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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · 4h

Spying on students for arms companies. It's despicable.

UK universities need to ask themselves who they really serve and protect - war profiteers and genocide enablers, or their students fighting for peace?

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely disgusting.

❌A British Ice to brutally enforce a hostile environment
❌ Tripling stop and search to intimidate
❌ Leave the European Court of Human Rights to remove rights and civil liberties

The agenda is clear: Sow hate and division.

A British Ice and more stop and search: Badenoch’s Tories set out new policies

Shadow ministers have announced far-reaching and often radical proposals – here is a roundup of some of them

www.theguardian.com

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · 13d

✨ BIG NEWS!

We're opening submissions for our next social justice campaign! ✊

Every six years, the People & Planet student network chooses its next social justice campaign - and the decision starts now.

Submit your idea: peopleandplanet.org/about/campai...

Text reads: Submit your new campaign ideas.People & Planet. Graphic shows students with megaphone on pink and purple background with lightbulb above them.

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · 21d

😃 Starting uni this month?

Join a People & Planet campaign on your campus to:
✅ Learn about climate & migrant justice
✅ Build campaigns on campus
✅ Get skilled up on how to make change
✅ Make friends for life
✅ ...Take down the capitalist, colonial, imperialist system! ✊

Collage of photos of student groups at freshers fairs and holding up banners. Text reads: Find us at your freshers' fair

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Sep 9

Want to uncover the ties between your university and the fossil fuel industry?

Interested in learning how academia is used to delay and distort climate action and policy?

Register now for one of our upcoming webinars! 👇
www.solid-sustainability.org/webinar-what...

Text reads: Webinar: What is the fossil fuel industry doing at my university? Two dates available: 10 September 12-13:00, 30 September 18-19:00 (UK time). Image shows megaphone, map of activity and logos of organisations hosting event.

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's simple. 👇

Image is split in two. First half shows dinghy with people aboard in life jackets. Text reads: Real threats don't arrive by dinghy. Second half shows small white plane landing. Text reads: They arrive by private jet.

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Sep 4

❌ Digital ID cards will do nothing but generate profits for tech giants at the expense of migrant rights and everyday freedoms.

Starmer considers digital ID cards in small boats crackdown

Top minister says Britain ‘behind the curve’ in roll out of national ID cards

www.independent.co.uk

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is nothing but despicable.

Refugee family reunion was one of the only glimmers of light in the UK's dark hostile environment.

To stop this avenue of migration is one of the cruellest forms of border violence you could enact.

‘It kept me going’: halt to refugee reunion scheme in UK shatters hopes

Afghan man seeking asylum and permission to bring wife to Britain describes shock at home secretary’s announcement

www.theguardian.com

People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Aug 29

This October, fossil fuel companies will be attending university careers fairs across the UK...

And we're building a movement to stop them!

✊ Join our online organising call at 5pm on 11 Sept to take part in the Fossil Free Careers Month of Action:
peopleandplanet.org/fossil-free-...

Images shows Sheffield University students disrupting their careers fair with banners. Text reads: Kick fossil fuel recruiters off campus. Get involved in the Month of Action this October! Online webinar. Thursday 11 September 2025. 17:00-18:00. There are no jobs on a dead planet. We demand a ban on fossil fuel companies at our university careers fair.

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Aug 28

❌ Another record-breaking year of scorching temperatures driven by the fossil fuel industry.

❌ Meanwhile UK universities invest in and invite big oil and gas companies to recruit at their careers fairs

They're complicit and we're calling it out. 🚨

Summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be UK’s warmest on record, Met Office says

Mean temperature is tracking at 16.13C after four heatwaves, significantly above current record of 15.76C

www.theguardian.com

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Aug 20

Students in Uganda are fighting construction of the world's longest heated oil pipeline - EACOP.

They are heroes for doing so but are being met with extreme force and violence.

Alex faces huge medical bills as a result. Please consider supporting him:
gofund.me/f11601c4

Donate to Help Waswa Alex Lyazi Heal and Keep Fighting for our Planet, organized by Maia Dartsch

Help Waswa Alex Lyazi Recover and Continue the Fight for Our … Maia Dartsch needs your support for Help Waswa Alex Lyazi Heal and Keep Fighting for our Planet

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Aug 12

🔥 MASSIVE MILESTONE!!!

22 students' unions, representing 500,000+ students have backed Fossil Free Careers!

This means:
❌ Banning oil, gas and mining companies from attending student union careers fairs and events
✊ Pushing the university to do the same!

Image of student union officers smiling with handmade cardboard placards. Text reads: Students' unions representing over half a million students back fossil free careers

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Jul 2

Email your elected politicians, bring a motion to your union branches or your student union, attend Palestine movement events to understand what’s happening. Talk to your colleagues, your friends, your family.

Together we must resist, and together, we can win.

People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Jul 2

Join demonstrations, sign the petitions by Palestine Action, contribute to the Crowdfunder for Palestine Action’s legal costs in challenging their proscription.

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Jul 2

People & Planet firmly opposes this proscription, and defends the right to protest. The government’s attempt to shut down resistance to the genocide in Palestine must be resisted.

We say it again: We are all Palestine Action.

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Jul 2

This is part of a wider, systemic silencing of Palestinian solidarity, reflected in the actions of all governments allied with the Israeli regime.

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Jul 2

This most recent attack on Palestine solidarity organising is part of a broader escalation in repression over the last few years. The UK Government has used ‘counter-terror’ policing and legislation in recent months to enable surveillance and detainment of Palestine activists.

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Jul 2

The proscription of Palestine Action will be used to justify further repressive policing of protests, direct action and dissent in general.

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Jul 2

Palestine Action's campaigns have led to the closure of weapons factories, to companies severing ties with Elbit Systems - Israel's biggest weapons manufacturer, and have shone a light on an industry trading in death, destruction and devastation.

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Jul 2

We stand in unwavering solidarity with Palestine Action and all their activists who have been wrongfully jailed for opposing the cleansing of a colonised people.

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Jul 2

We condemn in the strongest terms this attack from the government and its attempt to criminalise anti-imperialist and anti-colonial organising - action which is taken in an attempt to stop Israel’s genocide and occupation of Palestine.

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Jul 2

Palestine Action is a network of people taking direct action to "end global participation in Israel’s genocidal and apartheid regime”. Recently, Yvette Cooper announced the government is planning to proscribe @Pal_action, classifying them as a “terrorist” group.

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Jul 2

❌ Right now, the UK Government is pushing to designate @palaction.bsky.social a "terrorist" group.

We condemn this action in the strongest possible terms.

We are all Palestine Action. ✊🇵🇸

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We are all Palestine Action solidarity statement

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Jun 26

🎉 VICTORY!!!

Lancaster SU backs the Fossil Free Careers campaign and boycotts oil, gas and mining companies! ✊

📣 Students are now calling on the university careers department to commit to an Ethical Careers Policy!

✍️ Sign the petition to add your voice to their demands! tinyurl.com/3p544kd6

Photo of students smiling in front of projector screen showing Fossil Free Careers Logos. Text overlaid in orange and white reads: Motion passed. Lancaster students' union boycotts oil, gas and mining recruitment.

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People & Planet @peopleandplanet.bsky.social · Jun 24

This is a shameful and appalling crack down on the fundamental right to protest!

We must resist. We must protest. Free Palestine! 🇵🇸✊

Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms

It comes after what she called a

www.bbc.co.uk

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