Extinction Rebellion organized highly visible protests in London, in many cases blocking the travel of cars which are mostly using fossil fuels.

The four factors of the apocalypse:
   global heating, global hating,
   global eating, global mating.

The right to take and publish photos in public places is under threat from another direction: in the UK, some campaign to criminalize photos of breast-feeding in public.

I sympathize with Ms Creasy's feeling of disgust, but we should not be led into supporting a dangerous law by a feeling alone.

The right to take and publish photos is already threatened on several fronts. Some US states have adopted "ag gag" bills that criminalize publishing pictures of farms' treatment of animals. Some countries, including Spain, criminalize publishing photos of thugs committing acts of violence, under vague and stretchable conditions. And many countries restrict photos that include buildings whose architecture is copyrighted, even in the background.

To combat these threats, we need to insist on a simple and general principle: wherever you have the right to be, you have the right to photograph anything that you can see, and to show the photograph to others.

Those who wish to breast-feed in public and avoid others' looking at or photographing their breasts have an easy way to prevent this: wear (or don at the moment of need) a garment that can be arrayed to block the view. This can achieve the goal more reliably than the proposed law, while not putting anyone's rights in question.

The world struggle between democracy and repression has been going oppression's way for ten years. The influence of repressive powers, China and Russia plays an important role, and so do the supporters of the bullshitter.

The existence of a powerful antidemocratic party in the US undermines its influence for democracy in several ways: it makes the US a disappointing example of democracy's functioning; it encourages repressive and aggressive US policies, which set bad examples themselves; its support for plutocracy weakens the US and thus undermines its ability to do anything inspiring.

Win Without War's campaign to end the arming of US thug departments with military weapons.

*Who's Controlling the COVID Vaccine: 10 Myths and Misdirections.*

I posted this link because overall the points are valid. However, talking about the concept of "intellectual property" inevitably spreads confusion through overgeneralization and putting scare quotes around the term does nothing to undo that confusion. Each use of that term inherently misinforms.

The way to avoid that misinformation is to talk about patents and about trade secrecy as two separate issues which are legally unrelated.