Protests in England:
Progressives vow resistance against brutal new government
morningstaronline.co.uk/...
CAMPAIGNERS vowed today to fight tooth and nail against Tory attacks on Britain’s public services, the welfare state and workers’ and women’s rights.
The chorus of resistance came as the country plunged into another five years of brutal Conservative rule today with the party winning a majority of 361 seats to Labour’s 203.
Hands Off our NHS vowed to continue their campaign against privatisation plans of the health service in future trade deals with the US.
The group’s co-chair Dr Tony O’Sullivan said: “We now resolve to continue to campaign, lobby and fight to ensure that our voice is heard and our demands are met to fund the NHS fully and to return the NHS to 100 per cent public duty and provision as soon as possible.”
Abortion Rights chair Kerry Abel warned that the new government poses risks to women’s right to choose.
“There’s no doubt, if we don’t see a significant step [for] change, our reproductive rights are under threat,” Ms Abel said, highlighting that the Tories have remained suspiciously silent on the issue of abortion
AMPAIGNERS vowed today to fight tooth and nail against Tory attacks on Britain’s public services, the welfare state and workers’ and women’s rights.
The chorus of resistance came as the country plunged into another five years of brutal Conservative rule today with the party winning a majority of 361 seats to Labour’s 203.
Hands Off our NHS vowed to continue their campaign against privatisation plans of the health service in future trade deals with the US.
The group’s co-chair Dr Tony O’Sullivan said: “We now resolve to continue to campaign, lobby and fight to ensure that our voice is heard and our demands are met to fund the NHS fully and to return the NHS to 100 per cent public duty and provision as soon as possible.”
Abortion Rights chair Kerry Abel warned that the new government poses risks to women’s right to choose.
“There’s no doubt, if we don’t see a significant step [for] change, our reproductive rights are under threat,” Ms Abel said, highlighting that the Tories have remained suspiciously silent on the issue of abortion.morningstaronline.co.uk/...
Hashtags #notmygovernment and #notmyPM were trending on Twitter today with users rejecting Mr Johnson as their representative.
Trade unionists highlighted the importance for all workers to join a union, with the TUC’s Frances O’Grady warning: “Now more than ever, working people need to stand together in their unions and get ready to fight to protect our livelihoods and our communities.”morningstaronline.co.uk/...
"A Regenerative Resistance"
December 13, 2019 by Extinction Rebellion
“We are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us” – Jo Cox
Today dawns a new political era in the UK. We recognise that rebels will be feeling a lot after what we saw as the most important election ever in the UK for the planet we hold so dear. Today is also a reminder of our mission to go beyond party politics. Beyond a system which has brought the planet to its knees. For us nothing has changed today. We are still committed to fighting for this planet and to bring about the whole system change that is needed. Our reason for existing is stronger than ever.
The anger and grief that we feel towards the disregard of natural world is ours to use and help bring about positive change to the systems destroying our planet.
However, it is also a time for reflection and a moment to root into our community power and support one another, spending time with those we hold dear, knowing our potential to mobilise with a deeper level of clarity and purpose than what has come before.rebellion.earth/...
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The planet is now rapidly moving towards an uninhabitable future... But that future is NOW. Our leaders are not taking this crisis seriously, or taking action, and are thus failing us, and future generations, as well as planet Earth. The end of our present societies means the end of human and animal lives and the potential death of planet Earth. We have little time left to alter our societies, governments, and to prevent this catastrophe happening. Our Methods: Uses of nonviolent resistance to protest against climate chaos, biodiversity loss, and total ecological collapse. inspiration from grassroots movements such as Occupy, Martin Luther King and others in the civil rights movement, and Extinction Rebellion. To create support worldwide and a sense of urgency, to tackle total ecological breakdown. Protest and Direct Action to deal with the inaction of world governments. Making a commitment to saving the planet, and trying to create a sustainable Green future for all.
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Stephen Buranyi: ‘Tories ‘getting on with it’ doesn’t include climate action’
The party has always tried to have it both ways with climate policy. The Tories signed up en masse for the world-leading Climate Change Act 2008, which created a roadmap and targets for our future contributions but have consistently undermined, underfunded, or straight-up undone the actual policy commitments that would deliver them. The green development bank and the zero-carbon homes initiative were buried under Conservative watch.
This tendency degenerated further over the election campaign. The manifesto mentioned climate more than any previous election, but was lightweight compared to the monumental efforts promised by Labour and the Liberal Democrats. And Boris Johnson not only skipped the climate debates, he turned it into a circus by sending Michael Gove in his stead. The future of climate policy in this country will likely track with the general rightward shift of the Conservative party – as bad or worse than before, but with more show-stopping stunts. We are currently expected to surpass our next two carbon budgets, and the party has not indicated it has any policies that would get us back on track.
One thing we can be sure of: Johnson will deliver some kind of Brexit, and soon. That is the only mandate he asked for, and he got it. The UK has been a strong voice and leader on climate negotiation and action through the EU, and that is set to end. Much is still unclear around how the government plans to alter or replace climate policies and schemes that are currently synched up with the EU – this includes our Paris agreement commitments, which at the moment are part of the larger EU contribution.
Johnson’s vision of all future negotiations is one in which the UK is free to manoeuvre as it wishes, free of the slow, creaking, EU behemoth, and yet somehow still retain much of its power and heft. In climate negotiations, as with everything else, we were a powerful voice within a much more powerful bloc. It is not a good sign that, buried deep within the leaked UK-US trade documents that set off the furore about NHS privatisation during the campaign, was a bullying ultimatum from the American side: climate change would not be discussed or referenced in any future trade deal.
• Stephen Buranyi is a writer specialising in science and the environmentwww.theguardian.com/...