Becca

Northumbrian writer, traditional storyteller, educator, folklorist. She/her. Bath Spa MAWYP grad. Repped by Amber Caraveo @SkylarkLit.

[Becca @BeccaMHarris]

I'm returning to storytelling with online sessions & story-making workshops for schools/homeschoolers. Writer with 2 years ESL teaching and curriculum dev, 10 years as creative practitioner with children. #remotelearning #homeschooling #storytelling https://t.co/TgHCmNZYsA

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

A majority of the public want the UK to end arms sales to Israel.

A Foreign Office official has resigned over arms sales to Israel.

Our common humanity demands an end to arms sales to Israel.

Why won't the government listen?

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Peaceful climate protesters have just been sentenced to years in jail. And they’re appealing. Join me in telling the new government to scrap Tory anti-protest law now and #StopJailingTruthTellers https://t.co/6jZSNCKWZp

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

The longest sentence handed down to a violent racist rioter this week is shorter than the sentences imposed on entirely peaceful environmental protesters last month.
Labour must repeal the Tory laws that treat peaceful protest more severely than violent disorder and assault.

[Joshua Styles @joshual951]

If you’ve ever wondered what a near-pristine piece of blanket bog looks like - this is it!

Over 200 years, we’ve lost/severely damaged >99% of our raised bogs & >87% of our blanket bogs. Here’s hoping the fab work across our peatlands happening now can help get us back here!🌱❤️

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

In the same week that we heard UK prisons are facing “COLLAPSE” due to overcrowding, five PEACEFUL climate activists have just been sentenced to 4 - 5 YEARS in prison.

Peaceful protest should NOT be a crime.

How on earth is this right?!

#WholeTruthFive

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Not a single person has been put on trial for Grenfell.

But they can lock up non-violent protestors for 21 years, because they are a 'danger'.

[Dr Ruby (she/her) jaboukies everything @PaperWhispers]

Labour is going to privatise the NHS, this is how they test how well you are listening or care.

The NHS has been deliberately underfunded for over a decade and here is the health minister saying a request for proper funding is 'begging bowl culture'.

[Mohammad Alsaafin @malsaafin]

“So long as the White House claimed to support something called a “ceasefire” our media largely ran with it, regardless of the fact that both the US and Israeli definition of a ceasefire did not, at all, resemble what anyone would recognize as a ceasefire.”

[Becca @BeccaMHarris]

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[Matt Cross @wildforest_matt]

The Dog, the Quad and the Wild Wild Land

Rural Depopulation & Land Use Change in Scotland a thread provoked by "The Last Keeper" a film by @tomopre

Preface
I'm not a rural worker. But my dad was, he was a shepherd who worked with a dog & lost his job to land use change

1/20

[Cllr Benali Hamdache AM @greenbenali]

Well done Labour for scrapping the Rwanda scheme - a true human rights obscenity

Next:

- scrap Bibby barge
- close Yarl’s Wood
- end the Hostile Environment
- open safe routes for refugees
- end rip off visa fees
- reverse the privatisation of the migration sector

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Sadiq Khan: Starmer has overseen a root & branch transformation of Labour which is why unlike in 2017 & 2019 many members of the British public were prepared to lend Labour their vote.

2017: 40% 12.8m votes
2019: 32% 10.2m votes
2024: 34% 9.6m votes

[Becca @BeccaMHarris]

Absolutely no idea who I'm voting for today, if I'm being honest. I've never really had this dilemma before. #UKElections2024

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

I’ve been thinking about how we can reject and resist the normalisation of genocide, especially when not one but three are being simultaneously livestreamed into our homes. Some thoughts…
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[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

2 men trying to outdo each other with cruelty to some of most vulnerable people - totally dehumanising debate about refugees & asylum seekers. Note to them both: people seeking asylum are not “illegal migrants” - what we need to stop the boats are safe & legal routes #BBCDebate

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

If you refuse to condemn Israel’s unfolding genocide, occupation, slaughter of children, carpet bombing, forced famine, hospital attacks, killing journalists & aid workers, and bombing embassies—but condemn Iran’s retaliation—don’t pretend you care about internat’l law or peace.

[Becca @BeccaMHarris]

Just signed this to support RMT Union: "Ticket offices are critical for safety, security, accessibility and passenger service. Add your name:"

@RMTunion https://t.co/tjXZjW6zrM via @megaphoneuk

[Becca @BeccaMHarris]

@kerriandrewsuk Hi, possibly Frances Galloway Mordaunt, b.1895 Essex to English father and Scottish mum, by 1920s on the electoral registers for Aberdeen with her mother and sisters, married John Fraser in London 1927?

[Becca @BeccaMHarris]

@thesarahdriver My poor brother has his birthday on the actual jubilee day. 😂