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Steven Halsey 🌍 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @sh1882.bsky.social · 3h

The Planning Bill's weakening of environmental laws and vilification of nature as being responsible for the lack of new homes enrages me! 🤬

Sign the petition.

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Sign the petition: Save our National Parks

🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them:

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dbjf.bsky.social @dbjf.bsky.social · 1d

If we are going to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises, it's so important that we understand the impact that diets centred around eating animals have.

We could almost meet our emissions targets by moving to a plant-based diet.

Freeing up huge amounts of land for nature restoration!

Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 1d

Just a load of old lentils? Some reflections on National Vegetarian Week

Vegetarianism has been around for centuries, but a meat-free lifestyle is needed now more than ever

By John A Clarke

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Just a load of old lentils? some reflections on National Vegetarian Week

Vegetarianism has been around for centuries, but a meat-free lifestyle is needed now more than ever

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Steven Halsey 🌍 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @sh1882.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Half the UK’s top 10 fish stocks are being overexploited, new research shows! Overfishing is emptying our seas of life, and it's a political choice 🐟 So I’m joining @oceanauk.bsky.social in calling on the Prime Minister to end overfishing in UK waters. Join us! 📩
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🚨 Half the UK’s top 10 fish stocks are being overexploited, new Oceana UK research shows

Overfishing is emptying our seas of life, and it's a political choice 🐟 That's why I’m joining Oceana UK in calling on the Prime Minister to end overfishing in UK waters.

act.oceana.org

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Steven Halsey 🌍 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @sh1882.bsky.social · 1d

Join the Green Party, #VoteGreen 💚🌍

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

People everywhere are joining the movement for real change.

Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️

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Steven Halsey 🌍 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @sh1882.bsky.social · 1d

Did you see that Boris Johnson is pocketing £115,000 a year from taxpayers through an ex-PM allowance, all while facing investigation over shady money-making deals?

Call for his taxpayers' allowance to be suspended until the investigation is completed - sign the petition.

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Suspend Boris Johnson's taxpayer allowance

I’ve just signed the petition to suspend Boris Johnson’s £115k ex-PM allowance until they’ve finished investigating his dodgy deals. Leaks show he was using his old office for private business, meetin...

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Steven Halsey 🌍 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @sh1882.bsky.social · 1d

When was the last time you saw a hedgehog? Our prickly friends are disappearing. Their numbers have crashed by at least 30% in just ten years. They’re now officially listed as near threatened.

Make sure that EVERY new home is built with a hedgehog highway.

act.38degrees.org.uk/act/hedgehogs

Save Britain’s hedgehogs: make hedgehog highways law!

When’s the last time you saw a hedgehog? 🦔 Their numbers are falling, so I just signed a petition to make hedgehog highways - tiny gaps in fences to help them - mandatory in ALL new builds. Add your n...

act.38degrees.org.uk

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3d

Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be.

Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.

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Steven Halsey 🌍 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @sh1882.bsky.social · 3d

😡 The government wants to ban repeated protests and jail, those who defy them.

Stand up for our democratic right to protest - sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...

Don’t crush our right to protest!

The right to protest is the heartbeat of democracy. It lets us speak out, challenge injustice, and hold those in power accountable. The Government’s plan would give police sweeping powers to ban repea...

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Steven Halsey 🌍 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @sh1882.bsky.social · 3d

Real hope. Real change. #VoteGreen 🌍💚

Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 4d

I really enjoyed handing over the leadership baton and introducing @zackpolanski.bsky.social for his brilliant debut conference leader’s speech.

And just before I went on, this lovely video came up on the conference screens. It's so sweet - thank you everyone who had a role in making it 🫶

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 6d

Thank you Adrian and Carla! 💚

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 6d

“We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.” – Dr. Jane Goodall 🌍💚

May her legacy of caring, science, hope, and action guide us forward.

RIP Dr. Goodall 💕

📽️ youtu.be/HdYfhPPBt0E
🔗 janegoodall.org

Good night friends 💚💙💜

Making a Difference with Dr. Jane Goodall.

YouTube video by Dr. Jane Goodall & the Jane Goodall Institute USA

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 7d

#WorldDayForFarmedAnimals 🐓
Each year +80 BILLION land animals & +120 BILLION fish are farmed & slaughtered, suffering from disgusting confinement, mutilations, diseases, stress, physical & emotional trauma, & denied motherhood & natural behaviors. 💔 #GoVegan
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Steven Halsey 🌍 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @sh1882.bsky.social · 6d

#VoteGreen 🌍💚

Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 6d

Green Party conference setting up now. What is different about @greenparty.org.uk? #democracy.

