This is how the chair of Pride Edinburgh responds to LGBTQIA+ people asking for no fossil fuel companies and financiers sponsoring their Pride.
Corporations protected, queers belittled.
Let’s talk about it at our open meeting on Feb 28th, 8pm, online!
Banks and fossil fuel companies use environmental causes and LGBTQIA+ people to whitewash their unacceptable behaviour. Our campaign aims to fight back.
Register to our open meeting: https://t.co/7Ls07ha2gJ
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Why does Exxon Mobil sponsor Pride parades?
Why did Barclays start sponsoring Edinburgh Pride immediately after they began funding the Keystone XL pipeline?
And why is HSBC pinkwashing in its latest ad campaign?
Join the #StopEACOP Communications Blockade. You can send emails to 2k insurers in 3min - we're tying to get to 1 million letters today ->> https://t.co/bZduCj112m
Was one of your New Years resolutions to be more involved in climate activism?
Are you against New Years resolutions, but still want to get involved in climate activism?
We may have just the right (online) workshop for you!
Registation: https://t.co/7Ls07ha2gJ
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We marched through campus to make our demands known to @uniofeastanglia who have failed to act on the climate and biodiversity emergency. Learn more and sign our open letter here:
https://t.co/FmDzkwzhrU
XR UEA is a proud member of @uea_bcan. Let's turn out in force for BCAN's demands today!
XR UEA campaign demands are included in today's: cutting ties with Barclays and switching to an ethical bank, adequate funding for biodiversity staff, and sustainable travel!
hey @CambridgeZero -
do u know which @Cambridge_Uni organisation connects the new Uganda-Tanzania crude oil pipeline #StopEACOP, new discoveries of oil & gas in the Arctic sea, and a mass lead poisoning of children in Zambia?
(answer = winner of our Greenwash Challenge!)
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This Saturday Cow Tower Norwich join our Dirty Water protest and bring a blue plaque for your nearest sewage-dumping-supporting Tory MP #DirtyWater#WildSwimming#SaveOurRivers https://t.co/DyKsvepeIq