58. My Students Kept Me Going

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ed Note: In this very special Echo Chamber Podcast we pay tribute to our late tortoise shack colleague, Dr Vicky Conway in both the coverage of the new report Still Not Heard, Still Not Safe and in knowing that her work was instrumental in its foundations. Joining us is the founder of Black and Irish, Leon Diop and Director with the Irish Network Against Racism, Shane O'Curry. We go into some of the findings of the report, the need for Garda to take onboard the recommendations and the lived experience of policing in Ireland as a person of colour. Thanks to Leon and Shane for coming over for this important conversation and Dr Lucy Michael for her work on this important report. The report is available here:https://inar.ie/pabi-project/ Donate to Dignity for Palestine here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/shoutout-to-mr-126186702

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast we are rejoined by Mexico-based Colombian journalist with El Pais, Nicholas Dale Leal, to discuss the impact the new Trump administration is having on the region, the shocking discovery of what is being called an extermination camp in Mexico and the people “disappearing” from the US into Super Max prisons in El Salvador. The Grace Blakeley Pod is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-125909419 Support Dignity for Palestine here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/126186702

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Martin had a long chat with his co-conspirator, Matt McGranaghan, in relation to the two cases they are currently working on with RTE staff in the workplace Relations Commission. This also a good insight into where the political landscape is when it comes to protecting workers in the face of systemic corruption. The Grace Blakeley podcast on Trump 2.0 is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-125909419 Support Dignity for Palestine here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/dignity-for-your-124980167

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this PalCast, Yousef and Tony discuss the latest news out of Gaza, the rapidly spreading famine and the way in which the international community has largely disgraced itself in standing by as the genocide restarted. We also talk the Garda treatment of the Mothers Against Genoicide activists, the new Irish governments burying of the Occupied Territories Bill and much more. Donate to Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/dignity-for-your-124980167

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this echo chamber pod we are rejoined by data protection expert, solicitor and one of our favourite troublemakers, solicitor, Simon McGarr, to talk about ChatControl, digital surveillance, State silos and the terrifying problem of paper clip maximisation. Read more here:https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-bad-state-of-affairs/