The SSP will rally with other creative industry unions at Holyrood on Thursday 5th September, 12:30pm. The freezing and cutting of budgets directly harms our members and our colleagues. Funds have been committed on multiple occasions. Enough. Promises must be delivered. ✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📢

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Please listen to us Angus Robertson John Swinney Yes funds are going to the Arts but you need to understand that the Open Fund is where it starts. You can't just fund the top end. We know funds aren't limitless, but there has to better solutions here. #NoArtWithoutArtists

NEW on The Scotsman site: Edinburgh Festival Fringe chief exec admits emerging artists are being “squeezed out” & at risk of being “taken for granted,” raises fears funding cuts will lead to “boring art” & warns about “complacency” over its success. scotsman.com/arts-and-cultu… #EdFringe Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Taliban aren’t metaphorically silencing women—it’s literally.

Afghan women are responding to the Taliban's ban on women speaking in public by launching a campaign and singing out loudly.

RALLY EXPENSES After consultation with @EquityGlasgow we'd like to offer any members who'd like to attend the Edinburgh rally on 5th Sept but feel unable to due to cost barriers. We are happy to put some branch funds towards receipted expenses, get in touch for an expense form

The bravery of these women leaves me in awe.

What a stunningly powerful way to stand in solidarity with the women of Afghanistan.

This is how Afg women have bravely protested against the Taliban's oppression for years. Recently, women worldwide joined them in solidarity, singing a powerful song/poem to protest the Taliban's latest statement. Join us 🙌

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Take the Taliban to the International Criminal Court instead of inviting them to international events. The Taliban are perpetrating a gender apartheid against 20 million women and are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of innocents.

P۸lestini۸n girls dressed in traditional Thoub sing amidst the rubble of G۸Z۸

Free Afghan Women 🇦🇫 Afghan women & girls are banned from education— banned from speaking in public— banned from working & —don’t have access to basic rights in Afghanistan. If you as human being stand for women rights share your voice and support Afghan women in this matter.

For days, social media has showcased Afg women singing, reading poetry, reciting the Quran, & defying the Taliban's ban on women's voices. We will not be silenced. Another beautiful Afg woman singing. Women's songs and poetry predate the Taliban, who only harbor hatred for women:

A stellar, magic, mesmerising 'June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me' performance at the opening night of Kirkcudbright Fringe in front of a sold-out enraptured audience. Many thanks & respect to National Theatre of Scotland & Grid Iron Theatre Co & hope to see both again in the future.

Gisele Pelicot, whose husband drugged her and allowed different men to rape her over the course of 10 years, is holding a public trial and allowing her name to be published, even though she didn't have to. Her husband wished for a private trial, which would have allowed their

I’m in tears at this. A Holocaust survivor, the daughter of a holocaust survivor, the granddaughter of a holocaust survivor stand together against the genocide in Gaza. Let love not hate dominate. #CeasefireNow

Over 1 MILLION people gathered in London to protest Israel’s genøcide ✊🏻 This represents 1/8 of the population of London! And is one of the largest protests in the history of Great Britain 🇬🇧🇵🇸