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✊🐷 It's the first ever European week of action against animal factories!

Communities from 7 European countries are joining forces to defend local, small-scale farming respectful of animals, nature & our wellbeing

More about #StopFactoryFarmingEurope on our brand new website 👉 stopfactoryfarming.eu
✊🐷 It's the first ever European week of action against animal factories!

Communities from 7 European countries are joining forces to defend local, small-scale farming respectful of animals, nature & our wellbeing

More about #StopFactoryFarmingEurope on our brand new website 👉 stopfactoryfarming.eu
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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⚡PRESS RELEASE COP30 Closes: Hijacking by rich countries and dire need for peoples’ multilateralism

Now, 10 years since the Paris Agreement and 30 years since the Rio Summit, Friends of the Earth Intl calls out the hypocrisy of rich countries as multilateralism hangs in the balance.

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COP30 Closes: Hijacking by rich countries and dire need for peoples’ multilateralism
The United Nations climate talks have officially closed in Belém, Brazil with decisions made on climate finance, adaptation and the just transition.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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💜✊ En este hashtag#25N alzamos la voz contra todas las violencias que atraviesan cuerpos, territorios y comunidades. Desde Amigas de la Tierra reafirmamos nuestro compromiso con la justicia social y ambiental, y con la defensa de la vida digna para todas. hashtag#NiUnaMenos hashtag#25N2025
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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💣“They say ‘Just Transition, leaves no one behind’. But when you look at the reality, everyone is left behind.” - Zethu Hlatshwayo, South African climate justice activist featured in CEO’s documentary.

Join us for the premiere in Brussels on 27th Nov at 7pm

🎬 Watch our new trailer 👇
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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🚨Le #ToxicTradeTour s’est achevé à BXL aujd, avec un message clair pour Von der Leyen et Bart de Wever :
📢Stoppez l’accord #UEmercosur car il est toxique : pour l’agriculture, la santé, le climat, l’environnement et la biodiversité, les droits sociaux et les droits humains, en 🇪🇺 et dans le Mercosur.
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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🚫 NO to the EU-Mercosur agreement 🚫

It threatens workers’ rights, farmers’ livelihoods, public health and the environment both in EU and in Mercosur countries.

🌱 Today EFFAT joined #NGOs, farmers and #CSOs to demand fair, sustainable and rights-based trade.
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The #ToxicTradeTour hit Brussels this morning with pesticide barrels & green sludge showing what’s at stake when leaders won't answer for trade justice.

🇪🇺 Commission President von der Leyen & 🇧🇪 PM de Wever: will you choose farmers, nature & people above corporate profits? Will you #StopEUMercosur?
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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💥 Next week, on Monday, we'll be right outside as EU trade ministers meet, joining @foeeurope.bsky.social @cncd.be and others in the heart of Brussels' EU quarter to demand the ministers reject this deal

#StopEUMercosur

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🚨 Act now before Europe’s trade ministers meet on 24 November:

1️⃣ Email your decision-makers on stopeumercosur.org/take-action/

2️⃣ Join the #ToxicTradeTour stop in Brussels on 24 November, 10:00, Petite rue de la Loi

#StopEUMercosur
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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⚡️PRESS RELEASE

Hundreds of movements converge in internationalist solidarity as Peoples’ Summit closes

Over 24k participants committed to fighting the drivers of the climate crisis. United, movements advanced the real solutions to the crisis that are built daily in territories.

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Hundreds of movements converge as Peoples' Summit closes
24,000+ participants across hundreds of movements are committed to fighting the drivers of the climate crisis. Movements advanced the real climate solutions.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
#EUMercosur is nearing ratification & it’s going to bring toxins to our tables, deforestation to the Amazon & violence to indigenous peoples.

This is a slimy, dirty trade deal.

Join us in Brussels on Monday for the last stop of the #ToxicTradeTour & show EU leaders what this deal really is about.
November 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Some good reads about fossil fuel lobbyists at COP ✨

Euronews: www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

Reporterre (FR): reporterre.net/En-depit-des...
One in 25 COP30 attendees is a fossil fuel lobbyist, analysis finds
Analysis finds 1,600 fossil fuel representatives at UN climate summit in Brazil, outnumbering almost every country delegation.
www.euronews.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Why aren’t MEPs even allowed to vote⁉️

145 MEPs tabled a motion to refer the #EUMercosur deal to the Court of Justice of the EU. Now, under pressure from group leaders & EP President Metsola, it may be blocked based on a rule with no legal basis.

