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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is so much at stake at this election. Real hope looks like action. Rent controls, nationalising Thames Water and no to fossil fuels. Here's an update on how it's going! youtu.be/hPmtOL6obLw

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Campaigning With Zack Polanski In Holborn & St Pancras - Episode 2

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 16h

Here’s No Surrender graphic novel, with the rosettes & glass fly leaves printed on the insides of the cover

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 16h

The fly leaves are the pages on the inside of the cover. They are traditionally blank or patterned. We like to make them themed to the story

An illustration: Votes for Women rosettes, scattered on a cream patterned cloth, with sharp shards of broken glass

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 16h

“What happens when you fall out?” people ask us. Here’s how we make decisions- almost always by consensus! We haven’t yet met any ‘artistic differences’ to fall out about. See the thread for how the fly leaves turned out 🪰

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20h

Time for this classic again.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16h

In terms of messaging, this is very positive, and a big shift from the nature-hatefest of the Starmer administration. Mind you, most tree-planting is unnecessary: I'd like to see much more emphasis on natural regeneration. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government

Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 28/09/2026

And it turns out that this Thing they have brought forth - because it has no creators, but has been stitched together from the flesh of stolen creative corpses - can never be copyrighted! So again, what’s the point?

Frankenstein’s unnamed and motherless monster, reading a graphic novel by the fire.

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 28/09/2026

If we found a way to make a generic, soulless version of what we do for half the cost in half the time, we just … wouldn’t? It’s like a hungry diner choosing a plate of cardboard for £5 over a nutritious meal for £10. Why would you?

A book cover: on a bottle green background, a sign writer is putting finishing touches to a square panel which reads Robert Tressell’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, a graphic novel by Scarlett and Sophie Rickard. A young boy hands the man a tin mug of tea. Another worker sits reading a newspaper.

A book cover. The text reads ETHEL CARNIE HOLDSWORTH’S THIS SLAVERY, a graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. The full page illustration shows two women standing back to back in a steep terraced street at sunset. The blonde woman holds a violin, the dark haired woman wears a man’s coat. A young man looks at them from an upstairs window on the left, and on the right there is a perky white and brown dog. In the distance the factory chimneys smoke. It’s all very ‘mills & doom’

A book cover: on a dark inky blue background a five women stand together holding up an ornate protest banner which reads Constance Maud’s No Surrender, a graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. They are dressed in Edwardian clothing and VOTES FOR WOMEN sashes. The girl in the centre, who wears the shawl of a working woman, holds a loud-hailer

A book cover, with the title MANN’S BEST FRIEND and the names Scarlett and Sophie Rickard. The picture is a drawing of a man walking a big dog up an urban street in the evening. The man has his hood up and holds the dog on a red lead. He’s walking towards us along the pavement past shops with lights on.

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 28/09/2026

If you can’t be bothered to make it, why would anyone want to read it? For me, the initials AI will always represent Amnesty International. Their slogan through the nineties and noughties? “PROTECT THE HUMAN”

Amnesty International protest banner in black with yellow text PROTECT THE HUMAN

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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 27/09/2026

So gross that @labouruk.bsky.social are planning to authorise drilling after the election. They know the electorate don't want it. They know it's wrong. They know it won't lower our bills. But they'll to do it anyway. Because we don't matter to them. Profits do. Vote Green 💚

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#GetGreensElected - a crucial 10 days to get out the message: #VoteGreen for Zack Polanski

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.

Stuff of nightmares UK cuts aid to Un Gaza food operations by 78%

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe this will change. We should hope for it and press for it. But at least, or so I believe, we now have a Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary who don't seem to want the world to become an even crueller, harsher, more dangerous place than it is already. And that's a welcome shift.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They treat those who seek peace as a threat to the public realm, while throwing a defensive cordon around those engaged in genocide. They treat environmental protesters as if they were antisocial thugs, while the antisocial thugs of the fossil fuel industry get a free pass to trash our lives.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm not holding my breath, not least because the author of the worst of these polices, Yvette Cooper, is still in government, and her successor in the Home Office, Shabana Mahmood, has defended and extended her draconian anti-protest measures. And yes, these measures really are mad and bad.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe we'll now discover that it is not mad and bad to want to stop weapons being shipped to Israel, which will be used to assist mass murder. Maybe we'll now hear that it's not mad and bad to hold a placard saying "I support Palestine Action". Maybe we'll discover we are not terrorists after all.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not as if Burnham and Miliband are radicals. It's not as if the UK has stopped providing weapons, surveillance and logistical support to a government pursuing genocide. But at least we begin to see some acknowledgement that it's not mad and bad to care about the lives of Palestinians.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’

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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

End the genocide in Palestine. Divest from Palantir. Welcome refugees. Stand up against far right racism. Vote Zack Polanski for Holborn and St Pancras MP.

Green Party leader Zack Polanski with Muslim women in Camden.

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 27/09/2026

From 1935 Sylvia campaigned relentlessly for Ethiopia against the Italian invasion. She was around for the beginnings of Rastafarianism and moved to Addis Ababa at the invitation of Haile Selassie. She died there aged 78, and was given a full state funeral.

