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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 18d

The planning and infrastructure bill is a "full-spectrum assault on nature protection"

So where are the conservation charities? Where is the resistance? Where is our 'nation of nature lovers'?

Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot

The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Emma Smart @smartyfish.bsky.social · 18d

The nature NGO’s @rspb.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk should be mobilising an army!

Instead they are cowering in trenches with their millions (pounds & members)

We need something new.

A radical, grassroots movement that actually fights for nature.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18d

Over the years, our big conservation groups, once brave and radical, have been taken over by suits: people with an Establishment mindset, who identify with the system they should be contesting. They wheedle and appease when they should be fighting with every legitimate tool they have.

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Citizen’s Arrest Network @citizensarrestnet.bsky.social · 18d

Breaking: Group of women place CEO of Anglian Water under Citizen’s Arrest for one hour outside Coulsdon South Station this morning with evidence the CEO may be committing crimes of public nuisance.

When British Transport Police finally turned up they escorted Thurston away, but did not arrest him.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20d

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Emma Smart @smartyfish.bsky.social · 19d

Top work @nicolacutcher.bsky.social 👏✊

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Nicola Cutcher @nicolacutcher.bsky.social · 19d

Huge news!

Red Tractor = false advertising.

I broke this original story in The Times over 2 years ago…. And River Action took it to the Advertising Standards Authority

River Action @riveractionuk.bsky.social · 19d

🚨 NEWS! Red Tractor ad banned for misleading environmental claims 🚨

A TV ad by the UK’s biggest farm assurance scheme has been banned after the @adstandards.bsky.social found “insufficient evidence” that Red Tractor farms met basic environmental standards.

READ MORE: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Red Tractor ad banned for misleading environmental claims

The Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint by environment charity River Action.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Smart @smartyfish.bsky.social · 19d

YES! 👏

When govt & regulators continue to allow water bosses to pollute our rivers & seas, threaten our health & hike our bills (all while receiving huge bonuses)…

… the people bring justice to those responsible ✊

@citizensarrestnet.bsky.social

www.citizensarrestnetwork.org/press/2025/1...

BREAKING NEWS: Citizens arrest of Anglian Water CEO, Mark Thurston, made in London for Public Nuisance - CAN - Citizen’s Arrest Network

www.citizensarrestnetwork.org

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 19d

The UK should start planning for high levels of global warming — at least 2C above pre-industrial levels by 2050 and 4C by 2100.

"We believe that can’t be ruled out,” said Baroness Brown of @thecccuk.bsky.social, on the risk of 4C by the end of the century.

Story:
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Soaring classroom temperatures harm exam results, climate board warns

Committee calls on the government to plan for rises in global warming that far exceed those in the Paris agreement

www.thetimes.com

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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 25d

WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane!
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...

European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union

Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...

www.euroveg.eu

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Emma Smart @smartyfish.bsky.social · 25d

Someone please reassure me that the apple blossom I saw this morning is perfectly normal & not another sign we’re hurtling faster towards climate & biodiversity collapse

Please?

(Blackberries in June gave me nightmares)

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · Sep 9

The age of warnings is over.
The climate and nature crisis is already here, threatening our food, health and national security.
On 27 Nov, top UK experts deliver the official briefing our leaders urgently need. Make sure your MP attends❗️

#TimeToStepUp
www.nebriefing.org

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Dr Abi Perrin @abiperrin.bsky.social · Aug 18

📣 New post and article on Scientists and Emergency Action 📣

🥼 On the many ways we can take action... and why we're powerful when we do: abiperrin.com/p/scientists...

💬 On how we can support the movements that drive transformation, via @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/how-scientis...

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Emma Smart @smartyfish.bsky.social · Sep 6

Direct Action Works ✊

Which is exactly why our government are so keen to proscribe peaceful protesters as terrorists

My very own ‘terrorist’ husband in the photo ❤️‍🔥

#LiftTheBan
#PalestineAction

www.middleeasteye.net/news/elbit-s...

Elbit Systems factory apparently shuttered following Palestine Action campaign

The defence company's plant in Bristol is reportedly empty in the wake of a direct action campaign by the now-proscribed group

www.middleeasteye.net

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Animal Rising @animalrising.org · Sep 6

"I feel really emotional right now cause I've got people from Animal Rising behind me, literally sitting on the ground holding signs, knowing that they're about to get arrested" - Rose Patterson, live from Lift the Ban at Parliament Square right now 🚨

#lifttheban #democracy

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Emma Smart @smartyfish.bsky.social · Sep 6

@metpolice.bsky.social
Pick a Side
Justice or Genocide?

#LiftTheBan @shabanamahmood.bsky.social

Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · Sep 6

BREAKING: More than a thousand people are risking 'terror' arrests in Parliament Square as resistance grows against complicity in genocide and the Palestine Action ban.

It is clear from this turnout that the public will not be intimidated.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Aug 3

The audio book version of "Scientists on Survival" is now available. It's produced by @bolindaoriginals.bsky.social and you can get a preview including the foward by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social as well as introductory chapters by @abiperrin.bsky.social & @stucap.bsky.social

youtu.be/Sc5yQoigxS4

Scientists on Survival: Personal Stories of… by Scientists for Extinction… · Audiobook preview

YouTube video by Google Play Books

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · Aug 7

It’s going to take more than that.

www.defendourjuries.net

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Aug 6

Let's empty the jails so we can fill them with octogenarians who care about genocide.
Because that's the real threat to society.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Prison bosses make room for possible influx before planned protests across England

Exclusive: Possible arrests at protests against Palestine Action ban and asylum hotels likely to stretch prisons

www.theguardian.com

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · Aug 6

BREAKING

Defend Our Juries website taken down as attack on freedom of speech worsens - blocking access to important legal info for protestors.

This is what happens when the Government uses anti-terror law to silence dissent.

www.wedonotcomply.org <— legal info here instead!

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Jul 23

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · Jul 23

LIFT THE BAN
www.wedonotcomply.org

Watch as this young man explains in 30seconds why the de-proscribing of Palestine Action is a democratic and moral imperative.

This is the reason hundreds are willing to risk absurd “terrorism” charges for holding simple truthful signs.

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Scientists for XR @scientistsforxr.earth · Jul 23

BREAKING: Scientists are occupying the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) in London. They are demanding capital requirements for fossil fuels to urgently address climate breakdown.

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From the action. Photo credit Denise Laura Baker

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Emma Smart @smartyfish.bsky.social · Jul 19

Huge love & respect for the brilliant individuals in civil disobedience against a government who would rather arrest peaceful protestors than genocidal war criminals 🪧 ❤️‍🔥

Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · Jul 19

🚨 BREAKING - 55 Arrests confirmed in London for holding signs to oppose genocide and the ban on Palestine Action

wedonotcomply.org

The UK Government is complicit in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. They are attempting to silence those who expose this complicity.

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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · May 19

"Politicians need to listen to the scientists and stop listening to the oligarchs” - Former Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir David King bylinetimes.com/2025/05/19/c... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @smartyfish.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social @sioldridge.bsky.social @drandrewboswell.bsky.social

'MPs Need to Listen to the Scientists, Not the Oligarchs’ — Scientists Sound the Climate Alarm at Westminster

Chris Packham was joined by more than 150 scientists in a demonstration urging Westminster to start listening to the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change

bylinetimes.com

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Emma Smart @smartyfish.bsky.social · May 20

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · May 19

As the UK and EU carve up fishing rights, I don't give a damn which party gets to trash our marine ecosystems by overexploiting fish populations, ripping up the seafloor and killing vast numbers of "non-target" animals. I just want this orgy of destruction to stop.

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