Lily Einhorn
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Creative/strategic consultant, cultural producer, coach, community arts, writer, trustee @BtnPeople . INSPIRE programme. Parenting in a pandemic. BLM. she/her
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If it all implodes I’m here:
Or at Bl*eSky. Same Handle. Don’t be strangers.
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My great aunt Sally died on Tuesday night of Covid, 8 days after testing positive in her care home. She wanted to be a poet. She wasn’t really educated, she never had a tutor, an editor or a publisher. But she self-published a pamphlet. I’d love you to read my favourites.
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@Tesco
@sainsburys
@waitrose
@AldiUK
@Morrisons
@LidlGB
Could you add an option when it comes to check out on an online shop to ‘Add Item to Food Bank’? I think this could hugely contribute to food bank stocks. Can you make it happen? RT if you would use this function.
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White privilege doesn’t mean you’re not working class.
It doesn’t mean you haven’t experienced hardship.
It doesn’t mean you’re racist, or no one empathises with your struggles.
It just means you haven’t been discriminated against on the basis of your skin colour. That’s it.
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There is a reason that women say to each other, every single time, ‘Text me when you’re back home.’
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Sarah Everard was murdered in police custody by a serving Met officer. Suggestions by officers in the last 48hrs for women to check ID are as pointless as they are insulting & dangerous. This is a systemic abuse of power from people who feel untouchable. Rage is justified. Look:
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She wrote about life, and the camps, and sleep, but these are the ones I love: a quirkier inner life than she ever let on. We lit last night’s candles for her.
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I’m really overwhelmed by your words about these beautiful poems and you’re all right, it wasn’t that she wanted to be a poet, it’s that she was one. Thank you.
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Ok. I’ve written about this before but after the intervention yesterday of the chief Rabbi, and a few weeks ago of my great aunt’s Rabbi, I feel compelled to write again. Antisemitism and the Labour Party. A (long) thread.
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And do I think Johnson would stand alongside me and protect me if things got ugly. No I fucking do not. Do I think
@jeremycorbyn
would? Yes. I do. I’m voting
@UKLabour
. I suggest, if you care about racism, you do too.
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I am not afraid of a labour government. I am afraid of another Tory one. I am not afraid of Corbyn. I am afraid of Johnson. Let’s not forget, let’s really really not forget, one of these men has a track record of fighting racism -
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Does anyone really - really - think that there is less antisemitism and racism in the Conservative party than in the Labour Party? In the right and not the left? In a party whose leader is racist and has allied himself with other, racist, leaders across the globe?
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The response to these has been overwhelming. I wish I had thought to share them sooner but I’m glad they’re being read now. If you have enjoyed Sally’s words I’d be honoured if you’d donate to a charity she cared for. Thank you.
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Here we go (with apologies to the publisher for getting my facts wrong)
@madewithstring
Dear Lily, condolences. I spoke to Sally many times on the phone to publish her book Just Us - it wasn't self-published - and I am sorry to hear of her death. I lost touch when she went into care. The book is being reprinted by
@mica_press
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And I feel utterly furious. First of all there is no homogeneous ‘Jewish community’ who these anti labour articles speak for. They don’t speak for me. I may not be religious but I’m jewish ebough to have a fucking opinion.
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Anyone else find it utterly obscene that Tom Moore has had to raise money for the NHS? Obviously the effort was heroic & he’s a total mensch but it’s not a fucking charity, it should be properly funded, & veterans shouldn’t have to walk a gazillion laps of their gardens for it.
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Except, you know, they’re not. Their leader is racist. He is a right wing racist. And nobody cares. So what’s really going on? Antisemitism is very very easy to weaponise. Because Jews are wary.
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THEY SHOULD THINK IT’S UNFAIR IT IS FUCKING UNFAIR. But by year 11 they’ve been broken.
Slow hand clap for our education system, everyone.
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- whilst one has written overtly racist articles in a newspaper and then refused to apologise for them. So bsck to the issue. Do I think Corbyn could have handled the issue better? Arguably, yes.
