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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 10d

So far the best list of resources I've found about the intersection of disability and climate justice! ♿️✊️🌏

Thanks to @desibility.bsky.social for compiling this!
www.disabilitydebrief.org/climate-unde...

Climate and disability resource guide: understanding

Disabled perspectives, climate activism, and resources for education and research.

www.disabilitydebrief.org

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Strike Map @strikemap.org · Jul 25

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Five sites, one day. Not a wheel turned.

Victory to the Brum Bin workers.

#Megapickets work, pass it on.

#StrikeMap

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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · Jul 26

Workers are currently paying the price of Oil Refinery closure! We must say loud and clear: it is Oil giants who must pay #MakeThemPay

We need a #WorkerLed #JustTransition now! @unitetheunion.bsky.social

Unite - North East, Yorkshire and Humber @uniteneyh.bsky.social · Jul 24

It's not just our members and their families that rely on Lindsey Oil Refinery, but the supply chain and the local community.

Our members will not go down without a fight ✊

#UniteNEYH @unitetheunion.bsky.social

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Campaign against Climate Change trade union group @cacctu.bsky.social · Jul 11

🔥Next week, 14-20 July - HEAT STRIKE week of action.🔥
The UK STILL has no legal maximum working temperature.

How hot is it in your workplace? Take a thermometer in to check, put up a poster about health and safety at work, take a photo and post - hashtags #HeatStrike #TooHotToWork

heatstrike.uk

Hand holding flyer saying 'too hot to work - heat strike'

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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · Jul 8

The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty, conducted a visit to the United Kingdom from 30 June to 4 July 2025, and a report was released today, including his thoughts on the state of trans rights in the UK at the moment.

Read more here: www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jul 8

The committee seeks answers on:
· the lack of full impact assessments.
· the impact on women, younger people, and global majority people.
· the risk of increasing poverty rate.
· the inadequacy of the public consultation.
· the lack of involvement of deaf and disabled people’s organisations.

tbinternet.ohchr.org

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social · Jul 8

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨🚨🚨

The United Nations is calling for the UK Government to stop the Universal Credit (PIP) Bill because it will 'deepen the signs of regression' in disabled people's human rights.

tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/...

tbinternet.ohchr.org

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · Jun 9

The Government said it’d cost £99bn to publicly own our water.

But this drew on calculations by — drumroll — water company lobbyists. The true cost is closer to zero.

Here’s why. 🧵

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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · May 23

APPEAL: As ex-GKN Florence workers’ struggle grows stronger to produce cargo bikes and solar panels under workers control – help them raise 2 million euros to start production
✊️ All info ⬇️
tinyurl.com/GKNappealUK

Including link to event with GKN union rep DARIO SALVETTI
⏰️ Monday June 2 - 6.30pm

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Campaign against Climate Change trade union group @cacctu.bsky.social · May 22

This evening! Fringe meeting on Firefighters and the Climate Emergency at @fbunational.bsky.social conference.

Speakers inc. @fbu-ags.bsky.social
@claraunite.bsky.social

Firefighters and the Climate Emergency
Ben Selby, FBU Assistant General Secretary
Clara Paillard, Unite Grassroots Climate Justice Caucus & CACCTU
Chris Baugh, GMB Branch Chair
(personal capacity) & former Assistant General Secretary of PCS
Andy Warren, London FBU NE Area Organiser
Chair: Kasey LeGall, FBU B&EMM Secretary
Conference fringe meeting Thurs 22 May 6pm

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Jim Burke @barcajim3.bsky.social · May 21

Don't normally bother with shite like this but I felt that a vote for Gary Lineker and him winning the award would annoy all the right people

www.nationaltvawards.com/vote

Vote | National Television Awards

Choose your winners in this year’s National Television Awards

www.nationaltvawards.com

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · May 21

If you have been stopped, challenged or harassed when using a single-sex space (such as toilets or changing rooms) since the UK's Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act. We need to hear from you.

