XR Salisbury
@xrsalisbury.bsky.social
Climate action and biodiversity loss circle in Wiltshire, part of Extinction Rebellion UK.
We meet regularly and organise local actions and outreach, plus supporting national XR campaigns. Come and join us!
Email: salisbury@extinctionrebellion.uk
We meet regularly and organise local actions and outreach, plus supporting national XR campaigns. Come and join us!
Email: salisbury@extinctionrebellion.uk
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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Oddly, this petition is only at 1,500 signatures. Needs 10,000. Please sign and SHARE, SHARE, SHARE!!!
‘Launch a public inquiry into UK arms exports to Israel and suspend all licences’
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Ends in December ✊
‘Launch a public inquiry into UK arms exports to Israel and suspend all licences’
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Ends in December ✊
Petition: Launch a public inquiry into UK arms exports to Israel and suspend all licences
We call on the Government to immediately establish a public, judge-led inquiry into British arms exports to Israel and to suspend licences during the investigation. Many are concerned that Israel has ...
petition.parliament.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Oddly, this petition is only at 1,500 signatures. Needs 10,000. Please sign and SHARE, SHARE, SHARE!!!
‘Launch a public inquiry into UK arms exports to Israel and suspend all licences’
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Ends in December ✊
‘Launch a public inquiry into UK arms exports to Israel and suspend all licences’
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Ends in December ✊
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Is your bank backing fossil fuels? Check & encourage friends, family, colleagues, employer bankbetter.uk/about/bank-f...
Change to an ethical bank eg Cooperative, Nationwide, Triodos, Virgin Money
Banks guarantee 7 working day switch
#FossilBanksNoThanks #DivestFromFossilFuels #BankBetter
Change to an ethical bank eg Cooperative, Nationwide, Triodos, Virgin Money
Banks guarantee 7 working day switch
#FossilBanksNoThanks #DivestFromFossilFuels #BankBetter
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Is your bank backing fossil fuels? Check & encourage friends, family, colleagues, employer bankbetter.uk/about/bank-f...
Change to an ethical bank eg Cooperative, Nationwide, Triodos, Virgin Money
Banks guarantee 7 working day switch
#FossilBanksNoThanks #DivestFromFossilFuels #BankBetter
Change to an ethical bank eg Cooperative, Nationwide, Triodos, Virgin Money
Banks guarantee 7 working day switch
#FossilBanksNoThanks #DivestFromFossilFuels #BankBetter
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I’ve just announced I’ll be leading a National Emergency Briefing on 27 November . At a time when climate is in free fall on the political agenda , it’s vital our leaders realise what is at stake if we do not accelerate a just , green transition for all .
@nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧
@nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I’ve just announced I’ll be leading a National Emergency Briefing on 27 November . At a time when climate is in free fall on the political agenda , it’s vital our leaders realise what is at stake if we do not accelerate a just , green transition for all .
@nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧
@nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧
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Tell me what SOLIDARITY looks like >> THIS is what SOLIDARITY LOOKS LIKE.
youtu.be/yyTdF-y7OIE?...
#MakeThemPay @makethempay.bsky.social
youtu.be/yyTdF-y7OIE?...
#MakeThemPay @makethempay.bsky.social
Polluters, billionaires, oligarchs – it's time to Make Them Pay!
YouTube video by Climate Justice Coalition
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Tell me what SOLIDARITY looks like >> THIS is what SOLIDARITY LOOKS LIKE.
youtu.be/yyTdF-y7OIE?...
#MakeThemPay @makethempay.bsky.social
youtu.be/yyTdF-y7OIE?...
#MakeThemPay @makethempay.bsky.social
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New study finds “brutal drought and extreme heat wave that began in September 2023 transformed the lake into a steaming cauldron. The lake's waters reached 41C (106F).” 😱
Hundreds of dolphins found dead in Amazon lake were in water hotter than a jacuzzi, study finds
"You couldn't put your finger in the water," said the lead author of the study, which spotlights the impacts of planetary warming on aquatic ecosystems.
www.cbsnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
New study finds “brutal drought and extreme heat wave that began in September 2023 transformed the lake into a steaming cauldron. The lake's waters reached 41C (106F).” 😱
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Today in Wimborne our Panto Bad Banker tried to persuade people to help him fund climate chaos, genocide & nuclear arms.
