Fran Di Giorgio

In November, world leaders and key stakeholders from all over the globe will gather for the UN climate talks in Brazil’s Amazon – the world’s largest tropical rainforest.

We're calling for urgent action at the summit to halt and reverse deforestation: foe.uk/jx97g

The same corporations complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine are those roaming the halls of the #COP30.

From the fossil fuel industry to agribusiness, they’re also the same corporations driving the climate crisis and pushing communities to the frontlines

With @gcdcj.bsky.social

November kicks off Disability History Month and marks 30 years since the passing of the landmark UK Disability Discrimination Act. However, astoundingly, despite progress elsewhere disabled people still have no seat at the UN climate talks.

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Exciting new (free) e-learning course on Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DiDRR) developed by CBM Global, the Africa Disability Forum and the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR):
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As a disabled child I felt valued. As an adult I embraced disability justice.

But after a recent care review I’ve felt like a burden to loved ones, my employer and even my paid personal assistants.

A state process leaving someone like me feeling this, is exactly why this narrative is dangerous.

Graphic for the March for Global Climate Justice, with logos of supporting organisations around text showing the name of the March. At the bottom text reads “12pm, 16th November, Great Russell Street, London”

Sad I can’t be there but proud that @friends-earth.bsky.social are joining the #MarchforGlobalClimateJustice today – against fossil fuels, for climate reparations and in solidarity with Palestine. Thank you to everybody taking part and calling for the climate justice so urgently needed globally.

… De Menezes moved towards officers and returned an open verdict, rejecting the police claim that he was lawfully killed. The Met police was also found guilty in a prosecution for breaking health and safety laws, being fined £175,000 and ordered to pay £385,000 in costs.

Met officer who killed Jean Charles de Menezes on tube defends his actions Retired officer says he feared he was about to die when he shot innocent man he mistook for terrorist in 2005

The Metropolitan police officer ‘C12’ who shot dead an innocent man, Jean Charles de Menezes, in 2005 after mistaking him for a terrorist says he was justified to open fire www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

The jury at the inquest did not accept that C12 had ever shouted “armed police” or that /1

Seconded. Online to offline organising can be a powerful force for change making. Also online activist spaces are important for people who face barriers to IRL activism, like disabled people, some parents, people in rural areas etc.

photo of Jerimarie Liesegang

Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire Edited by: C. B. Daring, J. Rogue, Deric Shannon, & Abbey Volcano AK Press

“Anarchists (should) understand the importance in opposing the regulation of sexual and gender behavior by governments & other allied forces such as the church & capitalism.”
~ Jerimarie Liesegang (1950-2020), Tyranny of the State and Trans Liberation

https://www.akpress.org/queeringanarchism.html

a man in a suit is carrying three boxes of pizza into a doorway . Alt: Community: the pizza gif (start of the dark timeline)

I've not seen this gif yet this morning, and I thought we were supposed to be nerds here on Bluesky...

#USElection

Glad to see more people from the old place posting here, it'd be great if you took few seconds to go into your profile and selected:

Settings > Accessibility > Alt text
Require alt text before posting ✔️

Cheers!

I’d booked an accessible Malmaison hotel in Leeds, only to find it doesn’t mean wheelchair accessible?! They can give me a refund but as I’ll be booking another hotel at late notice, I’d need to cover the extra £100s myself. Anyone know if this right under Equality Act? Can’t recall as so stressed.

A tuxedo cat on a windowsill next to his toy.

Having experienced the loss of the high court case on the climate adaptation case on Friday and feeling distraught at the continued genocide in Palestine, I’m finding it hard to stay hopeful.

Lessons of liberation from history, help me regain hope.

Any favourites to share?

Photo for cat tax.

You are so great on this Rosie. I really like your presenting style.

To say I’m devastated is an understatement.

But I do know change is never linear, & it’s a diversity of tactics plus people power that wins.

Which we have in droves, with climate, disability and housing activists united for the first time.

Now to blow off steam at wheelchair rugby training.

A small tuxedo cat looking into the camera with his front paws folded in.

Ok one more whilst I can’t sleep. I did at least post something vaguely social change related too.

What's the national adaptation plan? | Friends of the Earth Find out what climate adaptation is, whether the UK is prepared for climate change, and why we took the government to court over its national adaptation plan.

The closest I’ve found for how this feels is the Swedish word, resfeber. Usually used before a physical journey but seems to capture my feelings of restlessness, anxiety and anticipation.

Info on the case is here for people who eventually discover my feed.

friendsoftheearth.uk/climate/what...

I wonder if there’s a language with a word to describe the mix of feelings when a high court judgment, on a case you’ve been working on for over a year, that people’s lives depend on, is being handed down in less than 12 hours?

On that…Climate Adaptation Plan Judgment is released Fri at 10am.

See you there?

A tuxedo cat with his head popping out of a box with some toys around him.

Thanks for the likes and follows. Who knew that the Venn diagram of people that like cats and social change geekery was a circle (yes, we all did).

Here’s another photo of my cat, which means I must start using this for social change chats soon.

Ahhh the algorithm is strong on here I see. I posted one photo of my cat and I get to see your adorable gattis!

A small tuxedo cat on the top of a cat perching point, close to the ceiling. The perching point is black and white striped material with bare wood into the wall.

Oh hi, I’m new here, who should I follow?

So far I’ve followed Friends of the Earth folk, who made the switch from the bad place.

I’m a fan of climate, disability and class justice; and I’ll mainly be posting ponderings or questions about social change.

And photos of my cat, I guess.

Top-rated UK water firms ‘dumped 1,374 illegal spills into rivers’ Exclusive: United Utilities and Severn Trent had four-star environment ranking but discharges breached permits, campaign group says

Sewage leaks and spills have led to toxic algae occupying large swaths of Lake Windermere, England's largest lake and major tourist destination

How they can get a top rating from the Environment Ageny, England's regulator, is beyond me

www.theguardian.com/environment/...