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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 22h

"Big Tech firms...exploited people’s data; and now their tools are helping governments wage war." - @privacyinternational.org

We're glad to be part of an important new project alongside PI & other partners challenging the Militarisation of Tech: www.privacyinternational.org/campaigns/mi...

Challenging the Militarisation of Tech | Privacy International

War and conflict must not dominate our societies and technologies.

www.privacyinternational.org

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 10d

Today is #WorldAbortionDay. Ouselves, @corporatewatch.bsky.social and @all4choice.bsky.social reported on Stanton, an anti-abortion 'clinic' in Belfast. Funded by dark money, Stanton are reported to have engaged in bullying, coercion & harassment to dissuade women from terminating pregnancies.

Stanton Healthcare: Evangelical Anti-Abortion Network Targeting Migrants and Refugees - Corporate Watch

Rogue anti-abortion clinic in Belfast targetting refugees and vulnerable women run by right-wing Christian networks and funded by dark-money.

corporatewatch.org

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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 18d

The London Anarchist Bookfair is currently LIVE in Waterloo. There's a ton of great looking workshops on all day - come on down to our stall to say hi and check out all the great literature on display! anarchistbookfair.london/talks/

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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · Aug 20

No Palantir in the NHS and Corporate Watch reveal the real story behind Palantir's NHS data platform rolllout in a NEW REPORT out now!
corporatewatch.org/foi-requests...

#NoPalantirintheNHS
@medact.bsky.social @justtreatment.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social @foxglovelegal.bsky.social

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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · Aug 15

See you there!

Prof Richard Betts @richardabetts.bsky.social · Aug 13

Climate discussion at the Beautiful Days festival in Devon this weekend

Josie Baker (PhD student)
Sarah Lunnon (co-founder, Just Stop Oil)
Will Page (community volunteer)
and me

Plus music from Bearsong

12 - 2pm Saturday in the Rebel Tent - if you're there, come along and join the conversation!

Poster for event at the Beautiful Days festival in the Rebel Tent. Fair and Just Climate Action, Discussion, Saturday 12-2pm. Photos of 5 people: Mark Hedley AKA Bearsong playing a guitar; Josie Baker; Will Page; Sarah Lunnon; Prof Richard Betts

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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · Aug 15

Join us this weekend at @beautifuldaysfest.bsky.social at The Rebel Tent alongside some legends including Franck Magennis, Lowkey, @mattkennard.bsky.social @craigmurrayorg.bsky.social @asawinstanley.com, @zarahsultana.bsky.social @jackiewalker.bsky.social @richardbetts.bsky.social and Mark Chadwick

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frecklescorp @frecklescorp.bsky.social · Jul 24

Remember to tell friends and colleagues - esp if they work with potential abortion seekers, Stanton are NOT an abortion clinic. They are closely affiliated with Precious Life and funded by an anti-abortion organisation in USA with the same name. @corporatewatch.bsky.social @enddbelfast.bsky.social

Alliance for Choice @all4choice.bsky.social · Jul 18

Stanton Healthcare: Evangelical Anti-Abortion Network Targeting Migrants and Refugees

End Deportations Belfast Alliance for Choice and Corporate Watch have joined forces to uncover some of the shady links and dark money connected to Stanton Healthcare

📰 buff.ly/qVBNRVi

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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · Jul 24

The drones being used by the Greek Coastguard/Frontex to harass the #handala are likely to be Israel Aerospace Industries' Heron drones. So, Israeli weaponry is being used by Europe to hinder human rights activists reaching Gaza...
defenceredefined.com.cy/hellenic-coast

Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · Jul 23

Day 4: Tan Safi on board 'Handala'.
Follow 'Handala' here: freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/
#BreakTheSiege #ForTheChildrenofGaza

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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · Jul 24

🤔Is your MP a friend of Israel?

Good time for a reminder of @declassifieduk.org's incredibly important work tracking MPs who've received funding from Israeli lobbyists (full list at the bottom): www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby...

Israel lobby funded a quarter of British MPs

Exclusive: Declassified is publishing the full list of British MPs who received funding from pro-Israel lobbyists.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · Jul 17

Trans health webinar from @medact.bsky.social this evening.
www.medact.org/event/trans-...

Trans Health Justice - Medact Calendar

Trans healthcare in the UK is under increasing attack. Join us to hear from activists on building resistance grounded in solidarity and justice.

www.medact.org

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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · Jul 17

This Mon July 21st, from 7-8.30pm, join the No Palantir in the NHS campaign onboarding call and see how you can push back against this disgusting big tech company getting its hands on your patient data #NoPalantirintheNHS

Medact @medact.bsky.social · Jul 17

Join the worker-led movement to end complicity in genocide!
www.medact.org/event/welcom...

Welcome call: join the No Palantir in the NHS campaign - Medact Calendar

Join HW4FP UK's welcome call to find out how you can start campaigning and organising against Palantir in your community and workplace.

www.medact.org

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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · Jul 17

Check out the open letter here www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2025/open-le...