But we showed people how to bank better & to ensure their money is used ethically.
/contd
But we showed people how to bank better & to ensure their money is used ethically.
/contd
November 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Today in Wimborne our Panto Bad Banker tried to persuade people to help him fund climate chaos, genocide & nuclear arms.
But we showed people how to bank better & to ensure their money is used ethically.
/contd
But we showed people how to bank better & to ensure their money is used ethically.
/contd
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Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
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Banks are bankrolling climate chaos, genocide, nuclear arms - using *YOUR* cash and savings. Time to call it out. Time to move your money.
Check your bank: bankbetter.uk/about/bank-f...
See you tomorrow in Wimborne: eepurl.com/jrkXlU
#FossilBanksNoThanks #greenwashing #DivestFromFossilFuels
Check your bank: bankbetter.uk/about/bank-f...
See you tomorrow in Wimborne: eepurl.com/jrkXlU
#FossilBanksNoThanks #greenwashing #DivestFromFossilFuels
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Banks are bankrolling climate chaos, genocide, nuclear arms - using *YOUR* cash and savings. Time to call it out. Time to move your money.
Check your bank: bankbetter.uk/about/bank-f...
See you tomorrow in Wimborne: eepurl.com/jrkXlU
#FossilBanksNoThanks #greenwashing #DivestFromFossilFuels
Check your bank: bankbetter.uk/about/bank-f...
See you tomorrow in Wimborne: eepurl.com/jrkXlU
#FossilBanksNoThanks #greenwashing #DivestFromFossilFuels
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November 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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The @tuc.org.uk has voted to back a Year of Trade Union Climate Action & #COP30 in Brazil is a key moment of global solidarity. The 14th November is a day for taking workplace action, coming together to demand action to tackle the climate crisis @cacctu.bsky.social
www.cacctu.org.uk/year_of_clim...
www.cacctu.org.uk/year_of_clim...
Help build a trade union year of climate action
Trade unions have always fought both for workers’ rights and for the changes needed to make society better. Now is our time to step up again - this time to protect the very conditions of life, and saf...
www.cacctu.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The @tuc.org.uk has voted to back a Year of Trade Union Climate Action & #COP30 in Brazil is a key moment of global solidarity. The 14th November is a day for taking workplace action, coming together to demand action to tackle the climate crisis @cacctu.bsky.social
www.cacctu.org.uk/year_of_clim...
www.cacctu.org.uk/year_of_clim...
Research suggests the air pollution from Ineos’s €4bn petrochemical plant in Antwerp – the biggest in Europe – would cause 410 deaths from pollution once operational, compared with 300 permanent jobs, lawyers will argue. A no-brainer, you'd have thought...
November 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Research suggests the air pollution from Ineos’s €4bn petrochemical plant in Antwerp – the biggest in Europe – would cause 410 deaths from pollution once operational, compared with 300 permanent jobs, lawyers will argue. A no-brainer, you'd have thought...
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1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
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I spent a really long time amassing everything you need to know about Labour's vast deals with fossil gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants out to pepper the world with climate-wrecking data centres...so you don't have to!
My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
The sheer scale of Labour's deals with Trump-donating Big Tech firms has been seriously under-reported.
Not only are they being allowed to build climate-wrecking data centres, they've also been given permission to embed their tech within Whitehall, the NHS, and defence 👇👇
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Not only are they being allowed to build climate-wrecking data centres, they've also been given permission to embed their tech within Whitehall, the NHS, and defence 👇👇
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises
When U.S. President Donald Trump landed for what he called the “exquisite honour” of an unprecedented second state visit to the UK this September, he brought along a retinue of his favourite Silicon V...
www.desmog.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I spent a really long time amassing everything you need to know about Labour's vast deals with fossil gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants out to pepper the world with climate-wrecking data centres...so you don't have to!
My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
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It's #MediaLiberationDay today!
It's time to say #byebyementicide and join the #MediaRevolution
mediarevolution.org/news/cover-s...
It's time to say #byebyementicide and join the #MediaRevolution
mediarevolution.org/news/cover-s...
November 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
It's #MediaLiberationDay today!
It's time to say #byebyementicide and join the #MediaRevolution
mediarevolution.org/news/cover-s...
