[thread] There’s been some discussion over The Labour Party’s tax policy in the last 24 hrs, given a bit of prominence by #bbcqt. An audience member said that, though he earned over £80k, he was nowhere near the top 5% of earners & went so far as to say he wasn’t in the top 50%. (1/8)

For the past two years, I've been working part-time on a documentary on the Whanganui River, the first river in the world to be granted the status of a legal person. Here are some screenshots from the film, Ko Au Te Awa (I Am The River).

To our friends in the UK: please cherish, protect, & continue investing in your healthcare system! Once Big Pharma & special interests get their hands on it, it could take generations to regain. Millions of people in the US are fighting to have a system half as good as the NHS.

Voted! #VoteTactically #VoteSwap I voted #LibDem for Andy Kelly 🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺 #Rejoin in Surbiton, and my #Labour vote goes to #MiltonKeynes #MKNorth

"Capitalism's growth imperative stands radically at odds with ecology's imperative of interdependence and limit. These two imperatives can no longer co-exist with each other. Either we establish an ecological society, or society will go under for everyone." -Ursula le Guin

Imagine being an "unskilled worker" one day and a "key worker" the next.

💊 .Gilead Sciences were just granted #RareDisease status for the drug #remdesivir, a potential #COVID19 treatment 💊 Gilead now have a 7 year monopoly. They can dictate the price🤦😠 This is a #pandemic. There is no place for profiteering 💲💰💲 theintercept.com/2020/03/23/gil…

Honestly, at some point you have to ask yourself: if our economic system doesn't secure public health and well-being, and doesn't protect and regenerate ecology, then what's actually the point?

🦠 BAME people in the UK are twice as likely to die from Covid-19 than white people. 🏥 BAME people play a disproportionate role in running our hospitals. 📑 BAME workers are 47% more likely to be on a zero-hours contract. bit.ly/3f5V5s7

I still can’t get over this!!! youtu.be/eZbl46i9Ijo

Who can do the most to protect whiteness? The Times: hold my bag

UK government has announced "a bee-killing pesticide so poisonous that it is banned by the EU" may be used in England. New coal mines and pesticides... the UK's so called "green industrial revolution" is off to a great start. Very credible indeed. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Have a 👀 peep at this fantastic new resource on how to talk about #climatejustice ➡️ #FramingClimateJustice hub from the project led by PIRC 350 dot org New Economy Organisers Network lght.ly/7a8leh8

Spotted on Catford High Street 👀 We put up signs around London to address the excessive #AirPollution coming from these red routes and into the lungs of underprivileged communities. We need a #Mayor4CleanAir so we all breathe easy.

Amazing reporting by Sharon Lerner on paraquat and Syngenta and why the pesticide producers didn't sell safer versions of its extremely toxic pesticide. Hint: profit. The paraquat poisoning problem interc.pt/2PmLs0M by Sharon Lerner

This poor #poisonedplanet: we've been drenching it with a toxic cocktail. This has to stop Soil Association @PAN_UK #StateofNature theguardian.com/environment/20…

NEWS: Bayer fails to overturn Neonic insecticide ban, court rules that the EC has wide remit to take precautionary action to prevent pesticides from causing environmental harm. George Monbiot Dave Goulson Craig Bennett Rebecca Pow Ben Goldsmith buglife.org.uk/news/eu-court-…

Proud of @AlexHBritten & @sarcoma_moaner 💕 mobile.twitter.com/ShineCancerSup…

Please retweet! So far we have raised £118,570 of our £150k target :) There are only 6 Days left to invest via @ethexuk. Our members made this video to explain what Bunker Housing Co-op means to us. An investment in Bunker is an investment in people making change! ethex.org.uk/invest/bunkerh…