Our #RuralRacismProject researcher Dr Rachel Keighley she/they
has just published her blog 'Making Research Count: Towards an Inclusive Countryside' in Citizen Writes:
citizen.le.ac.uk/blog/inclusive…

With many farmers not being paid enough for food production *and* with supermarkets price-gouging customers—they should be the target of direct actions led by farmers and consumers

“England has taken unthinkable amounts from the Caribbean, and it still does so. It should think more about how it behaves and what it gives back” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This week millions of households will see their council tax bill rise by almost 5%.

But Council Tax Support - the benefit that gives people on low incomes a discount on their council tax bill - is a postcode lottery system (🧵)

citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publica…

My letter to Guardian letters “Why would we waste further time and effort creating yet another temporary sticking-plaster response to destitution based on charity and surplus?” ⁦Now is surely the time to focus 100% on long-term #CashFirst solutions theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

'Food banks aren’t asking to be made redundant to pave the way for food banks by another name. Their teams are calling for a living income so that people don’t need charity.' Sabine Goodwin to Guardian letters
theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Running on Empty!

Fantastic support for DWP staffing campaign at the Northern TUC Conference on Saturday organised by Dylan Wilson from DWP Tees Valley.

Solidarity ✊✊

#PCS

Important work:

Read these 50 testimonials of PCS Union members working in Department for Work and Pensions

DWP staff are frequently ill through stress. Major problems of understaffing, failures of recruitment and retention, poor conditions and low pay

pcs.org.uk/news-events/ne…

Zacchaeus did not say: “Look, Lord! Here and now I give 'one per cent of the total funds in my possession' to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back a 'tiny, tiny proportion” of that amount

#whatwouldZacchaeusdo

churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/…

Penalties are brutal. Dan James, hold your head up high.

Wales, you played some beautiful football and deserved to win
#WALPOL

My new encyclopedia entry on #debt 👇 explores its connection to reciprocity, violence, class and gender.

anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/debt

Free to access thanks to the brilliant team at Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology. 🙏

Andrew Williams Mark Drakeford 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Ali Abdi Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales Sain Ffagan | St Fagans Mrs Aziz Natalie Jones 🇯🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 #Kofoworola #JudgeRaySinghCBE
Thank you so so much for coming to our conference and exhibition

Andrew Williams Brilliant speakers through the day all of you! Huge thanks to you all Mark Drakeford 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #GaynorLegall Ali Abdi #ProfOgbonna

Andrew Williams Thanks for the brilliant presentation you delivered at our UN Day for Elimination of Race Discrimination on 'Racial disparities and welfare sanctions in England and Wales'

Thank you for such a powerful and impactful lecture

I would like to draw your attention to this article. Thank you Dr Andrew Williams for presenting part of the findings at BML exhibition opening in St Fagans. Race Council Cymru
Wales included.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tr…