The EPP refused to sign a joint letter denouncing political violence circulated after a violent assault on German MEP Matthias Ecke.
The letter links rising violence with the #farright & calls for no cooperation with them
The EPP clearly has other plans...
euronews.com/my-europe/2024…

Elections in #Catalonia have dealt an historic blow to #Catalan pro-independence forces (98.83% counted):
PSC: 28% (+5)
Junts+: 22% (+2)
ERC: 14% (-7)
PP: 11% (+7)
VOX: 8%
Comuns/Sumar: 6% (-1)
CUP: 4% (-3)
Aliança C.-: 4%
#Catalunya #12M #EleccionsParlament2024
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“Back to basics”
I spoke with Frederikke Hellemann, MEP candidate for #Denmark ’s left party #Enhedslisten (the Red-Green Alliance) on priorities & challenges for the Danish & European left ahead of June’s #EUelections .
#EU2024 #dkpol #EuropeForThePeople
rosalux.eu/en/2024/wir-be…

Claims of a 'green backlash' at EU level are misleading: polls show that #climate remains a key concern.
The problem is rather simple: most people like policies that take on corporations & govts, & don't like ones that punish citizens & consumers.
#EU2024
climateforesight.eu/articles/eu-el…

The latest in the global right’s #lawfare campaign: an attempted coup against #Colombia ’s left-wing president #GustavoPetro .
Two members of the National Electoral Council want to investigate alleged contributions cap violations in #Petro ’s 2022 campaign.
colombiareports.com/colombias-elec…

“Dúirt an Feisire Eorpach Chris MacManus ó Shinn Féin go mbeidh sé ina thosaíocht aige deireadh a chur leis an srian ar sheirbhísí #Gaeilge sa Pharlaimint”
#EU2024 #VótáilSinnFéin #ChangeStartsHere #CeartaTeanga #SinnFéin
tuairisc.ie/bru-le-cur-ar-…

Only #SinnFéin can deliver real change, and the people know it.

Sinn Féin 29 (+3)
Fine Gael 19 (-2)
Fianna Fáil 16
Social Democrats 6
Greens 4
Aontú 3 (-1)
Labour 3
Solidarity-PBP 2
Inds/others 19 (+2)

(May 2-3, MoE 2.8%)
#ChangeStartsHere #EP2024 #LE2024 #VótáilSinnFéin

79 years ago the #Nazi regime capitulated & millions were freed from the horrors of #fascism , #genocide & war
Today, as those shadows grow once more, we remember the victims & say loudly: #NieWieder ! #NeverAgain !
#niewiederkrieg #niewiederfaschismus #8Mai #TagDerBefreiung #FCKNZS

'Fix Europe’s #housing crisis or risk fuelling the far-right, UN expert warns
…
'If we want to stop the rise of the #farright , starve it of some oxygen, things like #housing have to be seen as fundamental rights''
#EU2024
theguardian.com/news/article/2…

The International Criminal Court ( #ICC ) warns against undermining its process as it considers issuing arrest warrants for #Israel ’s leaders (triggering sanctions).
The US is opposed, & Israel has threatened to “punish” the Palestinian Authority if warrants are made.
#CeasefireNOW

“The Inexorable Rise of the Belgian Workers’ Party
…All polls indicate that they will win three mandates in the next EU Parliament…15–20 percent in Wallonia, 20 percent in Brussels, and in Flanders they exceeded 10 percent in…2023”
#EU2024 #PTB #Belgium
rosalux.eu/en/2024/englis…

CNN: whistleblowers report #Israel running a torture camp for #Palestinians in Negev desert:
“amputated prisoners’ limbs”
“smell of neglected wounds left to rot”
“strapped to their beds…fed through straws”
“teeth…bones…broken”
#FreePalestine #SdeTeiman
edition.cnn.com/2024/05/10/mid…

Duroyan Fertl

#Catalan elections: “ #Illa wins comfortably, but the presidency of the Generalitat is still up in the air”

The options: a left-wing coalition of #PSC - #ERC - #Comuns with a bare minimum 68 seats, an impossible PSC- #Junts lash-up, or a new vote…
#Catalunya
elnacional.cat/en/editorial/i…

“leading #climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C… above preindustrial levels this century, blasting past internationally agreed targets…
a “semi-dystopian” future…famines, conflicts and mass migration”
#ClimateCrisis
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theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Very interesting: the two ogams on the legs are written with a swap of the orientation of the B and H aicmi, and W is very appropriately expressed by double U.

'In #Sweden thousands of migrant construction workers have to deal with employer blackmail and attempts to cheat them out of their pay. Unrepresented by the traditional trade unions, they are resorting to more direct forms of class struggle'
#workersrights
jacobin.com/2024/04/sweden…

Duroyan Fertl Eoghan Gilmartin What the fuck is a Garibaldi doing in a pub?
Jeeesus.
I need a drink.

David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 (Dr) Rena Maguire Detail here isn't great (distance, poor lighting), but these are the other two, worn in rehearsal. Haven't checked closely, but one is meant to have read 'Crown the Witch' (the message later used in all three locations for the live performance), and 'Saoirse don Phalaistín'.