Jess Spear 🇵🇸
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@pb4p Cllr for Tallaght Central | Former climate scientist | | Editor @RuptureMag_ | Member of @RiseSocialists & @GEcoSocialistN
Dublin via Seattle (she/her)
Joined July 2012
Huge march for Palestine demanding the Irish government act now to stop the genocide. - Expel the Israeli ambassador.- Economic sanctions on Israel.- No shamrocks for Genocide Joe
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Far right outside my house again. This time they decided to ring the bell. I'm glad I checked before I answered. Why do they always come at my baby's bedtime?
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What the hell is this? I left after 6 hrs before any doctor even saw me. What exactly do you want payment for? Sitting on a chair?
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152 people in Tallaght hospital A&E with more coming in. (I'm here with possible appendicitis). They told us it'll be at least a 10.5hr wait. The healthcare system is completely broken. Meanwhile, gov is sitting on an enormous surplus.
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How did we let anyone convince us that this beautiful flower is unsightly?
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Lots of people have asked, what did you have? . We had a healthy baby. ❤️. And, we are trying to create a home environment which doesn't place limits or expectations on what Juniper is interested in or who they will become. That is all.
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It's pretty jarring that Lidl stocks Lupilu products made in Israel considering Israeli bombs have now killed over 5,500 children, including babies in incubators who died from lack of electricity. Join us to demand @lidl_ireland remove the Israeli stock!
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All TDs should boycott the White House St. Patrick's Day celebrations! . Sign the petition 👉
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Thanks @Independent_ie for another round of abuse about our new baby.
@Independent_ie I agreed to do interview with journalist Ali Bracken about why PBP boycotted Biden's speech. After interview about Biden was finished, she asked me about how parenting is going. I assumed (naively) we were just chatting as people do. I didn't agree to be interviewed about this.
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While FG and FF try to rewrite history, do not forget who pushed the hardest in the Dail and worked to use their platforms to build the movement in the streets for #repealthe8th and legislation for choice
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"9 in 10 adults would be willing to leave the car at home in favor of walking, cycling or using public transport for short journeys.". Those of us who want more pedestrianisation and cycle lanes need to become louder than the car park owners.
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As if caring for our new baby wasn't challenging enough. 🙄.
Far right protesting outside our home right now. We were literally preparing to give our newborn baby a bath.
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Best day ever ❤️.Thanks so much to my amazing partner who supported me throughout this journey.
Welcome to the world Juniper Hampton Murphy. @jdubspear and Juniper are healthy and doing well. Thanks to all of the staff at the Coombe who have made it a great experience. A pretty great day all around. 😊
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the more i think about it, the angrier i feel. How many other people, like me, left because they couldn't wait any longer, but still got a bill written in ALL CAPS threatening to send a debt collector their way if they don't pay?.
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After almost 4 years, 2 IVF cycles, and way too many scans, pills, and injections to count, we are here💗.
Here's a picture of @jdubspear and my current babies to let you know that we are expecting a non-furry baby next February.
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We need a 4 day/30hr work week without loss in pay! Less work, more leisure, more time with family, friends, hobbies, etc. Reduced emissions and would create more jobs.
Spain’s deputy PM proposes four-day working week – on same pay
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You can't be asking the plebs to give up cars if you aren't even willing to make the obscenely rich give up their air yachts.
Commentators have criticised proposed legislation to ban most private jets from Irish airspace. “If People Before Profit really care about the environment, do something useful."
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also, to any Americans out there still thinking Ireland has universal healthcare - we don't.
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Pictures just can't convey how lovely our back garden is after adding a pond and 4 years of no mowing (I trim some of the grass by hand and tend lightly). I'll zoom in to show you some of the wildflowers that bloomed during #NoMowMay ⤵️
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I've been letting the middle of my verge grow for months now, while keeping the sides trimmed. The ragwort was *just* about to bloom. Came home today to find one of my neighbours mowed it all down. All of it. 😭. It now looks like a barren wasteland.
