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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ARTIST ANNOUNCMENT! We are trilled to announce that André Jahnoi and alya isha & The RA KHOLECTIV will join us for a celebration of 30 years of resistance - Pelican House, London, Oct 24th. www.tickettailor.com/events/corpo...
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Check out the TITiPI's series - Digital Fortresses Webinars. framaforms.org/digital-fort... With: Enol Nieto Jiménez, Daniel Pena, Helen Pritchard, Nikita Sonavane, Le nuage était sous nos pieds, No Tech for Apartheid, Namir Shabibi, Miriyam Aouragh, Patrick Bresnihan, Patrick Brodie, Mona Shtayya
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
💛💥30 Years of Resistance at Corporate Watch - Oct 24th, 12-10.30pm, London💥💛 A day of political education, art, history and reflection on resistance to corporate power. Plus banging after-party with a subsidised bar. Exciting guests to be announced... www.tickettailor.com/events/corpo...
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In a direct attack on activist infrastructure, the US govt has sanctioned Italian tech collective Autistici/Inventati (A/I) as a terrorist group. A/I provide 1000s of email accts, mailing lists and websites to activists around the world. This is major. www.inventati.org/campaign/press
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autistici.org - Press Release – August 28, 2026
Autistici/Inventati provides internet support to activists and collectives coming from the world of grassroot and social movements
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The Civil Fleet @thecivilfleet.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🚨🎧 New Episode 🛟✊ Toni from @corporatewatch.bsky.social tell us how private airline company Titan Airways makes millions from Britain's deportation regime. Find The Civil Fleet Podcast on all podcast apps and services!
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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🧵I was asked by this journo a specific q “why would NHSE not publish this report about #Palantir contradicting @healthfoundation.bsky.social ?” My reply (which isn’t published) “well someone clearly leaked it to you to try & spike the Health Foundation report..” www.cityam.com/nhs-data-cou...
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NHS data counters claims that £330m Palantir deal has led to 'no improvement'
NHS data claims Palantir’s hospital AI tool cut delays by as much as 28 per cent, challenging findings that it had made "no improvement"
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Titan is 1 of 5 airlines profiting from deporting people UK-France, under a 'one in one out' scheme that "amounts to state-sponsored human trafficking" Join 9,000+ people in writing to their CEOs to say: #StopDeportations! actionnetwork.org/letters/stop... Follow @jcwi-uk.bsky.social for updates!
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Stop racist and cruel 'one in one out' deportations
These five airline companies are facilitating forced deportations. Email their CEOs and tell them to stop. The people being deported on these flights came to this country seeking safety. Many of...
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Irish News covers our FOI on this extraordinary meeting. This far-right group is comprised largely of National Front & neo-nazi linked individuals and target migrant properties on the North Coast. A recent human rights report highlighted the targeting an immigration law practice in Coleraine.. [1/n]
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Northern Ireland council kept no record of chief executive’s meeting with far-right group
A council chief executive held a meeting with representatives of a far-right anti-immigration group without any agenda, terms of reference or minutes being produced, it has emerged.
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Mumia's been behind bars for a disgraceful 44yrs following a racist & politically-motivated trial. His health is failing and he's receiving fewer letters these days. Find out how to write to him & let him know he's not forgotten HERE: freemumia.com/how-to-help/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Imprisoned writer Mumia Abu-Jamal seeks UN intervention after 44 years behind bars
The former Black Panther’s lawyers ask a UN panel to review his detention after US legal avenues were exhausted
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Please support @closecampsfield.bsky.social's call to object - however briefly - to the expansion of Campsfield detention centre. More detention spaces = more suffering, more families torn apart, more lives ruined. We have until FRIDAY to do this --> click on the link below to object now 👇
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🔍 Who's behind the UK's cruel weekly deportation flights? ✈️ Read our profile on Titan Airways, the company landing millions from our inhumane migration system ✊ Support organisers at @jcwi-uk.bsky.social and AADD to break capitalist border regimes! ❌ Resist deportations!
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Titan Airways: the charter airline quietly making millions from deportations - Corporate Watch
The Home Office's favourite deportation airline is making millions from brutal forced expulsions, like the inhumane "one in, one out" scheme.
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 25/06/2026
Tools for everyday convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is Skydio - America’s "leading drone manufacturer”. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social
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Dual-use tech: the Skydio example
Skydio, Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based tech start-up which markets itself as “America’s leading drone manufacturer”.
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
SignFoxglove's petition to Andy Burnham: if you become our next PM, get Palantir out of our NHS. A secretive US spy tech firm with deep Trump ties has no business holding our health data. Add your name: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...
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Sign the petition to Andy Burnham: If you become our next Prime Minister, please get Palantir out of our NHS.
