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🚨 Staff and students from Irish higher eduction take a stand for Palestine

📢 National Day of Action in Solidarity with Palestine:
Wednesday 17th April 2024

🍉 Actions and events on campuses across the island, some details in the thread below

#TLC4P

Why class in the workplace remains a taboo subject in Ireland. A new #RTEBrainstorm podcast based on a piece by Vicki O’Reilly @wearetudublin & voiced by Erik Threlfall - now available wherever you get your podcasts & at rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

Proud moment as fellow alumni Palestinian Dr. Abu-Sittah becomes Rector University of Glasgow & addresses students “Our revenge will be the laughter of our children” dedicates his victory to over 40,000 dead in Gaza, members of his family & colleagues murdered by the state of Israel 🇵🇸❤️

Why are third level campuses across the island of Ireland holding a national day of action for Palestine next Wed 17 April?

Among the many reasons:
All 12 universities in Gaza have been the target of Israeli attacks: 'It's a war against education'

lemonde.fr/en/internation…

Generation Rent cant take any more of this extortion
They are being asset stripped of their future.
Pro-investor fund housing policy and anti-social housing ideology brought us to this crisis point.
We need a new direction, new policy and new politics to Solve the crisis.

Where is the Taoiseach ?

Two fingers from the new Taoiseach
Absolute shambles in the Dáil as Simon Harris is not taking Leaders' Questions - he is too busy taking phone calls (3or4) to answer questions from the opposition.

#LQs #Dail #GeneralElectionNow
#HowIrelandWorks

Mozart Flash Mob in University Of Limerick library yesterday with the talented Carolin Widmann! 🎻
Surprise performance of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

#Irishchamberorchestra #limerick #flashmob #Mozart #classicalmusic #ul #library #orchestra #livemusic

All 12 universities in Gaza have been destroyed in the Israeli assault. Three presidents and 100 deans and professors have been killed.

Academic ties with Israeli institutions are simply untenable.

lemonde.fr/en/internation…

The Quiet Part Out Loud
📽 Swan 🇵🇸

Simon Harris says Fine Gael will get young people out of their parents' box rooms, but warns it will take time to undo the damage done by whoever’s been in charge for the last 13 years.

Gaza’s universities embodied the ambitions of young Palestinians.

In weeks, the Israeli military destroyed them.
nbcnews.app.link/nLNnEi5VwIb

Like World Central Kitchen, the heroic Palestine Red Crescent first responders who went to rescue 6-year-old Hind Rajab also received clearance from the Israeli military to get her. They were killed by the Israeli military anyway and so was 6 year old Hind.

''It makes no sense for an island this small to be divided'
- David McWilliams David McWilliams

irishnews.com/business/2021/…

A very powerful and emotional tribute to the over ten thousand citizens of Sarajevo who died in the siege that started on this day in 1992. A line of shoes ran for more than a kilometer through the heart of the city, past the sites of several massacres

Irish government has pulled millions of euros of investment from several Israeli companies. m.independent.ie/irish-news/ire…

'Just this week, two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, which unfortunately is a routine event,' the physician said in the letter. He said inmates are fed through straws, defecate in diapers, and are held in constant restraints..
haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Have any other unis in Global North joined Glasgow, SOAS, Birkbeck, Oxford, Notre Dame, Galway, Queen’s Uni Belfast, Wesleyan in making some kind of (usually weak) statement about ceasefire and/or Israel’s destruction of unis in Gaza and/or killing of Palestinian academics? /

Sometimes when I’m going about my day I stop suddenly in my tracks, wondering how entire universities can be blown to bits and academics murdered and not a single Western University make a peep about it. Like how the fuck does that make sense…

On Pat Kenny Newstalk at 1005 to discuss this report. It assumes a static economy, includes the entire subvention and is not a reasonable estimate.