Saji Darwish - the march of the Israeli Reich

Saji Darwish was killed by the Israeli Army yesterday with a bullet to the back of his head. He was a media student at Birzeit University. He was 18 years old.

It is very sad to see this... I say to people everywhere we must raise up our voices in protest... it is beholden on all of us to resist the Israeli state at every level;... no matter how small the contribution it will help our comrades the Palestinians...

I call on everyone to boycott Israeli goods and furthermore to take an active role in ensuring they are not sold in Ireland.

Poem - Looking Back at Earth

looking back at earth
that pang of regret
will I see her again
or feel the pull of her g
gravity..
the drug of the space junkie
take in small doses only
for now free in flight 
my mind roams unhindered
far behind the networked ad hoardings
their cheap laser light pale 
in the rich black blue of space
starlight reflected in the metal seed
all around
feed me  nurture me  protect me 
as down the fallopian road my ship crawls
a few parsecs more
from the body of the earth mother
just as in far history
the first mothers
carried the ancestors 
on the inside
or so they say
body to body
seed to skin
m times v = f
as I force myself out into
the universe
here I am 
I of earth
I of earth

European businesses & existence and expansion of illegal Israeli settlements

EU involvement in illegal Israeli settlements – ECCP’s presentation in European Parliament

"On November 27th, Michael Deas, ECCP representative and coordinator in Europe with the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), gave a talk in the European Parliament about European businesses involvement in illegal Israeli settlements. It was the first time that the topic of EU involvement in illegal Israeli settlements was presented in detail in the European Parliament by a civil society organization."

"According to international law as applied in the 2004 International Court of Justice advisory 

opinion on Israel’s wall and settlements, third party states are violating their own obligations to 

not recognize nor render aid or assistance to these serious Israeli violations by allowing financial 

and economic activity with the settlements to continue."

Read the article here

Read the full report here

Salute to Che Guevara

Che Guevara

October 9 marks 46 years since the cowardly execution of Ernesto Che Guevara, freedom fighter and legendary guerilla of Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina...

..to Che...  Hasta Siempre

His father Ernest Guevara Lynch said "The first thing to note is that in my son's veins flowed the blood of the Irish rebels", he said in a 1969 interview. He went on: "Che inherited some of the features of our restless ancestors. There was something in his nature which drew him to distant wandering, dangerous adventures and new ideas".



By Drax Ireland

Palestinian loss of land

See the full article on Sadaka.ie

Boycott Israeli Goods

Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign 
to read more about the campaign

http://www.ipsc.ie/campaigns/consumer-boycott

Seamus Heaney (1939 - 2013)

It is with great sorrow and sadness that I report the death of Seamus Heaney in Dublin. I offer my condolences to his wife Marie, and children, Christopher, Michael and Catherine Ann.

Seamus Justin Heaney, 13 April 1939 to 30 August 2013.  R.I.P.

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"The spot is hallow'd where the good man dwells;

Though centuries have laps’d, his words and deeds 

for his remotest offspring still resound”  Goethe

Seamus Heaney was the ultimate poet to me; in his work, his life, his manner, his openness and accessibility. I thought of him as a friendly statue, solid, smiling as I resisted the urge to bow down in his presence. Meeting him at readings down the years he was always the same; kind, considerate, with time to talk and say hello.

Listening Back To Seamus Heaney  with Tom Ashbrook

Rabindranath Tagore

Take a moment for  Rabindranath Tagore  who died on this day in 1941.

I have an old copy of his Fireflies from the turn of the century and he himself said;- 

"Fireflies had their origin in China and Japan where thoughts were very often claimed from me in my hand writing on fans and pieces of silk" 

“The shade of my tree is for passers-by, its fruit for the one for whom I wait.”

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” Rabindranath Tagore  

by Drax Ireland