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Gail Bradbrook

@gailbradbrook.bsky.social
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Co Founder of Extinction Rebellion, mum, autistic Updates are posted here t.me/+i4zNgXH_oDc4YjM0

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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Hugely important letter to PM Andy Burnham from @kevinclimate.bsky.social &Tyndall colleagues. Rapidly shrinking global carbon budgets were ignored when Govt set the recent Seventh Carbon Budget - now a key ground in #CarbonReckoning legal case www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... (see below)
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
1/7 After @georgemonbiot.bsky.social exposed deep flaws in carbon capture &storage—and the extraordinary sums this Govt is committing to it—CCS industry lobbyists and pro-CCS scientists responded. @sioldridge.bsky.social &I answer them here www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵
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Carbon capture is a fig leaf for fossil fuel expansion | Letters
Letters: The predicted £264bn cost by 2050 could be even higher, plus renewables avoid a far higher total of emissions than can be captured, writes Andrew Boswell, while Simon Oldridge calls out veste...
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Dirty Water Campaign @dirtywatercampaign.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#ExtinctionRebellion #Disobey series with @paulpowlesland.bsky.social barrister & activist. Investigated for restoring a polluted #river. Broken #water systems. #law criminalises river guardianship. Investigate the polluters #MakePollutersPay #WaterPressure #CleanWaterNow youtu.be/kQlDhAtufI4?...
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Disobey ~ Radical Stewardship ft. Paul Powlesland | Extinction Rebellion UK
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
UPDATE Mr Justice Johnson has resumed his prosecution for alleged “contempt of court”. Rajiv was the defence barrister for Lottie Head (Filton 4), and is believed to be the first barrister in British legal history to be pursued over the contents of their closing speech.
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
1/5 Today Carbon Reckoning launches — a forensic legal campaign to challenge the UK's proposed Seventh Carbon Budget before it's fixed in law by June 2026 👉 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... The budget fails two legal tests required by UK law. A thread. 🧵 @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
BREAKING - Zarah Sultana MP exercises Parliamentary Privilege to expose the unjust nature of the Filton 24 re-trial. UK press has been court ordered not to publish these details. “If convicted, they and 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that”
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Defend Our Juries Co-Founder Tim Crosland explains what the High Court ruling showing over the Palestine Action ban means in real terms. He adds a renewed call for a meeting with Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to discuss the harm that has been done since this ban was introduced.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
An urgent appeal to save the lives of Palestine Action hunger strikers. Former hunger strikers from Ireland, Palestine and Guantanamo Bay call on the UK government to take immediate action. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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An urgent appeal to save the lives of Palestine Action hunger strikers
Former hunger strikers from Ireland, Palestine and Guantanamo Bay call on the UK government to take immediate action.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Opposing genocide is not terrorism. Make your choice. www.wedonotcomply.org
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
2/ Big thanks to @simonforstroud.bsky.social for tabling amendments 107 and 108 & to the 9 MPs who have so far added their support! These would extend the Community Right to Buy to environmental assets, provided the land isn't earmarked for development: publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Let communities own rivers, woods & moors! Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way. We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours: www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/
Image of countryside with words reading: 'Let communities own rivers, woods & moors. Write to your MP about the upcoming Community Right to Buy laws'
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
BREAKING Defend Our Juries website taken down as attack on freedom of speech worsens - blocking access to important legal info for protestors. This is what happens when the Government uses anti-terror law to silence dissent. www.wedonotcomply.org <— legal info here instead!
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Just Stop Oil @just-stopoil.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🚨 BREAKING: SAM WILL BE FREE! Just Stop Oil supporter Sam has been imprisoned for 4 months after taking action with This Is Rigged, held in Scotland hundreds of miles from his family. During his appeal today, a judge ruled in favour of quashing his custodial sentence.
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Gail Bradbrook @gailbradbrook.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I support ©Palestine Action youtu.be/ECkVO4F_38I?...
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Sharing This Video Could Get You 14 Years in Prison
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
WHO ARE ELBIT SYSTEMS? and why would the Filton 18 take action against them? The Filton 18 protestors allegedly targeted weapon shipments to be used by Israel in their assaults on Gaza. 1/5
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
SHARE THEIR NAMES - #FreeTheFilton18 lan Zoë Fatema Zainab (Ray) Madeleine Samuel Jordan William Leona Charlotte Hannah T Hoxha Sean Zahra Yulia Kamran Qesser Heba Aleksandra Join us at Woolwich Crown Court today from 1pm to help #FreePoliticalPrisoners
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
🚨 BREAKING - Home Office staff concerned about ‘absurd’ Palestine Action ban. One year ago, we visited the MOJ to insist that minister stop pressuring civil servants to breach international law. Ministers have continued to do just that. Source: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Join the #FreePoliticalPrisoners campaign in support of the Filton 18, UK Political Prisoners who’ve been held in prison without trial for many months for allegedly dismantling weapons headed to be used in Isreal’s war crimes. Signup for action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/jun30_... 1/2
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Health for XR @healthxr.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
1🧵We are grateful to @TheLancet for showing climate leadership by extending its ethical advertising ban to the banks funding the fossil fuel crisis. It is time for all medical organisations to divest their banking and investments away from climate destroying infrastructure.