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Chilling speech from the head at a local academy open evening tonight: ‘In year 7 they’ll get a detention for turning round & looking at the clock, & in year 11 they’ll get a detention for turning round & looking at the clock. But by year 11 they’ll no longer think it’s unfair’
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It distracts from those genuine incidences of antisemitism which really do need calling out and addressing. It feeds into the (antisemitic. The irony) idea of a Jewish conspiracy. And most dangerous of all, it removes Jewish people from their natural allies: the left.
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We're deep into post-freelancer research post-working groups post-reports, at the start of a cost of living crisis and an energy bills crisis and freelancer fees have still not improved. It's time to look at some MATHS. Salaried producers and project managers, this one's for you.
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I lay these credentials out because they have become necessary. It has become necessary to prove your Jewishness I order to join the debate, to have a ‘legitimate’ opinion. In this debate there are right Jews and wrong Jews and Jews who aren’t Jewish enough.
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Tory members aren’t allowed near microphones. They don’t have the same kind of grassroots membership or campaigning models. They are much better at hiding their racism.
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I haven’t seen people calling out these micro aggressions before Corbyn became the leader of a socialist movement which would seriously damage right wing interests.
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I JUST WANT TO BE PAID TO DO MY JOB. Not begging for contracts, begging for funding, applying here, having speculative conversations there. I’m so sick of it. It’s completely untenable and unsustainable.
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Appropriated by the right, both Jewish and non-jewish alike, for political gain. The non-Jewish people currently rushing to call out this scourge in the Labour Party never cared before. I haven’t seen these people leaping to our defence.
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Because antisemitism in on the rise across the world. The far right are on the rise. And this nonsense witch hunting on the left does several things which I find DEEPLY offensive.
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Finally, some article from more articulate people than me.
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I don’t like wearing dungarees can I still work in theatre?
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The Holocaust may have been the pinnacle of anti-Jewish sentiment but it came after hundreds of years of pogroms, caricatures and sanctions. It has happened before, so, we think, it could happen again.
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He was not quite quick enough to admit it exists in the Labour Party bf promise to root it out. It’s bad politics. It’s not racism. I will link to articles citing the research at the bottom of this: course there is antisemitism in the Labour Party.
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It has hundreds of thousands of members and there is antisemitism in every pocket of British society. So when our let a large group of people near a microphone some of them will say hideous things.
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I’m the latter. And frankly that opinion is repulsive, whether it comes from inside or outside the ‘community.’ (Which I will also come back to). And it is the former who gets the articles in The Times. Because the latter are being silenced.
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Theatres! Stop writing ‘Salary: dependent on experience.’ on your job descriptions. Be transparent. We all know this is code for, ‘We’ll pay you as little as we can get away with.’ Do you have a job? Have you put a monetary value against it? Say so.
#WhenIRunABuilding
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A female former police officer on
@BBCRadio4
has just said that she didn’t report a serious issue with a male officer because she knew that women who did were deliberately abandoned in dangerous & violent situations as revenge.
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Jewish people are not stupid and alarmist for feeling this way. Do not take my distaste with this campaign for a distaste for people who share my heritage. And so this barely perceptible, under the skin nervousness gets weaponised.
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I am super excited to be launching the INSPIRE programme: free online coaching for community artists with support from
@ace_national
,
@The_Lowry
,
@DerbyTheatre
,
@stratfordeast
and
@DonmarWarehouse
For more info and how to apply: Please share far and wide!
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This is an absolutely perfect example of scarcity thinking. There is an abundance of talent, of creativity, of potential in the UK and beyond just waiting for a shot.
National Theatre director Rufus Norris has warned that a surge in opportunities with streaming platforms including Netflix and Amazon is taking talent away from theatre
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@LesBillBell
@mica_press
Oh wow. Thank you for getting in touch! So sorry to erase your contribution, I think perhaps she was a little confused. I’ll add this info.
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4 year old has just called the Natural History Museum the Actual Mystery Museum and now I really want this to exist.
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So that’s me. I grew up on chicken soup and gherkins. My grandfather spoke with a thick Eastern European accent. I hate g’filter fish. I love cheese cake. And I’m left wing and a labour supporter.
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Casual antisemitism is so common we shrug it off. Sneaky and thrifty like a Jew, tight like a Jew, Jews are all diamond dealers, gold diggers, there’s no shortage of us in the media, the film industry, theatre. We’ve heard it all.
