It’s been a fantastic first day for us at @COP26 meeting incredible activists and organisations!
The highlight of today has to be the interview that our Advocacy Officer Mel gave to a European News Station looking to raise awareness of the impacts of #ClimateChange on health 🌎
On this day 33 years ago #Section28 was introduced by Margaret Thatcher banning the ‘promotion of homosexuality’ by local authorities and schools. These cruel laws fuelled bullying and blocked intervention. They weren’t repealed until 2003 after affecting countless LGBTQ+ lives.
The death penalty is fundamentally a poor person’s issue. Over nearly 40 years of visiting death row facilities across the United States, I have never met a single person with money or resources. Capital punishment means “those without the capital get the punishment.”
Media in the USA talking about how “Un-American” this is or how “this is something that would happen in a 3rd world country”. No, this is VERY American. This is what happens when white supremacy is your foundation, when the slightest move toward progress causes you to lay siege.
"Leasehold is a relic from a feudal age".
Yet freeholders are still exploiting it, and not just in the private sector.
Local authorities like @haringeycouncil are using it too, to bankrupt ordinary people & make their contractors tidy profits.
When will the #fleecehold stop?
Who are all the hypocrites who voted against abolishing the Tampon Tax back in 2015 but have had a sudden change of heart? First up, Steve Baker, Conservative MP for Wycombe.