Paul Rance
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Co-founder of Peace & Freedom Press/Band. Writer, artist, publisher, editor, poet, Green, animals, human rights, woke, European. LTFC. Author of Made in Luton.
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My short novel for the Occupy generation - extracts, main characters
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@BladeoftheS
Never had any problems with foreigners. I'm British born and bred, but the only nasty people I've come across in my own country have been British.
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@clairebubblepop
Compassion is a virtue. As a society we are in danger of losing that. The problem is that on social people the nastiest, uncaring people shout the loudest. We need to drown them out. People who call anyone on benefits scroungers are usually miserable individuals stuck in
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London protest this week for the animals. "We'll be outside Defra on Wednesday the 8th of September. Please join us. It's gonna be a big protest." - Dominic Dyer
#Geronimo
#stopthecull
Killing Geronimo Alpaca national disgrace dominating front pages today. Defra are refusing
@alpacapower
access to post mortom or TB test results in a clear cover up. We will not be going quiet on this scandal join “Justice for Geronimo & Stop Badger Cull protest Defra HQ 8 Sept
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@Coventry_City
@EmiratesFACup
Luton fan here. Please now get promoted. As a club you deserve it and your fans are class.
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"Largest wave of simultaneous protests seen in Britain for years" - The Guardian.
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#EnoughIsEnough
#dontpayuk
#climatecrisis
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#SaveSheffTrees
Now that
@DuchessLime
has gone I'll be taking a break from social media. I have depression issues, and so a big thank to SCC, Amey and SYP for triggering further depression. You're just all evil. There is no other word for it.
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#StopHS2
The beautiful Hunningham Oak killed by HS2 and this government. Getting a lot of feedback from people in other countries who are bemused that this ecocide is allowed to happen.
The Hunningham Oak. 22 August, on a warm breezy day. 💚🌳💚😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 You will see why we grieve.
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@NUFC360
Lovely to see - and you've got to have a heart of granite not to be moved by the smiles on the children's faces. Speaking as a Luton fan we remember the support Newcastle fans gave to Tom Lockyer. You're a class club.
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Tennis legend Martina Navratilova and James Cromwell, star of
Babe, have Retweeted info re
#SaveSheffTrees
in the last two days. The world is indeed watching. Please sign this relevant petition to increase the pressure on SCC.
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Another example of Bianca Jagger's sterling work re the environment. Shades of Sheffield and Cardiff in Lewisham.
@BiancaJagger
@bardofely
@rbw66
@TheSadSquirrel
@SAVEDORETREES
@RoathBrookTrees
@averagearborist
#SaveSheffTrees
#SaveRoathTrees
#StandByTree
London Bianca Jagger stands up for environment activists in council row over felled trees - Bianca Jagger has weighed in on an ongoing row between Lewisham Council and residents over the regeneration of a park which has allegedly seen hundreds of tree...
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@TomTugendhat
The irony. Your kind just spread hate against the most vulnerable in our society. You're on the way out. Goodbye.
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@LutonTown
You can spend millions and millions on players, but you can't buy fighting spirit.
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International Sheffield tree campaign group set up after global donations made to protesters
#SaveSheffTrees
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In the Euston Square Gardens tunnels tonight an eco warrior's version of the Great Escape. It's the stuff of legend.
#StopHS2
UPDATE:
#Lazer
evades bailiffs' grasps. At approximately 9.30pm tonight, over 25 hours after they had begun, bailiffs finally freed the arm tube of Lazer's lock-on from its iron safe & concrete casing. However, before they could get to work on the next stage of removing him....
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For all of you out on the streets of Sheffield tomorrow protecting the trees, try and take inspiration from this Tweet. Power to the peaceful.
#SaveSheffTrees
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Healthy trees destroyed, wildlife displaced, concerned people distressed, bullied and demonised for caring about nature. This is sick, modern Sheffield.
#SaveSheffTrees
@jopackaj
@sj_unwin
@salthepoet
@TiCLme
@bardofely
@TheSadSquirrel
@spacedapenguin
@streettreeart
@Timewalkproject
@sheffieldlamby
@Graham21
@GleadlessVTrees
@SheffCouncil
It's full of twittering starlings this snowy morning, long-tailed tits were flitting past and the fieldfares were viewing the road from Duke and Duchess Lime nearby. They are so valuable to wildlife in our neighbourhood.
