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Sarah Rees

@sarahrees500.bsky.social
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Feminist fighting for a fairer Wales and 🌎. Passionate about devolution, peace and defending human rights

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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Spent the morning on the sea, the afternoon buying last min gifts in the community and the eve reading books and catching up with friends across the world #christmas #cymru
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Oxfam Cymru @oxfamcymru.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
What a night! Huge thanks to everyone who joined us at the Norwegian Church for the launch of A Vision for a Just Cymru The conversation has begun! 🙌 Diolch to our brilliant panel @juliejamesms.bsky.social Jane Dodds MS @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social @anthonyslaughter.bsky.social and Lila Haines
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Exciting times in Welsh politics… few tickets left for this event!
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Working with @derek-walker.bsky.social gladly means speaking truth to power in our nation. Together we urge @prifweinidog.gov.wales to do what’s right by our nation and our values.
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Looking forward to challenging the First Minister when the Senedd returns next week. @janedodds.bsky.social @sionedplaid.bsky.social @AltafHussainSWW
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Oxfam Cymru @oxfamcymru.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Scotland has acted. Public support for companies based in Scotland supporting or producing arms for Israel is banned. Wales must follow suit -  buff.ly/cwYKw0G #RedLineCymru
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Isreal could just let the food into Gaza. The trucks are waiting at the gate. Let UNICEF & UN agencies set up multiple distribution sites. How can anyone ask thousands of starving people to walk for miles hoping for a bowl of food- and risk being gunned down in the process
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
My beloved nan ran a care home for the elderly then worked in children’s care system. I’ve seen throughout my life how essential care is and Wales MUST ensure it has its place at the HEART of decision making
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Fitting send off for @fawales.bsky.social today, youth teams cheer their sheroes off to #euro2025
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Carers Wales @carerswales.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Ahead of the publication of the first ever Care Policy Scorecard for Wales, check out our @bylines.cymru piece giving an overview of why - despite good intentions and pockets of good practice - there's so much more to do to get our approach to care course-corrected in Wales.
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Oxfam Cymru @oxfamcymru.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The Chancellor claims her driving purpose ‘is to make working people in all parts of the (UK) better off’ – yet Wales is being left worse off. Today’s Spending Review offers little for Wales, despite us facing the hardest hit from welfare cuts and no voice in the process
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Remember 2 months ago when Wales was screwed over by the UK Gov? Well despite lobbying by the Welsh Gov the Treasury have refused to row back on their decision. Therefore Wales will have to go into its reserves. This will not happen in England. 'A partnership in power?'
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
You can do something for Gaza today, read this… then ask our @welshgovernment.bsky.social why they won’t speak up
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 13/05/2025
The conflict in Gaza is a “live-streamed genocide”, the High Court has been told
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Events in Gaza a ‘live-streamed genocide’, High Court told
The conflict in Gaza is a “live-streamed genocide”, the High Court has been told. Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights organisation, is bringing legal action against the Department for Business and Trad...
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Today we lost a shining light of brilliance @claireoshea.bsky.social Taken too soon, may we hold you and your legacy of speaking truth to power
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Irish Independent @independent.ie · 24/04/2025
We’ve all been there: you’ve parked your car and gone away, only to come back not to remember where it is. But for one Irish man, it took 19 days, a tour of 59 housing estates and the help of a local radio station to get his car back this week
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Wicklow man loses car in Cork for almost three weeks after forgetting where he parked for stag party
We’ve all been there, you’ve parked your car and gone away, only to come back not to realise where it is.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Watchdog raises concern over DWP plan to deduct benefit overpayments. Govt wants 24/7 access to benefit claimants bank accounts, remove money without agreement or court order, right to appeal. Banks will charge fees. People could be left without money to pay for essentials.
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Watchdog raises concern over DWP plan to deduct benefit overpayments
Committee says impact on poorest people of taking money directly from accounts has been understated
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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Welsh folklore warns us to take it easy on the Thursday before Easter: "Maundy Thursday was important for doing good deeds. If anybody performed unnecessary work on this day they would be in danger of being stricken by thunder & lightning" Folklore of Wales 1909 #FolkloreThursday
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I’m hoping to stand for election in 2026, seeking selection with @plaidcymru.bsky.social in #PenybontMorgannwg The brilliant local activist and unpaid carer @Mikeo56977865 has kindly given his support to my campaign. diolch o galon Mike, I will always fight for a better Wales
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Had the best creative Sunday after a long and busy week of politics… we have such gems in Cardiff from @bethmorris to @elliehooi art and the lovely venue @insolecourt.bsky.social
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I think it’s hard to overstate the anger in parts of Wales that everything seems to be on the table with regards to saving steel making in Scunthorpe whereas this seemingly wasn’t the case for Port Talbot. Just 12 months till the Senedd election.
