“Just the empathy and the love and the power. It’s draíocht, it’s magic.” This time last year we welcomed Damien Dempsey to The MAC for the launch of the Ticking Boxes music video, created by bereaved families calling for an end to preventable harm and death in our mental health system.

PPR & Anaka activist Emily Humphreys wrote an article for @amnestyuk.bsky.social detailing her experience of the emergency solidarity response to the racist pogroms in July 💛 Read the full piece here 👉 www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Today is Prescribed Harm Day. It's time to change the script. Today, New Script stands in solidarity with our friends and colleagues at Stephen’s Voice, Antidepressant Risks, and Drop the Disorder, who are working tirelessly to raise awareness of prescribed harm and campaign for safer prescribing.

Today marks 75 years of the Refugee Convention, the legal framework that underpins the rights of everyone to seek international safety and protection when they are forced to leave their home. #RefugeesWelcome always.

Health inequalities are produced by unequal social conditions, not simply by unhealthy behaviours. Without confronting these realities, public health risks becoming little more than behaviour change. www.nlb.ie/blog/289/pub...

A night of laughter and solidarity in Belfast after so much fear and violence. Thank you to the Ulster Hall for hosting and to all the performers for lending your time, support and solidarity to us and Anaka Women's Collective! Photo Credit: A Friend Studio

In a new blog on the RISE website, Nathalie Donnelly from @unisonni.bsky.social explores the union’s response to the riots, supporting their 5000 Black and Migrant Workers as well as other displaced individuals and families across the city. Read it here 👉 www.werisetogether.ie/analysis/31/...

UNISON's response: standing up and stepping in | R.I.S.E

The solidarity and the courage of the women of Anaka who stepped in to rescue people from frantic mobs was powerful, inspiring but also contagious.

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Following the 2026 Belfast pogroms, End Deportations Belfast were invited to write for the @ppr-org.bsky.social : We R.I.S.E. Together campaign. Our piece, ‘Pogroms, Paramilitarism and Policing’ offers analysis on years of abject failure to keep communities safe.

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The PSNI are failing in their duties of detecting and investigating crime online from known extremists, even when they lead to intimidation, violence and threats on life.

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New Script stands in solidarity with people with learning disabilities and their families who have fought for accountability for the harm and abuse experienced at Muckamore. Their courage, determination, and unwavering refusal to be silenced were instrumental in bringing about yesterday’s report.

“The brilliant people of Belfast were able to come together and get people to safety, in the failure of any state authority being able to do so.” Our own brilliant Anaka Co-ordinator Michaela was on The View last night as part of a panel discussing responses to the racist violence of last week ✊

“Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” Some of the amazing helpers have shared their experiences of the emergency response to the racist violence that took place across Belfast last week.

For years, the Irish language community have been a vital part of the Kind Economy network. Last week, they stepped up again to support people across Belfast who had been displaced. Read a new blog from Glór na Móna Director Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh 👉 www.werisetogether.ie/analysis/28/...

The far-right are organised in our city, but so are we. We know that the violence which erupted in Belfast last week was organised and targeted, rather than simply an outpouring of emotion about the horrific attack we witnessed on Monday.

As racist attacks spread across Belfast, volunteers and neighbours stepped in to get families to safety, filling a vacuum left by state institutions, writes Chloë Trew (@ppr-org.bsky.social)

Comment: When Belfast burned, it was ordinary people who came to the rescue

Volunteers and neighbours stepped in to get families to safety

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"McMahon of PPR also said authorities should have foreseen the violence. PPR had been “mapping this racist violence since 2024”." www.thecanary.co/global/world... A third summer in a row of racist pogroms should not have come as a surprise. www.nlb.ie/blog @ppr-org.bsky.social

20,000 gather in Belfast to denounce violent racist pogroms

20,000 people turned out in Belfast on Saturday June 13 to show support for people driven from their homes by racist mobs earlier in the week

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Looking for a new role after a long week? 👀 We are #hiring a Part-Time Organiser for the Kind Economy campaign, a network of friends, neighbours, organisations, and businesses who believe in responding to the UK’s ‘hostile environment’ with kindness and solidarity 💛

🚨The social housing waiting list has just hit 50,000 households!🚨 Millions spent on temporary accommodation in hotels while acres of public land lie empty… 🤔 Something isn’t adding up, but the waiting list certainly is. 📈 takebackthecity.ie

Mental distress doesn’t happen in a vacuum. For many asylum seekers and refugees, trying to build a new life for their family in Northern Ireland can be a struggle. Violence, fear, and trauma in their old homes are compounded by poverty and homelessness in their new one.

In March 2025, Communities Minister Gordon Lyons told the Northern Ireland Assembly that he had approved funding for the Housing Executive to purchase 600 homes to use for temporary accommodation 🎉🏠 14 months on, how many of these homes have been purchased…? takebackthecity.ie

We had a great meeting yesterday with activists from the @gmb.org.uk GRASP Programme, chatting to them all about our anti-racism work, the Kind Economy, and the Anaka Women’s Collective! Looking forward to working together in the future! ✊

Great turnout at today’s protest action organised in collaboration with CATU, BRC and Anaka. We took our protest to the DfC, the government body with responsibility of building social housing. This protest was symbolic of our cross-issue unity. From Housing, access to work and Language rights.

We dived a wee bit deeper into the latest hate crime statistics from the PSNI, and what they tell us (or don’t) about the state of racist hate crime across the north… Read the full blog here 👉 www.werisetogether.ie/analysis/24/what-does-the-psnis-new-set-of-hate-crime-statistics-have-to-tell-us?

PPR joins 76 organisations across the UK in signing a joint letter marking #ICESCR50 Everyone should be able to rely on the foundations of a decent life, housing, food, health, and work. @justfairuk.bsky.social is calling on the UK Govt to make these rights real. justfair.org.uk/wp-content/u...

“Trying to start a different conversation about mental health is something that is needed around the world…” Join us to keep the conversation going, and show the government that urgent action must be taken to tackle the mental health crisis, at Stormont on Tuesday 16th June from 1-2pm!

Racist violence is at a crisis point, as PSNI’s most recent hate crime statistics show racist hate crimes and incidents spiralling out of control. @irishnews.com www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Racist violence ‘spiralling out of control’ as four race hate crimes now reported to PSNI every day

Statistics published by police on Thursday show that in twelve months up to 31 March 2026, 1,507 race hate crimes were reported

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Would you stay at a hotel with reviews like this for one night, let alone several weeks or even months?

Great turnout at our event last night with @catubelfast.bsky.social as part of Féile na gCloigíní Gorma 🏠 🩵 This event took place at the home of Catríona’s family home, just over a week since she was evicted. We spoke about the importance of language, culture and organising to protect our homes.

⏰ It’s time for a New Script for Mental Health. ⏰ It’s time to tell Stormont to stop ticking boxes. Watch this space… 👀

“They have found their own solutions over the years, looking to one another for solidarity and that’s what I’m seeing here in the community groups.” Thanks also to @irishnews.com for covering Dr Pat Bracken’s conversation as part of Féile na gCloigíní Gorma 👇 www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Renowned psychiatrist praises mental health benefits of learning Irish

Visiting west Belfast, Dr Pat Bracken spoke out against the ‘over medicalised’ approach to mental health in Northern Ireland

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