Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We have Mexico’s first female President, Claudi Sheinbaum, disastrous floods in Brazil, Argentina’s Milei starting a fight with Spain, and horrendously racist policies leaving thousands Stateless in the Dominican Republic. So you know we had to go back to chat with El Pais reporter and journalist in Latin America, Nicholas Dale Leal. A lot to […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Why are far right faces from the South canvassing for far right candidates in the North? Our guest, writer, commentator and columnist with the Irish News, Elaine Crory, has some ideas. You should listen to them. Please read her piece here:https://www.irishnews.com/opinion/elaine-crory-the-far-right-are-miles-ahead-of-us-we-need-to-fight-back-now-3W6X23254BB3FK5QA3VBJCSVQE/ The Song at the end is by Daniel Maté (yes, THAT Daniel Maté) and […]
To help Khalid get his family out of Gaza you can donate to:https://gofund.me/39137fbb An Irish Palestinian Story of Genocide In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Khalid El-Astal, who was born in Belfast, when his father was doing a PhD in Queens University. He then moved to Gaza with his brothers and family when he was 8. He shares […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Eman Abdelhadi is is a Palestinian professor who is involved in student encampments in the US. She joins PalCast co-hosts, Yousef, Helena and Tony to talk about the student movement in the US and its impact on US and global politics. Abdelhadi notes that the student movement had reached its climax and that it builds […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dean and Sparky ask where do our fears and prejudices come from? What can we learn if we start to listen to those who we look down on or feel superior to? The Gaza Orphan Appeal is here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/gaza-orphan-for-105080810 https://media.blubrry.com/rebootrepublicpod/media.blubrry.com/3714238/content.blubrry.com/3714238/ep_32_final.mp3Podcast (tortoiseshack-ie-freshbatch): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:01:20 — 51.3MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Trade Unionist, workers rights advocate and social justice campaigner Brendan Ogle joins us to talk about why he’s running for the European Parliament and what he wants to bring from Dublin to Brussels and from Europe back to Dublin. We talk activism, building movements and why Brendan doesn’t believe the current Dublin MEP’s are working […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In yet another Echo Chamber Podcast exclusive, we expose how RTE colluded with their legal representatives and with the assistance of the Dept of Social Protection, to force RTE employees, past and present, through an arduous and costly quasi-judicial appeals process, when there are no legal grounds whatsoever to do so. This podcast was made […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Our favourite poll analyst, Mr irishelectionsprojections.com Harry McEvansoneay rejoins us to parse the the results of the latest opinion poll. We talk the fall of Sinn Féin, the gaps in the reporting, the confirmation bias of the result reporting and then Harry delivers what was for our money one of the best explainers on how […]