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Organisation of Radical Cambridge Activist for Environmental Liberation No single issue activist group from Cambridge, we organise around influence of ecocidal, genocidal, colonial and fascist actors in Cambridge, UK. linktr.ee/orca_4_el

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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hidden in plain sign, the City of New York is leasing public lands at the Brooklyn Navy Yard to a defense contractor supplying weapons tech to ICE and the IDF.
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ben smoke @bencsmoke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
REVEALED: New rules for rent tribunals introduced by the Renters Rights Act are actually increasing rents at a faster rate than the national average, despite claims from Housing Secretary Angela Rayner that they would bring rents down...
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Breaking: Four municipalities in Belgium end partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies over support for Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.
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Netpol @netpol.org · 16/09/2026
Lots of people still need to wear a mask in 2026. Lara Wong, of Clinically Vulnerable Families, writes for Netpol on why new police powers to create mask-free zones at protests (and arrest everyone for wearing one) is a public health issue, not just a public order one netpol.org/2026/09/15/w...
Campaigners from the Clinically Vulnerable Families, all wearing a face mask, with a purple and blue banner that says "we demand the right to breathe safe air"
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#StopEACOP @stopeacop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨New spatial analysis warns the #EACOP pipeline cuts through interconnected lakes, wetlands, and rivers—158 wetlands in Uganda. As first oil approaches, East Africa must ask: what happens when oil development risks hit shared water systems? www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026
We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.
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ORCA @orca4el.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
United Families and Friends Campaign has been fighting against state violence for almost thirty years. Formed by the families of those killed by the police, prison, and psychiatric systems, they provide community and support to families impacted by these and other deaths at the hands of the state
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ORCA @orca4el.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
On the 10th and 11th September, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership will be a prominent figure in an “AI and Health” conference, one of two AI events they are advertising this month. We distributed some flyers explaining why it was the opposite: AI is a public health risk.
Our poster on top of a corn exchange programOur poster next to a sign for the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability LeadershipOur poster, titled AI as a public health risk. Full content can be found on our website at orca4el.com/no-ai-in-health-26
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I think westerners tend to underestimate just how oppressive copyright is and how much worse it would be if it were possible to enforce globally. Enabling textbook and academic piracy is one of the more liberatory impacts of the internet. Money is too cheap for us to fully understand how vital it is
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Netpol @netpol.org · 07/09/2026
Kent Police Assistant Chief Constable Nigel Brookes said: "it is important to note that we do not as a matter of course monitor peaceful protestors, and their political viewpoints are not taken into consideration." This is an absolute 100% lie www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Kent Police defend response to Port of Dover protest
An MP has questioned why Kent Police did not know beforehand about the protest on Saturday.
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Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) @actsa-uk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
KABWE | Lead pollution is not just a legacy of the past. It continues to affect families in Kabwe, with children living with the consequences of exposure. Register to join the launch of ACTSA’s new report on 23 September at 11:00 (GMT+1): 🔗https://bit.ly/UNDENIABLE_Kabwe #JusticeForKabwe
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Arconic, whose flammable cladding encased the tower, has done more to compensate its shareholders than the survivors and the bereaved”. Our report on corporate accountability after Grenfell — Unpunished and Undeterred — in @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...
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Andy Burnham’s great power struggle
The prime minister has a theory of power, its abuses and imbalances. But there is a major gap in his analysis
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
REMINDER: The world already has far more oil and gas than can ever be safely burned if we are to limit warming. More North Sea drilling will do nothing to cut our energy bills, and make no meaningful difference to UK energy supply - but it will escalate climate harm.
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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Over on X, the far-right British Patriots have launched a hate campaign against the RNLI They are recording RNLI volunteers in order to dox them, reveal their identities and publish details of where they and their families live These men are dangerous
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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The idea that the police are the solution to this problem is fucking idiotic. The police are part of the problem. How do you think Danny Tommo is getting the information that is enabling him to mobilise groups of 300 lads at the drop of a hat?
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Black-clad Dover vigilantes will return if police do not act, say campaigners
Far-right linked group able to mobilise at scale due to police ‘inaction’, says founder of Hope Not Hate
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
People have really not grasped how laughable & outrageous the two announced Cambridge 'investigations' are. One is extremely narrow--what support measures were available to Jason Arday (hint: they'll find all boxes were ticked). Second is so broad as to be meaningless: how senior hires are made. 1/n
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Collectively, through malevolence, through self-interest, through indifference, the rich world killed the 1.5°C target
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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New from @corporateeurope.org: A deadly alliance of Big Tech and Big Oil. Behind the AI boom, tech firms are teaming up with oil giants to greenwash fossil-fuelled data centres, strengthening the power of two industries driving climate breakdown. buff.ly/avfXvWw
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Hazel Pinner @hazelmpinner.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!
  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 28/08/2026
About bloody time. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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London Science Museum cuts links with BP after decades of partnership
Campaigners say ‘seismic shift’ follows years of pressure to sever ties with oil and gas firm
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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A lot of y’all are spreading eco-fascism without realizing it. Resources always linked in my bio to work through your very valid climate emotions and then find ways to take action.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yes. They hounded him to death. Days and days of breathless undoing. Damn them all.
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Rest easy. Travel ethically. Leave No Room for Genocide.
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Cam STW @camstw.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Cambridge CND 81st commemoration for Hiroshima & Nagasaki in Market Square. We are still campaigning against Nukes which are banned weapons of mass destruction. "Ban The Bomb!" @cnduk.bsky.social
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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Here is our full response to Lord Walney's article calling for us to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation:
Lord Walney (former government advisor on ‘political violence’) has published a Times article calling for BASH BACK to be ‘proscribed’. this would officially designate BASH BACK as a terrorist group
and make it a crime to support us.