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Looking forward to our first hustings tomorrow 😍 @plaidcymru.bsky.social #sarah4senedd
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Cavendish Cymru @cavendishcymru.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
@sarahrees500.bsky.social, head of Oxfam Cymru, is seeking Plaid Cymru’s nomination for in Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Not a bad office for the morning 😍 @FAWales women & girls conference… here to talk feminism, equality and global justice
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Just watched the video from @Mikeo56977865 an unpaid carer in the Vale, supporting my nomination for #PenybontMorgannwg #senedd2026 Am quite emotional as Mike truly got to the root of my motivations and what I can offer… sharing it very soon😍 @PlaidBarry @Plaid_Cymru
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Today I did an interview which comes out in a couple of days with explosive info on inequality in Wales. Watch this space! The running pic is just for lols… I never give up on an issue I care about
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Wales is getting screwed over by the Treasury (again). A deliberate decision has robbed public sector bodies in Wales of money while protecting those in England. This is fiddly but really outrageous. You can either watch the video or read below... [Thread]
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
First race of the year and this one didn’t disappoint #ValeCoastalRaces @runwalkcrawl
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Perfect night of football, not quite the score but the energy, effort and friendships. @fawales.bsky.social
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The current political trajectory has made me put my money where my heart is. Mae’n bleser gennyf rannu fy mod i’n ceisio cael fy newis ar gyfer Pen-y-bont Morgannwg yn etholiad y Senedd 2026 @Plaid_Cymru #senedd2026
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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Very interesting to look over the border at the growing intra-England devolution but still not a single to step towards the gaping hole at national level. Here in Wales the picture is reversed, with an (almost) complete national govt established but very little in the way of intra-Wales devolution.
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Really keen to know thoughts of Welsh Labour supporters on this budget. No idea how Simone can vote for this and have socialist values.
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Duncan Fisher @duncanfisher.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Great piece by @sarahrees500.bsky.social She writes "It's difficult to understand why UK gov has chosen to push more people into poverty & hardship rather than tax the rich." Is it that the rich are more powerful than Gov & call the tune? In desperation, electorate will swing to Reform = disaster.
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Let’s be Fair – Tax the richest
Sarah Rees, Head of Oxfam Cymru Polling by YouGov, on behalf of Oxfam, released this week, shows that over three-quarters of Britain’s population would rather increase taxes on the richest than see cu...
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Really don’t want to say ‘told you so’ but she’s in cloud cuckoo land
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
When the presentation I did on female friendship and the role of capitalism in Sex and the City as a student many moons ago finally feels relevant again 😍
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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
We didn’t get rid of the Tories by voting for one dressed in Red. We won’t get rid of disabilities by punishing disabled & chronically ill people. We won’t get rid of single parents on low wages by making their lives harder. Unless by ‘get rid of’ he is thinking like a fascist - this will kill.
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Oxfam Cymru @oxfamcymru.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
UK Gov has announced severe cuts to social security, impacting thousands of those most in need across society Our reaction 👇
Text box with green background and quotation by Sarah Rees, head of Oxfam Cymru
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Almost every assertion of fact and law in Honest Bob Jenrick’s latest far-right-tickling rant is false. But because I’m me, I feel it most important to point out that the statue of Lady Justice above the Old Bailey is famously *not* blindfolded. As any real lawyer knows.
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Just got home from the most perfect evening out to see Flatmates at the Sherman. THIS is why we need culture budgets, the reminder amid so much dark times that people and community make the world good again. Diolch Hijinks
Image of stage at the Sherman theatre Cardiff, dressed to look like an old hospital unit along with a band on stage, one man on the left playing keyboard, a man mid left paying guitar, a woman in the middle on drums and a woman on the right playing guitar.
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Little Hands for Big Change. Paint, play and protest for Palestine All welcome Chapter Arts, Cardiff. Saturday 15th March, 10.30-2.30
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 28/02/2025
"I am one hundred per cent a Faithful."
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Coming to the realisation that resistance and rebellion against the collapse of patriarchal capitalism and the broligarchy is made in tiny gestures, family, community and connection. #Dawnstalkers #Feminism #Friendship #Family
Bonfire amid a stone circle with children cooking marshmallows
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Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I truly do not understand the intra-party divide, or frankly the position of the MPs at all. The evidence is clear as day on this and other issues such as HS2, where they have admitted UK Gov disproportionately dis-favours Wales. Keeping Wales poor and powerless is not what I call Labour values.
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
One of the best play spots in our neck of Wales @mountainviewranch
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The plus side of a blustery day on the beach… 6 children and an hour of hunting to find this set of gems 😻
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
At what point in parenting does the risk of getting your nose broken by a random headbutt subside? A sneaky bedtime kiss has drawn blood 😭
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
What a warm Welsh welcome to London Paddington today… diolch Porthcawl Male Voice Choir
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Sarah Rees @sarahrees500.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Huge thanks to all those who spoke and supported this today. Will be reporting back to our colleagues in OPT that Wales votes in favour of just and lasting ceasefire and commitment of humanitarian support for Gaza 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
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Oxfam Cymru @oxfamcymru.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
We must stand up and be counted - our voice matters, our voice counts 4/
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