Reposted by Meghna AbrahamSOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social · 23/09/2025The Netherlands is being sued by Shell and ExxonMobil for lost profits after shutting down a harmful gas field.🏭☣️ Sounds surreal? Yet, it’s happening, through a completely legal mechanism called Investor-State Dispute Settlement. More about the Groningen case: www.somo.nl/aftershock-i... (1/2) 22112
Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 15/09/2025It was a pleasure to collaborate with @somoamsterdam.bsky.social and write this short piece on reparations for their 'Reclaim the Wealth' series. 020
Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 28/08/2025This is an initial salvo but we would love to hear your feedback. @audreygaughran.bsky.social 140
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/08/2025the city I live in is occupied by armed federal agents checking people's papers at random public transportation stops and people are still doing this 122455495
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamYung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 30/07/2025"Chris Smalls, the American labour activist known for leading the successful effort to unionise Amazon workers in Staten Island in 2022. ... Smalls was not only detained but also violently beaten by Israeli soldiers" 23219
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamCenter for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 24/07/2025📣 The world’s highest court has spoken. Our daily brief unpacks the #CIJ_ICJ's landmark opinion on climate—what it means, why it matters, and how it changes the fight for climate justice. Dive in 👉 bit.ly/4mdTKlL 02314
Reposted by Meghna Abraham🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑⚖️ International Court of Justice. 🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability 📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇 #ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo 4255182
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamOil Change International @oilchange.org · 21/07/2025🧵Historic milestone coming up, following the ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: On July 23, the International Court of Justice – the world’s highest court – will deliver its much-anticipated ruling on States’ obligations to address #ClimateChange & uphold #HumanRights. 197
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamCenter for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 03/07/2025🗣️ The #ClimateOpinion by the Inter-American Court of #HumanRights is clear: States must take action to STOP the climate crisis. ➡️ Swipe for our experts’ take. 👇 Read CIEL’s statement. #AOLetsGO 🔗 bit.ly/3I9M2KN 22119
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 03/07/2025BREAKING: This new report by the UN Special Rapporteur @franceskalbs.bsky.social identifies the main corporations that are profiting from occupation and genocide in Palestine. 517874
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 01/07/2025For those keeping score, the Senate Bill adds $18 billion in new handouts for Big Oil. We are a joke nation, and it's a bad joke www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...bloomberg.comThe GOP Wants to Give Big Oil a Handout It Doesn’t NeedLawmakers are proposing giveaways to fossil-fuel producers that would cost the US $17.9 billion over a decade. 7215101
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamUNRWA @unrwa.org · 29/06/2025People in #Gaza continue to live through suffering. Relentless bombing, no fuel, no clean water, growing hunger. For nearly 22 months, Gaza is being pushed to the edge while people struggle to survive. 03417
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamOil Change International @oilchange.org · 26/06/202514 fossil fuel companies raked in $100B in profits last year. Now the GOP wants to give them $1.1B more - in tax loopholes. Meanwhile? Families lose healthcare and lifesaving food + utility benefits. This is a fossil fuel scam. We say #StopTheCuts ➡️ familiesoverbigoil.com/familiesoverbigoil.comFamilies Over Big OilWe don’t need more tax breaks for billionaires and pipeline companies. We need a government that invests in children, caregivers, and working people. 0108
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamOil Change International @oilchange.org · 26/06/2025Debt is strangling the Global South‼️ #CancelTheDebt fully, and unconditionally. We call for a just financial architecture that puts people & planet 🌍 first. Debt payments are draining resources that should be used for rights, public services & climate action. #CancelTheDebt #FfD4People 141
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamRTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 25/06/2025Children in Gaza dying of thirst after trucks carrying water blocked - UNICEFrte.ieChildren in Gaza are dying of thirst, says UNICEFUNICEF has warned that while the world's attention is focused elsewhere, the situation in Gaza is "at the worst it has ever been" with the Palestinian territory hitting "rock bottom". 16207215
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamTax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 24/06/2025The UK millionaire population grew 10 times faster than the rate of millionaires leaving the UK since 2017 41,400 millionaires supposedly left since 2017, but there are 435,000 more millionaires in the UK today New outlets are reporting a millionaire "exodus" today that never was. #TaxTheSuperRich 22119
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamOil Change International @oilchange.org · 24/06/2025🚨 New data 🚨 ⚠️”Blended finance” plans by rich gov’ts & international institutions that rely heavily on private finance for #JustTransition are attracting 4-7 times LESS investment than promised. More in report: oilchange.org/publications... 1118
Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 24/06/2025After all the brutality inflicted by Israel on Palestinians over the last 20 plus months, even putting aside all the cruelty of the occupation, this feels like a new level of inhumanity - to force people into starvation and then target them as they queue in desperation for trickles of aid. 020
