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Text: “We don’t have time for ‘briefcase politics’” - Zack Polanski’s pitch to lead the left Image: Polanski addresses striking Science Museum and Natural History Museum security workers represented by the United Voices of the World trade union on a picket line outside the Science Museum on 26th October 2024

Deputy leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social talks to @ethanshone.bsky.social about his bid to lead not just the Greens, but the wider progressive movement.

Read the full interview here ⤵️
www.opendemocracy.net/en/green-par...

Do you Love your Lichens? Want to know about them? Join us for this workshop on 24 May at Lochhill Agroecological Farm
www.tickettailor.com/events/propa...

Propagate is looking for a new Community Food Network Coordinator to join our team in Dumfries and Galloway
www.propagate.org.uk/join-our-team

Just stop fucking with nature, it never ends well!

Israeli strikes killed 39 Palestinians in Gaza in the past 24 hours <article data-history-node-id="421521" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strikes-killed-39-palestinians-gaza-past-24-hours" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strikes-killed-39-palestinians-gaza-past-24-hours" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli strikes killed 39 Palestinians in Gaza in the past 24 hours</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli air strikes in Gaza have killed at least 39 Palestinians in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll from 18 months of war to 51,240, according to the Gaza health ministry.</p> <p>A ministry statement said that 62 others were admitted to hospitals, taking the number of injuries to 116,931.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Israeli strikes killed 39 Palestinians in Gaza in the past 24 hours - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strikes-killed-39-palestinians-gaza-past-24-hours

Fun food resilience workshop on Thursday, playing role play to imagine #FoodSystem shocks and community responses.
#resilience
#community

On Thursday I'm facilitating a workshop on Local Food Resilience in Dalry.
We'll be thinking about global shocks and how prepared we are as communities to deal with food system disruption
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/local-food...

Trump insiders made billions this week off destroying the US financial system. And yes, torching global trust in us treasures does just that

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The UK tax gap is now £40bn - as corporations fail to pay more than ever before The tax gap is allowing time to pay for the rich - which in turn is resulting in benefit cuts for the poor. Well done, Labour. Well done.

The UK tax gap is now £40bn - as corporations fail to pay more than ever before

The tax gap is giving the rich time to pay - which in turn is resulting in benefit cuts for the poor.

Well done, Labour. Well done.
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

Starmer must be stopped from putting the NHS on the table in Trump trade negotiations EveryDoctor has launched a letter campaign to demand Keir Starmer keep the NHS off the table in Trump trade negotiations.

Starmer must be stopped from putting the NHS on the table in Trump trade negotiations

EveryDoctor has got over 7,500 people to write to the government telling it that the NHS is not for sale. Here's how to get involved.
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

I've been drawing similar comparisons in my head

Home - Galloway Food Hub Galloway Food Hub: your local, producer-led, online farmers marketplace based in Galloway, Scotland. Climate and nature friendly produce.

🐰🐣The Galloway Food Hub is open for orders 🥳🙌🏼
Shop opening times: 12pm 4th April - 12pm 8th April
Order Online: gallowayfoodhub.org.uk
April is a time for the green shoots to sprout with local kale, leafy greens, rocket, chard and the like being all fresh and juicy for you right now 🥬

I'm sorry this is happening to you

Silvopasture for building climate resilience in livestock systems - The Organic Research Centre Report from UK-Brazil-Africa Scoping Project (December 2024-February 2025) on silvopasture is published

Final report published with @bristoluni.bsky.social @ukri.org
🐐 🌳Read our findings on the climate change challenges facing Ghana & Nigeria's livestock sector & the potential/barriers to #silvopasture #agroforestry as a climate-smart solution in Africa.
www.organicresearchcentre.com/news-events/...

I was asked to choose some Desert Island books for Dumfries and Galloway Life Magazine.

Labour needs to stop being so afraid about rejoining the EU Rejoining would revive our economy and boost our security

"The US can no longer be trusted as a military, diplomatic or trading partner. Keir Starmer must know this. Europe is our only viable route to security."

#TrumpTariffs

We're almost at capacity for Growing the Local Food Economy: Dumfries and Galloway - this Thursday at Laggan.
Still time to sign up!
www.tickettailor.com/events/propa...

I'm hosting a different webinar. Will it be recorded?

This looks like it'll be good

Quite apart from anything else, Tesla stock is wildly overvalued and increasingly subject to the instability of Musk and this US admin. It's an obvious sell for a pension scheme.

Take note @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

Elon Musk is a twat

Lets have a competition.

If you think Rupert Lowe is a corrupt hatemongering billionaires puppet, Like.

If you think Nigel Farage is too, RP.

Your Friday Philosophy:

"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few." | David Hume, Edinburgh, 1711 -1776:

UK media has been a scandal for a long time. I'm pretty cynical that anything will change tbh

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Here is some happier news 🌱

Global solidarity achieved!