Life on a bike. Keen on cycle touring; Coast of Britain, Europe, what's next? Climate change & Environment. Humans are a part of nature not apart from nature.
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James Harvey retweeted
Reverend Sue Parfitt talking to @metpoliceuk before she was arrested on Wednesday 😍
The 84 year old retired priest was one of 60 people arrested taking nonviolent action with Just Stop Oil. Whilst in custody, she had her home raided in connection with @DefendOurJuries.
Over the last 36 hours, people have been released and subject to draconian bail conditions. This is how the state treats people standing against them.
One person remains in custody, held to appear in court.
Meanwhile, it's now clear the government will be approving Jackdaw, and the official announcement will come soon. Approving oil and gas projects is a death sentence, and Andy Burnham knows this.
The UK gov must stop prioritising endless growth, corporate profits and the wealth of billionaires over the lives of billions of people.
Join our online call to discuss what comes next: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
James Harvey retweeted
Mel was one of the people arrested for sitting in the road outside Parliament yesterday.
"I'm here because those people in that building over there are considering approving more oil and gas, when we know that is a death sentence".
Join Mel at the online call next month: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
James Harvey retweeted
Reform on the rise, a threat to democracy & decency.
"These Reform MPs, multi-millionaires with their own agendas, have been emboldened by Trump's victory & his administration's radical, cruel policies. Like sharks sensing blood in the water, they are out to exploit & divide."
James Harvey retweeted
This is very fishy.
@energygovuk has refused an FOI request from @campaigncc, asking for the Gov’s 'Assessment' justifying why £22 billion of public money should be paid to oil companies for carbon capture.
Hiding behind ‘commercial sensitivity’.
@Andrew9Boswell @GeorgeMonbiot
James Harvey retweeted
BREAKING 🚨: We’re outside Scotland’s Court of Session in Edinburgh, where the approval of the Rosebank oil field is being challenged.
James Harvey retweeted
“If they protest in a way that gets noticed, they go to jail” - @mrjamesob cuts through with clarity & truth.
Complicity in the politics of “don’t look up” is hastening ever greater #climate breakdown - we can’t say we didn’t know
"I understand why you're doing it but for heaven's sake...
...and then you see the scenes in Spain."
It's a relief to see @mrjamesob connecting the dots. So few journalists are. Direct action from ordinary people is needed more than ever to force those in power to act.
James Harvey retweeted
Please consider signing - Petition: Run a public information campaign on the climate crisis - so needed when the media don't give the #ClimateCrisis the attention it needs, and neither do our MPs. Public need to know the truth and what we can do.
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
James Harvey retweeted
BOAT PROTESTS in Dhaka and coastal areas kicked off today in #Bangladesh to mark the "Global Days of Action Against Gas Expansion" ahead of #COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. They are the people whose health and livelihoods are affected by gas power plants #DontGasAsia #EndFossilFuels
James Harvey retweeted
Can we just be honest? Please?:
The administrative head of CoP29 is using the event to sell gas.
>This climate CoP is f*cked. The whole thing is corrupted and dangerous.
It’s time to throw over the whole farce of these CoPs.
>Please RT to agree.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmz…
James Harvey retweeted
Things have just got a lot more difficult . Here’s what I think . I had no control over what just happened . None . But I do have control over how I will react to it . And I am not going to give up on the beautiful and the good , the grip on my dreams just got tighter .
James Harvey retweeted
@RupertLowe10 Reform MP for Gt Yarmouth, capitalising on the Trump win to stoke fear and a populist agenda, blaming people who are themselves victims, often of our foreign policy and colonialism, for our own problems. Misdirection, half truths, and often lies. How very 1930s.
James Harvey retweeted
🧯 US EMBASSY PAINTED ORANGE AS WE REJECT FASCISM
This morning the world wakes to find it has slipped further into fascism as well as climate breakdown. Trump's win puts the lives of ordinary people at risk, everywhere.
Political systems that can be bought by big oil have no value as we face the biggest challenge of our time.
The only real winner of today’s election is the corporate power that controls the major parties in both the US and UK. They continue to ensure the interests of the fossil fuel industry will continue to be prioritised over the wellbeing of ordinary people.
It is only through people coming together to disrupt business-as-usual that humanity will stand any chance of minimising the effects of climate breakdown, and the social collapse that follows. In Spain this week, hundreds of bodies continue to be dragged from the mud – this is just a small portent of what is to come if we don’t change course immediately.
As long as democracy is hijacked by corporate interests and billionaires, it will fail to deliver the change people are crying out for. This will always leave the door open for fake populists like Trump to exploit the disaffection many feel.
It’s time for ordinary people to step up, organise and make change happen, because it should be clear by now, no political leaders are coming to save us. Just Stop Oil.
James Harvey retweeted
The world feels a whole lot more terrifying this morning - especially for any hope of climate action. Right now I feel sick. But I also know we have choices on how to respond - and will try even harder to light candles rather than curse the darkness 🕯️
James Harvey retweeted
Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
James Harvey retweeted
2 years ago right now I launched #TheFeatherSpeech
It's 💔to know how easy & vital mandating swifts bricks is; how this unique & urgent measure would help govt nature targets yet so far...no govt action.
Do we want our swifts to become extinct?
James Harvey retweeted
IRAN: Salute this brave women who was beaten by morality police for wearing 'incorrect' hijab
So she walked in public in her underwear to protest what the police did to her
She's now been arrested. Her fate is unknown. HERO
@MaryamNamazie @polblonde @J_Bloodworth @CCriadoPerez
James Harvey retweeted
BREAKING: Priti Patel made Shadow Foreign Secretary by Kemi Badenoch
The same Priti Patel who was forced to resign as Home Secretary for subversively engaging under the radar with a foreign state, seeking to divert British taxpayer money to the Israeli army @georgemonbiot