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@LutonTown
Good to see you take on this issue. Most racists are sick, twisted cowards hiding behind their screens.
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Report spammers using the
#houstonflood
hashtag. They're putting lives at risk. You can now use
#houstonflood1
for info.
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If you live outside Sheffield, please Tweet
@SheffLabour
, let them know where you're from, and let them know you disapprove of what they're doing to the trees there. Use these two hashtags:
#SaveSheffTrees
and
#TheWorldIsWatching
See John Lamb's Tweet below.
Bryan Lodge of Sheffield Council thinks that the Tree campaign is something that only a handful of people in Sheffield care about.
Can anyone else NOT from Sheffield please tweet to:
@SheffLabour
your town/city/country
#SaveSheffTrees
#TheWorldIsWatching
@TheSadSquirrel
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It seems, this morning, no compromise is the message from SCC. But the movement to
#SaveSheffTrees
is growing, and I would urge people to share info as widely as possible, and follow back people who are supporting this campaign. Networking is crucial.
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Graham Fellows, aka John Shuttleworth and Jilted John, slams Amey and the destruction of healthy trees in Sheffield.
#SaveSheffTrees
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People are doing remarkable things to save the environment in Britain right now, from trying to stop fracking and HS2 to saving trees. This is a tree protector in Sheffield.
#SaveSheffTrees
#SaveRoathTrees
#WeSaidNo
#StopHS2
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A happy Christmas to these guys, who've helped to keep Britain frack free in 2017.
@tinalouiseUK
@Lady_ClaireUK
@F_F_Ryedale
@josephboyd73
@KMProtectors
@talkfracking
@FrackFreeDonny
@frackfreemps
@ProfStrachan
@frackfree_eu
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@IanWright0
Yes, well observed and well said, Wrighty. I don't buy any of the right wing rags. They've got nothing to say to me. Of course, when they target black players and those black players then get abused, they then say how outrageous the abuse is...
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Of street trees and solastalgia - excellent article by Joanna Dobson
@JoannaCDobson
on the effects of the Sheffield tree massacre on people's mental health. Do SCC, Amey and SYP give a damn? Go on prove us wrong.
#SaveSheffTrees
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Elderly female tree protector injured at Abbeydale Park Rose protest, Sheffield, 05/03/2018. Video by Neil Furmidge. Please share widely. WARNING: disturbing scenes. via
@YouTube
#SaveSheffTrees
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Deeply disturbing video of the scenes in Sheffield today, including of an elderly protestor being injured. Will someone have to die before this madness stops?
#SaveSheffTrees
@BiancaJagger
@rbw66
@TheSadSquirrel
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Shared this last night and got not one response. If you're not a celeb or part of a clique then whatever you post tends to get ignored. So, it's getting close to goodbye Twitter...
Liza, a four-year-old child with Down's syndrome, is one of the latest victims of the inhumanity of man in Ukraine.
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#WeRise
is appropriate for the defenders of nature today - the tree protectors of Sheffield. No tree felled, despite security and police out in force. You're all heroes and heroines in the eyes of those of us who love nature.
#SaveSheffTrees
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When you look at tree protectors like Maureen you wonder how the media doesn't speak out about the lies they're spoonfed. But this is an alarming trend in the UK. As Jello Biafra said: "Don't hate the media, become the media."
#SaveSheffTrees
Disgraceful
@SheffCouncil
smear, leave-out-vital-facts & bare-faced lie to further the agenda of their financial driven felling of healthy trees in
#PFI
farce with liars
@Ameyplc
whilst
@syptweet
hav their backs
See you Monday
#SaveSheffTrees
#TheWorldIsWatching
#BelikeMaureen
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@ukhomeoffice
As you well know the vast majority of asylum seekers are peaceful, desperate people looking to find a better life. But keep peddling that spiteful little line your masters tell you to spout. What's it like to have no humanity?
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Alice Roberts makes history fun, and she's also a tree hugger. Tree hugging is cool, kids, and anyone who says different just ain't hip.
