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Local group of Extinction Rebellion UK. Join our email list: https://joinxr.uk/nottingham #ExtinctionRebellion #TellTheTruth #ActNow #ClimateEmergency #Nottingham https://xrnottingham.org

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“As a Jewish person… I’m very disturbed and appalled and grieving for what’s happened in Manchester yesterday, I’m also grieving for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been murdered, displaced, and starved in Gaza” - Zoe explained on BBC R4 why she supports DOJ.

03.10.2025 19:01 — 👍 77    🔁 35    💬 4    📌 0
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🚨Thousands joined a coalition of groups for @makethempay.bsky.social yesterday

‼️ The richest 1% produce more than twice the amount of emissions as the poorest 1/2 of the population

Together we demand:
✅ Tax the super-rich
✅ Protect the workers, not the billionaires
✅ Make polluters pay
#TaxtheRich

21.09.2025 11:27 — 👍 39    🔁 22    💬 0    📌 0
Ramón Méndez Galain, the humble professor who turned little Uruguay into a renewable energy giant

Ramón Méndez Galain, the humble professor who turned little Uruguay into a renewable energy giant

Uruguay proves renewable energy isn’t a dream — it’s a choice.

And it’s entirely doable — if politicians have the guts.

A humble professor called Ramón Méndez Galain showed the so-called leaders of Europe and the US how it can be done. 🧵

28.09.2025 17:23 — 👍 64    🔁 29    💬 1    📌 1
Gatwick Expansion: A Direct Assault on Climate Commitments - Climate Uncensored Comment on UK Government announcement of Gatwick Airport expansion by Professor Kevin Anderson and Dr. Lois Pennington, of Tyndall Centre, University of

“Sustainable aviation” a dangerous illusion.
climateuncensored.com/gatwick-expa...
#NoThirdRunway #StopHeathrowExpansion

27.09.2025 18:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Speedrun the climate skeptic experience
YouTube video by Simon Clark Speedrun the climate skeptic experience

A short history of climate plus Q&A (1min watch)
youtube.com/shorts/aCG-f... #ClimateScam #GlobalWarmingHoax #NetZeroIsAFail #GreenAgenda

26.09.2025 17:57 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Ed Miliband looking into more North Sea drilling despite Labour pledge Exclusive: Energy secretary examining ways to allow oil and gas exploration without breaking manifesto promise

Mind-boggling insanity

Starmer's dreadful regime is now full-on anti-climate as well as anti-nature

They CANNOT be allowed to get away with this

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

25.09.2025 06:47 — 👍 72    🔁 36    💬 3    📌 1
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Last year UK billionaires’ wealth grew by £35 million every day, while ordinary people struggle to get by - and the planet burns.

In #London, groups joined protests across the world to #DrawTheLine against corporate and billionaire greed.

It’s time to #MakeThemPay
A better world is possible.

21.09.2025 12:26 — 👍 32    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 0
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Pet flea treatments poisoning rivers across England, scientists find Discovery is ‘extremely concerning’ for water insects, and fish and birds that depend on them

If your pet has fleas - restrict yourself on how much you treat them
As One flea treatment of a medium-sized dog with imidacloprid contains enough pesticide to kill 60 million bees

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

21.09.2025 21:23 — 👍 76    🔁 38    💬 6    📌 4
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In trying to remove the Banksy outside the Royal Courts they have made it even more effective as a metaphor for dark forces: A real Nosferatu vibe!

10.09.2025 10:25 — 👍 94    🔁 30    💬 4    📌 3

Less than 2% of your global insurance profits come from fossil fuels an arms.
You could easily drop these contracts and still thrive.

‼️BOYCOTT AXA

#Boycott #BDS #Insurance #ClimateAction #FreePalestine

08.09.2025 11:20 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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New Banksy mural appears at Royal Courts of Justice The artwork, which shows a judge hitting a protester with a gavel, was confirmed by the elusive street artist.

Isn't art just so wonderful at capturing a moment in history.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

08.09.2025 12:23 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Yvette Cooper mounts fresh defence of UK ban on Palestine Action Home secretary said group carried out ‘escalating campaign’ of criminal damage before it was proscribed

🚨BREAKING🚨

Yvette Cooper becomes first Minister to publicly acknowledge Israel’s crimes against humanity

In this article, Cooper said the proscription did not prevent protests “against the catastrophic humanitarian situation and crimes against humanity in Gaza”.

Full: www.ft.com/content/42eb...

17.08.2025 16:57 — 👍 37    🔁 25    💬 6    📌 4
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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...

Petition by @stopburningtrees.bsky.social : Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...

