Rachel Hamada
@rachelhamada.bsky.social
Director at @takeoneaction.bsky.social Founder and chair at @theferret.scot Former lead on community-led investigations at @tbij.bsky.social Playwright. Love games, play, stories. Scotland-based. She/her
This is going to be epic! If you’re in Glasgow come and build Real Utopias with us ✨🌳❤️
We're so excited for our big Real Utopias festival day in #Glasgow tomorrow. If you haven't got your tickets you can browse the programme here: www.takeoneaction.org.uk
Take One Action! Film Festivals | See the change you want to be
Take One Action believes small actions lead to big ones, and that we all make a difference. We connect individuals and groups through film, creativity and action - for a better world, starting from Sc...
www.takeoneaction.org.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This is going to be epic! If you’re in Glasgow come and build Real Utopias with us ✨🌳❤️
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Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement
An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.
heated.world
September 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
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🔴 NEW: Larry Ellison’s £257m bet on Tony Blair
Our investigation with @lighthousereports.com reveals how the Tony Blair Institute has been accused of pushing the interests of tech tycoon Ellison — Trump’s “CEO of everything” — and his company Oracle
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Our investigation with @lighthousereports.com reveals how the Tony Blair Institute has been accused of pushing the interests of tech tycoon Ellison — Trump’s “CEO of everything” — and his company Oracle
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Inside the Tony Blair Institute
A former PM, Trump's 'CEO of everything' and NHS data - what could go wrong?
democracyforsale.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🔴 NEW: Larry Ellison’s £257m bet on Tony Blair
Our investigation with @lighthousereports.com reveals how the Tony Blair Institute has been accused of pushing the interests of tech tycoon Ellison — Trump’s “CEO of everything” — and his company Oracle
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...
Our investigation with @lighthousereports.com reveals how the Tony Blair Institute has been accused of pushing the interests of tech tycoon Ellison — Trump’s “CEO of everything” — and his company Oracle
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...
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i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
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It’s not clear what these changes will concretely consist of but this is an appalling proposal from Mahmood, ignoring the challenges that asylum seekers face in accessing legal advice and undermining protections for trafficking survivors
"Shabana Mahmood has announced plans to change modern slavery laws to prevent migrants from making last minute attempts to 'frustrate a removal' after her bid to appeal in a trafficking case was thrown out by the court of appeal" 💀 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Mahmood vows to change modern slavery laws after bid to deport Eritrean man thwarted
Appeal court rejects home secretary’s attempt to appeal against blocking of return of man to France under ‘one in, one out’ deal
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:17 AM
It’s not clear what these changes will concretely consist of but this is an appalling proposal from Mahmood, ignoring the challenges that asylum seekers face in accessing legal advice and undermining protections for trafficking survivors
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This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins
Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
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Our friends at @takeoneaction.bsky.social kick off their festival in Edinburgh this week. See the programme at www.takeoneaction.org.uk
September 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Our friends at @takeoneaction.bsky.social kick off their festival in Edinburgh this week. See the programme at www.takeoneaction.org.uk
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My latest, on how concepts like the populist hype and reactionary centrism can help us understand how our media and political system normalises dangerous far right talking points and policies
shado-mag.com/articles/opi...
shado-mag.com/articles/opi...
Rethinking the rise of the far right
shado editor Elia Ayoub looks at how populist hype and reactionary centrism have fuelled misunderstanding about the rise of the far right.
shado-mag.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
My latest, on how concepts like the populist hype and reactionary centrism can help us understand how our media and political system normalises dangerous far right talking points and policies
shado-mag.com/articles/opi...
shado-mag.com/articles/opi...
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Few countries have been privatised as deep or as far as in Britain.
This failed experiment has shaped your life.
To learn how, explore our new project — Who Owns Britain? — at the link below.
www.common-wealth.org/interactive/...
This failed experiment has shaped your life.
To learn how, explore our new project — Who Owns Britain? — at the link below.
www.common-wealth.org/interactive/...
Who Owns Britain?
How the radical experiment of privatisation transformed society and reshaped our lives.
www.common-wealth.org
September 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Few countries have been privatised as deep or as far as in Britain.
This failed experiment has shaped your life.
To learn how, explore our new project — Who Owns Britain? — at the link below.
www.common-wealth.org/interactive/...
This failed experiment has shaped your life.
To learn how, explore our new project — Who Owns Britain? — at the link below.
www.common-wealth.org/interactive/...