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamEveryone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Jeff Bezos pays his staff poverty wages and dodges tax. No wonder he can afford to shut down half of Venice for his wedding this week. Tax billionaires NOW. Location: Piazza San Marco, Venice @greenpeace.org #JeffBezos #TaxTheSuperRich 33514171
Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 23/06/2025France, UK, Germany and the EU have again demonstrated their #doublestandards for different countries. The attacks by US and Israel on Iran are illegal under international law. Not only do they fail to condemn the illegality, they welcome "ongoing US efforts to seek a negotiated solution" Seriously?gov.ukE3 + EU Foreign Ministers' statement: 20 June 2025Joint statement by the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, the UK and the High Representative of the EU on escalation of tensions in the Middle East 121
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamDaniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Keir Starmer in the FT today with the most explicit ambition to date for the British derisking state @cornelban.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/a033...ft.comThe industrial strategy will provide certainty for businessDebates about big or small government belong in the past; being agile enough to seize future chances is what matters 132
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamAudrey Gaughran @audreygaughran.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Major victory in a UK High Court case against Shell. The Court found Shell plc and its former Nigerian subsidiary can be held legally responsible for legacy oil pollution. A critical win for the affected communities, and also for work on a just energy transition. www.leighday.co.uk/news/news/20...leighday.co.ukShell & ex Nigerian subsidiary responsible for legacy spillsThe High Court has ruled that Shell plc and its former Nigerian subsidiary can be held legally responsible for legacy, or historic, oil pollution 021
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 20/06/2025call me crazy but I don't think we should. 312593748
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamThomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 17/06/2025By opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on billionaires, the French Senate has revealed just how out of touch it is with the issues of our time. www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty...lemonde.frUltra-wealthy, the Senate beside the storyBy opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on the 1,800 French people whose net worth exceeds €100 million, after the measure was adopted by France's Assemblée nationale (lower house of Parliament), the up... 15718
Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 17/06/2025“We Israelis must understand — we are not immune. A people whose entire existence depends solely on military might is destined to end up in the darkest corners of destruction, and ultimately, in defeat.” www.972mag.com/israels-grea...972mag.comIsrael's greatest threat isn't Iran or Hamas, but its own hubrisA people whose entire existence depends solely on military might is destined to end up in the darkest corners of destruction, and ultimately, in defeat. 000
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamJon Sward @jonsward.bsky.social · 16/06/2025NEW: 80+ NGO leaders, parliamentarians, economists & academics call for Keir Starmer to stop blocking critical debt reform, support measures to tackle debt crisis in lower-income countries and attend #FfD4 w/ @carladenyer.bsky.social & @jayatighosh.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comStarmer urged to attend UN summit and back plans to tackle global debt crisisCharity leaders want PM to attend FfD4 conference amid claims UK and US among countries blocking reforms 093
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamOil Change International @oilchange.org · 16/06/2025🚨 NEW 🚨 Four rich Global North countries are responsible for nearly 70% of projected CO2 pollution from new oil and gas 2025 - 2035, equal to 3X the annual emissions of all the world’s coal power plants combined. oilchange.org/blogs/planet... 3149102
Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 14/06/2025As usual governments in Europe such as #Germany and the #US of course choose to ignore international law when it comes to #Israel and its acts of #aggression (now against #Iran). See Marko Milanovic’s analysis rejecting any claims of anticipatory self-defence: www.ejiltalk.org/is-israels-u...ejiltalk.orgIs Israel’s Use of Force Against Iran Justified by Self-Defence?This morning, Israel launched a major military operation against Iran targeting its nuclear programme, including facilities, individual scientists and military leadership. In this post, I will provide... 010
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 12/06/2025An Indian government official said there were 209 confirmed deaths in the crash, including those on the ground on.ft.com/45Z5cN4 0266
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamWorld Inequality Lab @wid.world · 09/06/2025🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds. @thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system. wid.world/news-article...wid.worldColonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality - WID - World Inequality DatabaseIn a new study, Gastón Nievas and Thomas Piketty examine patterns of global imbalances, current account surplus/deficit and net foreign wealth accumulation over more than two centuries. 15229
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamZarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Live tracker of the Madleen freedom flotilla: freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/ 25691301
