Michelle Charlesworth

How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history

In case you need a positive reminder:
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Our happy place! 🙏🏻

Starling murmuration filmed by BBC's Sophie Raworth near Oxford BBC presenter Sophie Raworth captured the aerial dance at the weekend near Oxford.

Mesmerising murmuration filmed by BBC presenter

#Oxon #Oxfordshire

🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/vide...

What about the hunger strikers?!

What a smile!

Still here. Still waiting for HMP Bronzefield to call an ambulance for Qesser Zuhrah, who is on day 46 of her hunger strike and needs urgent hospital care now.

Sickening and incensed 🤬

'The actors completely broke down': Narges Rashidi on playing Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Dramatising the story of a mother's imprisonment in Iran was intensely emotional for all involved

‘The actors completely broke down’: Narges Rashidi on playing Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe trib.al/mQtuFdK

Prisoner 951 is another drama that shames Britain The fictionalised version of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s torment in Iran is damning for the state, and for Boris Johnson

Prisoner 951 is a long haul. It is exhausting. But no drama that conveyed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s ordeal could be otherwise

✏️ @rostaylor.bsky.social

For his role in the pandemic and the prolonging of Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe’s unlawful arrest, he should be in prison, not writing Telegraph columns and earning from them.

‘They can’t take away your imagination and creativity’: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on how sewing helped her in Iran jail Zaghari-Ratcliffe made clothes for her daughter while waiting for her eventual release. Now, the idea of creativity as a form of resistance is the theme of a new collaboration between London’s Imperial War Museum and the fabric department of Liberty.

‘They can’t take away your imagination and creativity’: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on how sewing helped her in Iran jail

Just some of the news coverage of last Thursday's National Emergency Briefing on the climate & nature crisis, attended by over 1,200 politicians and influential people from business, culture, faith, sport and the media.
#timetostepup #NEB2025 #climatecrisis

www.nebriefing.org
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No billionaire donors. No vested interests. No shady dealings from Tufton Street.

Just individuals coming together for the common good.

Inspiring stuff.

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The Labour Government refused a 1% asset tax on the super rich, yet raised taxes on people already struggling.

All whilst their "black hole" turned out to be utter nonsense.

Active choices to refuse to fund our communities which they desperately need.

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Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications

The latest grim news

Refugees heading north from baking, waterless, southern Europe, will meet those heading south from a cold, crop-less northern Europe as the AMOC shuts down

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Morning.

Pity Etsebeth spoilt it at the end ☹️

UK Security, Food And Economy At Risk Without Climate Action, Experts Say Experts at the U.K.’s first national emergency briefing on climate and nature shared risks in a world being rapidly destabilised by climate and biodiversity breakdown

Excellent article by Claire Poole of @forbes.com on the National Emergency Briefing. Perfectly encapsulates the key messages. Thanks Claire.
#NEB2025 #NationalEmergencyBriefing

www.forbes.com/sites/claire...

'We've set our house on FIRE!' | Chris Packham leads MOVING climate change speech YouTube video by The Mirror

Here's @chrisgpackham.bsky.social's powerful opening remarks at this weeks National Emergency Briefing in Westminster Hall.

The videos and transcripts of the talks from each of the expert speakers will be available on their website soon.

Follow @nebriefing.bsky.social for updates.

Hope is here, and this morning we've proved it.

In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target

But we're not done. We're doubling our target.

Let's take the fight to Reform this May.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...

Just 13k more signatures and the call for a public inquiry into Russian interference has to be debate in Parliament

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Turkey sends aircraft to help battle Iran wildfires Two Turkish firefighting planes, one helicopter and eight personnel will arrive in Iran on Saturday to help quell fires in the Hyrcanian forest in the country's north, Iranian environment chief Shina ...

“Heartbreaking scenes from Elit, Iran, where wildfire is damaging parts of the ancient Hyrcanian forests — a @unesco.org World Heritage treasure and one of Earth’s last temperate rainforests" Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health

#Iran 🇮🇷

As I write my last column, the facts on climate crisis speak for themselves Since 1995, when the first Cop was held, carbon levels have increased from 360.67 parts per million to 426.68 parts now

As I write my last column, the facts on climate crisis speak for themselves www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Taj Ali: "Britain colonised a quarter of the planet.. the idea that Britain has no obligation at all to take in asylum seekers is a problem.. we should be calling for is safe & legal routes.. some of the rhetoric is dangerous.. we've seen the demonisation of asylum seekers"

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

If it's weird to you that the other parties don't get something so obvious:

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Life under occupation and apartheid. The Israeli occupying army is rounding up Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Feeling your pain and sending you much love and healing ❤️‍🩹