Friends of the Earth Europe folk in Brussels, representing people and planet, campaigning for sustainable and just societies and protection of the environment
Dec 8, 2022 • 9 tweets • 8 min read
Today, agri stakeholders & 🇪🇺 representatives are discussing the future of food & farming #AgriOutlook
But given the last attacks on green farming reforms, the @EU_Commission’s event might recommend sticking plasters rather than look at long-term solutions for #foodsecurity
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Agribusiness & right-wing political allies are using the war in Ukraine as a pretext to water down #EUFarm2Fork
They claim global #foodsecurity is under threat & we need to ↗️ food production. How? With more synthetic #pesticides & #fertilisers of course!
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Oct 23, 2020 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
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EU companies are getting away with #HumanRights violations & environmental destruction around the world.
We need a tough EU law to hold companies legally accountable for their actions - here's why 👇
#FrontlinesofHope2. @Ecopower_BE is a renewable energy cooperative from Belgium. It was founded in the 1980s, when a group of friends converted an old water mill to create renewable energy
The #BlackLivesMatter protests in the US – & the focus they've given to anti-racist struggles in Europe – are the outcome of a capitalist, racist system.
It's the same system that's trashing the planet. (1/10)
First up, let’s unpack the idea of “race”.
As @ijeomaoluo puts it, “Race was not only created to justify a racially exploitative economic system, it was invented to lock people of colour into the bottom of it.”