An early studio portrait of Sylvia, before she got famous for causing bother

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 27/09/2026

She campaigned in London’s East End for workers rights, equality and anti-colonialism. She was too socialist and too pacifist for her sisters. When WWI came along she campaigned for conscientious objectors. Sylvia campaigned for Irish home rule, Indian independence, and against fascism of every type

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 27/09/2026

She designed the WSPU logo, leaflets and many banners and posters. She painted portraits of working women, and wrote for the suffragette press. She was arrested for protests loads of times, and went on repeated hunger strike.

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 27/09/2026

Today we remember Sylvia Pankhurst, who died on this day in 1960. Pankhurst women were each a strong flavour, and Sylvia is our favourite. Brought up by suffragist socialist activist parents, Sylvia trained as an artist (Manchester, then Royal College of Art), noting every exclusion along the way

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 28/09/2026

A romantic moonlit walk from This Slavery graphic novel

A panel from This Slavery, depicting Jack and Hester walking through the woods above the town, in the moonlight.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Labour already have a huge majority. Another Labour MP putting Thames Water "on notice" isn't going to lower our water bills or protect our rivers. Nationalise Thames Water. Vote Green on October 8th. 💚

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 27/09/2026

We’re gearing up for LICAF next weekend, who’s coming? I don’t think we’ll be boating this year, since the festival will be in Kendal and the schedule’s packed with stuff we’re keen to see.

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Gideon Mitchell @gideon-mitchell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Even if you're not a hardcore Greenie, electing Zack Polanski would make UK politics more healthy because he would help to hold Andy Burnham's government to account. His influence from the periphery has already improved Labour policies. The Commons needs Polanski, so please help him to get elected.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thank you to the hundreds of volunteers for spreading our great energy across Holborn & St Pancras. This election could not be closer and every single volunteer brings us closer to electing our 6th Green MP. We can win this election - but only together. Sunday sign up below!

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Huge thank you to everyone who told me today they've got a refund for conference or are going to vote online and join us on the streets campaigning. The energy is amazing and we can win this election. But we need your help. Join us in making history: linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP

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Everything you need to get involved! Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of Zack Polanski (The Green Party) c/o PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 26/09/2026

We need more Greens in Parliament to hold Labour to account 💚

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yesterday I met women from community organisations across Holborn & St Pancras From the value of care as work, to tackling racial hatred and violence against women and girls, women's issues ares everyone’s issues and women’s priorities are at the heart of this campaign.

Group of people holding up signs saying vote green, women say core Zack and Gaza: stop the genocide

Picture but with everyone in it from further out

Zack with two women smiling at the camera with vote green in the background

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Absolutely huge victory as the Green Party take on Labour and win in Brighton! Huge congratulations to Cllr Mark Strong and the entire team. Labour have tired old solutions and Burnham is more of the same. The Green Party is the change we need. Awesome win! 💚🎉

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Jan Hicks @dustystacks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No day trip today because Th'usband has given me his cold. Instead, a day spent in Great Harwood courtesy of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and the Rickard Sisters. I was gripped by the graphic novel adaptation of Holdsworth's This Slavery. Radical stuff! #📚💙 thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/e...

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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s This Slavery: A Graphic Novel

This Slavery is the third graphic novel adaptation I’ve read by Scarlett and Sophie Rickard, and the second of theirs I’ve read this year. It’s an adaptation of Ethel Carnie Holds…

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Rik Worth 👻 @rikworth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I love this! And this type of stuff. Here is my writer’s (bad) sketch and @jordancollver.bsky.social artist (good) translation. If only it were a reposted thread…

A beautiful purple comics cover in the Tales of Suspense style showing Rose Mackenberg turning to see a zombified hand rise from a grave.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We can win in Holborn & St Pancras But we need your help on the streets to help make history. 💚

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

With big thanks to @doctorofmusic.bsky.social, here's my discussion today with Lord Jackson about North Sea oil and gas. Tape your jaw to your face before watching. Really.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 23/09/2026

“We’re the only party looking seriously at how we can build a sustainable, thriving economy that doesn’t leave the planet broken for our children and grandchildren.” Rachel Millward on why electing Greens means choosing a future where people and planet can thrive.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thames Water has long passed its notice period. Labour can use its massive majority to nationalise it right now.

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Sasha @typeofcrayon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have a dream. 63 years ago MLK Jr. stood on the Lincoln Memorial steps and shook the conscience of a nation. His call for justice, equality and a world judged by character not color is a dream we are still fighting to realize today. #MLK #IHaveADream #CivilRights #History #BlackHistory #BlueskyEdu

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Christabel Pankhurst, leading suffragette, was born on this day 1880 in Old Trafford.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half.” - Emmeline Pankhurst. UK suffragette arrested, 1914 #womensart #Tuesday

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman being carried by a policeman as other men crowd around

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Deeply disappointing to see Libdem leader now supporting more drilling in the North Sea - it will add to global volume of climate emissions, drive climate breakdown & send a dangerous signal to the rest of the world

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Sir Ed Davey says Jackdaw gas field 'makes sense' as decision looms for government

A consultation on the gas field - located 150 miles northeast of Aberdeen - closed last month, with the prime minister set to make a decision.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Absolutely horrifying. How can our government be planning to drill for new oil and gas when we know these are the consequences? We have to keep the pressure on this Labour Government to keep all fossil fuels in the ground and secure a safe future for our children and grandchildren.

Babies will face almost twice as much extreme fire weather in Europe that great grandparents

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

these Art Nouveau doors by Ernest Delune in Brussels, Belgium, from the 1900s.

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