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Aid cuts:
❌Damage the UK’s reputation globally
❌Take away resources from efforts to eradicate poverty and inequality
❌Undermine commitments to tackle the climate crisis
At a time when global solidarity is needed more than ever, the UK's decision exposes us all to more harm.
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Increasing military spending will create more global instability – and inequality – by pouring more of the taxpayers money into the pockets of arms companies profiteering from war, and away from the people who need it most.
More in our quote for @newint.bsky.social: newint.org/military/202...
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The aid budget cut further exposes the priorities of the UK government.
The UK is already supplying weapons to Israel while it commits genocide against the Palestinian people and illegally occupies their territory – all of which violates international law.
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Alaa has served his sentence, but is still being held by the Egyptian government.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised to do all he could - so he must urgently intervene and press Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to #FreeAlaa.
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Argentine President Milei is encouraging corporations and billionaires to extract resources from Patagonia - by displacing the Mapuche and damaging the environment.
Read about how the extractivism happening in Patagonia, and the criminalisation of local activists, in our 🧵
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Israel's systematic torture and ill-treatment of Palestinians amounts to a war crime, but Israel keeps getting away with it.
Tell the UK government to take action to stop Israel's abuse of Palestinians now: secure.waronwant.org/page/154112/...
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Israel has used jets to bomb Palestinian refugee camps, homes & hospitals — but the UK continues to transfer arms to Israel.
Demand an end to all UK arms transfers to Israel, including parts for F-35 fighter jets: secure.waronwant.org/page/140088/...
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The UK supplies parts that make up 15% of F-35 fighter jets.
The UK government has not suspended licences for F-35 fighter jet components so far.
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Banning Israeli settlement goods isn't just the right thing to do in response to Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people, and ongoing illegal occupation of their land — it's also required under international law.
It's time for the UK to act: end Israel's settlement imports❗️
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The UK has long recognised that Israel's settlements are illegal under international law, but continues to allow settlement imports like oranges and dates.
This trade sustains Israel's settlement economy — and facilitates Israel's forced transfer of Palestinians from their land.
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We stand in solidarity with the Mapuche people resisting police and state repression, and all Patagonian activists, peasants and local communities fighting the wildfires – and the corporations and billionaires trying to extract resources from their lands. ✊
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By criminalising protests and violating human rights, Argentina’s far-right government is threatening the lives of the country’s most marginalised people, from the poorest to the Indigenous communities in Patagonia and other regions.
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Since in power, Milei’s government has consistently violated human rights, while working for the benefit of billionaires and corporate allies over the wellbeing of the people and the environment.
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Argentina’s government, led by President Javier Milei, is an ally of the far-right worldwide and has strong ties with officials from Argentina’s 1970s military junta dictatorship – which killed over 30,000 people.
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Patagonia is being actively exploited for fossil fuels, and through fracking and mining – and now the Argentinian government wants its rich allies, like UK billionaire investor Joe Lewis, to have access to Mapuche and other local communities' land.
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Why is the Argentinian government criminalising the Mapuche people?
The Mapuche and their allies are fighting to protect their land and homes from corporations and billionaires – who want to extract resources from the land, by displacing the Mapuche and ruining the environment.
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But this is no isolated event: big corporations and the super-rich in Argentina have been trying to displace the Mapuche-Tehuelche Indigenous population for years, with the country’s successive right-wing governments labelling them ‘terrorists’.
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Argentina’s national and local governments are now falsely accusing the Mapuche-Tehuelche Indigenous communities of causing the fires, without any evidence.
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Wildfires have been raging across the Andean Patagonia in Argentina for the last few weeks. 70,000 hectares of land has burned, destroying homes and trees. Thousands have been evacuated.
Local communities are tirelessly fighting the fires, while the government has done little.
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Join us to stand in solidarity with the communities who are saying: #ShellCleanUpPayUp!
This isn’t just about Shell. It’s about the systemic injustice that allows corporations to profit while people & planet suffer.
✊Stand against injustice
📌Royal Courts of Justice, WC2A 2LL
🗓️Thursday 13 Feb, 9am
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Shell's oil spills have poisoned water and destroyed the livelihoods and health of tens of thousands of people.
And yet, Shell is refusing to take responsibility. But the communities in the Niger Delta are taking legal action — which starts with a hearing tomorrow.
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Despite the pollution Drax creates, the UK classes it as a clean energy producer, and so gives it tax-payer funded subsidies.
This must end.
We need a transition away from polluting industries, to publicly owned renewable energy, that centres justice for workers.
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Drax burns wood, primary from Canadian forests.
The wood is processed in the US, where the pollution is causing a public health crisis in nearby communities.
It's then burned in a powerplant in the UK, emitting huge amounts of climate-wrecking CO2.
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Peers in the UK House of Lords have backed our demands, as the deal “undermines sovereign democratic rights to legislate to protect Indigenous communities and environmental rights.”
Join the growing movement — take action: secure.waronwant.org/page/159841/...