BREAKING - Ireland’s senate has just unanimously voted to:
• impose sanctions against Israel;
• actively prevent the passage of US weapons through Irish airspace to Israel;
• and advocate for an international arms embargo on Israel.
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Just days after the anniversary of Aishling Murphys murder and another woman has been murdered by a man in Dublin. Meaning that in the short 14 days of 2023 4 women have been killed by a man in Ireland.
Violence against women is truly an epidemic.
We deserve better.
The whole of England stopped when a policeman murdered a white woman.
A black girl was strip searched by policemen at school & we find out about it 2 years later. A child. And no one has been convicted or sacked for committing this crime against her.
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There is a catalogue of evidence that misogyny is baked-in to the CULTURE of the Met. Alongside others, I have been calling this out for a long time. Yet police leaders and politicians have insisted on burying their heads in the sand. 1/14
I'm ashamed to say that I only learned of Ashling Murphy's murder after seeing Irish feminists (rightly) frustrated at the lack of solidarity from those in the UK. The echoes between 'she was just going for a run' and 'she was just going home' are unbearable.
🇨🇱 Images from the Atacama desert, which has become a dumpster for the global fast fashion industry. Over 100,000 tons of clothing, many of them new items with price tags that weren't sold or used, have been dumped in the Atacama desert in Chile.
Just under a month ago women were manhandled & arrested by Met police in Clapham Common for holding a peaceful vigil in honour of Sarah Everard. Laws are not enforced consistently, they are selectively enforced in the interest of an increasingly corrupt state apparatus.
If this picture. If this scene. If this violence, was in any other part of the UK there would be 24 hour news coverage, calls for calm, peace, speeches for hours in Parliament. But because it’s Northern Ireland, what? Just a few words of “don’t do that” will suffice? Speak up.
A policeman in London put his hands around my neck and held me down because I was asking questions about why they were arresting a woman I knew. He slammed me on my face to cuff me. Let me go in minutes and left me with bruises. A policeman is charged with #SarahEverard's murder.
So the police are giving him an order not go towards him. He then proceeds to walk towards them while carrying his AR-15. Somehow the police are not feeling threatened by this action. This is white privilege.