Eric the Green (and Red)
@rerics.bsky.social
global citizen NOT "consumer"; based in Scotland (where born); lived in Zimbabwe, South Africa & France; pro human and nature rights; work for socl/envnmntl charity; loathe settler-colonialism; #RestorativeClimateJustice #IndigenousRights #FoodSovereignty
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"¡No pasaran!": What does this political slogan mean?
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¡No pasarán! This is the only acceptable response to Trump jackbooting freedom of speech and academic independence. The UK is already far down the same road, alas. Fascism must be called out. en.birmiss.com/no-pasaran-w...
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Layoffs just hit their highest start-of-year total since January 2009 — the height of the Great Recession — according to data tracking firm Challenger.
Meanwhile, CEO pay and corporate profits continue to hit record highs.
Does anyone still believe that trickle-down tax cuts create jobs?
Meanwhile, CEO pay and corporate profits continue to hit record highs.
Does anyone still believe that trickle-down tax cuts create jobs?
February 5, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Layoffs just hit their highest start-of-year total since January 2009 — the height of the Great Recession — according to data tracking firm Challenger.
Meanwhile, CEO pay and corporate profits continue to hit record highs.
Does anyone still believe that trickle-down tax cuts create jobs?
Meanwhile, CEO pay and corporate profits continue to hit record highs.
Does anyone still believe that trickle-down tax cuts create jobs?
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Bacterial meningitis is spreading among children in Gaza, including those who are vaccinated. Officials say conditions in Gaza's displacement camps, widespread malnutrition, and Israeli bans on the entry of medicines are increasing the deadly risk.
February 4, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Bacterial meningitis is spreading among children in Gaza, including those who are vaccinated. Officials say conditions in Gaza's displacement camps, widespread malnutrition, and Israeli bans on the entry of medicines are increasing the deadly risk.
Activists who smashed Israeli weapons for Gaza freed by jury
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Activists who smashed Israeli weapons freed by jury - mums celebrate verdict
YouTube video by Declassified UK
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February 5, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Activists who smashed Israeli weapons for Gaza freed by jury
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Sunday Sermon
January 25, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Sunday Sermon
UK Green Party Stuns With Huge Surge & Brilliant New Political Ad youtu.be/UEj0zQkaREo?...
UK Green Party Stuns With Huge Surge & Brilliant New Political Ad
YouTube video by The Rational National
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January 25, 2026 at 7:37 PM
UK Green Party Stuns With Huge Surge & Brilliant New Political Ad youtu.be/UEj0zQkaREo?...
The fundamental error in the billionaire mindset is the belief you can separate yourself from interdependence. That wealth, walls or distance (even to Mars) can insulate you from being embedded in living systems: ecological, social, psychological. open.substack.com/pub/avigail/...
The Global Bunker: How Neoliberalism Prepares Us for Nothing
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January 18, 2026 at 3:57 PM
The fundamental error in the billionaire mindset is the belief you can separate yourself from interdependence. That wealth, walls or distance (even to Mars) can insulate you from being embedded in living systems: ecological, social, psychological. open.substack.com/pub/avigail/...
Why Civilisations Collapse: The Existential Paradox of Innovation
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Why Civilisations Collapse: The Existential Paradox of Innovation
Civilizations always experience sudden, spectacular growth when they encounter innovation.
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January 18, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Why Civilisations Collapse: The Existential Paradox of Innovation
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Commentary on the conviction of gamekeeper Thomas Munday (bludgeoned Buzzard to death on Hovingham Estate, North Yorkshire) raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/16/c...
Commentary on the conviction of gamekeeper Thomas Munday (bludgeoned Buzzard to death on Hovingham Estate, North Yorkshire)
On Monday this week, former gamekeeper Thomas Munday appeared at Scarborough Magistrates’ Court where he was convicted of killing a Buzzard in March 2024 on land owned by the Hovingham Estate…
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January 18, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Commentary on the conviction of gamekeeper Thomas Munday (bludgeoned Buzzard to death on Hovingham Estate, North Yorkshire) raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/16/c...
Winter Cold and Collapsing Buildings Kill Palestinians in Gaza as Israel Blocks Shelter Supplies
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Winter Cold and Collapsing Buildings Kill Palestinians in Gaza as Israel Blocks Shelter Supplies
A family of three was killed while they slept by a collapsing wall. A one-year-old baby died from the cold. Over 30 Palestinians in Gaza have died from a lack of shelter this winter.
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January 18, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Winter Cold and Collapsing Buildings Kill Palestinians in Gaza as Israel Blocks Shelter Supplies
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Starmer is now set to lose HIS OWN SEAT to the Greens www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
Starmer is now set to lose HIS OWN SEAT to the Greens
Keir Starmer is going to see red when he sees this, but his local constituents are seeing Green as latest polls make for interesting reading
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January 18, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Starmer is now set to lose HIS OWN SEAT to the Greens www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
Exclusive: Michael Rosen comments on manufactured outrage over school uninviting MP www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
Exclusive: Michael Rosen comments on manufactured outrage over school uninviting MP
Michael Rosen exclusively speaks to Skwawkbox and the Canary about a Bristol school cancelling an event with MP Damien Egan
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January 18, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Exclusive: Michael Rosen comments on manufactured outrage over school uninviting MP www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
Seaweed is upcycled into biochar, compost & shoreline protection materials, creating local jobs and supporting women-led farms that supply sustainably grown ingredients for hotel menus. This approach transforms waste into an economic and environmental solution. sustainabletravel.org/project/sarg...
