Rachel Hamada

This is going to be epic! If you’re in Glasgow come and build Real Utopias with us ✨🌳❤️

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.

It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.

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Inside the Tony Blair Institute A former PM, Trump's 'CEO of everything' and NHS data - what could go wrong?

🔴 NEW: Larry Ellison’s £257m bet on Tony Blair

Our investigation with @lighthousereports.com reveals how the Tony Blair Institute has been accused of pushing the interests of tech tycoon Ellison — Trump’s “CEO of everything” — and his company Oracle

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

It’s not clear what these changes will concretely consist of but this is an appalling proposal from Mahmood, ignoring the challenges that asylum seekers face in accessing legal advice and undermining protections for trafficking survivors

Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.

This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

Our friends at @takeoneaction.bsky.social kick off their festival in Edinburgh this week. See the programme at www.takeoneaction.org.uk

Rethinking the rise of the far right shado editor Elia Ayoub looks at how populist hype and reactionary centrism have fuelled misunderstanding about the rise of the far right.

My latest, on how concepts like the populist hype and reactionary centrism can help us understand how our media and political system normalises dangerous far right talking points and policies

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Who Owns Britain? How the radical experiment of privatisation transformed society and reshaped our lives.

Few countries have been privatised as deep or as far as in Britain.

This failed experiment has shaped your life.

To learn how, explore our new project — Who Owns Britain? — at the link below.

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Scotland’s biggest ever climate lobby to be staged in Edinburgh as new research shows substantial support for ambitious climate action - Stop Climate Chaos Scotland Hundreds of Scots have signed up to join a mass lobby on climate action which is being staged in Edinburgh this week. It looks set to be the largest ever lobby on climate change to take place in Scotl...

Join today’s mass lobby at Holyrood, then come to see a galvanising and hopeful film about collective local action www.stopclimatechaos.scot/scotlands-bi...

Power Station is screening tonight at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social - and then you can come along to this brilliant workshop tomorrow with filmmaker Dan Edelstyn. All pay what you can!

The Future Is Coming and It's (Literally) Sunny: Notes on the Solar Revolution I drove home to San Francisco from New Mexico last weekend, and in the western Mojave desert of California I passed in quick succession three vast renewable energy sites: the first was three solar con...

The solar revolution means that power can be decentralized, democratized, distributed far more justly. So it makes perfect and hideous sense, given the nostalgia of authoritarians for a golden age (of exclusion, exploitation, and inequality ), to tie themselves to all fossil fuel's problems.

A photograph of a white woman with brown hair in a messy bun, operating a camera on a film set. Text overlaid reads: Gender Equity in Scottish Film Exhibition Survey. Logos: Equal Media & Culture Centre, FilmHub Scotland, BFI FAN, The National Lottery, Screen Scotland

We're excited to launch a new survey exploring Gender Equity in the Scottish Film Exhibiton sector, in partnership with @filmhubscotland.bsky.social. If you work or volunteer in film exhibition, please fill out the survey. We welcome responses from all genders: www.surveymonkey.com/r/FilmEquity

This is the stark testimony of former BBC journalist Mohamed Shalaby, who quit the corporation over its reporting on Gaza

Read the full interview 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Excited to moderate this at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Sat as part of our Real Utopias festivals.

Come along if you like weird but brilliant shorts exploring the frontiers of tech, and brilliant-post screening conversations with @karengregory.bsky.social, @foxglovelegal.bsky.social and YOU

Hundreds of firms warn new draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’ Exclusive: More than 650 organisations have urged Bridget Phillipson to ‘take immediate action to prevent these proposals from moving forward’

Draft EHRC guidance on Equality Act is unworkable for businesses 👇👇👇

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Better Worlds: Take One Action 2025 preview - The Skinny Take One Action's director Rachel Hamada introduces this year's festival, which takes place under the banner of Real Utopias.

"There's quite a lot of evidence that facts alone don't necessarily change people's minds. You need to get to people's emotions as well"

@takeoneaction.bsky.social, Scotland's film festival for social change is back – we talk to director Rachel Hamada

NIÑXS - Take One Action! In this joyous documentary co-authored by its subject, fifteen-year-old Karla tells her coming-of-age story as a young trans girl.

In an era where trans kids are spoken over and spoken for, NIÑXS sparkles with confidence, wit, and magic: a joyous demand that trans youth get to narrate their own stories.

Presented in collaboration with @sqiff.bsky.social

www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/ninxs/

NIÑXS - Take One Action! In this joyous documentary co-authored by its subject, fifteen-year-old Karla tells her coming-of-age story as a young trans girl.

👁️FILM SPOTLIGHT: NIÑXS 👁️

In the rural small town of Tepoztlán, Mexico, fifteen-year-old Karla gets to tell her own coming-of-age story as she navigates the joys and complexities of trans adolescence.

Book your tickets: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/ninxs/

Power Station - Take One Action! Two artists and activists are on a mission to power their street with solar energy, one home at a time.

🎥Film Spotlight: POWER STATION (2025)

Two artists and activists are on a mission to power their street with solar energy, one home at a time. We'll be showing POWER STATION in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Dundee!

👉 TICKETS: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/power-s...

Really excited to announce the launch of our 2025 film festival programmes - hope to see many of you at one of our events! #RealUtopias2025

Poster for the Take One Action areal Utopias poster, in purple and bronze. Topographic lines of a map intersect with bronze stills from this year’s films. It includes dates and info about funders.

👋 We’re BACK!

Real Utopias will be coming to screens and community spaces near you this autumn:

〰️ #Edinburgh (17-21 Sep)
〰️ #Glasgow (25-28 Sep)
〰️ #Inverness (28-30 Oct)
〰️ #Dundee (7-8 Nov)

We’re excited to share our gorgeous poster for this year’s festivals, designed by Maddie Lennon!

Resistance in Game Space Level up! Find out how videogames have shaped the world around us, for better and worse, and how they might help shape alternative futures.

Today! Last chance to get free tickets for this event exploring videogames, their place in our culture and how they could be key to imagining alternative futures - exhibition with @marijamdid.com, discussion with @adrianhon.bsky.social, and short film screening

bit.ly/resistanceingames

Tweet by Chris McCall (@Dennynews) John Swinney announces £180,000 of public money will help stage a golf tournament at Donald Trump's Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire. The First Minister meets the US President next week. [screengrab of Scottish Government statement:] First Minister John Swinney said: I welcome the Nexo Championship being held at the Trump International Golf Links this August. "Scotland has long been recognised as a world-class host of major events. Golf and golf events are a key part of our national identity, supporting communities, driving economic growth, contributing to environmental sustainability across the country and promoting Scotland through global profile. "The Scottish Government recognises the importance and benefits of golf and golf events, including boosting tourism and our economy. As the Home of Golf we have a longstanding track record of support and I am proud this funding will further enhance Aberdeenshire's reputation as a leading golfing destination and I'm hopeful of securing further golfing events in future years."

This is utterly shameful.

Edinburgh folk!
A fantastic Videogames + Art + Politics event is taking place tomorrow. What a treat, do NOT miss! 💚

Tomorrow's front page 📰

Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland

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Resistance in Game Space Level up! Find out how videogames have shaped the world around us, for better and worse, and how they might help shape alternative futures.

This Saturday is Resistance in Game Space, an evening looking at how videogames are key to imagining alternative futures. We'll be at Sett Studios in Leith, Edinburgh, from 6-9pm and tickets are free!

Find out more about what's planned and sign up at
bit.ly/resistanceingames

I am not a member of any political party but holy shit it's refreshing to finally hear some clear political narrative about the state of the UK and what has brought us here. More please!

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