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Nick Buxton

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Knowledge Hub at Transnational Institute. Communications Consultant. Expertise #climatesecurity #borderpolitics Posts in personal capacity. He/Him

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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Excellent analysis by @sushovandhar.bsky.social on BRICs and multilateralism. Of course we want collapse of US empire and a more multipolar world. But we also need to critically analyse what BRICS are actually doing (not just saying). The evidence here is damning. www.cadtm.org/The-New-Delh...
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The New Delhi Declaration and the Myth of Progressive Multilateralism – CADTM
The pictures were supposed to make us happy and they did their job. Xi Jinping's first visit to India in seven years, Putin's first trip outside Russia since Ukraine invasion at BRICS summit, Modi…
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We refuse to let these deaths become just another headline. They are not isolated tragedies but the predictable result of a mass deportation agenda that values cruelty over human life. We demand justice for those we’ve lost and for the loved ones left behind.
Since the start of 2026, at least 24 immigrants have died in the custody of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Geraldo Lunas Campos
Jan. 3, 2026

Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
Jan. 5, 2026

Luis Beltrán Yañez-Cruz
Jan. 6, 2026

Parady La
Jan. 9, 2026

Victor Manuel Díaz
Jan. 14, 2026

Heber Sánchez Domínguez
Jan. 14, 2026

Lorth Sim
Feb. 16, 2026

Jairo García-Hernández
Feb. 16, 2026

Alberto Gutiérrez-Reyes
Feb. 27, 2026

Pejman Karshenas Najafabadi
Mar. 1, 2026

Emmanuel Cleeford Damas
Mar. 2, 2026

Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal
Mar. 14, 2026

Royer Pérez-Jiménez
Mar. 16, 2026

José Guadalupe Ramos-Solano
Mar. 25, 2026

Tuan Van Bui
Apr. 1, 2026

Alejandro Cabrera Clemente
Apr. 11, 2026

Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt
Apr. 12, 2026

Denny Adán González
Apr. 28, 2026

Mamuka Artmeladze
Jun. 4, 2026

Felix Alcorta-Rodriguez
Jun. 19, 2026

Adrian Andreas Florian
Jun. 24, 2026

Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva
Jul. 13, 2026

Priciliano Trejo
Jul. 24, 2026

Edwin Jovanny Lopez-Cornejo
Aug. 1, 2026

We honor and remember them.
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Transition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“It should not escape the Treasury’s attention that military spending is one of the worst forms of public investment for jobs and growth. Military largesse is an extremely damaging economic strategy.” Khem Rogaly quoted in @declassifieduk.org 👇 www.declassifieduk.org/chancellor_w...
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Chancellor wants military officer with him at Treasury
John Healey’s request has sparked fears about the military having too much influence over UK finances
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We are closing in on $70 BILLION dollars that Americans have had to pay in extra fuel costs since Feb 28 due to Trump's war on Iran. For context, the entirety of all federal support for research (thru NIH, NSF etc) costs $65B per year. A war for nothing but waste. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Iran War Energy Cost Tracker
Tracks the extra cost paid by U.S. consumers for gasoline and diesel since the Iran conflict began on February 28, 2026, compared against a no-war counterfactual baseline.
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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The EU wants to hand over our fingerprints and facial images to Trump. Hardly anyone knows. Sign and share to help stop it! action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-06...
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EU: Don’t send our data to the US!
Share the petition and you'll help multiply the impact of this campaign: EU: Don’t send our data to the US!
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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
We need to target weapons companies to stop the endless drive towards war and the militarization of every aspects of our lives. This was the essence of my argument in a great discussion series on security, left populism and abolitionism in Globalizations journal www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The War Complex: challenging the industry sectors responsible for the global arms surge
This article examines the role of the Military-Security-Technology-Industrial Complex (MSTIC) in the hegemonic rise of militarism globally, unprecedented levels of military spending, and the unleas...
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The Appeal @theappeal.org · 13/05/2026
Executives at ICE’s biggest contractors donated more than $1.7 million to 168 members of Congress over the 3 most recent election cycles. Find out if your representatives are among them with our new searchable database built in partnership with @inthesetimes.com theappeal.org/congress-ice...
Is your congressmember taking money from ice contractors?
The Appeal and In These Times have compiled information on every sitting member of Congress who has received donations from ICE’s top contractors and published the results of our investigation in a searchable database.
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Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The US has spent an estimated $71.8 billion on the Iran War, or $1.2 billion per day on average.
U.S. spent $72 billion in first 60 days of Iran War. Estimated U.S. war costs, 28 February through 28 April 2026. Column headers are as follows: Expense; Description; Cost. Rows are as follows: Operations; Mobilization, administration, combat; $15.8 billion. Weapons; Missiles, interceptors, bombs, other; $41.2 billion. Losses; Damaged or destroyed military assets; $11.9 billion. Subsidies; Paying for Israel’s bombs, interceptors; $2.9 billion. Total; Cost of the first 60 days of the Iran War; $71.8 billion. Estimated direct costs based on author's analysis of officials' statements, procurement and O&S data, open-source intelligence, media reports. Figures subject to revision as new information becomes available. Chart and analysis by Stephen Semler.
