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Democracy is more than elections and political parties/tribes. It needs engaged, active citizens who step up to their civic responsibilities - as members of society. Outsourcing them to elected representatives has brought us where we are today. www.ncdd.org/news/josh-le...

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Another phenomenal piece of climate communication, designed to reach beyond the bubble, this time in the USA—created by @nickoldridge.bsky.social (my brother) and Ben & Henrik of @utopiabureau.bsky.social Brilliant work 👏👏👏 Please help by reposting it 🙏👇

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With rising inequality and growing corporate power, @graceblakeley.substack.com reminds us that we can win by rebuilding collective power. 🔗 Read and listen to the 2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood lecture at perspectivesjournal.ca/2025-ellen-meiksins-wood-lecture-grace-blakeley/

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"As long as Bolivia does not have a fully democratic government, these fires will continue to burn...authoritarian regimes disguise their abuse and prioritize short-term gains over the long-term survival of ecosystems and human life." www.journalofdemocra...

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🔥 FT calls for sanctions on Israel. “The Bank of Israel invests about a quarter of its relatively large stock of reserves in Europe, which a freeze would make unavailable for their financial stabilisation function and could in time be put towards any compensation due to Palestinians.”

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🔥 Over a quarter of a million people have now signed this petition. Sign and share everywhere.

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Well said @elliechowns.bsky.social Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction - and by upgrading ours, we send a signal that it’s acceptable for all other countries to seek to acquire them too, making the world far less safe

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The government's #StrategicDefenceReview plans to pour billions more into deadly nuclear weapons production - increasing nuclear threats, thrashing international obligations, and making the population poorer. We need to end this war drive! Full statement: cnduk.org/24631-2/

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The Education #Climate Coalition announce a school boycott of the Science Museum until they drop BP and Adani as sponsors. This boycott is supported by NEU... Schools are asked to pause booking any trips or activities through the STEM programme until the sponsorships are stopped

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Great to see .. every small a action matters

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< We need new numbers’: Comedian David Cross cracks jokes to spread climate crisis awareness > Our Climate Science Translated film has made the @us.theguardian.com 🎯 #Davidcross #Climate #ClimateAction #ClimateScience www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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The owner of the Drax wood-burning power station should be forced to disclose full details of its tree consumption, campaigners have argued, as MPs review the billions in renewables subsidies the North Yorkshire plant receives. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Spectacular! From @climatescibreak.bsky.social a brilliant climate translation with Tobias Funke ahem David Cross and Robert ahem Michael Oppenheimer. I felt that hug!

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Astonishing to see how much of the anti-Net Zero campaign is based on outright lies ⬇️

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BRILLIANT work, Brigadiers, all across this great country of ours! This is how we do it. This is power to the people. This is how we fight fascism 💪🏻🇺🇸 @hcrichardson.bsky.social @jbf1755.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov @stevenfulop.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com #fightfascism

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Good to see mainstream media catching up on Curtis Yarvin. @nafeez.bsky.social has been documenting Yarvin’s work (including his obsession with the ‘n*gro problem’) for over a year - and has written a book about it bylinetimes.com?s=Yarvin

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Are you a student that has written for us in 2024 or 2025? If so, we are offering you an award: Will Hutton Student Journalism Prize! 👇

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Next week is #FairTaxWeek. Join @justmoneymvt.bsky.social for an 'Intro to Tax Justice' webinar! 🗓️ Tuesday 10th June ⏰ 7pm 💻 Online Register for free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intro-to-t...

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We're hearing Clive Lewis might have been removed from the #Drax committee? Why @edmilibandmp.bsky.social? @compassoffice.bsky.social @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @sioldridge.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @dalevince.com @timfarron.bsky.social @pippaheylings.bsky.social

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🆕🗞️ June newsletter of the Citizen Participation Network 🔆 with publications, events and other resources for folk interested in participatory and deliberative #democracy, democratic innovation and the shared governance of public and common goods. Available 👉🏼 www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

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🌿 In just one week’s time, the #GreatBigGreenWeek will be in full swing! 🔍 Join the celebrations and visit greatbiggreenweek.com to find a local event near you. 💚 Let’s swap together for good!

