@gjlc1.bsky.social
Creative Health CEO working for social justice and health equity. Trans ally and peacenik. ☮️✊🕊️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸 All views expressed are held personally and do not represent policy of my work place.
Rachel Reeves should consider welfare cuts in budget, says right-wing IFS.
They want the govt to hurt the poor, old, sick, disabled; curtail redistribution which enables millions to survive.
Silence on corporate welfare, ending profiteering, tax abuse by corporations/rich.
It is class war.
Act Now!Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...
29.08.2025 21:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Urgent action needed ahead of the Arms Trade Treaty Conference.
The BDS movement calls on supporters to help pressure states to fulfil their legal and moral obligations.
Send an email now ➡️ loom.ly/A4_UApE
Last but not least
• “I Am Jerusalem” series:
bit.ly/3hG8sDV
Feel free to watch and share these films to help spread awareness. ❤️🕊️✊🇵🇸
“The Upper Gate” documentary:
vimeo.com/433362585
• “In Search of Palestine” documentary:
vimeo.com/184213685?1
• “Salt of this Sea” feature film:
bit.ly/3c10G3Z
• “Speak, Bird” documentary:
youtu.be/wdkoxBjKM1Q
• “The Palestinian Exodus” series:
bit.ly/3bXNAVp
• “The Upper Gate” documentary:
vimeo.com/433362585
• “In Search of Palestine” documentary:
vimeo.com/184213685?1
• “Salt of this Sea” feature film:
bit.ly/3c10G3Z
• “Speak, Bird” documentary:
youtu.be/wdkoxBjKM1Q
• “The Palestinian Exodus” series:
bit.ly/3bXNAVp
• “Tall al-Zaatar - The Secrets of the Battle” documentary:
youtu.be/Ma8H3sEbqtI
• “In the Grip of the Resistance” documentary:
youtu.be/htJ10ACWQJM
• “Swings” documentary:
youtu.be/gMk-Zi9vTGs
• “Naji al-Ali: An Artist with Vision” documentary:
youtu.be/Y31yUi4WVsU
• “Abnadam” short film:
youtu.be/I–r85cOoXM
• “Wedding of Galilee” feature film:
youtu.be/dYMQw7hQI1U
• “Keffiyeh” feature film:
vimeo.com/780695653
• “Slingshot Hip Hop” documentary:
youtu.be/hHFlWE3N9Ik
• “Tall al-Zaatar” documentary:
youtu.be/Ma8H3sEbqtI
• “The Don’t Exist” documentary:
youtu.be/2WZ_7Z6vbsg
• “As The Poet Said” documentary:
vimeo.com/220116068
• “Five Broken Cameras” documentary:
youtu.be/TZU9hYIgXZw
• “Paradise Now” feature film:
vimeo.com/510883804
• “Abnadam” short film:
youtu.be/I–r85cOoXM
• Short Film “The Place”:
youtu.be/fgcIVhNvsII
• “The Mayor” documentary:
youtu.be/aDvOnhssTcc
• “The Creation and the Nakba 1948” documentary:
youtu.be/Bwy-Rf15UIs
• “Occupation 101” documentary:
youtu.be/C56QcWOGSKk
• “The Shadow of Absence” documentary:
vimeo.com/220119035
• “Scenes from the Occupation in Gaza” (1973) documentary:
youtu.be/1JlIwmnYnlE
• “Gaza Fights For Freedom” documentary:
youtu.be/HnZSaKYmP2s
• “Arna’s Children” documentary:
youtu.be/cQZiHgbBBcI
• Short Film “Strawberry”:
vimeo.com/209189656/e551…
• “Keeper of Memory” documentary:
youtu.be/eywuYeflWzg
• “Empty Seat” documentary:
youtu.be/an4hRFWOSQQ
• “Resistance Pilot” documentary:
youtu.be/wqSmdZy-Xcg
• “Jenin” documentary:
vimeo.com/499672067
• “The Olive Tree” documentary:
vimeo.com/432062498
A large number of filmmakers have made their films about PALESTINE available for free online. Below are links to films that you can watch/share to spread the message:
• A collection of documentaries published by Al Jazeera Documentary:
bit.ly/3yp2nBI
bit.ly/2SSpMeC
bit.ly/3f0KK3P
A closer look at our visit to Heritage Quay earlier this month, discover the story behind the exhibition, the inspiration and hear why Sally hopes it goes on tour. Should it? Let us know below. 😃
🎨 Artwork by our two visual arts groups at hoot
🎵 Music in the background by our music group at hoot
😳😱🤯
15.07.2025 19:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We had a wonderful trip to @heritagequay.bsky.social yesterday to see an exhibition of artwork created by hoot participants, accompanied by music inspired by the pieces on display.
Thank you to everyone who joined us. Swipe through to enjoy the photos!
Repressive and authoritarian government right here right now in the UK. Bad mistake, bad law making, and it will come back to haunt the Labour Party. Where can they go from here in combatting actual violent extremism? 😥
02.07.2025 19:32 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
🎤 Spoken Word & Rap with Rob Bradley (aka Jack Flash)
Fun, free sessions to write & perform your own raps or poems – no experience needed!
📍 Huddersfield | 🗓️ 8, 15 & 22 July | ⏰ 6 – 7:30pm | 18+ Kirklees residents
🔗 hootcreativearts.co.uk/joinaworkshop
We had such a great afternoon yesterday at Elmwood Centre for the surgery’s Staff Wellbeing Day. Bookbinding with Vic and mandalas with Musarat were so much fun. Big thanks to everyone who came along.
18.06.2025 12:08 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Great day at the Compassionate Cultures Conference! 💙 Lailla & Kath shared why creativity matters, and Rob led a fab rhythm & songwriting session 🎶 Thanks to all who stopped by our stall! #compassionateculturesconference #Kirklees
18.06.2025 15:10 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Wrapping up Learning Disability Week at Creative Minds’ Summer Fun Day for adults with learning disabilities! So much joy, connection and fun, including our dance & movement sessions. Thanks to all who made it a brilliant day! 💙
#LearningDisabilityWeek #InclusionMatters
For Creativity and Wellbeing Week we are excited to share our film with National Centre for Creative Health all about how important commissioned creative health services like hoot's are.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fleg...
We are all TABs…Temporarily Able Bodied. The ‘system’ needs to be cognisant of that and stop penalising people with disabilities to address a systemic problem with our tax system. Off ramp here: A 2% tax on assets worth more than £10m could raise £24bn per year.
08.05.2025 06:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0At hoot creative arts we know that ‘Being Creative Makes You Feel Good’ and that our part of the creative arts sector, ‘creative health’, is a front line service. Let’s hope that this government will make the right choice to fund it properly and see what growth that generates.
06.05.2025 19:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
06.05.2025 18:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Why do these ‘shared Democratic values’ not include clearly opposing genocide in Gaza, illegal settlements and killing of Palestinians in occupied West Bank? Why no legal action or sanctions against Israel and its sociopathic is leadership. ❤️🕊️✊🇵🇸
04.05.2025 09:44 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Apols…tagged a different Elaine Burke. I meant to tag Elaine Burke - arts & health clinician.
03.05.2025 10:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Agreed. This one in Trinity College gardens, Cambridge UK just last week.
03.05.2025 07:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0‘BoyCat - Ethical Shopping’ is simple to use. Simply scan barcode to see if a product is on the boycott list.
You can make a difference
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UK Labour Party now proudly stands ‘for the few…not the many’ while Reform don their sheep’s clothing and pretend to care for us common folk while peddling the proto fascist Trump playbook. God have mercy on this country’s soul. 😔
02.05.2025 07:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