Power Station is screening tonight at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social - and then you can come along to this brilliant workshop tomorrow with filmmaker Dan Edelstyn. All pay what you can!
Join us for a session with Dan Edelstyn, co-director of Power Station to explore alternative models of political and independent filmmaking, working with and for communities and side-stepping traditional gatekeepers to craft bold, radical documentaries.
www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/crossi...
www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/crossi...
Crossing the Line with Dan Edelstyn - Take One Action!
Join us for a session with Dan Edelstyn, co-director and co-producer of Power Station to explore alternative models of political and independent filmmaking.
www.takeoneaction.org.uk
September 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Power Station is screening tonight at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social - and then you can come along to this brilliant workshop tomorrow with filmmaker Dan Edelstyn. All pay what you can!
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The solar revolution means that power can be decentralized, democratized, distributed far more justly. So it makes perfect and hideous sense, given the nostalgia of authoritarians for a golden age (of exclusion, exploitation, and inequality ), to tie themselves to all fossil fuel's problems.
The Future Is Coming and It's (Literally) Sunny: Notes on the Solar Revolution
I drove home to San Francisco from New Mexico last weekend, and in the western Mojave desert of California I passed in quick succession three vast renewable energy sites: the first was three solar con...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The solar revolution means that power can be decentralized, democratized, distributed far more justly. So it makes perfect and hideous sense, given the nostalgia of authoritarians for a golden age (of exclusion, exploitation, and inequality ), to tie themselves to all fossil fuel's problems.
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We're excited to launch a new survey exploring Gender Equity in the Scottish Film Exhibiton sector, in partnership with @filmhubscotland.bsky.social. If you work or volunteer in film exhibition, please fill out the survey. We welcome responses from all genders: www.surveymonkey.com/r/FilmEquity
September 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We're excited to launch a new survey exploring Gender Equity in the Scottish Film Exhibiton sector, in partnership with @filmhubscotland.bsky.social. If you work or volunteer in film exhibition, please fill out the survey. We welcome responses from all genders: www.surveymonkey.com/r/FilmEquity
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This is the stark testimony of former BBC journalist Mohamed Shalaby, who quit the corporation over its reporting on Gaza
Read the full interview 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Read the full interview 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
September 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This is the stark testimony of former BBC journalist Mohamed Shalaby, who quit the corporation over its reporting on Gaza
Read the full interview 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Read the full interview 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Excited to moderate this at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Sat as part of our Real Utopias festivals.
Come along if you like weird but brilliant shorts exploring the frontiers of tech, and brilliant-post screening conversations with @karengregory.bsky.social, @foxglovelegal.bsky.social and YOU
Come along if you like weird but brilliant shorts exploring the frontiers of tech, and brilliant-post screening conversations with @karengregory.bsky.social, @foxglovelegal.bsky.social and YOU
⛓️💥 DISMANTLING TECH FANTASIES 🌐
Our programmer shares a highlight from our Edinburgh festivals, a shorts programme about interrogating the false promises of AI.
Screening at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Saturday 20th September, 3PM!
www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/disman...
Our programmer shares a highlight from our Edinburgh festivals, a shorts programme about interrogating the false promises of AI.
Screening at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Saturday 20th September, 3PM!
www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/disman...
September 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Excited to moderate this at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Sat as part of our Real Utopias festivals.
Come along if you like weird but brilliant shorts exploring the frontiers of tech, and brilliant-post screening conversations with @karengregory.bsky.social, @foxglovelegal.bsky.social and YOU
Come along if you like weird but brilliant shorts exploring the frontiers of tech, and brilliant-post screening conversations with @karengregory.bsky.social, @foxglovelegal.bsky.social and YOU
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Draft EHRC guidance on Equality Act is unworkable for businesses 👇👇👇
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Hundreds of firms warn new draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’
Exclusive: More than 650 organisations have urged Bridget Phillipson to ‘take immediate action to prevent these proposals from moving forward’
www.independent.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Draft EHRC guidance on Equality Act is unworkable for businesses 👇👇👇
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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"There's quite a lot of evidence that facts alone don't necessarily change people's minds. You need to get to people's emotions as well"
@takeoneaction.bsky.social, Scotland's film festival for social change is back – we talk to director Rachel Hamada
@takeoneaction.bsky.social, Scotland's film festival for social change is back – we talk to director Rachel Hamada
Better Worlds: Take One Action 2025 preview - The Skinny
Take One Action's director Rachel Hamada introduces this year's festival, which takes place under the banner of Real Utopias.
