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Extinction Rebellion BCP @xrbcp.bsky.social · 6h

🌍✊ XR BCP Monthly Meeting – November ✊🌍
“Courage is contagious. Once one person stands up, others stand up too.” – Greta Thunberg

📅 Thurs 13 Nov | 🕢 7:30pm | 📍 The Branksome Crafthouse, Bournemouth

Join us to plan bold, creative actions for 2025 💥
New faces always welcome – come find your people 💚

Extinction Rebellion BCP @xrbcp.bsky.social · 1d

🌍✊ March for Climate Justice! ✊🌍
From Poole Park to Poole Quay, we stood in solidarity for people, animals & planet, calling out Perenco’s harm and demanding justice for communities from Dorset to the Global South.
There is no climate justice without decolonisation, reparations & animal liberation 💚

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

“The people outside looked from Tory to Labour, and from Labour to Tory, and from Tory to Labour again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Apologies to George Orwell (Animal Farm)

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Revealed: Labour-run council using legal loophole to serve families with no-fault evictions

Exclusive: London council created an arm’s-length body to manage some of its housing stock

www.theguardian.com

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Extinction Rebellion BCP @xrbcp.bsky.social · 2d

🖤🌍 IT’S TOMORROW! 🌍🖤
March for Climate Justice – XR BCP & Friends
📅 Sat 11 Oct | 🕛 Midday | 📍 Poole Park

If you care about justice for people, animals & planet — be there.
This #BlackHistoryMonth we march in solidarity with communities worldwide. 🌿
All welcome. United, we are powerful. 💚

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 2d

💩 WESSEX WATER: DUMPING SEWAGE, RAISING BILLS, PAYING DIVIDENDS 🚨

In 2024:
43,931 sewage spills
404,880 hours = 47 years of pollution
🤑 £4.25 BILLION to shareholders since privatisation
£69.9M in 2023 - £188 per hour of sewage

#WaterBills
#WessexWater

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Millions in England face higher water bills after regulator backs more price rises

Competition watchdog agrees to requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, South East, Southern and Wessex to increase charges

www.theguardian.com

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 3d

Tim Crosland offers a first-hand account of his recent treatment by police and reflects on what these escalating clampdowns mean for democracy and justice in the UK.

- @BylineTimes

youtu.be/VeGEKQ1SLRI

Meet the Ex-Goverment Lawyer Arrested under the Terrorism Act...

YouTube video by Byline TV

youtu.be

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 4d

UK intelligence chiefs warn that the climate & nature crisis poses a severe threat to UK national security.

Food shortages and economic turmoil around the corner.

That’s why national security is central to the National Emergency Briefing, 27 Nov.
👉 nebriefing.org
Forewarned is forearmed

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 5d

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ and systemic problems, study says

- Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Extinction Rebellion BCP @xrbcp.bsky.social · 7d

🖤🌍 THIS SATURDAY! 🌍🖤
DECOLONISE NOW: March for Climate Justice
📅 Sat 11 Oct | 🕛 Midday | 📍 Poole Park

We march for people, animals & planet — and against the colonial roots of the climate crisis.
Bring your banners, drums & love for justice. 🌿 United, we are powerful.

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Extinction Rebellion BCP @xrbcp.bsky.social · 11d

🌍✊ XR BCP Monthly Meeting – Oct ✊🌍
📅 Thurs 9 Oct | 7:30pm | Southbourne

Join us to plan bold actions + community activities for 2025. Open to all – new or returning. Acting together makes a difference and helps ease climate anxiety.

🌱 If not you, who? If not now, when?

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Extinction Rebellion BCP @xrbcp.bsky.social · 13d

Don't suppose she's worked out how to motivate and mobilise everyone? 🤔

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 13d

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 13d

HEATQUAKE!

Originally published this month in BBC Science Focus magazine, you can now read my new piece on how climate change drives earthquakes on my substack #CoolEarth blog here

billmcguire.substack.com/p/heatquakes

HEATQUAKES

Climate change isn't just heating the planet, it's shaking the Earth's foundations

billmcguire.substack.com

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Extinction Rebellion BCP @xrbcp.bsky.social · 14d

⏰ Only 2 weeks to go!
🖤🌍 MARCH FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE 🌍🖤
📅 Sat 11 Oct | 🕛 Midday | 📍 Poole Park → Poole Quay

Join XR BCP & friends to march in solidarity with communities worldwide fighting climate colonialism & injustice. Bring banners, drums & voices — all are welcome. United, we are powerful. 🌈✊

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 17d

Save the River Avon‼️ Object to Intensive Fish Farm, Wiltshire.

This is about a fish farm near Salisbury which will pollute the Avon - a precious chalk stream. (Hold down the send email button until it generates an email - takes a few seconds)

www.caff.org.uk/downton

Downton — The Coalition Against Factory Farming

Intensive farming of fish in Downton, Salisbury, Wiltshire

www.caff.org.uk

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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 19d

Why, @bcpcouncil.bsky.social ?
westcountryvoices.co.uk/new-report-r...

New Report Raises Alarm Over BCP Council’s Use of Harmful Pesticides – 96 per cent of Chemicals Used are Toxic to Aquatic Life

A new independent review of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council’s weed management programme has raised serious concerns about the widespread use of pesticides and herbicides across Bourn...

westcountryvoices.co.uk

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 23d

The obscenity of the Starmer government's campaign to wipe out British nature continues

Expect thousand of new homes to be built on flood plains too - and flooded out within a decade

A perfect lesson in how not to govern

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ministers tell Environment Agency to wave planning applications through

Exclusive: Officials say they have been told to do as little as legally possible to prevent approvals for housebuilding

www.theguardian.com

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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 25d

Share like there's no tomorrow (which there might not be if the monsters stay in charge)
@thebulwark.com @adammockler.com @davidpakman.bsky.social @meidastouch.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEeS...

IN FULL | Trump-Epstein projection on Windsor Castle with complete commentary as four arrested

YouTube video by Daily Express

www.youtube.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26d

How do we fix this mess?

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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 26d

THE most polluting form of transport.
@xrbcp.bsky.social
westcountryvoices.co.uk/private-jets...

“Private Jets = Public Deaths”: the environmental impact highlighted by XR BCP at Bournemouth Airport's private jet terminal

According to Oxfam, private jets are the most polluting form of transport per passenger. A single flight from London to Paris on a private jet emits six times more CO₂ per passenger than a commercial ...

westcountryvoices.co.uk

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Rachel Coates @coatescan.bsky.social · 29d

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Christian Climate Action @cclimateaction.bsky.social · 29d

BREAKING: Climate protesters on the roof of #WinchesterCathedral dropping a banner with 'Stop Crucifying Creation' - a message for the Church of England to take real action on the climate and ecological emergency.

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Extinction Rebellion BCP @xrbcp.bsky.social · Sep 8

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2544698...

Residents call for end to 'climate timebomb' at UK wide day of action

BOURNEMOUTH residents gathered together calling for an end to a 'climate timebomb' as part of a 'nationwide day of action'.

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Sep 5

💚 Started this morning with the first formal meeting of the new Leadership Team!

🙌🏼 Working alongside our brilliant MPs, Assembly Members and councillors across England & Wales - @greenparty.org.uk are unstoppable.

👏🏼 Please give @rachelmillward.bsky.social & @mothinali.bsky.social a follow!

Rachel, Zack and Mothin smiling together on a rooftop.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Aug 27

Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵

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