Irish Unity Study Group: join readers from all over the country in an online study group as we read & discuss @bjacollins's The Irish Unity Dividend. Once a month - facilitated groups - all are welcome! Ben Collins joins last call in Sept! Sign up here:
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"The courage of Catriona Graham in the face of Israeli outrages, puts our leadership to shame." Stephen Bowen, Executive Director, Amnesty International Ireland.
Arab Barghouti - Son of Palestinian political prisoner, Marwan Barghouti will be speaking in Dublin on Tuesday night.
Join us in the Bernard Shaw, Cross Guns Bridge at 7pm to hear from Arab, @dlLambo and more. Show your support for the campaign for the release of Marwan.
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Thank you @sinnfeinireland@SFIntDept for the invitation to address Ard Fheis 2026.
Cuba’s commitment to internationalism & the defense of national sovereignty + achievements remains absolute. Grateful for Belfast's unwavering solidarity against the illegal US blockade. 🇨🇺
“The Irish abroad speak with one voice and they are saying that it is time to fully implement the Good Friday Agreement, time to enact the right to self determination, and it is time to plan and prepare for Irish Unity Referendums.” Ciarán Quinn
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New poll — Michigan voters say Israel is committing genocide by a margin of +10
Democrats: +52
Under 45: +43
Independents and third party: +26
Black voters: +21
No college: +6
17% of Republicans agree as well
New AIPAC ad brags they’re top fundraiser for Dem Party incl. Black/Hispanic/Asian Caucuses. In genocidal times, the best Dem labels should be “AIPAC Democrats”, not empty fuzzy words like conservative/progressive/moderate/centrist/liberal/etc. designed2confuse. Just “AIPAC Dem” or not. Precise language that actually means something where we all know where they stand. Otherwise you end up with fools calling John Fetterman “progressive”, as many Dems once did.
NEW polling: majorities in Arizona, California, Colorado, Michigan support the Senate vote today to block $450M in bombs & bulldozers to Israel.
Majorities in each say Iran War benefits Israel more than US.
Pluralities in each say Israel is committing genocide.
Per @imeupolicy
Our meeting space in Áras Uí Chonghaile has been rededicated as the ‘Seomra Quill-Samuelsen’, honouring two giants of the US labour movement: Mike Quill, founder of the Transport Workers Union, and John Samuelsen, the union’s current International President.
🚨 Israeli Guards Assault Marwan Barghouti Three Times in Two Weeks, Lawyer Says
On the eve of the 24th anniversary of his imprisonment, the lawyer for Marwan Barghouti , Palestine’s most prominent political prisoner, reported three violent assaults against his client in the span of two weeks.
Following a prison visit on April 12, lawyer Ben Marmarelli described the attacks:
▪️ April 8, Ganot Prison: Barghouti was severely beaten and left bleeding for more than two hours. He requested medical care and was denied.
▪️ March 25, transfer from Megiddo to Ganot: He was assaulted during the transfer between prisons.
▪️ March 24, Megiddo Prison: Guards entered his cell with a dog, forced him to the ground, and the dog attacked him repeatedly.
“These recent attacks form a pattern of rapidly escalating abuse: violence, medical neglect and prolonged solitary confinement places my client at immediate risk of severe harm or death,” Marmarelli said. “The only way to protect Marwan is to secure his immediate release.”
Barghouti’s son Arab said his father has been imprisoned “for believing in Palestinian freedom and a just peace,” adding: “There is no protection for him under this unhinged prison system overseen by Ben Gvir — a man who has publicly called for my father’s death.”
The attacks come as UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese warned in a March 23 report to the Human Rights Council that torture has become “state doctrine” in Israel, saying the prison system has “degenerated into a laboratory of calculated cruelty” and that “what once operated in the shadows is now practiced openly.”
Barghouti, widely referred to as the Palestinian Mandela, has been held since 2002 following a trial broadly condemned as violating international law.
Hours of backslapping and self-praise from Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Independents. Still not listening. But the cracks are starting to show in this arrogant government. They’ve lost two TDs. Let’s keep the pressure up. This is not over. The people must be heard.
Ireland must not be a bystander as mass destruction of Iran threatened – @MaryLouMcDonald
"Neutrality means something – especially now. It means refusing to be complicit."
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Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.
There is a direct line between #Trump threatening civilization erasure (=nuke) in #Iran and #EU leaders not even mentioning (!) US & Israel in their cowardly statements
That's where impunity begins. And that's what atrocities by fanatic, genocidal, megalomaniac leaders thrive on