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New Report ‘“A lonely place to be”
#AgeingWithoutChildren and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic’ Based on our survey earlier this year. Read press release & links here: awwoc.org/about-3-1 #AWOCCovid19 #ALonelyPlaceToBe 1/
#AgeingWithoutChildren and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic’ Based on our survey earlier this year. Read press release & links here: awwoc.org/about-3-1 #AWOCCovid19 #ALonelyPlaceToBe 1/
“We have been forgotten, ignored and marginalised......There was no-one stood at the bottom of our garden path waiting anxiously to be reunited with us when lockdown lifted.
It is a lonely place to be.” #AWOCCovid19 2/
It is a lonely place to be.” #AWOCCovid19 2/
“Living alone all the time (before the pandemic) I think people think you're "doing ok" in #lockdown because it's just the same as usual for you” #AgeingWithoutChildren #AWOCCovid19 #ALonelyPlaceToBe 3/
Some farmworker movement history for #CesarChavezDay: In 1955 Filipino Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee went on strike. 8 days later, the Latino National Farmworkers Association voted to join the strike (led to UFW)
The UFW strike was broad, not simply about 1 leader 🧵
The UFW strike was broad, not simply about 1 leader 🧵
Unionists like Larry Itliong & Philip Vera Cruz were socialists. They knew in order to win the strike, they had to break the bosses’ division of workers across racial groups - unite around class. Their leadership w/Dolores Huerta & Cesar Chavez broke decades of boss tactics #UFW
The solidarity clap that many of us use in movements today was created by the farmworkers, who spoke different languages, as a signal to stop working, walk off the fields, and STRIKE. It starts slow, then gets louder, faster, like their heartbeats, into a universal rally cry #UFW
Announcement! We have applied to the Charity Commission to register #AgeingWithoutChildren as a CIO. We are all grateful to @PramaUK for continuing to fly the flag over the last eighteen months, and they continue to support this new venture.
awwoc.org/about_us #AWOC 1/
awwoc.org/about_us #AWOC 1/
Assistance Request : Please tell us about your #Covid19 experiences.
As part of our relaunch of #AWOC, we are asking those #AgeingWithoutChildren in the UK to tell us about their experiences over the past year. Please RT & share widely #Covid19AWOC awwoc.org/about-3 2/
As part of our relaunch of #AWOC, we are asking those #AgeingWithoutChildren in the UK to tell us about their experiences over the past year. Please RT & share widely #Covid19AWOC awwoc.org/about-3 2/
The new trustees will be @PaulGoulden @tottenhamtopcat & @mryahbut Kirsty Woodard @awocconsult will continue to be heavily involved in advising us as a board, and on our work and direction.
@AWOCUK #AgeingWithoutChildren #AWOC 3/
@AWOCUK #AgeingWithoutChildren #AWOC 3/
Started to read some of these, and you start to realise the implications if society does not address the needs of 'invisible' groups, older men #awoc being one that requires urgent attention #endloneliness #transformageing #increasefun
What really resonates with me, & I'm not #awoc, although as a #carer I didn't have children, are the negative perceptions of older childless men. A recent experience when talk about @CM2MLtd was being interrogated for a good 20 mins of why a man wants to do this. It was all.1/3
about safeguarding & nothing to do with the needs of older men, so why did a man with #livedexperience get a grill? I can only think due to how some ppl view abusers men not live locally were view in a certain way? I carry my DBS with me, but why should I feel the need 2/3..
