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The Ditch: The Party Line | Episode 36: Freedom Ain’t Free, with Gavan Titley
‘Late neoliberal governance is happy with people chatting. You can talk away, right? I think Jodie Dean called this democracy that speaks without listening: speak, but we're not going to do anything with it. I think there's a lot to be done on the left to think about making speech into something that not just has resonance and meaning but has collective power as well as occupying and thinking about civil liberties which are very clearly under threat at the moment.
‘But it's not just the negative freedom – the freedom from something – but the freedom to do something, a set of debates and a political terrain that we could occupy right now a lot more, particularly when it comes to things like social media platforms where the debate has been about my right not to be banned or not to be thrown off them.
‘OK you can have an account but whether you're being amplified or deamplified, where you have a right to speak but you've no right to reception – these are massive private corporations with black box algorithmic operations that organise a public for us.’
#Israel_Enemy_Of_Humanity
#Ireland is #ComplicitInGenocide, knew we were and was happy with that.
@fiannafailparty @FineGael are NOT good people. Good people do the right thing even when no one is looking. These politicians issue mealy-mouthed words that create positive optics.
‘This was brought to public attention by The Ditch. The bonds, known as Israel Bonds and issued by the Development Corporation for Israel, were explicitly marketed and sold from October 2023 as war bonds accompanied by the slogan "Israel is at war – we stand with Israel”’
bdsmovement.net/news/No-Sale…
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@Israel is the problem.
#FuckIsrael 🖕 🇮🇱 🖕
#FreePalestine ❤️ 🇵🇸 ❤️
#SaoirseDonPhalaistín 🇮🇪❤️🇵🇸
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Derek Joyce. Noice. #StopCETA retweeted
What a man 🔥
Not only did he win but he scorched tens of millions of Israeli AIPAC dollars in the process 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
#Israel_Enemy_Of_Humanity
#PalestineGenocide
#SaoirseDonPhalaistín
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Derek Joyce. Noice. #StopCETA retweeted
The Ditch: The Party Line | Episode 35: Where in the World, with Vijay Prashad
‘If western countries are not going to take care of the needs of their citizens, what do they expect? Why would you be surprised if you are not allowing students to have classrooms? I mean this protest in France doesn't begin in the centre of Paris – it begins in the suburbs. And in the suburbs mostly black and Arab students are complaining – we don't have teachers, we don't have desks, we don't have classrooms. Those were the early complaints.
‘And this went out on the street and said, you know, what the hell, you're raising the military budget but what about us? You're talking about tanks, we don't have classrooms. So then this explodes because it brings back the Yellow Vest people who were protesting a few years earlier. Similar things, guns and butter, spending money on some useless stuff, what about us? You're bailing out banks, what about us?’
Derek Joyce. Noice. #StopCETA retweeted
#Bismillah-c'est la lumière
Palestine-the revealer:
Its martyrdom is awakening the world.
Its struggle against Apartheid, the beating heart of all free beings.
Sumud, the grammar of resistance against all forms of oppression.
Thank you @mackelmore for being the comrade you are
Derek Joyce. Noice. #StopCETA retweeted
As I presented my latest report at the UN two days ago, the US ambassador managed to be even more insulting than Israel’s. No small feat, given that Israeli representatives at UN in New York have long been second to none in diplomatic buffoonery.
At the UN on Monday, Israel's ambassador called @FranceskAlbs a fraud and a liar. The US representative called her a lunatic.
Her report documents nearly 300 journalists killed in Gaza. Of course, neither of them addressed it.
Then she answered.
Derek Joyce. Noice. #StopCETA retweeted
A vindication of the Gaza students and all those who have campaigned for their right to study here.
An absolute indictment of wannabe hardman Jim O'Callaghan and this government.
All they offer is some empty words combined with performative cruelty.
rte.ie/news/courts/2026/1027…
#Ireland is #ComplicitInGenocide
@fiannafailparty @FineGael are #ComplicitInGenocide
#Israel_Enemy_Of_Humanity
#HowIrelandWorks
United Airlines illegally transported US government-supplied gun components for the Israel Defense Forces through Irish territory this month.
Shannon Airport celebrated its "long-standing partnership" with United Airlines earlier this year.
ontheditch.com/united-airlin…
And right now our defence minister Helen McEntee is concerned with one war in particular: the war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
McEntee says Irish troops should be deployed to Lebanon as part of a new EU mission involved with not only peacekeeping – but peace enforcement.
Peace enforcement includes joining “coalitions of the willing” and fighting wars of aggression like the 20-year Afghanistan war, and the wars in Iraq, which claimed the lives of well over a million people.
If we consider the ideals the state was founded on, it is clear that Irish soldiers should never be involved in these kinds of missions.
Derek Joyce. Noice. #StopCETA retweeted
Two+yrs ago I said: " I long for the day there will be an investigation on the role of Western media in the genocide in Gaza".
From the very beginning many authoritative media have acted unprofessionally and irresponsible.
My last report proves there is more. And it's ugly.
Reproducir las afirmaciones del poder en lugar de someterlas a escrutinio no es periodismo y puede contribuir a crímenes atroces
El nuevo informe de la relatora de la ONU sobre los medios de comunicación en tiempos de genocidio ↘️
eldiario.es/opinion/zona-cri…
Minister McEntee Confirms on @rtenews when Triple Lock removed Govt to deploy Irish to EU Mission to Lebanon with Peace Enforcement Component -Rationale for the NonUN Mission based on Trilateral Agreement(Israel US Leb Govt) to Disarm Hezbollah -Civil War rte.ie/listen/clip/34ec42a0-…
