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Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam. Co-host EQUALS podcast.

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Max Lawson @maxlawsontin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Campaigning for more comfortable slave ships- I wrote this about how the right wing are far better campaigners than we are understanding the power of visionary, radical proposals to shift the boundaries of what is possible. www.equals.ink/p/campaignin...
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Campaigning for more comfortable slave ships
Getting laughed out of the room
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World Inequality Lab @handle.invalid · 16/12/2025
🎧 Listen to this podcast to explore the key findings of our newly launched World Inequality Report with @thomaspiketty.bsky.social 👇👇👇
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Max Lawson @maxlawsontin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Absolutely loved doing this interview with three frontline union organisers from the UK, Korea and the Ukraine. Do have a listen- A Force for Good: Trade Unions Fighting for Dignity and Democracy. www.equals.ink/p/trade-unio...
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A Force for Good: Trade Unions Fighting for Dignity and Democracy.
How Trade Unions are fighting for dignity and democracy in wartime, repression and austerity.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I was honoured to be invited to today’s memorial service in Srebrenica, 30 years since 8,372 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered while the world looked away. In their memory, we speak out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and governments — including our own — enabling it.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 11/07/2025
BREAKING: Israeli Settlers Kill American Citizen in Occupied West Bank, Family Says Sayfollah Musallet was visiting his family when settlers allegedly beat him unconscious and blocked an ambulance from reaching, @premthakker.bsky.social reports. Read the full story: zeteo.com/p/breaking-i...
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BREAKING: Israeli Settlers Kill American Citizen in Occupied West Bank, Family Says
Sayfollah Musallet was visiting his family in the village of Al-Mazra'a ash-Sharqiya when settlers allegedly beat him unconscious and blocked an ambulance from reaching him for hours.
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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 30/06/2025
While western authorities continue to hyperventilate about #DeathToTheIDF, the IDF just bombed a cafe where journalists are known to gather as part of their ongoing project to kill as many journalists as possible
Tweet from Ramy Abdu:
Breaking: Several Palestinian journalists were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting Al-Baqa Café in western Gaza City, where they had been working to upload news reports.
Pictured: the dedicated journalist Bayan Abu
Sultan.
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350 Europe @350europe.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
As the #FFD4 Summit starts in Seville, we take stock of what's at stake. 📈 Inequality at record highs 🌍 A climate crisis accelerating 💰 $33.9 trillion gained by the richest 1% since 2015 The demand? #TaxTheSuperRich for people and planet. Let’s make this a turning point!
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Positive Money Europe @positivemoneyeu.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
What does #ClimateChange have to do with #inflation? A lot, actually. Our researcher @jordischroeder.bsky.social breaks it down in the @equalshope.bsky.social podcast - from crop failures to rising electricity prices, and why it all hits the most vulnerable hardest. podfollow.com/equals/episo...
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Max Lawson @maxlawsontin.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Ever wonder what role Central Banks play in fuelling inequality? Too important to be left to unelected bureaucrats- Banking on inequality www.equals.ink/p/banking-on...
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Banking on inequality
Demystifying the relationship between decisions made at central banks and inequality.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Great new action in Washington DC: A long-term encampment of illegally fired federal workers & other concerned people set up yesterday in the shadow of the Capitol building. SOLIDARITY CITY aka "Muskville" invoking Depression era Hoovervilles. They've put out a call for supporters to join them.
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Home | Solidarity City
Solidarity City is a month-long organizing event in the heart of Washington, DC, taking place at Columbus Circle starting on April 20. Nicknamed "Muskville," this in-person organizing space will provi...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“A recent YouGov poll found Ocasio-Cortez had a +61 approval rating among Democrats — the highest of any Democrat polled who hasn't run for president or vice president.”
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AOC seizes the moment as Democrats seek a new identity
Tapping into the backlash against Trump, she's building her own progressive political machine.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."
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BREAKING: Pope Francis Dies at 88. Here's How He Should Be Remembered
The late pontiff was a progressive pope who was outspoken on Trump, Gaza, the climate, and more.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/03/2025
Breaking News: The Trump administration said it would pause tariffs on cars coming into the United States from Canada and Mexico for one month.
