Ryan Brightwell

'Banks say Healey is planning Budget tax raid on their profits' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Let's prove them right! Sign now to #TaxTheBanks 💰 👉 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks

Add your name and call on Andy Burnham to: - Meet the UK's international climate and nature commitments - Pass the Nature + National Security Bill in this Parliament - Reject all new oil and gas licences, including Rosebank, and deliver a just transition.

Tom Watson! A man I used to think had integrity.

Now at Greenpeace International and the Sixty-Five Million Dollar Letter, with Mads Christensen, Natali Segovia, Anne Jellema, Elizabeth Bast, Rebecca Brown, Ryan Brightwell, and Michelle Chan #climateweeknyc #nycw2026

@ryanbrightwell.bsky.social discusses the fight against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. Over 40 banks have committed that they won't finance it.

Following a recent report alleging that Raiffeisen facilitated >$1B in imports of sanctioned goods into Russia, B4Ukraine and @banktrack.bsky.social are calling on the relevant regulatory authorities to immediately investigate the allegations and review AO Raiffeisenbank’s continued access to SWIFT.

The US falling behind Turkmenistan in the climate accountability stakes here. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Dear @Premier Inn, Here's a suggestion. How about providing a separate bin for recyclable waste? Then you can make a less condescending sign to say what goes where, instead of implying your guests are committing an eco sin by using the only bloody bin available. Thanks.

I sat and watched Burnham's speech on Friday feeling hopeful. It didn't even last out the weekend.

So this happened: 1. UBS was told by a Swiss government body to review its whole passive investments portfolio for human rights impacts 2. The bank basically refused to do that 3. They now face no sanctions whatsoever This is what people mean by #CorporateImpunity

The Co-op Bank has confirmed Coventry Building Society *will* adopt the bank's Ethical Policy. 👏 The move will mean a major expansion of ethical banking in the UK. 👍 Our latest newsletter: customerunion.coop/newsletter-2...

🚨OUT NOW: Global banks back the world’s biggest mine, but stay silent on its harms We contacted the largest financiers of Rio Tinto, a lead developer of the Simandou project. Communities report land loss, livelihoods destroyed, & water contamination—yet impacts remain unaddressed. 👇Our findings:

BankTrack's Max Hammer is attending today's Raiffeisen Bank International AGM, while activists outside protest the bank's ties to fossil fuels, military tech companies, and the Russian war economy. Follow the day's key takeaways here:

Our survey of over 800 Co-op Bank customers showed: ✅strong support for the merger with Coventry, ⚖️human rights and equality as the top ethical issue, ✋Most felt joining the Customer Union made them more likely to stay with the bank. Read more : customerunion.coop/newsletter-2...

🚨 RALLY 🚨 📍 Wiener Stadthalle ⏰ 9 April, 09:30 On 9 April, Raiffeisen Bank holds its Annual General Meeting in Vienna — we won’t stay silent while it helps sustain Russia’s war. Raiffeisen must be held accountable. Join us! #ExitRussia #StopFundingTheWar @banktrack.bsky.social

Great to see the Co-operative Bank puting its ethical and planet-friendly values front and centre. H/T @cuebcustomerunion.bsky.social. #Co-ops #Co-operatives #Mutuals www.prolificnorth.co.uk/news/co-oper...

Dear @linkedin.com No, I do not wish to follow Bill Gates. Please stop asking. Best wishes, Ryan

@cuebcustomerunion.bsky.social. Hopefully some more Coop customers soon with actions like this around the country. youtube.com/shorts/YS498...

A coalition of civil society organisations is urging the UK government not to renew public sector contracts with TotalEnergies while it continues to import Russian gas to Europe. razomwestand.com/ukrainian-ca... @razomwestand.bsky.social @b4ukraine.org #StandWithUkraine

Board of Peace - Season 1

A major investigation into the murder of Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres in Honduras in 2016 concludes this was an organized criminal operation funded by money from two development banks, CABEI and FMO. #JusticeForBerta insightcrime.org/news/report-...

This from Geoffrey Robertson QC is generous to Starmer. He surely must now stand up to Trump and condemn this egregious act of aggression. I can't see it happening. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Rep. Seth Moulton: "This is insane. What the hell are we doing? ... this is illegal."

The Co-op Bank needs to: 📱 improve digital platforms 📣 communicate its ethics boldly again ✊ take a position, on issues from Palestine to AI ethics and the rise of the far right. This can't wait until 2027 or 2028 whe the merger with Coventry Building Society has been completed.

Here's what 74 European banks considered "material" in their CSRD reporting. Bad news for "affected communities" (among other categories). This woudl seem to point to a flaw in allowing companies to pick their own material issues. Source: insights.efrag.org/dashboard #BizHumanRights

TotalEnergies financiers beware: the East African Crude Oil Pipeline is eating up money, nature and livelihoods. Our #EACOP Finance Risk Briefing is out now. #StopEACOP www.banktrack.org/article/tota...

“I have never advocated violence in the Netherlands” is an unintentionally hilarious line from this pro-Hamas edgelord. #FreePalestine #humanrightsforall nltimes.nl/2025/10/10/m...

A new study shows how much the global oil and gas industry is contributing to renewable energy. And it is ... 1.42%. scienmag.com/fossil-fuel-... This kind of melts away a lot of arguments from the finance sector about why they should keep propping up these companies so they can "transition".

It's almost as if we can't rely on the global banking sector to solve climate change

🖍️ Wij trekken de Rode Lijn. We eisen met 250.000 mensen actie van onze regering tegen de genocide in Gaza! #WijZijnMetMeer #RodeLijn

"The increases in fossil fuel production [in governments' current plans] would lead to global production levels in 2030 that are 500%, 31%, and 92% higher for coal, oil, and gas, respectively, than the median 1.5ºC-con­sistent pathway." productiongap.org/2025report 🤦

We asked the UK advertising watchdog, the ASA, to investigate its own ads for being misleading. Then, to use the universal language of clickbait, this happened (they said their own rules didn't apply to them) @badvertising.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social theecologist.org/2025/sep/09/...

A majority in the Dutch parliament wants "antifa" banned. Including the "grown-ups" of the VVD. This despite there being no such organisation as "antifa", and a complete absence of debate about the proposal. The slide to authoritarianism is happening here too. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

💡 Did you know the Customer Union has a formal recognition agreement with The Co-operative Bank? 🤝We met with the bank to represent our members and ask their questions. 📖Read our update on the meeting in our latest newsletter: saveourbank.coop/newsletter-2... #union #coops #ethical #banking

"Because someone died, we have to take away your rights" -- the same pretextual rationale that authoritarians always use

The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today. Charlie Kirk was no exception.

🚨 Fighting harmful bank finance? We just launched a Users' Guide for communities & their allies on how to use bank human rights complaint channels: 👇 www.banktrack.org/campaign/hru...

Proud and happy to launch our new Users' Guide to bank human rights complaints channels. We hope it makes these channels more accessible and widely used, and that banks take action as a result!

Here are 10 provocations on climate and energy. Tell me if you agree, disagree or have a nuanced take. Drop your own provocations in reply or quote post. Start: 1. By 2030, the use of air conditioning will lead to greater increase in electricity demand than data centers. And it's not even close!

Trump's aid cuts in Uganda and Tanzania are leading to babies being born with HIV because mothers could not get medication and a rise in life-threatening infections. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

Air pollution from the oil and gas sector causes 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of illnesses in the US each year. Communities of colour face the greatest burden. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...