www.theskinny.co.uk
September 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
"There's quite a lot of evidence that facts alone don't necessarily change people's minds. You need to get to people's emotions as well"
@takeoneaction.bsky.social, Scotland's film festival for social change is back – we talk to director Rachel Hamada
@takeoneaction.bsky.social, Scotland's film festival for social change is back – we talk to director Rachel Hamada
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In an era where trans kids are spoken over and spoken for, NIÑXS sparkles with confidence, wit, and magic: a joyous demand that trans youth get to narrate their own stories.
Presented in collaboration with @sqiff.bsky.social
www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/ninxs/
Presented in collaboration with @sqiff.bsky.social
www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/ninxs/
NIÑXS - Take One Action!
In this joyous documentary co-authored by its subject, fifteen-year-old Karla tells her coming-of-age story as a young trans girl.
www.takeoneaction.org.uk
August 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
In an era where trans kids are spoken over and spoken for, NIÑXS sparkles with confidence, wit, and magic: a joyous demand that trans youth get to narrate their own stories.
Presented in collaboration with @sqiff.bsky.social
www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/ninxs/
Presented in collaboration with @sqiff.bsky.social
www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/ninxs/
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👁️FILM SPOTLIGHT: NIÑXS 👁️
In the rural small town of Tepoztlán, Mexico, fifteen-year-old Karla gets to tell her own coming-of-age story as she navigates the joys and complexities of trans adolescence.
Book your tickets: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/ninxs/
In the rural small town of Tepoztlán, Mexico, fifteen-year-old Karla gets to tell her own coming-of-age story as she navigates the joys and complexities of trans adolescence.
Book your tickets: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/ninxs/
NIÑXS - Take One Action!
In this joyous documentary co-authored by its subject, fifteen-year-old Karla tells her coming-of-age story as a young trans girl.
www.takeoneaction.org.uk
August 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
👁️FILM SPOTLIGHT: NIÑXS 👁️
In the rural small town of Tepoztlán, Mexico, fifteen-year-old Karla gets to tell her own coming-of-age story as she navigates the joys and complexities of trans adolescence.
Book your tickets: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/ninxs/
In the rural small town of Tepoztlán, Mexico, fifteen-year-old Karla gets to tell her own coming-of-age story as she navigates the joys and complexities of trans adolescence.
Book your tickets: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/ninxs/
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🎥Film Spotlight: POWER STATION (2025)
Two artists and activists are on a mission to power their street with solar energy, one home at a time. We'll be showing POWER STATION in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Dundee!
👉 TICKETS: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/power-s...
Two artists and activists are on a mission to power their street with solar energy, one home at a time. We'll be showing POWER STATION in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Dundee!
👉 TICKETS: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/power-s...
Power Station - Take One Action!
Two artists and activists are on a mission to power their street with solar energy, one home at a time.
www.takeoneaction.org.uk
August 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
🎥Film Spotlight: POWER STATION (2025)
Two artists and activists are on a mission to power their street with solar energy, one home at a time. We'll be showing POWER STATION in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Dundee!
👉 TICKETS: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/power-s...
Two artists and activists are on a mission to power their street with solar energy, one home at a time. We'll be showing POWER STATION in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Dundee!
👉 TICKETS: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/power-s...
Really excited to announce the launch of our 2025 film festival programmes - hope to see many of you at one of our events! #RealUtopias2025
💫 IT’S HERE! 💫
Watch the trailer for Take One Action Film Festivals 2025 and dive into our Real Utopias programme!
EDINBURGH | GLASGOW | INVERNESS | DUNDEE
ACCESS:
🎟️ All tickets pay-what-you-can (£0-20)
💬 All films with descriptive subtitles
Get your tickets now: www.takeoneaction.org.uk
Watch the trailer for Take One Action Film Festivals 2025 and dive into our Real Utopias programme!
EDINBURGH | GLASGOW | INVERNESS | DUNDEE
ACCESS:
🎟️ All tickets pay-what-you-can (£0-20)
💬 All films with descriptive subtitles
Get your tickets now: www.takeoneaction.org.uk
August 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Really excited to announce the launch of our 2025 film festival programmes - hope to see many of you at one of our events! #RealUtopias2025
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👋 We’re BACK!
