Wealthy countries in the global north are using harsh, vague and punitive measures to crack down on climate protests at the same time as criticising similar draconian tactics by authorities in the global south theguardian.com/environment/ar…

1. JAIL FOR PEACEFUL RESISTANCE NORMALISED IN BRITAIN Just two months ago, a 3 year prison sentence for peaceful acts of conscience in the UK, would have been headline news, nationally and internationally. Now, complete silence in the mainstream media bit.ly/3zekT5m🧵

Sad to miss the Peruvian street parties to celebrate the death of Fujimori 🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳🥳

“At this stage, it looks extremely bleak” Oil rich nations are making a concerted effort to stonewall talks on fossil fuel phase out, COP29 negotiators tell Attracta Mooney Aime Williams and I on.ft.com/4dY1gO7

Last year nearly 200 environmental defenders were killed — certainly an undercount. The leading culprit? The mining industry. The most dangerous region? Latin America. These are the stark realities we need to confront as we face a new mining boom linked to the energy transition

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Love this by Kate Crehan on 'leaderlessness': Graeber was struck by the fact that most of them seemed not to be 'verticals' but rather 'horizontals'. Emboldened by this, he and Sagri, succeeded in taking over the rally and transforming it into what they termed “the real ga.”

In October a London Assembly committee plans to hold an inquiry into public order policing in the capital. Astonishingly, it isn't interested in human rights but ONLY whether protesters are an inconvenience and nuisance to the Metropolitan Police! netpol.org/2024/09/17/lon…

Indeed, the offer ranges from an effective 4.48% at spine point 9 (where Bristol pay spine starts) to 1.75% at point 52. Despite receiving a larger percentage point lift, those at the bottom of the pay spine are proportionally more shafted by the delaying of full uplift.

My first footballing hero. RIP Schillaci 😢

So if indeed Israel booby-trapped thousands upon thousands of lithium-battery operated devices in Lebanon, which is what this is starting to look like, this has repercussions for everything, everywhere, from vehicles to toothbrushes. Pretty much every economic sector.

Austerity Feminism! Yay!

CBS YouGov poll: 61% of Americans oppose weapons aid to Israel’s assault in Gaza. 77% of Democrats and 63% of self-identifying moderates reject US weapons aid to Israel. 77% of under 30 oppose weapons aid to Israel, 75% of Black Americans, 66% of women.

Unable to recognise protests are an essential part of a supposedly democratic society, the Met police chief is now openly lobbying for a north of Ireland style Parades Commission to impose limits on protests in London "if parliament wanted to do this" standard.co.uk/news/london/cl…

📣How Young People can Shape Environmental Policy in Urban Spaces ⬇️ Read the latest blog post by James Sloam and Matt Henn policyandpoliticsblog.com/2024/09/25/how… #EnvironmentalPolicy #London #YoungPeople

Two years in prison for a stunt that hurt absolutely nobody is insane

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As the waters rise, a two-year sentence for throwing soup. That’s the farcical reality of UK justice says George Monbiot - Why do the mass killers of the fossil fuel industry walk free while the heroes trying to stop them are imprisoned? #climatecrisis theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

An entire generation of Western kids is forming its political identity in rage and fury, as it sees those in charge shamelessly lie, dehumanize, and discriminate to protect and enable one of the great atrocity crimes of our time. The world will never be the same after this

Two letters were written by scientists to Gov about #CCS recently. One was a warning, signed by the likes of the former President of the Royal Meteorological Society and an IPCC lead author. theguardian.com/environment/20… See below for who signed the pro-CCS letter....1/2