Lauren Parker

Lauren Parker

@lbparker.bsky.social

Movement researcher w/ @mapthepower.bsky.social, guitarist, birder.

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Want to know how to research the corporations collaborating with ICE? My recent piece with @truthout.org walks you through six steps to understand where to push to weaken ICE's corporate power:

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In response to the terrifying intensification of ICE over the past year, communities are mobilizing to protect each other, publicly denounce ICE, and form campaigns to peel away corporate support of ICE to weaken the various sources of ICE’s financial, political, and reputational power.

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Revealed: >300 Big Agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation by me and @rachelsherrington.bsky.social has found. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.comMore than 300 big agriculture lobbyists have taken part in Cop30, investigation findsLobbyists representing industry responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions participated in key talks at the UN climate summit

New piece by @derekseidman.bsky.social, with support from yours truly, on the spectacle of CERAWeek. Read on to see how the fossil fuel industry is pushing their reckless agenda from the heights of government all the way down to the horses used by cops to suppress climate activists.

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NEW: Billionaire power was on full display at CERAWeek, the annual "Super Bowl of energy" gathering that performs key functions for fossil fuel industry power. But climate activists challenged the conference and its reckless promotion of fossil fuels. littlesis.org/news/cerawee...

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At #CERAWeek2025, the Houston Police Department attacked climate activists with Mounted Patrol horses. But did you know that Big Oil helps fund the Houston PD’s Mounted Patrol? A 🧵 on the Houston PD’s oil-sponsored horses. (Photo: Luigi W Morris)

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#CERAWeek is the Super Bowl of oil & gas conferences. Hundreds of frontline activists & allies gathered in Texas to show these fossil fuel execs & billionaires that they won’t get away with harming our communities to make themselves richer. www.democracynow.org/2025/3/11/he...

democracynow.orgClimate Activists Arrested in Protest of Houston Energy ConferenceIn Houston, Texas, police arrested eight climate activists Monday as they held a nonviolent protest and briefly blocked a street near the CERAWeek Energy Conference. Protesters demanded an end to oil ...

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We publicly exposed the insurers behind Calcasieu Pass, one of the biggest methane gas (LNG) export terminals in the U.S. Years of research reveal for the first time the insurers backing this toxic methane terminal, which is harming both climate & communities. #StopLNG www.ran.org/press-releas...

ran.orgInsurers Revealed Behind Venture Global’s Risky Business - Rainforest Action NetworkInvestigative work by action group reveal insurers of Calcasieu Pass Methane Export Terminal (New York City, New York) — Breaking through an opaque system, Rainforest Action Network obtained informati...

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