 at 6:24 AM
🇮🇱 Israel-Premier Tech steps back from 🇮🇹 Italian classics amid protest tension
📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/isra...
📸 Cor Vos
📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/isra...
📸 Cor Vos
In #Paris, travelling to "Hope in a Time of #Collapse", the annual gathering by Partners for a #NewEconomy
About collapse: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born."(Gramsci, 1930)
So hope lies in *allowing* the new to be born!
About collapse: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born."(Gramsci, 1930)
So hope lies in *allowing* the new to be born!
October 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
In #Paris, travelling to "Hope in a Time of #Collapse", the annual gathering by Partners for a #NewEconomy
About collapse: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born."(Gramsci, 1930)
So hope lies in *allowing* the new to be born!
About collapse: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born."(Gramsci, 1930)
So hope lies in *allowing* the new to be born!
Reposted by Boon Breyne
💚 We deserve a thriving future.
Human rights and climate justice have always gone hand in hand. We must push the EU institutions to protect lives and the environment from climate change.
Not just in the EU, but everywhere!
Agree? Join Zia Ur Rehman today at Schuman at 18:30 💪
Human rights and climate justice have always gone hand in hand. We must push the EU institutions to protect lives and the environment from climate change.
Not just in the EU, but everywhere!
Agree? Join Zia Ur Rehman today at Schuman at 18:30 💪
September 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
💚 We deserve a thriving future.
Human rights and climate justice have always gone hand in hand. We must push the EU institutions to protect lives and the environment from climate change.
Not just in the EU, but everywhere!
Agree? Join Zia Ur Rehman today at Schuman at 18:30 💪
Human rights and climate justice have always gone hand in hand. We must push the EU institutions to protect lives and the environment from climate change.
Not just in the EU, but everywhere!
Agree? Join Zia Ur Rehman today at Schuman at 18:30 💪
Reposted by Boon Breyne
📣 RULES FOR BUSINESS
❗️ RIGHTS FOR PEOPLE
Come say it with us when get to Brussels.
Full program at www.backtothefuturemarch.org
❗️ RIGHTS FOR PEOPLE
Come say it with us when get to Brussels.
Full program at www.backtothefuturemarch.org
September 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM
📣 RULES FOR BUSINESS
❗️ RIGHTS FOR PEOPLE
Come say it with us when get to Brussels.
Full program at www.backtothefuturemarch.org
❗️ RIGHTS FOR PEOPLE
Come say it with us when get to Brussels.
Full program at www.backtothefuturemarch.org
Reposted by Boon Breyne
We are getting closer and closer to Brussels. @ec.europa.eu can you hear us yet👂👂
We do not want deregulation❗️ We want clean air, safe water, and healthy soil.
Let’s protect them!
#March4Rights day 2
We do not want deregulation❗️ We want clean air, safe water, and healthy soil.
Let’s protect them!
#March4Rights day 2
September 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
We are getting closer and closer to Brussels. @ec.europa.eu can you hear us yet👂👂
We do not want deregulation❗️ We want clean air, safe water, and healthy soil.
Let’s protect them!
#March4Rights day 2
We do not want deregulation❗️ We want clean air, safe water, and healthy soil.
Let’s protect them!
#March4Rights day 2
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✅ Day 1 complete: hello Hasselt!
The #BackToTheFuture march moves on toward Brussels.
On 23 September, we arrive in Brussels to demand strong rules for workers, communities and the planet.
📣 Come welcome the marchers and say it loud: No to deregulation!
The #BackToTheFuture march moves on toward Brussels.
On 23 September, we arrive in Brussels to demand strong rules for workers, communities and the planet.
📣 Come welcome the marchers and say it loud: No to deregulation!
September 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
✅ Day 1 complete: hello Hasselt!
The #BackToTheFuture march moves on toward Brussels.
On 23 September, we arrive in Brussels to demand strong rules for workers, communities and the planet.
📣 Come welcome the marchers and say it loud: No to deregulation!
