Paula Geraghty

I think one of my top 5 political ephemera. A student leaflet from Sudan 2017. I spotted in my photo library the boycott lettuce from the United farm workers campaign from 1973, I think. Third a print I fortuously got from an NYC fundraiser for Beirut after the port explosion.

Can't believe it's 2013 again and we're forcing teenage asylum seekers to go to court again

High Court sanctions termination of 15-year-old girl’s pregnancy Girl told doctors she would ‘cut the baby out myself’ if termination not permitted

We need to get rid of the 12 week limit to abortion access for many reasons. But forcing a teenage asylum seeker who is having mental health problems, possibly due to being pregnant, to go to court to access care is abhorrent

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Judicial reviews serve the common good Rather than castigating public-spirited ordinary people concerned by planning problems, the Government should focus on properly resourcing the planning and legal systems

Judicial reviews are very often the last resort local communities have in defending nature against greedy corporate interests + rotten planning.

The gov. wants to undermine that via false blame for the housing crisis, etc.

Must read by @attractaub.bsky.social
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In Denmark, refugees are given temporary residence permits, typically of two years, and in effect have to re-apply for asylum when they expire. A previous presumption in the Danish system to extend permits was scrapped. Even for those who are allowed to extend multiple times, the route to citizenship has grown longer and harder. The Danish approach is admired by UK government ministers, including Mahmood, who point out that as the Social Democrat party's immigration policies hardened their poll ratings rose - and those of a populist right-wing movement, the People's Party, fell. The home secretary believes that unless Labour takes similar decisions then "darker forces" could thrive in the UK.

You are the ‘darker forces’, Home Secretary.

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Arundhati Roy: 'India is becoming a Hindu fascist enterprise' | #ajopinion

"The bulldozing of Muslim homes is showing that India is “transitioning pretty brazenly into a criminal Hindu fascist enterprise”, says author Arundhati Roy"

I’ve just OD’d on some very nice cheese and crackers. Send help!

Leaflet asking for donations for refugees from Northern Ireland. Shannon circa 1971.

Puking and crying at the thought of trans people in Ghana getting access to microcredit

YouTube video by Billy Shitcheese Underground Resistance - The Final Frontier [HD]

Can't beat a bit of UR for some futuristic jazz #raveyardshift
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Leon Diop: ‘The far right want to turn this into an immigrant problem, but they just don’t like black and brown people’ The founder of advocacy group Black and Irish on the childhood racism he experienced in Tallaght, overcoming his identity crisis, and the recent violence in Citywest

I interviewed the very thoughtful Leon Diop cofounder of Black and Irish about his new memoir www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Ann Lovett's Letters (demo) Stream Ann Lovett's Letters (demo) by Fierce Mild music on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

A song about Anne Lovett, by the Irish Queer band Fierce Mild “Anne Lovett’s Letters”. Cara and I were driving somewhere and I commented how Anne was nowhere in popular culture, she’s been doubly erased. Cara and her band rectified that.

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"Rather than retreat from the horrors of slavery as was happening in Central and South America, Southern states in America committed to a new era of harsher conditions, dehumanizing control, and brutal punishment of enslaved people."

It's funny being a member of two 'minority' communities, you get tokenised at each angle. As a Black woman & Gaeilgeoir, people feel they can easily box you into certain categories and assume your interests.

Who Pays When A.I. Is Wrong?

"Who Pays When A.I. Is Wrong? New court cases [in the US] seek to define content created by artificial intelligence as defamatory — a novel concept that has captivated some legal experts."

Provide Safe Shelter For All People Seeking Safety .

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: no one should have to sleep out in the rain. my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr... @uplift.ie

ILI Conference 2025 People · Process · Place · Possibility 09:00- 17:30 on 7th November at Chartered Accountants House, Pearse St, Dublin 2

I’ll be giving the closing address at the Irish Landscape Institute’s conference in Dublin next week about various ideas emerging from my Saving The City podcast series.

If you haven’t listened to the series yet, please do!

It’s on all platforms, and the feedback has been really heartening.

A cartoon showing a man between a white construction worker and a black man. He points to the black man and says "Careful mate ... that foreigner wants your cookie" The man in the middle has a plate full of cookies; the construction worker has one cookie; the black man has no cookies.

I'm pro-union because I think workers should organize to balance the power that business owners have in various negotiations. It's true that unions have been weakened, but it's not because of multiculturalism. I would argue, it's because people seek to exploit divisions for their material interests.

Is this the same asylum system that his party/government set up, that both FF and FG have run for years separately and together, that made millions for themselves and their developer pals, that refugees and NGOs have literally protested against for years because the system is not working and cruel.🤔

The Government could nationalise all privately rented accomodation for £792bn and all £80bn a year profit it makes would go to the Government.

6m Social Houses in 1 day.

‘General strike if necessary’: Alberta unions declare intent to bring down UCP government | Globalnews.ca Leaders from unions representing hundreds of thousands of Albertans stood in solidarity while saying they are exploring the process or triggering a general, province-wide strike.

"Not necessarily a general strike, but a general strike if necessary."

#abpoli #cdnpoli

Not one of the problems faced by people in Ireland is caused by immigration - every single one of them is a result of over a century of rule by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil.
As they pivot to naked racism to win over the crayon brigade to prop up their terminally dwindling influence, remember that.

So unsurprising.

Govt should reconsider immigration policies, says Harris Tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris has said Ireland's asylum seeker system is not working and that the Government should reconsider existing policies "in a very serious way".

This pile of riot-appeasing baloney can roll right down the beach and cheerfully sink beneath the waves.

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Poppy pizzas, clearly not quiches before you pipe up. Regurgitated from my Twitter account

We will fight them on the quiches

Government asks councils to limit media access to new policing committees The National Union of Journalists has said there should be a presumption in favour of meetings being held in public.

This is nothing short of disgraceful. But of course, there's no guarantee the news media would actually devote the resources to staffing JPC meetings anyway. A republic -- if you can keep it. jrnl.ie/6852400

Shireen Abu Akleh was an American citizen and journalist who was assassinated by Israel in broad daylight while wearing a blue PRESS vest.

David Quinn • @DavQuinn • 3h (Further to my comments on RTE yesterday, and please read to end!) Those who run @FineGael probably think people like me want them to re-embrace the 8th amendment or something like that. We know that is totally unrealistic. But here are some things they could do (in no particular order): 1. Admit immigration is too high. 2. Stop pandering to left-wing NGOs and the left in general. 3. Defend free speech. 4. Stand up to those who think men are toxic. 5. Admit men can't get pregnant. 6. Oh, and give tax-payers a break for crying out loud, like you're supposed to do! You're Fine Gael, after all.

Amazing how a few spoiled votes gives them the confidence to say the quiet part out loud & hoping to shift the Overton Window with a few far right dog whistles. Especially in a country that has just voted overwhelmingly for a socialist, inclusive, anti war head of state. #speirgorm #Áras2025

Anything but acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, people do want something different, and came together on the ground to work for it.

Looking like a resounding victory for Catherine Connolly.

A huge moment for the united left in Ireland, for the many young people whose energy and optimism fuelled Connolly’s campaign, and a pretty clear rejection of uninspiring government party candidates who couldn’t offer a vision.

#Aras25