Global comms lead @ClientEarth. @RedEarthConnect trustee. Formally @StartNetwork & BITC. Intersectional environmentalist Pan-Africanist. Views are mine.
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Helen James retweeted
I am gravely concerned about the safety and well-being of the six prisoners on hunger strike.
The lack of media coverage over this emergency is truly shocking.
Ask your MP to sign the EDM, demanding urgent action from the Justice Secretary, here: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-…
Helen James retweeted
🧡 BREAKING: Historic win 🧡
The High Court of Justice of Galicia has ruled for the first time that authorities failing to properly address water pollution from industrial livestock are violating people's fundamental rights – and should be held accountable🧵
Helen James retweeted
Puerto Rico is suing 9 major fossil fuel for $1 billion in climate damages ⚖️
It's claiming that the industry knew about the dangers of burning fossil fuels and failed to warn the public, with the island now paying the price of climate change.
scientificamerican.com/artic…
Workers in Brazil's state Piauí rely on harvesting carnauba wax which added to sweets to stop them melting, to pills to make them easier to swallow and as a thickener in lipstick and mascara. But big business is turning a blind eye to their exploitation. bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-a…
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No more money for schools, for mental health services, for youth clubs, but money for a billionaire’s polluting petrochemical plant.
UK gives £600m backing to Jim Ratcliffe’s ‘carbon bomb’ petrochemical plant theguardian.com/environment/…
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Helen James retweeted
🚨The health and humanitarian disaster in #Gaza will reach catastrophic new levels if the Israeli military invades the city of #Rafah.
The international community must take urgent action to protect the more than one million people there.
Our statement: map.org.uk/news/archive/post…
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I invite all Barbadians, residents, and friends of Barbados to witness our Independence Day Parade on Thursday, November 30th, starting at 8:00 a.m. AST (livestream will start at 7:15 a.m. AST) on the occasion of the 57th anniversary of Independence. teapaw.org/i/broadcasts/1YpKkwbND…
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Helen James retweeted
Striking deals to expand fossil fuel projects is in contradiction to the goals of COP and the Paris Agreement. It is the role of the COP presidency to act as a custodian for climate ambition, not to exploit commercial fossil fuel interests. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir… (1/4)
Helen James retweeted
Ahead of #COP28, we're calling on world leaders to safeguard the human rights of future generations from the impacts of climate breakdown.
Alongside @WY4CJ, we'll present this letter to nation representatives at COP to galvanise action. Add your name 👇 act.clientearth.org/page/139…
Helen James retweeted
"States positioning themselves as both climate innovators and guardians of the fossil fuel industry is alarming. We need to see states and companies walking the talk of climate action." Blog by @LauraClarkeCE: linkedin.com/pulse/fossil-fu… #ClimateLawsNow #COP28
Helen James retweeted
Ahead of #COP28, we're calling on world leaders to safeguard the human rights of future generations from the impacts of climate breakdown.
Alongside @WY4CJ, we'll present this letter to nation representatives at COP to galvanise action. Add your name 👇
act.clientearth.org/page/139…
Helen James retweeted
It’s staggering how individuals who peacefully protest climate inaction get prison time while the directors of corporations that do the most damage get $$$billions
BREAKING: Climate leader Greta Thunberg faces six months in prison after being charged by Sweden with blocking oil tankers in an act of peaceful civil disobedience.
Love her courage in the face of the utter cowardice of Swedish authorities. reuters.com/world/europe/gre…
ALT DAGENS NYHETER. Greta Thunberg arrested, charged with disobeying Swedish police Greta Thunberg was arrested last month and charged by Swedish authorities Wednesday in connection to a protest last month.
Helen James retweeted
Beef 🥩 requires 20 times more land & emits 20 times more GHG emissions per gram of bean 🫘 plant protein
It causes of deforestation 🌳
It causes many health issues in a western diet
Time to switch flexitarian or vegetarian diet
Long answer below 👇
wri.org/insights/6-pressing-…
Helen James retweeted
#ClimateChange is about consumption of richest people in our global society
50% of global life style emissions are emitted by richest 10% of the population.
90% of global emissions by richest 50% of the population.
We need #ClimateJustice to deal with the #ClimateCrisis fairly
Helen James retweeted
During our press conference o/s #ScotlandYard we got a white supremacist causing a breach of the peace, trying to prevent us -@TheVoiceNews @BameFor, @MetBPA @NBPAUK @BlackEquityOrg @Janet_Hills- from challenging the @metpoliceuk Commissioner’s defensiveness of the #CaseyReview.
Former chief superintendent @LeroyLogan999 slams Met commissioner Sir Mark Rowley for refusing to agree with #CaseyReview that his force are institutionally racist.
Helen James retweeted
With government racism and scapegoating of refugees opening the door to the Far Right we need to mobilise the antiracist majority
Join the #ResistRacism protests organised with @The_TUC on Saturday 18 March
#RefugeesWelcome #NeverAgain
