#Bigissue

[wisutponnimit]

「負けた。でもファイトした」

『ビッグイシュー日本版』

＼8月15日号 販売中！／

４コマ漫画「マムアンちゃん」掲載号💫 お近くの販売者さんからお求めください📙

🔻今月号の内容紹介！ https://www.bigissue.jp/backnumber/485/

[wattophotos]

Big Issue Street Seller in Skipton, UK.

[oq-oq]

ふと、Xをみていて小指さんのつぶやきに目が止まった。「社会と足並みを揃えられなかった人たちが今私の一番のアドバイザーだ。こんなに的確で賢いのにどこでも働けないのはなぜだろう、社会が多分ろくでもないからだと思う」と書いていて、本当に納得しかなかった。

わたしも本当にそう思っている。大学の時に死にかけた時、大学の先生のご好意で障害者の相談支援事業所に置いてもらい、わたしは救われた。その時にずっとそばにいてくれたのは、��れもなく「社会と足並みを揃えられなかった人たち」であった。本当に死にそうなところ、すごく助けられた。座ってすらいられないわたしを面白がりつつも、とっても心配してたくさんの声をかけてくれた。今でもその方々の言葉をよく思い出す。逆に親しかった友人には「私はそんなボロボロになりたくない」とか言われたりして、なんか笑ってしまったりもした。こうはなりたくないと思うよねと思えるほどしんどかったから、いいんだけれど。

先日、自宅に畳屋さんが来た。その方はきっと知的障害がある。たどたどしい説明ながらもとても丁寧に畳のことや障子のことを説明してくれる。騙そうとか、儲けたいとか、そういう気持ちは全くないんだろうなと思う。”チラシだけもらっていてもいいですか？”と聞くと、肩に掛けていたカバンを丁寧におろし、丁寧にチラシを出して渡してくれた。わたしは彼が大事にされる社会でありますように思いながら受け取った。

街を歩いている時にBIGISSUEを見つけたら、買うことにしている。昨日もいつものおじさんを見つけたから購入させてもらった。”先日購入したガザの特集とっても勉強になりました。”と伝えると、嬉しそうに「俺も勉強になったよ」と教えてくれた。どの号がどんな内容か突然聞いてもパッと答えてくれる。そんな丁寧に丁寧にやりとりする時間がわたしは好きだ。”今日もありがとうございます。また来ますね”と笑顔で別れると、わたしと同じくらいの年代の男性が物珍しそうな顔でこちらをみていた。わたしとしては、その表情は大歓迎で、こういう時こそ（ギリ）20代の女性という属性を活かしたいと思っている。ホームレスや男性のマイノリティは、危険、汚いといったレッテルが貼られやすい。だからこそ、若い女性が一緒にいるという場面を積極的に社会に見てもらいたいと思っている。彼らは危険でも汚くもないから。危険や汚いに敏感にならざるを得ない女性が、ホームレスの人に声をかけたりBIGISSUEを嬉しそうに買うということが、社会に対して安全だということを表明できる一つのツールになるといいなと思っている。ちょっとしたソーシャルアクションだ。

本当に本当に、なんで彼らが社会の中で働けないんだ？何度考えてもわからない。やっぱりこの社会がろくでもないんだな。。

[theroyalsandi]

British Royal Family - The Prince of Wales with vendor Dave Martin sells Big Issue outside Tesco in Hammersmith | December 05, 2023

Great to be back with Dave, selling the latest edition of the @BigIssue once again! Find your nearest vendor this festive season: http://bigissue.com/vendors - Kensington Palace

[theroyalweekly]

Great to be back with Dave, selling the latest edition of the @BigIssue once again!

Find your nearest vendor this festive season: bigissue.com/vendors

[saintmeghanmarkle]

Harry needs more security and Megain running around with 2 bodyguards meanwhile the future King is in Tesco selling a magazine. by u/goldenbeee

Harry needs more security and Megain running around with 2 bodyguards, meanwhile the future King is in Tesco selling a magazine. ​https://preview.redd.it/8sbe4eq3fi4c1.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=77073b7af82d0c4defa6da03537a96e7131a81ca​https://twitter.com/SusanGrayMeets/status/1732051713157111872Susan Gray@SusanGrayMeets Popped into #Tesco #BrookGreen and thought bloke at entrance looks remarkably well and tall for #BigIssue seller. Checkout asst put me right "#PrinceofWales is outside."No one cares to harm you other than your own stupidity, Heghans. Just keep acting entitled. Heghans are all about pompous display of wealth, humble yourself, you good for nothing grifters. post link: https://ift.tt/DlaRj4m author: goldenbeee submitted: December 05, 2023 at 06:18PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

[cnugallery]

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[thepastisalreadywritten]

Great to be back with Dave, selling the latest edition of the @BigIssue once again!

Find your nearest vendor this festive season: bigissue.com/vendors

5 December 2023

[eaglesnick]

Is Capitalism Working? Landowners (2)

We saw that the aristocracy and landed gentry own 30% of England, a position that has not changed for centuries, and that they have increased their wealth at expense of the rest of us.

But the aristocracy and landed gentry are not the only ones who own land. Big corporations also own vast tracts of England.

“Multi-million pound corporations with complex structures have purchased the very ground we walk on – and we are only just beginning to discover the damage it is doing to Britain.” (Guy Shrubsole, quoted in the Guardian, 19/04/19)

Big corporations own 18% of England. Topping the list are three privately owned water companies. Since they were privatised in 1989, water companies have issued massive dividends to their shareholders.

