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  Not a good start Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling #UK #oilandgas #burnham https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c935yx2z9d4o

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  "Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about." Generation Z is leading, with lots of other environmental struggles too. The right to protest must be protected & there should not be blood. Arundhati Roy on why India is protesting & why everybody must support these movements. #India #CJP #Cockroaches #Protest https://...

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  New paper: "Beyond scarcity? Why abundance matters in a turbulent & unequal world". While both scarcity and abundance can be socially and politically constructed, scarcity has received far more attention in social and political thought. It asks if abundance can provide powerful challenges to conventional environmental governance practices as well as the logic of ‘Homo economicus’ that are increasing structural inequalities, vulnerabilities, scarcities and poor respons...

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  Please consider signing this. Dr Arday was subjected to a racialised witch-hunt. White academics have got away with similar stuff, or worse. Commission an immediate public inquiry to ensure we never see a tragic death like Dr Arday's again #UK #JasonArday https://goodlawproject.org/petition/jason-arday-letter/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=glp_petition_jasonardayinquiry&utm_medium=social_media

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  Weaponising water: occupation & genocide in #Palestine. Please join us in person or online on August 26, 14 CET/13 BST: Registration below With Muna Dajani, Mariam Zaqout & Azzam Ahmad. Co-hosted by Just Water Futures and Academic Solidarity with Palestine Seminar Series #Gaza #Palestine #Genocide #Water #Ecocide

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  My letter to the Guardian: The recent glacial collapse and catastrophic floods in Nepal and Tibet are not 'natural disasters.' They reflect accelerating climate disruption that disproportionately affects the countries and people that are least responsible for global emissions. They lay bare climate injustices and highlight that climate disruption is global, and highly unequal. The UK and other high income countries must step up their development commitments and funding for clim...

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  We are truly horrified by Trump, but a lot of what's happening now had its roots in George W Bush's response to 9/11. This started the forever wars on 'terror', the clamping down of civil liberties and rights, the othering of minorities and the destruction of the rules-based order. ".. The trillions of dollars spent on a forever war: what could that have been spent on? Climate change, universal healthcare, public education. There’s a real opportunity co...

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  “Universities are supposed to be places that question power and hold corporations to account, not give them academic legitimacy.” I've been quoted. Newcastle University is really stooping low here & making a mockery of sustainability. #Environment #ClimateChange #Sustainability #Corporations https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/sep/24/indian-oil-gas-heir-professor-sustainability-newcastle-university-anant-ambani?CMP=share_btn_url

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  Moving lecture from Philippe Lazzarini, former UNRWA commissioner at the Institute of Development Studies today. Never in his 35 years of humanitarian work has Lazzarini seen such blatant violations of International Humanitarian Law, the Geneva Conventions, international human rights & the near collapse of the multi-lateral world order, amidst complicity & silence from powerful players. Over 130 of his colleagues were killed & Palestinians live in totally sub-human...

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  Finally the Nobel Peace Prize goes to some who had a moral compass & has consistently safeguarded international law & human rights & called out genocide. Congratulations #NaviPillay . #NobelPeacePrize Goes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck5yng9zz8pyt

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  Keep your eyes on #India. #Delhi was forced into lockdown because the govt didn't want students and Gen X protesting and making noise about 130 Million people who were stripped of their right to vote. But the cockroaches have persisted, and will continue to do so. #CJP #Protests #GenZ #India #CJP https://aje.news/1yoy6z

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  This is great news. University of Sussex should never have been fined in the first place by the Office for Student and their "free speech Tzar". This is a huge relief for all those who care about gender and trans rights. #Gender #Trans #TransRights https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/apr/29/sussex-university-overturns-fine-free-speech-kathleen-stock

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  It's really high time for sanctions and for suspending the EU/ Israel association agreement. That the @EUCommission has been so weak and hypocritical so far is pathetic. But glad that the tide is turning. #Eu #Israel .https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/19/israel-europe-support-iran-war-orban-meloni?CMP=share_btn_url

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  Indian development at a crossroads - part 2 Join us for this in-person and online event on Friday Oct 3 that explores authoritarian top-down models of development in India and how these are challenged from below. At Institute of Development Studies or online , details below https://www.ids.ac.uk/events/indian-development-at-a-crossroads-part-2/ #India #Development Authoritarianism

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  Nobody from Palestine or Gaza. Mostly authoritarian heads of states. Only one woman. War criminal Blair playing a prominent role. What could possibly go wrong? #BoardofPeace #gaza #USPol #Trump https://aje.news/h2tnmr

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  Melania Trump has the audacity to preside over a historic session on children in conflict at the UN while her husband and the US have been responsible for the slaughter of thousands of children in #Gaza and also just bombed a girls school in Iran killing over 150 children. #USPol #Iran #Children #Gaza #Trump #UN https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/03/1167067

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  Wild that Adam Tickell who once said 'Slay the Neoliberal Beast' is so reluctant to give loans to students seeking to build their futures. #UK #Universities #StudentLoans https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/mar/06/university-vice-chancellor-review-student-loan-a-levels-education?CMP=share_btn_url

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  Happy #internationalwomensday. My hope is that everybody rejects and pushes back against toxic and hypermasculinity, dominant patriarchal and power relations and strives for peace and gender equality. This is the only way humanity will be liberated from endless wars, sexual violence and gender injustice. All genders stand to benefit from more equal and harmonious relationships from micro to macro. And yes, release all the #Epstein files for accountability & to prevent more wars. #IWD...

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  Trump said the US Navy sank an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka because "it's more fun" to sink ships than capture them. Can somebody in the US please section this man? He's a danger to the entire planet. The whole world will be eternally grateful. #Trump #USA #Iran

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  Today is the Persian New Year & it's also Eid. Navroze Mubark and Eid Mubarak to everybody celebrating. Unbelievable that so many celebrating today are caught up in forever and genocidal wars that are leading to so much suffering, dispossession and also socio-economic and environmental destruction. May there be light and peace, and may all those perpetrating these injustices and wars be one day held to account for their war crimes. #Eid #Nawroz

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  Once again the UK's JCVI focuses only on short-term economic benefit rather than on long-term societal benefits. we saw this with Covid 19 too. Kent’s meningitis outbreak was years in the making – here’s why #Meningitis #UK #Health #Covid-19 #Vaccines https://theconversation.com/kents-meningitis-outbreak-was-years-in-the-making-heres-why-278003?utm_medium=article_clipboard_share&utm_source=theconversation.com

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@independent/politics-3e8prsldz/-/a-47yl_AzdR1u3Tr9p61gIZg%3Aa%3A1855170754-%2F0 The depravity and cruelty of the Trump government knows no bounds #Development #Aid #HIV #USPol

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  Arundhati Roy's latest " Iran is not Gaza. The theater of this new war could expand to consume the whole world. We are on the brink of nuclear calamity and economic collapse. .. Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel, and ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource-grabbing, bomb-dropping imperial power and its allies who are trying to bully the whole world into submission" #Iran #Gaza #USA #Israel...

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  The USA was the sole UN member state to vote against a resolution calling for an International day of Hope. Even Putin's Russia supported this resolution. But hope is dead in official US policy, ostensibly due to DEI commitments. Shameful. The US stands alone as a land committed to isolation & hate. #USA #Trump #Hope #UN