Pelle Berting

Community mobiliser @GreenpeaceNL | Climate justice - agroecology - degrowth | movement building - campaign strategy | he/him

[Greenpeace International @Greenpeace]

When we act together, we create hope for our future.

We asked YOU—people from around the world—to share your #HopeForNature with leaders at UN Biodiversity COP16.

THANK YOU for joining us in such numbers to urge them to honour their promises to protect and restore nature 🌍💪

[Greenpeace EU @GreenpeaceEU]

EU citizens demanded a strong law to protect forests.

The EPP:
Led negotiations,
Voted for it,
Celebrated it.

Two years later, right before the law kicks in, EPP:
Wants to delay it,
Wants to create loopholes,
Makes a huge mess,
Calls criticism "fake news."

#DeforestationLaw

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Dutch young journalist @OmeBender was reporting on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans when one of them approached him and “warned” to stop filming.

The Israeli fans can be seen in these videos, carrying steel pipes and throwing stones at homes.

[Pelle Berting @PelleBerting]

@RolfSchuttenh Kan Europa stoppen met Amerikaanse import als Trump Parijs opblaast?
Asking for the planet 🔥🌍🔥

[Pelle Berting @PelleBerting]

Kan Europa stoppen met Amerikaanse import als Trump Parijs opblaast? Asking for the planet 🔥🌍🔥

‘Team Trump bereidt terugtrekking uit klimaatakkoord voor' https://t.co/cdULNM9Bk6

[Rolf Schuttenhelm @RolfSchuttenh]

Als internationale klimaatsamenwerking zomaar bij het grofvuil wordt gezet, is een >4C opwarming mogelijk; einde leefbare planeet. De populistisch-autocratische wereldorde kent geen enkele moraal, slachtoffert dus ook moeiteloos onze collectieve toekomst..
https://t.co/QCbQmvJZ2d

[Bart van Horck @BartvanHorck]

Voetbalsupporters waren uit op rellen en kregen rellen. Dat was wat hier gebeurde. Antisemitisme wordt hier vermengd met ordinair voetbalgeweld. Geen enkel geweld is acceptabel, noch antisemitische en anti-Arabische leuzen (die ook racistisch zijn). Er worden grote woorden gebruikt dat dit een Kristalnacht zou zijn of een pogrom. Het waren voetbalrellen, supporters en ook protestanten die doelbewust op een confrontatie uit waren. Dat de tijdslijn nu verlegd wordt tot ná de wedstrijd en niet daarvoor is een grove versimpeling van de waarheid.

[Dr Zahira Jaser زاهرة جاسر @ZahiraJaser]

The gaslighting of Palestinians is unbelievable. Whilst the North of Gaza is ethnically cleansed live on our screens, the headlines are focusing on football hooligans in Amsterdam.

[Pelle Berting @PelleBerting]

Heartwarming. Home safe.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

‘Traumatised’ Maccabi Tel Aviv fans arriving at Ben Gurion airport from Amsterdam singing:

Ole ole, ole ole ole
Let the IDF win & fuck the Arabs
Ole ole, ole ole ole
Why is school out in Gaza?
There are no children left there!”

[Pelle Berting @PelleBerting]

Of course

[sandra @mrsDugskullery]

By teatime we'll be told that Hamas had a multi- level military complex under The Ajax Johann Cruyff Arena.

[Wayne Farry @waynefarry]

feel like I'm losing my mind over this Maccabi-Amsterdam story

all the media literacy in the world means nothing when the biggest news orgs are reporting a version of events that simply didn't happen

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

🚨1/ This New York Times piece is wild. Let's go through it.

Firstly, the lede is an emphasis that attacks in Amsterdam were based on antisemitism, yet it cites no evidence of this, but DOES cite evidence of anti-Arab chants.

[Pelle Berting @PelleBerting]

Principles are consistent, or they are nothing.

[Andrew Stroehlein @astroehlein]

We’re not in the last days of democracy, but we are perhaps in the last years of it - if those remaining leaders who care about democracy and human rights fail to work together to defend them at every turn.

In the EU, which is founded on these principles, most leaders have been undermining these foundations for years: helping Orbán and other authoritarians inside, empowering other authoritarians outside, denying the fundamental rights of asylum seekers, sending arms to a government committing atrocities (ie, Israel), etc.

They’ve weakened the very concepts of democracy and human rights so much, that now, even if they want to preserve what’s left - a big “if” - they’ve made that job so much harder.

How can you now defend the concept of universal human rights, when, for example, you’ve been sending people to places where you know they’ll be tortured and sending arms to a government you know may use them to commit more atrocities against civilians?

To defend democracy and human rights, you need to have at the very least a commitment to the concept of individual human dignity. At every opportunity, you should support it, use it as the starting point of your decision-making.

If you try to “muddle through”, sometimes respecting fundamental human dignity and sometimes not, it will come back to bite you: you’ve weakened your own foundation, you see your house collapsing around you.

Principles are consistent, or they are nothing.

[Greenpeace International @Greenpeace]

Heartbreaking 💔
Arctic glaciers dwindling over the years as the global climate deteriorates.
https://t.co/dnA7Ilxdyc

[Greenpeace International @Greenpeace]

"Our community of hope and courage will need to shine brighter, we know it can, to help light the way" —@greenpeaceusa Executive Director Sushma Raman & @Greenpeace International Executive Director Mads Christensen https://t.co/sbFhfsDpXq

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

River of hail in the Tabuk region of Saudi Arabia today...

[Politics For You @PoliticoForYou]

🚨 The cycle of democracy keeps turning.

[Greenpeace Nederland @GreenpeaceNL]

"Een makkelijke PR-stunt", noemt directeur Greenpeace @andypalmen de 'nieuwe' plannen van Landbouwminister Wiersma.

Palmen: "We hebben bewezen effectieve maatregelen nodig. Dit lijkt nu vooral paniekvoetbal."

#stikstof

[Pelle Berting @PelleBerting]

Hoog tijd https://t.co/aVKf6t8K5V