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Rick Evans
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Dad, Ecosocialist , Ex Labour , Autism Awareness, Coventry City fan & Music Lover Reposts are not necessarily endorsements Occasional Blogger at https://changewemustobservationsfromtheleft.home.blog/ Sorry no donations I have limited money.
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Rick Evans @skybluerick.bsky.social · Aug 4
First piece I've written for ages so please be kind & all because I've been inspired by 'Your Party'. Just some thoughts on the current situation. If you are interested but haven't already signed up please do, link is in blog. Thanks changewemustobservationsfromtheleft.home.blog/2025/08/04/y...
Your Party, Our Party
I’ve been hoping for the last 3 or 4 years a new party on the left would start. It’s been a long time coming but at last it’s been officially announced. Immediately I’ve fel…
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Rick Evans @skybluerick.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! 📩
act.oceana.org/page/178303/...
🚨 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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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d
Treasury pushing for weakening of protections for England’s national parks & national landscapes to make it easier for developers.

Once lost, they are lost for ever

Rehabilitate empty homes.

Ever thought about building houses on the estates of the rich? Can't they live in smaller houses?
Green groups criticise plans to weaken protections for English national parks
Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law
www.theguardian.com
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Rick Evans @skybluerick.bsky.social · 1d
Microsoft has taken the important step of terminating services to store surveillance data for Israel's elite spy agency, Unit 8200. We need to continue pressuring the company to stop all support for the Israeli Military. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Microsoft Campaign WIN
The Guardian just revealed that Microsoft is ending a 3-year program of storing surveillance data of Palestinians for Israel’s elite spy agency, Unit 8200. This is a significant win and a crucial mov...
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 2d
The Labour Party is the genocide party.
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Rick Evans @skybluerick.bsky.social · 2d
The UK is complicit in Israel’s genocide and war crimes against the Palestinian people.

✊I just took action with @waronwant.bsky.social to end UK complicity and hold Israel to account for its genocide and illegal occupation of Palestinian land. Join me: secure.waronwant.org/page/162177/...
End UK Support for Israel's War Crimes
The UK is complicit in Israel's genocide and war crimes against the Palestinian people
secure.waronwant.org
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Rick Evans @skybluerick.bsky.social · 2d
😡 The Government wants to ban repeated protests & 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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Abby Martin @abbymartin0.bsky.social · 2d
A new flotilla of 11 ships is now sailing to Gaza. Without big names aboard they’re more vulnerable. Keep eyes on them: globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 2d
Not content with locking up pensioners and priests for opposing the ban on Palestine Action, Shabana Mahmood now wants to ban protests in solidarity with Palestine.
Not content with locking up pensioners and priests for opposing the ban on Palestine Action, Shabana Mahmood now wants to ban protests in solidarity with Palestine. She's violating our civil liberties and the right to protest — all while supporting the flow of arms to the apartheid genocidal state of Israel. I hope the ministerial car was worth throwing Palestinians under the bus. Shame on her.
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 2d
This should concern everyone.

Protest is a cornerstone of our democracy - without it, we wouldn’t have the right to vote. We must protect it at all costs.

After years of the Tories attacking our right to protest, this Labour government should strengthen our rights, not restrict them even further.
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 2d
Almost 300 participants of the Global Sumud Flotilla are still detained by Israeli forces, who are reportedly subjecting activists to brutal physical and verbal abuse.

This is not “a matter for the Israeli government”. It’s a violation of international law.
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Rick Evans @skybluerick.bsky.social · 2d
The challenges we face as SEND parents are constant & relentless. Trying to battle a broken system that hasn't got the resources or trained staff is exhausting. Hoping BBCPanorama
manages to get this across.
#SEND
#Autism
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
EastEnders' Kellie Bright on the challenges of being a Send parent
The soap actor meets families fighting for their children’s education for BBC Panorama.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Rick Evans @skybluerick.bsky.social · 3d
Thanks Mike 👍
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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 3d
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Recognition of a Palestinian State, what does it mean? thephilosophicalmuse.blog/2025/10/05/r...
Recognition of a Palestinian State, what does it mean?
It’s a symbolic gesture that gives Palestine the right to speak at the United Nations General Assembly, but unless concrete action is taken to establish a Palestinian state it’s just empty rhetoric…
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Rick Evans @skybluerick.bsky.social · 3d
Call on Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper to take action for children in the occupied Palestinian territory now. act.savethechildren.org.uk/a/gaza-petit...
Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper: take urgent action
Call on Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper to take action for children in the occupied Palestinian territory now.
act.savethechildren.org.uk
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Rick Evans @skybluerick.bsky.social · 3d
Reports are coming in that the Activists the Israeli Government illegally detained from the Flotilla for Gaza are being treated appallingly. Please send an email to your Government & protest this outrage. Thanks
newscord.org/action/gsf-f...
NewsCord. Giving you the full picture. Using Generative AI, NewsCord compares coverage between sources and fairly summarises the news you care about
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Rick Evans @skybluerick.bsky.social · 3d
The inhumanity we are witnessing in Gaza is a red line. Join us in demanding those in power end it now. www.redlineforgaza.org.uk 
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Cam @millap.bsky.social · 13d
Farrige gives the impression he doesn’t trust scientists, but was willing to believe a taxi driver in Buckinghamshire, that Sharia Law is coming to Britain.

This guy wants to be PM?! You must be joking!

Nice one @billybragg.bsky.social 👏 #bbcqt
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 3d
“Ministers are to give police new powers to target repeated protests, aimed particularly at cracking down on demonstrations connected to Gaza, the Home Office has said.”

They’re enabling a genocide and silencing opposition. This is authoritarianism.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests
The move is not a ban on protests but "about restrictions and conditions", Shabana Mahmood tells the BBC.
www.bbc.com
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 4d
This happened last night and I hadn't heard about it until this post, so went to the BBC News homepage. You have to go all the way down the page, below recipes for 30 minute meals, and you find it as a text link in 'politics'.
screenshot of politics section on BBC News website that says Mosque fire being treated as arson and hate crime Who is Japan's 'Iron Lady' Sanae Takaichi? When music meets football - can you beat our lyrics quiz? 'We were having dinner and a tree crashed into our house' Harrods sets aside more than £60m for abuse compensation
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 4d
We will keep marching.
We will keep organising.
We will keep speaking up.

Until there is a permanent ceasefire.
Until the siege is lifted.
Until the occupation ends.
Until apartheid is dismantled.
Until the perpetrators of genocide are held to account.
Until Palestine is free 🇵🇸
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d
This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d
NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.
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Abby Martin @abbymartin0.bsky.social · 5d
In America, what should put you on trial at The Hague gets you promoted to run the media
Exclusive | Bari Weiss to lead CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources
Weiss will report directly to Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison as she helps set the editorial direction at the third-place CBS News, a source close to the situation said.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 4d
People from all walks of life — including many British Jews — are protesting against your government’s complicity in genocide and standing in solidarity with Palestine.

Conflating Israel’s genocide in Gaza with British Jews is deeply inappropriate and dangerous. Shame on you.
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The Daily Politik @dailypolitik.bsky.social · 4d
"I wouldn't do anything that would make Nigel Farage prime minister. That's an absolute red line."

Zack Polanski says Farage is a Fascist.
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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · 4d
Instead of vital police resources being used to keep communities safe, we have the absurd situation where they're being wasted on arresting peaceful protesters: people simply holding signs and exercising their democratic rights to oppose genocide.
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