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🌍Meet your Scottish Greens candidate for the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election.

🙋‍♀️Ann McGuinness is a director of a charity which promotes rural connections, and she is a dedicated feminist and environmental justice campaigner.

💚 #VoteScottishGreens
April 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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#NoMowMay has begun! 🌼

The rare chance to help nature by doing nothing.
May 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Infant mortality rates have increased in US states which have enacted abortion bans following the landmark ruling overturning the nationwide right for women to access the procedure, a new study has found

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
US infant mortality rises in states with abortion bans, study finds
Some states restrict access for women following the overturning of Roe v Wade.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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George Monibot, "We have a Chancellor and. Prime Minister who seem to have no vision at all, except this thing called growth, GDP growth"

"GDP should not be used as a measure of national welfare" #BBCQT
February 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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It's why I'm petitioning for a ban on fossil fuel ads in the UK , to halt these companies so flagrantly greenwashing their dirty reputations for financial gain – add your name now petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...
petition.parliament.uk
January 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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As horrific fires rage in LA, news comes that world has breached 1.5 degree limit on global heating. When will political leaders join the dots & take urgent far-reaching action? Leave all new fossil fuels in the ground & prioritise building resilience - home retrofits, flood defences & much more
January 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Welcome to Britain’s Victorian Christmas, where volunteers in Santa hats fulfil the basic functions of the state | Frances Ryan
Welcome to Britain’s Victorian Christmas, where volunteers in Santa hats fulfil the basic functions of the state | Frances Ryan
There is something inescapably bleak about a nation that relies on charity appeals to fix its social and economic problems “Will Santa find me?” a subject line in my inbox asked last week. I wondered briefly if my niece had moved to email with her…
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2024 at 8:18 AM