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🚨Arrestee support🚨
Support is needed in East London tonight and tomorrow following arrests at #StopDSEI@StopTheArmsFair
If you are available, please call 07946 541 511. You don't need to have done it before.
The Sun paid for a big UK poll on net-zero but forgot to report the key finding
Maybe they didn't want you to know that there's HUGE, cross-party public support for net-zero?
65% support net-zero
19% opposed
+46 net support
+23 net support (Con 2019)
+72 (Lab)
+72 (LD)
Today: @UAL are marking #EarthDay with vegan food, curated by UAL Regenesis 🌱🌎
We resolved to help promote the UAL Regenesis campaign at Annual Members' Meeting 2022, so we're thrilled to see that UAL have highlighted its co-creator Nicole: arts.ac.uk/students/stories/…
ALT A photo of Nicole Afonso Alves Calistri discussing her policy idea at Annual Members Meeting 2022.
ALT A photo of Nicole Afonso Alves Calistri at Annual Members Meeting 2022.
I got the chills reading @GeorgeMonbiot's latest column on the draconian police powers of the new ‘Public Order Bill’.
But to understand how we got here we need to take a step back and look at the way these laws have been called into being. It's a wild story🤯
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While we learn that *every single river* in England is polluted, here is the River Limmat in Switzerland. It runs through the centre of the largest city, Zürich (population: 436,000).
Water Quality: Excellent
Public Swimming Baths: 11
We have been mugged. #WildIsles
The meat merchants of doubt: @Unpop_Science and I wrote about how the meat industry borrows tactics from big oil and big tobacco to deploy lobbying, dodgy science, technofixes, and greenwashing to muddy the public and policy debate about its climate impact.newrepublic.com/article/1687…
*Announcement*
In light of their decision to invite two notorious climate deniers to speak at their conference, I have decided I must withdraw from participating in the CC Forum "Investment in Sustainable Development" event in London next week london.cc-forum.com/
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Simultaneous protests in 50 towns and cities yesterday, but I can't see much media coverage - no wonder activists are forced to get disruptive
If you don't like disruptive protest, blame the media
Please join us for our UK Launch Party if you’re in London on 23 September, the autumn equinox. It will be a nice social with friends and snacks and music and, of course, magazines 🥳 please sign up now via @eventbrite to help us plan: eventbrite.com/e/the-posthum…
In 1973 the Netherlands was hit by an OPEC oil boycott. To save gas, the country introduced car-free Sundays. People took to their #bicycles and they never looked back.
Today, more #cycling means we don’t need to buy Russian oil and gas. #StandWithUkraine️