Let us know at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo25

#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ

Has it happened to you? Have you been questioned, stopped or challenged using a single-sex space since the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act? Let us know: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo25 Illustration of a toilet

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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · May 13

I've also joined the @GreenPartytu.bsky.social and I hope other may consider doing the same to ensure the Green Party moves further to the left and up their game on worker-led Just Transition

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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · May 13

I've decided to join the @Green.Party.org.uk as they are the only alternative Party I see to counter Reform and actuallly bring back Climate Justice to the centre of politics as Labour has totally failed for too long and is now a Party with racist and discriminatory policies.
join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party with the policies needed to tackle the climate crisis.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · May 12

The step-up in anti-migrant rhetoric from the government is shameful and dangerous.

Migrants are our neighbours, friends and family.

To suggest that Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers” because of immigration mimics the scaremongering of the far-right.

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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · May 4

RALLY: Demand A Workers' Transition
⏰️ Wednesday 14th May 8:30an - 9.30an
📍Outside UK Parliament
✊️ RSVP tinyurl.com/JustTransiti...

Climate activists and trade unionists are going to gather to demand a just energy transition is funded at the upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review

#JustTransition

RALLY: Just Transition Now

Rally outside UK Parliament: Demand the Government Fund a Just Transition On Wednesday 14th May at 8.30am climate activists and trade unionists are going to gather outside of Parliament to demand a j...

tinyurl.com

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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · Apr 30

Farage and Reform are not on side of the workers. Support our members building electric vehicles at Vauxhall Liverpool. The far right isn't on the side of jobs or working class communities. Share

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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · Apr 21

🚨FREE FATOU - ACTION NEEDED🚨

Fatou is due to be removed tomorrow on Royal Air Maroc’s flight at 18:10 from Heathrow.

PLEASE CALL AND EMAIL THE AIRLINE ASKING THEM TO REFUSE TO CARRY OUT THE REMOVAL.

☎️ phone/email script ⬇️
linktr.ee/FreeFatou

Free Fatou | Linktree

Our sister Fatou has been detained and we are demanding her release.

linktr.ee

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These Walls Must Fall @thesewallsmustfall.bsky.social · Apr 21

URGENT: Our friend Fatou Tamba has been taken from Derwentside detention to Heathrow to be deported to Gambia, where she faces persecution. This gov’t is trying to deport a vulnerable, innocent woman.
Royal Air Maroc AT801 + AT579
Tag & shame @RAM_Maroc — cancel this flight!

#Stopdeportation

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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · Apr 13

The Climate Crisis is a Working Class Issue - Building a Year of Trade Union Climate Action
⏰️ Online meeting Wed 7th May 7pm
✍️ Register actionnetwork.org/events/the-c...
Join the discussion on how we can build for a year of action, as agreed at TUC 2024 - in our unions, workplaces and communities ✊

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U.S. House Committee on Financial Services - Democrats @ushousefsc.bsky.social · Apr 9

Hours before his 90-day tariff pause announcement. The President of the United States is literally engaging in the world's biggest market manipulation scheme.

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Greater Manchester Law Centre @gmlawcentre.bsky.social · Apr 1

📢🚫NO to disability benefit cuts! #WelfareNotWarfare

GMLC staff and volunteers joined Manchester DPAC, GM Coalition of Disabled People, GM Tenants Union, Unite, Unison and others today in central Manchester to protest against the government's proposed attacks on disabled people's lives.

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Kim Johnson MP @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social · Mar 26

My full statement on today's Spring Statement:

#WelfareNotWarfare

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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · Mar 20

Charlie Mayfield, #KeepBritainWorking review boss, was invited by Today Radio 4 to talk about #Welfare cuts. Focus was on employer support for workers with mental health conditions. Well needed indeed but if you get ill, you go on occupational ir statutory sick pay not disability benefit #LCWRA

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · Mar 10

'Targeting “cost savings” on disability benefits is not only immoral, it is the opposite of everything a Labour government is supposed to be.'

My column for the @theipaper.com ...
inews.co.uk/opinion/what...

What Rachel Reeves should do instead of cutting benefits

Labour was founded as the party of the working class

inews.co.uk

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