The Billionaire Brothers behind climate change denial

A major investigation by Greenpeace has revealed what we always knew: climate change denial is a well funded conspiracy, centered on oil corporations. In recent years, there’s been a lot of focus on the role of companies like Exxon in funding organisations that spread lies and propaganda to undermine climate science. But even their contributions [...]

Duck murdering bastards on trial

Warning: This post contains some upsetting stuff about dead ducks. The above video is one of several shot by William Todd Powell, a senior biologist working for the Province of Alberta in Canada. It shows a duck struggling to escape from a tailings pond, where oil company Syncrude dumped the toxic leftovers of its operation [...]

tesco: every little bit of anti-youth prejudice helps

Young people are lazy, illiterate, untidy, useless and have an ‘attitude problem’, one of the most highly-paid people in the country revealed yesterday to a conference of supermarket executives. Lucy Neville-Rolf, who earned £1.6 million last year in her job as an executive director of Tesco, blames the ‘education system’ for its failings to create [...]

Yarl's Wood update: 3 weeks in to the Hunger Strike, government lying

Just a quick update to the issue we previously reported about the abuse of women detainees in Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre. The women have now been on hunger strike for three weeks, demanding their freedom and better conditions in Yarl’s Wood. However, Meg Hillier, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for ‘Identity’ apparently, has written [...]

Protests in London for Yarl's Wood hunger strikers

While it’s a bit far away for any SSY members who aren’t living in exile down south to make, there’s an important protest in London tomorrow against the brutal treatment of women detained in Yarl’s Wood Imigration Removal Centre. Since February 5th over 50 women in the centre had been on hunger strike in protest [...]

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