ADD YOUR NAME NOW!
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
What’s driving the militarisation of tech – and what we can do about it 👉 Our deep dive into how military surveillance tech is being used to monitor migrants, activists and more, who's doing it - and how we can push back. corporatewatch.org/whats-drivin... @privacyinternational.org
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What’s driving the militarisation of tech – and what we can do about it - Corporate Watch
Military expenditure globally has soared over the past decade. Not only that, but the reach of military tech is expanding, with the lines between instruments of war and peace becoming increasingly haz...
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 06/06/2026
Tools for convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is IAI, Israel’s largest government employer. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social
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Dual-use tech: the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) example
Technologies that have both military and civilian applications are known as "dual-use”.
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 10/06/2026
Tools for convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is BAE - the UK’s largest arms company. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social
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Dual-use tech: the BAE Systems example
BAE Systems plc is the UK’s largest arms company.
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 12/06/2026
Tools for everyday convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is Thales - a prolific seller of surveillance tech. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social
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Dual-use tech: the Thales example
Company snapshotThales S.A. is a French defence and security company specialising in electrical components.
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 13/06/2026
Tools for everyday convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is Skydio - America’s "leading drone manufacturer”. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social
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Dual-use tech: the Skydio example
Skydio, Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based tech start-up which markets itself as “America’s leading drone manufacturer”.
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 14/06/2026
Tools for everyday convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is Leonardo, Italy’s largest defence and aerospace company. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Check out our new profile on #elbit looking at their role exporting surveillance tools across the world. Let's not forget the company that's at the heart of the massive clampdown on dissent in Britain today. Profile done collaboration with the great guys over at Privacy International. 👇
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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 11/06/2026
How to fix Ripped Off Britain? 🔴 BOOT: Palantir and Big Tech grifters 🟢 TOOT: Digital Sovereignty Tell your MP to stop forking out to a handful of US companies that over-charge and under-deliver. Invest in open source and put the UK in charge instead. ➡️ action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp...
Text: End the Big Tech Rip-Off. Write to your MP.

Image: Monochrome photo of Peter Thiel, co-founder of Palantir, with Kier Starmer peeking over his shoulder on top of a pink, blue and yellow patterned background in vertical panels.
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Foxglove Legal @foxglovelegal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Our Director of Advocacy @dncampbell.bsky.social asked Louis Mosley today whether all hospitals using Palantir's FDP tools are actually seeing benefits in scheduling more operations, or are the boasts about FDP delivering new operations across the NHS just marketing spin? We didn't get an answer:
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 12/05/2026
Tools for everyday convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is Airbus - commercial planes plus military tech. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social
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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Protest injunctions: A quiet weapon against activism Analysis, May 9th Corporate Watch briefing warns of “two‑tier” system where civil injunctions pre‑empt dissent and criminal law punishes persistence ~ Scott Harris ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/05/09/p...
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Protest injunctions: A quiet weapon against activism - Freedom News
Corporate Watch briefing warns of “two‑tier” system where civil injunctions pre‑empt dissent and criminal law punishes persistence ~ Scott …
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 10/05/2026
Tools for everyday convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is Elbit - Israel’s largest arms producer. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 11/05/2026
Tools for everyday convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is Shield AI - building autonomous drones and AI pilots. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 07/05/2026
Tools for everyday convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is Thales - a prolific seller of surveillance tech. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social
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Dual-use tech: the Thales example
Company snapshotThales S.A. is a French defence and security company specialising in electrical components.
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 08/05/2026
Tools for everyday convenience can easily serve surveillance, repression or warfare One company involved in that is Skydio - America’s "leading drone manufacturer”. Read our report with @corporatewatch.bsky.social
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Dual-use tech: the Skydio example
Skydio, Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based tech start-up which markets itself as “America’s leading drone manufacturer”.
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Check out our new report: Careless Profiteering - an investigation into the financialisation of care homes With @pilc-campaigns.bsky.social @violationtrackeruk.bsky.social @uvwunion.bsky.social Independent Workers' Union and Kanlungan corporatewatch.org/careless-pro...
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Luke Butterly @lukejbutterly.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
PSNI charged three times more 'terror' display cases relating to Palestine Action - a group only banned last year - than they have for loyalist paramilitaries in over 25 years. Amnesty NI said using terror law against peaceful protest was 'absurd'
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Palestine Action accounts for third of cases involving displays of support for terror groups in Northern Ireland over the past 25 years
There has been a sharp rise in PSNI referrals to prosecutors relating to Palestine Action
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
New profiles just dropped in our Dual-Use Technology series with @privacyinternational.org ! Want to learn more about how companies develop commercial tech that feeds the military industrial complex and vice-versa? Read our most recent reports on Thales, Leonardo, Elbit and Skydio 🕵️‍ pvcy.org/dualuse
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
NEW: Protest Injunctions: A Brief History of Corporate Lawfare - reveals how injunctions are being increasingly used by private companies to curtail protests and protect their interests and profits corporatewatch.org/protest-inju...
