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Jason Scott-Warren
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Early modern literature professor, University of Cambridge. Currently banned from London (bail conditions). Coordinator of royalsocietyletter.uk
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Libby Purves comparing climate protesters and violent terrorists in yesterday's Times.

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UK was the birthplace of the industrial revolution and the first major nation to use coal power over 140 years ago. It is now the first major nation to quit it This is the culmination of civil society pushing and action going back to 2006. Well done to all involved www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

Britain becomes first G7 nation to end coal power with last plant closure
Britain becomes first G7 nation to end coal power with last plant closure

Britain's last remaining coal power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, will stop electricity generation on Monday after 57 years of operation. The closure aligns with the government's coal…

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The Just Stop Oil activists have been sentenced to 2 years and 20 months in prison for throwing soup on the glass covering of Van Gogh's sunflowers. This ruling is a great example of the repression we're seeing in response to non-violent civil disobedience. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just Stop Oil activists jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
Just Stop Oil activists jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers

Phoebe Plummer, 23, receives two-year prison term while Anna Holland, 22, given 20-month sentence over incident

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I have so much respect for the people at Rising Tide Australia, who physically stopped a coal train today in protest of the Albanese government's approval of a huge carbon bomb suite of new coal mines www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A group of people standing on top of a coal train holding up signs with one very large banner that says elbow, if you don't stop new coal, we will and the rising tide logo.
Some of the climate protesters on the train tracks in front of a large yellow train, and the driver sitting behind the controls of the train, smiling.
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where's your shame? you've left us up to our necks in it.

people wading up to their necks in water from the floods in Central and Eastern Europe.
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GMC letter approaching 1600 signatures! Please sign/share. tinyurl.com/yyc4yj5j

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Re the UK government crackdown on climate protest. edition.cnn.com/2024/09/14/c...

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Jason Scott-Warren
@jes1003.bsky.social
Early modern literature professor, University of Cambridge. Currently banned from London (bail conditions). Coordinator of royalsocietyletter.uk
215 followers450 following130 posts