The #BackToTheFuture march moves on toward Brussels.
On 23 September, we arrive in Brussels to demand strong rules for workers, communities and the planet.
📣 Come welcome the marchers and say it loud: No to deregulation!
Reposted by Boon Breyne
📍 Maastricht – #BackToTheFuture march is starting!
Soon we'll set off with unions, NGOs, community representatives and MEPs.
“We want a future - for workers, people and planet” @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social says.
Three days on foot to #Brussels to stop the EU’s #deregulation agenda.
Soon we'll set off with unions, NGOs, community representatives and MEPs.
“We want a future - for workers, people and planet” @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social says.
Three days on foot to #Brussels to stop the EU’s #deregulation agenda.
September 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
📍 Maastricht – #BackToTheFuture march is starting!
Soon we'll set off with unions, NGOs, community representatives and MEPs.
“We want a future - for workers, people and planet” @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social says.
Three days on foot to #Brussels to stop the EU’s #deregulation agenda.
Soon we'll set off with unions, NGOs, community representatives and MEPs.
“We want a future - for workers, people and planet” @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social says.
Three days on foot to #Brussels to stop the EU’s #deregulation agenda.
Reposted by Boon Breyne
🚨 LIVE in MAASTRICHT
We're kicking off the #BackToTheFuture march!
We have come together with many others to make sure EU decisionmakers hear us all the way down in Brussels:
Protect people ➕ planet
Going backwards is not an option! We want protections for people, communities and environment
We're kicking off the #BackToTheFuture march!
We have come together with many others to make sure EU decisionmakers hear us all the way down in Brussels:
Protect people ➕ planet
Going backwards is not an option! We want protections for people, communities and environment
September 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🚨 LIVE in MAASTRICHT
We're kicking off the #BackToTheFuture march!
We have come together with many others to make sure EU decisionmakers hear us all the way down in Brussels:
Protect people ➕ planet
Going backwards is not an option! We want protections for people, communities and environment
We're kicking off the #BackToTheFuture march!
We have come together with many others to make sure EU decisionmakers hear us all the way down in Brussels:
Protect people ➕ planet
Going backwards is not an option! We want protections for people, communities and environment
"It's not refugees, it's billionaires, oil and gas companies, press barons, and the politicians who serve them, who wreck this country. (...) [The far-right] profits from the poverty that weakens us, the racism that divides us, the climate crisis that threatens us." ✊
Our chief executive took to the stage at the #StandUpToRacism demonstration on 13 September to make it clear that the fight for racial justice, for climate justice and for economic justice is one and the same. And it’s a fight we can only win together. @standuptoracismuk.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
"It's not refugees, it's billionaires, oil and gas companies, press barons, and the politicians who serve them, who wreck this country. (...) [The far-right] profits from the poverty that weakens us, the racism that divides us, the climate crisis that threatens us." ✊
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We stand with the Global Sumud Flotilla 🍉
The largest citizen flotilla in history is sailing to Gaza with food, medicine, and supplies. Israel threatened to seize it - but together we can be their shield.
Help watch over the flotilla & demand its safe passage👇
action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-09...
The largest citizen flotilla in history is sailing to Gaza with food, medicine, and supplies. Israel threatened to seize it - but together we can be their shield.
Help watch over the flotilla & demand its safe passage👇
action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-09...
Protect the Global Sumud Flotilla!
The largest citizen flotilla in history is sailing to Gaza with food and medicine. Israel has threatened to seize it - but together we can be their shield. Add your name to help watch over the flotill...
action.wemove.eu
September 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
We stand with the Global Sumud Flotilla 🍉
The largest citizen flotilla in history is sailing to Gaza with food, medicine, and supplies. Israel threatened to seize it - but together we can be their shield.
Help watch over the flotilla & demand its safe passage👇
action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-09...
The largest citizen flotilla in history is sailing to Gaza with food, medicine, and supplies. Israel threatened to seize it - but together we can be their shield.
Help watch over the flotilla & demand its safe passage👇
action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-09...