Open Letter: Say no to the UK government funding Drax to power data centres – biofuelwatch

www.biofuelwatch.org.uk

Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · Jul 17

We've just signed the open letter to Peter Kyle and @feryalclark.bsky.social ‬at DSIT calling on the government to reject Drax Power Station's bid to burn even more trees to power AI Data Centres - It doesn't take AI to figure out that burning trees to power data centres isn't clean or green!

Background - Drax power station's smoking chimneys, foreground white text on red background in a box reading "We've just signed the open letter to Peter Kyle and Feryal Clark at DSIT calling on the government to reject Drax Power Station's bid to burn even more trees to power Artificial Intelligence Data Centres - It doesn't take artificial intelligence to figure out that burning trees to power data centres isn't clean or green!

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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · Jul 16

Really excellent, methodical research with useful facts, figures and analysis on charter deportations from William Walters and Travis Van Isacker - now out here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · Jul 16

NEW report out in collab with @all4choice.bsky.social @enddbelfast.bsky.social <3

Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · Jul 11

A Belfast advice clinic has been “targeting vulnerable women coming from warzones” with anti-abortion rhetoric, a report has claimed.

Belfast abortion advice clinic ‘targeting vulnerable women from warzones’, report claims

A Belfast advice clinic has been “targeting vulnerable women coming from warzones” with anti-abortion rhetoric, a report has claimed.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · Jul 11

..money & US evangelical links, the joint report from @corporatewatch.bsky.social, @all4choice.bsky.social and End Deportations Belfast raise concerns that the clinic could be targeting marginalised women, including refugees fleeing war. Read the full report. [2/2]

Stanton Healthcare: Evangelical Anti-Abortion Network Targeting Migrants and Refugees - Corporate Watch

Rogue anti-abortion clinic in Belfast targetting refugees and vulnerable women run by right-wing Christian networks and funded by dark-money.

corporatewatch.org

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · Jul 10

End Deportations Belfast, @all4choice.bsky.social and @corporatewatch.bsky.social have joined forces to uncover some of the shady links and dark money connected to Stanton Healthcare Belfast, a rogue ‘crisis pregnancy’ centre that’s been operating in the north of Ireland since 2016.

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Stanton Healthcare: The Evangelical Anti-abortion network targeting migrants and refugees. Read full report in thread.

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Alliance for Choice @all4choice.bsky.social · Jul 10

Alliance for Choice, @enddbelfast.bsky.social and @corporatewatch.bsky.social have launched a new report today on Stanton Healthcare Belfast, which is part of a network of dark-money funded, Christian-right, anti-abortion centres operating internationally. corporatewatch.org/stanton-belf...

Stanton Healthcare: the evangelical anti-abortion network targeting migrants and refugees.

Rogue health clinic, Stanton Healthcare Belfast, is part of a network of dark-money
funded, Christian-right, anti-abortion centres operating internationally.

It presents itself as a health and abortion centre, however numerous clients report
having experienced bullying and coercion to dissuade them from terminating their
pregnancies.

Case studies on one of Stanton’s websites boast about working with Sudanese and
Ukrainian women and it says the majority of its clients are migrants. Campaigners for
women and migrant rights in Belfast are concerned that the organisation is targeting
vulnerable women coming from war zones.

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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · Jul 10

🚨NEW REPORT OUT NOW🚨 with @all4choice.bsky.social and @enddbelfast.bsky.social

Rogue health clinic, Stanton Healthcare Belfast, is part of a network of anti-abortion centres in the US - backed by dark money - that are targeting vulnerable women locally.

corporatewatch.org/stanton-belf...

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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · Jun 24

Frea from Corporate Watch will be speaking at the Apocalypse Museum on Saturday at #glastonbury2025. If you're around, pop along & check out the series of important talks that are on! @darrencullen.bsky.social

Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · Jun 4

NEW: TRACK PALANTIR TECH IN YOUR LOCAL HOSPITAL!

As a Palantir boss proudly boasts that their tech kills Palestinians and helps ICE deport people, NHS England wants their AI to manage your health data - we can stop them.

Track: bit.ly/FDP-rollout
Submit: forms.fillout.com/t/fVeENNvTr1us
#Palantir

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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · May 29

This is the second in our series of guides for groups organising against corporate power, and follows 'Who's in Control?', a beginner's, step-by-step manual to investigating the individuals and businesses behind a brand: corporatewatch.org/product/whos...

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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · May 29

Pdf version available here: corporatewatch.org/wp-content/u...

corporatewatch.org

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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · May 29

*NEW*: Are you a campaigner digging into corporate or state power? Then check out our free, handy little guide to using search engines like a pro. We occasionally include some of this stuff in our trainings and it always surprises people! corporatewatch.org/so-you-think... #fighttowin

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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · May 21

Research done by passionate healthworkers and patients involved in the #NoPalantirintheNHS campaign across England reveals the real state of the #FederatedDataPlatform

The Register @theregister.com · May 16

Some English hospitals doubt Palantir's utility: We'd 'lose functionality rather than gain it'

After UK spends hundreds of millions, several say existing systems are better English hospitals are voicing their concern about the functionality provided by Palantir, the US spy-tech firm that won a £330 million ($437 million) deal to run the Federated Data Platform for NHS England, as around a third of trusts go live on the system.…

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