Liam Killeen

BREAKING! 🚨

📢 We’ve taken over the ad space at Southwark tube station, calling on the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to end adverts that promote pollution. 🧵 1/8

✍️ Use our template to write to the Mayor: actionnetwork.org/letters/time...

Turbocharged consumer capitalism: 
and what to do about it Panel discussion with Make Amazon Pay and Badvertising followed by creative arts skillshare. Sunday 2nd November, Brixton, London. With Black Friday approaching, billboards and digital advertising m...

🚨 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆! 🚨

Join us for 'Turbo-Charged Consumer Capitalism: and what to do about it' - a discussion on Amazon, advertising and how we flip the consumerism script.

🗓 Sunday 2 Nov, 2–6pm
📍 The Advocacy Academy, London
✍️ RSVP. 👇

🚨BREAKING! 🚨

🌍 The Fossil Free Declaration is a new global initiative inviting athletes & sports organisations to sever ties with the industries driving climate breakdown.

Get involved by inviting your favourite athlete or team to join. ✍️

More 👉 cooldownclimate.org/the-fossil-f...

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗜𝗧𝗩 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲

The French fossil fuel giant has a huge presence at this year's race.

But behind the logos that adorn jerseys and banners is a community fighting to survive on the climate frontlines.

Full report: www.itv.com/watch/tour-d...

🚨 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: Now ad agencies worth over £900 million(!) are calling for a fossil fuel ad ban.

Next Monday's Parliamentary debate marks a historic moment for the campaign.

📧 Ask your MP to attend with our template (it takes just 2 mins!): actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

🚨 𝗨𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗧: On Mon 7 July, MPs will debate a ban on fossil fuel ads and sponsorship.

This is a pivotal moment for the UK to tackle Big Oil like it did Big Tobacco.

✉️ Ask your MP to show up. It takes just 2 mins.

👉 Use our email template tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

🚨Chris Packham's petition calling for a ban on fossil fuel ads is close to 100,000 signatures!

✍️ Sign to enter a prize draw for satirical BP art courtesy from @darrencullen.bsky.social or a copy of the ‘Badvertising’ book!

Full info 👉 www.badverts.org/latest/chris...

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social

📣NEW RESEARCH SUMMARY
“What the public think about advertising high-carbon products and services: Citizens’ jury and public polling evidence from the UK.”
climatecitizens.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Cycling’s climate and sponsorship crises converge at Tour du Rwanda — Cool Down The threats posed by fossil fuels to the climate, extreme weather to outdoor sport, and fossil-fuel sponsorship to the integrity of sport, converged on the recent Tour du Rwanda bicycle race.

🚨 This weekend, the Tour du Rwanda ended controversially and abruptly as thunderstorms closed in.

In a new piece for Cool Down, cycling journalist and climate campaigner, Matt Rendell, reveals how oil, gas, and geopolitics hijacked the race. 🧵

Full article.👇

Over 50 professional skiers call for an end to fossil fuel advertising — Cool Down This week over 50 professional skiers have signed an open letter calling for end to fossil fuel advertising at Vasaloppet .

📢 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴: 50+ professional skiers call for an end to fossil fuel advertising in winter sports.

Here's what the athletes had to say in their letter to Vasaloppet, the world's largest cross-country ski race. 🧵

Read the published letter in full on Cool Down. 👇

🚨❄️ 𝗦𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹𝘀: The majority of Swedes want to see an end to fossil fuelled advertising in winter sports.

Here’s why this matters – and how fossil fuel sponsors are melting the future of snow sports. 🧵

Full report 👉 shorturl.at/jwjYb

State and culture in sustainability transformations: structural power, democracy, and the promise of a Marcusian cultural politics of critical meaning-making The concept of sustainability transformation highlights the need not merely for new environmental policies but for transformational change of societal systems in response to the ecological crisis, ...

New article out open-access: 'State and culture in sustainability transformations: structural power, democracy, and the promise of a Marcusian cultural politics of critical meaning-making' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

BREAKING! 🚨

📢 In a first-of-its-kind action, we're challenging the world's largest ad firm, WPP, over their work promoting huge polluters.

👉 head to badverts.org/wpp to learn more!

