Rebecca Marie Wilks
@rebeccamarie.bsky.social
Freelance journalist covering housing, devolution and the criminal justice system. 🏳️🌈 (She/They)
Get in touch! rmwilks@protonmail.com
Get in touch! rmwilks@protonmail.com
Later we paid a visit to Leeds Council, where we helped our Leeds branch secure a meeting about ending the use of bailiffs, after a year of dismissals and delays. ✊
October 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Later we paid a visit to Leeds Council, where we helped our Leeds branch secure a meeting about ending the use of bailiffs, after a year of dismissals and delays. ✊
After a fancy buffet lunch, the conference was due to hold a session on "The Future of Enforcement", but instead attendees heard from ACORN members with personal experience of Bailiff harassment and the lasting damage it causes.
October 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
After a fancy buffet lunch, the conference was due to hold a session on "The Future of Enforcement", but instead attendees heard from ACORN members with personal experience of Bailiff harassment and the lasting damage it causes.
An extremely early start for us Cardiff lot, but worth it - private debt collectors profit from the misery of our most vulnerable, hounding people for money they simply don't have, adding eye watering "service charges", seizing people's belongings, & making families homeless.
October 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
An extremely early start for us Cardiff lot, but worth it - private debt collectors profit from the misery of our most vulnerable, hounding people for money they simply don't have, adding eye watering "service charges", seizing people's belongings, & making families homeless.
Who doesn't want a bailiff-free Britain?
Today @acornunion.bsky.social took over the CCUA conference in Leeds - a yearly event where council officials mingle with the unregulated cowboy bailiff firms they hire to collect council tax debt and carry out evictions.
Today @acornunion.bsky.social took over the CCUA conference in Leeds - a yearly event where council officials mingle with the unregulated cowboy bailiff firms they hire to collect council tax debt and carry out evictions.
October 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Who doesn't want a bailiff-free Britain?
Today @acornunion.bsky.social took over the CCUA conference in Leeds - a yearly event where council officials mingle with the unregulated cowboy bailiff firms they hire to collect council tax debt and carry out evictions.
Today @acornunion.bsky.social took over the CCUA conference in Leeds - a yearly event where council officials mingle with the unregulated cowboy bailiff firms they hire to collect council tax debt and carry out evictions.
They're saying she's the worst camera woman of all fime
September 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
They're saying she's the worst camera woman of all fime
While international governments and NGOs still parrot lines about the 2 state solution, the Israeli state remains intent on ethnically cleansing and annexing all Palestinian territory.
This was at the launch of their E1 Settlement plan, which will cut the West Bank in half.
This was at the launch of their E1 Settlement plan, which will cut the West Bank in half.
August 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
While international governments and NGOs still parrot lines about the 2 state solution, the Israeli state remains intent on ethnically cleansing and annexing all Palestinian territory.
This was at the launch of their E1 Settlement plan, which will cut the West Bank in half.
This was at the launch of their E1 Settlement plan, which will cut the West Bank in half.
My sincere thanks to Yasemin Acar, crew member of the Freedom Flotilla ship Madleen, for her heartfelt contribution. She met Dee in prison, the morning after she and French MEP Rima Hassan were put in solitary confinement.
August 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
My sincere thanks to Yasemin Acar, crew member of the Freedom Flotilla ship Madleen, for her heartfelt contribution. She met Dee in prison, the morning after she and French MEP Rima Hassan were put in solitary confinement.
Knew I had another one
June 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Knew I had another one
Man, I have such a backlog of bird images to bother everyone with. Sacks full. Soon
June 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Man, I have such a backlog of bird images to bother everyone with. Sacks full. Soon
Latest from the Freedom Flotilla ship Madleen
June 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Latest from the Freedom Flotilla ship Madleen
Worth a go.
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(Sorry there hasn't been alt text, I couldn't get it to post when I tried to put the alt text in.)
June 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Worth a go.
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(Sorry there hasn't been alt text, I couldn't get it to post when I tried to put the alt text in.)
