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23rd January 2025

The People’s Inquiry on Big Tech Harms: Report and Recommendations

On 22 October 2024, people from across Ireland joined a People’s Inquiry to share testimony on how Big Tech corporations have impacted their lives, families and communities. The Inquiry was organised by Uplift, and built on the organisation’s Big Tech survey where more than 1,000 people shared heartbreaking stories about…
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23rd January 2025

Programme for Government 2025

Programme for Government 2025Uplift members always come together and stand up for our communities, our environment, and peace around the world. Even when it seems hopeless, we are powerful when we stand together and take action for a better world. A few days ago Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and a…
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Peacekeepers not Battlegroups
CampaignNewsNews UpdatePalestine
17th January 2025

Irish Neutrality – Save the Triple Lock

Irish people are extremely proud of our long-standing neutrality and history as peacemakers, not warmongers. But a small number of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael politicians want to change that. The new Programme for Government clearly aims to make changes to our neutrality and get rid of the Triple Lock.The…
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CampaignNewsNews Update
1st January 2025

Uplift’s People Powered Forest

Welcome to Uplift's People-Powered Forest News Update Blog April 2024: We’ve planted yet another people-powered forest! Uplift members and local community groups in Longford got together in the spring to plant hundreds of small trees that will soak up carbon dioxide and clean the air for decades to come. Thanks…
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CampaignNewsNews Update
18th December 2024

We all Have the Power to Make Change 

The end of a year is a good time to reflect on all the amazing things we’ve achieved together in 2024. All across Ireland, you, along with Uplift’s 350,000 members have been campaigning hard to make the changes we want to see in our communities, and the wider world. There's…
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Big TechCampaignNewsNews Update
4th December 2024

The People’s Inquiry on Big Tech Harms

For too long, the people of Ireland have been waiting for our political leaders to set and enforce strict rules for big tech corporations like Meta, Google, TikTok and X — but instead they’ve given these corporations free rein to harvest our most personal data, decide what we’re sold based…
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Gaza Legal Case
CampaignNewsNews UpdatePalestine
1st November 2024

Gaza Legal Case

On Wednesday 30th October 2024, members of the Uplift community, along with solicitor Darragh Mackin of Phoenix law, delivered a statement to the Taoiseach Simon Harris demanding that the Irish government:1. Suspends all military trade with Israel 2. Suspends all dual-use trade with Israel 3. Suspends the use of Irish…
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Photo of the Conor Pass with overlaid text 'What we've been up to August 2024"
CampaignNewsNews Update
3rd September 2024

What we’ve been up to: August 2024

Time and again, we’ve proven that even when things feel hopeless and unclear, stepping forward to take action together says everything about who we are — a community from all walks of life that acts together despite those that want to divide us. I think you know how special and…
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Citibank stop funding genocide
CampaignNewsNews UpdatePalestine
3rd September 2024

Citibank is funding Israel

Citibank is the largest foreign bank in Israel, and has a history of financing of weapons deals between Israel, the USA, and the weapons corporations that supply them.  Since the beginning of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza, Citibank has financed a $500million bond to Israel that they…
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CampaignNewsNews UpdatePalestine
17th July 2024

Arms Trade with Israel

New research, paid for by Uplift members, has shown worrying financial support from the Irish government to Israeli weapons manufacturers and spikes in dual-use exports to Israel which may violate our human rights obligations. The full report can be read here but a summary of the key points are listed…
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