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Michelle Charlesworth

@michellec66.bsky.social
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Barred from X🤷‍♀️🦺🧯🇵🇸Activist UK. Grandma, Co founder of oneplanetabingdon.org. Many arrests for non violent direct action. Prison for Just Stop Oil🦺. Prison for glueing myself to the dock in protest of the system. Love over hate.♥️ #WeAreAllPalestineAction

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SOUTH JERSEY DEMOCRATIC WOMEN'S FORUM @sjdwf2025.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
In case you need a positive reminder: How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
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Oxfordshire @oxfordshireuk.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Mesmerising murmuration filmed by BBC presenter #Oxon #Oxfordshire 🔗: www.bbc.com/news/vide...
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Starling murmuration filmed by BBC's Sophie Raworth near Oxford
BBC presenter Sophie Raworth captured the aerial dance at the weekend near Oxford.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Still here. Still waiting for HMP Bronzefield to call an ambulance for Qesser Zuhrah, who is on day 46 of her hunger strike and needs urgent hospital care now.
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 24/11/2025
‘The actors completely broke down’: Narges Rashidi on playing Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe trib.al/mQtuFdK
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'The actors completely broke down': Narges Rashidi on playing Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Dramatising the story of a mother's imprisonment in Iran was intensely emotional for all involved
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Prisoner 951 is a long haul. It is exhausting. But no drama that conveyed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s ordeal could be otherwise ✏️ @rostaylor.bsky.social
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Prisoner 951 is another drama that shames Britain
The fictionalised version of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s torment in Iran is damning for the state, and for Boris Johnson
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/12/2025
‘They can’t take away your imagination and creativity’: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on how sewing helped her in Iran jail
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‘They can’t take away your imagination and creativity’: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on how sewing helped her in Iran jail
Zaghari-Ratcliffe made clothes for her daughter while waiting for her eventual release. Now, the idea of creativity as a form of resistance is the theme of a new collaboration between London’s Imperial War Museum and the fabric department of Liberty.
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Just some of the news coverage of last Thursday's National Emergency Briefing on the climate & nature crisis, attended by over 1,200 politicians and influential people from business, culture, faith, sport and the media. #timetostepup #NEB2025 #climatecrisis www.nebriefing.org Please share.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Agree or disagree?
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The Labour Government refused a 1% asset tax on the super rich, yet raised taxes on people already struggling. All whilst their "black hole" turned out to be utter nonsense. Active choices to refuse to fund our communities which they desperately need. Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The latest grim news Refugees heading north from baking, waterless, southern Europe, will meet those heading south from a cold, crop-less northern Europe as the AMOC shuts down www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
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Frostbitten Flamingo @flemtheparrot.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Morning.
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Excellent article by Claire Poole of @forbes.com on the National Emergency Briefing. Perfectly encapsulates the key messages. Thanks Claire. #NEB2025 #NationalEmergencyBriefing www.forbes.com/sites/claire...
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UK Security, Food And Economy At Risk Without Climate Action, Experts Say
Experts at the U.K.’s first national emergency briefing on climate and nature shared risks in a world being rapidly destabilised by climate and biodiversity breakdown
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Here's @chrisgpackham.bsky.social's powerful opening remarks at this weeks National Emergency Briefing in Westminster Hall. The videos and transcripts of the talks from each of the expert speakers will be available on their website soon. Follow @nebriefing.bsky.social for updates.
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'We've set our house on FIRE!' | Chris Packham leads MOVING climate change speech
YouTube video by The Mirror
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Hope is here, and this morning we've proved it. In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target But we're not done. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform this May. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
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Hope is here: help us deliver it
Hope is here. In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder hit our £100,000 target. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform in May.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Just 13k more signatures and the call for a public inquiry into Russian interference has to be debate in Parliament petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
“Heartbreaking scenes from Elit, Iran, where wildfire is damaging parts of the ancient Hyrcanian forests — a @unesco.org World Heritage treasure and one of Earth’s last temperate rainforests" Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health #Iran 🇮🇷
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Turkey sends aircraft to help battle Iran wildfires
Two Turkish firefighting planes, one helicopter and eight personnel will arrive in Iran on Saturday to help quell fires in the Hyrcanian forest in the country's north, Iranian environment chief Shina ...
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Michelle Charlesworth @michellec66.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
As I write my last column, the facts on climate crisis speak for themselves www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
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As I write my last column, the facts on climate crisis speak for themselves
Since 1995, when the first Cop was held, carbon levels have increased from 360.67 parts per million to 426.68 parts now
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Taj Ali: "Britain colonised a quarter of the planet.. the idea that Britain has no obligation at all to take in asylum seekers is a problem.. we should be calling for is safe & legal routes.. some of the rhetoric is dangerous.. we've seen the demonisation of asylum seekers"
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19/11/2025
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
If it's weird to you that the other parties don't get something so obvious: Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Life under occupation and apartheid. The Israeli occupying army is rounding up Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
"The first sighting of a pine marten in Studland, Dorset, in more than a century!" swanage.news/rare-and-end...
A pine marten.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Arguably the most important 100 minute briefing our MPs will have ever attended👇 Hundreds of Parliamentarians expected. Is your MP coming? Check with your postcode: www.nebriefing.org We can rise to the challenge, but need the courage to face it. #NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp @nebriefing.bsky.social
