Jay Gearing

I 🩷 Chauffeurs Cottage #Peterborough @MetalPeterb @easternangles @JayGearing @KeelyMillsPoet Over the years I’ve been involved in many arts meetings & events in this much-loved creative hub. Today’s #BatOutOfPeterborough was another cracker. This space would be sorely missed.

@xavinisms @MetalPeterb Hey love, I had the same but just clicked through and it seemed to work. If you have a Peterborough postcode that also helps btw! Not with the captcha thing though

@JayGearing @MetalPeterb Hey babe im trying to do it but it doesnt let me as it doesnt show the security code?! Ive tried in three different browsers now :/

For those of you that love @MetalPeterb please share widely so we can save them from disappearing from Peterborough peterborough.moderngov.co.uk/mgEPetitionDis…

My thoughts on the assassination attempt on former President Trump: The assassination of Trump would not remove the yearning of tens of millions of people, many conditioned by the Christian right, for a cult leader. Most of the leaders of the Christian right have built cult followings of their own. These Christian fascists embraced magical thinking, attacked their enemies as agents of Satan and denounced reality-based science and journalism long before Trump did. Cults are a product of social decay and despair, and our decay and despair are expanding, soon to explode in another financial crisis. The efforts by the Democratic Party and much of the press, including CNN and The New York Times, to discredit Trump, as if our problems are embodied in him, are futile. The smug, self-righteousness of this crusade against Trump only contributes to the national reality television show that has replaced journalism and politics. This crusade attempts to reduce a social, economic and political crisis to the personality of Trump. It is accompanied by a refusal to confront and name the corporate forces responsible for our failed democracy. This collusion with the forces of corporate oppression, which have impoverished the working class, fostered endless war, militarized our police, created the largest prison system in the world, licensed corporations to exploit the most vulnerable and transferred wealth upwards into the hands of a billionaire class, neuters the press, Trump's critics and the Democratic Party. Our only hope is to organize the overthrow of the corporate state that vomited up Trump. Our democratic institutions, including the legislative bodies, the courts and the media, are hostage to corporate power. They are no longer democratic. We must, like resistance movements of the past, engage in acts of sustained mass civil disobedience, especially strikes, and non-cooperation. By turning our ire on the corporate state, rather than Trump, we name the true sources of power and abuse. We expose the absurdity of blaming our demise on demonized groups such as undocumented workers, Muslims, African-Americans, Latinos, liberals, feminists, gays and others. We give people an alternative to a bankrupt Democratic Party -- whose presidential candidate is in clear cognitive decline -- that is a full partner in corporate oppression and cannot be rehabilitated. We make possible the restoration of an open society. If we fail to embrace this militancy, which alone has the ability to destroy cult leaders, we will continue the march toward tyranny.

@ReynaerdeJames I know you’re not endorsing. I kinda (uncharacteristically) agree with the journos. Peterborough for example, super marginal, got a Labour MP, lost nearly 10% of the vote share. I don’t see that as deliberate

@ReynaerdeJames I’m not sure it’s a strategy though. If Reform hadn’t of stood the Tories would still be in power. Labour lost votes in some areas, including Peterborough. It’s not a win, it’s getting in because the other did worse.

@ReynaerdeJames Nah. They got barely any shift in votes. They won because the Tories haemorrhaged votes to Reform. Starmer disliked by the electorate, lost loads of votes in his own seat.

Stop calling us fucking ordinary

@estellecostanza And if you do that, something interesting happens. The word “cruel” starts flashing

@OwenJones84 They’re clearly too ashamed of actually saying it directly though

The Sun backs Labour. If this vile cesspit is happy with Starmer as PM - why do you think you will be? The Tories are toast. Vote Green with no risk. Send Labour a message.

A project I believe in so was more than happy to be involved. Working class people representing working class interests. More of this please.

I made another film with those lovely people @uniofeastanglia about the importance of sanctuary scholarships for people with backgrounds of forced displacement

Cancer vaccines! Yes, you read that right, affordable cancer vaccines. Filmed this short earlier this year, what a pleasure it was, especially considering the subject matter. Well done humans.

@meadwaj As long as they drastically rethink how New Towns are built and last since the last ones. I live in one and from a good start, it didn’t turn out too well

Starmer pledge for New Towns is new for him, I think? (And good.)

International film recognition for #Peterborough filmmaker. The project saw a two-week choreographic residency at @MetalPeterb, and a week-long residency in Poland. We caught up with Director and Filmmaker Jay Gearing @Red7Productions to hear more... rb.gy/mbgn9

Letterfrom Peterborough Museum Society expressing our deep concern over ⁦@PeterboroughCC⁩’s plans for the cultural and heritage services in the city. ⁦@PeterboroughCS⁩ ⁦@PaulStainton⁩ cambsnews.co.uk/news/letter-pr…

I'm absolutely ecstatic that our film "Pióra" has been officially selected for San Francisco Dance Film Festival! Beyond ecstatic to be honest!

Went and got myself a new website. Check it out. Massive thanks to Matt at @Free_Thinking for giving me last minute advice! red7productions.com

Out now. This episode I talk to Emma Spearing, actor & writer, about the profound loss of an identical twin to cancer. pod.fo/e/17d159

Good Grief is now #8 in the Apple Podcast charts! So you should probably listen to it as well now… podfollow.com/good-grief (#8 in Bulgaria but shhhhh)