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamKevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Remember when Republicans argued that changing the names of military bases and removing statues was tantamount to erasing history? They forgot to add that this only holds for straight white men, who made war on the United States during the Civil War. 14961261
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamNick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Today we release polling showing: 62% of Brits support economic sanctions on Israel, with only 11% opposed 65% support an arms embargo with Israel, 11% opposed 60% support suspending our trade deal, 13% opposed The majority is well ahead of Westminster. #SanctionsNow 034
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamPatriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 05/06/2025We want to make sure Rachel Reeves MP sees some important % and ££s: 🇬🇧 80% of UK millionaires support a 2% tax on wealth over £10m 🇬🇧 81% think it’s patriotic to pay their fair share We’re proud to pay and here to stay #taxthesuperrich #taxwealthnotwork 13496236
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamGRAIN @grain.org · 03/06/2025Madagascar's Minister of Foreign Affairs dangles 36 million hectares of arable land - "an immense potential for agribusiness" - before UAE investors farmlandgrab.org/32883farmlandgrab.orgMadagascar seeks UAE investment to counter US tariff risksMadagascar's Minister of Foreign Affairs tells UAE business leaders that "with 36 million hectares of arable land, there is immense potential for agribusiness and agricultural transformation” in her c... 011
Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 03/06/2025"Last year, between October and December alone, Labour approved more arms exports licences to Israel than the Conservatives approved between 2020 and 2023. This was in spite of the government’s announcement of a part suspension in September 2024" #Israel #genocide #complicitytheguardian.comHow exactly has Britain supported Israel’s military assault on Gaza? The public has a right to know | Jeremy CorbynWhen I was Labour leader, the Chilcot report condemned the party for its disastrous war in Iraq. We need a similar inquiry now, says MP Jeremy Corbyn 010
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/05/2025"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said." www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...huffpost.com'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes'"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens. 7234191558
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamAlex Neve @alexneve.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Everyone. Everywhere. Scream at the top of your lungs. STOP THE GENOCIDE!!theguardian.comIsraeli airstrike kills nine of Gaza doctor’s 10 childrenDr Alaa al-Najjar was on duty at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis when she received her children’s bodies 158
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 21/05/2025From Bluesky to the Guardian! In my new op-Ed, I argue that the “male glaze” of media and politics is empirically, normative, and politically wrong and that progressives should focus more on the left turn of young women.theguardian.comThe real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to | Cas MuddeThere is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics, says political scientist Cas Mudde 20703234
Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 21/05/2025@casmudde.bsky.social points out that young women turning to the left creates a political opportunity for more progressive politics on issues like #climate, if politicians could "reject the male gaze distorting our politics... chasing an outdated interpretation of the “working-class” voter"theguardian.comThe real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to | Cas MuddeThere is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics, says political scientist Cas Mudde 010
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 20/05/2025But also a “colorblind” way to inteoduce deeply racist policies, as this will disproportionately affect non-white legal residents and not Stephen Miller’s preferred (white) Scandinavians. 0187
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamJessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 18/05/2025“Is all this horror for us?” Abu Sultan muses. “It’s hard to believe that all this firepower in the sky is reserved for civilian families whose only concern is to save their children from bombardment and feed them so they don’t die of hunger.” 062
Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 17/05/2025More than 400,000 people march in London today to ask the #UnitedKingdom to stop arming #Israel #endthegenocide #Palestine #complicity 065
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamCaroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 15/05/2025On way to the Annual meeting at Islington Council, pausing to join an emotional gathering for the children of Gaza outside. Islington children speaking up clearly and beautifully for lasting peace, a ceasefire and an end to the violence and starvation that are killing the children of Gaza. 1279
Reposted by Meghna AbrahamTax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025We urge MPs to vote against disability cuts – and instead tax wealth more to meet the government's fiscal rules. They could raise up to £24 billion a year by introducing a 2% wealth tax on fortunes over £10 million. taxjustice.uk/blog/mps-sho...taxjustice.ukMPs should vote against disability cuts – and support wealth taxes insteadUp to 100 Labour MPs are considering rebelling over cuts to social security for people with disabilities. 02013
Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Finally, @theguardian.com and former senior officials within the EU are willing to admit the truth: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... #gaza #complicity #israel #EUtheguardian.comIsrael committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomatJosep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war 011