Thread by @AHFdoco

This is a long thread cos I'm really pissed off. My husband says I shld not let the overprivileged arrogant m/c @OwenJones84 wind me up – but he has -his nasty little rant against people, especially women, who know #RealityMatters has made me angry & I think we should all let him

know what out ‘contribution during the very short window of life we have on this planet'is- I’ll start.I set up inside film in 2006 insidefilm.org to teach filmmaking theory and practice to serving & ex-prisoners- in 2008 I went to live in Venezuela & taught filmmaking

at the Bolivarian university & in the Barrios surrounding Caracas.Also made a film about the Bolivarian revolution listentovenezuela.info -when I I asked Jones to challenge the Independent editorial (the paper he was working for at the time) that called legally elected Chavez

a dictator he refused & blocked me. In 2012 I lived in Manchester for a few months & with a group of w/c people set up a theatre company to put on a play about the condition of the w/c updating Engels book & showing how little had really changed for w/c people of Manchester &

made a film about the process conditionoftheworkingclass.info
In 2017 I made The Acting Class about the lack of w/c people in the acting industry theactingclass.info
In 2017 I also made this film with a group of foodbank users . I wrote a book about the

Inside film project routledge.com/Film-as-a-Radi… I am a w/c woman who brought my daughter up on a council estate as a single parent and cleaned the houses of the m/c to make my benefits stretch further.I went to university at 35. People like OJ who go from nice m/c homes to a nice

m/c school to nice m/c oxford uni, then walk into cushy jobs have no idea what it is to struggle & go without – maybe that’s why its so easy for them to dismiss the reality of womens lives or not realise it is w/c women who will be the most affected by this ideology
So I think

I prefer my contribution to one that consists of writing opinion pieces that shore up the neo liberal anti w/c guardian,cos playing at being a socialist & insulting women who have legitimate concerns about their own safety & that of their children.