ORCA
@orca4el.bsky.social
Organisation of Radical Cambridge Activist for Environmental Liberation
No single issue activist group from Cambridge, we organise around influence of ecocidal, genocidal, colonial and fascist actors in Cambridge, UK.
https://linktr.ee/orca_4_el
No single issue activist group from Cambridge, we organise around influence of ecocidal, genocidal, colonial and fascist actors in Cambridge, UK.
https://linktr.ee/orca_4_el
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@orca4el.bsky.social
· Mar 25
We won't let Cambridge University #greenwash ecocide and genocide.
Oil companies like ENI, emitters like Drax, and fossil fuel & genocide funders like HSBC have no business at a climate and nature conference.
The UNEP's Nature Action Dialogue is a sham – so today we disrupted business as usual.
Oil companies like ENI, emitters like Drax, and fossil fuel & genocide funders like HSBC have no business at a climate and nature conference.
The UNEP's Nature Action Dialogue is a sham – so today we disrupted business as usual.
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People are already doing what you say they *should be* doing. You could join them.
November 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
People are already doing what you say they *should be* doing. You could join them.
Come and join us this Friday (28th November) outside the Entopia building, home of the Cambridge Institute for "Sustainability" leadership.
While CISL talks a big game about sustainability they continue to work with some of the largest and most violent corporations in the world.
While CISL talks a big game about sustainability they continue to work with some of the largest and most violent corporations in the world.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Come and join us this Friday (28th November) outside the Entopia building, home of the Cambridge Institute for "Sustainability" leadership.
While CISL talks a big game about sustainability they continue to work with some of the largest and most violent corporations in the world.
While CISL talks a big game about sustainability they continue to work with some of the largest and most violent corporations in the world.
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This weekend, the UK Government published its new Critical Minerals Strategy.
Mining affected communities have spoken out against this strategy, saying it will fuel global injustices.
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/uk-c...
Mining affected communities have spoken out against this strategy, saying it will fuel global injustices.
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/uk-c...
UK Critical Minerals Strategy will fuel global injustices, say communities - London Mining Network
London Mining Network - Holding the Mining Industry to Account
londonminingnetwork.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
This weekend, the UK Government published its new Critical Minerals Strategy.
Mining affected communities have spoken out against this strategy, saying it will fuel global injustices.
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/uk-c...
Mining affected communities have spoken out against this strategy, saying it will fuel global injustices.
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/11/uk-c...
With the recent escalation of atrocities in Sudan, we've been looking at CISL's links to the UAE. We didn't have to look far.
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
With the recent escalation of atrocities in Sudan, we've been looking at CISL's links to the UAE. We didn't have to look far.
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#SundayWisdom Don't talk to the blue-bibbed Police Liaison Officers if you're at a protest, no matter how hard they try to "chat". They're intelligence gatherers
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#SundayWisdom Don't talk to the blue-bibbed Police Liaison Officers if you're at a protest, no matter how hard they try to "chat". They're intelligence gatherers
Zine rejigging session
Sunday 23 November 10:30am-1pm
The Lockon
Have you read our zine Bad Environmentalisms?
Well, we’re remaking it. Come with us for a fun meta-textual crafty adventure!
You can read it at orca4el.com/zine-2025
Sunday 23 November 10:30am-1pm
The Lockon
Have you read our zine Bad Environmentalisms?
Well, we’re remaking it. Come with us for a fun meta-textual crafty adventure!
You can read it at orca4el.com/zine-2025
November 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Zine rejigging session
Sunday 23 November 10:30am-1pm
The Lockon
Have you read our zine Bad Environmentalisms?
Well, we’re remaking it. Come with us for a fun meta-textual crafty adventure!
You can read it at orca4el.com/zine-2025
Sunday 23 November 10:30am-1pm
The Lockon
Have you read our zine Bad Environmentalisms?
Well, we’re remaking it. Come with us for a fun meta-textual crafty adventure!
You can read it at orca4el.com/zine-2025
On Saturday 25th October a group from ORCA went to London for the annual United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) march.
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
On Saturday 25th October a group from ORCA went to London for the annual United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) march.
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY IS NOT THE FIRST, NOR WILL IT BE THE LAST
Since the EHRC put out their (now-retracted) interim guidance, several uni societies and sports clubs have jumped the gun in implementing measures excluding us from participation.
WE MUST RESIST HATE THROUGH ACTION
Since the EHRC put out their (now-retracted) interim guidance, several uni societies and sports clubs have jumped the gun in implementing measures excluding us from participation.
WE MUST RESIST HATE THROUGH ACTION
October 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY IS NOT THE FIRST, NOR WILL IT BE THE LAST
Since the EHRC put out their (now-retracted) interim guidance, several uni societies and sports clubs have jumped the gun in implementing measures excluding us from participation.
WE MUST RESIST HATE THROUGH ACTION
Since the EHRC put out their (now-retracted) interim guidance, several uni societies and sports clubs have jumped the gun in implementing measures excluding us from participation.
