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Bethany Elen

@bethanyelen.bsky.social

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Folk Singer •Educator •Agitator •Campaigner •Community Practitioner •Creative Producer •Musical Mama •Social Justice •Protest Culture •Climate •Heritage •Folklore ☭🌍⚢🧡☮️🇵🇸🕊️ #EducateAgitateOrganise #BlackLivesMatter #VivaPalestina #MusingsOfACommunityMusician

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Bethany Elen @bethanyelen.bsky.social · 4d

"Howay the lads, Howay the lasses, we say no to fascists" chanted the 3000 geordies who took to the streets in an inspiring show of solidarity for refugees and to reject the racist, zenophobic and misogynist rhetoric of the far right 🖤🤍✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊✊🏽

Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 8d

North East Bylines have just published their 5000th article!! 🎉🎉🎉

Congratulations NEB! A very apt way to celebrate too:

Love over hate: Newcastle unites at Grey’s Monument
"We don’t need to be reminded of where we live, that’s what a football strip is for"

northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

Love over hate: Newcastle unites at Grey’s Monument

"We don’t need to be reminded of where we live, that’s what a football strip is for"

northeastbylines.co.uk

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Global Movement To Gaza UK @gmtguk.bsky.social · 4d

Flotilla activists kidnapped by Israeli forces. Demand release now! Call +44 (0)20 7008 5000 or email [email protected]

https://linktr.ee/GlobalMovementToGaza_Uk?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=9664a70e-ea19-497b-a2b3-97dde228b814

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Global Movement To Gaza UK @gmtguk.bsky.social · 4d

13 UK citizens aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza were illegally kidnapped by Israel. Detained without lawyers, ignored by the UK government. Demand action now—contact MPs, media, and join protests.

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Bethany Elen @bethanyelen.bsky.social · 4d

Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 8d

Love over hate: Newcastle unites at Grey’s Monument

"We don’t need to be reminded of where we live, that’s what a football strip is for"

northeastbylines.co.uk

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Bethany Elen @bethanyelen.bsky.social · Sep 7

🕊️ 'It's an absolute disgrace that it's come to this, that the only thing we could do was shut it'
- Hilary Jones, Lush ethics director

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · Sep 7

Lush says companies should use 'power and privilege' to speak out over Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/lush-companies-should-use-power-privilege-speak-out-over-gaza

Lush says companies should use 'power and privilege' to speak out over Gaza

Ethics director Hilary Jones says the decision to shutter stores over the genocide in Gaza was an 'act of desperation'

www.middleeasteye.net

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · May 11

'Sunset Sycamore Gap' etching by contemporary Northumberland based UK printmaker Rebecca Vincent #WomensArt

Stylised print of a tall tree without leaves in a dip between two reddish hills in front of a golden streaked sky

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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · Apr 16

This Easter weekend, stand in solidarity with women locked up in Derwentside. Join No to Hassockfield and show them they are not forgotten.

📅 Saturday, 19th April (Easter Saturday)
🕛 12:00–2:00 PM
📍 Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre

🎤 Bring your voices, instruments🥁 and banners 💻

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Bethany Elen @bethanyelen.bsky.social · Feb 25

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Bethany Elen @bethanyelen.bsky.social · Feb 25

Children go hungry and energy prices soar, yet Stalmer prioritises profit and war. What will be left to 'defend' when millions are are already facing destitution?

Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · Feb 25

Since Labour took office, 10,000 more children have been plunged into poverty by the refusal to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

Increasing military spending while millions of children go hungry is not a tough decision. It’s the wrong decision.

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Palestine Solidarity Campaign @pscupdates.bsky.social · Feb 6

🚨 TELL YOUR MP: STOP TRUMP'S GAZA PLAN

Trump said he plans for the US to invade Gaza and ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from their land. British politicians must condemn this monstrous proposal.

Tell your MP to oppose Trump's plan: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/stop-trumps-...

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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · Feb 5

The ethnic cleansing of Gaza and destruction of Palestine is now US foreign policy.

Demand that the British government publicly condemn this outrageous plan and take a stand for Palestinian rights.

✍️ Tell Trump: #HandsOffGaza by writing to your MP: thecorbynproject.com/HandsOffGaza 🇵🇸

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Musicians' Union (MU) @wearethemu.bsky.social · Feb 7

Support the #SafeSickPay campaign!

Did you know that the UK statutory sick pay is one of the lowest in Europe?

That leaves many employed workers - including 22% of musicians who have access to sick pay - one serious illness or injury away from financial trouble

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Feb 7

Wow! The number of @bsky.app users just passed 31 MILLION!👏

LETS DO THIS!

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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament @cnduk.bsky.social · Feb 7

We've written legal letters to the MoD and Suffolk County Council this week, demanding answers over the deployment of US #nuclear weapons to Britain. #EndNukeSecrecy

You can read more about our challenge here: cnduk.org/cnd-legal-le...

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Bethany Elen @bethanyelen.bsky.social · Dec 6

It was the most wonderful adventure ~ thank you for inviting us to be part of your 'Ghost Train' project and share Tommy's music with you!
#tommyarmstrong #pitmanpoet #pitmatic #folkmusic #nefolk

Matt James Smith @matt-james-smith.bsky.social · Nov 30

A few stills from our musical adventure yesterday, going around 'The Pitman Poet' Tommy Armstrong's old haunts and singing his songs - with the fabulous Bethany Elen Coyle and Jude Murphy.

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