Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It’s a few weeks since we talked South and Latin America, but with a Presidential election candidate assassination in Ecuador, an aspiring Bitcoin Bro dictator making moves in El Salvador and a far right mad man on the rise in Argentina, we had to get our friend in the region, journalist with El Pais, Nicholas […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Paula Kearney, a community worker in the North East Inner City about the community response to the recent proposals around armed gardai, the reality of life for young people and communities in the inner city, the structural violence of inequality and exclusion that is done by the state […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As promised here is the 3rd and final part from our Tortoise Shack Live at the Sugar Club show from Thursday July 20th, and it’s a bit special. Dept of Health civil servant (currently suspended) whistleblower, Shane Corr, joined Roman and Eoghan from the Ditch onstage to talk about the treatment meted out to those […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Podcast, Rory and Tony are joined by award winning writer, political commentator and host of the Guardian’s Politics Weekly podcast, John Harris, for a long overdue catchup. They discuss the general state of the UK’s politics as it moves beyond the various crises of recent years, the struggles of working class communities […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack You might have seen the reports on Monday that Saudi Arabian border guards/soldiers had killed hundreds of Ethiopian asylum seekers who were trying to cross the border from Yemen. Read:https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/21/saudi-arabia-mass-killings-migrants-yemen-border The lead researcher and author of the report, Nadia Hardman, joined us on the tortoise shack to discuss what the 15 month report uncovered, the […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Beano Niblock is a playwright, poet and former loyalist prisoner. His current play, The Man Who Swallowed A Dictionary, charts the life of former PUP leader the late David Ervine. In this episode of Shrapnel Beano talks to the lads about how he came to write the play, what his friendship with David was like […]
Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Terms like “just transition” have been adopted by the capitalist system as a branding exercise and it has lost all meaning. But what if we could take steps to re-democratise workplaces and local communities in ways that would benefit the majority and help make climate action more than rhetoric? Joining me from An Rabharta Glass – […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to Saoirse Exton, a youth climate activist with Fridays for Future, and youth advisor to the UN on climate. Saoirse sets out a fantastic critique of how neoliberal economics is flawed for the planet and social justice, her views as a young person on finding hope in action […]