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EQUALS
@equalshope.bsky.social
A podcast, bulletin and blog about inequality —and how to tackle it. Deep-dive conversations with thinkers, political figures, activists and beyond.
She survived Typhoon Haiyan at 16. Now she’s telling the world why it wasn’t a natural disaster.

Hear her on justice, loss & damage, and what leaders must deliver next.

Listen to the new EQUALS episode ft Marinel Ubaldo👇
pod.fo/e/355184
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
When Super Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, 16-year-old Marinel Ubaldo watched homes lift into the air like paper & people swept away with nowhere to run.
That moment changed everything for her & it shaped her fight for climate justice.

Full episode👉https://pod.fo/e/355184
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
• 1 in 25 attendees = fossil-fuel lobbyist
• $120bn extracted via ISDS to block climate action
• 308 billionaires = 586m tonnes of carbon (more than 118 countries)
• Their emissions = 346,000× the average person
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
At COP30, corporate lobbyists are everywhere — and the super-rich are locking the world into disaster.
equals.ink/p/climate-pl...
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
#COP30 needs to move from pledges to action.

Marinel Ubaldo calls for:
⚡ A just fossil fuel phase-out
🌱 Real renewable energy access
💸 Climate finance that reaches frontline nations

#ClimateJustice should also be about dismantling inequalities.

Full episode here: www.equals.ink/p/from-haiya...
November 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
New episode is out: From Haiyan to #COP30

Marinel Ubaldo survived the super typhoon at 16. In this episode she speaks about living through Haiyan, the human-rights case challenging big polluters, & the leadership the world needs at COP30.

🎧 Listen now: www.equals.ink/p/from-haiya...
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
That’s your October #EQUALSRewind: Ideas, numbers, and voices demanding power serve people, not the other way around.
Subscribe and catch up on every episode, bulletin, and blog here 👉 equals.ink

#Inequality #EconomicJustice #WealthCap #PublicPower #EQUALSPodcast
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
✍️ 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐠:
𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 (𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬) 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 — Every child deserves a chance to survive and thrive. In this blog Max Lawson explains what it takes to make that possible.

Read the blog here: www.equals.ink/p/reaching-f...
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
📰 𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧:
𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉? — What if the richest were legally limited from hoarding infinite wealth? This bulletin lays bare the case against extreme wealth — in numbers.

Read the bulletin here: www.equals.ink/p/time-for-a...
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
3. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒓 𝒐𝒏 𝑾𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏 — Dr. Sanam Anderlini and Dr. Sarah Ihmoud, unpack what happens when women lead peace and the human cost for the war in Gaza.
This episode explores what real feminist leadership looks like in the Women, Peace and Security agenda.
Listen: www.equals.ink/p/the-war-on...
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
2. 𝑫𝒐 𝑾𝒆 𝑵𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝑩𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒔? — Multi-millionaire João Paulo says he is ‘hacking’ the system using the tools of finance to fight inequality and support social movements like Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST).
Can Private Money Serve the Public Good?

Listen here: www.equals.ink/p/do-we-need...
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
🎧 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐬:
1. 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝑴𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝑾𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉 𝑰𝒔 𝑻𝒐𝒐 𝑴𝒖𝒄𝒉? — Philosopher @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social makes the case for limiting extreme wealth. She argues that too much wealth is a threat to democracy, fairness, and even the planet.
Listen here: www.equals.ink/p/how-much-w...
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
#EQUALSRewind | October 2025
October asked the big questions:
💰 How much is too much?
🕊️ Who pays the highest price in war?
🌍 What happens when private money rules public life?

Here’s the month we took on billionaires, war, and inequality — with ideas that bite and hope that builds. 👇
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
After five years of setbacks, Sarah Finch finally won.
Her message isn’t about easy victories. It’s about persistence and believing that one action can trigger a tipping point in the right direction.

Hear Sarah’s story on the EQUALS Podcast: www.equals.ink/p/a-hopeful-...

#ClimateJustice
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In our latest episode, Sarah Finch shared her the biggest advice from her five-year fight.👇

“Do whatever you can. But make sure you’re surrounded by good people. Don’t try to do anything on your own.”

Listen to full episode here: pod.fo/e/34a9e5
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Privatisation is a catalyst for inequality. In his latest piece for EQUALS, Omar Ghannam takes us inside Egypt’s health crisis, where privatization has bankrupted families and starved public systems.

Catch the whole piece here: www.equals.ink/p/public-ser...
#HealthForAll #PublicServices
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The UN just held its first World Social Summit in 30 years, and the world barely noticed.

As aid cuts deepen and private interests tighten their grip, #PublicServices, the engines of equality, are being starved.

Read 'The Forgotten Summit' on EQUALS: 👉 www.equals.ink/p/the-forgot...
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
It’s not every day a millionaire calls billionaires a moral failure of society.

But that’s exactly what Joao Paulo did on EQUALS. He’s challenging the quiet assumption that extreme wealth is harmless.

If you missed this one, go back and listen. 👉 pod.fo/e/3418c1
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“It’s hard to feel hopeful when the world keeps heating — but if you keep chipping away, something will change.” - @sarahfinch.bsky.social

A reminder that progress doesn’t come from optimism — it comes from persistence.
🎧 Listen to 'A Hopeful Tipping Point': pod.fo/e/34a9e5
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
New episode is out! 𝐀 𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐓𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭

@sarahfinch.bsky.social took Big Oil to court and won. Her landmark Supreme Court case ruling now forces every new fossil fuel project in the UK to face its true climate cost.

Power, persistence, and hope.

🎧 Listen: www.equals.ink/p/a-hopeful-...
November 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
A person in the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than someone in the bottom 50% produces all year.

Same pollution. Different worlds.
But only one pays the price.

👉 Read our latest bulletin to learn more:
www.equals.ink/p/climate-pl...

#MakeRichPollutersPay #CarbonInequality
October 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
✍️ Blog:
Elephants and Giraffes by @maxlawsontin.bsky.social
Max warns that focusing only on poverty hides how fast the top is racing away.
He explores “absolute inequality”: when the richest pull so far ahead, the rest of us never catch up.
Read here: www.equals.ink/p/elephants-...
October 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
📰 Bulletins #2: An Unjust Transition
The green transition can’t repeat the same extractive and colonial patterns; A just climate future must put the Global South and workers at its centre.
🔗 www.equals.ink/p/an-unjust-...
October 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
📰 Bulletins #1: How Trade Unions Are Taking On Billionaires
Billionaires don’t just own wealth; they shape laws, media, and policy.
Trade unions remain one of the last counterweights to that political power.
🗞️ Read here: www.equals.ink/p/how-trade-...
October 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🎧 Podcast #2: A Force for Good
From Ukraine to South Korea, workers are fighting for dignity and democracy in impossible conditions.
These are not old-fashioned battles — they’re the blueprint for survival.
🔗https://pod.fo/e/32fe02
October 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM