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Author: Marion Smith

Breaking: Climate Emergency Manchester Introduce Themselves!

6 April, 2021 Marion Smith Leave a comment

  If you’ve come across us in the last couple of years, you may have been faced at some point…

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Posted in: Videos

Queer Feminist Climate Activism- Edinburgh GAF’s brilliant new zine

5 April, 2021 Marion Smith Leave a comment

Edinburgh Green Anticapitalist Front (GAF) have created a fantastic new zine that recognises and explores queer and feminist perspectives to…

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Posted in: Allyship

A message from Lemn Sissay about our #studentclimatehandbook and petition for #seventhscrutinynow

2 November, 2020 Marion Smith 1 Comment

We’ve got a special announcement this evening- we’re honoured to have Lemn Sissay endorse and support our Student Guide to…

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Posted in: Petition for cash and democracy, Student Climate Handbook

A quick reflection on yesterday’s seventh scrutiny petition meeting

4 August, 2020 Marion Smith Leave a comment

Last night (Monday 3rd August, or as I prefer to call it, March #6), CEM held a meeting about our…

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The Reluctant Environmentalist (or, how it feels to speak out on a topic you’ll never feel prepared enough to talk about)

27 July, 2020 Marion Smith Leave a comment

This is a topic that’s been on my mind for a while, I think as far back as CEM’s last…

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Posted in: Coming To Our Own Emotional Rescue, Emotional Literacy

Greenwashing and Gaslighting- the #Manchester #Climate “Agency” annual “conference” 2020

23 July, 2020 Marion Smith 3 Comments

CEM core group member Marion Smith still can’t quite believe yesterday’s climate “conference”… There’s so much I could say about…

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Posted in: Manchester Airport, Manchester City Council

A Year of CEM – Marion Smith

15 April, 2020 Marion Smith Leave a comment

Looking back at a year of Climate Emergency Manchester with a series of posts from the Core Group members. I’m…

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Posted in: Uncategorisable musings Filed under: A Year Of CEM

#Climate subgroup report- confusion over carbon budget basics…

28 January, 2020 Marion Smith 1 Comment

Marion Smith of the CEM core group reports on the Manchester City Council climate subgroup’s meeting of Thurs January 23rd……

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Posted in: Climate Change Subgroup

Manchester City Council can’t say if can spend money on climate emergency declaration

9 January, 2020 Marion Smith 1 Comment

Marion Smith of the core group of Climate Emergency Manchester attended a Council meeting, and couldn’t quite believe her ears…

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Posted in: Neighbourhoods and Environment Scrutiny Committee

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KidsOfColourHQKids Of Colour@KidsOfColourHQ·
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🚨 STATEMENT ON VERDICT & WHAT YOU CAN DO 🚨

Firstly, we need you to read about these boys. Articles based on the prosecution’s racist narrative will try to tell you who they are.

We wanted to share some reflections on the boys ⬇️ link to full text: https://bit.ly/3ws6zC8

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The Anti-Creep Climate Initiative, working with graphic designer Melody Keenan, has created Against the Ecofascist Creep, a web zine and teaching resource that exposes and debunks six “everyday ecofascist myths.” #envhum #ecofascism #zine https://www.asle.org/features/stemming-the-creep-of-ecofascism-a-primer/

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ClimateEmergMcrClimate Emergency Manchester@ClimateEmergMcr·
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A talk next week with a researcher who 'examines the impacts of climate change on glacial activity and meltwater dynamics, as well as present-day Arctic glacier retreat'. Not heard much positive news on that recently! https://theconversation.com/ipcc-report-paints-catastrophic-picture-of-melting-ice-and-rising-sea-levels-and-reality-may-be-even-worse-124193

Timothy Body@TimothyBody

One week until 'Climate, Biodiversity & a packet of crisps' first FREE SCIENCE TALK with @DrMeltwater Dr Kathryn Adamson at @KroBarOriginal Oxford Rd Manchester 17:30 on 25/05!
https://www.manchesterfoe.org.uk/events/event/our-warming-planet-climate-biodiversity-and-a-packet-of-crisps/
@foemcr @NorthWestFOE @friends_earth @MMU_NATSCI @MMUEcolEnv #ClimateCrisis

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TomHainesDoranTom Haines-Doran@TomHainesDoran·
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Good thread on the use of language by local politicians to dampen social movement demands on climate and the environment. https://twitter.com/ClimateEmergMcr/status/1526860840380551169

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Good reporting by @josephtiman about this saga in which someone is now in intensive care. We really hope they recover. A few points of concern 🧵 https://twitter.com/MENnewsdesk/status/1526798119664492545

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josephtimanJoseph Timan@josephtiman·
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Lib Dem councillor John Leech accuses Labour of breaking a long-standing consensus about members allowances. He says this was done to make it 'increasingly difficult' for the opposition to hold the ruling group to account #LDReporter

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