#SaveSheffTrees
#SaveRoathTrees
I’m indulging in a spot of
#treehugging
! It’s a beautiful day - get out for a spot of communing with nature if you can
@WildlifeTrusts
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@BylineTimes
@AdamBienkov
The Tories are a desperate bunch. I almost feel embarrassed for them. The worst crop of British politicians in my 64 years on this planet.
#GTTO
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@ECOWARRIORSS
Good question. I dread to think what the generations after us will think of us. It's also funny how Greta triggers sad, middle-aged, old men.
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I'm seeing that police estimate a quarter of a million are at the
#COP26
protest in Glasgow. A crowd so big that not everyone's reached Glasgow Green yet.
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"This is our home and it's being desecrated." One woman's moving account of the environmental tragedy in Sheffield.
#SaveSheffTrees
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Elderly tree protector restrained by the throat in Sheffield today, March 21st, 2018, Rivelin Valley Rd. Clearly seen, 25 seconds into this footage.
@rbw66
@BiancaJagger
@TheSadSquirrel
@DuchessLime
@SAVEDORETREES
#SaveSheffTrees
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@rbw66
@RussellHorsey
@johnbwalkley
@SAVEDORETREES
@NancyFielder
@JayMitchinson
@DillnerDave
@WoodlandTrust
@JeremyDBarrell
@LabourDefra
@jeremycorbyn
@andyheald
@shftelegraph
@TiCLme
@rawkus_marcus
@ChrisGPackham
@ChrisBurn_Post
@StagNews2017
Most of the media seems to side with those with the power, whether it's Government, councils, big corporations. The balanced reporting by the Yorkshire Post is one glowing exception. Activists will increasingly need to be the media to get the truth out there.
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Remarkable, gentle people saving trees. These are the type of people SCC and Amey try and bully into submission. It's a crime in itself that this is allowed to happen in a supposedly civilized, democratic country.
#SaveSheffTrees
Another great tree related article - I’ve met ‘Diana’ and she, like her other neighbours who defend the trees day after day are truely amazing!
#SaveSheffTrees
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I'm still not sure if many animal lovers realise how destructive H*2 is to animal habitats.
#StopHS2
Winnington Wood is home to rabbits, badgers, squirrels and foxes, but the ears you can see at the bottom of the photo belong to my dog(!). Buzzards have nested in these trees for over 10 years. This is the track line of HS2 and it will all be removed
@Hs2Rebellion
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@ChrisGPackham
@RoathBrookTrees
@thetreehunter
@natalieben
@TiCLme
Please help save the 250 year old Cubbington pear tree from HS2. Please spread awareness. The petition is closing in on its target of 10,000 signatures.
#StopHS2
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#SaveSheffTrees
Naughty, and definitely not nice... SCC's now not so little secret turns up in The Times.
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"It is, without hyperbole or caveat, a piece of law which would sit more easily in a dictatorship than a democracy"
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#SaveSheffTrees
Well, we've seen the pictures of tree protectors standing peacefully around the Chelsea Elm this morning. But Sheffield Council try to put a different spin on things. They are a total laughing stock.
Sheffield council say protesters behaved in an unreasonable & unlawful manner earlier when they prevented the pruning of a tree which is home to a rare butterfly.
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A message from Bianca to
#SaveSheffTrees
supporters on this big day in Sheffield. If you live in and Sheffield and care about the environment, then this is possibly the most important local election you will ever vote in.
Thank you to all the brave
#EnvironmentalDefenders
in
#Sheffield
who fought so valiantly to save their beautiful, healthy and matures
#trees
- I joined your struggle from the moment I learned about the
@SheffCouncil
vile
#WarOnTrees
- I truly hope that today you will
#VoteThemOut
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As a kid growing up in Luton, when I thought of Sheffield I mainly thought of three things - the family's stainless steel cutlery, Wednesday and United. As a child now I'd add a fourth thing - the city where they kill the trees.
#SaveSheffTrees
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Amey and SCC tried to start a propaganda war against the tree protectors. I think we can say that has backfired spectacularly, as allegations of violence and intimidation towards tree protectors gets more disturbing by the day.
#SaveSheffTrees
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@mrjamesob
Thanks for highlighting the Sheffield Trees/PFI issue on your show, James. It's a terrible situation, and this hashtag
#SaveSheffTrees
reveals quite a lot about the distress people are being caused.
