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YouTube video by TFotF Ian McKellen performs speech about immigrants by Shakespeare from Thomas More (23/4/2016)

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Standing Assembly members to be replaced every year.

All reporting (quarterly?) to a standing Citizens' Assembly, which evaluates & gives direction

Sanction BBC license fee setting and collection independent from parliament. E.g. collect with local govt property taxes

Ask a Citizens' Assembly to agree to set up an Information Commons, starting with the BBC

It’s time for the BBC to have a standing Citizens’ Assembly as part of its governance structure. NOW. Not just an appointed board that can be politicised - in either of the bankrupt directions of… | ... It’s time for the BBC to have a standing Citizens’ Assembly as part of its governance structure. NOW. Not just an appointed board that can be politicised - in either of the bankrupt directions of our...

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“Insects/invertebrates of all kinds play a crucial role in protecting our agricultural environments & food security. Urgent action is required to remedy their declining numbers or there will be dire consequences for our food production".

The web of life matters also for its own sake, not just ours!

Experts call for new taxes on worst polluters to help poorer nations with climate crisis Report to be discussed at Cop30 says global agreements should target carbon intensive activities and ‘ultra high net worth individuals’

New taxes on the super-rich, fossil fuels, financial transactions and highly polluting activities should be explored as ways to raise the finance needed to help poor countries, says report by Cop Presidents
#COP30
#climatecrisis
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
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Why Havering Council Supporting Zane’s Law Is A Victory For Our Children. Havering Council has ‘reaffirmed its commitment to public safety and environmental protection by supporting the national Zane’s Law campaign’.

Proud to be a UK Landfills & #CleanAir campaigner in #Havering, & delighted with this news for children in Rainham & beyond: now & in the future. Huge thanks to The Havering Daily

#ZanesLaw @mumsforlungs.bsky.social #LaundersLane @truthaboutzane.bsky.social

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Where are tens of thousands of people in Sudan fleeing to? At least 80,000 people displaced as Sudan’s humanitarian crisis deepens following the RSF’s capture of el-Fasher.

At least 80,000 people displaced as Sudan’s humanitarian crisis deepens following the RSF’s capture of el-Fasher.

The Ramallah Congress on the Decolonisation of Palestine In November 2025, scholars, diplomats and movement leaders from around the world will come together for the inaugural Ramallah Congress on the Decolonisation of Palestine.

The UN has recorded more than 2,000 incidents of settler violence in the West Bank since October 2023.

That's why the Progressive International, Al Shabaka, and the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute at Birzeit University will convene the Ramallah Congress on 11-12 November 2025.

CAL calls on Mayor to comply with WHO's ‘interim target’ for NO2 of 20 ug/m3 by 2030 - Clean Air in London Full compliance with WHO’s ‘interim target’ for NO2 of 20 ug/m3 by 1 January 2030 Dear Sir Sadiq I am writing on behalf of Clean Air in London (CAL) to you as Mayor of London.  You are also Co-Chair o...

Simon Birkett of @cleanairlondon.bsky.social urges the Mayor of London to commit to the WHO's interim target for nitrogen dioxide #AirPollution in London.

@london.gov.uk's third Mayoral term must not be "a ‘victory lap’ for your remarkable #CleanAir achievements in the first two terms".

Some lichen stuck to the branch of a tree. This will also happen to your face, if you stand on the top bit of Dartmoor long enough.

Look at this fucking amazing lichen on a much smaller tree branch. It's like tinsel for people who like acid folk.

The furry lichen on this footpath sign has obscured the lettering on it which tells people where they are going. Oh well. Walks are way better when you get lost anyway.

It's absolutely normal, well-adjusted behaviour to come back from walks with a lichen-coated stick, and I will not hear otherwise.

Isn't lichen brilliant?

Chiapas: Attacks on human rights defenders and journalists on the rise - Freedom News While last year the perpetrators were identified as being part of organised crime, in 2025 the main aggressors are unknown actors and state actors …

While last year the perpetrators were identified as being part of organised crime, in 2025 the main aggressors are unknown actors and state actors.
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Parliamentary group warns of 32% drop in food production without urgent action The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Science and Technology in Agriculture said domestic food production could decline by 39% per capita

This matches another forecast that global crop yields will fall by 30 percent by 2050

Bleak doesn't even begin to describe our prospects

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Book cover of Another World Is Possible featuring an image of gas-masked person in black bloc having just thrown something

An interview with author Tomas Rothaus ( @batallonbakunin.bsky.social ) on his recently publish memoir, "Another War Is Possible: Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era", out this year from @pmpress.bsky.social

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The era of fine speeches and good intentions is over. Brazil’s Cop30 will be about action | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva This is our message to world leaders: make this the ‘Cop of truth’, before people lose faith, says the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

I would be more inclined to listen Mr Lula, if you hadn't just given the go-ahead to exploiting your country's new oil and gas reserves

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For Gaza’s fishermen, the sea is their last lifeline after Israel’s war Known as ‘The Beast’, Gaza fisherman Salem Abu Amira risks his life to feed his family under Israel’s siege.

Known as ‘The Beast’, Gaza fisherman Salem Abu Amira risks his life to feed his family under Israel’s siege.

Still a chance to return to 1.5C climate goal, researchers say Report calls for scaling-up of renewable energy and electrification of key sectors to limit peak of global heating

I'm sorry, but this is straw-grasping bollox

Back in the real world, governments are rowing back on green measures and fossil fuel corporations are planning expansion

I, and many others expect 2C to be exceeded by 2050 - perhaps even well before

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I know how they got to that point.

Because we’re a few steps behind, living through the “getting to that point” right now in the UK.

📗 New report by @britishecologicalsociety.org & @nationaltrust.org.uk

Time to rethink nature conservation? Ecologists call for an ecosystem approach to halt UK wildlife decline and protect the vital services nature provides us💚

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SUV ads 'must go down the tube' Call to stop promoting pollution on London’s transport system.

Urgent call to stop promoting pollution on London’s transport system.

By @andrewsimms.bsky.social

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Israel kills more Palestinians in Gaza as US peace plan presented to UN Attacks continue in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza as Israeli forces expand military action beyond 'yellow line'.

Attacks continue in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza as Israeli forces expand military action beyond 'yellow line'.

The violent commodification of life in Uganda Uganda's market economy has dispossessed and impoverishedthe ordinary people and caused ecological destruction, leaving society fragmented and unstable.

Uganda's economic growth is built on a violent process of commodification, a pattern exemplified by the introduction of the Nile perch. Available in EN, PT-BR, FR and IT.

Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’ Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the la...

🔴 NEW: Intensive Livestock Farms Fail to Declare Climate Impacts in ‘Emissions Scandal’

Data by @sustainweb.org reveals how councils are giving green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data.

📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social

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Antarctic glacier shrinks at fastest pace in modern history Antarctic scientists have documented the fastest retreat of a glacier in modern history, after it lost eight kilometres of ice in just two months, according to a new report.

Antarctica shrinks at fastest rate recorded in modern history

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"The Zapatista communities invite us to recognize that the land should not have owners, but rather caretakers. We are faced with the damaging effects inflicted on Mother Earth, which ... have resulted in ... poverty and famine for the vast majority, while very few can enjoy what nature provides."

Absolutely!!

YouTube Removed Hundreds of Videos of Israeli Human Rights Violations to Comply With Trump Sanctions "YouTube is being complicit in silencing the voices of Palestinian victims,” said a spokesperson for the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, whose channel was deleted.

In compliance with Trump's sanctions, YouTube has deleted the accounts of three Palestinian human rights groups, removing hundreds of videos that documented Israel's human rights violations.