People & Planet
@peopleandplanet.bsky.social
The UK’s largest student activist network campaigning for social and climate justice. Our campaigns include: #FossilFree, #DivestBorders and #FossilFreeCareers ✊
Shabana Mahmood promises ‘the most significant changes to our asylum system in modern times’ - yes and in all the wrong ways. ❌
Demonising and stripping migrants of their basic rights is no way to solve the real issues people face in the UK.
These are cruel, criminal plans. They must be resisted.
Demonising and stripping migrants of their basic rights is no way to solve the real issues people face in the UK.
These are cruel, criminal plans. They must be resisted.
Asylum seekers only allowed to stay in the UK temporarily, Mahmood to announce
Shabana Mahmood promises ‘the most significant changes to our asylum system in modern times’ in Monday speech
www.independent.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Shabana Mahmood promises ‘the most significant changes to our asylum system in modern times’ - yes and in all the wrong ways. ❌
Demonising and stripping migrants of their basic rights is no way to solve the real issues people face in the UK.
These are cruel, criminal plans. They must be resisted.
Demonising and stripping migrants of their basic rights is no way to solve the real issues people face in the UK.
These are cruel, criminal plans. They must be resisted.
After 18 months of pressure, WE DID IT!! 🔥🔥
Edge Hill divests from climate wreckers
Edge Hill University will not invest in fossil fuel extraction or border security companies - in victory for People & Planet campaigners.
theecologist.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
After 18 months of pressure, WE DID IT!! 🔥🔥
🔥 Today, Cambridge University students rallied for Fossil Free Careers!
They're calling on the university to ban, refuse and exclude oil, gas, mining and arms firms from advertising careers on campus!
Will the university listen up?
They're calling on the university to ban, refuse and exclude oil, gas, mining and arms firms from advertising careers on campus!
Will the university listen up?
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
🔥 Today, Cambridge University students rallied for Fossil Free Careers!
They're calling on the university to ban, refuse and exclude oil, gas, mining and arms firms from advertising careers on campus!
Will the university listen up?
They're calling on the university to ban, refuse and exclude oil, gas, mining and arms firms from advertising careers on campus!
Will the university listen up?
Want to uncover the institutional links between the your university and the fossil fuel industry?
Our friends at @solid-research.bsky.social are running practical workshops on how to do just this at a range of UK universities next week! 👇
Our friends at @solid-research.bsky.social are running practical workshops on how to do just this at a range of UK universities next week! 👇
From 6–12 November we'll give hands-on workshops at UK unis - Cambridge, Imperial (London), Glasgow & Lancaster - on uncovering institutional links with the fossil fuel industry. See more: tinyurl.com/mftuk
@imperial-clim-act.bsky.social @ucuglasgow.bsky.social @scientistrebellion.bsky.social
@imperial-clim-act.bsky.social @ucuglasgow.bsky.social @scientistrebellion.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Want to uncover the institutional links between the your university and the fossil fuel industry?
Our friends at @solid-research.bsky.social are running practical workshops on how to do just this at a range of UK universities next week! 👇
Our friends at @solid-research.bsky.social are running practical workshops on how to do just this at a range of UK universities next week! 👇
Climate disasters are not an accident.
Hurricane Melissa is a result of political choices and a fossil fuel industry bent on putting profit before people and planet.
Small Island Nations are being failed by the world's polluters. They must be heard. 👇
Hurricane Melissa is a result of political choices and a fossil fuel industry bent on putting profit before people and planet.
Small Island Nations are being failed by the world's polluters. They must be heard. 👇
For Years, Islands Have Warned of Climate Disaster. They’ve Seen Little Help.
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Climate disasters are not an accident.
Hurricane Melissa is a result of political choices and a fossil fuel industry bent on putting profit before people and planet.
Small Island Nations are being failed by the world's polluters. They must be heard. 👇
Hurricane Melissa is a result of political choices and a fossil fuel industry bent on putting profit before people and planet.
Small Island Nations are being failed by the world's polluters. They must be heard. 👇
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HUGE win as Edge Hill Uni commits to #DivestBorders AND #FossilFree 🥳 🎉
This is further recognition that @peopleandplanet.bsky.social campaigns work
Migrant justice = climate justice.
We demand our unis stand for both!
Surely next on the victory list is @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social? 👀
This is further recognition that @peopleandplanet.bsky.social campaigns work
Migrant justice = climate justice.
We demand our unis stand for both!
Surely next on the victory list is @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social? 👀
October 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
HUGE win as Edge Hill Uni commits to #DivestBorders AND #FossilFree 🥳 🎉
This is further recognition that @peopleandplanet.bsky.social campaigns work
Migrant justice = climate justice.
We demand our unis stand for both!
