Posts by Sien Hakvoort
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Happy International Women’s Day! I’m genuinely blown away by the amazing women who support me every day, knocking on doors and making the case for me to be the next TD for Dublin Central.
This really deserves *much* more media attention! Cannot remotely be squared with carbon budget commitments: it is *planning* to fail!
TII says there's nothing it can do to fix the traffic on the M50.
They could try building Metro West.
Four months after it was promised, we finally have the government's transport investment plan between now and 2030. It's bad. Roads are in, public transport is out. A lot of public transport projects being put on the long-finger to make funding available for new roads.
🚨 IT’S TIME TO STOP CLIMATE CHAOS
📣Join Trócaire, Stop Climate Chaos and other organisations for the National Climate March in Dublin to demand a cleaner, safer, fairer future that breaks away from fossil fuels.
🕐Saturday November 15th, 1pm
📍Assemble at Garden of Remembrance
Good to see launch of John Gibbons @sinkorswim.bsky.social book The Lie of the Land, including a section on aviation www.thejournal.ie/readme/john-...
A Dublin group forsakes food, in a small act of solidarity with people in Gaza. “It doesn't address the full scale of what's happened to the Palestinians,” says Phil Kearney. But “we're acting in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza who are starving”.
*just
Parliament Street is for people!
@feljin.ie @janetphorner.bsky.social @hazelchu.bsky.social @donnacooney1.bsky.social @carolynmoore-ie.bsky.social @pidgeon.ie @greenpartyie.bsky.social
'We're going to end up with a toxic goo lagoon': Environmental crisis in Wexford
"All the various enforcement & accountability arms of the State –local authority, inspections, Teagasc– all the state mechanisms, have failed to protect Lady’s Island Lake"
jrnl.ie/6736308
We launched our first motion in this Dáil term today - calling for better public transport for all.
Here's what we are calling for:
💶 Extra 20% fare cut – and keep fares low
🚌 Passenger Experience Office
🌐 Local Link in every village, every hour
🏗️ €10bn more investment
Read more 👇
bit.ly/3HGmSTF
Let’s Ride - on public transport together 😉
@feljin.ie
Cohen’s ….. recalled seeing a recent photo of a young Palestinian boy whose arms had been blown off by Israeli missile strikes in Gaza. “The news story said that when he woke up from his operation, the first thing he did was turn to his mother, and he said: ‘how will I hug you now?’ …
More frightening recent footage from around our rapidly heating planet, via the folks at @weareyellowdot.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/phil... Hungry for Peace in Gaza second five-day fast this week May 12th-16th, Monday -Friday, @ Dáil Éireann. Come by & support or just fast. See www.facebook.com/share/1XjVdK... & www.instagram.com/hungryforpea...
5-day fast @ Dáil Éireann, Monday, March 24 - Friday 28th,
10am-5pm. Come to show solidarity with the people of Gaza who have 5 days worth of flour left as the death toll passes 50,000.
daysofpalestine.ps?p=61551
Ondanks het geweld tegen de Palestijnse burgerbevolking in Gaza staat Nederland op het punt een defensieverdrag met Israël te tekenen. Dat is onaanvaardbaar. Teken de petitie om dit te stoppen! campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/ge...
Mercy Seat by Wayne Price