14.08.2025 21:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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MP claims Surrey Care home is a “hot bed of terrorist activity” filled with Palestine Action supporters.

08.08.2025 07:20 — 👍 1039    🔁 325    💬 73    📌 40
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BREAKING

Defend Our Juries website taken down as attack on freedom of speech worsens - blocking access to important legal info for protestors.

This is what happens when the Government uses anti-terror law to silence dissent.

www.wedonotcomply.org <— legal info here instead!

06.08.2025 17:22 — 👍 161    🔁 193    💬 21    📌 33
I am Scared for Ireland...
YouTube video by Hank Green I am Scared for Ireland...

Want to know what AMOC is?....
youtu.be/pThcIgJyNME?...

25.07.2025 14:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
From the action. Photo credit Denise Laura Baker

From the action. Photo credit Denise Laura Baker

BREAKING: Scientists are occupying the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) in London. They are demanding capital requirements for fossil fuels to urgently address climate breakdown.

🧵1/10

23.07.2025 08:38 — 👍 164    🔁 73    💬 3    📌 10
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🚨BREAKING NEWS: die-in at AIG

30 insurers have pulled out of EACOP.
AIG are yet to rule this “carbon bomb” out which would unleash 379 million tons of pollution.

Climate breakdown is:
📈tripling the cost of insurance for ordinary people.
🌡️ making areas uninsurable and unlivable.

#ClimateAction

16.07.2025 15:25 — 👍 32    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 0
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Sign the Petition Save Swifts: Make Swift brick nests a requirement in Nottingham’s new developments

Yes it's a petition - but a local one and backed by a group that know their stuff about swifts. A lot of signatures might help get this on agendas at council committees or in the press, so could be worth signing....
chng.it/THQPWPPNCR

09.07.2025 20:28 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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BREAKING: Last night we disrupted @Harrods to demand a wealth tax on the ultra rich, as part of Green New Deal Rising's #PayUp Day of Action.

🕐In just 90 minutes billionaires emit more than we will in a lifetime.

THEY ARE EATING ALL THE CAKE - Bill billionaires to fund climate action!

04.07.2025 09:47 — 👍 17    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1
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Pressure grows on Yvette Cooper to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action UN experts and hundreds of lawyers warn that proscribing group would conflate protest and terrorism

Several #UN special rapporteurs, including those for protecting #humanrights, said they had contacted UK government to say that “acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as terrorism”.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

01.07.2025 18:12 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Fossil fuel execs, media moguls, bankers and politicians who dance the waltz around glued to their phones making their fossil fuel deals, hoarding their profits, continuing business as usual as the siren sounds until the world burns around them.

#EndFossilFuels #InsureOurSurvival #ClimateEmergency

28.06.2025 16:28 — 👍 15    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Burning Ballroom - Street Action - Extinction Rebellion Nottingham Come and help with a performance action called the Burning Ballroom! June 28th 11am – 1pm Meet at the Robin Hood Statue for a practice. There are four roles which […]

xrnottingham.org/event/burnin...

28.06.2025 07:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you need any motivation to join us today 11am Robin Hood statue (wear black) for our Burning Ballroom….

28.06.2025 07:09 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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A rebellious summer Climate activists Extinction Rebellion are preparing for direct action campaigns around the UK.

theecologist.org/2025/jun/26/...

@theecologist.org @extinctionrebellion.uk

26.06.2025 10:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Join our Burning Ballroom on Sat 28th, 11am-1pm
Meet at Robin Hood Statue
Wear black - all welcome - easy and fun!
More Info: xrb.link/tZ0n94nX1

#EndFossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #ExtinctionRebellion

21.06.2025 06:50 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Rebels handed out bold flyers + beer mats with one message:

🛑 End fossil sponsorships now.
🔥 We won’t stand by while insurers fund collapse.

🖊️ Sign the petition.
📣 Join the resistance.

MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN.
MAKE HISTORY.
JOIN INSURE OUR SURVIVAL!

#ActNow #NoMoreGreenwash #Twickenham

14.06.2025 15:06 — 👍 15    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Beer mats were popular. But also 82% of those surveyed thought the RFU should ditch Allianz - are you listening Rugby football union before it is too late.

14.06.2025 20:20 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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1🧵We are grateful to @TheLancet for showing climate leadership by extending its ethical advertising ban to the banks funding the fossil fuel crisis. It is time for all medical organisations to divest their banking and investments away from climate destroying infrastructure.

06.06.2025 15:05 — 👍 137    🔁 75    💬 5    📌 3
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It's #WorldEnvironmentDay

But every day should be World Environment Day. That's if we want to keep a survivable environment.

05.06.2025 16:49 — 👍 59    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 3

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