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Edinburgh, Scotland
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Do you have a minute to talk?? 🗣️
Join this training to gain some practical skills for having effective conversations in your community about the issues you care about.
Sat 3 Oct, Glasgow 📆
w/ @AmnestyScotland
act.foe.scot/effective_conve…
National Meeting: Ecocide in Palestine 🇵🇸
Join our online meeting about the environmental impacts of the attacks on Gaza.
We'll hear about new research from the ground, as well what we can do to pressure the UK Gov to act.
📆 Wed 30 Sep
act.foe.scot/ecocide_palesti…
Writing in @Scottishleftrev, @PeterMcColl decries the repeated environmental injustices on the community in Torry, Aberdeen.
A Play for Torry shows how they are asked to "surrender health, memory & public space" for other people's prosperity.
scottishleftreview.scot/torr…
Great turnout to demand better buses at the Scottish Parliament today! 🚌
Thanks to passengers who came from across Scotland & to MSPs who joined the rally. 🪧
The time has come to put public transport back in public hands! 🤝
ALT around 10 better buses campaigners behind a banner outside the Scottish Parliament. three people in foreground with smaller signs saying 'get bus franchising done' and 'better buses for strathclyde'
ALT Large group of 40-50 people outside Scottish Parliament with various better bus banners, handmade signs and flags.
Demand better buses for Scotland this Wednesday 2nd September!
Join the rally outside the Scottish Parliament at 1pm.
Full info: getglasgowmoving.org/campaig…
Are you angry about the proposed mega data centres in Scotland, and want to hear about communities fighting against them across the world?
Come along to our National Meeting tomorrow at 6.30pm on Wed 26 Aug to learn more.
Book your free place: act.foe.scot/datacentres
ALT People in Ireland protesting outside a building with the sign 'No more data centres'. Text: National Meeting: International Resistance to Data Centres. 6.30pm, Wed 26th August, Online. Stories of how communities across the world are fighting back and winning against data centres, with opportunities to share strategies, lessons and solidarity.
Even Trump thinks the oil industry is too greedy.
But @theSNP wants oil company shareholders to keep more of their obscene profits of war.
thenational.scot/news/264387…
Despite oil companies doubling profits due to the Iran War, SNP are still calling for lower taxes on energy giants.
The Windfall Tax on energy companies has raised £9billion for public services.
But SNP want to scrap it & let oil shareholders keep more of their profits of war.
The @edfringe is back soon and we’ve picked fantastic climate-themed shows for you to enjoy 👀
We've got recommendations in comedy, drag musicals, dance & community theatre.🎭
Plus the environmental highlights from the Book, Art & Film Festivals too.📚
foe.scot/climate-shows-to-se…
Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 retweeted
The climate crisis is at our door - so in this month’s mag we asked people working in the environmental and food sectors what they think can be done - we hear from:
@JamiePolitics of @OxfamScotland
@catrina_randall of @FoEScot
and others
Read it all here: okt.to/s6GKzX
Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 retweeted
⚡ We need thousands of electricians to install solar panels, windmills, car chargers... So here’s the choice:
🤩 Invest now. Create quality apprenticeships, train the electricians we need and build the green economy of the future
Or
😥 Do it on the cheap. Condemn a generation to unemployment. Have semi-skilled ‘fitters’ do some of what’s needed but lack the skills as a country to build the future
🪧 Take action. cutt.ly/SparxSkills
@FoEScot
2 days to go! Join us this Sat 13 June for a fundraising gig in Glasgow 💚
Featuring Pippa Blundell, Sandino e seu Bando, Alycia Pirmohamed, and Henry Bell.
Book your ticket: act.foe.scot/defendthedefend…
ALT Defend the Defenders line-cut posters with faces, birds and plants. Text: Saturday 13 June, 7pm. Adelaide Place, Glasgow. Fundraising Gig. Background is a purple and black collage of people at a protest.
ALT Photos of 4 musicians and poets: Pippa Blundell, Sandino e seu Bando, Henry Bell and Alycia Pirmohamed. Text: An evening of music, poetry, and international solidarity.
Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 retweeted
🚨 A devastating new @BBCWorld investigation has obtained internal Shell documents revealing the company knowingly operated a major pipeline in Nigeria for years while it was causing widespread pollution. #ShellKnew
Household energy bills are being driven upwards by the insatiable greed of energy companies. 📈
They are profiteering from the war in Iran. 🤑
People in Scotland are paying for the failure of politicians here to transition our energy system away from fossil fuels. 🛢️🔥
ALT Screengrab of National news story with headline "Climate campaigners slam UK energy bill price cap rise"
Since the war in Iran started, it seemed certain that oil companies would be profiteering and people would be hit with higher energy bills.
So why have Scottish politicians spent months pleading for lower taxes on these greedy companies?
foe.scot/politicians-caught-…
Revealed: 75% of Scottish landfills under investigation over pollution permit breaches
Any companies found to have broken the terms of their permits must be penalised for putting people and nature at risk.
thenational.scot/news/261117…
"Scientists have little doubt that human-caused climate change - largely the result of the burning of coal, oil and gas - has supercharged the heat."
1/ A new report has put a number on what Reform UK's climate policy rollback would actually cost: nearly 500,000 jobs destroyed within 3 years.
That's comparable to almost every teacher in the UK losing their job.
Here's what the research with @priceofoil found 👇
3/ The damage wouldn't be spread evenly. Scotland would be hit with 13% of short-term job losses despite being 8% of the population.
Already fragile economies like North East England, East Anglia, the West Midlands, Inverness & the North East highlands would be hit the hardest.
4/ The report's conclusion is stark: this would leave "ports with no trade, suppliers with no customers, and skilled workers with no employers."
Public support for climate action remains strong. We need a just transition for workers and communities.
oilchangeuk.org/left-behind-…