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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Kali Akuno is an inspiration who has helped light a path for so many folk in how to build eco-socialism in the face of fascism. Please consider making a donation to support him now he needs that help. Stand with Kali Akuno: Help a Movement Builder Heal chuffed.org/project/1771...
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Stand with Kali Akuno: Help a Movement Builder Heal
Kali Akuno—co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and a lifelong movement builder—is facing a serious and urgent health crisis. He needs immediate access to specialized cardiac care that he simply cannot g...
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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Yolo Committee to Celebrate MayDay (International Worker’s Day) 2026” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
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Yolo Committee to Celebrate MayDay (International Worker’s Day) 2026 · May Day Strong
MayDay is a day recognized around the world as a time to celebrate the achievements and struggles of working people from all walks of life. Originating from the workers movement in Chicago, 1886, the ...
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 19/03/2026
$200B, the Pentagon's insane ask for the illegal Iran war, is comparable to all planned spending on energy and climate over *10 years* in Biden's signature bill, which Trumpists almost completely repealed last summer.
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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Even though I feel I have seen everything and am immune to the shock, news like this still leaves me reeling on how immorally depraved Trump's entire government is. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...
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U.S. Considers Withholding H.I.V. Aid Unless Zambia Expands Minerals Access
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
What is behind the increasing criminalisation of migrants and those standing in solidarity with them? Josephine Solanki who anchors our borders work will speak at @world-beyond-war.bsky.social's Virtual Film Festival. Sign up here: worldbeyondwar.org/filmfest2026/
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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I might not be where I am today if it hadn't been for picking up one of Susan George's books at university. It helped turn me into an activist, to my first job in the Jubilee debt campaign, and finally brought me to work at TNI. I will miss her hugely but her influence and legacy will live on.
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Nuria del Viso @ndelviso25.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Nuestros amigos de @tninstitute.bsky.social lanzan una nueva edición de State of Power, dedicado al fascismo y el ascenso de la extrema derecha. Análisis, infografías y maravillosas ilustraciones de Sana Nasir. ¡Para no perdérselo! @fuhem.bsky.social @clacso.bsky.social @nickbuxton.bsky.social
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Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
After a string of ICE murders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries proposed reforms — and $11 billion more for ICE. Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide: www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...
ICE funding exceeds the military budgets of all but 15 countries. This table ranks the proposed $30 billion ICE budget for 2026 among the largest military budgets worldwide. It has 3 columns — ranking, military or agency, and funding — and 40 rows, 39 of which are country military budgets and 1 is the ICE budget. ICE is ranked 16th, larger than the military budgets of countries including Canada, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Sweden, Iran, and Switzerland. The ICE budget refers to the proposed 2026 discretionary spending in H.R.7147 plus average annual reconciliation funding in P.L.119-21. Military budgets are sourced from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Chart and analysis by Stephen Semler.
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Francesca Fiorentini @franifio.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"God Bless America" and then lists every country in the Americas. Bad Bunny crushed the Super Bowl.
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Fascism doesn’t rise by accident: it’s organised through capitalism, fear, and targeted wars on migrants, drugs, and people in poverty. Read our State of Power 2026 opening interview with @harshawalia.bsky.social and Alberto Toscano. www.tni.org/en/article/l...
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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The UK government has agreed a deal with Donald Trump to hike NHS drugs prices. The government is refusing to say how much this will cost or how it will be paid for. Tell Wes Streeting to come clean: act.globaljustice.org.uk/tell-wes-str...
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Tell Wes Streeting: come clean on cost of Trump’s NHS deal
The UK government has agreed a deal with Donald Trump that will see the NHS pay pharma companies much higher drugs prices. But they won’t come clean on how much this agreement will cost the NHS. Estim...
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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Fuck ICE. Fuck Trump. Fucking Murderers. And all my admiration for those standing up in Twin cities so bravely against this modern day U.S. gestapo. This has to be a turning point
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FUHEM @fuhem.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
¿Qué revela el genocidio en Palestina sobre la situación geopolítica: quién tiene el poder y cómo se ejerce? Entrevista de @nickbuxton.bsky.social a @rafeefz.bsky.social #EstadodelPoder2025 www.fuhem.es/2025/12/10/g...
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Geopolítica del genocidio
