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The BMJ @bmj.com · 16d

"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/...

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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · 15d

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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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 8d

The Royal Society has met to discuss Elon Musk – and they’re NOT removing his fellowship. They are criticising him publicly, but stopping short of actual removal.

This feels like the kind of compromise that will please *absolutely nobody*.

“I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish. Today at a meeting of the Royal Society’s Council, I led a discussion regarding some of those threats.

“Science thrives when individuals and institutions have the freedom to carry out research without fear of discrimination, censorship, or other restrictions that would hinder their work. In support of that, Council believes that it is not the role of the Royal Society to police the personal political opinions of individual Fellows and disciplinary procedures should not be initiated because of a Fellow’s social and political views.

“However, the Society can and will criticise Fellows who act in a way that runs counter to the values of tolerance, courtesy and respect for others that allow science to flourish. Elon Musk’s contribution to the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally is an example of a growing tendency towards the use of the language of violence, and narratives of division and polarisation. This language and these narratives threaten the values that enable science to thrive and the Royal Society rejects them, from wherever they originate.”

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 9d

Asking my hairdresser to provide unlimited haircuts for less than £3 a week, including online booking & an immediate response to emergency shave at 1min before closing

That’s a NO😂😂

Meanwhile the GP practice - Wes says you must do all that & more

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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · 15d

“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...

www.bmj.com

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Rammina 🌍 @ramminay.bsky.social · 15d

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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Hilary Neve @hilary-neve.bsky.social · 23d

Brilliant action, thank you

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · Sep 8

Aaaand they’ve just covered it up.

Which is just another layer of irony…

…given that this is state action against protest about state action against protest.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · Sep 7

BREAKING: 857 total arrested for sign holding yesterday

Sign up for October - wedonotcomply.org

One of the biggest acts of civil disobedience in British history, sending a clear and powerful message to new Home Secretary.

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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

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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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · Aug 26

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage.

Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants.

Don't fall for it.

MIGRANTS AREN'T THE PROBLEM
INEQUALITY IS
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · Aug 25

Aug 26, 1965 - “Climatic Change appears to be underway” – the commencement speech that should have rocked the world

Carl Borgmann at University of Tennessee;
"CO2... traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely”

allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/25/c...

“Climatic Change appears to be underway, in fact.” - the 1965 commencement speech that should have rocked the world. - All Our Yesterdays

Sixty years ago today, n Thursday August 26th 1965, Carl W. Borgmann stood in front of hundreds of young Americans in Knoxville. Borgmann, who was the director of the Ford Foundation’s Science and Eng...

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Aug 9

When he was running to be Labour leader Keir Starmers campaign video boasted that he had stood up for protesters when the full force of the state was against them.

Today his govt is arresting a disabled blind man for holding a placard.

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Hilary Neve @hilary-neve.bsky.social · Aug 9

What shocking damage this is doing our "democracy". Wasting public funds arresting hundreds, including health workers, for terrorism when they are simply protesting against the bombing and starvation of millions, including their health care colleagues.

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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 · Aug 9

4🧵Emergency Nurse Leigh Evans, who has worked in the Palestinian territories including Gaza and who is participating in today's protest added that: “We are not servants of nations — we serve humanity. Our duty to care knows no borders, no politics.”

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · Aug 4

Adani is the world's largest private coal developer and its corporate abuses are legion

Yet somehow @sciencemuseum.org.uk sees fit to launder its reputation by letting it sponsor its 'Green Futures' exhibition

Adani! I don’t want to say I told you so but … Actually yes I do. I told you so! | First Dog on the Moon

The Adani coal mine has been operating for three years and has paid zero corporate tax. I for one am shocked

www.theguardian.com

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Hilary Neve @hilary-neve.bsky.social · Jul 28

x.com/kennardmatt/... This is brillant

Matt Kennard on X: "Important https://t.co/ZxmFfdSyw1" / X

Important https://t.co/ZxmFfdSyw1

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · Jul 27

The the times they are a changin.
Veggie option 10,09€/kg
Climate change option 12,38€/kg

Discounter ad, Veggie burger pattie option 10,09€/kg
Climate change option 12,38€/kg

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · Jul 20

The ban on international media to enter Gaza continues.

The livestream of horrors from #Gaza goes on despite the ban, for 650 days.

No one can claim they didn’t know.

UNRWA teams work although they themselves are starving and exhausted.

Lift the siege, allow UNRWA to bring in supplies.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · Jul 21

What idiot in No. 10 thought making martyrs was a good idea
"Some arrested across the UK are already being released. Arrested, accused of 'terrorism', carted away in police vans, then released hours later without charge - is this what Labour want their legacy to be?
Lift The Ban"
wedonotcomply.org

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · Jul 23

LIFT THE BAN
www.wedonotcomply.org

Watch as this young man explains in 30seconds why the de-proscribing of Palestine Action is a democratic and moral imperative.

This is the reason hundreds are willing to risk absurd “terrorism” charges for holding simple truthful signs.

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