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Will McCallum

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Co-Executive Director at Greenpeace UK

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
BREAKING: @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social activists scale Foreign Office with the message 'Lammy don't dally'. Ocean protection needs some political attention or the UK risks losing its place as a world leader. www.msn.com/en-gb/politi...
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Watch now! Our film of last week's action outside Shell's HQ: We're at Breaking Point: youtu.be/BoaYq0950uI
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Breaking Point | A Greenpeace film
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The world is at breaking point. Governments must stop new fossil fuel projects & make Shell pay up for the damage they’ve caused. Polluters must be held accountable. 📷🎥 See the full protest: media.greenpeace.org/Detail/27MZI... #MakePollutersPay #ClimateJustice #ActNow
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Just back from Shell’s HQ. We’ve hit breaking point. We turned their London office into an exhibition of climate devastation—displaying flooded cases of typhoon-wrecked belongings from Filipino communities. Then, we smashed them. 🧵👇
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Whilst Rachel Reeves spends Davos throwing Net Zero under the bus, we've been confiscating private jets.
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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We’ve lost a Greenpeace legend today. Pete Wilkinson, founder of Greenpeace UK in the 1970s, was still campaigning right up to the end. His passion and directness, always speaking truth to power, never wavered. Rest in peace, Pete.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Fascinating the number of arguments being used the UK in its submission regarding the EU challenge to reopen sandeel fishing in UK waters that could be applied against the UK's own approach to allowing industrial fishing to continue inside its MPAs: pcacases.com/web/sendAtta...
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Some words from one of the activists whose charges were dropped after our protest at Unilever HQ: How a Police Crackdown on Climate Protests Made Me Join the Frontline for the First Time – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/01/17/c...
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How a Police Crackdown on Climate Protests Made Me Join the Frontline for the First Time
"For me, the act of civil disobedience was a stand against the increasing erosion of a fundamental pillar of democracy - our right to protest"
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Great to see our Shell campaign work featuring heavily in this piece on why climate activism is turning to humour. Delivering a tiny violin to their CEO was a highlight of last year. on.ft.com/3Q3eMpn
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Climate activists shift from street protest to humour to win support
Elaborate comedy stunts are being used to highlight corporate inaction
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Daniel Bengtsson @danielbensson.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Beautiful story from Greenpeace Arctic sailing expedition in 2024: "All sailors should be concerned about deep-sea mining. We are all dependent on a healthy ocean and shouldn’t allow a few companies to imperil it in the name of profit" #StopDeepSeaMining www.yachtingmonthly.com/cruising-lif...
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'It should not be this hot' - a scientific expedition to the Arctic Circle
Norwegian journalist Jon Amtrup skippers Greenpeace vessel Witness to the Arctic Circle on a scientific expedition to monitor ecosystems
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Yesterday we were at Defra handing in our petition with over 1.6million signatures on it calling for a total ban on bee-killing pesticides. action.greenpeace.org.uk/ban-bee-kill...
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A bolt of good news in an otherwise bleak landscape for protest rights - the charges against dozens of @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social activists after our protest outside Unilever HQ have been dropped! www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/charges...
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Charges dropped for dozens of Greenpeace activists in plastic pollution protest outside Unilever HQ - Greenpeace UK
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has dropped all charges against 34 Greenpeace activists who blockaded Unilever’s London headquarters last September. The decision was made just days before the star...