Surely next on the victory list is @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social? 👀
This is further recognition that @peopleandplanet.bsky.social campaigns work
Migrant justice = climate justice.
We demand our unis stand for both!
Surely next on the victory list is @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social? 👀
✊ This is what student power looks like!
Students just forced Edge Hill University to take a stand against some of the world’s most destructive corporations - massive oil, coal and gas companies + companies profiting from the detention, deportation and misery of migrants.
Share the huge news!
Students just forced Edge Hill University to take a stand against some of the world’s most destructive corporations - massive oil, coal and gas companies + companies profiting from the detention, deportation and misery of migrants.
Share the huge news!
October 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
✊ This is what student power looks like!
Students just forced Edge Hill University to take a stand against some of the world’s most destructive corporations - massive oil, coal and gas companies + companies profiting from the detention, deportation and misery of migrants.
Share the huge news!
Students just forced Edge Hill University to take a stand against some of the world’s most destructive corporations - massive oil, coal and gas companies + companies profiting from the detention, deportation and misery of migrants.
Share the huge news!
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👎 Shameful behaviour from Bath University!
Solidarity to students who took action to shine a light on major fossil fuel, mining and arms corporations at their careers fair!
Solidarity to students who took action to shine a light on major fossil fuel, mining and arms corporations at their careers fair!
October 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
👎 Shameful behaviour from Bath University!
Solidarity to students who took action to shine a light on major fossil fuel, mining and arms corporations at their careers fair!
Solidarity to students who took action to shine a light on major fossil fuel, mining and arms corporations at their careers fair!
October 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
👎 Shameful behaviour from Bath University!
Solidarity to students who took action to shine a light on major fossil fuel, mining and arms corporations at their careers fair!
Solidarity to students who took action to shine a light on major fossil fuel, mining and arms corporations at their careers fair!
🔍 Our new research with @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social
shines light on the dirtiest mining companies.
❌ Dispossessing people of their land
❌ Polluting land + rivers
❌ Causing deadly disasters
❌ Association w/ militarisation, conflict + human rights abuses
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/10/tran...
shines light on the dirtiest mining companies.
❌ Dispossessing people of their land
❌ Polluting land + rivers
❌ Causing deadly disasters
❌ Association w/ militarisation, conflict + human rights abuses
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/10/tran...
October 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🔍 Our new research with @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social
shines light on the dirtiest mining companies.
❌ Dispossessing people of their land
❌ Polluting land + rivers
❌ Causing deadly disasters
❌ Association w/ militarisation, conflict + human rights abuses
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/10/tran...
shines light on the dirtiest mining companies.
❌ Dispossessing people of their land
❌ Polluting land + rivers
❌ Causing deadly disasters
❌ Association w/ militarisation, conflict + human rights abuses
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/10/tran...
Spying on students for arms companies. It's despicable.
UK universities need to ask themselves who they really serve and protect - war profiteers and genocide enablers, or their students fighting for peace?
UK universities need to ask themselves who they really serve and protect - war profiteers and genocide enablers, or their students fighting for peace?
UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Spying on students for arms companies. It's despicable.
UK universities need to ask themselves who they really serve and protect - war profiteers and genocide enablers, or their students fighting for peace?
UK universities need to ask themselves who they really serve and protect - war profiteers and genocide enablers, or their students fighting for peace?
Absolutely disgusting.
❌A British Ice to brutally enforce a hostile environment
❌ Tripling stop and search to intimidate
❌ Leave the European Court of Human Rights to remove rights and civil liberties
The agenda is clear: Sow hate and division.
❌A British Ice to brutally enforce a hostile environment
❌ Tripling stop and search to intimidate
❌ Leave the European Court of Human Rights to remove rights and civil liberties
The agenda is clear: Sow hate and division.
A British Ice and more stop and search: Badenoch’s Tories set out new policies
Shadow ministers have announced far-reaching and often radical proposals – here is a roundup of some of them
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Absolutely disgusting.
❌A British Ice to brutally enforce a hostile environment
❌ Tripling stop and search to intimidate
❌ Leave the European Court of Human Rights to remove rights and civil liberties
The agenda is clear: Sow hate and division.
❌A British Ice to brutally enforce a hostile environment
❌ Tripling stop and search to intimidate
❌ Leave the European Court of Human Rights to remove rights and civil liberties
The agenda is clear: Sow hate and division.
✨ BIG NEWS!
We're opening submissions for our next social justice campaign! ✊
Every six years, the People & Planet student network chooses its next social justice campaign - and the decision starts now.
Submit your idea: peopleandplanet.org/about/campai...
We're opening submissions for our next social justice campaign! ✊
Every six years, the People & Planet student network chooses its next social justice campaign - and the decision starts now.
Submit your idea: peopleandplanet.org/about/campai...
September 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
✨ BIG NEWS!
