Reboot Republic - Rory Hearne by Tortoise Shack Media

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to some of the organisers of this weekends (Saturday June 10th) Raise the Roof rally taking place in Cork City. He's joined by Barry Murphy, general secretary of the plasters union, Eva Mitchell, union organiser with SIPTU, and Martin Leahy, musician and friend of the pod. We talk about the need to challenge the normalisation and powerlessness in the housing crisis but also understanding that those affected are in extremely vulnerable and difficult situations. Eva talks about the injustice faced by her generation locked out of housing, forced to emigrate, and searching for hope, Barry sets out why we need a public construction company and the history of delivering public housing in Ireland, while Martin talks about facing eviction, the anxiety, terror and also expressing the anger through art and music. Please if you can, join the protest this weekend, or share and support on social media #raisetheroofcork The podcast on Martin's win vs the Public Services Card is out now:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-83826040

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory speaks to two artists, Aoife Ward and Eve Woods, who talk about their art and activism work in Dublin, including their 'hotel walking tour', action as pretend estate agents selling derelict buildings and the mental health impacts of living in insecure and crap rental, the two rounds of emigration from austerity to the housing crisis, the collective depression of a generation. We also discuss politics, how this can change, and the volcano they might build to represent the bubbling anger of a generation who should explode over the housing crisis. Aoife and Eve work collaboratively under Con: temporary Quarters Insta: con_temporaryquarters https://instagram.com/con_temporaryquarters?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } The Interconnecting Housing and Health Emergencies Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to nurses about how they are being affected by the housing crisis (paying three quarters of their salaries on rent, huge personal stress) and how its also impacting the health system (hospitals unable to recruit staff due to lack of housing), and on their patients (the impact of stress, substandard housing and homelessness on health). The podcast starts with Ms Phil Ni Sheaghdha, General Secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), and is followed by nurses involved with the INMO, including Jamie Murphy, a nurse in CHI Tallaght who talks about how housing is impacting nurses and their patients, with children from 6 months old with multiple presentations at hospital due to respiratory illness picked up in hotels and homeless hubs. We also talk to representatives of the Indian nurses organisations, including Janet baby joseph, a midwife in Cork University Hospital, representing the Cork Indian Nurses. The interview with Housing Minister, Darragh O'Brien is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/83243652

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Rory's guest this week is Dr Tricia Keilthy, Head of Social Justice and Policy at St Vincent De Paul. They discuss the intensifying cost of living crisis, the 50% increase in calls to SVP for energy support, people going without heat, the need for a rent arrears support fund as a key homelessness and poverty prevention measure. They look at how the cost of living intersects with the housing crisis in the area of rising rent arrears and evictions, how illogical the concept of moral hazard is in dealing with arrears given long term social costs and trauma, the need for a broader definition and response to poverty that looks at the cost of living and isolation, using the surplus to invest in social infrastructure like childcare and transport, and how financial support for children in Direct Provision falls “shamefully short” of the bare minimum. The SVP is looking for volunteers: If you can help go to www.svp.ie The podcast with Housing Minister, Darragh O'Brien is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-83243652

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this episode of Reboot Republic, Rory and Tony are joined by music producer and artist Meryl Streek, to discuss the inspiration and motivation behind his music, and his latest single "If this is life then I don't want it", which is released today (May 16th). This single is a reaction to the housing crisis in Ireland and samples Rory's voice on the issue of generation locked out. Meryl talks about his own personal journey, grief and loss, and music influences, the anger of a generation and his hope to reach out and bring about change with his music. You can listen to the song here:https://open.spotify.com/track/2CKEkGee7OwpKATFJsRoWm?si=J0ZmLo75RMKBUED_AOmBYg The Echo Chamber with Housing Minister, Darragh O'Brien is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-83243652

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack A gendered and inequality analysis of Climate Issues and Policy In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Vanessa Conroy, a tutor and researcher in the Department of Applied Social Studies in Maynooth about Climate policies, action and inequality. Vanessa outlines her research on a gendered analysis of Climate policy and highlights the need to take a gendered view of areas like migration - where 80% of people displaced by Climate related disasters are women, the failure of the Irish Climate action plan to address the gendered impact of the transition, in areas such as transport, and its link to violence against women, in Ireland we have a long way to go on gender inequality , also relating to care, disability. Rory and Vanessa discuss the issue of making a transition to reducing carbon emissions that leaves inequalities intact, and in fact worsens them, such as access to retrofitted homes, EV vehicles. Adding a lick of green paint to capitalism would be a lost opportuntity to address key social inequalities in a socially just transition. The Trial of Paul Murphy podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-82594098

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Invest the 20bn surplus in housing & climate-with economist Michael Taft In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with economist with SIPTU Michael Taft, about what should be done with the budget surpluses of 20bn (and even could be 40bn). Michael outlines why the 20bn should not be saved away for pensions (which should be covered by taxation) and used to invest in key areas like housing (we discuss construction capacity and a public construction company) and Climate - in developing public wind energy and retrofitting. This is a historic possibility to address key social issues - we should use it in public investment not waste it on 'subsidising' the market. Listen now for free to Hurlers on the Ditch: https://www.patreon.com/posts/no-paywall-on-82242776

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory chats with his brother, Declan, who has been living in Australia for over 11 years, about the housing crisis in Australia and their new turn to investor fund build to rents, and about floods and climate change, Declan's experience of flooding in his home recently, and his work in the area of water pollution and water management, and back to when Declan worked in environmental monitoring with Kerry Council Council and the call he received from Jackie Healy Rae! The Housing in Helsinki podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-81742881

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory sets out the state of the housing crisis, the impact and responses needed to the lifting of the eviction ban, as part of a Town Hall meeting in Galway West organised by Uplift calling for a reinstating of the eviction ban. You will also hear from Saoirse McHugh of Uplift, and a mother who is facing eviction and the devastating mental health impact of this, a discussion about solutions with the audience, and action you can take to email your TDs, fill in the Uplift eviction map & sign the petition. www.uplift.ie

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory & Tony chat with the artist Spice Bag, who's picture of depicting a famine eviction with modern day Gardai elicited a massive reaction. We discuss what were Spice Bag's motivations in developing the picture, the legitimacy of the parallel between the famine evictions and todays housing crisis, how all art is political, and art can express and elicit a reaction and response that is essential in engaging people with social crises. You can order the picture here, all funds go to homeless charity:https://spicebagmerch.bigcartel.com/product/eviction-print?fbclid=IwAR3sD3s-NG-VMg5z650xUySWhEsFxv9rJLYTg4oPljfT3UU45dVwOUyp2VE The Killian Woods podcast is available now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-81405068