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I don't know anyone who cares more about nature than Steve, and he speaks for all of us outside Sheffield who care about the street trees there. People power eventually wins in these situations, so keep networking folks, and using the
#SaveSheffTrees
hashtag.
@maass_q
@aesculus99
@TheSadSquirrel
@SheffCouncil
@Ameyplc
@syptweet
I am from
#Britain
and I am disgusted by
#SheffieldCouncil
and
#Ameyplc
. All trees are
#livingthings
, vital in the
#ecosystem
and help keep the air clean. Some of the reasons I
#StandByTree
!
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"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in their way." - William Blake
#SaveSheffTrees
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Mirror story on Geronimo. Seems beyond strange to me that many animal lovers still support this government.
#Geronimo
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Britain's most heroic tweeded man. His actions stopped more trees being felled.
#SaveSheffTrees
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#SaveSheffTrees
"The Court of Appeal has found in favour of Birmingham City Council against Amey in a long running and occasionally bitter highways dispute, rejecting the company's 'ingenious new interpretation of the contract'."
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Just WOW! The master of contradiction that is Jack Scott does it again... That's right, Jack, cutting down thousands of healthy trees will improve air quality in Sheffield.
#SaveSheffTrees
“Polluted air is a public health emergency across our country and we need to take decisive and urgent action to clean up our air.” said
@Jack_Scott
.
#SaveSheffTrees
#TheWorldIsWatching
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The tree killing is due to resume in Sheffield next week. The word 'evil' shouldn't be used lightly, but I believe that those who sanctioned the killing of healthy trees, and who've bullied and demonised peaceful protestors are indeed evil.
#SaveSheffTrees
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I lived through Thatcher, endured the unemployment, the poll tax summons, et al, but this Tory government is at a different level of both nastiness and incompetence.👇
#Torychaos
#EnoughIsEnough
One of the most heartbreaking sentences ever written:
“The child was pretending to eat out of an empty lunchbox because they did not qualify for free school meals and did not want their friends to know there was no food at home.”
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Brexit opportunities remind me of a line from a Clash song: "Career opportunities, the ones that never knock." Jonathan Freedland: How can Jacob Rees-Mogg find ‘Brexit opportunities’? They don’t exist |
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Good news from Cardiff. The first paragraph is something SCC should read and digest.
#SaveRoathTrees
#SaveSheffTrees
The detail around the 4 month delay we
@RoathBrookTrees
negotiated with
@NatResWales
to allow us to obtain an independent assessment of flood risk
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Cherry tree attacked at 4am by AMEY in
#OrwellianSheffield
. Now, if this was where I live I'd call the police and complain about the noise. Oh, I forgot the police are, it seems, on the side of the destroyers of nature.
#SaveSheffTrees
#Sheffield
council and private contractor Amey attack street trees under the cover of darkness using handsaws to deviously avoid public protest.
#SaveSheffTrees
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@bardofely
@_joelashton
@SheffCouncil
@SaveSheffTrees
@SaveShefTrees
@ShefEnvironment
@WildSheffield
@sheffielduni
@savebutterflies
@Butterfly_bros
@ChrisGPackham
@pandf1985
@Marquita_Music
@DuchessLime
@SAVEDORETREES
Sheffield town hall occupied last night by tree protectors, Steve. Some great images in the STAG group - A lot of info re the
#SaveSheffTrees
hashtag.
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@GreenJennyJones
A miserable day for compassionate souls and for England as a whole. Knuckle dragging racists will rejoice. How did we allow this to happen?
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HS2 desecrate a children's memorial, they have contempt for people and nature, and it seems they don't mind employing thugs either.
#StopHS2
#HS2
worker filmed kneeling on protesters neck | Central | ITV News. "Lawful protest against HS2 is permitted. Heavy handed tactics by HS2 are not."
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Brighton
#killthebill
protest outside Brighton Police Station.
“This is what democracy looks like” now being chanted outside the police station in
#Brighton
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Can anyone think of any British company or organisation that is more loathed than HS2 at this moment?
#StopHS2
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@SheffCouncil
Mr. Lodge, can you hear all of us from outside Sheffield? Please wake up and don't destroy your council's environmental legacy any further. Born & bred, Beds. Lives in Lincs.