We're opening submissions for our next social justice campaign! ✊
Every six years, the People & Planet student network chooses its next social justice campaign - and the decision starts now.
Submit your idea: peopleandplanet.org/about/campai...
We're opening submissions for our next social justice campaign! ✊
Every six years, the People & Planet student network chooses its next social justice campaign - and the decision starts now.
Submit your idea: peopleandplanet.org/about/campai...
😃 Starting uni this month?
Join a People & Planet campaign on your campus to:
✅ Learn about climate & migrant justice
✅ Build campaigns on campus
✅ Get skilled up on how to make change
✅ Make friends for life
✅ ...Take down the capitalist, colonial, imperialist system! ✊
Join a People & Planet campaign on your campus to:
✅ Learn about climate & migrant justice
✅ Build campaigns on campus
✅ Get skilled up on how to make change
✅ Make friends for life
✅ ...Take down the capitalist, colonial, imperialist system! ✊
September 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
😃 Starting uni this month?
Join a People & Planet campaign on your campus to:
✅ Learn about climate & migrant justice
✅ Build campaigns on campus
✅ Get skilled up on how to make change
✅ Make friends for life
✅ ...Take down the capitalist, colonial, imperialist system! ✊
Join a People & Planet campaign on your campus to:
✅ Learn about climate & migrant justice
✅ Build campaigns on campus
✅ Get skilled up on how to make change
✅ Make friends for life
✅ ...Take down the capitalist, colonial, imperialist system! ✊
Want to uncover the ties between your university and the fossil fuel industry?
Interested in learning how academia is used to delay and distort climate action and policy?
Register now for one of our upcoming webinars! 👇
www.solid-sustainability.org/webinar-what...
Interested in learning how academia is used to delay and distort climate action and policy?
Register now for one of our upcoming webinars! 👇
www.solid-sustainability.org/webinar-what...
September 9, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Want to uncover the ties between your university and the fossil fuel industry?
Interested in learning how academia is used to delay and distort climate action and policy?
Register now for one of our upcoming webinars! 👇
www.solid-sustainability.org/webinar-what...
Interested in learning how academia is used to delay and distort climate action and policy?
Register now for one of our upcoming webinars! 👇
www.solid-sustainability.org/webinar-what...
It's simple. 👇
September 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
It's simple. 👇
❌ Digital ID cards will do nothing but generate profits for tech giants at the expense of migrant rights and everyday freedoms.
Starmer considers digital ID cards in small boats crackdown
Top minister says Britain ‘behind the curve’ in roll out of national ID cards
www.independent.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
❌ Digital ID cards will do nothing but generate profits for tech giants at the expense of migrant rights and everyday freedoms.
This is nothing but despicable.
Refugee family reunion was one of the only glimmers of light in the UK's dark hostile environment.
To stop this avenue of migration is one of the cruellest forms of border violence you could enact.
Refugee family reunion was one of the only glimmers of light in the UK's dark hostile environment.
To stop this avenue of migration is one of the cruellest forms of border violence you could enact.
‘It kept me going’: halt to refugee reunion scheme in UK shatters hopes
Afghan man seeking asylum and permission to bring wife to Britain describes shock at home secretary’s announcement
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This is nothing but despicable.
Refugee family reunion was one of the only glimmers of light in the UK's dark hostile environment.
To stop this avenue of migration is one of the cruellest forms of border violence you could enact.
Refugee family reunion was one of the only glimmers of light in the UK's dark hostile environment.
To stop this avenue of migration is one of the cruellest forms of border violence you could enact.
This October, fossil fuel companies will be attending university careers fairs across the UK...
And we're building a movement to stop them!
✊ Join our online organising call at 5pm on 11 Sept to take part in the Fossil Free Careers Month of Action:
peopleandplanet.org/fossil-free-...
And we're building a movement to stop them!
✊ Join our online organising call at 5pm on 11 Sept to take part in the Fossil Free Careers Month of Action:
peopleandplanet.org/fossil-free-...
August 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This October, fossil fuel companies will be attending university careers fairs across the UK...
And we're building a movement to stop them!
✊ Join our online organising call at 5pm on 11 Sept to take part in the Fossil Free Careers Month of Action:
peopleandplanet.org/fossil-free-...
And we're building a movement to stop them!
✊ Join our online organising call at 5pm on 11 Sept to take part in the Fossil Free Careers Month of Action:
peopleandplanet.org/fossil-free-...
❌ Another record-breaking year of scorching temperatures driven by the fossil fuel industry.
❌ Meanwhile UK universities invest in and invite big oil and gas companies to recruit at their careers fairs
They're complicit and we're calling it out. 🚨
❌ Meanwhile UK universities invest in and invite big oil and gas companies to recruit at their careers fairs
They're complicit and we're calling it out. 🚨
Summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be UK’s warmest on record, Met Office says
Mean temperature is tracking at 16.13C after four heatwaves, significantly above current record of 15.76C
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
❌ Another record-breaking year of scorching temperatures driven by the fossil fuel industry.