WE MUST RESIST HATE THROUGH ACTION
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Good night everyone. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.
![“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.
[...]
There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it. I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate. [...]” --Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6tr6tuzlx2db3rduzr2d6r24/bafkreia7abvxxu23nuszlxdcjcjvyzlayircvy7gj3ko7f35zpdtli4fga@jpeg)
October 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Good night everyone. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.
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The University of Cambridge, rather than resisting the ongoing, nationwide campaign of exclusion & marginalisation of trans people in accordance with its professed principles of equality, diversity & inclusion has chosen to advance it through the shameful intimidation of undergrad student committees
October 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The University of Cambridge, rather than resisting the ongoing, nationwide campaign of exclusion & marginalisation of trans people in accordance with its professed principles of equality, diversity & inclusion has chosen to advance it through the shameful intimidation of undergrad student committees
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This continues a now well-established pattern in which the University of Cambridge pretends to stand for intellectual exchange, democracy, and equality - but engages with its own students and staff through lies, deception, and threats.
October 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This continues a now well-established pattern in which the University of Cambridge pretends to stand for intellectual exchange, democracy, and equality - but engages with its own students and staff through lies, deception, and threats.
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The exclusion of trans people from rowing in Cambridge is only one moment in a national attempt to segregate us from the rest of society. It did not start here and will not stop here.
October 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The exclusion of trans people from rowing in Cambridge is only one moment in a national attempt to segregate us from the rest of society. It did not start here and will not stop here.
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TLC AND FRIENDS DISRUPT CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE
Here's our statement:
Today we disrupted the University IVs Regatta races, preventing most of the boats from competing. By putting out an inflatable boat into the water for the duration of the racing afternoon, we left rowers unable to race.
Here's our statement:
Today we disrupted the University IVs Regatta races, preventing most of the boats from competing. By putting out an inflatable boat into the water for the duration of the racing afternoon, we left rowers unable to race.
October 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
TLC AND FRIENDS DISRUPT CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE
Here's our statement:
Today we disrupted the University IVs Regatta races, preventing most of the boats from competing. By putting out an inflatable boat into the water for the duration of the racing afternoon, we left rowers unable to race.
Here's our statement:
Today we disrupted the University IVs Regatta races, preventing most of the boats from competing. By putting out an inflatable boat into the water for the duration of the racing afternoon, we left rowers unable to race.
NO ARMS NO OIL NO EMPIRE
On Friday 24th October a group of activists representing ORCA tagged the office of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), the University of Cambridge’s premier greenwashing operation.
On Friday 24th October a group of activists representing ORCA tagged the office of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), the University of Cambridge’s premier greenwashing operation.
October 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
NO ARMS NO OIL NO EMPIRE
On Friday 24th October a group of activists representing ORCA tagged the office of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), the University of Cambridge’s premier greenwashing operation.
On Friday 24th October a group of activists representing ORCA tagged the office of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), the University of Cambridge’s premier greenwashing operation.
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Today is International Day of Action on Big Biomass, we're joining @environmentalpaper.bsky.social @stopburningtrees.bsky.social & groups globally to call on governments to Cut Subsidies Not Forests. Take action: tinyurl.com/yz8p2rxx #CutSubsidiesNotForests #AxeDrax #BigBadBiomass #StopBurningTrees
October 21, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Today is International Day of Action on Big Biomass, we're joining @environmentalpaper.bsky.social @stopburningtrees.bsky.social & groups globally to call on governments to Cut Subsidies Not Forests. Take action: tinyurl.com/yz8p2rxx #CutSubsidiesNotForests #AxeDrax #BigBadBiomass #StopBurningTrees
Trump's mining craze has been in the headlines for a while. But less known are the structures that enables mining corporation to evade public scrutiny.
We wanted to go back on CISL's links to this mining project.
We wanted to go back on CISL's links to this mining project.
October 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Trump's mining craze has been in the headlines for a while. But less known are the structures that enables mining corporation to evade public scrutiny.
We wanted to go back on CISL's links to this mining project.
We wanted to go back on CISL's links to this mining project.
This is a bad take that doesn't take into account how neocolonialism works. See green extractivism in Congo, Chile, etc. See the Xlinks project to extract solar energy from West Sahara to the UK.
One of the less understood beauties of a transition to a renewable economy is: you cannot invade a country and steal its sunshine and its wind, and you will not need to. The uneven distribution of fossil fuel, esp. oil, has corroded geopolitics for more than a century....
Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.
She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.
She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.
October 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
This is a bad take that doesn't take into account how neocolonialism works. See green extractivism in Congo, Chile, etc. See the Xlinks project to extract solar energy from West Sahara to the UK.
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🔍 Our new research with @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social
shines light on the dirtiest mining companies.
