Catherine Rees
@catherinerees.bsky.social
Nature lover, wild swimmer, Green Party City Councillor, passionate about environmental and social justice, school leader, supervisor and coach.
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This is Exeter.
Today and everyday.
Today and everyday.
October 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This is Exeter.
Today and everyday.
Today and everyday.
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Exciting!
👀Amongst all these constituencies predicted to be won by Greens unseating Labour at the next general election, one particularly caught our eye 💚
😊 Happy Days
*Based on latest FindOutNowUK polling.
😊 Happy Days
*Based on latest FindOutNowUK polling.
October 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Exciting!
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Following recent ‘freedom of speech’ rallies, protests and the increase of anti-migrant rhetoric, together with protests outside hotels in Devon housing people seeking asylum, Exeter Green Party has issued a statement of solidarity with those seeking asylum.
September 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Following recent ‘freedom of speech’ rallies, protests and the increase of anti-migrant rhetoric, together with protests outside hotels in Devon housing people seeking asylum, Exeter Green Party has issued a statement of solidarity with those seeking asylum.
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Huge congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social this morning for stepping so decisively into the space the Labour Party has almost completely abandoned, where British voters *should* be offered a genuinely progressive alternative to conservative rule. More power to you in the years ahead Zack!
September 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Huge congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social this morning for stepping so decisively into the space the Labour Party has almost completely abandoned, where British voters *should* be offered a genuinely progressive alternative to conservative rule. More power to you in the years ahead Zack!
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If the Chancellor wants to reform Inheritance Tax, she could start by reforming this 'heritage asset' tax loophole being exploited by grouse moors and wealthy landowners, which I investigated last year: www.theguardian.com/money/2024/o...
Loophole exempts 355 landowners in England from inheritance tax, data shows
Chancellor urged to cancel tax break that uses scheme to register land as heritage asset and worth at least £68m
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
If the Chancellor wants to reform Inheritance Tax, she could start by reforming this 'heritage asset' tax loophole being exploited by grouse moors and wealthy landowners, which I investigated last year: www.theguardian.com/money/2024/o...
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Negotiators in Geneva have two days left to produce the world’s first legally binding plastics pollution treaty. They’re facing problems that look familiar to anyone who has been to a climate COP: on.ft.com/4mH9tds
UN plastics treaty is being hampered by climate obstruction tactics
[FREE TO READ] Conflicting interests are coming to a head as countries attempt to end the scourge of pollution
on.ft.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Negotiators in Geneva have two days left to produce the world’s first legally binding plastics pollution treaty. They’re facing problems that look familiar to anyone who has been to a climate COP: on.ft.com/4mH9tds
Let's call on the UN to ban fossil fuel lobbyists from the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. Companies like Shell make billions turning oil and gas into plastic - so they’re trying to sabotage the talks to protect their profits.
August 13, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Let's call on the UN to ban fossil fuel lobbyists from the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. Companies like Shell make billions turning oil and gas into plastic - so they’re trying to sabotage the talks to protect their profits.
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I'm with the Greens and excited to vote for @zackpolanski.bsky.social - a powerful and skilled voice for nature and human nature!
This is the political video I've been waiting to see.
I have no party affiliations, but if I were in the Greens, I would vote for @zackpolanski.bsky.social
I have no party affiliations, but if I were in the Greens, I would vote for @zackpolanski.bsky.social
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
July 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I'm with the Greens and excited to vote for @zackpolanski.bsky.social - a powerful and skilled voice for nature and human nature!
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⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
July 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
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A study of 113 low traffic zones in London shows the huge positive difference they can make.
🏘️ 600+ road injuries and 100 deaths prevented.
🛣️ No observable change in casualties or traffic levels in bordering roads.
💚We need #Exeter and other towns & cities to benefit from safer streets too.
🏘️ 600+ road injuries and 100 deaths prevented.
🛣️ No observable change in casualties or traffic levels in bordering roads.
💚We need #Exeter and other towns & cities to benefit from safer streets too.
London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’
Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
A study of 113 low traffic zones in London shows the huge positive difference they can make.
🏘️ 600+ road injuries and 100 deaths prevented.
🛣️ No observable change in casualties or traffic levels in bordering roads.
💚We need #Exeter and other towns & cities to benefit from safer streets too.
🏘️ 600+ road injuries and 100 deaths prevented.
🛣️ No observable change in casualties or traffic levels in bordering roads.
💚We need #Exeter and other towns & cities to benefit from safer streets too.
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BREAKING: German court paves way for accountability for global climate harms
In a groundbreaking ruling the court confirmed corporate GHG emitters can no longer hide behind borders, politics, or scale to escape responsibility.
#ClimateJustice
Read @ClimateRights statement👇
cri.org/germany-cour...
In a groundbreaking ruling the court confirmed corporate GHG emitters can no longer hide behind borders, politics, or scale to escape responsibility.
#ClimateJustice
Read @ClimateRights statement👇
cri.org/germany-cour...
Germany: Court Confirms Civil Liability for Corporate Climate Harms
(Brussels, May 28, 2025) – In a landmark ruling advancing efforts to hold major polluters accountable for transnational climate-related harms, on May 28 a German court concluded that a corporation can...
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May 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
BREAKING: German court paves way for accountability for global climate harms
In a groundbreaking ruling the court confirmed corporate GHG emitters can no longer hide behind borders, politics, or scale to escape responsibility.