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Trump Live Updates: Supreme Court Rejects Foreign Aid Freeze and Latest Tariff News
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump's "golden age of America" so far... -Inflation ⬆️ -Stock market ⬇️ -Thousands of layoffs -Consumer & worker protections gutted -Diseases spreading -Federal funding illegally frozen -$10 million+ spent on golf -An unelected billionaire lining his pockets at our expense
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Max Lawson @maxlawsontin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I wrote this over the weekend about the urgent need to defend life-saving aid, and some ideas about how we can do so. open.substack.com/pub/equals/p...
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Defending Aid
Why and end to aid is a terrible thing.
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SOAS Development Leadership Dialogue @soas-dld.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Join us on March 10th at 5.30pm for a our next DLD conversation on how inequality affects development and what can be done about it - with the brilliant @faizashaheen.bsky.social, @maxlawsontin.bsky.social and Ha-Joon Chang. Register here: soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 14/02/2025
I had a very interesting chat with @maxlawsontin.bsky.social and Nafkote Dabi about the current chaos in the world economy! www.equals.ink/p/vulture-ca...
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VULTURE CAPITALISM UNVEILED with Grace Blakeley.
Grace Blakeley on the Oligarchs' Grip on Our Economy
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"No to ethnic cleansing": over 350 rabbis sign NYT ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan I'm no rabbi but I signed it too. Grateful to the organizers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘No to ethnic cleansing’: over 350 rabbis sign US ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan
Jewish creatives and activists also sign New York Times ad after US president’s proposal to ‘take over Gaza’
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Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 13/02/2025
"Do we govern global taxation or do we let the wealthiest few govern us?" Powerful messages from Pres Sanchez Pres Lula Former Pres Mbeki @abigaildisney.bsky.social @josephestiglitz.bsky.social @jayatighosh.bsky.social at @icrict.bsky.social's Vatican event today taxjustice.net/press/govern...
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‘Govern on tax, or be governed by the wealthiest’: global leaders, Pope, top economists call for taxes to protect democracy | Tax Justice Network
The Vatican is hosting today an event together with the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT), where Pope Francis, along with current and former heads of s...
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Sorted. 😉😎
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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DOCTORS FOR AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
Civil Action No. 25-322 (JDB)
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT et al.,
Defendants.
ORDER
Upon consideration of [6] Plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order, [8]
Plaintiff's supplemental declarations, [9] Defendants' opposition, [10] Plaintiff's reply, the
hearing on February 10, 2025, and the entire record herein, and for the reasons stated in the
accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that
1. Defendants Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and Food
and Drug Administration (hereinafter "defendants") shall, by not later than 11:59 pm on
February 11, 2025, restore to their versions as of January 30, 2025, each webpage and dataset
identified by Plaintiff on pages 6-12 of its Memorandum of Law in Support of the Motion for
a Restraining Order [ECF No. 6-1];
2. Defendants shall, in consultation with Plaintiff, identify any other resources that DF A members
rely on to provide medical care and that defendants removed or substantially modified on or
after January 29, 2025, without adequate notice or reasoned explanation; and defendants shall,
by February 14, 2025, restore those resources to their versions as of January 30, 2025;
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Iñigo Macías Aymar @imaciasaymar.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Declining trends in national #inequality blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/... If interested on #inequality, do not miss this post from the @worldbankgroup.bsky.social on the critical limitations one finds when measuring it! @maxlawsontin.bsky.social
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Declining trends in national inequality
Global inequality is declining, with high-inequality countries dropping from 74 in 2000 to 51 in 2020. However, survey data limitations may underestimate true inequality levels. Learn more in our anal...
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Harry Bignell (she/her) @hbignell.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
“It’s simply not possible to have a functioning democratic system under these conditions.” Finally had a chance to listen to @jasonhickel.bsky.social's fantastic interview with @maxlawsontin.bsky.social & Nafkote. podfollow.com/1480735096/e... @oxfaminternational.bsky.social #TakersNotMakers
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EQUALS: BILLIONAIRE COLONIALISM: Jason Hickel on how colonialism never ended and drives today’s extreme inequality.
