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People & Planet
@peopleandplanet.bsky.social
The UK’s largest student activist network campaigning for social and climate justice. Our campaigns include: #FossilFree, #DivestBorders and #FossilFreeCareers ✊
🔥 Today, Cambridge University students rallied for Fossil Free Careers!

They're calling on the university to ban, refuse and exclude oil, gas, mining and arms firms from advertising careers on campus!

Will the university listen up?
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
✊ This is what student power looks like!

Students just forced Edge Hill University to take a stand against some of the world’s most destructive corporations - massive oil, coal and gas companies + companies profiting from the detention, deportation and misery of migrants.

Share the huge news!
October 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
👎 Shameful behaviour from Bath University!

Solidarity to students who took action to shine a light on major fossil fuel, mining and arms corporations at their careers fair!
October 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🔍 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...
October 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
✨ BIG NEWS!

We're opening submissions for our next social justice campaign! ✊

Every six years, the People & Planet student network chooses its next social justice campaign - and the decision starts now.

Submit your idea: peopleandplanet.org/about/campai...
September 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
😃 Starting uni this month?

Join a People & Planet campaign on your campus to:
✅ Learn about climate & migrant justice
✅ Build campaigns on campus
✅ Get skilled up on how to make change
✅ Make friends for life
✅ ...Take down the capitalist, colonial, imperialist system! ✊
September 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Want to uncover the ties between your university and the fossil fuel industry?

Interested in learning how academia is used to delay and distort climate action and policy?

Register now for one of our upcoming webinars! 👇
www.solid-sustainability.org/webinar-what...
September 9, 2025 at 7:29 AM
It's simple. 👇
September 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
This October, fossil fuel companies will be attending university careers fairs across the UK...

And we're building a movement to stop them!

✊ Join our online organising call at 5pm on 11 Sept to take part in the Fossil Free Careers Month of Action:
peopleandplanet.org/fossil-free-...
August 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
🔥 MASSIVE MILESTONE!!!

22 students' unions, representing 500,000+ students have backed Fossil Free Careers!

This means:
❌ Banning oil, gas and mining companies from attending student union careers fairs and events
✊ Pushing the university to do the same!
August 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
❌ Right now, the UK Government is pushing to designate @palaction.bsky.social a "terrorist" group.

We condemn this action in the strongest possible terms.

We are all Palestine Action. ✊🇵🇸

🧵...
July 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🎉 VICTORY!!!

Lancaster SU backs the Fossil Free Careers campaign and boycotts oil, gas and mining companies! ✊

📣 Students are now calling on the university careers department to commit to an Ethical Careers Policy!

✍️ Sign the petition to add your voice to their demands! tinyurl.com/3p544kd6
June 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
🎉🎉 WE DID IT!!!

Roehampton is the latest university to back Fossil Free Careers!! ✊

Read all about it! ⬇️
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/roeh...
May 30, 2025 at 7:41 AM
✊ VICTORY!

The University of Roehampton excludes fossil fuel, mining and arms industry recruitment! 🙌

They become the 12th university to commit to Fossil Free Careers. 📈

The demand for ethical careers is growing - could your university be next?!
May 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
🚨 BREAKING!!! 🚨

Solidarity with students erecting a new encampment at Oxford University in solidarity with Palestine! ✊🇵🇸

They're calling for the university to disclose, divest and cut ties with companies complicit in genocide and the occupation of Palestine!
May 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🙌 Our Fossil Free Careers Strategy Summit in Newcastle was a huge success!

✅ Detailed discussions about our targets
✅ Creative ideas to grow our movement
✅ Shared learning across campuses
✅ Big plans for collaborative moments!

We can't wait to get these ideas into action!
May 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🎉 MOTION PASSED: UCL Student Union supports Fossil Free Careers!

After years of dedication and hard work, students have secured a major commitment from the SU. 💪

✊ UCL’s Climate Action Society now demand the university careers service boycotts oil, gas and mining recruitment too!
April 30, 2025 at 8:17 AM
🎉 MOTION PASSED: University of Bath Student Union supports Fossil Free Careers!

💪 This is down to the hard work of student organisers at Bath People & Planet Society. They're putting serious pressure on the university careers service to end all recruitment ties with fossil fuel companies!
April 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
🎉 GREAT NEWS: Uni of Bristol's Sociology, Politics and International Studies school implements Fossil Free Careers!

We’re now demanding the university ends fossil fuel recruitment across all of campus!

Bristol staff, students, alum: sign here rb.gy/vmt0kv

Everyone else: sign here rb.gy/humvsy
April 17, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Amazing Fossil Free Careers Strategy Summit in London! 🙌

✨ Tonnes of shared learning, creative ideas, and the beginnings of new national coordinated action... 👀

Want to get involved?!

🎟️ Join our next Strategy Summit in Newcastle on 26 April: peopleandplanet.org/fossil-free-...
April 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
We're hiring!📣

🤔 Passionate about tackling injustice and oppression?
🤔 Want to develop your skills as a campaigner?
🤔 Want to work for an organisation at the forefront of cutting edge campaigns?

Apply now for our renowned internship programme! 🙌 peopleandplanet.org/about/work-w...
March 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The results are in! 🗳️

Congratulations to Will, Trixie and Poppy - our newly elected student trustees! 🎉

As student trustees, they will be playing a vital role in overseeing and steering the work of People & Planet, ensuring it remains student-led! ✊
March 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
📣 Announcing our Fossil Free Careers Strategy Summits! 📣

🤔 Have we got the right targets? Are we using the right tactics? Are the demands still the right ones? All this and more will be the focus of our campaign Strategy Summits!

🎟️ Register now to have your say on the future of the campaign!
March 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
🤩 Power Shift 2025 was incredible!!

Huge thanks to all who came, including our phenomenal speakers and expert facilitators from across the movement!

The energy and excitement was electric and we can't wait to see these skills and ideas put into action on university campuses across the UK!
March 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
🙌 Power Shift has begun!!!

We're kicking off the weekend with a main panel on Why Migrant Justice = Climate Justice!

If we're to fight the climate crisis and for the rights of migrants, we must recognise these issues are linked and build a movement together! ✊
March 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM