🚨Exposed: how a secretive alliance of US companies is working to tear down the CSDDD. They: - Aimed to get “the most extreme position” in the European Parliament - Worked to mobilise pressure from non-EU countries - Paid for a think tank report Full analysis: www.somo.nl/the-secretiv...

Mamdani’s win is a massive victory in the fight for radical economic change. In 2025, when concentrated corporate power seems unstoppable, in a city at the heart of the capitalist project, Zohran Mamdani stared it down. And won. TURN UP THE VOLUME on this! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Reparations for the climate crisis, slavery, or any harms caused by unjust systems, can't just be compensation and quick fixes. They're about changing the system. And they're our chance to build a new and more just world. ✊ Read more from @meghnaabraham.bsky.social 👇 www.somo.nl/reparations-...

Investors have drained the global south in pursuit of aggressive profit maximization. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/08/d...

New out from @somoamsterdam.bsky.social and The Future Economy Incubator - making radical economic change a reality means we need to work differently.

Behind the grim reality of EU’s green transition → InvestEU ← InvestEU uses public money and debt to guarantee profits for investors, claiming to unlock billions for the green transition. But it is an illusion of climate action. Read our full analysis ➡️ www.somo.nl/behind-investeus-trojan-logic/

Latest Women Against Fascism newsletter out now: mailchi.mp/31832b2c36ac...

Major victory in a UK High Court case against Shell. The Court found Shell plc and its former Nigerian subsidiary can be held legally responsible for legacy oil pollution. A critical win for the affected communities, and also for work on a just energy transition. www.leighday.co.uk/news/news/20...

Can mineral producers capture more value from the energy transition? Explore trade rules, policy & demand shaping their options with NRGI, @iied.bsky.social, @economies.iisd.org, @somoamsterdam.bsky.social & LPEM Indonesia at #LCAW2025 🗓️ 24 Jun | 11AM BST 🔗 resourcegovernance.org/events/beyon...

Is today's posthumous pardoning of the Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others (the Ogoni 9), who were arbitrarily executed in 1995 after an unfair trial, a meaningful act or a tactic to pave the way for the oil industry to return to Ogoniland? punchng.com/tinubu-grant...

A “groundbreaking” case against Airbnb will set a precedent for legal action against any Irish companies with links to illegal Israeli settlements, an Independent Senator has warned. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

New Women Against Fascism newletter out. Read it here: mailchi.mp/18e19a58b23c... Sign up via our website at womenagainstfascism.com

Hundreds of lawyers have signed an open letter pushing the Irish government to enact the Occupied Territories Bill. The proposed law would make it an offence for a person to import or sell goods or services originating in an occupied territory. www.thejournal.ie/open-letter-...

Police in Germany arrested a pro-Palestinian activist during a protest in Berlin against Israel’s war on Gaza.

Shell and Exxon are closing a gas field in Netherlands after years of protests over earthquake damage to homes. It should be a victory, but the companies are now using unjust investor protections to sue the state for compensation and to avoid payments to affected people. www.somo.nl/shell-and-ex...

High Court trial starts today over claims that Renaissance, to which Shell sold its onshore Nigerian operations, failed to clean-up two Niger Delta oil spills. 📣 This is the last chance for the Bodo community to hold Shell (Renaissance) to account. 🚨 It’s time for justice! leighdaylaw.info/42YsPnr

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

An important step in cutting Dutch ties to genocide! Yesterday, during a debate in the Dutch Parliament, MP Teunissen raised concerns about the use of Dutch dogs by the Israeli military, leading to a motion for the government to advocate for EU-level controls on police dogs as dual-use exports.

NEW - @somoamsterdam.bsky.social investigation finds evidence that Dutch companies are involved in the export of hundreds of attack dogs to the Israeli military. The military systematically uses dogs to brutalise Palestinians, including children, the elderly & detainees. www.somo.nl/unleashing-t...

Are we preventing abuse or just certifying it? 👀 Audits and certifications often hide, not stop, corporate abuse. Companies use them as smokescreens to continue business as usual. 🚩 Concerningly, the EU & others are embedding these flawed systems into law. Read more! www.somo.nl/the-illusion...

How inequality happens: Last week Shell sold out Niger Delta communities, selling its onshore oil blocks without cleaning up years of pollution. Today, Shell announced increased payouts to shareholders, while cutting costs (not CEO pay tho, that also goes up) uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/shell-b...

“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵” - Travis Nichols. We will fight back. We will not be silenced. For our right to protest. Our right to speak truth to the power. Our right to a liveable planet. #InSolidarityWithGreenpeace

Breaking: @ec.europa.eu kills sustainability laws in scandalous move to appease big business 🚨 @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu's EU Commission just released its Omnibus proposal to 'simplify business rules' - by which it means throwing human rights laws out of the window. (1/3) 👇

' One of the most significant legal cases for climate justice is starting today in the UK: people of the Niger Delta v oil giant Shell. The core issue: demanding Shell cleans up and pays up for years of devastating pollution. www.commondreams.org/news/london-...