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I’m going to go to bed and hope I wake up on the day Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is finally freed.
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Ok. I’m trying to be hopeful and optimistic. I’m on the Freelance Task Force and I intend to do what I can to open conversations within the industry and beyond about the value of the arts and its workers. But do I think the govt is going to bail out theatre? No.
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Cheering myself up with the thought that the ACE project grant I’m writing with hours of unpaid labour will be in direct competition with those written by paid & highly trained staff in NPOs. Morning!
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@tobithomas_
I was so shocked to read an analysis of the situation by a former Met Officer. He said that indecent exposure is not a serious criminal offence and would not have led to Couzens being sacked, but he may have been placed on restricted duties. WTF
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I’ve heard it all. From strangers and colleagues alike. So we are familiar with a sense of dislike and distrust, just there under the surface. It doesn’t take much for a campaign of misinformation to make people feel really frightened, hated.
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‘The Guardian understands that an investigation into Couzens’s phone... revealed he was part of a WhatsApp group involving police officers now under investigation over alleged misogynistic, racist and homophobic messages...’ 🤦🏻♂️
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I need to get the fuck out of this industry. It does not love me back. I can’t earn what I earn anymore it’s an absolute joke. I need to summon the courage to give up, which is surprisingly hard. Any ideas gratefully received!
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Since it’s all kicking off & I think trans allies should try to be useful, here’s a thing I used to get wrong: I used to say ‘female identifying’ ‘cos I thought it was more inclusive, then a trans friend set me right: it implies ‘people who *think* they’re female.’
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Utterly broken today. The arts are too hard to survive in. British politics is too hard to survive in. I feel devoid of hope. Just right in this minute. I know I am privileged to have a home & a family. But my energy is running out. I see you, people in the same boat. That’s all.
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I rang a theatre company to ask for the salary range. I have two children. I cannot apply for a job without this information. They said they would call me back. They did not.
#SurpriseSurprise
Theatres! Stop writing ‘Salary: dependent on experience.’ on your job descriptions. Be transparent. We all know this is code for, ‘We’ll pay you as little as we can get away with.’ Do you have a job? Have you put a monetary value against it? Say so.
#WhenIRunABuilding
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Sarah Everard was handcuffed and arrested by a police officer – who was already nicknamed "the rapist" – before he raped, murdered and discarded her body.
I’ll say it again: we need to think beyond "more police" as the supposed solution to male violence against women.
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First of all my Jewish credentials. (We’ll come back to this). Both my parents are Jewish. On my mother’s side we are German Jews who left Germany early in the 20th Century. Pre-Holocaust but because of the rise of antisemitism in Europe & Germany.
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Court: Woman's human rights were breached by an undercover police officer entering into a long-term "intimate and sexual relationship" with her as part of an investigation into the activities of political activists. Breach of five ECHR Articles (3, 8, 10, 11 and 14).
#SpyCops
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This industry does not deserve its workers. There are two ASM jobs - skilled jobs - currently being advertised at £445 for 43-46 hours per week. That’s approx £9.67 per hour *before* tax, NI, student loan. To work nights and long days. Who can do this work? Who should?
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It’s almost like putting Digital, Culture, Media & Sport together in the same ministerial dept is an entirely arbitrary and nonsensical decision which leads to zero expertise or care in any one field.
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Can’t quite believe what I just heard on
@BBCWorldatOne
. Former Met chief super Parm Sandhu saying female officers don’t always report suspicious behaviour of male colleagues because they “close ranks” & you risk being left to get your head kicked in on duty if you call for help
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The closure of food banks and the cancellation of vital operations for the Queen’s funeral is on a level of such grotesque dystopian horror it’s almost impossible to actually express the appropriate level of disgust and rage.
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*Rolls up sleeves*
*Harnesses rage*
*Has an attack of imposter syndrome*
*Gets over damn self*
So. Here for chats & ideas & provocations & useful rage. Get in touch.