To coincide with the launch of Oxfam’s Davos 2025 report, Takers, not Makers, Naf and Max interview acclaimed author, academic and activist Jason Hickel.Find out how our world is still organised ...
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Martin Drewry @martindrewry.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Billionaire Colonialism - how colonialism never ended. Brilliant - @maxlawsontin.bsky.social and @jasonhickel.bsky.social www.equals.ink/p/billionair...
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BILLIONAIRE COLONIALISM with Jason Hickel.
Tune in and get to know how colonialism never ended and drives today’s extreme inequality.
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Max Lawson @maxlawsontin.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
2024 Throwback: How water ‘flows up’ to the rich. Nafkote and me discuss water inequality and how #ClimateChange impacts water access with Mandal Sushmita. Find out how wealth and power defy gravity by making water flow… upwards! Listen here: pod.fo/e/23a593
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EQUALS: How water is ‘flowing up’ to the rich
In this episode of EQUALS, we talk about how wealth and power defy gravity by making water flow… upwards!Max and Nafkote interview Sushmita Mandal about water inequality and how climate breakdown...
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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 16/12/2024
Meta and Amazon giving $1 million each to Trump's inauguration fund is a flagrant example of the ultra-rich bending the knee in exchange for outsized influence, and just another case of government for the billionaires, by the billionaires.
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Meta, Amazon and tech CEOs make $1 million investments in Trump's inauguration
Tech companies are sending big bucks to President-elect Donald Trump's nonprofit inaugural committee.
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Jonathan Watts @jonathan-watts.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
British police arrest environmental protesters at nearly three times the global average rate, research has found, revealing the country as a world leader in the legal crackdown on climate activism. Story by @damien.gayle.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds
Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 10/12/2024
“The tensions surrounding whose humanity matters to the powers that be, of what does and does not constitute murder abound. @premthakker.bsky.social writes about the contradiction between the fates of two young men who allegedly killed a homeless man and a CEO. zeteo.com/p/26-year-ol...
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Another day another series of Israeli war crimes: "At least 7 Palestinians killed by Israeli attack on Gaza’s Nuseirat camp. Attack comes hours after 20 people from the same displaced family were killed in northern Gaza." www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12...
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At least 7 Palestinians killed by Israeli attack on Gaza’s Nuseirat camp
Palestinian Civil Defence says a woman and three children were among those killed.
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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 10/12/2024
Here’s your daily dose of good news: 23 states are set to raise their minimum wages in the new year! While we still need action from Congress, it’s reassuring that state officials aren’t afraid to take up the mantle in the fight for living wages for all. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
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Minimum wage set to rise in 23 states next year as $15 an hour, and beyond, picks up steam
The minimum wage is going up in a record 23 states and 65 cities and counties in 2025. More areas are adopting $15 an hour - or higher - as pay floor
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The Department of Labor has found that a Cleveland manufacturer failed to prevent two workers from suffering injuries that resulted in amputations. The company will be fined $182,000 incidents because the amputations could have been avoided with proper safety measures.
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Ohio Manufacturer Faces $182K Fine for Workers' Amputations
U.S. Department of Labor inspectors found a Cleveland, Ohio bakeware manufacturer failed to prevent two workers from suffering injuries that resulted in
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Have you noticed that, today, no one is talking about the ongoing genocide in Gaza? This is the greatest gift to Netanyahu and his merry genocide maniacs. Keep talking Palestine people!
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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 09/12/2024
In 2020, CEOs were paid 351 times as much as a typical worker. In their new book, Pay the People! Why Fair Pay is Good for Business and Great for America, our very own John Driscoll and Morris Pearl explain why companies thrive when they don’t have such gross disparities in pay.
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350 Europe @350europe.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
💰Day 9 of the #TaxTheirBillions Advent calendar! 💰 The top 300 superyachts release almost 285,000 tons of CO2, more than the entire nation of Tonga. Share this post and join us in calling on national and global wealth taxes on the super-rich: 350.org/tax-their-bi...
