Shaun Thomas

No worries! Stayed up anyway 😴😅

Is there a rough idea of when the result is expected? :)

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

Over 1,000,000 have now signed a petition demanding we do not mandate digital ID.

This has united all political parties across the spectrum.

If Starmer doesn't back down now, this will end his premiership.

Please sign 🖊️

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Levelling Down | Austerity in Wales This is nominally free but ‘pay what you can’. Paying to support something you believe in also supports those who can’t afford to. The book may open at the Foreword, but note that there are pages incl...

So happy to have my article exploring austerity and the way forward for the Valleys included in this ebook.

There's heartbreaking real-life examples of austerity's impact, the cruel economics and its impact on Wales & hope for building a way forward. Well worth a read!

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🔥 The UK is in another heatwave — and the government is failing the people most at risk.

Tomorrow, MPs are voting over whether to push through devastating disability benefit cuts, which will mean future generations will receive less support than Disabled people today.

🧵below.

Urgent: Stop the ship of death! ✊ A ship meant to be loaded with military equipment for Israel is docked in France - but courageous dockworkers are refusing to load it. They’re taking a stand for peace, justice, and Palestine. Let’s s...

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Still devastated by this decision. My old uni department - and a brilliant one with exceptional staff in an exceptional city ruined by out of touch uni management with no concern for culture or student&staff wellbeing 💔

Sign the Petition Save Sheffield's Archaeology Department

Please, click on that link & reflect on this astonishing number *48,657* to realise the monumentality of the act of cultural vandalism committed by the the University of Sheffield management. We must never forget. @sheffielducu.bsky.social @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social www.change.org/p/university...

Roy's Memory Zine | workersgallery BACK IN STOCKRoy's MemoryThe Munich Air Disaster Through the Eyes of a 10 year old Salford Boyby Gayle Rogers with Roy Cavanagh This twenty page A5 zine explores the memory of Manchester United fan Ro...

If you'd like to support the gallery - but you can't get to us - we have a shop on our website stocking a variety of unique art, cards, gifts and furniture.

This zine is from resident artist Gayle.

Browse at you leisure!
📚📸🎨

#gallery #buyart #zine

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It has never been more true than today.

Learning from “Greens in Government™” — Common Weal As we move forward, we must ensure that we are at the centre of decisions, that there remains a left-wing voice in Holyrood, and that we are not tempted by the neoliberal forces of even Scotland’s est...

Ahead of @scottishgreens.org conference, I was pleased to write for @thecommonweal.bsky.social newsletter today about the importance of members continuing to push our MSPs as they have in the last year.

There’s lots to be hopeful about. We must build on it.

www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...

Screenshot of Chris talking to camera in a sunny dense woodland. He has short. Blonde hair and is wearing a dark fleece and black body warmer.

Screenshot of Chris talking to a camera in a sunny dense woodland. He has dark coloured clothes on.

Screenshot of Chris walking away from the camera into a sunny woodland.He is almost completely silhouetted.

Thanks to everyone who has supported sculptor Chris Williams and his woodland residency 😁👍

He's at 75% of his target amount. Help to get him to the finish line would be really appreciated!

Checkout his short video here:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/woodland-s...

#woodland #artist #AiR

A compassionate Cymru: croeso to refugees and migrants What kind of Wales do we want? A place of high walls and locked doors? Or of warm welcomes and compassionate communities? We’ll make that choice soon enough

'If Cymru truly wants to be a Nation of Sanctuary it needs a First Minister who isn’t silently complicit in the hostile environment created by her counterparts in Westminster. And we need to stand up and say to refugees and to all who want to come here: “Croeso!”'

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A compassionate Cymru: croeso to refugees and migrants What kind of Wales do we want? A place of high walls and locked doors? Or of warm welcomes and compassionate communities? We’ll make that choice soon enough

A compassionate Cymru: croeso to refugees and migrants

What kind of Wales do we want? A place of high walls and locked doors? Or of warm welcomes and compassionate communities? We’ll be making that choice soon enough.

✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social

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Doing the printing and labelling today for the Outsiders gallery in a box. The @workersgallery.bsky.social will be taking it out to care homes using a cargo bike so people who can’t attend in person can see and interact with the work. Great initiative which we are proud to support.

We need #ScottishIndependence to escape the damage of decades of UK austerity - from the Tories to this Labour Government.

In yesterday's debate, I called for further support for all those struggling under cruel cuts sweeping Scotland.

Austerity and empowerment: a case study in Hay-on-Wye Does every cloud really have a silver lining? Does a community coming together to defeat harmful outcomes of austerity count as a good thing about austerity?

Austerity and empowerment: a case study in Hay-on-Wye

Does every cloud really have a silver lining? Does a community coming together to defeat harmful outcomes of austerity count as a good thing about austerity?

✍️ Dr Huw Evans
#AusterityProject

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The Workers Gallery is driving Green innovation in the Valleys Rhondda arts venue the Workers Gallery has reached the Green Growth Awards finals after impressing judges with innovative approaches to sustainability

Rhondda arts venue the Workers Gallery has reached the Green Growth Awards finals after impressing judges with innovative approaches to sustainability | Shaun Thomas

@bylines.cymru

Oh, pedal powered art is a better title - I should have thought of that 😅 good luck, you really deserve to win! 🙌

Pedal powered art!

Thanks to @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social for this lovely article.

We will be keeping our green fingers crossed!

#bike #art #gallery

The Workers Gallery is driving Green innovation in the Valleys Rhondda arts venue the Workers Gallery has reached the Green Growth Awards finals after impressing judges with innovative approaches to sustainability

The Workers Gallery is driving Green innovation in the Valleys

Rhondda arts venue the Workers Gallery has reached the Green Growth Awards finals after impressing judges with innovative approaches to sustainability.

✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social

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Me in @bylines.cymru on how devolution embeds austerity in Cymru. We will only have a fair and prosperous Cymru when we get out from under the dead hand of Westminster’s austerity and can take our own decisions on tax, spending and borrowing.

Deep state: the underlying objectives of austerity The architects of austerity didn’t just want to reduce debt or asset-strip the welfare state and privatise anything that moved. The cuts go into people’s very minds

Deep state: the underlying objectives of austerity

The architects of austerity didn’t just want to reduce debt or asset-strip the welfare state and privatise anything that moved. The cuts go deep, into people’s very minds.

✍️ Nick Hubble

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Graphic asking the question ‘Did austerity ever really end?’

Brilliant article by Shaun👏

Labour has failed our communities it’s time for others to step up👇

“Parties and politicians on the left, such as the Greens, have an opportunity to deliver a breath of hope into the Valleys – if they choose to take it.”✊💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Austerity marks a fork in the road for the South Wales Valleys In the first article of the month-long Austerity Project by the Bylines Cymru community there’s bleakness, yes, but also hope and resilience. This is the Valleys

Austerity marks a fork in the road for the South Wales Valleys

In the 1st article of a month-long Austerity Project by the Bylines Cymru community there’s bleakness, but also hope and resilience. This is the Valleys

✍️ @shaun1996thomas.bsky.social
📸 Martin Shakeshaft

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The Workers Gallery – 10 years of celebrating artists in the Rhondda People tend not to associate the arts with the communities of the South Wales Valleys. But Art is community and art is for everyone. Or it certainly should be

People tend not to associate the arts with the communities of the South Wales Valleys. But Art is community and art is for everyone. Or it certainly should be | Shaun Thomas

"I think that’s what spaces like the Workers Gallery do. They give people hope and build community in innovative ways, despite the challenges they face."

♥️

YouTube video by The Workers Gallery Graphic Novel: The Noisy Valley. Comics artist talk Myfanwy Tristram at the Workers Gallery (part 1)

In 2022, comics artist Myfanwy Tristram exhibited her protest drawings here.

During the show she asked local people to share their protest stories.
The project grew & became her graphic novel in progress-The Noisy Valley.

Myfanwy came back recently to share her progress.
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