Artwork for the Mid Ulster Gig For Gaza fundraiser this weekend 🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Acrylic mixed media
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#FreePalestine #SupportBDS

Re-assessing global economic history through a #prosperity and #justice lens—Seminar with Annegeke Jansen and Rutger Hoekstra from #WISEhorizons , Guildford/online 🗓️15 Apr, 1pm.→ cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/wi…

cc #BeyondGDP #PostGrowth #BeyondGrowth #MeasuringWellbeing

Alt den chéad scoth agus ábhar tábhachtach is gá a chur i lár an phlé faoi athaontú na tíre.

Tá freagracht orainn caighdeán saoil gach duine sa tsochaí, agus sláinte ár gcomhneacha de gach speiceas, a chur chun cinn. Ní dhéanfaidh an táirgiúlacht eacnamaíoch sin as féin.

WEALL_Ireland We are facing multiple challenges and just transitions, not least the debate in the island’s constitutional future. Great stuff here from Seán Fearon of CUSP

If you read Seán Fearon in the The Irish News today and want to hear more about climate justice and constitutional change, then this is worth your time:

“Ireland, united or otherwise, does not face a problem of scarcity. It faces a problem of allocation, and distribution of the vast quantities of income and wealth which exist here.”
~Seán Fearon, The Irish News

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Economics is not a physical science. Like politics, it is replete with value judgements and ideology, in theory and in method. It should be understood as such, and it is valid to critique any contribution on these grounds.

Here's what matters to the physics.

Nature isnt fooled by denominators.

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Here’s an English language version of my article Forget Eco-Modernism. I argue eco-modernism’s denial of value transfers, vulgarized interpretation of Marx, and ecological illiteracy converge in support of a reactionary form of class politics. versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

If you can't pay the minimum wage you should consider handing over the business to it's workers and let them run it properly....

Minimum wage increase a concern for NI businesses
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

In this piece, Lynda Sullivan brings us on a journey across the global frontier of extractive mining - from Indonesia to Ireland. A frontier that is expanding in the name of the so-called 'green transition'.

The delusion of mining for the climate rundale.org/2024/03/28/the…

Contributed to this fab BBC Radio 4 doc about Brendan Behan, which I've just greatly enjoyed listening to. So meticulously researched by Cat Gough and so deftly presented by Megan Nolan: 'Archive on 4 - It Must Be Wonderful to Be Free - BBC Sounds' bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

'The contrast between Dublin as both crowded and emptied raises the question of who or what the city is for.'

Read Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn (w/ Kathleen Stokes, Tommy Gavin) on hotel development/touristification in Dublin & how it affects housing supply.
rundale.org/2024/02/29/red…