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I really hate how the media cover budget day. "Budget giveaway!" they exclaim, like we all won a lottery. I dont want energy credits. I want price controls & free retrofitting. I want investment in free public childcare so I dont have to take unpaid maternity leave #Budget2024.
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Unfortunately, dirty tricks are taking place in the Tallaght Central election campaign. One of the establishment party candidates has been spreading the rumour that I am being “deceitful” in hiding my connection with Paul Murphy, the People Before Profit TD. 1/8.
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The state of this headline and image! Fucking hell. 🤦♀️. Headline should have been:."If the planet warms more than 1.5°C there will be significant increases in food and water shortages and extreme weather events.".
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Big crowd gathered to oppose the far right. Refugees are welcome, racists not. No to division. Fight the real enemy.
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Thanks to everyone who volunteered & supported our campaign. We've won a platform to build our campaigns on housing, public services, & climate action. With @kaykeane14 @Taiwo_Oifigiuil & hopefully @cllrjohansson we'll have a formidable team of socialist councillors on SDCC.
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🖕to the indo for printing a casual conversation at the end of an interview just for the clicks.
New dad says he knew the decision to raise baby as gender neutral would cause some discussion, ‘but I didn’t expect it to take off like it did’
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My phone rings and I answer. Is this Jess Spear?.Yes. Yeah, I got your leaflet in the door - it says you moved here to murder unborn babies. I hang up. The far right are clearly emboldened. It's not just houses they want to burn down. They'll be coming after women's rights too.
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My 1st motion to make our Council an Apartheid-Free Zone was finally voted on today & passed despite some really ridiculous arguments against. I urged Council staff to break the (EU procurement) law - don't allow our council to have anything to do w/ the israeli apartheid state
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Who cares what Alison O'Connor thinks about nationalisation of energy? I'm so tired of these journalists rolling their eyes acting like we cant do things when very clearly we can & must. These are the same ppl that excuse inadequate climate targets b/c "politics". #TonightVMTV.
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Twice daily shots, mood swings, severe fatigue. It's hard to explain how much IVF disrupts your body and your life. The high cost makes it so much more stressful. IVF should be publicly provided as part of a fully funded NHS, free from church control.
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I used to work in an Irish hotel cleaning rooms - it's hell. You're always rushing and constantly sore from lifting heavy laundry bags and moving beds. On top of that, because we were almost all migrants who didn't know our rights, our wages were stolen.
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My baby just fell asleep on our walk and I feel like popping a bottle of champagne 🎉. For the last 3 months they have only ever napped on me or my partner. I feel like I just leveled up and unlocked a new power or something.
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Fixed that for you!. Excited to join @pb4p as @RISEsocialists network. Together we can build an ecosocialist party to kick out FF & FG, build workers power, tackle climate change & biodiversity loss with a socialist #GreenNewDeal & end this rotten capitalist system. #RISEwithPBP
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The working class of Tallaght South have elected an incredibly dedicated socialist campaigner. ✊🚩.
"The workers united will never be defeated" rings out as Kay Keane gets a brilliant result for People Before Profit in Tallaght South!. Kay is a proven local campaigner, and will be a serious fighter for working people on SDCC. #peoplebeforeprofit
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what the hell is wrong with men who have nothing better to do with their time than to expose themselves in a zoom meeting about ending gender violence.
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At the #UnitedForChoice counter rally to say loud and clear, we're not going back! End the 3-day wait, expand access to every local area.
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Are you actually claiming that a massive electricity & water guzzling data centre heating a few buildings is decarbonization? . These bohemoths are responsible for ~15% of our electricity consumption & growing. They make reducing emissions harder, not easier!.
One of Ireland's first district heating programmes has started operating. The Tallaght District Heating Scheme takes waste heat from an Amazon data centre and uses it to heat South Dublin County Council offices and a local library | Read more:
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Well, whoop dee doo for you. My experience of life is that most members of my family are so overburdened by their own struggle to pay bills, access healthcare, etc that they almost never have the capacity to help/care for other family members.
