Helen James

I am gravely concerned about the safety and well-being of the six prisoners on hunger strike. The lack of media coverage over this emergency is truly shocking. Ask your MP to sign the EDM, demanding urgent action from the Justice Secretary, here: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-moti…

🧡 BREAKING: Historic win 🧡 The High Court of Justice of Galicia has ruled for the first time that authorities failing to properly address water pollution from industrial livestock are violating people's fundamental rights – and should be held accountable🧵

Puerto Rico is suing 9 major fossil fuel for $1 billion in climate damages ⚖️ It's claiming that the industry knew about the dangers of burning fossil fuels and failed to warn the public, with the island now paying the price of climate change. scientificamerican.com/article/puerto…

You probably recall the story of 89 year old Windrush pensioner, Thelma Campbell, first reported on by Nadine White & ITV news, after Haringey Council said they couldn't house her. Thelma has been a tenant of a housing provider for 25 years. They want to redevelop their estate & and want mainly Black & Asian tenants to move out with an offer of a few thousand pounds. But because Thelma couldn't prove she had the right to be in the UK despite having evidence of being here since 1960, Haringey initially refused to add her to their waiting list. Ms Campbell is a victim of the #WindrushScandal but did not know it. It is my view that there are thousands like her. But when she dropped in to see me & my colleague Taylor Greyson (pictured) yesterday, I discovered that the Hostile Environment faced by Caribbean elders isn't confined to the Home Office, but to local authorities, housing associations, healthcare providers, DWP & others. Last year I represented a 90 year old man who'd lived in Camden without a kitchen for 2 years; the housing provider in that case sought to blame him. This morning I took a call from an elderly client facing eviction by Lambeth council after living in the property for 30 years. Thelma's story is wound up in the Hostile Environment. But it's bigger than the Windrush Scandal as we know it. The experience of many African, Caribbean & Asian elders reflects a callous disregard for them, & a desperate attempt to get them out of the way in the name of gentrification. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Workers in Brazil's state Piauí rely on harvesting carnauba wax which added to sweets to stop them melting, to pills to make them easier to swallow and as a thickener in lipstick and mascara. But big business is turning a blind eye to their exploitation. bbc.co.uk/news/world-lat…

No more money for schools, for mental health services, for youth clubs, but money for a billionaire’s polluting petrochemical plant.

🚨The health and humanitarian disaster in #Gaza will reach catastrophic new levels if the Israeli military invades the city of #Rafah. The international community must take urgent action to protect the more than one million people there. Our statement: map.org.uk/news/archive/p…

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Striking deals to expand fossil fuel projects is in contradiction to the goals of COP and the Paris Agreement. It is the role of the COP presidency to act as a custodian for climate ambition, not to exploit commercial fossil fuel interests. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e… (1/4)

Ahead of #COP28, we're calling on world leaders to safeguard the human rights of future generations from the impacts of climate breakdown. Alongside @WY4CJ, we'll present this letter to nation representatives at COP to galvanise action. Add your name 👇 act.clientearth.org/page/139453/pe…

"States positioning themselves as both climate innovators and guardians of the fossil fuel industry is alarming. We need to see states and companies walking the talk of climate action." Blog by @LauraClarkeCE: linkedin.com/pulse/fossil-f… #ClimateLawsNow #COP28

Ahead of #COP28, we're calling on world leaders to safeguard the human rights of future generations from the impacts of climate breakdown. Alongside @WY4CJ, we'll present this letter to nation representatives at COP to galvanise action. Add your name 👇 act.clientearth.org/page/139453/pe…

@SkyNews Conveniently not mentioning that Trump took that slogan from Hitler 🙄

Liz Truss has echoed the language of former US president Donald Trump as she called on her party to "make Britain grow again" trib.al/4JGRV3G

@RishiSunak How about protecting the planet for people by not offering those new oil and gas licences?

I want to protect the price of your pint at the pub. And now the UK has left the EU, we can do just that. So we’re bringing in one of the biggest shake ups to the alcohol duty system in the last 140 years. The plan 🧵👇

It’s staggering how individuals who peacefully protest climate inaction get prison time while the directors of corporations that do the most damage get $$$billions

Incredible day to be in the Court of Appeal to witness the handing down of the decision on the lawfulness of the Rwanda Migration & Economic Development Plan. Asylum seekers can breathe for another day, just. #RwandaMigrationPlanUnlawful theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/j…

Beef 🥩 requires 20 times more land & emits 20 times more GHG emissions per gram of bean 🫘 plant protein It causes of deforestation 🌳 It causes many health issues in a western diet Time to switch flexitarian or vegetarian diet Long answer below 👇 wri.org/insights/6-pre…

When you are rich, people care. Today’s cartoon by@Qasem_Moha. More cartoons: cartoonmovement.com/search?query=&… #Titan #Titanic #migrants #help #rescue

1/2 Breaking News! The Windrush Scandal suddenly gets worst, if that's possible, as a BBC team uncover that hundreds of Commonwealth citizens with mental illnesses were removed from the UK, unlawfully... I visited Kew Archives with the BBC team to examine bbc.co.uk/news/uk-659266…

#ClimateChange is about consumption of richest people in our global society 50% of global life style emissions are emitted by richest 10% of the population. 90% of global emissions by richest 50% of the population. We need #ClimateJustice to deal with the #ClimateCrisis fairly