Aitzkoa - witnessing genocide

Biomedical researcher and medical doctor. Tweets (mostly) about the climate and ecological emergency and how I deal with it.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The monstrosity of our time.
We know and pretend not to know.
We give it other names, we make up excuses.
Israel is erasing Palestinians from Palestine - starving, torturing to death, pulverising homes, schools, churches, trees, human bodies, burning them in tents - and we call is "self-defense".
Israel's self-defense is the defense of ideological hatred turned political doctrine. And genocide.

[Scientist Rebellion @ScientistRebel1]

Toronto breaks weather record merely a day after the world superpower elects a science denier who fails to understand that billions will die.

Scientists cannot afford to be silent. We must stand united.

https://t.co/FbY3keLZUD

#ClimateChange

[Scientist Rebellion @ScientistRebel1]

The 2024/25 talk season of Scientist Rebellion is about to start! Every year we host Zoom seminars with people who have distinguished themselves in research and advocacy around the climate breakdown we are facing. Our guest of the week is Jim Dale.

https://t.co/8Pu7cnRoNg

[Eoghan Gilmartin @EoghanGilmartin]

The failure of authorities to issue public warnings in time before the devastating floods in Valencia offer an example of what it means when far-right policies meet environmental disasters.

One of Vox's conditions for backing the PP's Carlos Mazón as regional premier was the elimination of the Valencian Emergency Response Unit.

[Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1]

If you don’t know what AMOC is or why its collapse would be a civilization-threatening event or what the latest scientific headlines say about AMOC, please consider this image of a scientist, held in a pain-submission grip, from a teach-in and peaceful protest yesterday Denmark.

[Maria-Inti Metzendorf @mintimetz]

At #ScientistRebellion we've been saying it for 3 years now: 1.5°C is dead. Now the @IPCC_CH Chairman Jim Skea is finally saying it, too. #ClimateEmergency.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

The more shocking the extreme weather gets, the louder activists shout, the more urgent the scientists warnings are, the further into denial most people seem to go. But this is really happening.

[Aitzkoa - witnessing genocide @aitzko]

¿Por qué los signos de interrogación?

[Orain Noticias @orainnoticias]

VÍDEO | ¿Está el mar ganando terreno a la costa debido a la crisis climática? https://t.co/C5dVdROgCY

[Scientist Rebellion Sweden @sr-sweden.bsky.social @sr_sweden]

Avkolonisering. Klimaträttvisa. Antifascism - @Peoplenotprofit!

I en enad kamp för klimaträttvisa & mänskliga rättigheter demonstrerar rörelser tillsammans, i solidaritet med #Kurdistan #Palestina, Östturkestan, Kongo #Sápmi & alla förtryckta folk. @ScientistRebel1 var med!

[Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي @MariamBarghouti]

Break free. Everyone needs to break free from whatever insists they accept injustice.

We all really need to outgrow these systems of oppression.

They’re lethal. Whether today or tomorrow, their wickedness will enter every home unless we push against.

[Olga Rodríguez Francisco ✍️ @olgarodriguezfr]

El ministerio de Defensa español firmó contratos con empresas armamentísticas israelíes en plena masacre en Gaza

Este agosto formalizó un acuerdo con NCT, proveedora de las Fuerzas Armadas de Israel, y autorizó una compra a Elbit Systems

https://t.co/Ly4S8MhLzT @publico_es

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

Universities, literally the advanced brain gyms, welcoming students back and instantly repressing them for noticing and objecting to genocide is a mood. Did you expect your students ... not to notice? ... not to think? ... not to care?
Do you think your students are stupid?

[Scientist Rebellion DRC @RebellionDrc]

STOP EACOP PROJECT IN AFRICA 🔥
SR DRC SAYS STOP STOP STOP

INVEST IN PEOPLE, NOT IN OIL 🇨🇩

@DebtforClimate @Studenteacop @DebtforClimate @DgiFoundat52511 @ScientistRebel1 @RebellionDrc

[Just Stop Oil @JustStop_Oil]

🚨 BREAKING: STUDENTS AGAINST EACOP ARRESTED IN UGANDA

🚔 The military have arrested 21 people for marching to the Ministry of Energy to demand a Fossil Fuel Treaty and an end to the East African Crude Oil Pipeline.