It's time to say #byebyementicide and join the #MediaRevolution
mediarevolution.org/news/cover-s...
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Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
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Fancy tackling the billionaire disinformation system?! 🤑 🤑 🤑
Take part in #CoverStory - Media Liberation Day
5th November to direct people to independent, well regulated media & socials. No ads, algorithms or billionaire owners.
It's time to say #byebyementicide
Take part in #CoverStory - Media Liberation Day
5th November to direct people to independent, well regulated media & socials. No ads, algorithms or billionaire owners.
It's time to say #byebyementicide
November 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Fancy tackling the billionaire disinformation system?! 🤑 🤑 🤑
Take part in #CoverStory - Media Liberation Day
5th November to direct people to independent, well regulated media & socials. No ads, algorithms or billionaire owners.
It's time to say #byebyementicide
Take part in #CoverStory - Media Liberation Day
5th November to direct people to independent, well regulated media & socials. No ads, algorithms or billionaire owners.
It's time to say #byebyementicide
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Today, EXTINCTION REBELLION TURNS 7 YEARS OLD
💚 Love & rage
💚 Love & rage
October 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Today, EXTINCTION REBELLION TURNS 7 YEARS OLD
💚 Love & rage
💚 Love & rage
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Power and money have accumulated in the hands of the very few. Billionaires and multi-millionaires use their influence for their own benefit, keeping us hooked on fossil fuels and locking us all on a path to planetary destruction.
#MakeThemPay #TaxTheRich
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
#MakeThemPay #TaxTheRich
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
October 31, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Power and money have accumulated in the hands of the very few. Billionaires and multi-millionaires use their influence for their own benefit, keeping us hooked on fossil fuels and locking us all on a path to planetary destruction.
#MakeThemPay #TaxTheRich
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
#MakeThemPay #TaxTheRich
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
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🚨 The news-media is utterly failing to cover these momentous scientific findings.
The public is not being informed of the danger posed.
The UK chief scientist Dame Angela McLean just highlighted this as an issue of national security - why are no news outlets covering it ?!? 🤯
#EndClimateSilence
The public is not being informed of the danger posed.
The UK chief scientist Dame Angela McLean just highlighted this as an issue of national security - why are no news outlets covering it ?!? 🤯
#EndClimateSilence
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
🚨 The news-media is utterly failing to cover these momentous scientific findings.
The public is not being informed of the danger posed.
The UK chief scientist Dame Angela McLean just highlighted this as an issue of national security - why are no news outlets covering it ?!? 🤯
#EndClimateSilence
The public is not being informed of the danger posed.
The UK chief scientist Dame Angela McLean just highlighted this as an issue of national security - why are no news outlets covering it ?!? 🤯
#EndClimateSilence
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Activists crashed Barclays, Lloyds & NatWest after Which? dropped its Green Banks report.
Spoiler: they flopped!! Again.
#Greenwash #ClimateCrisis #BankingOnDisaster
Spoiler: they flopped!! Again.
#Greenwash #ClimateCrisis #BankingOnDisaster
October 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Activists crashed Barclays, Lloyds & NatWest after Which? dropped its Green Banks report.
Spoiler: they flopped!! Again.
#Greenwash #ClimateCrisis #BankingOnDisaster
Spoiler: they flopped!! Again.
#Greenwash #ClimateCrisis #BankingOnDisaster
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Speaking to demonstrators outside the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero at todays protest against the proposed #Rosebank oilfield
@zackpolanski.bsky.social said the UK should instead "invest in our green industries".
Too right.
#ClimateCrisis
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/zack...
@zackpolanski.bsky.social said the UK should instead "invest in our green industries".
Too right.
#ClimateCrisis
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/zack...
Zack Polanski demands Government block plans for Rosebank oil field at London protest
The Green Party leader spoke outside the Department of Energy where days of protest are planned
www.standard.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Speaking to demonstrators outside the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero at todays protest against the proposed #Rosebank oilfield
@zackpolanski.bsky.social said the UK should instead "invest in our green industries".
Too right.
#ClimateCrisis
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/zack...
@zackpolanski.bsky.social said the UK should instead "invest in our green industries".
Too right.
#ClimateCrisis
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/zack...
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Things you love to see! The fight to end the Badger cull continues with new momentum!
October 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Things you love to see! The fight to end the Badger cull continues with new momentum!