"In order to meet peoples’ energy needs, whilst tackling the climate crisis we must envision systemic alternatives - public ownership can be exactly that." Read all about it in my new piece for GI-ESCR and Transnational Institute 👇🏼 gi-escr.org/en/resources/s…

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MILITARY FUEL EMBARGO AGAINST ISRAEL 🚨 Overseas Santorini 🛳️carries military fuel from USA to Israel to bomb Gaza. It's due to transit the Mediterranean from 29th July. We call upon states, trade unions & social movements to stop it from docking. #NoHarbourforGenocide ✊🏾

We need a political theory of radical municipalism. Together with Sixtine van Outryve we're putting together an edited volume on the topic. Call for chapters here, abstracts for Sept 30 shorturl.at/CzsLU. Please share!

I’ve never seen anyone cook like Dr Myriam François in this debate. She said EVERYTHING that needed to be said exactly how it needed to be said. Love this clip 🔥🔥🔥

Rich nations continue to expand & fund fossil fuel production. The more they do this, the more temps 📈 & the more their debt to Global South 📈. Those least responsible for the climate crisis suffers the worst impacts. Rich nations #PayUp your climate debt #ClimateJustice

GBE isn’t that. But by putting public ownership & operation of energy back on table, by embedding trade unions in governance, by backing community power, by making case for shared resources in public hands, it marks a break with trajectory of last 40 years - & a foot in the door.

The Overseas Santorini is carrying 300,000 barrels of jet fuel to Israel, transiting the Mediterranean, enough for 1000's of F16 & F35 bombing raids Our calls to prohibit docking in Spain and Gibraltar were a SUCCESS ✊🏾 Join our call to ensure there is #NoHarbourForGenocide.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society on ‘remunicipalization and contesting privatization’ Proposals due: November 1 academic.oup.com/cjres/pages/cf… Public Banking Project municipalpower Municipal Enquiry Climate and Community Project MSP

While writing this op-ed, six new MOUs for exporting green hydrogen to Europe from Tunisia were signed with foreign corporations. Meanwhile, the country faces energy cuts and water scarcity, leading to a social crisis. Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) Power Shift Africa ReCommon groundWork

Wat een prachtig essay over Audrey Lorde, Adrienne Rich en de solidariteit en politiek van June Jordan. Wat is identiteitspolitiek? Wie mag spreken namens wie? Wat betekent solidariteit? 'Will your silence protect you' (ja, als over Israël wel, ook voor Lorde). Een aanrader!

Public banks & funds have the means to bridge the €170B annual social infrastructure gap. We need to harness their power for strong, fair & sustainable public services & hold them accountable to serve people. Read our report x EPSU: bit.ly/3X3qGEj

Lithium extraction is slowly turning Serbia into a mining colony using increasingly brutal methods. TNI Fellow Aleksandar Matković received death threats after a Serbian newspaper published his open letter on the latest lithium mining project by Rio Tinto. tni.org/en/article/ope…

I want to share what happened in more detail as some strange things have been happening in Serbia after Scholz's visit - that wreak of neocolonialism. Firstly, after his visit there have been massive national protests in every major city, and especially in the villages. (1/28)

New paper shows that the scale of corporate profit repatriation out of the global South is... massive. "Between 2005 and 2020, transnational corporations repatriated an annual average of one trillion USD." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

1/ 🚨NEW research reveals the ongoing oil shipments fueling Israel's war machine. 65 tankers of crude oil & refined petroleum products have shipped to Israel since Oct, 1/2 after CIJ_ICJ ruled in January that Israel is plausibly committing genocide. priceofoil.org/behind-the-bar…

Unpacking the 6 policy myths that threaten decarbonisation It’s difficult to see how anyone can describe the state of the energy transition as anything approximating ‘bright’ when coal, oil and gas consumption continues to increase. - Transnational Institute We explore the 6 policy myths

The workers at GKN in Florence are fighting for a just transition—transforming their factory from luxury car parts to solar panels & cargo bikes under worker control. This movement is a blueprint for sustainable, community-driven change. Donate here: reelnews.co.uk/2024/06/14/all…

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Not to brag, but having led a large project on degrowth, "Living Well Within Limits", which published 33 papers, roughly half of which were data analysis and modelling, only 1 would have qualified for the parameters of the study cited. This is not indicative of anything. 🤷‍♀️