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Fireweed
@fireweedbc.bsky.social
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vegan ecofeminist writer, artist,
pro-intersectional anti-fascist, pessimistic optimist, Raven’s mom, she/her
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joenoonan.bsky.social
Three minutes. 15 slaughtered. One big lie.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Killing of Gaza aid workers: IDF troops fired indiscriminately for over three minutes
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www.haaretz.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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world-beyond-war.bsky.social
This is for you: the protester, the peacebuilder, the burned-out advocate. World BEYOND War’s Self-Care for Activists is a live, global workshop to release stress and restore energy.
Online Workshop: Self-Care for Activists
Are you looking for a safe and supportive space to relax and release your stress in these challenging times? Please register for our "Online Workshop: Self-Care for Activists" taking place on…
buff.ly
April 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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annieleymarie.bsky.social
Nooooooo! The last thing we need.
Won't run on solar, nor on hydrogen, nor on plant fuel 😧
theconversation.com/supersonic-p...
Supersonic passenger aircraft may be returning – here’s what that would mean for the climate
These planes need a lot more fuel as they experience significantly more drag beyond the speed of sound.
theconversation.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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astra.bsky.social
Listening in on this mass organizing call -- Cori Bush currently on the line

buildtheresistance.org/BuildingOn50...
Mass Training Call: Building on 50501
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
BuildTheResistance.org
February 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.
Jair Bolsonaro charged over alleged far-right coup plot to seize power in Brazil
Former president is charged by attorney general following police report that accused him of organising a conspiracy to stop Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva taking power.
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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aljazeera.com
Authorities in Gaza say Israel is blocking 135,000 mobile homes, 500 bulldozers, and other humanitarian aid promised in the first phase of the ceasefire deal.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: https://aje.io/8eizdz
February 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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npr.org
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been charged for allegedly helping to mastermind far right coup plot to upset the country's 2022 election result.
Brazil's former president faces charges over alleged coup plot
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been charged for allegedly helping to mastermind far right coup plot to upset the country's 2022 election result.
www.npr.org
February 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
fireweedbc.bsky.social
PART 2 of this important webinar coming up on March 5th, 2025 .
Register here:

we.scienceandnonduality.com/offers/r3ofi...?
February 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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aljazeera.com
The Israeli army forced an 80-year-old Palestinian man to act as a human shield in Gaza by tying an explosive cord around his neck before shooting him and his wife, according to the Israeli outlet The Hottest Place in Hell
Israeli soldiers used 80-year-old Palestinian as Gaza human shield: Report
With an explosive cord tied on his neck, the senior was forced by army to scout buildings, and shot dead on his release.
aje.io
February 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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biologicaldiversity.org
The Trump administration today fired at least 2,300 federal workers at the Department of the Interior, including 1,000 National Park Service employees, 800 Bureau of Land Management employees and 400 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees — or 4% of the agency’s entire workforce. biodiv.us/40RNlUk
Trump Administration Fires Thousands at Department of Interior
Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— The Trump administration today fired at least 2,300 federal workers at the Department of the Interior, including 1,000 National Park Service employees, 800...
biodiv.us
February 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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jennifermolidor.bsky.social
Beef eaters finally see that free-ranging beef cattle is a top source of biodiversity loss, methane, land and water use.

So they’ve decided the only option is more factory farmed beef? That’s a false -and terrible- choice, as I explain here

(5th letter down)
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
Opinion | In defense of happy cows
Eduardo Porter and his readers on the environmental benefits of free-range beef.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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declassifieduk.org
❗️NEW -- Our interview with UN special rapporteur @FranceskAlbs

-- 'UK officials must be investigated over Gaza'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fsE...
Francesca Albanese: Keir Starmer must be investigated over Gaza genocide
YouTube video by Declassified UK
www.youtube.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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newint.bsky.social
'For two-year-old Layla Khateeb, there was no time for goodbyes — just a sniper’s bullet to the head as her family scrambled for cover'

Kasturi Chakraborty on Israel's ongoing collective punishment of Palestinians, for the Currents newsletter 👇

new-internationalist.ghost.io/israel-is-de...
In the West Bank, Israel continues its collective punishment of Palestinians
For two-year-old Layla Khateeb, there was no time for goodbyes — just a sniper’s bullet to the head as her family scrambled for cover during an Israeli military raid on Muthallath Al-Shuhada village i...
new-internationalist.ghost.io
February 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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nickdearden.bsky.social
The destruction of USAID by a multibillionaire is sickening. We must build something better👇

‘the global south must realize that the prosperity of their people lies not in the the White House, but in their own agency, development and self-reliance’

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
US aid cuts are an opportunity to reimagine global health
The global south should become self-reliant by investing in health.
www.nature.com
February 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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emilialeese.bsky.social
Got yours? If you're in the UK, Think Like A Vegan is now available from any bookshop. Paris? @shakespeareandcompany.com. Ireland? Argosy, @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social, @waterstones.bsky.social & @omahonysbooks.bsky.social. Helsinki at Akatamineen. Sweden at Adlibris @& at Homer Kitabevi in Turkey
February 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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annieleymarie.bsky.social
A new study shows that a vegan diet is better than any other diet for greenhouse gas emissions & land use in Ireland - as per similar results found in all other Global North countries (and most of the world). In Ireland it's also third best for water use.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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gregpak.net
Musk killed these people.
February 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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seannestor.bsky.social
"Trump is parroting the views of Israeli right-wing politicians. They want to build Jewish settlements in Gaza by “voluntary” repatriation of Gazans to other Arab countries.

Egypt and Jordan have rejected the proposal. In common parlance Trump’s proposal is nothing more than ethnic cleansing."
Hussain: Gaza is a genocide followed by possible ethnic cleansing
After 15 months of relentless bombing of the Gaza strip in which much of Gaza was reduced to rubble and close to 50,000 civilians lay dead, Israel has ...
www.toledoblade.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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seannestor.bsky.social
History Summarized: Ireland
YouTube video by Overly Sarcastic Productions
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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filiacharity.bsky.social
'Religion is an idea like any other, and it’s a bad one at that. If Women’s rights are your concern, then Feminism is a much better idea.' @maryamnamazie.bsky.social

freethinker.co.uk/2024/11/femi...

#WomensRights
Feminism and religion are incompatible - The Freethinker
This is an edited version of Maryam Namazie’s contribution to a Cambridge Union debate: ‘This House Believes Feminism…
freethinker.co.uk
November 22, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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rahilag.bsky.social
Please read this great piece by @natashawalter.bsky.social on an unparalleled feminist revolution in Syria and circulate widely
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
‘Woman, life, freedom’: the Syrian feminists who forged a new world in a land of war
In a society riven by conflict and misogyny, the autonomous region of Rojava has a government with perhaps the most complete gender equality in the world
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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ecofeministvoices.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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ecofeministvoices.bsky.social
Handwritten sign being held up at a protest. Sign says: "You know what also DIED in GAZA? The myth of western HUMANITY & DEMOCRACY"
November 24, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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world-beyond-war.bsky.social
The world’s conflict zones have exploded by 65% in just 3 years—nearly double the size of India. As wars spread, economies collapse, famine spreads, and education and healthcare fall into crisis. This is the cost of war. https://buff.ly/3YXbXdu
November 24, 2024 at 2:02 PM