#freelancetaskforce
We're thrilled to announce we've appointed the brilliant Lily Einhorn (
@madewithstring
) for the
#FreelanceTaskForce
. ❤️❤️
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Someone close to me has Covid after being double vaccinated. They are ok. This thing is contagious as fuck. Get your vaccines, they lessen its severity. Be aware the new variant’s symptoms are like cold/hay fever: runny nose, headache, sore throat, even sneezing.
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We didn’t celebrate Jewish holidays except when we went to the practicing members of the family’s houses. This is pretty much still the case except I’m instituting secular Chanukah into our lives like we celebrate Christmas.
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On my father’s side we are (now) Romanian Jews. But then it was Carpathian Russia. You can swim across the river to Ukraine from the village where my grandfather was born. He ran away from home aged 14 because he didn’t want to go to rabbinical school.
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Two of his brothers also survived the camps. One saved the other. It’s a good story. They used to show me their branded numbers on their forearms at family gatherings. I am an atheist. I was brought up by atheist parents.
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Ok. So I keep seeing really kind, really well meaning comments encouraging people to apply for Big Jobs. Just throw your name in the hat. Take a chance. And I agree with that sentiment. I do. I do. BUT.
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I’m just overjoyed & so grateful to
@ace_national
for awarding me a DYCP grant. I can’t express what it means after so much rejection & professional loss this year. Thank you to all those who supported my app but particularly
@AshBowmott
who encouraged and cheered me on. YES!
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I’m going to mute the replies to this now. If you want me to see your message please @ me separately.
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This was just before the war broke out. It saved him. He ended up joining the Czech army and coming to Britain. (On the boat not sunk by the british). He ended up in Felixstowe in Essex where he met my grandmother. He joined the British army.
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There is too much onus on freelancers for fundraising and creating the conditions for themselves to be paid. How about more opportunities created in collaboration with organisations? How about salaried fundraisers write apps with/for freelancers?
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Theatre Twitter. I have been thinking a lot about the narrative around why on earth anyone should care if theatre dies. As I have ranted about at length I think we have got the story wrong. I think we should be focusing on how much it is needed. How much it provides.
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Solidarity with all in the arts in England today. These decisions won’t just affect organisations but thousands of freelancers who rely on them for their livelihoods. As inflation rises that’s really frightening. Brace, everyone.
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After the war he went to Prague to the Red Cross Centre to find his family. He was one of 13. His parents and most of his siblings - and their young children - were killed in Berkenau. Two of his sisters survived the camps and went to Israel.
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I am sorry I have not replied to your email.
I have written it in my head at 4am.
But it’s all just a bit much at the moment.
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It’s December tomorrow. I don’t know if I’ll still be in this industry next Dec. It’s too hard, too demoralising, & I’m not doing the work I’m really really good at, which makes radical change. Solidarity with anyone else feeling this way. At least we made it through 2022, aye?!
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I’ve been to the theatre a couple of times in the last few weeks and I find it so fucking depressing that while the world goes to shit, the vast majority of audiences (which include artists) can’t even put a bit of cloth over their face to protect others.
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YES. Yes yes yes. YES. So much respect and admiration for all the people who worked tirelessly for this result. And solidarity and love to those poor people threatened with this barbaric act.
BREAKING: Last ticket cancelled.
NO ONE IS GOING TO RWANDA
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8 year old’s class all wrote letters to the
@England
players who missed the penalties. I love my kids’ school.
#BLM
#SuckItRacists
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Theatres. Are you including your whole community in your team zooms? FOH, casuals, cleaners, security guards, bar staff? And how about your community participants? Who do you count as part of the team? Which colour is being privileged by these choices?
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Absolutely heartbroken for all the black people on my timeline urging their friends and family to get indoors. This fucking country. I’m sorry. Black. Lives. Matter.
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Can the people raging about others sunbathing (alone) try to remember that not everyone has a garden, a balcony, a front garden, front steps. Some people have not a single patch of sunlight of their own to sit in. It’s a lot easier to be virtuous if you’ve the privilege of space.
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Can’t stop thinking about my little boy asking for his night light to be left on all night because: ‘It’s gooder for my feelings.’
I think I need to do more things because they are gooder for my feelings.