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
📢📢NEW CAMPAIGN 👉SCRAP CARBON CAPTURE ✅series of short films to educate MPs & public - watch first with @sioldridge.bsky.social below ❌why fossil fuel Carbon Capture must be scrapped in Climate Plan 📜 write to your MP now scrapcc.org/CCS-ACTION-BS1 More links in posts below
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🤮 "We have created incentives to try to retain our most precious resource, which is our senior management team." This is the chair of Thames Water, a firm literally in control of our most precious resource, trying to justify multi-million pound bonuses for its failing bosses.
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
‼️ Water bills will rise to £2,000 a year, according to industry regulator. After decades of underinvestment, water company bosses want to QUADRUPLE prices by 2050 and make us pay to clean up their mess. This is our future if we don't act now. Don't pay!
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Gail Bradbrook @gailbradbrook.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Always imo excellent podcasts, this one about state attacks on Kneecap, after their solidarity re the genocide in Gaza. Also covers JSO soup throwers open.spotify.com/episode/2KNY...
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The boundaries between Protest and Art
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Tesla Takedown UK @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Next weekend is "Discover Tesla Day" at many UK Tesla dealerships. So we'll be hosting "Discover Tesla Takedown Days" at the Glasgow, Bristol, Winchester and London Park Royal dealerships from 11am on 17 May. Please join us to educate prospective Tesla buyers and stop them making a HUGE mistake.
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Extinction Rebellion London Actions MoM (Movement of Movements) @xrlondonactions.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
WE'LL BE BACK!! Great pics from various brilliant 📸 photographers at JSO’s last (as we know it) action. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾 ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 RESISTANCE WORKS, AND WE DO MAKE AN IMPACT 😈 I simply can't wait to see and join their next actions, whichever the colour of their banners will be.
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Extinction Rebellion UK @xrebellionuk.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
🚨BREAKING: 3 ARRESTS AS FINT REBELS BLOCKADE RAF #Lakenheath FINT Rebels have taken courageous action—topless, bound & silenced—to expose the violent links between militarism, the #climateemergency & gendered violence. NOT IN OUR NAME! 💵 Support XR: xrb.link/W7bZr32 #BaringTheTruth #NoWar
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
❗️ NEW: 10,000 people say they'll stop paying their water bills. Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves won't stop the price hikes and sewage dumping, so we're taking matters into our own hands. Join the pledge to strike today and, together, we'll end the failure of private water 👉 takebackwater.uk
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
My exchange of letters with a billionaire 'activist investor' who has forced BP to go back on its already pitiful climate targets, in pursuit of more $$$ for shareholders. jasonscottwarren.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/c...
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Correspondence with activist investors
letters from the fossil record Note: Paul Singer is an American billionaire who founded Elliott Management, a vulture fund that invests in distressed debt and engages in activist campaigns. He is a…
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Roger Hallam is being unlawfully held in prison after an appeal at the Royal Courts made him eligible for immediate release under house arrest. All co-defendants have been released, but the probation service is blocking his freedom TIMES: www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art... @just-stopoil.bsky.social
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Tesla Takedown UK @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Spreading the word on Oxford street, #London. #Teslatakedown
Woman with megaphone and a sign saying don't fund fascists outside a Tesla store.
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Gail Bradbrook @gailbradbrook.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I warned Tech Company leaders in 2003 this would happen and they refused to act - the consequences came into my own home - buymeacoffee.com/gailbradbroo...
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Adolescence - why this feels especially personal — Gail Bradbrook
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Tesla Takedown UK @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
From xAI in Memphis to Tesla in Fremont, Musk companies are massive polluters. #TeslaTakedown
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Extinction Rebellion UK @xrebellionuk.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
THE UK GOV WON’T TALK ABOUT IT SO WE WILL! ☢️ American nuclear weapons of mass destruction could return to RAF Lakenheath. They're making profit from destroying our future. Revenues the 100 largest arms and military companies reached $632 billion in 2023. We say NO‼️ #NoNukes #Raf #War
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Boycott Bloody Insurance @insuranceboycott.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Insurers support genocide, fossil fuels and migrant detention. 📣 Let’s get our communities to #BoycottBloodyInsurers NOW! 👉 Follow us to find out how #FreePalestine #NoNewFossilFuels #MigrantJustice
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Gail Bradbrook @gailbradbrook.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Support our campaigns to disrupt ships carrying weapons to Israel. act.progressive.international/blockthebombs/
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Support our campaigns to disrupt ships carrying weapons to Israel.
