Joseph Wilde-Ramsing

🚨We’ve got a new investigation out showing how US oil and gas pipeline giant Energy Transfer – notorious for its involvement in the Dakota Access Pipeline & for suing @greenpeace.org – is seeking to gobble up critical European energy infrastructure with the help of the Bully-in-Chief in Washington.

Haha, look at Danielle taking on the patriarchy💪🏼💪🏼 Go, Danielle! 🤩

🚨 BREAKING! Telenor faces legal action over human rights abuses in Myanmar ⚖️

⚖️ Myanmar victims and civil society organisations, with SOMO's support, have taken the first step towards suing Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor for their role in serious human rights violations in Myanmar.

🚨 Evidence shows how telecoms giant Telenor, through its subsidiary in Myanmar, disclosed sensitive customer mobile phone data like names, call logs, and last known locations.

This data enabled the military to track down, detain, and torture civilians.

Full story: www.somo.nl/telenor-face...

🚨 EXPOSED! How does Big Oil kill sustainability and climate legislation? 🤔

🧐We got inside ExxonMobil’s lobby campaign to take down the EU’s CSDDD. 🔍

📓Check out our findings and the playbook Big Oil uses to subvert laws that are in the public interest!👇🏼

If you're in the Netherlands, come join us tonight for an inspiring conversation with Peruvian Indigenous leaders and Dutch parliamentarians about making oil companies that are destroying the Amazon pay to clean it up!

We stand in solidarity with our Palestinian partners ✊🏾✊🏼

🎉 WE WON! 💪

Dutch authorities found in our favor on every count in our case against the "Dutch" oil company Pluspetrol for its disastrous oil extraction operations in the Peruvian Amazon

🚨 BIG development in our legal case against the Dutch state for facilitating Israel's wat crimes in Gaza.

🎉 The Dutch government has cancelled three licenses for the export of arms to Israel.

💪 Seven more to go. We will continue to fight in court.

Nederland: Sluit de genocide geldkraan! Nederland draagt bij aan de Israëlische genocide in Gaza. Als 's werelds grootste investeerder in Israël pompen bedrijven vanuit ons land miljarden in de Israëlische oorlogsmachine waarmee Palestijnen...

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We're suing the Dutch government for enabling Israel's genocide in Gaza. Why?

⚠️ The Dutch state is deeply embedded in the machinery that enables Israel’s genocide in Gaza, from exporting weapons & attack dogs to financing occupation & shielding corporate profits.

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⚖️The new US sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur Albanese are an attack on international justice and the rule of law.

✊ SOMO stands in solidarity her ✊

🤩 I'm incredibly proud of what SOMO & our partners have been able to achieve in the past year! 💪

✊ In the face of rising authoritarianism, SOMO challenged corporate power and spoke truth to power

🙌 Want to know more about the impact we had and what we achieved? Check out our 2024 annual report!👇

🤔Who are the real winners of the AI race?

🧐 Do AI startups really stand a chance against #BigTech monopolists like Microsoft, Google, Amazon & Nvidia?

🤖Our analysis of the generative AI value chain found that startups are highly dependent on Big Tech, whose entrenched power restricts innovation

💸 Corporations are profiting from Israel's crimes in Palestine

⚖️ UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has released a report laying out a legal pathway for holding those corporations accountable and liable for their complicity.

💡Read here our analysis of the report.

Investor-State Dispute Settlement lets companies run away from the harm they cause and blocks a just fossil fuels phase-out. ⛔️

It allows foreign investors to sue governments when their actions are alleged to harm their investment.

Here's a stark example of why governments must dismantle it:

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🇪🇺🚗 The EU car industry is NOT in crisis. It’s profitable, powerful, and using its influence to delay climate action.

Our new research reveals how the interests of the car industry have steered EU policy to put profits before people and the planet.

Read our analysis: www.somo.nl/manufactured...

🎉 MAJOR LEGAL WIN for Nigerian communities over Shell ⚖️ | Joseph Wilde-Ramsing 🎉 MAJOR LEGAL WIN for Nigerian communities over Shell ⚖️ In a major win for corporate accountability and of particular relevance for the issue of (ir)responsible disengagement from fossil fuels as p...

🎉 MAJOR LEGAL WIN for Nigerian communities over Shell ⚖️

Yesterday the UK High Court found that Shell can be held legally responsible for legacy oil pollution in Nigeria, even though Shell has already sought to irresponsibly exit the country. #justtransition

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Verontrustende ontwikkeling; Colombiaanse mensenrechtenverdediger die zou spreken bij de VN in Geneve en bij Nederlandse universiteiten, werd vastgehouden op Schiphol en is vanochtend uitgezet. Samen met @christinepvdd.bsky.social spoedvragen gesteld ⤵️

Dutch government collapses after Geert Wilders’ far-right party quits Prime Minister Dick Schoof will carry on in a caretaker role after asylum dispute topples coalition in the Netherlands.

BIG! Dutch gov't collapses as extreme-right Wilders pulls out of the coalition, after disagreement over his hard-line stance on asylum.

New elections now likely. Hopefully the Dutch electorate will stand up to the fascists & end the far-right's grasp at power in NL

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🥳 The next AMS BHR - Climate Justice Happy Hour is here! 🍻🥂💃🕺🎉

🤗 It's high time we come together to support and celebrate each other in our respective struggles for climate justice, human rights, and people power over corporate power 💪

📅 Friday, 13 June, at the Tolhuistin in Amsterdam

🚨JUST IN! SOMO investigation reveals Dutch businessmen supplying key components for weapons systems to Israel, possible complicity in genocide.

Check out my new blog with my brilliant colleague Misa Norigami about the impacts the Trump trade war and tariff chaos is having on Chinese factory workers!

🧐 What companies hide, SOMO's The Counter reveals 🔍

💥 When the harm is clear, but the supply chain is not, we help you connect the dots ⛓️‍-->🏢

🤩 Check out this blog by colleague Misa with stories about how people are using The Counter to fight corporate abuse and hold companies accountable 💪

😂😂 I always enjoy your mushroom pics

Here are some nice mushrooms @lukelukeluke.bsky.social

🔥 The World Bank is Gaslighting Ghana

💡As the US calls for the Bank to continue investing in fossil fuels, we've got new research or with ActionAid Ghana revealing how World Bank funding has driven crippling debt and fossil fuel dependency in Ghana.

⚖️ Ghana deserves affordable, sustainable energy.

💦Save your tiers for another day and another law, VdL

💡 Our new briefing shows how harmful the Euro Commission's #omnibus proposal to limit the scope of the #csddd to the first tier is

🥑 91% of suppliers to EU supermarkets would be out of scope, weakening the law, rendering it a tick-box exercise

🚨 BREAKING: SOMO investigation reveals how Dutch dogs are used to terrorize Palestinian children and elderly people, with fatal consequences.

📄 Leaked documents suggest Dutch companies exported attack dogs to Israel. Testimonies from Palestinians in Gaza show they have been terrorized by such dogs

💡 The Trump-Musk far-right broligarch alliance reveals how harmful excessive corporate power is, but also an opportunity for meaningful change to our political & economic strcutures. No return to status quo! Thanks for your leadership & vision @daniellehirsch.bsky.social @isabellamweber.bsky.social