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🚨BREAKING NEWS! Medics that broke windows at JP Morgan HQ to expose fossil fuel financing links to climate devastation found NOT GUILTY today by jurors. The climate crisis is a health crisis and health professionals have a duty to act when lives are at risk. Read more here: healthforxr.com
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Netpol @netpol.org · 13/02/2026
Today's decision is, however a massive vindication of all those who argued the ban was a deliberate attempt to silence and criminalise the dissenting voices of campaigners trying to save lives by shutting down the suppliers of Israeli genocide.
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Netpol @netpol.org · 13/02/2026
The proscription order remains in place pending an appeal. Until further legal proceedings are complete, it remains a criminal offence to support or promote Palestine Action.
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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @comrade-kumar.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
BREAKING: Palestine Action Ban Ruled Unlawful
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
As part of a joint series with @privacyinternational.org, we've published a company profile about defence-tech startup Shield AI. Read more in the full company profile: privacyinternational.org/report/5721/...
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Dual-use tech: the Shield AI example
Company SnapshotShield AI is a US defence tech startup specialising in AI.
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Together with @privacyinternational.org, we are exploring the rise of dual-use technologies through a series of company profiles. This time, we looked into one of the world's largest aerospace companies: Airbus. Read the full profile: privacyinternational.org/report/5720/...
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Dual-use tech: the Airbus example
Company snapshotAirbus SE (formerly EADS) is one of the world’s largest aerospace companies by multiple metrics (market cap, revenue and profit) and is the product of decades of mergers between Europe...
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Together with @privacyinternational.org, we are exploring the rise of dual-use technologies through a series of company profiles. This time, we looked into one of the world's largest aerospace companies: Airbus. Read the full profile: privacyinternational.org/report/5720/...
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Dual-use tech: the Airbus example
Company snapshotAirbus SE (formerly EADS) is one of the world’s largest aerospace companies by multiple metrics (market cap, revenue and profit) and is the product of decades of mergers between Europe...
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
As part of a joint series with @privacyinternational.org, we've published a company profile about defence-tech startup Shield AI. Read more in the full company profile: privacyinternational.org/report/5721/...
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Dual-use tech: the Shield AI example
Company SnapshotShield AI is a US defence tech startup specialising in AI.
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The Register @theregister.com · 29/01/2026
ICYMI: Britain's Ministry of Defence signs on the dotted line with Palantir
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Britain's Ministry of Defence signs on the dotted line with Palantir
'Follow-on' agreement lasts 3 years as US techies protest vendor's ICE contract Stateside The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has directly awarded a £240.6 million contract to US technology company Palantir to continue to licence and support its data analytics work.…
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 27/01/2026
Further detail of how the 34+ UK state contracts and extensions with Palantir break down. Note on Infographic 1 (post 1): where amount/share of a contract/contract extension is unknown, that contract has not been included in the overall £672m+ spend.
Further detail of how the 34+ UK state contracts and extensions with Palantir break down
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 27/01/2026
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Revealed: Palantir deals with UK government amount to at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
Exclusive: Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gapin...
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 27/01/2026
NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert 🔗⏬
Infographic: Peter Thiel and detail of Palantir’s contracts with UK government departments, agencies and authorities. Where the amount is unknown, the contract has not been included in the overall £672m+ spend. The bulk of the contracts are post 2018, the Olympics contract dates back to 2012 and some work with unreleased dates could be earlier. Design: Lynsey Irvine
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Check out the @thecanaryuk.bsky.social on the @rcn.org.uk's link to companies complicit in genocide! www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Read this highlight of the NEW divestment report from Nurses 4 Palestine's on the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) investment managers. "The report points to a list of companies held by the RCN's fund managers, including U.S. tech firm Palantir and Israeli arms-maker Elbit Systems" @rcn.org.uk
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
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DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
EXCLUSIVE from @roneilll.bsky.social at @politico.com on the Royal College of Nursing's investment in companies complicit in genocide. Based on a NEW report by grassroots campaign group, Nurses 4 Palestine. @rcn.org.uk www.politico.eu/article/pro-...
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Pro-Palestinian activists pressure UK nursing union over investment policy
Royal College of Nursing members press for change of fund managers over potential human rights risks.
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Corporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
🔥Happy new year from CW! Looking for a change for 2026? If you have research skills and a burning desire to build a world beyond capitalism, then check out our job #vacancy! 👇 Closes 1st Feb! corporatewatch.org/corporate-wa...
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