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Mary Marshall (UK green)

@greenmarykm.bsky.social

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IT Senior Software Tester, Green Party life member since 2015. Quaker & Community gardener at Hitchin Quakers who occasionally attempts to get elected to the local council 🙂 Personal green views.⬆️📸 is a short walk away🙂

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Mary Marshall (UK green) @greenmarykm.bsky.social · Aug 20

Worried that the other parties, especially the new "Your Party", gate keepers are going to prevent cooperation and let Reform storm it!

The proof will be the London elections due next year.

I'm not hopeful, listen to the 1st part of this podcast on what happened in 2019.
pca.st/episode/cd7e...

Ep 163 with Zack Polanski (Part 2)

pca.st

Mary Marshall (UK green) @greenmarykm.bsky.social · 2d

But Putin isn't Communist anymore. He just gives everything to his mates like everyone else!

🤫 Don't tell them about our yellow inclusion card ..

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 3d

On October 7th, we hold in our hearts all those whose lives have been lost and those who are still suffering, and pray for a just peace.

A prayer for 7 October

Find out about Quakers and how our faith translates into action.

www.quaker.org.uk

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Mary Marshall (UK green) @greenmarykm.bsky.social · 4d

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They DIDN'T Kick Me Out! Owen Jones Visits GREEN PARTY Conference

YouTube video by Owen Jones

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 5d

Listen to our National Co-director Rula Daood speak to tens of thousands of people at the anti-war rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday night. (1/2)

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Mary Marshall (UK green) @greenmarykm.bsky.social · 5d

Not really it was to 🤔.... give the whole thing a kick up the arse!

It's bad, this is disproportionately affecting the young and they are letting us know!

"Why the f**K aren't you getting on with doing something about it!"

Now it's up to the policy group....

Mary Marshall (UK green) @greenmarykm.bsky.social · 5d

Politically speaking, I feel squashed in a tin, like a sardine, with others of "the left".

There used to be more space. A spectrum of leftish thought from traditional "c"onservative observant CofE, love thy neighbour, Christian through to communism.

I'm a country mouse, I need more space!!😫

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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 5d

I think we need to say this, keep saying this, then say it again.

If more self-described Christians loved their neighbours like Jesus taught, the world would be a much better place.

Thee Quaker @theequaker.bsky.social · 5d

Today's Daily Quaker Message. Read the full quote: dailyquaker.com

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Mary Marshall (UK green) @greenmarykm.bsky.social · 5d

🤔Yes, in this case probably irrelevant.

What would happen if we kept up the flotitas?

Taking a leaf out of the migrants book
www.euronews.com/2025/10/05/e...

www.euronews.com

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 5d

It's a miracle nobody was hurt. Sending solidarity to the Muslim community in Sussex and across the UK, as well as the Jewish community who are still grieving from the appalling attack in Manchester. No one should EVER feel unsafe in their place of worship
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Police urged to seek clarity on whether hate crime fire at mosque was terrorism

The Green Party has called on police to seek clarity over the motives of the hate crime fire at Peacehaven’s mosque.

www.independent.co.uk

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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 5d

Police already have huge powers to restrict protests.

Handing them more would undermine our rights further while failing to keep people safe from violence like the horrific and heartbreaking anti-Semitic attack in Manchester.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests

The move is not a ban on protests but "about restrictions and conditions", Shabana Mahmood tells the BBC.

www.bbc.com

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 5d

Please help combat BBC news blackout of Green Party!
@zackpolanski.bsky.social was the only party leader not interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their party conference.
So please RT his cracking conference speech..

Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 7d

Whatever your party politics, @zackpolanski.bsky.social leaders speech deserves to be heard..

www.youtube.com/live/TZx9Vng...

Leader's Speech - Zack Polanski at Green Party Conference 2025

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

www.youtube.com

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Mary Marshall (UK green) @greenmarykm.bsky.social · 5d

Right! Everyone pile into the housing policy committee because we'll need to amend that to make it workable!

Mary Marshall (UK green) @greenmarykm.bsky.social · 5d

I spoke to the proposer afterwards...
Too young to remember the Byzantine bureaucracy of councils
The prejudice faced by council tenants
The backhanders to developers
The "slums" knocked down unnecessarily
The dream of a home of your own
Getting on with your own repairs...

elmo from sesame street is dancing with a stick in his hand

ALT: elmo from sesame street is dancing with a stick in his hand

media.tenor.com

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Paul Parker @rcquaker.bsky.social · 5d

There is no need for further restrictions to protest based on the concept of cumulative disruption. Repeated protests can be evidence of strength of feeling towards an ongoing injustice and are an important democratic mechanism for citizens to have their voices heard.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests

The move is not a ban on protests but

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mary Marshall (UK green) @greenmarykm.bsky.social · 5d

I would like you to interview @dalevince.com

Mary Marshall (UK green) @greenmarykm.bsky.social · 5d

😯 certainly more of us still voting for motions @greenparty.org.uk !

Mary Marshall (UK green) @greenmarykm.bsky.social · 5d

@quaker.org.uk MfW for 1 on Bournemouth beach before @greenparty.org.uk

Mary Marshall (UK green) @greenmarykm.bsky.social · 5d

It's right to call this an "Amazon Tax" I've been boycotting them for years but because everyone else just pays up its getting harder.😢

🥺Argos might be next to go....
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

www.theguardian.com

Mary Marshall (UK green) @greenmarykm.bsky.social · 6d

That's going to cost us an absolute fortune.

Those that do the job aren't going to be the nicest human beings.

It will be like living in the middle ages with gangs of marauding henchmen terrorising people for years afterwards.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration

www.theguardian.com

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Mary Marshall (UK green) @greenmarykm.bsky.social · 6d

I wonder..... Would it make neighbourhood action days when we pick up litter, report stuff and do a bit of tidying more fun. If we called them "Inspecting the Nuisances" action days🤣
Could have just the right amount of silly English eccentricity about it.🤣

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shanerosser.bsky.social @shanerosser.bsky.social · 6d

Green Party wade into protest action in Bournemouth

Green Party MPs, members and supporters including new leader Zack Polanski have formed a "red line for Palestine" along Bournemouth seafront.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 6d

I stand with the freedom loving people of Georgia in their protests against russia-installed government! You are not alone and not forgotten 🇬🇪❤️🇺🇦

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Mary Marshall (UK green) @greenmarykm.bsky.social · 6d

It wouldn't be @greenparty.org.uk if there wasn't a demo 🙂

Mary Marshall (UK green) @greenmarykm.bsky.social · 6d

Spotted on a statue outside conference.

🤣 Inspector of nuisances🤣

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 6d

I'm told GB News accredited half a dozen journalists to attend Green Party conference in Bournemouth - and none of them turned up. As one staffer puts it to me: "It's probably for the best..."

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