Ambassador Caroline Kennedy’s statement to the US Senate on RFKJr’s nomination for HHS Secretary
This is a reading of a letter she just sent to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
I’m so proud of my courageous mother, who’s lived a life of dignity, integrity and service.
she’s the kindest funnest smartest you’ll ever meet.
Article 14. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution - UDHR.
Those that dehumanise and attack others, should be held to the same laws. Society is built upon respect, failing this, how can we say we respect any.
Homeless asylum seekers who spent the night out on the rain were devoured on by far right bullies. A few volunteers came in to rescue them as they were being filmed and asked questions by anti-migrant bigots.The Gardai arrived and had to calm the situation.
The Ditch condemns yesterday’s arrest and charge of activists at Shannon Airport protesting the unlawful use of Irish sovereign airspace to transport munitions to Israel.
The Ditch submitted a complaint to the Garda Ombudsman today.
British transplant surgeon Nizam Mamode: “My biggest fear while [in Gaza] was being killed by the Israelis.”
He recounts multiple attacks on UN aid convoys, describing how “a huge number of aid workers have been targeted… it’s a deliberate policy.”
Watch:
In Swords, protestors are targeting a company that’s helped ship US military gear to Israel. After digging by The Ditch, and pressure from protestors, ASL Ireland issued a statement Friday meant to appease. Protestors say it’s not good enough. https://t.co/7mILsAONtm
“We should have no hand, act or part when it comes to complicity in genocide.”
Sinn Féin’s @Farrell_Mairead tells @ClaireBrockTV that Irish airspace being used as a route to carry munitions to Israel makes us complicit to what’s happening in Gaza.
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We published Israel & The Myth of Self Defence 1 year ago.
Last night Israel burned men, women and children alive.
It was as obvious then as it is now:
It's not about Self Defence, it's about Extermination
lsrael 🇮🇱 send back more than 80 decomposed corpses of innocent Palestinians murdered in Gaza 🇵🇸
They don’t provide any names, ages, genders, or places for where they were murdered or kidnapped.
Racist dehumanisation, pure and simple.
It took one month for government to admit nine Challenge Airlines flights – reported by The Ditch to be carrying munitions to Israel – entered Irish airspace.
The Ditch was busy in that same month.
A further 14 of these flights took place.
https://t.co/EgWb8p1u8D
EL Al – Israel’s national airline – has for the last year been illegally transporting Lockheed Martin’s munitions to Israel through Irish sovereign airspace.
The IDF uses these munitions to bomb Gaza and Lebanon.
https://t.co/kFoEoORTeb
Attorney general Paul Gallagher told Darragh O'Brien how the state could require banks to contribute to the state mica scheme – something for which Sinn Féin has called.
Government didn't follow this advice – nor did they publish it. Here it is in full.
https://t.co/hFfCxdZk9A
Invoices confirm the United States funded almost seven tonnes of IDF weaponry illegally transported through Irish airspace.
‘U.S. Government funds are being used by the Government of Israel to finance this purchase,’ read the invoices.
https://t.co/IJ9ceAIU1v
🚨AirNav, the state’s air traffic management service, on Friday issued a notice to international pilots that ‘all carriers are reminded that they must apply for permission from the minister for transport if they wish to transport munitions of war in irish sovereign territory’
An outsourcing company charges the HSE almost €30 an hour per worker for a major contract – while these workers are paid the minimum wage.
The HSE pays Abtran €29.27 an hour per worker. In turn Abtran pays these workers €12.70 per hour.
https://t.co/NU720GK9NE