Rebecca Toop

Visual Anthropologist - Ethnographer - Film maker - Photographer

[Community Arts by ZK @arts_zk]

We are hiring a web designer on a freelance basis to help us continue building and managing our website (https://t.co/mat03t1W3r).

To apply please email your CV and portfolio to [email protected]

Deadline: 23rd January 2023 5PM.

#communityartsbyzk #webdesign #job

[Source @SourceScot]

🎥 In Source's final video, we spoke to the Greater Govanhill magazine about their vision for independent media, and its impact on democratic engagement.

Watch full video: https://t.co/WrlgNiHWDd

@southsidehap @govanhillbank @seinglasgow @community_media @RadioBuenaVida

[Source @SourceScot]

“We can do better than this, and we have no right not to try."
In his final article for Source, Sean Bell reflects on the pandemic that defined the period over which it was published.
https://t.co/BEdbmeSBcz

[Source @SourceScot]

🎥https://t.co/WaVA2h5RpM

In Source's last video, @RebeccaToop highlights the importance of local, independent media, by introducing @Govanhill_mag, the community magazine celebrating diverse voices.

@RhiannonDavies
@Common_Weal
@QueensParkArena @GovanhillBaths @Roma_Voice

[Source @SourceScot]

🎥 New poll shows Scots are heavily in favour of a review on assisted dying legislation in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿.

"The law as it stands is unjust, unfair and unsustainable, forcing Scots facing a bad death to make agonising choices." - @dignityindying

@AGoodDeath @FriendsAtTheEnd @LifeDeathGrief

[Ben Keene @benkeene]

What a devastatingly brilliant ad

@GreenpeaceUK

[Source @SourceScot]

🎥https://t.co/Nkageq6riQ

5 years of #urban community right-to-buy:

"This started with a group of ordinary working mums who didn’t like seeing the community left as it was and wanted better for their children." @linwoodcdt

@CommunityLandSc @KinningParkComp @GovanhillBaths

[Source @SourceScot]

🎥 This evening will see votes being passed on the Tory policing bill.

"The government is attempting to rush through a Bill that would usher in even greater restrictions on freedom of assembly."

@SistersUncut @Ianblackford_MP @jessphillips
@GovanLawCentre @equalityconcern

[Source @SourceScot]

🎥 Women are playing a pivotal role in #Belarus human rights struggles.

"The Belarusian authorities have retaliated with measures intended to target women activists, and their organizations and families" @amnesty

#InternationalWomensDay
@VoicesBelarus @belarus_women @UKHRights

[Source @SourceScot]

🎥: 11 months on, 3 million people have seen little to no Covid financial support.

"If I'd bought one chair less for my studio I would have been eligible for the grants." @scotastic

@ExcludedUK @ForgottenLtd @APPGGapsSupport @alisonthewliss @RishiSunak

https://t.co/h0yXnRTkUo

[Source @SourceScot]

🎥: Brexit is proving a nightmare for the Scottish fishing industry.

The Tories have been accused of "playing politics with people's jobs and livelihoods" - @DeidreBrock

@Ianblackford_MP @tavishscott @SeafoodFromScot @SSPOsays @LochfyneLangous @ScotSeafoodPshp @SeafoodScotland

[Source @SourceScot]

Vacant land in #Maryhill is being sold off for private development, despite need for social housing.

"The whole idea of an urban community buy-out on this scale has never been broached before" @vallyatmaryhill

https://t.co/T2l4v9qzsw

@Glasgow_LR @WyndfordTU @CommunityLandSc

[#ExcludedAsOne @TimExcluded]

@SkyNewsBreak @TracyBrabin For a nationwide lockdown @Keir_Starmer you need to make sure that @BorisJohnson @RishiSunak act swiftly to finally support the #ExcludedUK 3 million. This can't go on any longer as costing homes businesses and lives and @hmtreasury need to act. https://t.co/Mt9VfUN9yT

[Source @SourceScot]

🎥: @scotgov to publish an NDC in support of Paris climate agreement.

But "until they can show that they will actually meet their targets, the targets themselves are meaningless." -@thecommongreen @Common_Weal

@sccscot @FoEScot @WWFScotland @COP26_Coalition @globaljusticesc

[Source @SourceScot]

WATCH: @ScotParl will today be voting on whether Scotland should declare a nature emergency, as 1 in 9 species in Scotland face extinction.

"Nature is in freefall and there’s no sign of it slowing unless we take action now." @markruskell @scotgp

@ScotWildlife @marinescotland

[Source @SourceScot]

"Having their identity forensically challenged and ultimately disbelieved adds unbearable psychological strain on those who may already have been marginalised and faced the threat of violence or death," writes Peter Markham https://t.co/Hy5TQ73pgQ

[Source @SourceScot]

🎥: "At a time when our mortality is being confronted daily, Scots are not shying away from the end of life" - @WARD_AJ1

A proposal has been submitted to review assisted dying legislation at the @theSNP conference.

@AGoodDeath @scottishcare @LifeDeathGrief @DyingMatters

[Kimberly McIntosh https://bsky.app/profile/kimmi91 @mcintosh_kim]

White privilege

[Source @SourceScot]

🎥: Should Scotland follow New Zealand on assisted dying?

"It is cruel to force people to endure what I witnessed my grandmother endure, she wanted a dignified death but was denied even that." @JoshAaronMennie

@dignityindying @patrickharvie @humanistsociety @FriendsAtTheEnd

[Rebecca Toop @RebeccaToop]

Will @RishiSunak listen now it's the National Audit office confirming nearly 3 MILLION people have been excluded? #ExcludedUK

[Source @SourceScot]

An @NAOorguk report confirms 2.9million have been #ExcludedUK from government Covid-19 schemes.

Government has been accused of “putting the misplaced fear of possible fraud above providing support” (@NUJofficial)- while £1.3bn has been given to workers who saw no loss of income.