Sargassum Recovery for Clean Coasts - Sustainable Travel International
Discover how this project is cleaning up sargassum on Mexico's coast south of Cancun, and how it reduces emissions and protects reefs.
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January 18, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Seaweed is upcycled into biochar, compost & shoreline protection materials, creating local jobs and supporting women-led farms that supply sustainably grown ingredients for hotel menus. This approach transforms waste into an economic and environmental solution. sustainabletravel.org/project/sarg...
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2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America?
2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America?
2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America?
2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
January 18, 2026 at 10:12 AM
2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America?
2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America?
2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America?
2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
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Treading Lightly in an Extractive World: On Complicity, Integration, and the Impossibility of Purity
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Treading Lightly in an Extractive World: On Complicity, Integration, and the Impossibility of Purity
A response to defensive reactions and an invitation to sit with discomfort
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January 18, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Treading Lightly in an Extractive World: On Complicity, Integration, and the Impossibility of Purity
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Non-Jewish Zionist Bachram attacks Jewish Holocaust survivor www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
Non-Jewish Zionist Bachram attacks Jewish Holocaust survivor
Bachram, a Zionist fanatic, attacks a Jewish Holocaust survivor — proving Zionism has no problem turning on Jewish people
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January 18, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Non-Jewish Zionist Bachram attacks Jewish Holocaust survivor www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
Regime Change The US Empire
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Regime Change The US Empire
Reading by Tim Foley:
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January 18, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Regime Change The US Empire
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Detoxing from the Hope Porn: Why Collapse Realism Is the New Activism: 'My advice to you, if you have chosen this path, is to disconnect yourself as much as possible both from consumatronic humans and their world and find support in sister souls and other species.' open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
Detoxing from the Hope Porn: Why Collapse Realism Is the New Activism
When you’re in a relationship that seems to be hitting the skids faster than you can say “divorce”, it is tempting to romanticize about what could have been, should have been, all the things that went...
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January 11, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Detoxing from the Hope Porn: Why Collapse Realism Is the New Activism: 'My advice to you, if you have chosen this path, is to disconnect yourself as much as possible both from consumatronic humans and their world and find support in sister souls and other species.' open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
Please read this and share it! 'History Repeating: The Banality of Trump’s Authoritarian Takeover' open.substack.com/pub/avigail/...
History Repeating: The Banality of Trump’s Authoritarian Takeover
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January 11, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Please read this and share it! 'History Repeating: The Banality of Trump’s Authoritarian Takeover' open.substack.com/pub/avigail/...
UK private contractor Palantir was ‘founded to kill communists’ www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
UK private contractor Palantir was 'founded to kill communists'
The UK government's relationship with Palantir was already controversial, now it looks positively genocidal
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January 11, 2026 at 8:53 PM
UK private contractor Palantir was ‘founded to kill communists’ www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
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Citizens United is nothing more than a dark money pipeline that enabled deranged, greed and power diseased megalomaniacs to avoid fair taxation, purchase the government and steal all the representation from We the People.
January 11, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Citizens United is nothing more than a dark money pipeline that enabled deranged, greed and power diseased megalomaniacs to avoid fair taxation, purchase the government and steal all the representation from We the People.
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They hate Minnesota because we are a people who believe that "we all do better when we all do better."
Minnesota is one of the wealthiest, safest, and cleanest states in the country *because* of our openness and generosity.
Our quality of life is a direct challenge to their zero-sum worldview.
Minnesota is one of the wealthiest, safest, and cleanest states in the country *because* of our openness and generosity.
Our quality of life is a direct challenge to their zero-sum worldview.
January 10, 2026 at 9:30 PM
They hate Minnesota because we are a people who believe that "we all do better when we all do better."
Minnesota is one of the wealthiest, safest, and cleanest states in the country *because* of our openness and generosity.
Our quality of life is a direct challenge to their zero-sum worldview.
Minnesota is one of the wealthiest, safest, and cleanest states in the country *because* of our openness and generosity.
Our quality of life is a direct challenge to their zero-sum worldview.
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Israel bombs Palestinian girl as she plays with friend – then claims she was a ‘terrorist’ www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
Israel bombs Palestinian girl as she plays with friend - then claims she was a 'terrorist'
Israel has bombed and killed Dana Abu Ma‘rouf, a seven-year-old little Palestinian girl in Gaza, as she played outside
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January 11, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Israel bombs Palestinian girl as she plays with friend – then claims she was a ‘terrorist’ www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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