functioning idealist. @artsemergency, also hard art and resort studios🌱
Margate, England
Joined June 2009
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Tweets about Palestine no longer go viral. The genocide is no longer trending. Back to business as usual. The normalization of our people’s slaughter is sweeping across the West, whose leaders provide the nails being driven into the hearts of our children.
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The fetishization of the vote in a managed democracy like the US is bad. If you want real change, yes; you should vote. But it’s nowhere near the top of the list of what you should be doing. (If you truly care)💫
Chomsky on the quadrennial extravaganza. 👇🏼
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🚨 BREAKING
Hundreds of workers and trade unionists have blockaded the Foreign Office to demand the new Labour government ends its complicity in the genocide in Gaza and immediately suspends all arms to Israel.
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82,000 children in the UK are looked after by their local authority. In today's podcast, @thatdunleavy is talking to @RebekahPierre92 about the new anthology she edited, #FreeLoavesOnFridays, and what life is like for those children growing up in care. bit.ly/3VZrRm2
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Clean Up The Internet's founder @Kinsellas sets out how tackling harm from fake and anonymous social media accounts would contribute to several of the new Labour Government priority "missions" - and why failing to could create obstacles to delivery.
cleanuptheinternet.org.uk/po…
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Because it's important, here's a thread of the Lancet's letter about Gaza death toll.
thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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ALT The Lancet: "Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential" Rasha Khatib Martin McKee Salim Yusuf
Neil Griffiths (he/him) retweeted
Breaking: @OldhamColiseum has been saved from permanent closure and will reopen its doors in time for the pantomime season in 2025. It follows a high-profile campaign to reopen the beleaguered venue led by actor Julie Hesmondhalgh (@juliehes)
👉 thestage.co.uk/news/victory-…
Neil Griffiths (he/him) retweeted
This is so important, but a Stuart Hall reading of representation and essentialism brings nuance to the representation = outcomes equation. Representation matters, but its the actual policies, rather than the personalities, that will ultimately make that representation material.
🚨 The most state-educated Parliament on record 🚨
Our new analysis reveals that there is a record number of MPs now in the Commons who were educated at comprehensive schools.
Read our breakdown of the backgrounds MPs elected at #GeneralElection2024 ⤵️
suttontrust.com/our-research…
Neil Griffiths (he/him) retweeted
For elites, there is a symbolic market for downplaying privilege. But it’s pernicious, perpetuating the myth of meritocracy + obscuring very real divides in power and influence. Nice piece by @emmavj drawing on a key argument in our new book Born to Rule in @FT @aaronsreeves
Why playing down a privileged background might be a savvy career move on.ft.com/4cMUCci | opinion
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We're back! – at Islington, London
Alright alright! The election is over and we're back with our final show of the tour!
Have you booked your ticket yet? We're in town for 1 night only!
📍@theLBT
🗓️ Weds 17th Jul
⏰ 7.45pm - 8.45pm
🎟️£15
thelbt.org/what-s-on/drama/t…
#huddersfield #poetic #livemusic #liveperformance
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Extraordinary! Utterly wonderful news!
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There is hope and joy in collective action! @artsemergency is a network of 10,000 people that prioritise care & comminity over exploitation & competition. Looking forward to a change in government policy & the chance to stop firefighting, the chance to start REVOLUTIONISING🚨
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> grassroots communities like @ArtsEmergency are urgently required, it is solidarity and change in PRACTICE and now is the time for this regenerative work to scale and flourish nationally. Please donate! arts-emergency.org/donate 🍞🌹🌹
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Now is a great time to support @ArtsEmergency. For 14 brutalising years our project has kept HOPE alive for 1000s of marginalised young people. Today our work spans 115 local authorities. AE connects folx with a vast range of creative/cultural peers, mentors & opportunities 🌱
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We're still recruiting amazing Black women for our next cohort of mentors! If you are based in the UK and have 1-2 hrs a month to support a Black teenage girl, please consider gifting us a little time! We need Black women in any and all fields: info at: thecatalystcollective.co.uk/…
Neil Griffiths (he/him) retweeted
Keir Starmer's Cabinet is the most state-educated in history. 87 per cent of Brits went to a state school but this is so rarely reflected in our politics. As someone who went to a comp but is often the only person not privately educated in certain rooms...I'd say this matters.
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The book 'Doughnut Economics' opens with the story of Yuan Yang who, as a young economics student back in 2008, was challenging the outdated theory she was being taught. Last night she was elected as the first-ever MP for Earley & Woodley. Huge congratulations @YuanfenYang !
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I'm back in Birmingham and getting ready to install 'Benjamin Zephaniah: The Brighter Flame'. From Friday, please do visit Victoria Square & Colmore Row to remember our great poet of the people 🖤
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"The most remarkable thing about this country is the scale of its inequality" ....
Our Frank @frankcottrell_b is furious, and rightly so. In our new episode you can hear him spell out exactly why his tenure as children's laureate is going to be not just a celebration of children's writing, but a transformation of the access people have to it, so buckle up.
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“The MA Black British Literature should not be treated as a second-class citizen,”. These redundancies on the Black British Literature MA are nothing short of vandalism; and it guts Goldsmiths of everything that made it a distinctive space of learning. theguardian.com/education/ar…