La alianza inquebrantable entre Occidente e Israel no solo consiste en ejercer presión o influencia, sino que es una alianza estratégica basada en objetivos imperiales comunes. Entender este mapa ge...
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The Progressive Caucus @usprogressives.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Deputy Chair @repilhan.bsky.social & Whip @chuygarcia.house.gov : “As Trump threatens land strikes on Venezuela, every U.S. Representative will face a simple, up-or-down choice on the House floor this week: Will you stand up for the Constitution and vote to stop Trump’s illegal warmaking or not?”
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Why the military’s impact on climate change can no longer be ignored www.tni.org/en/publicati...
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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
New report reveals even the most transparent nations are only reporting a tiny fraction of their true military carbon footprint... www.sgr.org.uk/publications... 🧪
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Military greenhouse gas emissions reporting: how reliable is it?
This report investigates the problem of the underreporting of military greenhouse gas emissions. Using data from the United Nations and national government reports, it highlights systematic problems w...
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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It's time for action on the debt crisis. Please sign the global petition calling for >> 🤚 Urgent debt cancellation ✒️ New debt justice laws 🌍 A debt framework at the UN to stop future crises Let's show world leaders that it's time to #canceldebtchoosehope 🌈 debtjustice.org.uk/canceldebt
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Cancel Debt, Choose Hope
Join the biggest global movement for debt cancellation in twenty-five years. Campaigners and activists around the world are uniting to demand action on unjust debt. It’s a huge year for the campaign –...
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan. www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
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Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan
Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan The headlines are horrifying: Aid Blocked. El Fasher under siege. Ethnic cleansing. Famine. Millions displaced. Beyond slogans like Eyes on Sudan or Free Sudan, how can we a...
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 23/10/2025
Trump has murdered at least 34 people in the Caribbean. The administration “ is selecting boats more or less at random, and intentionally killing people who could be captured.” From Ryan Cooper: trib.al/4pogGiw
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The Pirate Lord Donald Trump - The American Prospect
All evidence suggests the president is directing the military to assassinate random civilians off the coast of South America, and thereby violating norms and laws that stretch back to before the founding of this country.
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Transition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
While the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty. Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵 transitionsecurity.org
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Transition Security Project
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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Great analysis by @pmbigger.bsky.social and Khem Rogaly on why the vast expansion of the military industrial complex does not serve the working class and creates a more dangerous planet jacobin.com/2025/10/mili...
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All Guns and No Butter on a Burning Planet
The insatiable demands of the military industrial complex are a barrier to human flourishing on a livable planet.
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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Excited to be part of this really important initiative. Climate justice is impossible in an ever-more militarised economy and society. We need new pathways forward...
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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 29/09/2025
When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The destruction of the UAWC seed bank in Hebron is a deliberate attack on Palestinian food sovereignty and peasant resistance. This assault targets the right to land, life, and self-determination. Peasant seeds are seeds of resistance. Hold Israel accountable. viacampesina.org/en/2025/08/l...
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La Via Campesina Condemns Israeli Forces’ Attack on UAWC Seed Bank in Hebron, Palestine | Read the Full Statement
It is a political assault on a people’s right to live with dignity, care for their land, and determine their own future. We stand with UAWC and all Palestinian peasants who continue their struggle und...
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FUHEM @fuhem.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Entrevista a Rafeef Ziadah @rafeefz.bsky.social sobre el genocidio en Palestina Por @nickbuxton.bsky.social en #revistaPapeles 170 www.fuhem.es/2025/07/16/p...
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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Increased military emissions is one of the dangers of increased military spending, but the bigger concern as I explained to @grist.org is that an ever more militarised world is the opposite of climate justice. grist.org/climate/how-...
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How reducing the US military budget would also reduce emissions
New research shows that even with modest reductions in military funding, the United States would keep a whole lot of carbon out of the atmosphere.
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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
TNI's work on climate and militarism is featured in this piece
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
"The Draghi report was overwhelmingly influenced by corporate interests, with 65 percent of written input coming from businesses and only 5 percent from civil society." NEW Nick Smith on the EU's rearmament
