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gilltav.bsky.social
Older than average PhD student, mum x 2, former English teacher, climate activist #makepolluterspay. Happiest outdoors. Political ecology, buen vivir, #juststopoil
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ATTN: If you’re a member of the National Guard or you work for ICE and you’re asked to violate the law or your oath, contact Whistleblower Aid to safely, securely, and legally blow the whistle. You can support Whistleblower Aid HERE: whistlebloweraid.org/beans

What we’re seeing in L.A. isn’t an insurrection—so why federalize the National Guard? Why the threat of using the U.S. military against civilians? We’re not there yet—but we’re closer than we think. Watch this Project 2025 reminder until the end. Then view everything happening through that lens.

WTF? Half? What about the other half? Nonsensical www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Have heard brilliant things about Rachel. Great to hear this positive and energetic pitch 💚🌍💚

🎯 #NeverForgetJanuary6th

I swear every time I see a push notification from BBC news it’s some version of: ‘Reform may have lost an election/suffered a massive blow/erupted into civil war…but here is why its actually good news for Farage’s party’

In Manhattan, ICE officers were forced to flee inside 26 Federal Plaza

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With everything happening in the world, it is a good time to reread Rebecca Solnit’s article. Why climate despair is a luxury - New Statesman A reminder that even after decades of campaigning nobody really expected the disintegration of apartheid & the fall of Berlin Wall - but then it happened.

Netanyahu… you are breaking international and matitime law… you have NO business interfering with this ship or it’s crew! This is a humanitarian mission to take aid into a city whose population YOU are starving! news.sky.com/story/israel...

Ask Brazil- no further drilling in the Amazon. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

The young lead the way. archive.ph/2025.06.06-2...

Trump warns Musk of “serious consequences” if Musk supports the Democrats. It’s unreal. A private business owner will face “consequences” if he doesn’t support Trump! It’s right out of a fascist playbook.

Voters overwhelmingly back tax on wealthy to protect public services A poll commissioned by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), found the public support tax increases on the wealthy and big businesses by a margin of almost two to one - 58% to 28% www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Between fascism and climate change, the latter is definitely a greater threat to humanity. Fascists are liars, and they will always lose (but it might take a while). The problem with the fascist regime in the US is that it's actively undermining climate action, thereby exacerbating climate damage.

If Starmer's government agrees to this, they are dead and buried www.theguardian.com/business/202...

What did we do to deserve this government? It promised change, and many people voted on that basis, in good faith. But the change is from bad to worse. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The state of this

I’ve read The Invisible Doctrine by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and it was an eye opener. It’s helped me understand why politics transfer wealth. Now it’s on film and you can view it, from a few places including Apple TV - but here’s the link to the YouTube offer youtu.be/lc--mVz3n2A?...

This is welcome and long overdue. MPs are now calling on the UK government to ban trawling and dredging in "Marine Protected Areas". It's outrageous that this wholescale destruction is permitted anywhere, let alone in these "reserves". It has to stop. committees.parliament.uk/publications...

This is going to be a great evening on Oceans and Rivers, at The Royal Geographic Society on June 17th. Do please join us. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/5x15-green...

@fionafromkendal.bsky.social interested?

💬 "Whatever sentence you impose will make no difference at all" ⛓️ On Tuesday Margaret, 54, was sentenced to 18 months in prison. She has been released on time served. 💸 There are four Just Stop Oil political prisoners. Support them now: juststopoil.org/donate

"I listened with growing disquiet as speaker after speaker name checked the climate crisis and then offered the same old inadequate half-baked solutions that we've been hearing for 30 years." @hayfestival.bsky.social it's time to do better. Read Mel's piece here: juststopoil.org/2025/06/03/n...

"I have spent each day in custody, questioning why those equipped with the same knowledge as I have do not feel the duty to act in the same way that I do." Indigo is in prison serving a 2.5 year sentence. Read her piece here: theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bravo pour votre engagement. On croise les doigts! On ne s'adapte pas a l'effondrement de la biodiversité; on meurt avec. Nous n'avons pas le choix que de rester déterminé-es. 💪

8 juicy minutes here of Zack Polanski setting out his vision for the Green Party and his stall for leadership. Time to be bold! If you're a member, vote for Zack! If you aren't, why not? Join up: join.greenparty.org.uk

The media want to tell you that 18 year old men are all voting Reform. Well….that just isn’t true. Young men (18-24) are just as likely - and young women are far more likely - to vote Green! Don’t believe the hype. Join the Greens and get behind a real alternative.

‼️Join us on the streets tomorrow! ➡️Saturday 7 June, ➡️12 Noon, ➡️BBC, Portland Place With @peoplesassembly.bsky.social #UnitedAgainstAusterity

Can we make Genocide a crime again? Preferably punished by life imprisonment or death.

👏👏👏 Bravo Merz for clarifying to Trump that while Russia terrorises & bombs civilians, Ukraine only targets military assets.

“The Fossil Fuel Treaty is not just a plan—it’s a lifeline,” said Mayor @mayorofgm.bsky.social Burnham, joining Massive Attack to endorse the call just before a sold-out show in Manchester on #WorldEnvironmentDay2025. This is the moment music, activism, and leadership united for climate justice.

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If like Kier Starmer, you support Israel, then you are supporting Genocide and terrorists. #FreePalestine #KierStarmer #Labour #UK #Genocide

For Merz, the new leader of Germany, to actively decide (just announced by his foreign minister) that Germany will continue to supply Israel with weapons… …means that he has actively chosen to be complicit in war crimes. And Germany is now complicit more than any other European nation.

Highlands and Moray tipped for floating windfarm jobs boom www.heraldscotland.com/news/2521298... See also Floating wind can power UK to net zero davidtoke.substack.com/p/floating-w...

Sadly, the U.S. is a lonely place. No allies. No friends.

There's a wealth of evidence, stretching back three decades, that industry-funded research tends to be favourable to the sponsor. The effects are typically quite large. That's why we have to report conflicts of interest. But this - this is a new & very worrying level of industry capture.

I agree more violence is coming. But I hate the racist undertones of how it’s talked about— implying that poor people will be driven to violent outbursts by tropical heat disregulating their emotions. Global heating is a result of violent capitalist inequalities; that then causes more violence.