#ClimateJustice
Read @ClimateRights statement👇
cri.org/germany-cour...
In a groundbreaking ruling the court confirmed corporate GHG emitters can no longer hide behind borders, politics, or scale to escape responsibility.
#ClimateJustice
Read @ClimateRights statement👇
cri.org/germany-cour...
Thank you @righttoroam.bsky.social @thestarsareous.uk for fighting for our freedom to connect with nature and sleep under the stars #Dartmoor
🥳A win for all those who want to wild camp on #Dartmoor and those who support the right to do so.
May 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Thank you @righttoroam.bsky.social @thestarsareous.uk for fighting for our freedom to connect with nature and sleep under the stars #Dartmoor
Wonderful news!
WE WON!
The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camp on Dartmoor. This is a huge win for access to nature.
But we're just getting started.
It was never just about Dartmoor.
We’re fighting to extend the right to roam, swim, and sleep under the stars - across all of England.
The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camp on Dartmoor. This is a huge win for access to nature.
But we're just getting started.
It was never just about Dartmoor.
We’re fighting to extend the right to roam, swim, and sleep under the stars - across all of England.
May 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Wonderful news!
We have tripled the number of Green County Councillors in Devon ... congratulations to all 💚
💪 HUGE congratulations to Devon Greens for going from 2 to 6 councillors on Devon County Council!
May 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We have tripled the number of Green County Councillors in Devon ... congratulations to all 💚
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Today we welcome @zackpolanski.bsky.social deputy leader of the Green Party to #Exeter
He'll find us in buoyant mood. After the local elections on Thursday we expect to have more Devon County councillors than ever before and more than Labour.
He'll find us in buoyant mood. After the local elections on Thursday we expect to have more Devon County councillors than ever before and more than Labour.
April 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Today we welcome @zackpolanski.bsky.social deputy leader of the Green Party to #Exeter
He'll find us in buoyant mood. After the local elections on Thursday we expect to have more Devon County councillors than ever before and more than Labour.
He'll find us in buoyant mood. After the local elections on Thursday we expect to have more Devon County councillors than ever before and more than Labour.
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We are standing in every division in #Exeter in the Devon County Council elections on 1st May.
#VoteGreen #GetGreensElected
Read about your candidate here: exeter.greenparty.org.uk/home/county-...
#VoteGreen #GetGreensElected
Read about your candidate here: exeter.greenparty.org.uk/home/county-...
April 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
We are standing in every division in #Exeter in the Devon County Council elections on 1st May.
#VoteGreen #GetGreensElected
Read about your candidate here: exeter.greenparty.org.uk/home/county-...
#VoteGreen #GetGreensElected
Read about your candidate here: exeter.greenparty.org.uk/home/county-...
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✋Let's stop rewarding South West Water for failure.
🚽It's time to flush this failed experiment with privatisation down the drain.
💩With its disgusting record on sewage spills and eye-watering bills this water company should be front of the queue for nationalisation.
🚽It's time to flush this failed experiment with privatisation down the drain.
💩With its disgusting record on sewage spills and eye-watering bills this water company should be front of the queue for nationalisation.
April 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
✋Let's stop rewarding South West Water for failure.
🚽It's time to flush this failed experiment with privatisation down the drain.
💩With its disgusting record on sewage spills and eye-watering bills this water company should be front of the queue for nationalisation.
🚽It's time to flush this failed experiment with privatisation down the drain.
💩With its disgusting record on sewage spills and eye-watering bills this water company should be front of the queue for nationalisation.
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I know there are many trans and non-binary people who will be feeling deeply worried today, caught in the midst of a media storm as they try to simply live their lives. Please know that I stand with you - today, tomorrow and always.
My statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling today:
My statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling today:
April 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I know there are many trans and non-binary people who will be feeling deeply worried today, caught in the midst of a media storm as they try to simply live their lives. Please know that I stand with you - today, tomorrow and always.
My statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling today:
My statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling today:
How is this possible in the UK? Truly shocking.
🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
How is this possible in the UK? Truly shocking.
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Rock Idols: a guide to Dartmoor in 28 tors is out in April. It’s been a joy to research and put together with my husband Alex who has produced some extraordinary and beautiful drawings of the tors. @visitdartmoor.bsky.social @dartmoorac.bsky.social @dpadartmoor.bsky.social @dartmoorcollective.org
January 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Rock Idols: a guide to Dartmoor in 28 tors is out in April. It’s been a joy to research and put together with my husband Alex who has produced some extraordinary and beautiful drawings of the tors. @visitdartmoor.bsky.social @dartmoorac.bsky.social @dpadartmoor.bsky.social @dartmoorcollective.org
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👏"The real threat to our way of life is not arriving in small boats. It's flying overhead in private jets."
💚"Real hope and real change does not trickle down from the top. It rises up."
👀Watch and be inspired.
#VoteGreen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgu5...
💚"Real hope and real change does not trickle down from the top. It rises up."
👀Watch and be inspired.
#VoteGreen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgu5...
We’re taking the FIGHT to REFORM
YouTube video by Greens Organise
www.youtube.com
March 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
👏"The real threat to our way of life is not arriving in small boats. It's flying overhead in private jets."
💚"Real hope and real change does not trickle down from the top. It rises up."
👀Watch and be inspired.
#VoteGreen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgu5...
💚"Real hope and real change does not trickle down from the top. It rises up."
👀Watch and be inspired.
#VoteGreen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgu5...
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A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot
Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...