#SaveSheffTrees
#TheWorldIsWatching
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8pmTweetstorm supporting
@josephboyd73
&
@realjoecorre
for
#RightToProtest
#INEOSvTHEPEOPLE
@TalkFracking
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#StandWithDuchess
@DuchessLime
. She lives at Chatsworth Road, Sheffield. Hopefully she still will do this time tomorrow. Please RT to raise awareness.
@bardofely
@BiancaJagger
@OftMsQuoted
#SaveSheffTrees
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Clive Anderson, another big name in a growing list, of
#SaveSheffTrees
supporters.
"I'm a big fan of trees"
What Clive didn't tell us is that he's been President of the Woodland Trust for more than 12 years!! 🌳🌲🌴
#SaveSheffTrees
#FightingTalk
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Angry scenes in Sheffield as heroic tree protector is removed from under truck. SCC, Amey, and SYP you're doing your best to provoke confrontation. We can see the truth. Distort it as much as you want.
#SaveSheffTrees
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SCC and AMEY doing their best to turn Sheffield into Britain's ugliest city. For all of you living in and around Sheffield think about what's being left for your children and grandchildren, and raise your voices even louder next week.
#SaveSheffTrees
@SCC_Help
With all of this: why have you done this?
#airpollution
#treecutting
The only large mature trees in the centre gone in one of the most polluted parts of Sheffield centre.
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We need an ecocide law in the UK. It's important to stop arrogant corporations, governments, and local authorities from thinking they can damage the environment with impunity.
#SaveSheffTrees
#SaveRoathTrees
#StopHS2
#WeSaidNo
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I see the word "resistance" quite a lot on Twitter, but it's just a word. These guys are actually doing something. Eco warrior Swampy is among activists in tunnels at the Wendover
#StopHS2
camp.
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#SaveSheffTrees
Just in case you thought the SCC councillors in favour of tree felling weren't arrogant...
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The destruction of nature gathers pace - vicar unchained from tree after protest against HS2 work at Euston today.
#StopHS2
#SaveSheffTrees
#SaveRoathTrees
@rbw66
@BiancaJagger
@TheSadSquirrel
@bardofely
@2ManyHouses
@big_taff
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Good to see Jan Leeming highlighting the barbaric murder of over a thousand dolphins in the Faroe Islands. These men smiling in a river of blood is one of the sickest images I've ever seen. More on this news story via hashtags
#dolphins
and
#FaroeIslands
.
It’s sickening to see so called ‘humans’ revelling in a bloodbath.
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In the Sunday Times tomorrow
#SaveSheffTrees
2/2 plus - I visit a rally to stop trees being cut down on Western Road, Sheffield, planted in 1919 to remember our WW1 fallen soldiers and find a city in uproar against
@SheffCouncil
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The unpleasant Greens for H*2 clique have put me and others off, I'm sure, from ever joining the Green Party. Though I'll still vote Green - for now.
#StopHS2
The 'Greens 4
#HS2
' campaign is founded on misinformation, such as the claim of '144 extra freight trains' which was made up by
@MidsConnect
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@GleadlessVTrees
@LouHaigh
People all over Britain are outraged by what is happening in Sheffield, and this outrage is building because of the way peaceful protestors are being intimidated and bullied.
#SaveSheffTrees
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@andyksheffield
@DuchessLime
@BBCSheffield
What the hell did the police, Amey, SCC think was eventually gonna happen. People are sick in this country of standing up to what is right and getting trodden on by unfeeling monsters.
#SaveSheffTrees
#SaveRoathTrees
#SaveLondonsTrees
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@ChrisGPackham
You're inspired many people, young and old, Chris. Thanks for speaking up for nature.
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Jennifer Saul - In Sheffield, you don't have property rights via
@HuffPostBlog
#SaveSheffTrees
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Glue-ons at Downing Street as Extinction Rebellion highlight the most important problem facing us... No, not Brexit. …
@ExtinctionR
@ExtinctionRebel
#ExtinctionRebellion
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If it truly believes in free speech then
@Twitter
should stop silencing
@HS2Rebellion
!
One week ago,
@twittersupport
suspended the
@HS2Rebellion
account with no prior warning or explanation.
Give us back our voice!
#UnsilenceHS2Rebellion
#StopHS2
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