Better World

By-elections are taking place this month in 18 areas across the UK, starting today 🗳️

Check if there’s one where you live: www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter...

Two mothers could be stoned to death. Sham trials. Coerced confessions. And a sentence of stoning! One million of us spoke up to help overturn a similar case – sign now to do it again.

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Stand with Francesca Albanese France and Germany are trying to force UN Palestine Advocate, Francesca Albanese, to resign! Let’s make our message of solidarity louder than their intimidation!

Show some support for a voice for truth and peace, constantly being undermined by the zi0n1st lobby and the governments they influence.

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If you agree the govt should not strip away our right to protest, add your name

The Public Order Act and the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act, as well as associated secondary legislation, are an attack on our hard won right to protest and is a threat to our democracy. We desperately need to get them scrapped.

please add your name:

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Sign the Petition STOP SILENT EXECUTIONS IN IRAN: Emergency Protection for Melika Azizi and Others

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Donate to UNICEF Emails Loyalty 2025 Your donations to UNICEF UK are helping to keep children safe. We are the largest humanitarian organisation for children.

Children living in the most remote and underserved communities are often those who need life‑saving vaccines the most. Every year, UNICEF-supported health workers must travel long distances through treacherous terrains to ensure no child is left behind.

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Stop oil and gas sponsorship at the Olympics The Olympics are allowing oil and gas companies to sponsor the Games – even as fossil fuels threaten the future of winter sports. Add your name and urge them to end fossil fuel sponsorship for good >>

“Drop oil and gas sponsorship from the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games - and commit to ending fossil fuel sponsorship across all Olympic Games.”

These climate-wrecking fossil fuel giants are using a global sporting event to cleanse their public image.

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Boycott the World Cup German officials say they might boycott the FIFA World Cup in a last ditch effort to stop Trump invading Greenland. A boycott would hit Trump where it hurts - reputation and money - and send a clear s

Boycott the World Cup action.eko.org/a/boycott-th...

Keep Big Tech Accountable! Big Tech is trying to get away with breaking the rules - again.Google and Musk have already been held accountable, but now lobbyists are pushing to weaken the rules that protect our safety, privacy, a...

Big Tech is trying to break the rules - again. Google and Musk were held accountable, but lobbyists now want to weaken the laws that protect our safety, privacy, and money online ✍️ Tell EU leaders: protect people, not billionaires! action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-01...

Iran: Will they start executing people today? Over 2,000 murdered - and today, the regime plans to start executions. Governments everywhere need to massively up the pressure to stop the killings.

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Stop foreign interference in British politics British politics has a foreign interference problem. An undercover investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys has revealed how shockingly easy it is for secretive Chinese interests to pene...

🚨 An undercover sting just exposed alarming loopholes in Westminster’s weak lobbying system: a fake Chinese company bought meetings with ministers and MPs, and it may not have even broken any rules! ✍️ Sign & share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Really positive to see. Will almost certainly need to be backed up by action

Protect Our Food From Toxic Pesticides The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants, and a nightmare for the rest of us. A new proposal could let toxic pesticides, including glyphosate, stay on the market forever.Yes, forever approvals....

The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants: toxic pesticides could stay on the market forever, with no safety tests at all. Yes, forever approvals. Yes, this is real. Sign now to stop it. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...

#BetterWorld2019 #pesticides #toxicchemicals

EU leaders are pushing a deportation law that doesn’t stop at deportations. It could allow authorities to search “all relevant premises” - language so broad that rights groups warn it could cover homes, shelters, churches, community centres, or any place offering support.

OMG we only went and bloody won!! 🎉🎉

In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award

Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊

Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.

Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.

This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵

New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

Makes a change from all the bad news

Did deforestation worsen Sumatra disaster? Indonesia to trace timber, summon companies to explain Images of logs swept out into flood-hit areas have circulated online, and experts have said deforestation and environmental degradation contributed to the floods and landslides, which have killed over...

Experts have said deforestation and environmental degradation contributed to the floods and landslides, which have killed over 600 people in the country.

#Indonesia #floods

Correction: bus travel is actually free for over 60s (not 65 as stated). All great value for only a few quid extra.

COP30 farce in Lula's Brazil - Freedom News Their idea of ‘sustainable capitalism’ is to sell off the rainforest and build mega-projects ~ Rafael Sanz, desinformemonos ~ COP 30 ha…

A comprehensive source of knowledge about the real life background to the Brazilian COP30.

By the way - do you know that big business lobbyists are the biggest crowd on those climate COP conferences?

Zack Polanski and Ed Davey have positive net ratings among 2024 Labour voters, while a majority of those who backed the party at the last election now have unfavourable views of Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves

Polanski: +24 net favourable
Davey: +17
Starmer: -10
Corbyn: -15
Reeves: -31

Don’t scrap the Windfall Tax

As families face rising bills, and extreme weather causes devastation around the world, oil and gas companies shouldn’t get a tax break. Tell Chancellor Rachel Reeves to not turn her back on climate and communities. Add your name;

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People power WORKS: the Global Ocean Treaty can finally enter into force after 60 countries sign it into law!

Learn more from a Greenpeace Oceans Campaigner who’s been there since the beginning and on what comes next >> act.gp/478JK8z

GOOD NEWS: Renewable energy supplied OVER HALF of the EU's electricity for the first time.

Denmark had a whopping 94% of their electricity coming from renewables in Q2.

This is PROOF: renewables are the future!

Stand Against Neo-Nazi Violence Neo-Nazis attacked a sacred Aboriginal site, shouting 'white power.' Aboriginal leaders are calling for a massive wave of solidarity to get this investigated ASAP and prevent...

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If we can’t speak, why live? The Taliban is trying to erase women. But last year, a group of countries vowed to hold Afghanistan accountable, possibly even at the world’s top court. Join the global call for justice now – urge the...

The recent earthquakes have put Afghanistan back in the news but, as well as sending humanitarian aid, let’s tell leaders to make good on their promise to stand with Afghan women’s brave resistance! #humanrights #womensrights #afghanistan @avaaz.org

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DELAY THE AUCTION!
Head over to our Instagram account to tag President Lula and Minister Silveira: www.instagram.com/p/DK-YieSO2Ig/

FIFA are rolling out the red carpet for Israel But together with these brave Italian football coaches, we can do something about it. Join us.

Israel is starving 470,000 Palestinians, and moving in troops to occupy Gaza. FIFA is rolling out the red carpet and welcoming Israel to participate in the World Cup. But a brave group of Italian football coaches call on FIFA to suspend Israel from the World Cup!

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I heard it the other day and love it. Seems like we're ready for a new era of protest songs.