Equality Bristol

Equality Bristol campaigns to raise awareness of the damaging effects economic inequality has on all of us and actions to reduce it.

[Torsten Bell @TorstenBell]

Who is financially excluded without a bank account? Not politicians but poorer Britain https://t.co/iNUrvMf4Mi

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

A global study reveals that Dutch residents are the most physically active on earth, getting 12.8 hours of exercise each week. The key—designing activity into daily life. The average #Dutch person cycles about 1,098 kilometers per year. HT @Cycling_Embassy
https://t.co/M9YSD5jsj7

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

July has already seen:

The hottest three-week period ever recorded.

The three hottest days on record.

The highest-ever ocean temperatures for this time of year.

It is still possible to avoid the very worst of climate change, but only with dramatic, immediate #ClimateAction.

[The Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social @equalitytrust]

Young people are exploited at work and the McDonald's stories are a horrible new example.
We need action on wages, trial shifts, and unionisation for young people.
🚨Facing a similar problem or want to know more? 🚨 Check our hub: https://t.co/a9DbYJlx30

[Dr. William J. Ripple @WilliamJRipple]

Planning for the upcoming COP28 climate conference.

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

“The richest 10% of the global population currently takes 52% of global income [...]." Inequality is a corrosive force that has been on the rise since Covid. Proud to have signed this letter.

Read the letter here @guardian: https://t.co/Iaxba2yRxA

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

BREAKING: The world is shifting towards a superheated climate not seen in the past 1m years, prior to human existence, because “we are damned fools” according to James Hansen, the US scientist who alerted the world to the greenhouse effect in the 1980s.
https://t.co/d33XcgI6QT

[Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf_uk]

Watch JRF’s @abbyabhaya on @itvnews discussing our new research on the #CaringPenalty

It shows unpaid carers lose thousands of pounds a year in earnings after they take up caring. We're calling for paid carer's leave so carers aren't pushed into poverty

https://t.co/EAj5C04OPP

[Joseph E. Stiglitz @JosephEStiglitz]

Pleased to sign this letter to @UN and @WorldBank. Inequality deepens at an alarming rate. Currently the richest 10% of global population takes 52% of global income and poorest half of the population earns 8.5% of it. In @guardian https://t.co/gUDQWvB3SM

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Our planet is burning. Millions are under heat warnings as world shatters temperature record after temperature record. This is only the beginning.

The longer we delay. The worse it will be.

No time to wait. Dump fossil fuels. #ActOnClimate

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Govt: Wage rises are causing inflation.

Wages:

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

NHS staff are not failing, they are being failed, by successive Conservative Governments.

Please RT if you agree.

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

The UN have just released a statement about the govt’s migration bill passed last night…

They call for the U.K. to reverse it, as it effectively treats those fleeing war and persecution as sub-human.

Just when you thought this govt couldn’t sink any lower!

[Resolution Foundation @resfoundation]

The pandemic led to an extraordinary increase in household saving. But this aggregate masks significant differences across income groups.

The highest-income individuals have seen the greatest savings, while those on the lowest incomes have seen the greatest fall in savings.

[Transport Action Network @TransportActio2]

Conservative ministers decided to cut two-thirds of England's dedicated funding for walking, wheeling and cycling. Please support our legal challenge against this decision
https://t.co/LzlcxombFo

[lucy siegle @lucysiegle]

Amazing response from Chris Packham and important to note how climate protests actually work from the evidence he has collected.

[New Scientist @newscientist]

"It's not a sixth mass extinction event that we're precipitating, it's a mass extermination event." @ChrisGPackham speaks to New Scientist about his new series, Earth, a five-part documentary on @BBCTwo.

Watch the full interview: https://t.co/e0KCpAUbEi

[Daniel Moser @_dmoser]

Cars 🚗🚙🚖 are having a hard time learning how it is to share the streets with others 🚲 🚶‍♀️ 🚌 🚃.

[Anthony Costello @globalhlthtwit]

Searing heat is our final warning. Our children don't have a future. An OECD summit must act now. Bring forward 2050 targets to 2035. Polluters must pay. Fossil fuels must be massively taxed at source and wealth redistributed. Time for inaction is up. https://t.co/SjV1jtn3k6

[Tristan Cork Post @TristanCorkPost]

Getting primary school children from inner city Bristol used to the idea that they could go to Bristol University shouldn't be a radical thing to do, but it feels like it
Amazing story from @cargomovement here, ft @LawrenceHoo Vanetta Spence & Chaz Golding
https://t.co/nBF3CvCgHn