 “…payouts in dividends to shareholders of parent companies between 1991 and 2019 amount to £57bn – nearly half the sum they spent on maintaining and improving the country’s pipes and treatment plants in that period."  (Guardian:01/07/22)

Since privatisation, water companies have not built a single new reservoir, have continued to pump raw sewage into our rivers and seas, and have failed to stem the tide of water leaks that blight the system.  Over 70% of these water companies are foreign owned, so that there is no guarantee that the £57 bn paid in dividends since 1991 has remained in this country.

More worrying still, is the fact these dividends are paid out using borrowed money. If these companies were ever to go bust it would be us, the British taxpayer, having to bail them out.

The water companies are only one example of how corporate landownership affects all of us in a negative way. Land banking by construction companies is another problem.

“The big boys of construction are sitting on enough land to build a couple of cities, and their collective stashes have increased by nearly 10 per cent in just a year…This is surely scandalous in the worst decade for house building since the war. From a peak average of 361,885 homes a year in the 1960s, completions have slumped to 154,533 annually. Even when you take council and social housing out of the equation, the number of dwellings built by the private sector has fallen 38 per cent from an annual average of 197,141 in the 1960s to 121,500 in the current decade.” (Bigissue: 30/07/19)

This contraction in house building is known as “pipelining”. In effect the large construction companies deliberately restrict the flow of newly built homes onto the market to maximise their profits. According to Campaign to Protect Rural England, over a ten-year period the biggest house building companies increased their land banks by 20% but actually built 13% fewer homes. Restricted supply means higher house prices, means greater profits for the construction companies at the expense of ordinary working people. The House of Commons Library sums up the problem thus:

“When people are unable to access suitable housing it can result in overcrowding, more young people living with their parents for longer, impaired labour mobility, which makes it harder for businesses to recruit staff, and increased levels of homelessness.” (Commons Library: Tackling the under-supply of housing in England)

More generally, Private Eye, who investigated landownership in England and Wales, found that

“…a large chunk of the country was not only under corporate control, but owned by companies that – in many cases – were almost certainly seeking to avoid paying tax, that most basic contribution to a civilised society…Legally obliged to maximise profits for their shareholders, and biased towards short-term returns, companies make for poor custodians of land. Nor are corporate landowners capable of solving the housing crisis. Hoarded, developed, polluted, dug up, landfilled: the corporate control of England’s acres has gone far enough.” (Guardian: 19/04/19)

[thefrancescalearmount]

So upsetting that we, the 5th wealthiest country in the world has a growing problem with in work poverty and homelessness. Even food banks (which came about about in 2011 during “austerity”) are struggling. This is the consequence of 12 years of this particular bunch of Conservatives. I see this woman regularly on our local high street in #molesey and decided to paint a portrait of her. I’m too late this year but I’m aiming to donate this to a homeless charity; The #bigissue or #crisisathristmas. Either way it’s for a cause I feel strongly about as well as offering myself exposure as an artist who also paints portraits. #portraitart #portrait #portraitpainting #realpeople #oilpainting #oilincanvas #londonlife #moleseylife https://www.instagram.com/p/CmbMafBIE5X/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[wisutponnimit]

「お金がなくても平気　食べ物があるから」

『ビッグイシュー日本版』

＼1月15日号 販売中！／

４コマ漫画「マムアンちゃん」掲載号💫 お近くの販売者さんからお求めください📙

🔻今月号の内容紹介！ https://www.bigissue.jp/backnumber/495/

[hapevv]

MUSE live in Hammersmith Apollo by HP #muse #hammersmithapollo #london #liveperformance #warchild #bigissue #msf #livephotography #bandphotography #matthewbellamy #wotp #willofthepeople #mansonguitars #hanspetervanvelthoven ©️📷 @hpvv (bij Hammersmith Appollo, London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeBBGUJNWzV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[otona77mtb]

ソフィア・ローレン 映画「ひまわり」を観た時から好きになった女優さんが表紙の…届きました♫ #bigissue #bigissuejapan https://www.instagram.com/p/COLAUb0jp_R/?igshid=fm4q352s3yu9

[gecoya]

ビッグイシュー届いた。表紙はかこさとし『だるまちゃんとかみなりちゃん』。てんぐちゃんも好き。 #bigissue #ビッグイシュー https://www.instagram.com/p/CSN5-uOlqXM/?utm_medium=tumblr

[anniesartthings]

#isolationartschool , #isolationcreation . Writing up my #sketchbook ready for final assessment of my first year of #strodefad at @strodecollegeart , I used the last page of the book to make a #mixedmedia collage trying to summarise the themes of my #summershow project ' be kind to your mind'. Starting with a #bigissue article on #streetart I took the image 'Portal' by Mary Vallely and turned it into a speech bubble from the head profile image I have been using for the screenprints in my project. This was annotated with the six key emotions : Fear, Happy, Sad, Angry and Surprise, and a reflection on how it feels to have persistent anxiety as a symptom of PTSD. In seeking #emotionalfreedom and to live more in the present, I have worked hard to free my inner child and used art and other creative outlets to manage depressive thoughts and express emotions. The phrase ' radio station in my head' is how I dealt with the constantly 'on alert' brain state that comes with #PTSD, and I have learned how to visualize 'tuning out' to get some rest. My kids were unhappy about me using this image of my younger self, but this process was very cathartic as I have given her a voice and connection to my #ptsdfree self post-recovery and the #creativepractice that helped me get here. #mentalhealthawarenessweek , #mendandrepair , #mentalhealthmatters , #timetochange, #bekindtoyourmind , #artistherapy #glastonburyartist https://www.instagram.com/p/CBG-AkNllwx/?igshid=brfmhv4efv1j