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Campaign to devolve the Crown Estate to Wales launched

Siarter Cartrefi, in partnership with Beth Winter MP and Liz Saville Roberts MP, will be holding an open meeting, with the support of Michael Sheen, to launch a new campaign focused on devolving the Crown Estate to Wales.

Beth Winter and Liz Saville Roberts will give an update on the Cross Party Bill in Parliament to Devolve the Crown Rights and a short video message of support from Michael Sheen will be screened, before opening up to a discussion on the future of the campaign. The meeting will take place online on 30 January at 7pm.

This event aims to pull together individuals and organisations in a sustained joint campaign that will demand the devolution of the Crown Estate with the profits directed into a Sovereign Wealth Fund, managed by the Welsh Government, for community benefit.

Siarter Cartrefi, the Welsh Housing Justice Charter, is a grassroots organisation that brings together community activists from across Wales, collaborating with third sector, campaign organisations, Welsh Government and others.

In the spring of last year, Siarter Cartrefi co-produced Ten Recommendations to the Welsh Government via a community consultation and Emergency Housing Conference, devolving the Crown Estate was one of them, and was seen as a way to secure a more sustainable future for Welsh communities.

The Crown Estate is a collection of land and assets owned by the Crown, but managed by an independent trust. Its profits are funnelled into the UK Treasury, and 25% of revenues into the Sovereign grant, paid for the upkeep of the royal family.

The Crown Estate in Wales owns about 65% of the Welsh foreshore and riverbed, and more than 50,000 acres of land. In 2020-21, the value of the estate went from £96.8m to £603m, reflecting the value of the land for renewable development and other projects.

The estimated annual revenue in 2020-2021 was £8.7m.  As revealed by Cymru Republic, the value in 2023 is £853m.

Since 2016, the Crown Estate has been devolved in Scotland.

Catrin O Neill, founding member of Siarter Cartrefi said: “Devolution of the Crown Estate is a key recommendation from our community consultation work. The people of Wales increasingly see this as a really important cause.

“In the coming weeks we will be working with other campaigners to build momentum behind this fundamental issue. Wales should benefit directly from the profits of renewable energy, and to use this money to address the poverty and inequality in communities across Wales.”

Dylan Lewis Rowlands, member of Siarter Cartrefi said: “Our work on housing in Wales proved that, as the title of our report states, Housing is not just about Housing.

“Housing is a fundamental bedrock of communities, but there are so many inter-related issues that we could not ignore them. We are working on this campaign as a natural next step of our work, and we must win it, for the future of our communities in Wales”

The meeting will take place online, on 30 January at 7pm. Join via the Eventbrite link here.

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#OnlyOnK5NewsFM: Show Creator of 'High Guardian Spice' indefinitely resigned and cancelled after One Season due to mass criticism of anti-LGBT, yet sold by force to a different independent animation company [DEVELOPING STORY]

BURBANK, CALIFORNIA -- Crunchyroll Originals' Cuba-American animated cartoon show 'High Guardian Spice' was cancelled after one season without ever receiving any remakes or revivals to the web series.

Show creator and executive producer of Crunchy Onigiri named Mr. Raye Rodriguez, expressed in a combined Instagram and X Network social media webcomic art posts (owned by Meta Platforms Inc. [MPi] and X Corporation) on Monday (June 3rd, 2024 -- Pacific local time), that he is now ready to quietly resign and cut ties indefinitely with Crunchyroll Onigiri as a show creator of HGS.

This developing decision comes in the wake of a wave of hate-bombing, online harassment, death threats and mass cyber-gaslighting targeting him to Mr. Rodriguez and the show due to its LGBTQ+ representation: "High Guardian Spice is imperfect, I knew it while we were making it. I never needed years of mean comments, direct messages, and YouTube videos to make me see its flaws. Even so, I still believe there is something special and good at the core of HGS, and it's why people are so obsessed with its faults. They can see its potential too. It's been nearly 5 years since I finished working on HGS and I've have to move on for my own sanity. I wish I could remake it closer to my original idea, but I don't own the rights to that story anymore. I can't do anything with it. So I'm focusing my creative energy on the characters, I can move forward with instead", Mr. Rodriguez said in a public statement via Instagram webcomic post.

Despite the worst cartoon series in the world, the Cuban-American cartoon show faced mixed reviews and controversy. Some viewers enjoyed it, while others criticized it so much. DWFH-FM 97.7mhz's K5 News FM: Dumaguete was the first to learn that the likelihood of a 2nd Season turned out to be an absolute bust, scrapped by Crunchyroll in California, United States of America (U.S.A.). The marketing team failed to impress and creativity was never realized, with the wrongfully targeted demographic audience for the undecided take between the anime and cartoons.

Backlash arose online, fuelled by anti-LGBTQ sentiment, that led to a toxic social media environment, with pure negative criticism and hateful comments directed at Mr. Rodriguez and the show. With that, the endangered level of harassment became too much, leading to Rodriguez's stepping away from his project and cancelling the show: "I've got a lot of feelings about the way HGS has gone, from inception to production to release. Maybe one day I'll feel comfortable enough to talk about my thoughts publicly. But also… maybe not. Thank you to the genuine HGS fans out there, the fact that my silly adventure show meant something to you means everything to me", his statement concluded in his social media post by Mr. Rodriguez.

The resignation of Rodriguez and the cancellation of 'High Guardian Spice' shall bring a lawless bad ending to the struggles of the LGBTQ+ content creators within the show business and the importance of safe and diverse spaces for the marginalized voices. Yet, he will soon selling out to a different independent animation company like DillonGoo Studios & Glitch Productions for 'High Guardian Spice', and it will exclusively be distributed to Amazon Prime Video & Apple TV+, instead of the main Crunchyroll streaming platform.

For now, you can still stream the best of 'High Guardian Spice' available on Crunchyroll until it's permanently delisted from the said streaming platform, which hopefully, will be a few to several years from today.

Just a heads-up! This is a developing story. We'll update the rest as new information becomes available. Thank you!

FILE POSTER PHOTO COURTESY: Crunchy Onigiri BACKGROUND PROVIDED BY: Tegna

SOURCE: *https://www.instagram.com/p/C7uI4Vvp9_5/ [Referenced Instagram Webcomic Post via DinoRaye] *https://old.reddit.com/r/HighGuardianSpice/comments/qo2feh/unlikely_to_get_a_season_2/ [Referenced Subreddit Post via Pinolero90 of /r/HGS/] and *https://www.themarysue.com/crunchyrolls-high-guardian-spice-internets-most-unfairly-maligned-anime/ [Referenced Classic Editorial Article via The Mary Sue]

-- OneNETnews Online Publication Team