Leo Varadkar on the Six O' Clock Show. He talks about the importance of care within the family and the state should strive to support that. Leo saying the quiet part outloud. He goes on to say he personally doesn't believe it's the State's responsibility but the families'
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But, why would I promote it? . This is 2024. I chose not to take his name. Furthermore, women should not be judged by whom they are married to and politics shouldn’t be built on nepotism. I was a socialist activist before I met Paul. In fact, it's how we met each other. 3/8.
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From 1 to 4! 🥳✊🚩. The People Before Profit team of councillors on SDCC and the working class communities we represent will benefit hugely from the experience and leadership of this brilliant socialist councillor!.
At about 3am last night I was re-elected to the council when I won the last seat against runner-up Paul Gogarty. I'm also beyond delighted that 3 new PBP councillors will join me, Darragh Adelaide(Clondalkin), Kay Keane(Tallaght South) and Jess Spear (Tallaght Central)
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Holding a minister to account for giving a highly paid & extremely powerful job to someone who illegally donated to their party & campaign is not the fucking same as Holly Cairns getting stalked and harassed.
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Good to see support for my first motion to council 🇵🇸✊🏻.
South Dublin County Council votes to become an “apartheid free-zone” and to boycott all Israeli goods. Labour Party’s Joanna Tuffy, Independent Ireland’s Linda de Courcy and Irish Freedom Party’s Glen Moore oppose a boycott against Israeli goods. Fine Gael abstain.
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This man 👇helps no one. He has no solutions to the crises we face other than to punch down at the most vulnerable in society. Who does he go after here? Not the gov. No, he goes after the *only* TD holding Leo Varadkar to account for his corruption.
Everyone is saying im a landlord witch im not so i went to the man who spreads the lies paul murphy and called him out to his face and he went white no point in reporting him as the state gives him special privilege in the dail to say whatever he wants #irelandisfull
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👉Expel the Israeli ambassados.👉Sanction Israel.👉Boycott the Whitehouse St Patrick's Day celebrations.
The scenes from Rafah are horrifying. Israel is bombarding a tent city into which they pushed 1 million+ Palestinians. Varadkar, Martin: do something concrete. Challenge the US, the EU & the UK publicly. Charge them with genocide. Use all your pressure to halt Israel's rampage.
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Had a lady tell me yesterday that I, a person with a home, a job, and family living nearby, was more vulnerable than a migrant living in a cramped direct provision centre. They've brainwashed you, she said.
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I left my climate science career to help build campaigns because it was clear to me that more data wasn't enough, we need people-powered movements. I'm proud to stand for @pb4p in Tallaght Central. Councils have a big role to play in speeding up climate action in a fair way.
🧵Results of @NHNAireland ‘s Climate Pledge for local election candidates. The Pledge asked candidates to commit to taking action on two key climate issues: Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and data centres . #LocalElection2024 #LE2024
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Why are you muddying the water? The dogs on the street know that PBP are calling out the bigots and racists. Why else were they protesting outside my house!?. Disgraceful to be suggesting that we're saying this nonsense 👇 You'd wanna have look at your own party.
@saoi4climate I've no interest in scoring points. If political people are attempting to say the actions of racist bigots are caused by anyone but the bigots themselves, I'll challenge that. I'm happy to call out anyone who I feel is giving cover to these "protestors".
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Well done to the 457 greens who saw this #PfG for what it was and said, not good enough. #GreenParty.
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Y'all this is a good thing. Less cars polluting the air, more space to walk, safer streets for cyclists. I want councils to go further! Pedestrianise all city centres, tax SUVs out of existence, free public transport, ebike & escooter rentals all over.
With a ban on private cars and commercial vehicles travelling through Dublin city centre to be in place by August, Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan says there will soon be a tipping point where cycling will become the main form of transport.
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Paul Murphy is in a real fight to defend a seat in DublinSW - a seat won in opposition to water charges & used to build movements for abortion rights, housing, fair climate action, and against corruption. #KeepPaulintheDail. Get in touch if you can help in the final days!