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350 Europe @350europe.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
💰 Day 7 of the #TaxTheirBillions Advent calendar 💰 "The wealth held by the world's billionaires jumped by about 17% over the past year" Share this post and join us in calling on national and global wealth taxes on the super-rich: 350.org/tax-their-bi...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/12/2024
Syria opposition forces have declared that the 24-year rule of President Bashar al-Assad has come to an end hours after fighters entered the capital, Damascus, following a lightning advance across the country ⤵️
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Opposition fighters declare Syria’s Damascus ‘liberated’, al-Assad ousted
Opposition forces declare Syria free of Assad rule as the president reportedly flees the country.
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350 Europe @350europe.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
💰Day 8 of the #TaxTheirBillions Advent calendar! 💰 The richest 1% produce as much carbon pollution as two thirds of all humans on earth. Share this post and join us in calling on national and global wealth taxes on the super-rich: 350.org/tax-their-bi... #WealthTax #TaxTheRich
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Meanwhile, another day another Israeli war crime: 14-year-old Naji al-Baba, the Palestinian boy who wanted to be like Ronaldo, killed by Israeli soldiers. Along with his friends as they played in the woods near Hebron. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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The Palestinian boy who wanted to be like Ronaldo, killed by Israel
Israeli soldiers opened fire on 14-year-old Naji al-Baba and his friends as they played in the woods near Hebron.
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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Imagine this. Its 1945. Allied troops uncovered evidence of a genocide against Jews in prison camps. News spreads. Then up pops a press release/statement from the Berlin ‘bunker’. The outgoing government denies evidence of a genocide. The independent, objective BBC faithfully repeats the denial.
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Max Lawson @maxlawsontin.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Here is quite an interesting fact. A Belgian citizen has 204 times more voting power at the World Bank than an Ethiopian citizen.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Powerful new report from Amnesty International finds Israel has perpetrated 3 acts against Palestinians in Gaza which are prohibited under genocide convention. A full ban on UK arms sales is essential to prevent further complicity @amnestyuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide, Amnesty International report finds
Human rights group says Israel ‘brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell’ on strip’s 2.3m population
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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 04/12/2024
Four men - Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, and Mark Zuckerberg - are now worth a combined $1 trillion according to Forbes. Tell me again that we don't have a billionaire problem. #taxtherich
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Tim Schwab @timschwab.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Cool to see mainstream news outlets in India covering the outrage surrounding Bill Gates's casual colonialism economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...
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'We Indians are Guinea Pigs?': Bill Gates faces backlash over his ‘laboratory' remark on India
Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, faced backlash on social media after referring to India as "a kind of laboratory to try things" in a podcast with Reid Hoffman. His comments, aimed at highlighting In...
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350 Europe @350europe.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
✈️ Day 4 of the #TaxTheirBillions Advent calendar! ✈️ A study tracking 19m private jet flights found almost half travelled less than 310 miles and 900,000 were used for trips shorter than 31 miles 🫠 Join us in calling on national and global wealth taxes on the super-rich: 350.org/tax-their-bi...
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 04/12/2024
Very excited for this event on Vulture Capitalism with the LSE Inequalities Institute in January Tickets available now www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
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Vulture capitalism
6.30pm Mon 13 Jan | Vulture Capitalism book launch | Grace Blakeley, Dr Michael Vaughan | Free public event at LSE
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 04/12/2024
Passengers hoping this marks the start of a great railway revival. That will need govt to go further and: 🚆 Take train leasing companies back into public ownership 💵 Invest to lower ticket prices and open new rail routes 📢 Give passengers a voice inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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First train companies to be nationalised next year revealed
South Western Railways will be the first to come under public control in May next year
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 04/12/2024
At least 10 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on al-Mawasi in southern Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/01rafa
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Luke Hildyard @lukehildyard.eurosky.social · 03/12/2024
a short article for @fairness.bsky.social summarising the 'Charter for Fair Pay' published by @highpaycentre.bsky.social last week. The 'Charter' identifies policies that would raise pay for low and middle earners and reduce inequality. www.linkedin.com/pulse/charte...
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A charter for fair pay
This is a guest post from Luke Hildyard, Director of the High Pay Centre and author of Enough: Why It's Time to Abolish the Super-Rich Raising incomes and living standards is a priority for any govern...
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