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6 May, 4 tweets, 3 min read
1/. #ClimateChange doesn’t respect borders

Our laws need to reflect this

Last year, European Court of Human Rights ordered 33 govts to respond to a claim by 6 children in a landmark #ClimateAction case

Today, @amnesty & other NGOs intervene in the case.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
2/. This crowd-funded case challenges the insularity of national legal systems

"The ECHR has also rejected an attempt by those govts to overturn its decision to fast-track an ambitious climate change action brought by six young Portuguese activists."
climatechangenews.com/2020/09/03/six…
3/. The #ClimateCrisis does not respect borders & our laws and policies must reflect this

"To ensure justice for people most affected by heatwaves, drought & fires, states must be required to tackle climate change & its impacts at home & abroad." @amnesty amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
4/. In 1944, Churchill described Nazi atrocities as "a crime without a name"

Soon after, the term 'genocide' was coined

It's time to recognise ‘ecocide’ as an intl crime

A word can help us grasp the enormity of a horror our minds struggle to comprehend. theguardian.com/environment/20…

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4 May
1/. "They came expecting a verdict...hoping for justice"

Amnesty Turkey's ex-chair, #TanerKilic has been awaiting justice for almost 4yrs

We found out the verdict in his case could be given soon

If his conviction is confirmed he’ll be sent back to jail.
2/. “We’re responsible not only for what we say but what we fail to say by staying silent"

Absurdly, #TanerKilic has already spent more than a year behind bars

In 2018, @snowden was one of two million people who demanded his release
#FreeRightsDefenders
3/. “It feels like a bad dream from which I can’t to wake up”

I met Gulhnihal, #TanerKilic’s daughter, outside the Istanbul courtroom where her father was convicted - without evidence - of “membership of a terrorist organisation”

The nightmare continues.
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3 May
1/. Two hundred years ago, a slab of Purbeck stone was set deep into a hillside overlooking London

Called the Free Speech Stone, it is a place where people have gathered whenever their rights were under threat

On #WorldPressFreedomDay it is time to gather there again. #WPFD2021 Image
2/. #WorldPressFreedomDay is a day to remember journalists who've been harassed, intimidated, jailed or even killed

32 were killed in 2020

But it’s also a day to take strength

The truth is powerful

It’s why they fear it

It’s why they try to silence it
3/. “The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed.” (Hannah Arendt)

These are dark days for press freedom ALL around the globe.
#WorldPressFreedomDay Image
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1 May
1/. Fortunately for Tory Party donors, friends of govt ministers who had zero experience in supplying PPE, let alone handling multi-million pound contracts, a personal service, including “hand-holding” was provided

Did @MattHancock’s sister & his pub landlord make use of this?
2/. About £9 billion in PPE contacts went to companies run by friends or associates of Tory MP’s

In some cases they delivered unusable goods

The govt PPE tsar has financial interests/personal ties to at least 7 companies awarded hundreds of millions of £ in contracts #COVID19
3/. Corruption has become the air we breath

But don’t let that distract you

The #ContractScandal is part of the #HerdImmunityScandal

Investigating procurement ultimately leads to a dead end

The #PalantirPlan explores the motivations go beyond money.
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30 Apr
1/. #WorldPressFreedomDay  is on 3 May

In 2016, @amnesty, @RSF_en, @article19europe, @hrw, @IndexCensorship, @CPJ_Eurasia & set up the @FreeTurkeyMedia campaign

For 5 years, journalists around the world have shown solidarity for their jailed colleagues.
2/. "Journalists who used to observe court cases from the press gallery, now watch them from the dock"

Some of #Turkey's most respected journalists – equivalents of @camanpour @mehdirhasan @andersoncooper - are exiled, facing investigations or in jail. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
3/. Stifling a nation’s media is a willful act of self-harm that we, as journalists, will keep writing about 'til the day they take away our pens

Let's mobilize for Turkish journos like we did when 3 @AlJazeera journos were jailed in Egypt in 2013 #WPFD2021 #WorldPressFreedomDay
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27 Apr
1/. Excuse me, but I’m confused

On 5 March 2020, @BorisJohnson told @Schofe on @thismorning:

“One of the theories is we could take it on the chin...allow the disease to spread through the population”

14 months & 150,000+ deaths on, WHY are the media shocked by these comments?
2/. The #TakeItOnTheChin clip I dug out on 8/3/20 went viral (2.5m views in 48hrs)

But incredibly it was ignored by the media

At the time, I thought the PM was floating the theory as a rhetorical device - a straw man he could tear down later - but I was wrong

He was serious!
3/. Not only did the mainstream media fail to report on #TakeItOnTheChin, but some tried to brand it “fake news”

“Fake news merchants on the cesspit that is Twitter are distributing a clip of the PM!!!” screamed @TheSun

The PM wasn’t “advocating” it, but he had clearly said it.
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26 Apr
Tonight’s #supermoon is at its fullest

It is near its closest point to Earth in its monthly orbit & seem bigger & brighter than usual

April’s full moon is also known as the Pink Moon, as its appearance coincides with the flowering of a type of pink moss.
Astrophotographer, Andrew McCarthy, used 50,000 photos to produce this detailed image of the Moon.

The near side of the Moon is marked by dark volcanic maria ("seas"), which fill the spaces between bright ancient crustal highlands & prominent impact craters. (pic @Mario_Livio)
“By thy pale beams I solitary rove
To thee my tender grief confide Serenely sweet you gild the silent grove
My friend, my goddess, & my guide.”

The view from my neighbour’s telescope on #CovidMemorialDay

The moon was in its waxing gibbous phase

The Sea of Tranquility is clear.
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