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Blyth Brentnall
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Climate justice campaigner
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Spain has implemented an arms embargo against Israel, showing how it’s done. Every other state that does not follow suit, and which continues to supply arms to the Zionists, must be understood as not only complicit but a partner in the genocide.
September 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
September 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
This is incredible - true to their word, Italian dock workers went on strike with calls for an arms embargo and an end to the genocide in Gaza
www.leftvoice.org/blocchiamo-t...
“Blocchiamo Tutto!” Strikes and Blockades Paralyze Italy in Solidarity with Gaza - Left Voice
Over a hundred thousand people led strikes and protests in 80 cities across Italy on Monday to demand an end to the genocide in Palestine and an end to international support for Israel. Workers shut d...
www.leftvoice.org
September 23, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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I wish this initiative the best of luck

But I can't help thinking that as long capitalism reigns, and as long as there is money to be made, the sea and the sea bed will be in big trouble

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Key oceans treaty crosses critical threshold to come into force
Sixty states have ratified a global treaty to protect the oceans - it will become law in January.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
It is devastating that Umar Khalid, an intellectual speaking out for the oppressed, has spent five years in Indian jail without charges www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘This is their attempt to silence him’: Umar Khalid reaches five years in Indian jail without trial
Held since 2020, India’s most prominent political prisoner has become a symbol of repression under the Modi regime
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The dodgy thinktanks and lobbyists behind Liz Truss’s economic sham are responsible for the ban on Palestine Action and economic policy under @teamlabouruk.bsky.social too

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10 | George Monbiot
Who is running the government’s ‘growth school’ for civil servants? The answer surpassed my worst fears, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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🚨 Activists resisted imperialist insurers—now the state’s coming for them.

🔥 Help fund their defence: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-activists-fighting-for-justice

#Justice
June 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Radical = system change.

So if you haven’t yet checked out All-In, I highly recommend!
all-in.now

@book-all-in-now.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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📣👋 New paper from @sierraclub.org out today! It's been a long time in the making.

It challenges conventional sustainable investing and urges asset owners to confront climate change as a systemic threat to the global economy and long-term portfolios.

👉 Full paper: www.sierraclub.org/systemic-cli...
June 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Oh good god. This bodes terribly. The BBC have been discussing how to win over Reform voters, as if they are a political party not a media outlet that’s meant to remain impartial. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
bylinetimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I can’t get this image out of my head - this is a cell in El Savador’s prison, where Trump deported migrants who hadn’t committed any crimes -

truthout.org/articles/jud...
Judge Rules Hundreds of Migrants Sent to El Salvador Deserve Due Process
Migrants deported under Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act were “plainly deprived…of their right[s],” the judge ruled.
truthout.org
June 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
A powerful appeal for more widespread coverage of the Shell oil spills affecting the health and livelihoods of Ogoni people living in the Niger Delta.

Media - step up ⬇️

bylinetimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
'UK Energy Is on Trial - But You Probably Didn't Even Know'
Brits urged to listen to the plight of indigenous people, whose environments have been destroyed by fossil fuel companies, as 'one day it will be you'
bylinetimes.com
May 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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REVEALED: 💥The insurance companies propping up one of the world’s most lethal arms companies, General Dynamics, connected to weapons ruled ‘controversial’ by international law for causing long-term harm.

🍉 #BoycottBloodyInsurers
February 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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BREAKING: AXA insure fossil fuel criminals Total 🤮 + invest £millions in ExxonMobil & Glencore. Stand with #StopEACOP & frontline communities.

📣REPOST & get help us get our communities to #BoycottBloodyInsurers NOW! ✊
February 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
What will Labour do about Thames Water’s debt of at least £19bn?

Heap private debt on the public only to re-privatise? Or nationalise and protect our water supply in the long-run?

Great article via @freedompress.bsky.social

freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/26/a...
A tsunami is made of many droplets - Freedom News
The mismanagement of Thames Water is not the first scandal of its kind, but when our very water is at risk it is time to stop letting rich people pretend they are best left in charge ~ Rob Ray ~ Back ...
freedomnews.org.uk
January 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Is your university complicit in genocide, climate breakdown and the abuse of migrants? We’re excited to host this online event, with speakers from Tipping Point, Palestine Youth Movement Britain and Palestine Solidarity Campaign.💥Sign up today! actionnetwork.org/events/is-yo...
January 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
In just 10 days the wealthiest 1% have used up their annual carbon budget to keep within 1.5C global warming (although this is most likely locked in). The poorest 50% would use up theirs in 1,022 days - or nearly 3 years.

Data from @oxfamgb.bsky.social www.ecowatch.com/wealthiest-p...
Wealthiest 1% Have Used Up Their Share of World’s Carbon Budget in Just 10 Days, Analysis Finds - EcoWatch
The wealthiest 1% of people in the world have already exhausted their share of the global carbon budget in the first 10 days of the new year.
www.ecowatch.com
January 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Germany's support for Israel's genocide against Palestinians is all the more sickening when you understand the striking parallels with Germany's first genocide, against the Herero and Nama people in Namibia.
January 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I imagine sea-life loss will accelerate when the Meridional Overturning Circulation collapses
Paradise lost...

"We’ve lost the wilderness undersea. It’s gone. It’s a very flat monoculture now and that’s as a result of pollution.”

theecologist.org/2025/jan/03/...
Underwater paradise lost
Undersea wilderness ‘lost’ in Scotland’s coastal waters, conservationists warn.
theecologist.org
January 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Just extraordinary! Are we on the same planet?

Certainly doesn't seem like it

Not a mention of the several studies projecting plunging GDP as climate chaos goes through the roof - even societal collapse as soon as 2040

Plain weird

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s economic agenda has all the right ideas – but it’s a race against time to make it work | Michael Jacobs
This government needs to reverse at least three decades of financial woes, and it needs to show progress before its plan gets Trumped, writes economist Michael Jacobs
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Starmer - once the @theguardian.com’s golden boy. Can I hear the liberal pundits echoing Tony Blair in 2016 with Corbyn’s unexpected leadership win: “I’m not sure I fully understand politics right now”?
🚨 Starmer's favourability drops to record low (-41)

✅ Favourable 25% (-3)
❌ Unfavourable 66% (+5)

Via YouGov, 13 Dec (+/- vs 10 Nov)
January 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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"The Global South’s workforce provides a staggering 90% of the labor to power the world economy, yet gets only 21% of global income."

www.science.org/content/arti...
Rich countries drain ‘shocking’ amount of labor from the Global South
Workers in the Global South—from farm workers to scientists—power the world economy but face a yawning wage gap
www.science.org
December 23, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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A group of Palestinians in Palestine and the U.S. have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, accusing officials of breaking domestic law by continuing to send Israel weapons despite numerous “gross violations” of human rights in the past year in Gaza and for decades beforehand.
Palestinian Families Sue US for Sending Weapons to Israel Despite “Gross Violations” of Human Rights
The U.S. “has irresponsibly embraced, ‘See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil,’” toward Israel, the lawsuit says.
truthout.org
December 18, 2024 at 3:18 AM
Hats off to @adfreecities.bsky.social for banning Lloyds Bank’s greenwashing! ❤️‍🔥

A bank that invests💲billions in lethal coal, gas and oil projects can never call itself “green” or “ethical”.

www.desmog.com/2024/12/18/u...
UK Regulator Bans ‘Misleading’ Lloyds Bank Climate Ad
Bank has been bigging up reductions in “operational emissions” while continuing to finance the fossil fuel industry.
www.desmog.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:38 AM