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🚨BREAKING - Steve Reed has just launched the biggest review into the water sector since privatisation. But wait…..he says the commission can’t even consider public ownership. 🤯 We need to act quickly to change his mind. ⏰ Sign our petition now ✍️ weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...

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This morning I'm at the launch of the new "Growth Plan." Labour are getting it badly wrong. 👇🏼

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

We don’t care whether it’s Starmer, Farage or Trump. We demand aid instead of grenades. Sign up and help us make that happen.

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Short notice but this looks great - wish I could make it: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

April is looking v scary with the energy price cap increasing by 6.4%, and a huge suite of other bills about to increase too: water council tax, social rents. Private rents are also still soaring (up ~9% on last year). All the while benefits are only increasing by 1.7% and LHA stays frozen Dire

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

If you are a ‘progressive activist’ or organiser trying to make social change, rather than worrying about this thread (some of which is wrong) I would recommend reading about the history, strategy and tactics of previous successful (and unsuccessful) social movements and campaigners. (1/)

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Someone sent this to me. I appreciate the way this person lays out information: www.youtube.com/watch?v=swxX...

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

This is gorgeous

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I used to live around the corner from the Stonewall Memorial when I lived in NYC, and I am outraged at this act of trans erasure. You can register your disgust as well by going to www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm and clicking on "How can we improve this page". Solidarity forever with our trans siblings.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this

submitted 15 days ago • 98 comments

Amazing result, and one which shows that people want major change from the damage of the Labour/Tory austerity consensus. Vote Green 💚

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With >10% unemployment and a devastating housing crisis, what is really to be envied here? Metrics like GDP growth mean very little to real people - instead we should be focusing on full employment in good jobs and eradication of poverty. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Just FYI as I haven’t seen this shared here in a while: if you add this feed to your bluesky, you get a nice list of all the gift links that people have shared on here to bypass a whole bunch of paywalled articles bsky.app/profile/did:...

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It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

submitted 24 days ago • 98 comments

Heathrow expansion means construction and more carbon emissions and then more flights and even more carbon emissions. Sustainable aviation is a mirage. But there is economic activity that will make our lives better: - warmer homes - accessible public transport - renewable energy Priorities 🤷‍♀️

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Is your workplace getting rid of "DEI" programs? You can still hold leadership accountable for fostering an inclusive workplace if you form a union.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting new report from @cmmonwealth.bsky.social showing higher levels of support for community-owned energy projects than for privately-owned projects in the UK.

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

We need people who can tell compelling stories about all the amazing work that the @greenparty.org.uk is doing in the London Assembly; please share the job posting far and wide and consider applying if that's you!

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I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once: - Things are going to get worse, no matter what - The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org

submitted 43 days ago • 184 comments

This is so important, please consider signing! Losing our grassroots music venues will rip out some hugely important parts of our communities, so we must fight to save them.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

submitted 43 days ago • 175 comments

We mutter a lot about housing in the UK. BUT IT'S 44% MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE OECD AVERAGE. www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

submitted 47 days ago • 21 comments

one material thing we can do is to donate to mutual aid collectives like the Sameer Project, which has been providing tents, blankets, medical aid, and cash aid to people who have been displaced: chuffed.org/project/1132...

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

Amazing piece full of good advice, including emphasising the need for hope in organising. And this: “We show up for each other by taking consistent action. Small acts done with care are cumulative when added to others’ acts. Jump in how and where you can.”

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#SlowWays founder @danravenellison.bsky.social on @matthew-wright.bsky.social's @lbc.co.uk show this morning, making the case for being able to walk to school, work, friends or the pub without risking your life. Listen to the broadcast globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/... from 11:05:02 Thread 🧵/1

submitted 63 days ago • 5 comments

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that streets can’t be vibrant places to foster friendships and connect with neighbours. But as Donald Appleyard illustrated many decades ago, the volume & speed of traffic, and the overall design of the streets, are absolute social life dealbreakers. #StickyStreets

submitted 67 days ago • 10 comments

If you want to know what a truly brave woman looks like when speaking on transgender issues, look no further than Sandi.

submitted 69 days ago • 29 comments

"co-ops are a living, breathing thing - not a relic of the past." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Wow, solidarity with striking Amazon workers in NYC and across the US. This is how you know you’re winning 💪🏻

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Great 🧵 from @greenmattbfd.bsky.social on why providing reliable, accessible and affordable alternatives to driving matters. Leaving people feeling forced to own a car to make their daily journeys just worsens congestion and air pollution and leaves towns and cities grimly traffic-clogged.

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

When 85% of New Yorkers say the cost of food is rising faster than their incomes, it's time for a real alternative. Introducing a public option...for produce.

submitted 77 days ago • 6 comments

Writing is thinking. It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.

submitted 79 days ago • 162 comments

Please everyone look at taking 5 mins today to do this

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

In the last six months, our network provided 1.4 MILLION food parcels. This shouldn't be happening. Everyone should be able to afford essentials like food, toiletries and heating.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Continuing the ban on puberty blockers is a worrying decision. The same medication continues to be used safely by young people for other reasons. By relying on the reason for prescription, is this ban simply discrimination against our #trans youth? 👇

submitted 79 days ago • 42 comments

Incredibly messed-up decision targeting vulnerable trans youth. It is frankly disgusting to see this government inserting itself in people’s lives so harmfully and unnecessarily.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

The fatal blow to Bidenomics was the support given by WH to #Fed, once CB started raising interest rates March 2022. President Biden gave his blessing while also ducking his own responsibility to act against surging prices - Prof. James K. Galbraith @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/econ...

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

This is such a brilliant example of how "cheap thing" does not always = 'fast transition' Battery packs themselves are swelling in design size - resulting in excessively expensive EVs (because car companies make more $$ per unit by severely oversizing products).

submitted 80 days ago • 5 comments

I think if you read Brett Christophers the problem becomes why settle for governments promising to buy private power when it could just build public power from the get go

submitted 82 days ago • 3 comments

Amazing images of Syrians going back home

submitted 82 days ago • 4 comments

Super inspiring story of community ownership in Hastings: locals fought to turn unused office buildings into affordable homes. We should be making this possible all over the country www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Starting a public plea to everyone in the UK to make it a thing that we keep holiday lights up until February, like in Iceland: www.reddit.com/r/VisitingIc... Expecting us to endure post-New Year 4-5pm sunsets without a little joy is frankly cruel.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Price isn't driving decarbonisation of electricity supply. Government support (a mixture of subsidy and price stabilisation) is, making it just profitable enough. No support = no decarbonisation. Adam's wrong. (It does happen.)

submitted 86 days ago • 3 comments

Nice nice - lovely positives from Sadiq Khan's rollout of free school meals for all primary school chidren in London

submitted 86 days ago • 3 comments

Absolutely unthinkable that our government doesn't protect community centres as the invaluable resources that they are. Central government must fund them 100% to stop local governments from having to make tragic decisions like these all over the country.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

South Africa's excellent constitution strikes again: The High Court has ruled that the country can't open new coal plants because that would violate citizens' rights to a healthy environment.

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments