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Apr 29, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Excellent piece by Valerie Tarasuk and Lynn McIntyre

Why #BasicIncome not food aid is needed to respond to COVID-19 food insecurity

policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/apri…
In the meantime, mutual aid groups, councils, charities, food banks, co-ops, pantries and faith groups have scrabbled to meet growing need. Hot food deliveries, food parcels, and more
At @CardiffFoodbank volunteers have helped people facing digital exclusion get appointments, ring ulitity companies, social services, organise shielding.
Trying their hardest to be a welcoming space and provide choice of food amid social distancing
But still hear people coming in saying they ate a tin a day to make it last

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Oct 13, 2020
Been updating reading lists and found some recent papers on food justice:

New paper by Dr Rebecca Sandover @SandySom on "Participatory Food Cities: Scholar Activism and the Co-Production of Food Knowledge" mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/9…

And blog rebeccasandover.wordpress.com/2020/10/13/cov…
Paper by Dr Helen Coulson and Prof Paul Milbourne unpacks what is meant by 'food justice' by diff groups in UK

"Food justice for all?: searching for the ‘justice multiple’ in UK food movements"

link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Paper by Dr Ana Moragues‐Faus @anamoraguesf examines the politics and tensions in urban food partnerships

"Towards a critical governance framework: Unveiling the political and justice dimensions of urban food partnerships"
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…
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Sep 23, 2020
You don't make mistakes.

You make happy accidents
Found Nana's old paint box last time I was in Swansea and decided to try copying the same view she painted... Caswell Bay, Gower
Learning so much from @ArtofMJS
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Aug 13, 2020
Latest plan to abolish district councils:

- constitutes the 'hollowing out' of rural local government
- gerrymandering red to blue @pollytoynbee
- compounds rural poverty

Take the example of Dorset Council (new Unitary Authority) (1/5)
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
On 1 April 2019 Dorset Council (Unitary Authority) was established by combining East Dorset District Council, North Dorset District Council, Purbeck District Council, West Dorset District Council and Weymouth & Portland District Council, and Dorset County Council.
Between 2015/16 to 2018/19 each of the district councils had a reduction in their core spending power of 2.9%, 16.2%, 7.3%, 7.5%, 11.9%, respectively (data source: MHCLG 2019 Core spending power: final local government finance settlement 2019 to 2020
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Jun 24, 2020
#ENUF2020 This recently came out in print and might interest to academics and practitioners

Argument (thread):
1) Austerity used vocabulary of scarcity & rationing / thrift to legitimise attack on state welfare spending & welfare recipients

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
2) Austerity led to material scarcities (housing, health, food insecurity...) but also excesses of wealth and profit

3) Food banks now negotiate real scarcities because of growing levels of need and highly uneven donations (seasonal, rural/urban).
4) Some Independent foodbanks struggle to get donations from nearby supermarkets because of exclusive agreements with The Trussell Trust. Yet some TT foodbanks also share donations with IND foodbanks (NB since COVID, there has been incredible collaboration btw food bank org)
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Apr 19, 2020
If the River could cwtch,
it would embrace you knowingly
It would know the sodden walk home after a picket,
It would remind you of makeshift rugby games, birthdays and picnics.
It would laugh at my failed attempt(s) to find its source with dad,
And sheepishly explain the floods were not its fault.
It has been there on runs where I have had to walk,
And walks where I couldn’t help but run.

As I have seen it break its banks,
It has seen me break mine.
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Mar 27, 2020
@sainsburys I rang to ask if you could donate 60 X £5 gift cards (£300) to a Cardiff homeless charity. Soup runs have closed. Some people have not eaten for 2 days

Call centre said no

Given #covid19UK & our greater use/reliance of supermarkets, could you reconsider?
This would be a one off as Council meals on wheels service should kick very soon (hence only 60 cards to tie people over till then)
@sainsburys @SainsburysNews Happy to discuss details and charity number via DM
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