Climate finance ≠ climate justice 🚨 Justice is about reparations. And while Global North politicians and bureaucrats insist there’s a lack of funds, that's a myth. It’s not about a lack of money. It’s about who controls it. The only solution is to #ReclaimTheWealth: https://buff.ly/4jVUI5E

Excellent investigation by Simi Jolaoso, exposing evidence of what communities and activists in the Niger Delta have long claimed. Many oil spills are not cleaned up properly and Shell knows this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Hague Group, a new collaboration of 9 states seeking justice for Palestine will stop vessels carrying military fuel, weaponry to Israel from docking at their ports, if there is a risk the shipments will be used to enable crimes against Palestinians. progressive.international/wire/2025-01...

BREAKING: Just five partners of the World Economic Forum control 11% of global GDP amounting to €11.91 trillion. What does their economic power mean for the future of our democracies? New report from @lobbycontrol.bsky.social @globaljusticenow.bsky.social and Balanced Economy Project.

My message to EU leaders (in The Guardian today) lays out an immediate path for Europe. This is not a fight that can be avoided. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says nearly all of Gaza’s 1.1 million children need mental health and psychosocial support amid the ongoing Israeli bombardment, displacement and dire living conditions. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/0f9als

A lot has changed in forty years, hasn't it? #HumanProgress #RightWingLie

Meta and X want the incoming Trump administration to hobble EU regulation. Here's our oped calling on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to resist obeying in advance — and to implement the EU's digital rules as they are written. www.techpolicy.press/metas-policy...

Meta’s policy change is an act of avarice and appeasement. Fascism is on the march – acts like this are rolling out the red carpet, lifting even the limited restraints on online incitement. This is not just a Big Tech issue. Read Women Against Fascism's letter to the EU here ➡️ lnkd.in/eBVisSqr

What exactly will you find there? 🔎 A searchable, comprehensive, detailed list of companies that will have to comply with the law in the coming years. 🌍 Insights on countries (EU & non-EU), sectors, corporate groups, and subsidiaries. Watch this space 👀

Letter to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu from prominent press freedom groups, citizen movements and professors: will you give assurances that @ec.europa.eu will enforce the DSA in the cases of X and Meta? Your failure to do so will incite more violence. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Bitterly disappointing news for so many oil-impacted communities across the Niger Delta! Shell's sale of its Nigerian subsidiary is approved, without the clean-up and compensation issues of the communities being addressed. But this fight for justice is not over yet. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

As concerns mount that Shell's sale of its Nigerian subsidiary will soon be pushed through, despite vast unremediated oil spill damage, activists from across the Niger Delta today called for all divestments to stop until there is a just solution. forefrontng.com/csos-concern...

Google finally judged to be a monopoly by a federal court — what does this mean? 🤔 Listen to the latest episode of 🖥️Says Maybe, where our fellow & antitrust lawyer Michelle discusses the ongoing cases against Google, and on how monopolies are basically like a big octopus arm-wrestling itself ⬇️

The voluntary carbon market, an industry selling a false solution to the climate crisis, is also failing on human rights. Op-ed by Human Rights Watch(@hrw.org) and the Centre for Research on Multinational Companies (@somoamsterdam.bsky.social) aje.io/ail9tr

Shell's ultimate Houdini act 🪄 Shell is selling its problem oil assets in Nigeria, leaving behind a legacy of widespread pollution. But who will pay for #Shell's toxic mess? Oil giants like Shell shouldn’t be allowed to exploit and run. ❌ Insightful piece by @bloomberg.com ⬇️

#ResistBlackFriday | Think you’re in control of your purchases? Think again🤔
 #BuyNowFilm on Netflix pulls back the curtain on the tricks brands use to keep us shopping and the devastating cost we all pay for it. A must-watch and a great reminder to resist the shopping frenzy of #BlackFriday ❌

Court hearing just eneded in Netherlands. Ruling will be on 13 December, three weeks from now.

🎤 Hearing statement | Ahmed AboFoul, Al-Haq: “Dutch weapons are being used to murder Palestinian people. I’ve lost 18 family members so far. By the end of this hearing, I can't be sure my family will still be the same as when we started. My government is using my tax money to murder my own family.”

The soil carbon market is going to collapse - and that's a good thing. One of the issues I explore in this week's column, about the dreamworld of climate fakery our legislators have created. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

UPDATE! We are in court against the Dutch state tomorrow, Friday 22 Nov, demanding the government cut all ties supporting genocide. 📹 The hearing, from 9:00 to 12:00 CET, will be live-streamed with English interpretation: lnkd.in/g_KTGz3d 🔗 More: lnkd.in/ei-ATkdg @somoamsterdam.bsky.social

In 2022 the IPCC said that to limit global warming to 1.5°C greenhouse gas emissions had to peak by 2025 … In 2023 governments – finally - agreed to transition away from fossil fuel. In 2024, emissions are rising, and new fossil projects are lining up to start. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On the same day that a global group of experts described the UN climate talks as 'no longer fit for purpose', the Kick Big Polluters Out campaign revealed that over 1,700 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the COP29 summit in Baku. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A new series from SOMO (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations) exposes the multifaceted falsehoods at the heart of the carbon offsetting industry. www.somo.nl/facing-the-f...