45. Gaza and the Heroism of Those Who Don’t Want to be Heroes

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this 2024/25 special we sit down with journalist with El Pais in Mexico City, Nicholas Dale Leal, who brings us on both a geographical and ideological tour of Latin America from Milei’s anarcho-capitalist Argentina to Sheinbaum’s socially-democratic-with-a-side-of-cartel Mexico and everything in between. The great breakdown of Latin America and what the Trump presidency could mean that you didn’t know you needed to hear. Support Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/117612489

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this 2024/2025 tortoise shack special we are joined by journalist and Our Man in Stockholm, Mr Philip O’Connor, to discuss how the (sadly many) missed opportunities of 2024 can be seen as learnings for 2025. We talk politics, media and the need for a more combative opposition within both areas. Then Philip makes the case for moving beyond solidarity to what he calls Radical Compassion. Please have a listen. (And get him a job hosting an Irish tv show) Please help the Sameer Project here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/118211557 Also the AFSC are doing amazing work, support them here:https://afsc.org/

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this wrap of 2024 we skip over the Irish Sea to talk with listener favourite, Prof Richard Murphy, about the UK’s year of turmoil and the stability of having a politics of not very much ambition. Richard talks about how the Labour Party had continued to impose rules upon itself under the guise of fiscal prudence, whilst offering a seat at the table to some of the biggest capitalist predators in the world. Global Britain in 2025? We will see. Donate to Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/117612489

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Listeners will remember Ann Marie Flanagan from our 'No on the Care Referendum' podcast. Well she’s decided that the best way for to see the promises made after that failed referendum is for her to be at the table where the legislation gets written and negotiated. So she’s running for the Seanad and joins us to talk all about her ambitions for the work and representing the disabled community as a member of it in national politics. Donate to Dignity to Palestine here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/117612489

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Banias is a wonderful a 8-year old child living in Gaza, now displaced in Al-Zawayda. She joins us to speak of the dreams that she still carries and the life that she left behind in her home, now destroyed, in Gaza city, Banias shares her hopes for the new year, talks about rebuilding Gaza, wanting to visit New York, her favourite Christmas film, Home Alone, and how much she wants to see an end to the war. Her mom, Maram, also joins us towards the end of the conversation. Banias likes Christmas, and she lit up this podcast. Let’s hold her and the people of Gaza in the light during this holiday season. Tune in for more Donate to Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/117612489