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"History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists who are able and willing to do so will have to enter the public arena ... This is such a time." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Spannend und bedenklich. Deutschland wird hier als Land mit "beeinträchtigten" zivilgesellschaftlichen Freiheiten geführt, u.a. aufgrund seines harten Umgangs mit Klimaprotesten. Damit ist es übrigens in derselben Kategorie wie Polen.

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🌿 We want to see #REALChange in our communities—change that delivers the benefits of a nature-rich future and a low carbon economy. ✊ Tell Keir Starmer to give the Climate and Nature Bill an emergency debate in Parliament. ✍️ Sign the open letter today 👉 action.zerohour.uk @zero-hour.bsky.social 🐝

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This is what they don’t want you to see Bottom trawling, a destructive fishing method that drags massive nets across the ocean floor, is still happening inside marine protected areas. It destroys everything: marine life, ecosystems, and our future. We went to the European Commission to demand action

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“On the doorstep everyone I speak to wants to get involved. They want this to stop. They just don’t know what to do.” Read about the activists who built Bristol Apartheid Free Zone, inspired by local resistance to South African apartheid years earlier graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-city-a...

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New "Climate Science Translated" video drops tomorrow! But who is our translator?? 🤔🤔🤔 #climate #climateaction #drillbabydrill @utopiabureau.bsky.social @nickoldridge.bsky.social

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🚨J11 #SpendingReview 🚨 👂@melanieonnmp.bsky.social says #RachelReeves to fund carbon capture in Humber area ❌ #ThinkAgainRachel Post👇 highlights how this is misguided ✅ #ThinkAgainEd - review CCS v. the science 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Ask your MP to support this scrapcc.org/WRITE-TO-YOU... 🎥 scrapcc.org/CCS-FILM-BS1

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We desperately need healthier media environment. @appgfairelections.bsky.social

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🔴NEW:The dark money behind UK's anti-abortion backlash - Key US anti‑abortion lawyer funding Toby Young’s Free Speech Union - Alliance Defending Freedom’s UK spending soars Warnings of “obvious danger” of “importing America's toxic far right politics” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...

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“If the product is free, you are the product” - @peterjukes.bsky.social from @bylinetimes.bsky.social #RadicalRenewal

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Collaborating with the enemy @adam Kahane

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I am sick of both left and right spewing total garbage on this topic -our media/ journalists just repeat these lines. It is diversion we let politicians use to divide society for their own power. Fewer immigrants is not going to improve your life nor community. www.penguin.co.uk/books/455478...

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Tomorrow I’m speaking about all things commoning in Stroud and how this can help create more resilient communities in the face of climate change.

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What's all the fuss about the PLANNING & INFRASTRUCTURE BILL? Why's @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @bengoldsmith.bsky.social & @elliechowns.bsky.social hot under the collar? 3 words: Nature Restoration Fund! Our explainer below & our evidence-based briefing here: www.mpwatch.org/blog/plannin...

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Excellent piece by @catherinedevries.bsky.social on why Europe needs a broader conception of security--that encompasses a functioning social safety net--to meet the complex internal and external challenges of the moment. Human security & human rights. www.socialeurope.eu/to-counter-p...

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My next guest.

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I’m thrilled Dr. @faizashaheen.bsky.social, an expert in economic inequality & leader of moral conviction, will join us as Exec Director of @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social. Spiralling inequality is the crisis of our time. We’re in a fight for our economy, our democracy, & our planet. And we’re gonna win.

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“Israel & Rwanda have become models for how to use past suffering to justify present-day expansionism.” — @nilsgilman.bsky.social, Zachariah Mampilly & @dirkmoses.bsky.social #geopolitics

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The case cites "a well-established set of facts: that the oil & gas companies knew for decades that their products would dangerously alter the planet’s atmosphere, that they continued to produce those products despite knowing the risks ...& they worked to suppress public awareness of these dangers."

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“This is the real face of climate change. Not just melting ice caps and rising sea levels, but families forced from their homes in northern Manitoba. It’s smoke warnings in Winnipeg. It’s the rising cost of fighting fires that burn longer, hotter and more unpredictably than ever.”

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More than 1,000 scientists took to the streets yesterday in Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina wearing gas masks to protest the collapse of science in the country, which they say was initiated by their government. https://go.nature.com/43QWX4f

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Wann werden wir aufhoren Halbwahrheiten und Luegen von Politikern zu akzeptieren? www.penguin.co.uk/books/455478...

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