Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In Ireland we are constantly hearing about people having to fight and scrap for services and supports that a Government advertising campaign is telling us are only a few clicks away. Luckily, when it comes to their kids, many families have found that the best support is other families who are in the same boat […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr. Yousef Aljamal hosted today’s episode from Zurich, Switzerland where he recently spoke with Café Palestine. Café Palestine’s Blake Alcott, who also works with One Democratic State, was our guest. These two, and PalCast’s Helena Cobban and Tony Groves, discussed Israel’s harsh continuing violence in all parts of Gaza and the northern West Bank and […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ireland’s inequality problem: time to tax wealth or The trickle down myth: wealth is being sucked up In this Reboot Republic podcast Rory talks to Bríd McGrath, Director of Public Affairs at Oxfam Ireland, about their latest report “Inequality Inc.”, which shows that Ireland´s richest two Irish billionaires have more wealth than the bottom half […]
In this episode Rosie talks with Emma Dolan, a lecturer in Peace and Development Studies at the University of Limerick. Their conversation centres on Emma’s fascinating book ‘Gender and Political Apology: When the patriarchal state says “sorry”’ which was published by Routledge in 2022. The period since the 1990s has been characterised as the ‘age of apology’, reflecting the frequency […]
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647 The current UK government seem to rely on an unforeseen f@ck up coming along in order to distract the public from the latest unforeseen f’ck up. But what is the alternative? Our guest, listener-favourite, Prof Richard Murphy, recently wrote ‘Five reasons to reject Keir Starmer’s Labour at a General Election’ so you know we had to have him […]
Tickets for the Live Show:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647 As the Israeli military advances towards Khan Younis, they are taking more losses, with 24 army personnel killed in one day. Meanwhile over 150 Palestinians were killed last night, including displaced Palestinians in the south and those who had their tents and caravans crushed. Israeli politicians are causing more embarrassment to the EU by declaring […]
Tickets:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647 In this first podcast of 2024, Rory talks with Louisa Santoro, CEO of Mendicity (Ireland’s oldest charity), about the homelessness crisis affecting people living in Ireland and newly arrived asylum seekers, and the lack of a whole of Government response. They discuss the real causes of homelessness being in the lack of social and affordable housing. They ask why […]
Tickets for Podcasts for Palestine: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647 Múscailt is a podcast of interviews with scholars and writers who are raising important questions about Irish society through their research. Committed to critique and hope in equal measure, the show features discussions on a range of issues relating to ecology, criminal justice, politics, sexuality, culture, identity, social policy and more. Join hosts Rosie […]