Laura Eccott

Laura Eccott

@lauraeccott.bsky.social

GPEW Standing Orders Committee (SOC) Gingerbread Charity UN women U.K. volunteer Chichester tree warden Disability advocate Parent 🐈 🐈‍⬛ 🐈

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Lordington Lavender - the older English lavender crop has struggled with the extreme rainfall, so despite the sunshines impact of the human body, the sunshine is welcomed. One of the examples of why climate resilience also needs to consider extreme rainfall as well as heat. #Lavender #ClimateCrisis

Amazing 2 days at @hayfestival.bsky.social in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Malala Yousafzai, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Cally Beaton, Bernardine Evaristo, Yvvette Edwards, Gisele Pelicot spoke with such conviction, I cried at each event for such a variety of reasons- thank you so much for sharing yourselves with us all 👏🏼❤️

Team @greenparty.org.uk … Win or lose, absolutely proud of everyone that stood - what an amazing thing to do! 💚💚💚 Shout out to all the volunteers who campaigned, door knocked, catered, printed & got the data together. I can't put into words how impressive & hard staff all work also. #GreensElected

There are local elections on Thursday.. Women, and more so global majority women, still aren’t represented in politics as they should be. Awful right?! BUT YOU CAN HELP! (hey men, I mean you too!) Do you know a woman candidate? My ask - offer to help! (1/2)

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Malala Yousafzai reminding us that rights of women and girls should not be selectively applied, whether it be Iran or Gaza or Afganistan. “Existing is an act of courage”

The fortnight of me focusing on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) starts this Monday. This will be my fifth year and things have never felt more scary or fragile in terms of the rights of women and girls globally. #ForAllWomenAndGirls #CSW70

Laura Eccott@lauraeccott.bsky.social

I will be participating in @unitednations1945.bsky.social Commission on the Status of Women 70 alongside UN Women UK and UN Women across the globe 🩵 #CSW70 #ForAllWomenAndGirls

Hot take: The real reason Reform/Labour/Tories/etc. lost in an election to The Green Party is because they got less votes. Hope that solves that mystery for you. As you were....

Anyone that wants to support @greenparty.org.uk efforts to save lives through drug policy reform should also give @anyoneschild.bsky.social a follow 💛💚https://anyoneschild.org

anyoneschild.orgAnyone's Child: Families for Safer Drug ControlIt's time for drug laws that protect – rather than endanger – young people and their families.
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social

Drug deaths have risen every year for 13 years. That’s 13 years of a failed “war on drugs”. Labour should be looking at legalisation, control and regulation - not playing politics with people’s lives. This is a public health crisis. Treat it like one. Not a game.

All working parents deserve the right support at work but kinship carers, raising the children of family members or friends, have no right to paid leave from work when they take on a child. Kinship carers paid leave petition - please sign 👇 secure.kinship.org.uk/page/181537/...

secure.kinship.org.ukSign the petition: give kinship carers paid leave from workAll working parents deserve the right support at work but kinship carers, raising the children of family members or friends, have no right to paid leave from work when they take on a child. Many are ...

Joined Shiva and others at a vigil for Iran at Chichester Cross. She says “Families like mine are silenced in Iran, I am their voice.” #HumanRightsIran #Chichester

@greenparty.org.uk members! Time to engage in internal democracy 🚨 Please back these conference motions 👇

Joe Hudson-Small@joehudsonsmall.bsky.social

Attention Green Party members! These spring conference motions need your help – it only takes a click! A23: tinyurl.com/ms5yatfb A55: tinyurl.com/34ka3yw6 A58: tinyurl.com/5n7f4aak

Yesterday, I permanently removed myself from X. It is being used to illegally create "sexualised images of children" (including using photos of real children) and also to undress images of women without their consent. There is no if's or but's on this. This is gender based violence. #VAWG #GBV #X