It is a great idea

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Steven Halsey 🌍 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @sh1882.bsky.social · 7d

The foundation of the Southern Ocean’s intricate web of life, krill, is facing an unprecedented threat from ndustrial fishing fleets that compete to process them into farmed fish feed, health supplements, and pet food.

act.our-antarctica.com/act/antarcti...

Tell the CCAMLR Chair to protect Antarctica

A platform for stories, solutions, and community action to protect the ocean, tackle the climate crisis, and help build a more just, equitable planet.

act.our-antarctica.com

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 7d

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 🔥✊

#GlobalSamudFlotilla is a 🌏 heroic effort of 500 activists, 44 ships, 44 countries -

22 Americans -

Volunteering to sail to Gaza & bring aid to starving Palestinians.

They arrived & have been picked off one by one by Israeli forces throughout the night. 🧵👇🏼

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Steven Halsey 🌍 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @sh1882.bsky.social · 7d

Strip the thieving Michelle Mone of her lifetime peerage for stealing £122mil of government money meant for Covid support.

chng.it/q6r67wbmsS

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Strip Michelle Mone of her peerage

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Visikarte 🎗️ @visitkarte.bsky.social · 7d

The most amazing archivist of modern history:
Marion Marguerite Stokes
#MarionMargueriteStokes

youtube.com/shorts/X_mhw...

She taped everything that aired on tv for 40 years to fight the rise of false news #movies #tv

YouTube video by Treehouse Detective

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Steven Halsey 🌍 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @sh1882.bsky.social · 7d

Tributes to Jane Goodall.

'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91 - BBC News share.google/PIrlZTmb5FSm...

'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91

The primatologist was a

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8d

Rieckhoff: A vet on CNN said we haven’t fought to win in 20 years. I said, I was fighting to win. You were fighting to win.

Kander: That shit pisses me off.

Rieckhoff: He said he meant the generals. Which one? It’s boogeymen—and now cosplay warriors who never served join ICE to bully immigrants.

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Steven Halsey 🌍 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @sh1882.bsky.social · 8d

Starmer’s desperate rush for ID cards is a recipe for repression. It won’t reduce migration, but it will put our rights at risk. We need to come together and fight back – are you with us?

action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-st...

Tell Keir Starmer to scrap his ID card scheme

With his government in turmoil and Nigel Farage breathing down his neck, Keir Starmer has reached for the panic button, announcing a scheme for ID cards that would be compulsory to prove your right to...

action.goodlawproject.org

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 13d

💩 Wall Street just got a whiff of reality.

JBS’ inclusion in major US stock indexes means our money is linked to deforestation and climate chaos. The world needs to know what JBS really stands for: Just. Bull. Sh*t.
#RespectTheAmazon #StopBigAg

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Lyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social · 10d

We need as many people as possible to agree with putting in place more ways to increase funding rather than making cuts and essentially punishing those who are already suffering. Tax the Rich – Wealth Tax Now www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...

Oxfam GB | Chancellor Rachel Reeves: Tax Wealth Now

It’s time to tax the super-rich. Demand a Wealth Tax today.

www.oxfam.org.uk

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Steven Halsey 🌍 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @sh1882.bsky.social · 10d

Did you know the UK is dumping tonnes of fast fashion clothes waste on Ghana?

Have your say now and see if the UK agrees with you: Should the UK stop dumping unwanted clothes overseas? Vote Yes/No act.gp/3K7PQNw

Nationwide fast fashion poll

Should the UK stop dumping unwanted clothes overseas?

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 11d

🎉 80,000 Green Party members!

📈 But we're not stopping there.

💚 We have no time to waste. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

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Steven Halsey 🌍 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @sh1882.bsky.social · 12d

Agreed, it has been very successful for shareholders. And, of course, it wouldn't have happened without serious lobbying that filled the pockets of politicians. It was never meant to improve the infrastructure for the benefit of the people and the environment, and is why water must be renationalised

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Steven Halsey 🌍 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @sh1882.bsky.social · 12d

This is what I want to hear from a politician and why I am a Green Party member.

Vote for real change, #VoteGreen 🌍💚

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12d

Nish Kumar, "What is the Green Party's vision for how we redraw the economy of this country?"

Zack Polanski, "The first thing is to have a big conversation about public ownership"

"Nothing we need, and need to use, should be in private hands. All of our utilities should be nationalised"

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