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Whatever the outcome of the election, I & @pb4p will continue to campaign for housing, public services, and for real climate action that targets the big polluters and benefits working class people. Thank you to all our supporters! We could not have done it without you. ❤️
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If you agree with Paul Murphy and People Before Profit’s politics and want to see our people-powered approach on the Council, please give me (or your local PBP candidate) your No. 1 vote. 8/8.
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It is a strange form of hiding given that Paul is on my election posters and leaflets! It’s clear to anyone paying attention that we are connected. What they are getting at is that I’m not promoting the fact that Paul and I are married. 2/8.
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Yet another example of why just "more women" at the table does not equal better policies. When we say "more women" we need to qualify that we want women who will actually support women workers and poor women. #IWD2021.
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@LisaWhelanlisa Do you really think people just go to A&E for the fun of it? My GP told me to go if it got worse as she couldn't give me the treatment I needed.
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I have my own mind and my own record of campaigning. Before I moved to Ireland, I was the lead organiser of the successful campaign to win a $15/hour minimum wage in Seattle. I helped to elect the first socialist city councilmember in Seattle in 100 years. 4/8.
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RIP John Molyneux, a good friend, tireless activist, and incredibly encouraging comrade who I was privileged to work alongside these past 3 years in XR, PBP, and the Global Ecosocialist Network. 1/4
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Let's hope this is the beginning of a housing movement that grows in numbers and militancy. #PublicHomesOnPublicLand
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All the reps and TDs giving space to this, all the parties moving to the right on immigration, this is on you. What a horrific way to die. My heart goes out to his family and friends.
"Speak English, you are in Ireland".Absolutely horrific hate.
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We really gotta stop with this "we" talk. "We" don't control the economy, the capitalists do. They decided to invest nearly 2 trillion in fossil fuels after the Paris talks, to wrap everything in plastic, to put profits above people & planet. "We" didn't do this harm, they did.
More than half of all CO2 emissions in all of human history have been released since the first IPCC assessment report in 1990. We've done more harm to the climate system knowingly than we ever did before scientists' warnings.
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Yet another example of why #moremná isn't enough. We need to take into account their politics.
I mean there is a LOT wrong in here around Covid but I nearly howled when she referred to the ‘800 years of common travel’ between here and ‘the mainland’ at the end
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"Your home – your place in the world, your refuge, the stage for all the private dramas of your intimate life – can be taken away from you at any time, through no fault of your own, for the financial benefit of someone wealthier than you are.".
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The roadside verges in Tallaght are covered in gorgeous dandelions 😍 Please don't mow @sdublincoco !
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Citizens assemblies show that ordinary ppl, when presented w/ the science, are more than willing to recommend radical policies, policies that NGOs have been demanding for decades. They expose the lie, used by govs everywhere, that ppl won't support the necessary changes. 1/2.
We are met with bad news about the ecological crisis everyday. One glimmer of hope for me has been the worlds citizens assemblies around ecological issues. Ireland just concluded their assembly on biodiversity, and like other assemblies, the results were inspiring. A 🧵
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Tell me you're a climate denier without telling me you're a climate denier.
1/4 Super to join @DublinAirport & @Ryanair this morning for the launch of their summer season 2022 which includes 120 destinations & over 900 flights to and from Dublin every week ✈️🏖 @Dept_Transport @merrionstreet
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@clhubes I saw a reel that claimed to be a "tip from a cleaner" and the "tip" was literally just move stuff the you need to sweep under or around. As opposed to what? How is this a tip??.
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Business?!. My dude, it is a lake. Your "product" is sand that the earth made over millions of years.
"I'd like to be treated as any other business owner and the business has a value." .The earl who owns the bed of the UK's largest freshwater lake says he would consider selling it to the public, amid concerns about the future of #Lough Neagh:
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PBP are for. ✅Zero emissions by 2030 - there is no time to lose!.✅Green & care jobs programme.✅Free & frequent public transport.✅A just & democratic transition that leaves no workers or communities behind.✅Democratic public ownership of key industries to plan the transition.