❌ Meanwhile UK universities invest in and invite big oil and gas companies to recruit at their careers fairs
They're complicit and we're calling it out. 🚨
❌ Meanwhile UK universities invest in and invite big oil and gas companies to recruit at their careers fairs
They're complicit and we're calling it out. 🚨
Students in Uganda are fighting construction of the world's longest heated oil pipeline - EACOP.
They are heroes for doing so but are being met with extreme force and violence.
Alex faces huge medical bills as a result. Please consider supporting him:
gofund.me/f11601c4
They are heroes for doing so but are being met with extreme force and violence.
Alex faces huge medical bills as a result. Please consider supporting him:
gofund.me/f11601c4
Donate to Help Waswa Alex Lyazi Heal and Keep Fighting for our Planet, organized by Maia Dartsch
Help Waswa Alex Lyazi Recover and Continue the Fight for Our … Maia Dartsch needs your support for Help Waswa Alex Lyazi Heal and Keep Fighting for our Planet
gofund.me
August 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Students in Uganda are fighting construction of the world's longest heated oil pipeline - EACOP.
They are heroes for doing so but are being met with extreme force and violence.
Alex faces huge medical bills as a result. Please consider supporting him:
gofund.me/f11601c4
They are heroes for doing so but are being met with extreme force and violence.
Alex faces huge medical bills as a result. Please consider supporting him:
gofund.me/f11601c4
🔥 MASSIVE MILESTONE!!!
22 students' unions, representing 500,000+ students have backed Fossil Free Careers!
This means:
❌ Banning oil, gas and mining companies from attending student union careers fairs and events
✊ Pushing the university to do the same!
22 students' unions, representing 500,000+ students have backed Fossil Free Careers!
This means:
❌ Banning oil, gas and mining companies from attending student union careers fairs and events
✊ Pushing the university to do the same!
August 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
🔥 MASSIVE MILESTONE!!!
22 students' unions, representing 500,000+ students have backed Fossil Free Careers!
This means:
❌ Banning oil, gas and mining companies from attending student union careers fairs and events
✊ Pushing the university to do the same!
22 students' unions, representing 500,000+ students have backed Fossil Free Careers!
This means:
❌ Banning oil, gas and mining companies from attending student union careers fairs and events
✊ Pushing the university to do the same!
❌ Right now, the UK Government is pushing to designate @palaction.bsky.social a "terrorist" group.
We condemn this action in the strongest possible terms.
We are all Palestine Action. ✊🇵🇸
🧵...
We condemn this action in the strongest possible terms.
We are all Palestine Action. ✊🇵🇸
🧵...
July 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
❌ Right now, the UK Government is pushing to designate @palaction.bsky.social a "terrorist" group.
We condemn this action in the strongest possible terms.
We are all Palestine Action. ✊🇵🇸
🧵...
We condemn this action in the strongest possible terms.
We are all Palestine Action. ✊🇵🇸
🧵...
🎉 VICTORY!!!
Lancaster SU backs the Fossil Free Careers campaign and boycotts oil, gas and mining companies! ✊
📣 Students are now calling on the university careers department to commit to an Ethical Careers Policy!
✍️ Sign the petition to add your voice to their demands! tinyurl.com/3p544kd6
Lancaster SU backs the Fossil Free Careers campaign and boycotts oil, gas and mining companies! ✊
📣 Students are now calling on the university careers department to commit to an Ethical Careers Policy!
✍️ Sign the petition to add your voice to their demands! tinyurl.com/3p544kd6
June 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
🎉 VICTORY!!!
Lancaster SU backs the Fossil Free Careers campaign and boycotts oil, gas and mining companies! ✊
📣 Students are now calling on the university careers department to commit to an Ethical Careers Policy!
✍️ Sign the petition to add your voice to their demands! tinyurl.com/3p544kd6
Lancaster SU backs the Fossil Free Careers campaign and boycotts oil, gas and mining companies! ✊
📣 Students are now calling on the university careers department to commit to an Ethical Careers Policy!
✍️ Sign the petition to add your voice to their demands! tinyurl.com/3p544kd6
This is a shameful and appalling crack down on the fundamental right to protest!
We must resist. We must protest. Free Palestine! 🇵🇸✊
We must resist. We must protest. Free Palestine! 🇵🇸✊
Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms
It comes after what she called a
www.bbc.co.uk
June 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
This is a shameful and appalling crack down on the fundamental right to protest!
We must resist. We must protest. Free Palestine! 🇵🇸✊
We must resist. We must protest. Free Palestine! 🇵🇸✊