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Gail Bradbrook @gailbradbrook.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Powerful www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘The prison system is insanely broken’: a climate activist on his experience in jail
George Simonson says you learn about society by seeing how it treats its prisoners – and jail has strengthened his belief that change is crucial
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Gail Bradbrook @gailbradbrook.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I just published a new post on my blog: Eau Water... Water is life, Water is Love, Take Back Water! buymeacoffee.com/gailbradbroo...
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Eau Water... Water is life, Water is Love, Take Back Water! — Gail Bradbrook
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Our water system's a mess - environmental laws flouted - so why's the Government ruling out anything but the failed privatised model? Ask your MP to support @labourlewis.bsky.social's debate on 28th March to put renationalisation back on the table. Click: mpwatch.org/support-clea...
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Citizen’s Arrest Network @citizensarrestnet.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
BREAKING NEWS: Thames Water executives citizen’s arrested at their offices this morning. It’s time someone held these criminals to account for the harm and disruption they are causing to our lives. Follow for updates. #CitizensArrest #ThamesWater
Environment, Pollution, Thames Water, CEO, Citizen's Arrest, Thames Water executives citizen's arrested for crimes of public nuisance. Woman in blue jacket seen leaving the offices of Thames Water in Reading UK Tuesday 18th March.
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Take Back Water @takebackwater.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Thames Water got approval for its £3 billion bailout loan, but it's still going to go bust. 16 million customers now face 59% price hikes to pay for Thames' mountain of debt. We'll put them out of business instead. Join us 👉 takebackwater.uk
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Extinction Rebellion London Actions MoM (Movement of Movements) @xrlondonactions.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
SAY 'NO' TO HSBC's GREENWASHING 🪣 We are in a climate crisis. Act now! No greenwashing. 15.05.23 national conservatism conference
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XRUK-Actions @xruk-actions.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“Questions posed, none accepted, and when we stood up in silent protest, we were treated with contempt by the leader of Bucks Council who suggested we should go paint a wall instead. Is this what public service looks like?” @buckscouncil.bsky.social
Cover of Buckinghamshire Herald. Headline reads “Climate Protest”
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
📽 The first public screenings of 'Plan-Z' are taking place in cinemas around the UK. Thanks again to everyone who supported the crowd-fundraising campaign that made this film possible 🎬 Book tickets here: plan-z-film.co.uk#watch
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"Democracy in chains" is THE best book, recommended to me by no less than the extraordinary @gailbradbrook.bsky.social . That and Globalists by @quinnslobodian.com . And Wendy Brown's "In the ruins of neoliberalism" of course. That one is THE BESTEST best but MacLean and Slobodian are close seconds.
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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A whole new type of democracy is thriving in one of the toughest places in the world - despite a media blackout. Women lead. Taxes have been abolished and private property redefined. Prison is being phased out. Everyone gets a say. But now it's hanging by a thread. 🧵
four members of the female YPJ militia share a smile while wearing military uniforms and holding rifles
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Climate Choir Movement @climatechoirs.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Breaking: 200-strong Climate Choir stages flashmob in St Paul's Cathedral, demanding that @churchofengland.org - a top ten UK landowner - #rewild 30% of its land. Nature is in crisis. Time to #RewildTheChurch! @wildcard.land #ChurchofEngland #nature #wildlife #choir #climate #whatwouldjesusdo
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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Final dates for our spring tour now announced... do come, it will be a-moo-sing! threeacresandacow.co.uk/shows/
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Gail Bradbrook @gailbradbrook.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
@blindboyboatclub.bsky.social 1.5 episodes in, soooo much in special interest common. Have u checked out Kevin Feeny on Irish mythology and fly agaric? Gail Bradbrook Extinction Rebellion, So Now What? on movement ecology strategy in the face of collapse and fascism buymeacoffee.com/gailbradbroo...
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So Now What? movement ecology, collapse and rising fascism — Gail Bradbrook
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Gail Bradbrook @gailbradbrook.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
CEC Network Weds Webinar FEB 5th 7-8pm GMT Dr. Gail Bradbrook So Now What? on movement ecology strategy in the face of collapse and fascism buymeacoffee.com/gailbradbroo... Latest Talk youtu.be/cLojacR5ZAY?... us02web.zoom.us/j/8984968241... ID 898 4968 2415 CODE 808472 climateemergencycentre.co.uk
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Extinction Rebellion London Actions MoM (Movement of Movements) @xrlondonactions.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
✌️ HUGE VICTORY (See the post on Client Earth, FB 1 day ago) 🧡A huge moment for human rights🧡 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled for the first time that country's governments failng to properly address environmental pollution is a violation of the human right to life.
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