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Health for XR
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The Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis. We are a group of healthcare professionals in support of Extinction Rebellion's key demands.
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · Aug 9
1🧵Today, UK health workers formed a health block in Parliament Square as part of protests against the government’s proscription of Palestine Action. Our central message: Medical duty must take precedence over unjust terrorism legislation - healthforxr.com/9th-august-2...
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · 13d
“We now need…the royal colleges, the GMC, the BMA & the NHS to fully support their members who feel compelled to take action. And we need them to raise their own voices loudly & clearly against the genocide & our government’s complicity in it”

Powerful piece in @bmj.com
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
I was arrested for peacefully protesting against genocide—why our medical leaders need to speak up
I have never been arrested before, but I went to London’s Parliament Square on 6 September with that as my sole objective. I am now one of over 1400 people, including at least 25 current and former UK...
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Rammina 🌍 @ramminay.bsky.social · 13d
Our letter calling for urgent reform of medical regulatory proceedings in @theguardian.com today.

It cannot be right that doctors who peacefully protest about the climate catastrophe face harsher disciplinary action than doctors found to be sexual predators.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Doctors’ tribunals are in need of urgent reform | Letter
Letter: While doctors found guilty of sexual misconduct have been allowed to return to work, others who participated in peaceful climate protests have faced prolonged suspensions, write Prof Hilary Ne...
www.theguardian.com
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · 13d
Doctors peacefully protesting the climate emergency face harsher sanctions than doctors who are sexual predators. Medical regulation needs urgent reform 🚨👇

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Doctors’ tribunals are in need of urgent reform | Letter
Letter: While doctors found guilty of sexual misconduct have been allowed to return to work, others who participated in peaceful climate protests have faced prolonged suspensions, write Prof Hilary Ne...
www.theguardian.com
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 15d
"Do health professionals have a special duty to speak up against the genocide? I think we do."

Fiona Godlee explains why she protested against events in Gaza and the government's proscription of Palestine Action
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Fiona Godlee
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · 18d
Health professionals join thousands in the march to Downing Street today, calling on the government to make polluters pay

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Make Polluters Pay @makepolluterspay.bsky.social · 18d
We're on the streets today to tell the Government #MakePollutersPay!

Oil and gas giants have made billions for the super-rich - driving up our bills and wrecking our climate. It’s time they paid to fix it! 🌍🔥💰

Our movement is growing fast and we're not going away!
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · 19d
Why do climate protestors get disciplined but sexual predators don’t?

The GMC appears to be fine with sexual assault, but uncomfortable with peaceful protest.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20d
UK doctors guilty of sexual misconduct are not being struck off, research finds
UK doctors guilty of sexual misconduct are not being struck off, research finds
Analysis reveals 24% of guilty doctors handed suspensions but are allowed to keep working in medicine UK doctors who are guilty of sexual misconduct are not being appropriately sanctioned due to weak disciplinary processes, research reveals. Nearly a quarter (24%) of doctors found guilty of sexual misconduct were handed suspensions but allowed to continue working in medicine, according to analysis of fitness to practice tribunals by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS). This is despite the regulator, the General Medical Council (GMC), recommending they be struck off the medical register. Continue reading...
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Fossil Free London @fossilfreeldn.bsky.social · 21d
IF YOU DRILL BABY DRILL 🇺🇲 HOW MANY WILL YOU KILL?

🚨BREAKING: We just disrupted Trump's oily backer's party - an exclusive Republican Overseas UK dinner, just around the corner from where Trump is staying - because his policies and their oily money is KILLING US
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The BMJ @bmj.com · Sep 8
The BMJ’s former editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, was arrested this weekend alongside over a dozen other healthcare workers at a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London while holding a sign reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Fiona Godlee
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Hilary Neve @hilary-neve.bsky.social · Sep 7
Amazing, brave health workers, arrested for protesting peacefully in support of the health workers and people of Gaza, and against violations of human rights, international law and UK complicity in the genocide.
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · Sep 7
Saying it like it is 👇👇👇
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Sep 6
If this doctor is a terrorist, then what is the IDF?
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Sep 6
If this doctor is a terrorist, then what is the IDF?
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · Sep 7
After 4 hours the police moved in, selecting an individual placard holder and, in groups of 12 or more, surrounding and arresting them. All 14 current and retired health professionals were arrested in turn, including Dr Fiona Godlee, previously Editor of the @bmj.com
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · Sep 7
Health workers sat in solidarity with Gazan health workers, 1400 of whom have been killed since the current crisis began. They sat behind a banner which read “Medical Duty > Terror law” citing the Geneva Conventions and UN Security Council Resolution 2286.

👉 healthforxr.com/6th-sept-202...
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Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social · Sep 6
@healthxr.bsky.social Thank you to brave principled health professionals, current & retired, who stood up today for care & protection for Palestinian people & for activists, supporting our freedom to protest peacefully. healthforxr.com/6th-sept-202...
6th Sept 2025: More Health Workers arrested at latest De-Proscription protest in solidarity with Gaza – Health for XR
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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · Aug 26
Very proud of this piece!

The world health community must acknowledge its responsibility: Restoring and protecting nature is crucial to restore and protect human health and the time for doing so is now.
#PlanetaryHealth
Moving beyond net-zero to a nature-positive healthcare sector
Three years have passed since the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), where the global health community united around the significant COP26 Health Programme.1 This initiative marked...
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · Aug 17
INSULATE BRITAIN 7 LOSE ‘FAIR TRIAL’ APPEAL

Appeal by those who acted to uphold the law was rejected by a criminal justice system that is protecting politicians who are breaking international criminal law.

insulatebritain.com/2025/08/15/i...
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · Aug 10
“We are trusted by our patients.

Because of that, I think it is so important healthcare professionals use their voices to [show] that we are not going to be implicit to injustices that fracture democracy & contravene human rights.”

www.pulsetoday.co.uk/views/guest-...
'Why I'm risking arrest as a GP over Palestine Action's ban'
One GP shares why they will be risking arrest at a protest against the Government's proscription for Palestine Action, and explains why healthcare workers participating in activism is so important
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · Aug 9
17🧵For reference please see the groups press release - healthforxr.com/9th-august-2...
9th August 2025: Health Workers Arrested in Palestine Action De-Proscription protest in solidarity with Gazan Health workers and to Defend International Humanitarian Law  – Health for XR
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · Aug 9
15🧵Health workers have an ethical and moral responsibility to act: to protect civilians, defend health care, and uphold international humanitarian law. If we do not stand for these principles in Gaza, they risk erosion everywhere.
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · Aug 9
14🧵The UN Human Rights Chief and other authorities have recognised this proscription as a dangerous abuse of state power, comparable to historic injustices against those who campaigned for health and justice.
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · Aug 9
13🧵Criminalising protestors who defend humanitarian law undermines the very legal foundations that protect all health workers in conflict. The right to protest is central to public health and democracy.
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · Aug 9
12🧵The silence of the medical profession in the face of genocide is not neutrality — it is complicity.
Our core principles — beneficence, non-maleficence, justice — demand active opposition to violations of humanitarian law.
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · Aug 9
11🧵The UK government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action, despite contrary advice from intelligence and civil service, was made without credible evidence of terror activity. Principle and evidence were set aside.
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · Aug 9
10🧵A Médecins Sans Frontières report published this month further provides eye witness testimony to call out the systematic use of violence and killing at the so called “Gaza Humanitarian foundation” aid distribution sites.
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