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Rearming Europe | Phenomenal World
The main justification for the EU’s recent dramatic reorientation toward defense is the proliferation of threats to European security emerging from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But rather than defens...
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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Excellent analysis of UK National Security Strategy by R. Reeves @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social that speaks of providing security for people but does not consult them, rushes enthusiastically towards more insecurity & never reflects on what keeps us safe. rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2025/07/09/d...
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Don’t Look Up, Don’t Look Down: The radical certainty of Labour’s National Security Strategy
The UK’s latest National Security Strategy heralds a radical redistribution of national resources from social spending to defence. Richard Reeve argues that it not only brushes aside the looming re…
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 02/07/2025
big beautiful bill passing would make the budget for ice larger than most of the world’s militaries
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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
(1/2): 📣 APPLICATIONS OPEN! Are you organizing against the #FarRight in the Global South? Apply now to Know Your Enemy, Noor’s Popular Education School — a collective learning space for organizers across the #GlobalSouth to deepen political analysis, share tactics & build collective strength.
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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Looking forward to listening to this
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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
My thoughts on why NATO's new spending pledge is catastrophic for people and the planet. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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NATO’s 5 percent spending pledge is a threat to people and the planet
The alliance’s spending surge will prompt war, cut services and worsen the climate crisis.
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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Mamdani's victory could be the biggest election win for climate populism since AOC beat Crowley in 2018. With AOC, the Green New Deal promised good green jobs. Mamdani's Green Abundance for the Many is all about making the good, green life affordable. Climate politics have fundamentally changed.
Sunrise Movement endorsement of Zohran MamdaniArticle headline, "Zohran Mamdani is Proposing Green Abundance for the Many"
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This #FathersDay, we also think of the loving immigrant fathers who are separated from their families due to our nation’s outdated—and increasingly cruel—immigration policies: americasvoice.org/blog/happy-f...
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Happy Father’s Day to All The Immigrant Dads - America's Voice
This Father’s Day, we honor and celebrate the resilient stories of immigrant dads like Hoang Pham, who nearly five decades later still vividly remembers the day he waved goodbye to his family in Vietn...
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
ICYMI By me: The carbon footprint of the first 15 months of Israel’s war on Gaza will be greater than the annual planet-warming emissions of a hundred individual countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency on top of the huge civilian death toll www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries
Exclusive: The climate cost is more than than the combined 2023 emissions of Costa Rica and Estonia, study finds
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10 Percent for All @10percentforall.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Join us for the official launch event of the 10% for All campaign, a powerful global initiative calling for a minimum 10% reduction in military spending by all countries—and a redirection of those funds towards life-affirming priorities that build true human security. Register here: bit.ly/44Bxm0g
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/05/2025
white supremacy and racial chauvinism remain the greatest technology invented for getting people to immiserate themselves for the benefit of the wealthy
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 12/05/2025
The carbon footprint of EU's defence spurge
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The carbon footprint of EU's defence spurge
How should climate activists respond to Europe’s embrace of a ‘security’ emergency that has completely displaced its commitment to tackle the far bigger climate emergency? So far, the response from climate groups has been rather muted, with few statements by climate organisations and little evident public resistance.
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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I argue in @euobserver.com with Deborah Burton and Stuart Parkinson that an ever more armed planet threatens to undermine all possibility of climate justice euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
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The carbon footprint of EU's defence spurge
How should climate activists respond to Europe’s embrace of a ‘security’ emergency that has completely displaced its commitment to tackle the far bigger climate emergency? So far, the response from cl...
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Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Isn't it time for climate groups to speak out against militarisation when it is increasing emissions, diverting finance and stopping climate action? Here are some pointers on what we could say.... www.tni.org/en/publicati...
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What does the global arms race mean for climate action? | Transnational Institute
Briefing for climate organisations that explores how the global arms race fuels climate instability, and suggests ways to communicate on the issues that does not further legitimise military greenwashi...
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