We completely reject the idea that we are a "terrorist" group. WE ARE a non-violent direct action group that demands the total liberation of trans people, and opposes the rising tide of anti-trans bigotry.

As our action guide states: “we do not condone causing physical harm to any human being”. 

We take action to defend ourselves and our community from violence.threatening a non-violent group of queer activists with proscription, the day after a horrific right-wing terrorist attack on berlin pride, smacks of cruel double standards.

the british state has encouraged fascist thugs to rampage through the streets, sat back as far-right parties surged in membership and done nothing as muslims, disabled people and queers are subjected to  violence and threats by the right.

yet its lackeys like walney roar into action to label bash back as “terrorists” for engaging in non-violent direct action.

proscription is a tool of control wielded by the ruling class against those who challenge their power.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Palestinians are being ethnically cleansed from the west bank as we speak.
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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
In his first speech as Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged to end rough sleeping in this country. If he wants to end rough sleeping, he must scrap the hostile immigration rules that push people onto the streets. Here's why 👇
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
i have no fucking patience for transphobes of any kind. none!!!!!! they don’t deserve understanding, they deserve to be defeated and driven out of society!!!!
i have no fucking patience for transphobes of any kind. none!!!!!! they don’t deserve understanding, they deserve to be defeated and driven out of society!!!!
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Trans Liberation Cambridge @trans-lib-cam.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We're kicking off Alt Pride with our VARIETY SHOW. Fri 14th Aug, 7pm in the Hills Road Sixth Form College theatre. Accessibility information is on the Eventbrite, where you can also see the lineup before we list them here!! Get your tickets before they go! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alternativ...
Black block sans serif font diagonally on a magenta background, demonstrating the name of the event and time/date/location as in the post.
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Trans Liberation Cambridge @trans-lib-cam.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Now confirmed - British Sign Language interpretation! When you book your FREE tickets you can book a spot at the front with a good view of the interpreter.
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Trans Liberation Cambridge @trans-lib-cam.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
We were delighted to see a return of Daniel Zeichner's Toilet of Contemplation, now with a massive poster over his front door! We saw this activity was posted to This Is Not A Drill yesterday and at time of writing the Toilet of Contemplation is still in situ! thisisnotadrill.info/anti-segrega...
An entire toilet bowl is placed on the porch of Alex Wood Hall, the office of Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner. The lid of the toilet is up, and on the underside is a little trans pride flag, and the words 'NO TRANS SEGREGATION'. Behind the toilet a huge poster has been pasted across the doors, containing excerpts of the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention's damning statement about the latest EHRC guidance. Next to the porch, a very large trans pride flag is draped against the wall.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Thread. I'm listening with horror to this BBC interview, which is ostensibly about climate change. Liam Young is an Australian architect who saw Blade Runner and decided "that's the vision of the future we need." Wait, what?🧵
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BBC Radio 4 - This Cultural Life, Liam Young
Artist, filmmaker and speculative architect Liam Young reveals his cultural influences.
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This is Not a Drill @thisisnotadrill.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
NEW on THIS IS NOT A DRILL Anti-segregation toilet delivered to Labour offices in Cambridge thisisnotadrill.info/anti-segrega...
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Anti-segregation toilet delivered to Labour offices in Cambridge – This Is Not A Drill.
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 16/06/2026
The Brianna Ghey situation increasingly feels like if Matthew Shepherd's parents had gone around saying it was a drug deal gone wrong tbh.
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Les Soulèvements de la terre @lessoulevements.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
💥Eurosatory : la plus grande fête internationale des vendeurs d'armes gâchée par Guerre à la guerre ! Récit du rassemblement qui a bloqué l'ouverture du salon Eurosatory, le plus grand salon mondial de l'armement. 🔹 guerrealaguerre.net/eurosatory-l...
eurosatory bloqué
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Boycott Bloody Insurance @insuranceboycott.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Tell The Guardian to stop taking ads from banks & insurers enabling fossil fuels, g3nocide, and migrant abuse. The Guardian runs ads from Barclays UK NatWest AXA Aviva ADD your name to an open letter calling them out bit.ly/boycott_guar...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