❌ Dispossessing people of their land
❌ Polluting land + rivers
❌ Causing deadly disasters
❌ Association w/ militarisation, conflict + human rights abuses
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/10/tran...
shines light on the dirtiest mining companies.
❌ Dispossessing people of their land
❌ Polluting land + rivers
❌ Causing deadly disasters
❌ Association w/ militarisation, conflict + human rights abuses
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/10/tran...
October 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🔍 Our new research with @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social
shines light on the dirtiest mining companies.
❌ Dispossessing people of their land
❌ Polluting land + rivers
❌ Causing deadly disasters
❌ Association w/ militarisation, conflict + human rights abuses
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/10/tran...
shines light on the dirtiest mining companies.
❌ Dispossessing people of their land
❌ Polluting land + rivers
❌ Causing deadly disasters
❌ Association w/ militarisation, conflict + human rights abuses
londonminingnetwork.org/2025/10/tran...
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I just signed a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social petition: Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax
Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have just submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at Drax, powered by burning millions of trees.
The Government recently de...
actionnetwork.org
October 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I just signed a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social petition: Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
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“We’re living in a sacrifice zone. Anglo American has polluted the water and the air we breathe.”
Glad to see this article published and shining a light on how Anglo American's mining operations are impacting the communities we work with in Chile 👇
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Glad to see this article published and shining a light on how Anglo American's mining operations are impacting the communities we work with in Chile 👇
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Illness, animal deaths and water shortages: life inside Chile’s polluted ‘sacrifice zones’
Allegations of environmental breaches dog Anglo American’s mining operations. Now the company has been given the go-ahead for plans that communities say risk disaster
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
“We’re living in a sacrifice zone. Anglo American has polluted the water and the air we breathe.”
Glad to see this article published and shining a light on how Anglo American's mining operations are impacting the communities we work with in Chile 👇
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Glad to see this article published and shining a light on how Anglo American's mining operations are impacting the communities we work with in Chile 👇
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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🚨 REFORM. DISTRUPTED. 🚨
Tax Nigel's super-rich mates out of existence!
Reform members violently assault Abolish Billionaires activists as we call Farage out.
No amount of masquerading as a man-of-the-people can hide the reality, Nigel Farage is a billionaire-backed, private school, banker.
Tax Nigel's super-rich mates out of existence!
Reform members violently assault Abolish Billionaires activists as we call Farage out.
No amount of masquerading as a man-of-the-people can hide the reality, Nigel Farage is a billionaire-backed, private school, banker.
September 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
🚨 REFORM. DISTRUPTED. 🚨
Tax Nigel's super-rich mates out of existence!
Reform members violently assault Abolish Billionaires activists as we call Farage out.
No amount of masquerading as a man-of-the-people can hide the reality, Nigel Farage is a billionaire-backed, private school, banker.
Tax Nigel's super-rich mates out of existence!
Reform members violently assault Abolish Billionaires activists as we call Farage out.
No amount of masquerading as a man-of-the-people can hide the reality, Nigel Farage is a billionaire-backed, private school, banker.
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Drax probed by financial watchdog - more questions for the energy giant that burns trees.
#CutCarbonNotForests
news.sky.com/story/energy...
#CutCarbonNotForests
news.sky.com/story/energy...
Energy giant Drax probed by watchdog over wood sourcing, following whistleblower claims
The probe intensifies scrutiny of Drax, which is subsidised by bill payers to burn wood to create electricity - an energy source deemed "important" but whose environmental benefits are disputed.
news.sky.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Drax probed by financial watchdog - more questions for the energy giant that burns trees.
#CutCarbonNotForests
news.sky.com/story/energy...
#CutCarbonNotForests
news.sky.com/story/energy...
Announcing our new art project: Stinky Doors
A collaboration with other activist groups in Cambridge to raise awareness in a fun and artsy way about the destruction that SLB brings to the planet and first and foremost its people.
Follow us for more details about this :)
A collaboration with other activist groups in Cambridge to raise awareness in a fun and artsy way about the destruction that SLB brings to the planet and first and foremost its people.
Follow us for more details about this :)
September 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Announcing our new art project: Stinky Doors
A collaboration with other activist groups in Cambridge to raise awareness in a fun and artsy way about the destruction that SLB brings to the planet and first and foremost its people.
Follow us for more details about this :)
A collaboration with other activist groups in Cambridge to raise awareness in a fun and artsy way about the destruction that SLB brings to the planet and first and foremost its people.
Follow us for more details about this :)
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The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.
September 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.
STOP SUSTAINING GENOCIDE: ONLINE ACTIONS
Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership has partnerships with the genocidal arms companies Boeing and Rolls-Royce.
Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership has partnerships with the genocidal arms companies Boeing and Rolls-Royce.
August 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
STOP SUSTAINING GENOCIDE: ONLINE ACTIONS
Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership has partnerships with the genocidal arms companies Boeing and Rolls-Royce.
Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership has partnerships with the genocidal arms companies Boeing and Rolls-Royce.