🚨 NEW RESEARCH: 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗲

Football finds itself offside in the climate crisis. ⚽️ 🟥

In the first-ever industry-wide global assessment, climate scientist Dr. Stuart Parkinson uncovers the sport’s massive pollution problem.

Full report: www.newweather.org/wp-content/u...

Africa Cup of Nations just put up a new ad proudly promoting their sponsor - fossil fuel giant, TotalEnergies.

Here's a version where the sportswashing is a bit clearer for fans.

Watch until the end. x

#KickTotalOutOfAfrica #TotalEnergiesAFCON2025
@fossilfreefootball.bsky.social

Massive, polluting, and dangerous SUVs are becoming the norm in the UK. There's a better way.

Today, we launch the SUV Alliance with a 5-point manifesto for safer and fairer streets without SUVs

Manifesto 👉 suv-alliance.org.uk

Los Angeles must be better prepared for climate crises by 2028 Olympics, says IOC member Johan Eliasch Mr Eliasch says it's vital to ensure future Olympic hosts have the capabilities to properly deal with the effects of climate change

As new fires rage in LA, Olympics presidential candidate warns the city set to host the 2028 Games to be "better prepared".

🤥 Translation: "Don't look into the polluters that fund us, just get better at dealing with the apocalyptic scenes they cause."

Yesterday, world No. 1 Jannik Sinner teetered on the brink due to extreme heat at the Australian Open.

Yet, the tournament continues to promote the industries that profit from business-as-usual warming.

Climate leadership means dropping polluting sponsors, not just providing 10-minute heat breaks.

🚨 Sportswashing Alert! 🚨

The Spanish Super Cup is underway. 🇪🇸⚽️

But how did a tournament for Spain's top football clubs end up being hosted nearly 3000 miles away in Saudi Arabia?

Make yourself comfortable - here's a tale of Saudi sportswashing. 📖🧵

Civic empowerment - many people have become accustomed to purchasing power being their only power. It's fascinating to watch people realise their political opinion also matters.

Preference transformation - views become more complex for all involved (including facilitators) during deliberations.

Yes - I certainly wouldn't advocate solely for CAs. Campaigning and direct action are vital in the short-term.

Citizens' assemblies do, however, offer a compelling model for how democracy might be safeguarded from incumbent fossil fuel interests.

Read my review in @resurgencetrust.bsky.social and @theecologist.bsky.social's magazine: www.resurgence.org/magazine/

Download (for free!) or buy "We Need To Talk About Climate" here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... 4/4

In this situation, I have always wanted a book recommendation to hand that provides an inspiring introduction to climate assemblies.

In Graham Smith’s "We Need To Talk About Climate", I have found that book. 3/4

Activists are sceptical about the lack of action while others understandably shy away from the potential conflict that might result from talking about polarising political issues in times of culture wars and ideological silos. 2/4

When I tell people that I research climate assemblies, I am often met with a puzzled look.

I proceed to wax lyrical about the radical and transformative change that can result from ordinary people coming together to talk. But instead of clarity, their confusion usually deepens. 🧵 1/4

"The idea that politics is a game that revolves around ‚winning/losing’ is a privatization and economization of the political.

And the ancient world had a name for people who tried to turn the polis into their private oikos: It called them ‚tyrants‘.

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🏆 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: 2024 Bad Sport Awards Winners.

Sport should inspire us, but polluting industries have turned the field into their PR playground. 💰💨

The votes are in, and the results are shocking. Ready to see who made the cut? 🧵👇

On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia were announced as the 2034 World Cup host following a corrupt bidding process. 💰💨

Thankfully, a growing number of athletes are calling out polluters using sport as a promotional platform.

Here's Wycombe Wanderers player @djwheeler7.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk. 👏

🚨FIFA have officially confirmed Saudi Arabia as the 2034 World Cup host.

This follows a blatantly corrupt bidding process that ensured there was no competition for the petrostate.

Here’s what you need to know. 🧵

Female footballers have shown us how – let’s build a sport free of fossil fuel deals | David Wheeler Male players must step up and add their voice to the campaign to stop our sport being sold out to the big polluters who are causing climate change

My article on how FIFA's competitions are being bankrolled by big oil money and how female footballers are fighting back. Male players, fans, and gov bodies in football must join their call to end fossil fuel sponsorship in football!

www.theguardian.com/football/202...