Ron Fassbender
@TheWeeklyBull
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Photojournalist/documentary photographer Moved to - Bluesky - https://t.co/cwSBtBlxnb Threads - https://t.co/IFZX9ioJVx
London, UK
Joined February 2011
This weekend, young people and scientists have occupied the @sciencemuseum’s Adani-sponsored #climate gallery, to hold a conversation that the museum keeps shutting down. Its sponsor #Adani is the world’s biggest private producer of coal - it is NOT a climate leader!
‼️People's Assembly cancelled the science museum has closed the energy revolution gallery as a result of our occupation! direct action gets the goods ✊ however unfortunately we now can't host a public assembly. supporters are still warmly invited to visit & help with outreach
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LIVE: DAY 2 - Fossil Free Coalition Occupies London’s Science Museum
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Last night @ChrisGPackham gave his support to more than 20 scientists and young people who occupied the’Energy Revolution’ gallery at the @ScienceMuseum. Staff have closed the gallery today, as the museum would rather hide the truth from visitors about their sponsorship deal
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🚨BREAKING: @sciencemuseum is OCCUPIED🚨 We intend to stay the weekend in protest against the museum's sponsorship deal with coal producer and human rights abuser @AdaniOnline. Follow @y_climatejust and @ScientistsX for updates! Join us tomorrow - details in 🧵! 1/
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The German ruling class still have a thing for supporting genocide, don't they? Gaza has been described as a "textbook case" and Berlin provides 30% of Israeli arms imports, while crushing dissent at home. Old habits die hard ...
URGENT: German police have announced they are shutting down the Palestine Congress and demanded delegates leave immediately. They have threatened to use force and already arrested one of the organizers, Jewish activist Udi Raz. He is the third person to be arrested today, two of
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A spike missile manufactured by Israeli state-owned arms company Rafael was used to kill World Central Kitchen personnel in Gaza. Three of them were British citizens. Rafael has a factory in the city of Newcastle, UK.
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Exclusive: Google has negotiated deepening the relationship during the war in Gaza https://t.co/RRwEvdfPjN
time.com
Exclusive: Google has negotiated deepening the relationship during the war in Gaza.
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This week in London radical history: Protest camp against Olympic Landgrab evicted, Leyton Marsh, 2012. https://t.co/zHqVR4XUsa
pasttense.co.uk
The 2012 Olympics in London generated much hype and large profits. Huge areas of East London were redeveloped; in a number of areas open green space was appropriated, for training facilities, polic…
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Today marks five years of Julian Assange being detained in Belmarsh, a high security prison in the UK. The ongoing persecution of Assange makes a mockery of the USA’s obligations under international law and their stated commitment to freedom of expression.
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🎥FILM PREMIERE🎥 The UK is not innocent: the story of INQUEST by @TRCdocumentary exposes forty years of state violence and resistance in England and Wales. 📅 24 April at 6.30pm 📌 Castle Cinema, Hackney ✨Book your tickets now https://t.co/GbbsNgztCZ
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"This is a Trump legacy... Joe Biden should've dropped it from day one. Obama decided not to pursue it." Stella Assange, wife of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, speaks to #R4Today after President Biden suggested the long pursuit to extradite him from the UK may be called off.
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Excellent interview of @normfinkelstein by @marclamonthill 'The US could have stopped Israel on day one.' https://t.co/VJWf7A6ndJ
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BREAKING: After a two day jury trial at Wood Green Crown Court, Blyth Brentnall was unanimously acquitted. Known as the #Egg1, she was arrested in possession of more than 60 eggs filled with ketchup or water-based red paint and accused of intent to cause criminal damage in a 2021
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A breakthrough for climate justice. Over 200 older women (the #Klimaseniorinnen, or Senior Climate Women) sued the Swiss govt for failing to mitigate the climate crisis and thus failing to protect their human rights. The case went to the European Court of Human Rights AND..1/2
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Germany faces genocide case over Israel weapon sales and defunding UNRWA - https://t.co/QmEE1bS79K
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Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists
theguardian.com
If the anomaly does not stabilise by August, ‘the world will be in uncharted territory’, says climate expert
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🪧 With the arrival of the #ElizabethLine, the #Thamesmead area faces profiteering ‘regeneration’, but the community on the #Lesnes Estate are resisting the Peabody Trust + calling for refurbishment, not demolition. 👉 https://t.co/7Sy9E8n1mB
@GraceL @PeabodyLDN @Greengreenwich
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People power evidenced today on the Lesnes Estate Fighting the power that is @peabodycommunities Who plan to destroy our communities, all for a few quid. We demand @PeabodyLDN #RefurbishDontDemolish #Fillemptyhomes Join Us! 24 Hinksey Path SE2 9TB https://t.co/OTxMkVKTUi
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