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Plenty more on the list that I'd recommend depending on your taste, but these were the ten that I suspect I'll remember more than the others.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Finally, it might be because I visited the US this year but I completely fell in love with Ragtime by E L Doctorow whose every page brings to life the early 20th century in the US. Had never heard of him before, but very grateful to the friend who knows my taste well enough to gift it to me.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Whilst across the Atlantic Joshua Green takes a cold hard look at how some Democrat politicians have sought to extend the Overton window on the Left, with varying degrees of success. I didn't agree with all the analysis, but it's great research with lots to learn.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
In politics, there were a couple that really stood out: Citizen Clem by John Bew tells the story of how an extraordinary appreciation of the importance of political pluralism on the Left allowed Atlee to navigate the many conflicts on his own side whilst building the welfare state.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Two books that were far more unsettling also make the favourite list, both sparsely written character studies. The Door by Magda Szabó and Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal. Couldn't put either down as the faintly threatening worlds they created drew me in to explore the shadows.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Another book managing to walk the line between despair and humour was Emily Buchanan's 'Send Flowers' which I was lucky enough to get to read in advance and can be pre-ordered here: www.waterstones.com/book/send-fl... Radical, hopeful stories are exactly what the world needs right now.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Next, two books I loved for their storytelling. Totally different stories, in totally different contexts, with barely anything to link them except that in describing the depths of what humans are capable of both managed to make me laugh, a lot. James by Percival Everett and The Bell by Iris Murdoch
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
"Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter" I'd been meaning to read Chinua Achebe's essays for years and they didn't disappoint: radical, persuasive and beautifully written. Depressing that so few of the problems described have gone away.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
For totally different reasons, the other book that I've referred back to loads (not just because of the recipes in it) is Brandy Sour by Constantia Soteriou. Weird, enthralling exploration of war in Cyprus told through lens of the different drinks each of its characters choose in the Palace Hotel.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The book I've definitely thought about the most in the months since reading was King by Jonathan Eig. Fascinating biography of MLK with tonnes of social movement strategy in there, including lessons on how he navigated tensions between insider and outsider.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Slightly belated, but that time of year to look back at 2024's reading (in chronological left to right). Always interested in reflections if you've read any of them, or recommendations for new books if you have them! 📖🤓 Top ten from the list in thread below (hard choices had to be made) 🔽
Images of 36 books, arranged in chronological order of reading:

In Ascension - Martin McInnes
Eastbound - Maylis de Kerangal
Breathe - Sadiq Khan
Home and exile - Chinua Achebe 
Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf
The Rebels - Joshua Green
Birnham Wood - Eleanor Catton
Change - Edouard Louis
Martin Luther King: A Biography - Jonathan Eig
Mayflies - Andrew O’Hagan
On being unreasonable - Kirsty Sedgemon
Study for obedience - Sarah Bernstein
Leviathan Wakes - James A. Corey
The New Life - Tom Crewe
Citizen Clem, John Bew
All the Sinners Bleed, S. A. Crosby
Rifqa - Mohammed el Kurd 
The Sleepwatcher - Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
LaRose - Louise Ehrdich
The beautiful screaming of pigs- Damon galgut
Afterlives, abdulrazak gurnah
Evenings and weekends, Oisin McKenna
The door, Magda Szabor
Brandy Sour, Constantia Soteriou
Lean On Pete, Willy Vlautin
Pond - Claire-Louise Bennett
Abolish the Family - Sophie Lewis
Manchurian candidate - Richard condon
Ice Candyman, Bapsi Sidhwa
Ragtime - E L Doctorow
Living things - Munir Hachemi
James - Percival Everett
Send flowers, Emily Buchanan
Caliban's War - James Corey
The Bell, Iris Murdoch
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 02/01/2025
+++NEW ANALYSIS+++ UK electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, with emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade Highlights: 🏭end of coal power after 142yrs 🔥fossil fuels at record-low 29% share 🌄renewables at record-high 45% www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/9
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Still looking back and processing what happened in 2024? Our @unearthednews.bsky.social team put together a list of their favourite environmental journalism of the year: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/12/26/b...
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The best environmental journalism of 2024 The best environmental journalism of 2024
Some of the stories we wish we had written this year, selected by the Unearthed team
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Your signature will be delivered to the prosecutor and the judge overseeing our ongoing case in South Korea. For more details about the action and the case see here: www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
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Greenpeace demands release of plastics treaty activists, as global talks enter final stages - Greenpeace International
“We urge the South Korean authorities to release the activists immediately.  These activists are standing with thousands of Korean citizens and millions more around the world who are demanding a histo...
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
We need your help! Our activists are still prohibited from leaving S Korea. They're under investigation for a peaceful action boarding a tanker loading toxic plastic chemicals. Help us request processes are expedited so #INC5Warriors can rejoin their loved ones. www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Bravo Jack, @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social Legal Counsel! Named @thetimes.com lawyer of the week for his amazing work in our case against Shell. www.thetimes.com/article/dcc4...
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Jack Robirosa on representing Greenpeace protesters against Shell
Jack Robirosa is a solicitor and legal counsel for Greenpeace UK, the environmental group, which last week reached an out-of-court settlement with Shell after protesters twice boarded a moving North
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
'Incoming' by Eliot Weinberger in this week's @londonreview.bsky.social Time to get to grips with Trump's new cabinet... doesn't make for east reading
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Across the ecosystem of organisations working in this space, we should be collaborating on strategies where each of us plays to our strength by taking on different elements - rather than assuming we all have to take on every component.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
This diagram and chart from the latest @ipbes.bsky.social nexus assessment is amazing for demonstrating the various areas of focus we need when campaigning to restore nature on land. Would love to see the oceans equivalent of this.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Latest IPBES nexus assessment couldn't be clearer: Every single thing we do to restore nature also benefits the climate. This is why we campaign, amongst other things, to protect 30% of the oceans by 2030, one of the quickest, & largest-scale solutions we have. www.carbonbrief.org/ipbes-nexus-...
