What do Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Benedict Cumberbatch and Greta Thunberg have in common? They’ve all just signed our open letter to Shell expressing their outrage at Shell’s multimillion dollar lawsuit against Greenpeace. [1] Will you join them now and add your name too? If enough people sign the letter, we can show Shell and the court that public opinion is firmly on our side. So every signature counts!
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Shell is suing us because 6 brave Greenpeace activists peacefully protested on one of their oil platforms last year. [2] The platform was heading to the North Sea to unlock new oil wells in the middle of a climate emergency – so our activists peacefully occupied it to demand that Shell stop drilling and start paying for the damage they are causing across the world. Shell’s multimillion dollar lawsuit is one of the biggest threats Greenpeace has faced in our 53-year history. But we’re not giving up and we’re not backing down. And in just 3 weeks, 100,000 people have signed our open letter to show they’re with us! Today a range of public figures including Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Benedict Cumberbatch; climate activists like George Monbiot and Greta Thunberg and organisations including Amnesty International UK and Friends Of The Earth have all signed on too. This just shows the strength of public support out there for us with this case – so please can you join our people powered fightback by adding your name too?
Add my nameEvery signature helps show public support for our fight
We have been forced to take oil companies like Shell on because the government continues to side with profits for big oil instead of ordinary people who want cheaper energy bills and a safer climate. These are some of the richest companies in history so it’s going to be tough. But I know we can win this fight – and it starts with beating this lawsuit. So let’s make this open letter as big as possible to show Shell they won’t get away with trying to silence groups like Greenpeace. Because there are hundreds of thousands of people out there who are prepared to fight for a livable planet alongside us.
Don’t increase the income requirement for family visas to £38,700
Currently the financial requirements to bring your spouse to the UK is £18,600 per year and now the Government wants to more than double it. Most people in the UK don’t make that per year. We believe this policy punishes those who fall in love with someone with a different nationality.More details
Most people in the UK don’t make £38,700 per year and now may face the choice of a lifetime without their partner or leaving their own country because they fell in love and can’t meet the financial requirement for the family visa.
We believe it’s inhumane for the Government to do this to British citizens and others entitled to family visas, and that this policy is punishing people for failing in love with someone who has a different nationality. Sign this petition
Holy Land: Violent settlers force Palestinian families to leave
Oct 19th, 2023
Image: Kairos Palestine
Source: Friends of Kairos Palestine
While the world’s media is focused on Gaza, attacks by Israeli settlers against the Palestinian community in the West Bank, have increased dramatically – with little public attention.
On 9 October 2023, illegal settlers from the ‘Hilltop Youth’ organization attacked the Al-Janoub community near Sa’ir in Hebron. The settlers burnt four homes, took away with them 200 sheep, and destroyed food items worth NIS 3,000 (S750) that were stored by farmers for the winter.
Al-Janoub is home to seven families, numbering 50 people. Due to the violence and harassment, four families have left now left while the three remaining ones are planning to leave.
Friends of Kairos Palestine state: “Help is needed to prevent the forcible transfer of Palestinian communities in the West Bank.”
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The Prime Minister and Chancellor are giving public sector workers a pay rise, but are insisting it comes from “existing budgets”, which could mean CUTS. [1] The pay rises will cost £3 billion, which is exactly how much the Treasury loses every year because of non-dom tax perks. [2] The solution is obvious. Close the tax loophole and avoid more strikes. Friend, it’s obvious! The Government has agreed to raise the pay of millions of public sector workers, including teachers, junior doctors and NHS staff. [3]
But there’s a problem. It’s being reported that the £3 billion it will cost to raise public sector pay is coming from existing budgets, which could mean HUGE spending cuts.[4]
The solution? Closing the “non-dom” tax loophole that allows rich foreign nationals who were born overseas but live in the UK to avoid paying tax on all their earnings. Even though there’s less than 70,000 of them, it’s recently been calculated that closing the loophole would raise £3 billion. [5]
Will you sign the petition demanding the Government close this unfair loophole, and use the money to give millions of public sector workers the pay raise they deserve, without having to cut vital public services? You can add your name below. YES, I’LL SIGN I DISAGREE BECAUSE … Here’s what the petition says:
To: Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Thank you for doing the right thing and recognising that public sector workers need a proper pay rise. However, funding this pay rise through existing budgets could mean cutting public services even further, damaging these services just at the moment when they need all the funding they can get.
Closing the non-dom tax loophole would raise more than is needed to fund this pay rise. It would mean 70,000 wealthy individuals paying a little more tax to help give our teachers, nurses and doctors the pay rise they deserve.
Do the obvious thing, close the non-dom loophole and give our public sector heroes the pay rise they deserve – while protecting public services.
Friend – Yesterday the Government blocked the opposition’s plan to allow time for its water quality bill to be debated next month, and faced accusations of turning the UK into “an open sewer”.
Ed Acteson is campaigning for the water industry to be nationalised, saying “In 2021 the water industry released 217,000+ hours of sewage into English and Welsh waters, the equivalent of just under 25 years worth of sewage”. Over 200,000 people have signed his petition. Will you add your name today to urge MPs to tackle this issue now?
The privatisation of the water industry has failed and it is no longer fit for purpose.
In 2021 the water industry released 217,000+ hours of sewage into English and Welsh waters, the equivalent of just under 25 years worth of sewage.
As we endure our worst drought in decades and hosepipe bans are enforced across the country, water companies are losing 3.1 billion litres of water to leaking pipes every single day.
The government and the water industry claim that our archaic infrastructure is too expensive to fix, yet since 2010 the water industry has paid out over £20 billion in dividends to shareholders, with executives pocketing millions of pounds in bonuses per year.
We call for the government to nationalise the water industry once again. Greedy, profiteering companies are abusing this vital natural resource to make record profits, money that could be reinvested into upgrading our infrastructure to a modern standard.
This crisis has spiralled out of control, causing enormous environmental harm, huge damage to tourism and coastal economies and risking public health. Enough is enough.
So what can you do to help?
Sign our petition, share it on your social media channels and send it to your friends, family and colleagues.
Send an e-mail to your local MP, as well as the MPs on the list below, calling for the industry to be nationalised again.
If you share the petition on Twitter, tag them as well.
The Thames, Severn, Wye and rivers around the world are choked with chemicals and trash.
All of England’s rivers have failed quality tests for pollution… our rivers, essential to our survival, are choked with sewage and industrial chemicals. And it’s not just in the UK — rivers are dying all over the world. But in weeks, *governments could decide to kickstart the biggest water protection effort in history! Let’s supercharge champion countries with one million voices before big polluters derail the plan.
The UK government is officially scrapping our Human Rights Act. The UK government plans to replace our Human Rights Act with a ‘Bill of Rights’.
They want us to believe they’re doing it for the greater good, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. It will give people in power MORE power, and make it much harder for people to hold the UK government to account when they need to.
We know our Human Rights Act works. We don’t need to change it. We need to save it. But to do this we need to fight for it.
Be part of our movement of 10 million people across the world and stand up for our Human Rights Act. Join Amnesty International UK today
