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@merrydith.bsky.social

Scientist turned climate activist.

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Hundreds take part at 10 locations in the first day of the National Lift The Ban wave of Action!

Defiantly holding signs across Britain ahead of the judicial review of the Palestine Action β€˜terror’ ban (25-27 November).

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18.11.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4
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Police arrest five over Palestine Action banner on Westminster Bridge The individuals, aged between fifty and seventy-five, were arrested on the bridgeΒ on suspicion of encouraging support for a proscribed organisation contrary to Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

β€œPolice arrest five after Palestine Action banner is hung from Westminster Bridge as pro-Gaza supporters pledge week of mass action”

β€œPro-Gaza supporters”…

The Daily Mail cannot comprehend how Israel influencing domestic policy is bad for everyone.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

15.11.2025 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oxford Extinction Rebellion will be having an event at Carfax in Oxford on Saturday Nov. 15th (12-4pm), Oxford’s contribution to the worldwide β€˜Day of Action’ during COP30 (see below). Please join this peaceful action by joining them to encourage the public to engage with their MPs

13.11.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Indigenous protesters have made their way inside to occupy COP30!!!

instagram.com/p/DQ7sZkBDYvc/

11.11.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 258    πŸ” 96    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5
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🚨 BREAKING: MARCUS WINS DEPORTATION APPEAL

Marcus Decker, who was facing deportation after being handed a prison sentence over 2 years for climbing the QEII Bridge in 2022 with Morgan Trowland, has won his appeal against the deportation order.

10.11.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5
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Petition unterschreiben Support the establishment of a truth and justice commission in the UK

c.org/nB2dqjZQBp

09.11.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jason Hickel: β€œDegrowth will resolve environmental and social crisisβ€œ While the ecological crisis was once primarily understood as an increase in atmospheric carbon levels, it is now clear that the problem is far more complex. This complexity is encapsulated in the conc...

β€œβ€¦β€™green growth’ exists to justify capitalism. It perpetuates the illusion that everything can remain as it is… In reality, ecological sustainability requires moving beyond capitalism & transitioning to a democratic post-capitalist economy.” #degrowth

www.serbianmonitor.com/en/jason-hic...

08.12.2024 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites

Our idiotic and incompetent government has just agreed to pay more than a million Β£ a day in support of the continued destruction of ancient forests to feed the Drax power plant

Pure insanity

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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RELEASED UNDER INVESTIGATION

Hundreds of sign-holders arrested under the Terrorism Act on September 6th have been advised that their bail conditions are to be dropped and they will be β€œReleased Under Investigation” (RUI).

857 arrests were made on that day.

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06.11.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Dublin this morning

04.11.2025 10:41 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 BREAKING: STONEHENGE SPRAYERS NOT GUILTY

🧯 A jury has found the two people who sprayed cornstarch over Stonehenge, plus the person who drove them, unanimously not guilty.

➑️ Press release: juststopoil.org/2025/10/31/t...

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State of Gandhi behind bars with a security man standing in front.

State of Gandhi behind bars with a security man standing in front.

State of Fawcett behind bars, close up from face to torso.

State of Fawcett behind bars, close up from face to torso.

State of Gandhi behind bars from behind with Parliament in the background.

State of Gandhi behind bars from behind with Parliament in the background.

State of Mandela behind bars, close-up from head to torso.

State of Mandela behind bars, close-up from head to torso.

🚨BREAKING: Activists have imprisoned DANGEROUS TERRORISTS Mandela, Gandhi, and Millicent Fawcett statues in Parliament Square.

They've been placed behind bars to expose the UK's extreme crackdown on protest.

The heroes the government celebrates would be imprisoned today under their extreme laws.

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More than a dozen Palestine Action protests planned next month despite ban on group More than 2,100 people have already been arrested under terrorism laws for flouting the ban, campaigners say

Protesters against the ban on Palestine Action are planning 18 more demonstrations next month…

[thousands have been] arrested after holding handwritten cardboard signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”.

news.sky.com/story/more-t...

28.10.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Welsh arms company Militec needs to see some loud & angry protests…. Free Sudan!

30.10.2025 09:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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LOCATIONS ANNOUNCED

In what is set to be the β€œmost widespread mass civil disobedience in modern British history” actions will take place in dozens of towns and cities, defying the β€˜terror’ ban on Palestine Action ahead of and during the judicial review (25–27 November)

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28.10.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Oxford City Walkabout TBD

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26.10.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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No charges over images of Trump and Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle during president's visit Political campaign group Led By Donkeys said it was behind the nine-minute projection sequence.

Well, well, what a surprise. news.sky.com/story/no-cha...

22.10.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dayum, professor and economist Jeffrey Sachs minces no words!

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King of the Dead #1-2: Postapocalyptic mythological horror The Once and Future King returns, and London is falling...

King of the Dead #1-2: Postapocalyptic mythological horror
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lou...

20.10.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hyperscale data centres will 'turbocharge emissions' Planned obsolescence: why fast-tracking data centres through the planning system is a disaster in waiting.

Planned obsolescence: why fast-tracking data centres through the planning system is a disaster in waiting.

theecologist.org/2025/oct/14/...

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British.

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REQUIEM FOR PROTEST
YouTube video by Page75 Investigates REQUIEM FOR PROTEST

REQUIEM FOR PROTEST is a piece we created from footage of the recent "Lift The Ban" protest in Trafalgar Square. The requiem music is accompanied by words from politicians past and present. We did not heed their warnings in 1999, will we heed their warnings today? www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3xf...

13.10.2025 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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National security threatened by climate crisis, UK defence chiefs due to warn Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published The UK’s national security is under severe threat from the climate crisis and the looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages and economic disaster potentially just years away, a powerful report by the UK’s defence chiefs is due to warn. However, the report, which was supposed to launch tomorrow at a landmark event in London, has been delayed, and concerns have been expressed to the Guardian that it may not now be published. Continue reading...

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK defence chiefs due to warn

08.10.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 9
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Right to protest is under sustained attack in the west, report finds Counter-terror laws being β€˜weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says FIDH

BREAKING: Right to protest is under sustained attack in the west, report finds

Counter-terror laws being β€˜weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says International Federation for Human Rights

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

14.10.2025 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The rich are growing wealthier πŸ€‘πŸ€‘ at the expense of our people and the planet 🌎 It's time for fair taxes. Time for historical polluters to pay up. Time to stop pushing loans as climate finance. We need real solutions that put people & planet FIRST.
#JustTransitionNow #StopTheHarm

14.10.2025 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hamas hits out at BBC - saying it is spreading 'misinformation' and 'false narratives' Of course, Hamas is not the first group to accuse the BBC of this. Multiple reports have documented the broadcaster's pro-Israel bias

Hamas hits out at the BBC - saying it is spreading 'misinformation' and 'false narratives'

Of course, Hamas is not the first group to accuse the BBC of this. Multiple reports have documented the broadcaster's pro-Israel bias.
www.thecanary.co/global/world...

13.10.2025 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax Drax, the University of York and the North Yorkshire Combined Authority have just submitted a bid to host an AI data centre at Drax, powered by burning millions of trees. The Government recently de...

I just signed a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social petition: Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...

11.10.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€˜Milan police join protesters against the genocide in Gaza’
#Metpolice please take note

08.10.2025 08:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My brief address at the Spanish Parliament last week, on how capitalism is driving the polycrisis, and how we can begin to align production with democratically ratified objectives.

(Part 2 below)

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