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Lauren Parker
@lbparker.bsky.social
Movement researcher w/ @mapthepower.bsky.social, guitarist, birder.
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Do you know who your local billionaires are?

We made this research guide to help you get started.
littlesis.org/reports/ever...
December 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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In 2024, we convened a group of 25 workers and organizers across the transportation supply chain. They traveled over 3 days and 600+ miles across Nevada to tour the frontlines of new lithium mining in the US. Watch our new documentary that follows their journey. climateandcommunity.org/nvfilm
Supply Chain Solidarity: Lessons from the Lithium Frontlines - Climate and Community Institute
Workers and organizers, representing different parts of the transportation supply chain, journey across Nevada to learn first-hand about the impacts of lithium mining for electric vehicle batteries.
climateandcommunity.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Revealed: >300 Big Agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation by me and @rachelsherrington.bsky.social has found.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More than 300 big agriculture lobbyists have taken part in Cop30, investigation finds
Lobbyists representing industry responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions participated in key talks at the UN climate summit
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
New piece by @derekseidman.bsky.social, with support from yours truly, on the spectacle of CERAWeek.

Read on to see how the fossil fuel industry is pushing their reckless agenda from the heights of government all the way down to the horses used by cops to suppress climate activists.
NEW: Billionaire power was on full display at CERAWeek, the annual "Super Bowl of energy" gathering that performs key functions for fossil fuel industry power.

But climate activists challenged the conference and its reckless promotion of fossil fuels.

littlesis.org/news/cerawee...
CERAWeek, the 'Superbowl of Energy' - A Spectacle of Billionaire Power to Advance Fossil Fuels - Little Sis
Climate activists flocked to Houston to challenge the energy conference and its reckless promotion of fossil fuels.
littlesis.org
March 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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At #CERAWeek2025, the Houston Police Department attacked climate activists with Mounted Patrol horses.

But did you know that Big Oil helps fund the Houston PD’s Mounted Patrol?

A 🧵 on the Houston PD’s oil-sponsored horses.

(Photo: Luigi W Morris)
March 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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#CERAWeek is the Super Bowl of oil & gas conferences. Hundreds of frontline activists & allies gathered in Texas to show these fossil fuel execs & billionaires that they won’t get away with harming our communities to make themselves richer. www.democracynow.org/2025/3/11/he...
Climate Activists Arrested in Protest of Houston Energy Conference
In Houston, Texas, police arrested eight climate activists Monday as they held a nonviolent protest and briefly blocked a street near the CERAWeek Energy Conference. Protesters demanded an end to oil ...
www.democracynow.org
March 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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We publicly exposed the insurers behind Calcasieu Pass, one of the biggest methane gas (LNG) export terminals in the U.S. Years of research reveal for the first time the insurers backing this toxic methane terminal, which is harming both climate & communities. #StopLNG
www.ran.org/press-releas...
Insurers Revealed Behind Venture Global’s Risky Business - Rainforest Action Network
Investigative work by action group reveal insurers of Calcasieu Pass Methane Export Terminal (New York City, New York) — Breaking through an opaque system, Rainforest Action Network obtained informati...
www.ran.org
February 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Of all the astonishingly brutal stats that have emerged over the course of the genocide in Gaza the one that pops into my mind everyday is that Israeli attacks are the 4th leading cause of violent deaths for kids under 5 in the whole world. Heartbreaking and beautifully illustrated by Mona Chalabi.
November 22, 2024 at 12:38 PM