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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

We know the shocking numbers, with more than 50,000 households on the social housing waiting list, and 33,000 of those experiencing homelessness. But we also know there are personal stories behind each one of those numbers, something that Sean reminds us so powerfully in this poem! 🏠

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

In September, housing activist Sean Kane delivered this poem about the reality of homelessness to a Housing Rights conference… This morning, at our housing clinic, we heard from people all over the city facing homelessness, intimidation, eviction, mould & damp issues, isolation, and much more.

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We learnt a huge amount about activists and grassroots community initiatives which were plugging the gaps in state support for the most marginalised communities, fighting systemic racism, poverty and housing inequality, and building alternatives from the ground up that directly meet their needs.

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

At the end of June, just a couple of weeks after so many of our friends and activists across Belfast were burnt out, displaced, or threatened from their homes by racist pogroms, members of PPR’s Take Back the City team travelled to Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Another great session with our young eco warriors! 🌱 We had a great session harvesting our teasel seeds across the Mackies site! Our group deserved their well earned s’mores back at the Forthspring community garden ✊ 🌱 🏡

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bígí linn for the first screening of the new Take Back the City documentary, made by Scáthán Collective, as part of Glór Na Móna’s Féile na Carraige! 🎬 The documentary explores the current stage of the campaign, using the fight for homes on Mackie’s to explore the wider housing crisis.

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Department for Communities recently published their updated housing statistics this summer, for the first time counting the number of homeless individuals as well as households. The numbers were shocking…

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Individual actions like being active and taking notice of the world around you can be so important for your mental wellbeing, but we think there might be more to it than that… What do you think is missing? 👀 #Give5

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On this day in 1943, PPR's founder, trade unionist, women's rights and human rights activist Inez McCormack was born. Along with many others, Inez fought relentlessly to secure commitments to human rights and equality in the Good Friday Agreement.

Inez McCormack looks up and to the left. Caption reads "Attempting to build 'good relations' on the basis of denying the needs, frustrating the rights and silencing the voices of the poorest is wrong in itself as much as it is destructive to the goal of building a shared future."

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In August, NISRA & the PSNI published their hate crime stats for the year 2025/26. 📈 Racially motivated hate incidents rose by 503 to 2,561, while crimes rose by 268 to 1,615. But how do these numbers break down in your local area? Visit werisetogether.ie

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Structural factors like inequality, poverty, discrimination, unemployment, and homelessness all affect our mental health. In recent years, global organisations like the UN and WHO have urged governments to pay more attention to these social drivers of mental distress.

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good relations. A useful framework to help the state promote equality between different groups? Or a problematic, ambiguous term that can be used as an excuse to avoid tackling inequality?

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

At our recent housing support drop-ins, we’ve had people with a huge range of issues, and have helped people to send complaints to the Housing Executive, Mears, housing associations and private landlords…

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A huge thank you to the staff at Central Library for welcoming us so warmly for Culture Night #CNB26 💛 There was a great buzz throughout the evening, with so many people stopping by to choose some healing words, listen to poems read aloud by Maxi & Maura, and have conversations about mental health.

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

‘Words Strong Enough to Heal’ We’re bringing the New Script Travelling Apothecary to Culture Night! 🎭 Come find our stall at Belfast Central Library tomorrow, Friday 18th September from 4-8pm 📍

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New Script warmly welcomes Mental Health Matters for Women from the Women's Regional Consortium. This research powerfully highlights the gendered nature of emotional distress and trauma and why we must connect the symptoms to their root causes. www.womensregionalconsortiumni.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A huge thank you to Professor Kevin Vowles, QUB - School of Psychology for meeting with New Script activists — and for endorsing #Give5. His research into pain rehabilitation shows just how closely pain, distress and social circumstances are connected.

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In May 2026, as part of Féile na gCloigíní Gorma, CATU and Take Back the City took part in a conversation about the impact the housing crisis in Gaeltacht areas was having on the Irish language. The most recent guest blog on our website is taken from this talk 👉 www.nlb.ie/blog/296/dat...

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health new report estimates that 45.2% of 16-year-olds in Northern Ireland have a probable ‘mental illness’. It also reports that wellbeing among 11-year-olds is at its lowest recorded level since 2010 👉 www.rcpch.ac.uk/work-we-do/s...

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We had a great planning meeting with our #TakeBacktheCity activism team yesterday! 🏠 Loads of passion and energy in this group, who have been affected by the housing crisis in so many different ways. Keep an eye out to see what we get up to over the next few months… 👀 takebackthecity.ie

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

You can endorse Give 5 as an individual or an organisation, and send a message to those in power that we need to adopt this framework to fix our broken mental health system. Find the link to endorse here 👉 www.nlb.ie/campaigns/me...

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Public Health Agency #Take5 campaign focuses on how individuals can look after their own mental health and wellbeing. The New Script #Give5 Framework focuses on what governments can do at a system level to tackle the mental health crisis. We can’t have one without the other.

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When Daniel McCrossan MLA asked the Minister for Health why 1 in 4 women in NI are on antidepressants, the Minister replied with a dismissive, “we dont have the information.” If he doesn’t have this information, we have some questions we think his department should be urgently asking…

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Have you visited the Anaka Archives blog on Substack yet? 👩‍💻 The Anaka Women's Collective team have been writing about some of their amazing work on education equality, art projects, as well as some personal stories from the community. Find it here 👉 anakaarchives.substack.com

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Former New Script organiser Lisa Morrison talked to @belfastlive.co.uk about her experience of Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and how it informed a new international study on the treatment which she authored.

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Our Areeg & Michaela talked to Tara Mills for this BBC Radio 4 story about the emergency response to the racist violence this June, alongside other legends from Mornington Community Project and elsewhere 💛 You can listen to the full episode here 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

More than 50,000 households are on the housing waiting list. Thousands of children here are growing up without a home. But those in charge are still tweaking around the edges of the current system. Our housing crisis requires urgent action, not minor tweaks. Build homes now. takebackthecity.ie

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

1 in 5 people in NI received antidepressants last year 💊 But why does that matter, and what do people’s lives look like behind the prescriptions? New Script digs a little deeper into these stats and the people they represent. Find out more about the campaign here 👉 www.nlb.ie/campaigns/me...

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

“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.

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

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...

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

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.

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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.

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

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 scrap of paper with a quote on it: "People living in poverty do not experience worse health because they make poorer choices. They experience worse health because they have fewer choices."

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

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

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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.

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

“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 ✊

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

They paint a vivid picture of anger and fear being transformed into action, solidarity, and a community effort that not only provided hundreds of displaced families with sanctuary and shelter, but also built networks of solidarity for the future 💛 Read them at werisetogether.ie/testimonies

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

“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.

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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/...

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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.

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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 💛

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🚨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

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This is why the Kind Economy will be joining their colleagues in New Script for Mental Health at Stormont on Tuesday 16th June at 1pm!

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

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.

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

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

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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! ✊

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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.

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PPR @ppr-org.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

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?

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