BARCLAYS AGM - DISRUPTED

We're at Barclays AGM with Fossil Free London XR Money Rebellion 🌍🌱🏳️‍⚧️ & PSC

Why? To stop Barclays Bank funding big oil & bombs

2023 was marked as the hottest year ever recorded on Earth & the death toll of Palestinians in Gaza now reaches over 34,000

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My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.
- Adrienne Rich, 1978

So thrilled to spread the word that Louise Gray has been shortlisted with AVOCADO ANXIETY for the GuildofFoodWriters 2024 Annual Awards in the Investigative Writing category!

Oh lovely to have my poem 'Field Notes' featured by Paperboats Writers & so proud it is in an issue bursting with outstanding contributions 💚

Take two plus our Paperboats Writers pal Sandy Winterbottom - soon to be setting sail for #CILIPS24 ! We. Will. Rise. ⛵️🌊

Welcome back to Twitter, Chitra Ramaswamy! Good to have you back and very much looking forward to welcoming the new EXPECTING into the world on the 16th… 🤩

BREAKING: Oil giant Equinor made £2,067,000,000 profit in the last 3 months.

All while UK farmers warn of threat to food security from flooded fields, and millions around the world suffer under extreme weather.

They're celebrating their profits, as we shoulder the burden.

The most insidious form of climate denial is no longer, 'It's not happening,' but the belief that incremental or tech solutions will solve this crisis.

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🚨BREAKING🚨

Climate activists from XRUK_Actions XR Money Rebellion 🌍🌱🏳️‍⚧️ Extinction Rebellion Scotland @c0urage2021 disrupt and delay abrdn UK AGM to DEMAND they stop investing in coal, oil and gas.

'Aberdeen, you are driving us towards a climate collapse!'

Every moment of every day I am profoundly grateful for every person who chooses to use their anger and heartbreak to organise, rather than to just sit in doom or despair. Every person who keeps going even if they don't see wins. Thank you. Your work is worthwhile: don't give up.

Watch this stunning #EarthDay film from ⁦⁦Culture Declares Emergency⁩ youtube.com/watch?v=tQxuhJ…

I’ve just asked my MP to take action against the fossil fuel industry’s dangerous political influence by signing an Early Day Motion about fossil fuel donations and Fossil Free Parliament’s #NoFossilFunding pledge.

Can you take 2 mins to do the same?actionnetwork.org/letters/urgent…

Fantastic news!

Scotland breaks promise to tackle the climate crisis while millions suffer.

🗳️ Vote. And when you vote, make sure you vote for a candidate who backs the #CANBill . Pass it on. 🐝

As a librarian myself and a lifelong patron of South Lanarkshire Libraries, this onslaught of branch closures feels legally, socially and morally unjustifiable. Thanks as always to The Herald for highlighting CILIPScotland’s advocacy as we urge the Council to reconsider…

What an honour to have my #poem 'Field Notes' published in Paperboats Writers Zine #3 alongside gorgeous work from Lynn Valentine KHP_POET_ IN_THE_ CAIRNGORMS Kirsteen Bell Sandy Winterbottom Bridget Khursheed Mòran taing editors Leonie Charlton & Chris Powici for this stunning assembling #ecopoetry #poetrycommunity

Ahoy! Paperboats Zine Issue Three is Live.

#paperboats #paperboats writers #paperboats write #paperboats zine #ClimateScotlandActionWriting #climatechange #naturewriting #poetry #creativenonfiction #prose #ClimateActionNow

Power to the wise elders who know what’s right and what’s wrong.