In Barcelona alone, an estimated 286 people died from the extra heat caused by climate change in the recent heatwave. Here's the story of one of them, healthy, and 51 years old.
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Climate Change Worsens Deadly Extreme Heat in Spain, France, Italy, Greece
Spain and Greece have for years restricted outdoor work on very hot days, while Italy and France have started this summer.Laura Millan (Bloomberg)
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Janeishly
in reply to Janeishly • • •Irishness has taken a revolutionary turn in the cultural landscape. And itās not just an influx of hot people wearing Claddagh rings and Pellador gansies because Paul Mescal got papped rocking GAA shorts. This new development is rooted in something far deeper than Depop. This is about Kneecap and the return to the party in leftist politics.
Depoliticised and stripped of all radical analysis, Irishness on the world stage became a tale of cups of tea, Tayto and drinking yourself to death on a bar stool. Shamrock-washing the colonial memory, lulling all revolutionary potentials. Still groggy from the socialist dreams of James Connolly, we replaced our dark history of struggle and resistance with heritage sites and Riverdance and a gift shop where you can buy cute little leprechaun stickers.
As victims of a bloody colonial empire that brutalised, raped and pillaged the land, we were told to shake it off and turn our Irishness into a brand deal, into a tax haven for foreign direct investments, to blunt ourselves of the sharp parts, to heal our dark hearts and become the non-offensive butt of a joke that doesnāt upset our slave masters.
So we became storytellers, but only telling stories that were preapproved and didnāt have any enemies. We were told to assimilate, to save face or face humiliation, to lose the culture and keep the costume. Maggie Thatcher is watching you.
Kneecap have put the resistance back into politics, awakening a new energy on the left, one thatās rooted in power rather than victimhood, that doesnāt celebrate victory in defeat or get trapped in a comments section with nowhere to go. Showing solidarity for Palestinian struggle, organising and calling out war-mongerers who want to cancel the Belfast bap, we can glimpse the new horizon on the right side of history, where a future finally feels possible and nationalism isnāt a means of exclusion when you can see yourself in someone elseās eyes.
Kneecap marked a return to subaltern rage and protest, invoking insurgency in young people everywhere. An antidote to the end stage of identity politics. An uprising based on shared struggle rather than what side of the wall you were born on. Of left unity rather than the obsession with being right.
So we use our voice, our language to stand up for our neighbours on the other side of the globe. Because without our words, our silence is complicity and power is unchallenged and genocide is sanctioned and dissent is subdued and our past becomes their present with no lessons or lectures, just bodies.
So this new Irishness is a refusal, a refusal to be the punchline in the Paddy Irishman joke, a postcard in an Americanās dream, placated by points and pacified by postcolonial revisionist histories. We were told to smile and say thank you. So we smiled through occupation, through the penal laws and plantations, through famine, through genocide. And now our smile is gone and our teeth are clenched. And we look to Palestine because we know empire when we see it.
And when the elite try to paint your grief as graffiti and your resistance as barbarism, we remember how long Ireland took to dig up its own bodies.
Janeishly
in reply to Janeishly • • •Palestine is a country full of culture and history. Our heritage is combining art, music, food, history, stories of many generations where we stand on our land and still exist despite everything thatās happening which is trying to delete our history, our culture, even our culinary heritage.
So Palestine, itās not just a country that existed for some years, itās being going thousands of years and carries a lot of culture and heritage. And Iām so proud to be Palestinian and feel privileged. But also itās very painful, especially in these days when you see whatās happening as a genocide, and how much they are trying with a worldwide effort to basically delete everything Palestinian. But we are still here.
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in reply to Janeishly • • •I don't know if there is a God, but I do know that if there is one - at least one I would follow - God loves the Irish.
"The Choctaw...managed to raise around $170 and sent it half-way across to the world to try ease the suffering of the Irish...people they would likely never encounter...money, worth around $4,000 [today]...despite themselves living in hardship and poverty, and having recently endured the 'Trail of Tears' - a series of forced relocations.."
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Meet the Native American tribe who selflessly sent money to Ireland during the Great Famine
Harry Brent (The Irish Post)