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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/st... @getup.org.au
Stop the Big Banks Profiting from Poverty
Because what happened here isn’t an error. It shows how easily money can be taken from people who have the least ability to absorb the loss.
For someone living on a pension or low income, a “small fee...
petitions.getup.org.au
December 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/st... @getup.org.au
Tell the EU: Ban Octopus Farms action.eko.org/a/eu-wide-ba...
action.eko.org
October 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Tell the EU: Ban Octopus Farms action.eko.org/a/eu-wide-ba...
President Ramaphosa: back the billionaire tax at the G20! action.eko.org/a/president-...
President Ramaphosa: back the billionaire tax at the G20!
Right now, the world stands at a crossroads: billionaires are hoarding obscene wealth while millions struggle just to survive.But for the first time ever, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has
action.eko.org
October 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
President Ramaphosa: back the billionaire tax at the G20! action.eko.org/a/president-...
Tell Apple to Stop Fueling Destruction in the Cerrado NOW action.eko.org/a/apple-stop...
Apple: Stop fueling biomes destruction for carbon credit
Brazil’s Cerrado is burning so Apple can call its phones “carbon-neutral.” Fast-growing eucalyptus plantations, bankrolled by Apple’s offset budget, are swallowing savanna, draining water tables, and
action.eko.org
September 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Tell Apple to Stop Fueling Destruction in the Cerrado NOW action.eko.org/a/apple-stop...
Two poems that feel especially apt
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open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Two poems that feel especially apt
One from the ruins of World War I, the other from the gathering storm of World War II
open.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Two poems that feel especially apt
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
The best review/obituary of Brian Wilson’s music and career that I’ve read so far. Thank you Alexis Petridis 🤗
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Whether wistful or euphoric, Brian Wilson made pop’s most overwhelmingly beautiful music
He was the Beach Boys’ resident genius, seeping melancholy into even peppy teenybopper hits. Beyond all the myths about his life, that brilliance is still intoxicating
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The best review/obituary of Brian Wilson’s music and career that I’ve read so far. Thank you Alexis Petridis 🤗
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Protect elephants: keep the global ivory ban
action.eko.org/a/keep-globa...
action.eko.org/a/keep-globa...
Protect elephants: keep global ivory ban!
Elephants are being slaughtered so their tusks can be turned into trinkets. And now, some governments want to make it legal. Japan and South Africa are pushing to overturn the global ivory trading ban
action.eko.org
June 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Protect elephants: keep the global ivory ban
action.eko.org/a/keep-globa...
action.eko.org/a/keep-globa...
This Nazi anthem is going viral and inspiring global dance parties of hate. Meta and X aren’t stopping it. Let’s force them to follow their own rules and act. action.eko.org/a/instagram-...
Stop Instagram's Hitler Dance Party
I just watched Ye’s new music video and I feel sick to my stomach. As a Jew and a mother I can’t believe this garbage is going viral. It’s a dark room of people singing Heil Hitler over and over again
action.eko.org
May 27, 2025 at 6:14 AM
This Nazi anthem is going viral and inspiring global dance parties of hate. Meta and X aren’t stopping it. Let’s force them to follow their own rules and act. action.eko.org/a/instagram-...
Billionaire Death Cult www.monbiot.com/2025/04/28/b...
This is excellent writing & reporting. The US, the UK, Australia next? – already things in the Death Cult playlist are happening in Australian legislation.
But George! You have not had a futile career! You are an inspiration. Thank you 🥰
This is excellent writing & reporting. The US, the UK, Australia next? – already things in the Death Cult playlist are happening in Australian legislation.
But George! You have not had a futile career! You are an inspiration. Thank you 🥰
Billionaire Death Cult
This new legislation is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems in living memory.
www.monbiot.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Billionaire Death Cult www.monbiot.com/2025/04/28/b...
This is excellent writing & reporting. The US, the UK, Australia next? – already things in the Death Cult playlist are happening in Australian legislation.
But George! You have not had a futile career! You are an inspiration. Thank you 🥰
This is excellent writing & reporting. The US, the UK, Australia next? – already things in the Death Cult playlist are happening in Australian legislation.
But George! You have not had a futile career! You are an inspiration. Thank you 🥰
The Urge to Destroy www.monbiot.com/2025/04/14/t...
This man spells things out with great clarity and speaks my mind!
This man spells things out with great clarity and speaks my mind!
The Urge to Destroy
It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why.
www.monbiot.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
The Urge to Destroy www.monbiot.com/2025/04/14/t...
This man spells things out with great clarity and speaks my mind!
This man spells things out with great clarity and speaks my mind!
Save the Ula Belaga forest from palm oil deforestation action.eko.org/a/save-ula-b...
Save the Ulu Belaga Forest
Indigenous Forest Defenders put their bodies on the line to blockade encroaching palm oil plantations in the beautiful Ulu Belaga forest in Malaysian Borneo. Then, they were hauled into the police sta
action.eko.org
April 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Save the Ula Belaga forest from palm oil deforestation action.eko.org/a/save-ula-b...
Trump only simulates madness
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open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Trump only simulates madness
The rest of us pay the price
open.substack.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Trump only simulates madness
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open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Move over, humans—beavers are saving the day! In a remarkable twist, these natural engineers have completed the dams needed to protect the Klabava River south of Prague, a project that had been stalled since 2018 due to financial and bureaucratic hurdles.
Beavers Built a $1.2M Dam for Free — And Saved a Czech River
A Czech project that was stalled for years is now completed — by beavers.
www.zmescience.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Move over, humans—beavers are saving the day! In a remarkable twist, these natural engineers have completed the dams needed to protect the Klabava River south of Prague, a project that had been stalled since 2018 due to financial and bureaucratic hurdles.
This is how Jewish trauma gets passed down.
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open.substack.com/pub/futureof...
This is how Jewish trauma gets passed down.
We did not originally think we were “gap year in Israel” people. I need to start there, because this is a story about Israel, and not Bermuda or France.
open.substack.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This is how Jewish trauma gets passed down.
open.substack.com/pub/futureof...
open.substack.com/pub/futureof...
Only now am I beginning to feel that I can deal with this. Chérie left me with many wonderful memories and a marvelous family – and some challenges, including finishing a rather ambitious book project.
Stay tuned!
Stay tuned!
January 16, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Only now am I beginning to feel that I can deal with this. Chérie left me with many wonderful memories and a marvelous family – and some challenges, including finishing a rather ambitious book project.
Stay tuned!
Stay tuned!
Well, FWIW, I've got big plans for revamping my, ahem, social media presence but I need to finish making sure that I can get sufficient income to continue living where I do after losing my partner in life for nearly 46 years, Chérie Hoyle, died just over a year ago on 12th January 2024.
January 16, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Well, FWIW, I've got big plans for revamping my, ahem, social media presence but I need to finish making sure that I can get sufficient income to continue living where I do after losing my partner in life for nearly 46 years, Chérie Hoyle, died just over a year ago on 12th January 2024.