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 Austerity ripped the hearts out of our communities- the Dublin riots: finding a way forward through community In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks about the impact of the stabbing and the riots in Dublin and the political and media response, to Paula Kearney, community worker in Dublin's North Inner City, Glen Kearney, youth worker in the inner city, and Dean Scurry, youth worker and activist in Ballymun. We discuss the deprivation and inequalities in the city, along with the impact of austerity on community, attitudes and actions of the Gardai, the rise in racism, and finding ways forward through community engagement and civil society action for investment in the key social issues affecting communities. The Ditch wrap of 2023 podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-94831589

.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 talks about the increase in anti-immigrant politics, but also the positive work being done to welcome and support refugees and real solutions that can build homes and provide asylum seeker accommodation with Tanya Ward of the Children's Rights Alliance and Dr Lorcan Sirr, Senior Lecturer with TUD. Irish Nationalism, Sinn Féin and the far right with Researcher of Global Politics and Online Subcultures, Joshua Molloy, is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-94361655

.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 hears from Gillian Kearns, a co-founder of NeuroPride Ireland and secretary of Disabled Women Ireland, and Maryam Madani from Disability Power, who explain what is in the Green Paper on Disability reform, how the proposals have failed to listen and include the voices and perspectives of disabled people, the upset this has caused, how the reforms are neoliberal workfare rather than enabling disabled people. The Scrap the Green Paper Coalition is holding a protest outside the Dail from 12pm-2pm Thursday 7th Dec. You can sign their petition here:https://beacons.ai/scrapthegreenpaper The Latest PalCast on the rising famine levels in Gaza is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-94126263

.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 and Tony talk to Professor Shane Darcy, Deputy Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights in the School of Law at NUI Galway. Professor Darcy provides an overview of international humanitarian law including the International Criminal Court, and how Ireland could be doing more to pressure Israel to stop its war crimes against the people in Gaza, such as bringing Israel to the International Court of Justice in relation to crimes of genocide. Prof Darcy researches the fields of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, business and human rights and is author of a number of books including Judges, Law and War: The Judicial Development of International Humanitarian Law. The Latest PalCast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-93890179

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack My sister is in Gaza: Ireland-Palestine Solidarity with Fatin Al Tamimi In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Fatin Al Tamimi, who is a Palestinian/Irish human rights activist and a director of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Fatin talks about her worry for her sister and family who are in Gaza and had to leave their home and are now in a shelter with no water. Fatin also talks about the de-humanisation of the Palestinian people, the racism and complicity in the mainstream media and the need for the Irish Government to do more to support Palestine, and the importance of public action like protest and the Boycott Divest Sanction campaigns. You can find out more at www.ipsc.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 talks to John Barry, Professor of Political Economy in Queens University Belfast. We talk about the role of public protest and activism in influencing social change and our Governments on things like stopping the Genocide in Gaza. We also discuss the necessity for alternative an system to capitalism - one based on values of care, dignity, environment, and well being, and political strategies for change. Nicholas Dale Leal on Argentina's New Chainsaw Wielding President is out now:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-93221599 Tickets:http://douglassinwexford.com/

Mary Lawlor, UN Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, discusses the war on Gaza and the risk of genocide. She highlights the importance of international solidarity and public action. The podcast explores the violation of international human rights law in Gaza and the targeting of human rights defenders. It also discusses the role of economic and strategic interests in driving conflicts and the need to support and raise awareness about human rights defenders.

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Gaza Fundraiser here:https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-appeal-for-gaza?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory and Tony, talk to Professor Balakrishnan Rajagopal, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, a lawyer by training, he is an expert on many areas of human rights. He outlines how Israel is committing genocide and war crimes in its attacks on the civilian population and infrastructure in Gaza. He also explains that there is more the UN can do to put pressure on Israel, such as the UN General Assembly 'unseating' Isreal, putting an embargo on arms to Isreal, and implementing the Uniting for peace resolution to get a ceasefire. We also discuss the loss of home and domicide (the destruction of home) in Gaza, and the trauma of homeloss, the growing public international community outcry for peace. We also discuss the wider global affordable housing crisis, and legalizing a right to housing as a challenge to the neoliberal commodification of housing. The 'What's Happening with The Ditch' Pod is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-92526741

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack This is a podcast of hope, alternatives and solutions for the housing catastrophe in Ireland, and indeed for housing crises all over the world. Joining Rory and Tony is Michaela Kauer, who is the Director of the Brussels Liaison Office of the City of Vienna. They talk about the famous Vienna housing model, where half of all housing in the city is public affordable housing. Michaela outlines how the Vienna housing model works, the treatment of housing as a right and need not a commodity that drive the model, including being in the Constitution, regulations for renters - how renters get to set the rents in negotiation with landlords and government, the 2019 Vienna law where two thirds of all new private development must be subsidised affordable housing, the role of municipal and not-for-profit housing providers, and how we can deliver housing for the common good. The brilliant Gazan writer, Muhammad Shehada, joined us for a chat and it's out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-92284739

.wpedon-container .wpedon-select, .wpedon-container .wpedon-input { width: 170px; min-width: 170px; max-width: 170px; } Please support us by becoming a member at patreon.com/totoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Grace Blakeley, economist, staff writer at Tribune Magazine and author of 'Stolen: How to save the world from financialisation' and the upcoming book 'Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom'. We discuss the escalating humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, and then Grace outlines her analysis of the 'cost of greed' crisis, inflation/excuse-flation, the central planning at the heart of vulture capitalism and a hopeful strategy for building a democratic alternative. The Latest from Zak in Gaza is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-91890887