💸 Support @Studenteacop. Donate to their crowdfunder — https://t.co/Gj0IMbKE3N

[Extinction Rebellion Norway @XR_Norge]

Extinction Rebellion Norway is blocking all three roads leading into the ONS area in Stavanger. Around 100 people, including activists of all ages and the well-known climate activist Greta Thunberg, are participating in the action.

[Roger Hallam @RogerHallamCS21]

I was wrong.

When the recent trial started for the #WholeTruthFive, I naively thought I would walk free, that I would not be found guilty. Three weeks later, after I had been dragged out of the Court and into the cells several times for speaking to the jury, about evidence the judge deemed “irrelevant” I was sentenced to five years in prison.

Repression is not a gradual process, it leaps out at you and takes you off guard. Do you remember the Solidarity leaders in Poland? They were invited into talks with the Polish government but when they got to the meeting, they were arrested in one fell swoop and imprisoned for years. You don’t think it will happen to you and then it does.

@JustStop_Oil has had an uncomfortable relationship with the Left. There is a pretence that it can be ignored, but Just Stop Oil reminds us that the future will not be like the past. They remind us what resistance, that far-off folk memory relegated to Netflix, actually looks like in the present moment. Thousands of arrests, hundreds of imprisonments and a 5-year sentence for making a speech. It foreshadows what will happen to the left, soon enough. As Trotsky says “You may not be interested in war but war is interested in you”.

There is not going to be a bright sunny Green New Deal, the neoliberal fantasy of the Labour Party. There’s going to be a rupture, and then a rapid descent into poverty and starvation. Along the way the ruling class will have the police knock on your door and have you put away for half a decade. What needs to be done? It’s time to unite the non-Labour left and the climate resistance space, to fuse. We have a lot to learn from each other and millions of people are crying out for initiative and leadership. A program for decency, compassion and survival. A massive reduction in inequality to fund the reduction in emissions and earth system repair. Anything less and we will have nothing but fascism and mass death.

I wish to thank the Trade Union leaders who along with 1,200 others signed a public letter to protest the sentences of the #WTF.

Sign up for resistance at https://t.co/PYjMdWedLJ

[Just Stop Oil @JustStop_Oil]

Severe flooding in Menorca, Spain, due to torrential rain.

But sure, everything is fine.

Donate and help people in nonviolent civil resistance — https://t.co/UwALfVtRmR

[Aitzkoa - witnessing genocide @aitzko]

The best people are in locked up. 😢 When defending life and everything that's beautiful lands you in prison while violence and destruction run rampant everywhere, what kind of world do we have? Who still believes in "democracy" and "justice"? These are still to be won.

[Just Stop Oil @JustStop_Oil]

🔥 Indigo, 30, is currently on remand at HMP Bronzefield after being arrested by Greater Manchester Police with Margaret, Daniel, Noah and Ella on 6th August.

💬 “It’s not the oil CEO’s who are in prison - it’s certainly not the last government's ministers who continued to license new oil and gas - no, its me. I’m in prison.”

💸 Donate now. Link in bio - https://t.co/R2spJaXvlX

[Oil Kills @_oilkills]

45 people in Uganda were arrested before they could even take part in an #OilKills action today. 

Two people were able to continue the protest towards Parliament and were also arrested. @Studenteacop

✊ Protest at the Ugandan embassy in your country to call for their release.

[Aitzkoa - witnessing genocide @aitzko]

So in the UK the police continues arresting peaceful activists who try to resist the murder of countless people due to climate breakdown by fossil fuels, while the country is in turmoil due to racist riots.

[Just Stop Oil @JustStop_Oil]

🚨 BREAKING: Four Just Stop Oil Supporters Arrested by Greater Manchester Police

➡️ Read our full statement here: https://t.co/H7U3IIcI8W