Real Utopias will be coming to screens and community spaces near you this autumn:
〰️ #Edinburgh (17-21 Sep)
〰️ #Glasgow (25-28 Sep)
〰️ #Inverness (28-30 Oct)
〰️ #Dundee (7-8 Nov)
We’re excited to share our gorgeous poster for this year’s festivals, designed by Maddie Lennon!
Real Utopias will be coming to screens and community spaces near you this autumn:
〰️ #Edinburgh (17-21 Sep)
〰️ #Glasgow (25-28 Sep)
〰️ #Inverness (28-30 Oct)
〰️ #Dundee (7-8 Nov)
We’re excited to share our gorgeous poster for this year’s festivals, designed by Maddie Lennon!
July 31, 2025 at 6:41 AM
👋 We’re BACK!
Real Utopias will be coming to screens and community spaces near you this autumn:
〰️ #Edinburgh (17-21 Sep)
〰️ #Glasgow (25-28 Sep)
〰️ #Inverness (28-30 Oct)
〰️ #Dundee (7-8 Nov)
We’re excited to share our gorgeous poster for this year’s festivals, designed by Maddie Lennon!
Real Utopias will be coming to screens and community spaces near you this autumn:
〰️ #Edinburgh (17-21 Sep)
〰️ #Glasgow (25-28 Sep)
〰️ #Inverness (28-30 Oct)
〰️ #Dundee (7-8 Nov)
We’re excited to share our gorgeous poster for this year’s festivals, designed by Maddie Lennon!
Today! Last chance to get free tickets for this event exploring videogames, their place in our culture and how they could be key to imagining alternative futures - exhibition with @marijamdid.com, discussion with @adrianhon.bsky.social, and short film screening
bit.ly/resistanceingames
bit.ly/resistanceingames
Resistance in Game Space
Level up! Find out how videogames have shaped the world around us, for better and worse, and how they might help shape alternative futures.
bit.ly
July 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Today! Last chance to get free tickets for this event exploring videogames, their place in our culture and how they could be key to imagining alternative futures - exhibition with @marijamdid.com, discussion with @adrianhon.bsky.social, and short film screening
bit.ly/resistanceingames
bit.ly/resistanceingames
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This is utterly shameful.
![Tweet by Chris McCall (@Dennynews)
John Swinney announces £180,000 of public money will help stage a golf tournament at Donald Trump's Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire. The First Minister meets the US President next week.
[screengrab of Scottish Government statement:]
First Minister John Swinney said:
I welcome the Nexo Championship being held at the Trump International Golf Links this August.
"Scotland has long been recognised as a world-class host of major events. Golf and golf events are a key part of our national identity, supporting communities, driving economic growth, contributing to environmental sustainability across the country and promoting Scotland through global profile.
"The Scottish Government recognises the importance and benefits of golf and golf events, including boosting tourism and our economy. As the Home of Golf we have a longstanding track record of support and I am proud this funding will further enhance Aberdeenshire's reputation as a leading golfing destination and I'm hopeful of securing further golfing events in future years."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kaxftga2bqmwprjttffwtt4u/bafkreigehvro7hx3nvqbczokjbpme5outtf62c742gemyjxaqdyxefdrc4@jpeg)
July 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This is utterly shameful.
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Edinburgh folk!
A fantastic Videogames + Art + Politics event is taking place tomorrow. What a treat, do NOT miss! 💚
A fantastic Videogames + Art + Politics event is taking place tomorrow. What a treat, do NOT miss! 💚
This Saturday is Resistance in Game Space, an evening looking at how videogames are key to imagining alternative futures. We'll be at Sett Studios in Leith, Edinburgh, from 6-9pm and tickets are free!
Find out more about what's planned and sign up at
bit.ly/resistanceingames
Find out more about what's planned and sign up at
bit.ly/resistanceingames
Resistance in Game Space
Level up! Find out how videogames have shaped the world around us, for better and worse, and how they might help shape alternative futures.
bit.ly
July 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Edinburgh folk!
A fantastic Videogames + Art + Politics event is taking place tomorrow. What a treat, do NOT miss! 💚
A fantastic Videogames + Art + Politics event is taking place tomorrow. What a treat, do NOT miss! 💚
Reposted by Rachel Hamada
Tomorrow's front page 📰
Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
July 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Tomorrow's front page 📰
Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland