🕊️ Poetry & Peace

This Friday, Archdruid Mererid Hopwood will be performing at St Elvan's. The event will be chaired by Jill Evans from CNDCymru and is free to enter.

Donations welcome to CND Cymru and the Cynon Valley Eisteddfod fund.

🕡 6:30pm
📅 Friday 3rd May

I will be speaking at Labour & Palestine's May Day Rally for Palestine online on Wednesday evening.

Registration details here 👇

NEW 🚨 | Pay packets are worth less than 2008 in most UK local authorities.

We estimate that workers would be £10,400 a year better off if real wages had grown at their pre-crisis trend.

We need to invest in UK industry and a new deal for workers.

Real terms average pay lower in most UK local authorities than in 2008.

Not inevitable. Not unavoidable. The direct result of wrong & ideologically driven choices made by this government. theguardian.com/business/2024/…

The government is continuing its reckless assault on disabled people.

This consultation is not about what's right or fair.

It's hard to believe that it's about anything other than cutting costs, no matter the impact.

Disability Rights UK responds to todays benefit announcement which reads as a crackdown on Disabled claimants!

Read the full statement here: 👇
disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uk-res…

A sad day for the community of Rhigos as they are set to lose their school following RCT's Cabinet decision today.

I am proud to have had the opportunity to support the campaign to save Rhigos school for the people of the community and I will continue to stand with them.

On International Workers Memorial Day I pay tribute to all those who've lost their lives or been injured at work.

Safety at work is a basic right.

We will continue fighting for the health and safety of every worker.

Remember the dead, fight for the living.
#IWMD24

Tomorrow, RCT Cabinet will decide the future of Rhigos Primary School.

I requested to speak against the closure on behalf of residents, but my request was declined by RCT.

Full support to the Rhigos school campaign group, I hope RCT Cabinet will make the right decision.

Restoring trust in politics is more important than ever.

There are still questions to be answered about the £200,000 donation.

I believe there should be an independent investigation.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales is not for Sale

On International Workers' Day, I will be joining Cymdeithas yr Iaith at a rally in Blaenau Ffestiniog to call for houses to be treated as homes, not commodities to make a profit from.

📅 May 4th
🕜 1:30pm
📌 Diffwys car park, behind Caffi Antur Stiniog

🇵🇸 MAY DAY RALLY FOR PALESTINE - NEW SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED 📢

Online, Wednesday May 1, 18.30 🗓️

Husam Zomlot, Richard Burgon MP, Kim Johnson MP & Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP will join Maryam Eslamdoust, John McDonnell MP, Mish Rahman, Jess Barnard

Register & full line-up 👉 bit.ly/MayDayRallyFor…

A volunteer at Hirwaun YMCA has been named young people's community champion by Cynon Valley MP Beth Winter MP

gtfm.co.uk/hirwaun-ymca-y…

TATA's plans to close both blast furnaces at Port Talbot will cause devastation in our steel communities.

If we are to build much-needed green infrastructure, the ability to make steel from scratch in the UK is vital. We must not lose it.

Solidarity with steelworkers.

Two inspiring #CynonValley charities have been presented with the The King's Award 👑🥳

Huge congratulations to Cynon Valley PALs & Lee Gardens Pool on such a phenomenal achievement!

The award is the highest award that can be given to a voluntary group, and is equivalent to an MBE.