Seanad CEG
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Seanad CEG
@SeanadCEG
The Civil Engagement Group in Seanad Éireann - @Frances_Black, @aliceeire, @love1solidarity and Lynn Ruane.
Seanad Éireann
Joined January 2017
- Congratulations to Senator Lynn Ruane @SenLynnRuane who has been appointed to the Joint Oireachtas Committees on Justice; and Children, Disability, Equality and Integration.
- Today Senator Eileen Flynn @Love1solidarity will be the first Traveller to address Dail Eireann. She will be speaking on the final report of the Committee on Key Issues facing the Traveller Community, of which she was chairperson. Congratulations Eileen!
- "Palestinians have been telling us for decades that they've been living under a system of apartheid... Now we have all the details. We can no longer pretend we didn't know, or we didn't understand." - @frances_black on Amnesty's report on Israel's apartheid against Palestinians
00:00 - 🚨BREAKING🚨: 67 TDs and Senators have issued a joint call to the Minister to ban munitions flights to Israel through Irish airspace. Our letter was signed by reps from @SocDems @pb4p @sinnfeinireland @labour and demands reforms, including inspections of munitions flights.
- Congratulations @frances_black re-elected on the Industrial and Commercial Panel to the 26th Seanad Éireann!
- Today, a report was released by Amnesty International. It finds that Israel's oppression of Palestinians amounts to apartheid, a crime against humanity under international law. The report details the institutionalised domination of Palestinians in occupied territories.
- We wholeheartedly support the motion by Soc Dems @HollyCairnsTD in the Dáil which includes calls for referral of Israel to ICC, and enactment of @frances_black's Occupied Territories Bill along with suspension of EU-Israel trade agreement on human rights grounds.
- Congratulations to Senator Eileen Flynn @Love1solidarity who has been appointed to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.
- We have written today to @tcddublin Provost Linda Doyle to express our opposition to the drastic fine imposed on @tcdsu for engaging in legitimate protest. You can read the letter from Lynn, Alice-Mary, Frances & Eileen below 👇 @aliceeire @frances_black @Love1solidarity
- Senator @frances_black speaking on our motion which passed the Seanad (Irish senate) last night with unanimous support. The motion called for the passage of the Occupied Territories Bill and the immediate suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
00:00 - Today Senator @frances_black read out Dr. Refaat Alareer’s poem “If I must die” in the Seanad. He was murdered by Israel in Gaza. “When entire families are being extinguished in Gaza it becomes harder and harder to understand the extent of what is lost” - @frances_black
00:00 - "What has our condemnation ever achieved? How can we look the Palestinian people in the eye and say we still won't act?" - Senator @frances_black speaking on the horrendous murder of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by Israeli forces, and the ongoing Israeli apartheid.
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