Let MEPs vote. Let the Court decide. #StopEUMercosur
November 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
We and 95 other civil society organisations signed the pledge for #FossilFreePolitics, committing to:

1️⃣ Protect policymaking from fossil fuel capture
2️⃣ Demand transparency
4️⃣ Expose the access the industry continues to receive
5️⃣ Align our work with Fossil Free Politics

Have you signed it yet?
November 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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ECCHR filed a criminal complaint against TotalEnergies for complicity in war crimes, torture and enforced disappearance. The oil and gas major is accused of having supported Mozambican armed forces which allegedly detained and tortured dozens of civilians in 2021. 👉 www.ecchr.eu/en/press-rel...
November 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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🧵 En pleine #COP30 et alors que Total veut relancer Mozambique LNG, une plainte pénale vient d’être déposée contre elle pour complicité de crimes de guerre, torture et disparitions forcées au Mozambique.
👉 portée par @ecchr.bsky.social
#StopMozambiqueLNG
November 18, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This morning, industry and EU functionaries received a grand welcome to the #RawMaterialsWeek. Grassroots orgs & people affected by mining demanded: No minerals for militarisation! Yes to Life, No to Mining!
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
🔴 Breaking! TotalEnergies formally accused of complicity in war crimes and torture in Mozambique ⬇️

Read the full story here:

www.politico.eu/article/tota...
TotalEnergies accused of complicity in war crimes over Mozambique container massacre
French legal complaint claims the firm paid and supplied soldiers who carried out mass killings first uncovered by POLITICO.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
More than 500 farmers, victims of pesticides, local residents, scientists and supporters shut down a BASF pesticide production site in Normandie 🇫🇷 - a corporation that is a champion in manufacturing pesticides banned in Europe.

More about this toxic export trade 👉 www.publiceye.ch/en/topics/pe...
🔴Inspection citoyenne en cours chez BASF à Saint Aubin lès Elbeuf

Du Fipronil a d'ores et déjà été trouvé sur le site.

👉Communiqué à retrouver ici : lessoulevementsdelaterre.org/mise-a-larre...
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Today, 🇪🇺 #AGRIFISH ministers meet to debate the post-2027 EU farm subsidies policy.

So here are some tips to #MakeCAPWork for farmers, people, nature & climate. Courtesy of 30+ organisations representing farmers, civil society & national coalitions👉 foodpolicycoalition.eu/wp-content/u...
November 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
🎉Great news from Serbia! After decades of civil society resistance, the mining project in Jadar valley has been suspended. Nice to start the traditionally industry-dominated EU #RawMaterialsWeek with a people power win.
Hear from Jadar organiser Aleksandra:
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Lithium in Serbia: People Power topples corporate greed - Friends of the Earth Europe
Amazing news for the people’s resistance against irresponsible mining: After decades of protest by Serbian civil society, the multinational Rio Tinto has halted its lithium exploration project in Jada...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Powerful protests like this one took place in Belém over the weekend. This COP, civil society's voices are united, loud and clear - they can't be overheard 📣✊
#PeoplesSummit #WishWeWereThere #ALutaContinua
Today, we gathered by the tens of thousands in Belém, Brazil, marching together toward climate justice because we know that the only path to a just and livable future is built by the peoples, united in internationalist solidarity

#PeoplesSummit
November 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Not again!? 84 fossil fuel lobbyists were brought by EU countries to #COP30 😤

See the detailed results of the research done 👇
fossilfreepolitics.org/news/eu-brin...

It is time to free politics from the influence of the fossil fuel industry 🔥

#FossilFreePolitics #FossilFreeEU #KickBigPollutersOut
EU Commission keeps oil and gas lobbyists away from COP30, but France and Italy roll out red carpet - Fossil Free Politics
According to new research by Fossil Free Politics in collaboration with the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition, nine EU governments brought 84 fossil fuel lobbyists into COP30 on their official governme...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
“One day, there will be no one left to produce food in Europe if we keep going this way.” – Françoise, animal farmer in Wallonia 🇧🇪

The #EUMercosur trade deal will only benefit big agribusiness and fuel unfair competition for small-scale, family farmers - in Europe and Latin America.

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November 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Today’s vote in the @europarl.europa.eu drives a stake 🗡️ through the heart of the EU's #sustainability agenda.

The adopted #Omnibus compromise destroys key sustainability rules, putting short-term profits over the well-being of people & planet.

Our full reaction👉 shareaction.org/news/europea...
European Parliament sides with far right and dilutes key…
(Thursday, 13th November) Today, the European Parliament voted for a watered-down version of the Omnibus I proposal backed by the European People’s Party…
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November 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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The EP just adopted its position on #Omnibus I.

◾Transition plan obligations deleted
◾More companies removed from scope

This is a huge blow to workers & environmental rights.

✊🏾 We'll continue to fight for corporate accountability and to protect workers' rights throughout supply chains.
November 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM