The Irish Radical’s
🍉 Summer ’24 Issue 🍉
Solidarity and Radical World-Building: An Encampment Reflection from Students Across the Nation
I talked with six different students from around the country––from Los Angeles to New Orleans to New Haven––to gather their insights and perspectives on how the Palestinian solidarity encampments have affected them, with the hope of painting a broad, yet still very incomplete, picture of the general trends, patterns, and conclusions that can be taken away from this specific and powerful moment in American history.
ACAB: Abolish the Notre Dame Police Department
In many ways, this aligns the NDPD with police forces around the world who hide their violence behind a false narrative of their own purpose, claiming they work to make citizens safer or to serve the community. In reality, these objectives are, at best, a secondary purpose behind the core function of maintaining power and a status quo of inequality and oppression.
Decolonizing Knowledge and Power Experience
From July 1-5, I took classes on decolonizing knowledge and power in Barcelona. It was the prime environment for pursuing intellectual curiosity and discovering what exactly I want to be more curious about.
