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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Sep 5

🚨 REFORM. DISTRUPTED. 🚨

Tax Nigel's super-rich mates out of existence!

Reform members violently assault Abolish Billionaires activists as we call Farage out.

No amount of masquerading as a man-of-the-people can hide the reality, Nigel Farage is a billionaire-backed, private school, banker.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · Apr 29

Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Phasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy – UK politics live

‘Any strategy based on either phasing out fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail,’ says former PM

www.theguardian.com

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Apr 30

📍 Private Jets Conference

Tax the super-rich out of existence. Use their obscene wealth to fund climate action.

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Apr 15

🎉 If you're in London - please join us! Sign up to a welcome talk.

🎁 If you live outside of London but want to give us a birthday present, you can chip in to fund our activism.

Here's the link to do either:
linktr.ee/climateresis...

Lots of love,
Climate Resistance x

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Apr 9

BREAKING: we've projected our demand to tax the super rich straight onto Parliament!

It's time to tax billionaires out of existence and use their extreme wealth to fund welfare, communities, and climate action!

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 24

This is not an accident.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Tax the super-rich out of existence.

Fund climate action.

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 24

Billionaires emit more climate-wrecking pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime.

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 24

We are on track for at least five trillionaires within a decade.

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 24

The emissions produced by the richest 1% between 2015 and 2019 will cause 1.5 million deaths by 2120.

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 24

Billionaire wealth is increasing by $2.7 billion every day.

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 24

The richest 1% emit as much planet-heating pollution as the poorest two-thirds of people.

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 24

60% of billionaire wealth is from inheritance, corruption, cronyism or monopolies.

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 24

It would take 1500 years for one of us in the bottom 99% to produce as much climate-wrecking pollution as the world’s richest billionaires do in one year.

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 24

The world’s richest 1% own more wealth than the poorest 95% of humanity. 🧵

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 19

Help us tax the climate-wrecking super-rich out of existence. If you're in London:

📣 Come to a welcome talk to get involved in the campaign
actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

📣Join us at the 'Tax the Super-Rich' rally, 5-7pm on Tues 25 April, outside the Treasury
actionnetwork.org/events/rally...

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 18

🚨BREAKING: We disrupted Kemi Badenoch because the Tories champion the interests of billionaires.

The super-rich are profiting from poverty, torching the planet & rigging our politics.

It's time to tax the super-rich out of existence & use their wealth to fund climate action.

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 17

BREAKING: We disrupted Kemi Badenoch because the Tories champion the interests of billionaires.

The super-rich are profiting from poverty, torching the planet & rigging the system in their favour.

It's time to tax the super-rich out of existence & use their wealth to fund climate action.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Mar 17

BREAKING: Two protesters have been removed from a speech by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch.

The pair shouted 'abolish billionaires' and slammed the cost-of-living in the UK.

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 15

A billionaire emits a million times more greenhouse gases than the average person, according to Oxfam.

Yes, you read that right.

Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 13

📢TAX THE SUPER-RICH, DON'T SLASH PUBLIC SPENDING

On the eve of the budget, we'll join NGOs, campaigners & trade unionists outside the Treasury to make our message heard by the Chancellor.

Join us ➡️ actionnetwork.org/events/rally...

⏰5-7pm
📅Tue 25 March
📍1 Horse Guards Rd

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 13

📢TAX THE SUPER-RICH, DON'T SLASH PUBLIC SPENDING

On the eve of the budget, we'll join NGOs, campaigners & trade unionists outside the Treasury to make our message heard by the Chancellor.

Join us ➡️ actionnetwork.org/events/rally...

⏰5-7pm
📅Tue 25 March
📍1 Horse Guards Rd

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 10

Great work!!

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Boycott Bloody Insurance @insuranceboycott.bsky.social · Mar 10

EXPOSED: 💥The insurance companies complicit in the genocide and dispossession of the Palestinian people. boycottbloodyinsurance.org/reports/

Read the report and pressure your local institutions to switch insurers!

🍉 #BoycottBloodyInsurance

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 5

On Saturday, we targeted Elon Musk with an occupation of a Tesla showroom...

The super-rich profit from poverty, torch the planet, and rig the system in their favour — it’s time to tax them out of existence and use that wealth to fund climate action.

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 3

#ElonMusk and the world's richest 1% own more wealth than the poorest 95% of humanity and emit as much planet-heating pollution as the poorest two-thirds of people put together.

Tax them out of existence. Spend their obscene wealth on climate action.

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 1

Richest 1% emit as much planet-heating pollution as the poorest two-thirds of people of people combined- and they own more wealth than 95% of humanity.

Tax them out of existence. Fund our future.

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Climate Resistance @climateresistance.bsky.social · Mar 1

There's so many reasons to hate #Elon, even the Daily Mail couldn't fit them all in...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Climate protesters occupy Elon Musk's Tesla showroom in Westfield

Dozens of Climate Resistance protesters occupied Tesla in Westfield, White City, London on Saturday in the latest misfortune to hit Elon Musk and his electric car firm.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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