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That was one of the most beautiful & profound theatrical experiences I’ve ever had. Both the children touched hands with Amal & the pure joy was palpable. Walking with her from the NT across Waterloo bridge as the sun set. Heart stopping. Thank you
@walkwithamal
@GoodChanceCal
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I was stopped by a lone police officer on the A3 once. For speeding. (I probably was.) He tried to make me get out of the car, I wouldn't, and took my licence. He came back, threw it in my face and told me to get out of the car. I refused again and he said, 'See you in court'.
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Abuse is about power and control. The state have handed ultimate power & control to the police, all they have to do is wield it. That officer used legitimate powers to arrest, and then he murdered his victim. The more powers the police are given, the less means we have to resist.
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I also want to be really clear here. I do not think food banks should have to exist, I think food poverty is criminal. We need an immediate end to austerity, UBI, higher taxes on the highest earners and corporations, a socialist govt. But people are hungry now.
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This 👇🏾👇🏾. I have ALWAYS seen uncles, aunties and younger Black folks challenge police on the street. Often we are the only ones.
Dunno where this narrative is coming from? Maybe those who can only define their identity in opposition to whiteness hence the ‘privilege’ politics.
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So:
If you’re arguing that people should be able to resist arrest if they feel threatened you are arguing for a radical dismantling of police power, in which case welcome comrade
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The replies to this are horrendous and show just how long misogyny in the police has affected women and how Sarah Everard murder is no real surprise to any of us 😔
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Morning. Just a quick reminder that having us all in different tiers in different times and thus sowing division is taking the focus off the govt and is exactly what they want.
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I don’t think I’ve ever rooted so hard for a septuagenarian straight white guy with middle of the road politics.
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The new policing bill, as well as effectively banning protest, will give police almost limitless tools which could be used to control and coerce:
We all have a responsibility as MH professionals to resist the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. Under Part 2 of the Bill, the Police will have powers to request clinical notes, with no evidence required!
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The great
@SistersUncut
have some ways to resist. I’ve signed up for bystander training.
🧵 NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION:
Sisters Uncut gathered by the Old Bailey to hold The Met accountable for their role in Sarah Everard’s murder.
From inside the court, we learnt that Wayne Couzens arrested Everard under COVID regs in front of witnesses who did not intervene.
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Honestly so sick of this broken industry sometimes. So many of us subsidise it by offering free advice, feedback, mentoring, coaching. But does the wider industry offer to pay for this? Absolutely not. We are grafting to make change from the bottom up and who is benefitting?
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The show I produced last year just got nominated for two Oliviers. Now does someone wanna hire me for a well paid freelance contract?!
@MastercardUK
@DavidBedella
@julietmusical
@Shaftesbury1911
@StewClarke
@FiddlerWestEnd
@ThePlayhouseLDN
@JackLoxton
@DEHWestEnd
@RupertFYoung
@lucyanderson095
@PetulaClarkHQ
@MaryPoppins
@cassidyjanson
@lollychus
@bsherman2222
@keyofDom
@AmelieMusicalUK
@benjpasek
@heyitsjustin
@LacketyLac
@jasonshowtunes
@WaitressLondon
@SaraBareilles
@Israel_Glv
@Sadlers_Wells
@BalletBlack
@RoyalOperaHouse
@TeacDamsa
@kohei_nawa
@sarabaras
@DanceUmbrellaUK
@EmiliaThePlay
@VaudevilleTh
@FleabagWestEnd
@magicgoeswrong
@UpstartCrowPlay
@GielgudTheatre
@fabianaloise
@RoyalAlbertHall
@Blueitheatre
@rae_rae_rae2
@RosmersholmPlay
@SalesmanWestEnd
@Madamaustin
@oldvictheatre
Best New Opera Production nominees:
#ROHberenice
at
@RoyalOperaHouse
Linbury Theatre
#ROHbillybudd
at
@RoyalOperaHouse
#HanselandGretel
at
@OpenAirTheatre
Noye's Fludde at
@stratfordeast
#OlivierAwards
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Theatre and Participation Twitter, I’ve been around a bit, I got some game. So here’s the deal. Anyone fancy a cuppa & a chat & some informal advice, hit me up. I’m London based. And I’d like others to do the same for me. If I contact you will you meet me for a cuppa?
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