Food for Thought 2025

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Join us for our annual Food for Thought event this Monday, April 7th from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm at St Mary’s Hall, ATU Mayo!

This year, we’re exploring the vital theme of Peace, Justice, and the Environment. We’ve teamed up with the enthusiastic Third-Year Outdoor Education and History and Geography students from Atlantic Technological University to bring you a truly engaging experience.
We have a vibrant morning planned with thought-provoking discussions and opportunities to connect with fellow participants who care deeply about social justice issues. Share your ideas, learn from others, and become part of a community committed to positive change.

We are delighted to be joined by Catherine Connolly TD for an insightful conversation circle – a chance to hear her perspectives and share your own! We will also have captivating music from the talented The Accidental Rapper and Dylan Swift.

We’d love for you to join us and contribute your valuable insights and perspectives. Please register on Eventbrite here.

We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

Afri’s Hedge School 2024 at TU Dublin Blanchardstown

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On Wednesday, November 13th, 2024, we held our 12th annual Hedge School in partnership with TU Dublin in Blanchardstown. Our Hedge School harks back to the informal gatherings in Ireland that provided education at a time when strict laws suppressed schooling. This history serves as a reminder of how dominating powers can restrict, withhold, or distort knowledge. Today, our annual Hedge School holds space for humans’ innate need to share, learn, and take action for a just, equitable, and sustainable world.

This powerful student-led event delved into the justice issues of Palestine, housing, and gender equality, framed within the very apt theme of the Hedge School ‘Human Rights for Humanity’. The video below beautifully captures the workshops, speakers, discussion, stalls, music, art, and, of course, tree planting. Together, we explored pathways of solidarity, centred on Fannie Lou Hamer’s words: “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”

Statement by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Campaign for Palestine on Gaza and Israel

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The Irish Anti-Apartheid Campaign for Palestine (IAAC-P) is a coalition of 23 Irish civil society organisations representing a collective membership of over one million people across the island.

We mourn, without reservation, the taking of all civilian life, in Gaza, in Israel and across the occupied Palestinian territory; and we condemn all unlawful acts which deliberately target or recklessly endanger civilians, including all acts of collective punishment against a population under siege. Continue reading “Statement by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Campaign for Palestine on Gaza and Israel” →