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IPBES nexus report: Five takeaways for biodiversity, food, water, health and climate - Carbon Brief
“Fragmented governance” between biodiversity, climate change, food, water and health is putting all of those...
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Fantastic @bluemarinef.bsky.social Christmas event, getting the message out to parliamentarians that ocean protection needs to be a priority. Thanks to @annagelderdmp.bsky.social for speaking and hosting.
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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🚨 BREAKING: Shell backs down in lawsuit against Greenpeace. People power works! 🧵👇
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
One of the best bits of the campaign? When @forbes.com dubbed it the ‘Cousin Greg’ lawsuit after a scene in the Emmy-awarded drama Succession, in which the hapless character threatens to sue Greenpeace to universal dismay. www.youtube.com/shorts/1h_oj...
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Don't be like Greg
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Shell sued us for millions of dollars because we peacefully protested on one of their climate-wrecking oil platforms in 2023. A year-long campaign, supported by celebrities including Joe Lycett, Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson, turned the legal move into a PR embarrassment for Shell.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
BREAKING: Shell has backed down in their attempt to sue us @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social for £millions. Bullying tactics to silence peaceful protest don't work, and with the support of millions of people around the world we made sure we were not silenced. www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/shell-l...
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Breaking: Shell backs down in its lawsuit against Greenpeace
We showed Shell that their bully tactics won’t intimidate us – and now they’ve backed down and settled out of court.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
#FreeAlaa www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
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‘Time is running out’: 12 Nobel laureates urge Keir Starmer to intervene in case of jailed activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Writers JM Coetzee, Annie Ernaux, Kazuo Ishiguro and Olga Tokarczuk are among the laureates imploring the prime minister to act on behalf of the British Egyptian political prisoner
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Our investigation released today: "Despite a ban on their use in the UK...toxic pesticides are being legally exported around the world – with large volumes going to developing countries." The UK is facilitating a public health and environmental disaster. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘My right side was paralysed, I was so sick’: the pesticide poisonings in Brazil that lead back to the UK
Investigation uncovers how chemicals like diquat, banned in the UK but legal to export, are causing health problems in the global south
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The Seven Stages of climate denial: 1. It's not real 2. It's not us 3. It's not that bad 4. We have time 5. It's too expensive to fix 6. Here's a fake solution 7. It's too late: you should have warned us earlier NZ’s dairy industry uses all of them to avoid reform. #TooManyCows #nzpol
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
We loved hearing all about it!
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Jenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
On the roof at @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social with Areeba and @willmccallum.bsky.social before giving a talk to staff. I'm hoping everyone is as fascinated by the HoL as I am.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
We stopped deep sea mining in the Arctic (for now at least)! Celebrate those victories when we get them. www.greenpeace.org/sweden/press...
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Arctic deep sea mining plans stopped in Norway - Greenpeace Sweden
Oslo, Norway, 1 December – After more than a year of massive pressure from activists, scientists and the international community, the Norwegian government has agreed to stop the first licensing&...
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Samira Shackle @samirashackle.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This is very concerning - Musk is planning to donate $1m to Reform, which will be entirely legal unless a cap is imposed for political donations. @petergeoghegan.bsky.social makes a very clear case for why that reform needs to happen, urgently democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m...
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Musk’s $100m to Farage will break our democracy
Keir Starmer needs to fix Britain’s broken electoral laws now - if he doesn’t, we will all suffer the consequences
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Plastics Treaty negotiations end with no deal. news.un.org/en/story/202... From our brave activists climbing on a ship transporting plastic, to those working with delegations, we were clear: Time to stand up to the fossil fuel companies undermining progress. We need a strong treaty in 2026.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Time to Axe Drax! Ents and Christmas trees outside Dept of Energy and Net Zero now calling for an end to Govt subsidies for this destructive industry.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
But his respect for environment and protest predates this - such as in 1983 when he swam up the Thames with us @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social to protest nuclear waste dumping. This great picture tells the story of how happy he was to take part.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
RIP John Prescott. Good hearing stories of his environmental ambition in the obituaries. Along that journey, back in 2005 @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social paid a visit to his house to install some solar panels (without his permission) - seems he also understood the importance of protest.
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
New @unearthednews.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social investigation out today. Oil companies had a secret plan to undermine progress to tackle plastic pollution. "They’re letting a running tap flood the house while trying to scoop up water with a teaspoon." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five firms in plastic pollution alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up’
Five oil and chemical companies which promised to divert plastic from environment accused of producing 132m tonnes of it
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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
When will England follow Wales and Scotland and ban new waste incinerators? We cannot burn our way out of the plastic problem. www.theguardian.com/business/202... (v @theguardian.com)
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UK pension fund loses more than £350m with waste incinerator power plants
Shareholder accuses Aviva Investors of ‘calamitous’ investments as three sites expected to go bust
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