As the Madleen gets closer to Gaza, we need states to secure the mission's safe passage.
June 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
As the Madleen gets closer to Gaza, we need states to secure the mission's safe passage.
Letter to my MP regarding Gaza, the West Bank, the Freedom Flotilla mission and the detention of Swansea-based peace activist Dee Murphy, 70, in Israel. She'd been volunteering with Palestinian olive farmers in Masafer Yatta.
June 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Letter to my MP regarding Gaza, the West Bank, the Freedom Flotilla mission and the detention of Swansea-based peace activist Dee Murphy, 70, in Israel. She'd been volunteering with Palestinian olive farmers in Masafer Yatta.
Yesterday Ahmed shared with me lovely pictures and videos of his family visiting the beach, but by nightfall it was the same as ever: Unending bombings, terror, exhaustion.
How can this still be happening?
chuffed.org/project/1249...
How can this still be happening?
chuffed.org/project/1249...
May 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Yesterday Ahmed shared with me lovely pictures and videos of his family visiting the beach, but by nightfall it was the same as ever: Unending bombings, terror, exhaustion.
How can this still be happening?
chuffed.org/project/1249...
How can this still be happening?
chuffed.org/project/1249...
My PRIZE. My miracle on ice. High Def image of a Long-Tailed Tit fledgling having a big yawn after a long day of being fed flies and spiders by Mother
May 23, 2025 at 7:45 AM
My PRIZE. My miracle on ice. High Def image of a Long-Tailed Tit fledgling having a big yawn after a long day of being fed flies and spiders by Mother
My beloveds: Long-Tailed Tit and its impossibly tiny fledgling baby. Look at these fucking things
May 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
My beloveds: Long-Tailed Tit and its impossibly tiny fledgling baby. Look at these fucking things
Coot chicks! Pictures taken roughly 2 weeks apart.
May 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Coot chicks! Pictures taken roughly 2 weeks apart.
Here's some nice birds for you fine people at the close of this miserable week.
First up: Eurasian Green Woodpecker, papped scrambling into its nest in the hollow of a tree.
First up: Eurasian Green Woodpecker, papped scrambling into its nest in the hollow of a tree.
May 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Here's some nice birds for you fine people at the close of this miserable week.
First up: Eurasian Green Woodpecker, papped scrambling into its nest in the hollow of a tree.
First up: Eurasian Green Woodpecker, papped scrambling into its nest in the hollow of a tree.
In Mawasi, Ahmed's exhausted because airstrikes and helicopter movements were deafening overnight (you can hear below). Sharing his link here because he's had to dip into the evac fund this week & is still grateful for any buffer.
chuffed.org/project/1249...
chuffed.org/project/1249...
May 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
In Mawasi, Ahmed's exhausted because airstrikes and helicopter movements were deafening overnight (you can hear below). Sharing his link here because he's had to dip into the evac fund this week & is still grateful for any buffer.
chuffed.org/project/1249...
chuffed.org/project/1249...
Gen Z? She's 16. Either way, really discombobulating stuff
May 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Gen Z? She's 16. Either way, really discombobulating stuff
Maysam and Alaa are living in the burnt out ruins of a house with their children, husbands and elderly parents, watching this unfold as they starve. If you can donate to their fund, please do, and at the very least share it around your friends&family.
chuffed.org/project/1286...
chuffed.org/project/1286...
May 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Maysam and Alaa are living in the burnt out ruins of a house with their children, husbands and elderly parents, watching this unfold as they starve. If you can donate to their fund, please do, and at the very least share it around your friends&family.
chuffed.org/project/1286...
chuffed.org/project/1286...
Freshly broken by a video Ahmed took as drones hovered over his camp this morning. Look at those little babies, waving. We live in a fucking monstrous world.
May 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Freshly broken by a video Ahmed took as drones hovered over his camp this morning. Look at those little babies, waving. We live in a fucking monstrous world.
