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#SriAgenda abt to start 💥 #Oct26 at 5pm CEST

Invest-Divest 2021: A Decade of Progress Towards a Just Climate Future
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#fossilfuel #divestment #climatecrisis #climateemergency #climatefinance #greenfinance #COP26 #G20 @SRI_Natives @andytuit
@SRI_Natives @andytuit #SriAgenda just started 💥 #Oct26

Invest-Divest 2021: A Decade of Progress Towards a Just Climate Future

#fossilfuel #divestment #climatecrisis #climateemergency #climatefinance
@SRI_Natives @andytuit the #divestinvest initiative has been very effective for us indigenous people, we've the right to stay at the table, says @zhaabowekwe in conversation with @FirstLadyA

#fossilfuel #divestment #climatecrisis #climateemergency #climatefinance
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26th OCTOBER: ST ALFRED THE GREAT

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1. St Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, was born around 849 - the fifth son of the king.

Having become king himself on 23 April 871, Danish invaders posed a severe threat #StAlfredTheGreat #Oct26 #UK #England #SaintOfTheDay
2. but he managed to establish Saxon supremacy.

Alfred improved the quality of life of his subjects: he issued laws, restored and founded monasteries, including Shaftesbury Abbey.

A patron of the arts, literature and other Church matters, he was loved in his #medievaltwitter
3. realm.

His wife, St Elswith, whom he married in 868, bore him five children, St Ethelgiva of Shaftesbury was one of them.

He translated Bede’s Ecclesiastical History into Anglo-Saxon, as well as the Pastoral Rule and Dialogues of Pope St Gregory the Great.
#KingAlfred
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