Sam Bishop

@magnumlady @streetfeast @SligoPPN Thank you Val!

If you are thinking about taking part in @streetfeast this year, have a read of my blog magnumlady.com/2023/06/29/str… and if you are in Sligo, contact @SligoPPN to get involved.

What is commonage? And how could unlocking its enormous rewilding potential revolutionise the Irish landscape for the better ... Of nature, the climate, and *everyone*, especially farmers + rural communities? A thread...

I could do a top 100 reasons to despair in 2023 but here's my top 10 good news stories for nature this year: 1. Has to be the passing of the Nature Restoration Law. What a battle it was but we now have a basis to turn the tide for nature in the 🇪🇺 🙌 rte.ie/news/world/202…

Ireland is Full Of empty homes Of derelict buildings Of derelict sites Of land Ireland is full Of empathy Of love Of care Of community Ireland is Full Of ideas Of Hope Of energy Of capacity & ability Ireland can ensure everyone here has a home, security, dignity

Anyone who knows the International Committee of the Red Cross knows that their official policy is to never speak out (icrc.org/en/document/co…) Which is why such a statement by the ICRC president is so exceptional, and why you should listen. Here's what she says: "The things I saw [in the European Gaza hospital] is beyond anything that anyone should be in a position to described. What shocked me the most were the children, with atrocious injuries and at the same time having lost their parents with no-one looking after them. We are facing a situation here that will not be healed by sending in more trucks. We need to provide protection to the civilians in Gaza, to the women and children, to the elderly people that I saw today that have nowhere to go... We have to find solutions to this. We can't turn away from what is evidently a moral failure in the face of the international community."

He says ‘I’m done with sharing images. Now trying to survive surrounded by tanks. I shared enough.. our situation is beyond catastrophic. We are not sharable content. We are a people being exterminated and a cause not to be forgotten. We are alone’ 💔💔

In less than 2 minutes, the representative for the State of Palestine at the UN, eviscerates the entire myth of Western "civilization" under the US Military Industrial Complex. This should be mandatory viewing in schools and universities throughout the Western world, if we do want to learn about upholding human rights, before we even begin to preach them to others.

A second Nakba unfolding right in front of our eyes. Ceasefire now

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Israel has struck 3 hospitals and an ambulance convey today. Silence is complicity.

@aoifedare I can't. I just can't.

@Samue1 Can you imagine Sam? Can you just imagine? There are no words, no words.

The father's hopeless scrambling.... Utterly heartbreaking

A father shouting by his baby girl and son names after losing them under their house rubble by an Israeli airstrike.

Please watch this devastating BBC I/view with a paediatric intensive care doctor in Gaza. There is an acronym unique to the Gaza Strip- WCNSF = wounded child no surviving family.

These are the children extracted after the bombardment of Gaza's Jabalya refugee camp haaretz.com/opinion/2023-1…

“Doctors are amputating patient children without anaesthesia. Can you imagine?” Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, a MSF medical coordinator in Gaza, tells @mattfrei. channel4.com/news/doctors-a…

I grew up in a Zionist household, spent 12 years in a Zionist youth movement, lived 4 years in Israel, and have friends and family who served in the IDF. When that is your world, it's hard to see apartheid when it's happening. 1/16

Ceasefire NOW.

Chalk it down, Street Feast is happening over TWO WHOLE DAYS in 2024 from Saturday May 25th - Sunday May 26th, yippeeeee! For now we're just asking you to add the dates to your calendar and keep us in mind for your 2024 event planning. But we'll have more news soon!