These ‘condemnations’ are nothing more than attempts to avoid talking about sanctions against Israel. As long as they avoid real measures, everything the French (and others) say about Israel is utterly meaningless.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
'Birmingham City University has blamed low demand after deciding to close its master’s course in black studies just a year after it launched.' Yet another example of commitment (sic) to racial equality in higher education. Shocking after a 1-year trial. 1/3
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Black studies master’s course to close at Birmingham City
University to shutter course less than a year after it launched, despite vice-chancellor’s commitment to training next generation of black academics
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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026
Macron describing himself as a pan-Africanist is obscene. It desecrates EVERY meaning of pan-Africanism. Pan-Africanism is anticolonial. Pan-Africanism is against white supremacy. Pan-Africanism is against capitalism. Pan-Africanism is for the freedom of Black people everywhere.
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London Mining Network @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
We're delighted that Indigenous community leader Theonila Roka Matbob has been awarded the 2026 Goldman Prize for her efforts to secure justice and a clean-up from Rio Tinto for the devastation caused by its Panguna mine. Sign this petition to support the campaign: www.hrlc.org.au/projects/jus...
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Justice for Panguna - Human Rights Law Centre
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Debt Justice @debtjustice.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
HAPPENING LIVE While Bailiffs are having an awards ceremony patting themselves on the back for intimidating people who are struggling with debt, we're outside giving them hell. Bailiff use for council tax debt collection is wrong, archaic and is proven to be ineffective. #BanTheBailiffs
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Boycott Bloody Insurance @insuranceboycott.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Shame on The Good Shopping Guide for giving Aviva, one of the worst insurers of migrant detention, an ethical accreditation. 🤔 How can this be justified?
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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament @cnduk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Our digital billboard van is out in Cambridge today, raising awareness about the presence of US nuclear weapons in Britain. Join CND and @lakenheathalliance.bsky.social this Saturday at RAF Lakenheath to call on Starmer to #KickOutTrumpsNukes! Details and transport: vist.ly/4wvwt
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Fossil Free London @fossilfreeldn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
BREAKING: out this morning protesting the lies of Trump & Big Oil billionaires who are pocketing big bucks from war & climate collapse. Big Oil means big problems. Don’t let Trump & his lapdogs in the far right tie us into fossil fuels Stop Rosebank. We need homegrown renewables. @ US Embassy
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Netpol @netpol.org · 30/03/2026
Former Palestine Action prisoner Qesser Zuhrah was arrested today by counterterrorism officers, allegedly for social media posts supporting "direct action". Direct action means taking demands directly to the source of a problem, rather than asking others to intervene, and is entirely legitimate
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Trans Liberation Cambridge @trans-lib-cam.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
UPDATED SWIMMING TIME & DATE: 12.45-1.45pm, Saturday 4th April Our venue has just been in contact to let us know that their opening hours have changed over the bank holiday weekend, and they're no longer open on the Sunday we'd booked. Very annoying! We've moved our booking to the Saturday.
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Trans Swimming Hour
We've booked out the whole of a pool in North Cambridge just for us transes! Come get aquatic with us in peace!!!
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Palantir is a priority BDS target. The Palestinian-led BDS movement calls for forming broad intersectional coalitions to lead contract exclusion campaigns, peaceful disruptions, and other creative forms of pressure on institutions contracting Palantir.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
1/ Paul Ehrlich died this week at 93. The takes split into hagiography and dismissal. But the interesting question isn't whether he got it right, he didn't, it's why he got it wrong, and who was asking the right questions instead 🧵
Biologist Paul Ehrlich speaking at the University of San Diego circa 1972
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
this is in no sense how it should have happened. but it is precisely because we find ourselves in a situation that requires war, death, and destruction to get well positioned political actors behind accelerating energy transition that we should demolish fossil capital as decisively as we can
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