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National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The truth is, the COP process has been broken for years They can still barely bring themselves to utter the words fossil fuels, despite the fact that this year, they will be responsible for 38 billion out of 41 Billion tonnes of CO2 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Cop30 was meant to be a turning point, so why do some say the climate summit is broken?
Swamped by lobbyists and hobbled by a lack of urgency, there are fears Cop could become a sprawling spectacle that betrays those who depend on it most
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Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
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eperkin.bsky.social @eperkin.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
@cnn.com @cnn-news.bsky.social @cnnipr.bsky.social Jake Tapper Farage Reform Party
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"This blueprint offers practical, commercially viable steps for advertising agencies and media owners to phase out fossil fuel clients, by engaging 5 key levers: finance, legal and compliance, the board, internal culture and operations." #COP30 #Climate www.actclimatelabs.org/advertising-...
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The Five Levers For Change: a Blueprint to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Advertising
A Practical Framework to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Advertising View the Blueprint The advertising and media industries are at a turning point. In this report, The Five Levers For Change: a Blueprint to...
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The Planning Bill is back in Parliament today.‼️ From the start, it’s been controversial: risking damage to precious wildlife and habitats. Peers reduced some of those risks. Now MPs get to vote: keep those protections, or strip them out.
A patch of long, wild grasses and reeds sits between rows of new-build houses. The space is alive with greenery, showing how wildlife can cling on at the edges of development, a reminder that how we build shapes the nature we keep.
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Michelle Charlesworth @michellec66.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
This is a must watch for anyone looking to understand how we got to be so privileged here in England… & why we MUST now do all we can to repair. The cruel impact of plunder, colonisation, slavery and domination by elites continues to this day. When we understand the history… how can we not be moved?
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Plaques commemorating Black WWII soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands —Newsweek
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.
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England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I’ve just announced I’ll be leading a National Emergency Briefing on 27 November . At a time when climate is in free fall on the political agenda , it’s vital our leaders realise what is at stake if we do not accelerate a just , green transition for all . @nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧
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TVwithThinus @tvwiththinus.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚. Tim Davie quits as BBC director-general on Sunday evening, with Deborah Turness who quits as BBC News boss, following accusation that BBC News was dishonest in editing remarks of United States president Donald Trump.
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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
www.bbc.com/news/live/cd... Neither is any loss and particularly to BBC News, where the influence of Robbie Gibb has been catastrophic, destroying its journalistic reputation. The chances of whomever succeeds them not also being right-wingers and continuing the destruction is minimal.
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BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit
Davie says
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Climate, Ecology, War & More: Dr. Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.ai · 06/11/2025
Scientists Shocked as Antarctic Glacier Collapses in Record Time ->SciTechDaily | #Glacier #Antarctic #Collapse #Science | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
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Scientists Shocked as Antarctic Glacier Collapses in Record Time
In a record-breaking event, Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier lost nearly half its mass in just two months. A glacier on the eastern side of Antarctica has undergone the fastest retreat ever documented in modern times. In only two months, nearly half...
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Well. Knock me down with a feather..... But he sanctioned the appointment anyway The latest example of Starmer's complete lack of political radar....... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Starmer was briefed on Mandelson’s Epstein links before appointing him, say civil servants
PM had been given ‘summary of reputational risks’ but did not know about contents of emails before PMQs, MPs told
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Editorial: Zohran Mamdani is leading a US political revolution — and across the Atlantic, Zack Polanski is mounting his own against the rise of UK fascism ⬇️
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Zohran Mamdani and Zack Polanski: Make hope normal again
Editorial: Zohran Mamdani is leading a US political revolution — and across the Atlantic, Zack Polanski is mounting his own against the rise of UK fascism.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us: “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
📣 Calling all UK scientists. Please sign a letter urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing on the threats from ongoing damage to #climate & #nature - alongside positive actions.

 A non-partisan high-level summary of the science. Details in the reply 👇
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National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
A 32 year old man has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder after a knife attack on that train on Saturday evening Anthony Williams from Peterborough is also charged with one count of possession of a bladed article & one count of actual bodily harm
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK... 78% are murdered by a partner/ex Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety In fact, they voted against them...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Tesco "Every little helps... but they are taking ALOT."
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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Earth, 13 minutes ago as seen from Space 🌍 This must have been taken over Washington DC
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Can citizens and journalists unite to hold back authoritarianism and protect democracy? On 4th November at 7pm, join our live online event with: - George Monbiot - Nafeez Ahmed - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown - Nick Lowles Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
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Michelle Charlesworth @michellec66.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
An important critique 👇🏼#DeliveryGap
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The Anti-Sycophant @leinsterlad.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Picture showing America has been at war with others for 230 years of its 250 year history
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