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This is embarrassing. It's 2023, CO2 is 418 ppm, emissions are still rising, and new oil fields are opening. But yes, tell us more about how we shouldn't tackle our highest emitting sector or how we should just ignore the impact it has on our water quality and ecosystems.
This has got to be one of the most absurd proposals I’ve ever seen. Cull 200k cows to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. What’s guarantee suppliers from elsewhere, who fill demand, would be better? . This is a country with 50km (!) of electrified rail.
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I have been involved in numerous campaigns for housing and renters' rights. I am also a former climate scientist and have been an environmental activist for the last twenty years. 5/8.
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AstroTurf? Who do these mf think they're kidding? "Green corridor"? More like plastic dead zone. We will be vigorously opposing this crap plan.
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Yes let's go after families buying too much fruit and cheap clothes. God forbid we invest in public transport or reduce working hours. That'd make environmentalism too effective and appealing to the plebs.
Ban on ‘two for one’ food deals and fines for not separating rubbish are being considered
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How quickly ppl forget NATO's role in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, or US imperialism's role in too many countries to list. Being anti-war means being against all warmongers. We don't rely on them. We build & support the anti-war movement everywhere to shut the war machine down.
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Must be all that blaming the government we've been doing, telling the racists not to worry. .
This man (who called himself Joseph Attley) came up to our @pb4p pro-choice stall today and told me he would slit my wife's throat before the end of the week. These are the people who claim to be "protecting women".
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Ya'll - @cmkshama will be speaking at @BernieSanders rally tonight at SafeCo field, 5:30pm. Don't miss it!
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Here in Tallaght, I was an activist for Repeal the 8th. More recently, I helped to organise the campaign for investment in Watergate Park, for a zebra crossing in my own estate, and am currently one of the main organisers of the ongoing campaign to save Tallaght Post office. 6/8.
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This is only a few of the campaigns I’ve been involved in since moving to Ireland in 2017. I’m not hiding the fact that I’m married to Paul. But it’s not a reason to vote for me. 7/8.
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If you can vote #1 for @BrigidPurcell . This is about more than an election - its about building ppl power movements that are the only chance we have to get rid of this rotten capitalist system that destroys so many lives and is destroying our environment. We have no time to lose
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Labour voted against repeal when Ruth Coppinger put it forward but ok.
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Today marks 365 days of struggle by the ex Debenhams workers for their redundancy. Rain or shine they haven't given up the fight, showing all workers that the only way to fight against injustice is to stand together.
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Out leafleting around the Square in Tallaght, lots of people saying they'll be at the #CostOfLivingCrisis pre-budget march this Saturday, 2:30 Parnell Square.
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I want to know how the Greens can stand over this. How the hell are we supposed to *rapidly* transition to renewables when these monsters are drastically increasing our energy needs?. We need a ban on new data centres now.
New stats from @CSOIreland on data centre electricity consumption. Data centres in Ireland now consume as much metered electricity as all urban dwellings combined. Electricity consumption by data centres increased by 31% in '22. This is unsustainable.
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All out on Saturday, Sept 24th, 2:30PM Parnell Square for the @COLCIreland pre-budget protest. #CostOfLivingSept24
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Giveaway to whom?. If 97% of people aren't affected by the inheritance tax, then it's clear this is a gift to the very, very wealthy. #Budget2025
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Thanks to Eoghan for compiling some of the evidence that shows how gendering your baby impacts how they are raised. 👇.
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ESB workers on strike today to demand consultation with their union - the Independent Workers Union - and to fight against privatisation. Go down to a picket today if you can and support them!
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My baby lives rent free in far right heads 😂. Seriously though these people want to stop society moving forward. They're anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ and anti-women.
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@kostralee @Jonathan0Connor @TDrainlayer @gazmogazmo23 Jaysus you ppl show yourselves as completely clueless and only too happy to punch down whenever it's clear as day the problem is the government. Asylum seekers have been campaigning for the "right to work" for years.
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