A vital chronicle of Belfast’s transformation: Paul McVeigh’s stories
“McVeigh captures the ongoing journey of a place and its people learning to live with peace, facing the legacies of the past, and cautiously embracing a new, shared future.”
Read our article by Natasha LYNCH 👉 https://sharedfuture.news/a-vital-chronicle-of-belfasts-transformation-paul-mcveighs-stories/
#SharedFuture #NorthernIreland #TheTroubles #GFA #BelfastBookFestival
Aviation weather for Malmstrom Air Force Base heliport in Great Falls area (USA) is “KGFA 200755Z 22009KT 10SM OVC075 08/02 A2989 RMK AO2A SLP128 T00770015 $” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/kgfa/en #greatfalls #usa #malmstromairforcebaseheliport #kgfa #gfa #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek #heliport vl
The 1973 film "Streets of Ulster" available for the first time in 50 years and free to watch. h/t @BeebsyMcA
It does not sugar-coat the conflict so necessarily contains scenes of violence and discussion of injury and death. Video quality is not great as it has been recovered from sources such as VHS tape.
Should those in Britain who are planning a challenge to the UK's mistreatment of trans people at the European Court of Human Rights succeed in their efforts, then demands in Britain for the UK to withdraw from the Convention will hit fever pitch. And then we in Ireland will have a very, very big problem.
#GFA #BelfastAgreement #Ireland #GoodFridayAgreement #ECHR #Brexit #Transphobia #PeaceProcess
‘Peace is not inevitable; it is an active choice’: Senator Mitchell call to young people
“For peace to flourish, we need conversations and editorials and pamphlets and sermons and town halls and stories, all filling in the spaces across the old divides.”
Read our article by Emily LIGHT 👉 https://sharedfuture.news/peace-is-not-inevitable-it-is-an-active-choice-senator-mitchell-call-to-young-people/
#SharedFuture #NorthernIreland #GFA #peace #peacebuilding #peacemaking #politics #youth
Bringing reconciliation home: #NorthernIreland unfinished peace
“Will Leitch began the conversation by reviewing the panellists’ impression of the play… Nicola Brady affirmed the use of storytelling and the arts to foster connection and reconciliation: ‘Clearly, we have a lot more stories to tell.’”
Read our article by Laura RODRIGUEZ-DAVIS 👉 https://sharedfuture.news/bringing-reconciliation-home-northern-irelands-unfinished-peace/
@laurarodriguezdavis #reconciliation #GFA #peaceprocess #peacebuilding #theatre #arts
#GFA 株式会社と #Web3 .0 #メタバース ｢ #XANA ｣ 戦略的業務提携を発表 ! - 産経ニュース
https://www.sankei.com/pressrelease/prtimes/2XHGA4ZJUVLPXD7FVV4JDZISKI/
New document:
The Good Friday Agreement: Capitalism, Poverty, Imperialism And The Police State
From Lasair Dhearg, 2023.
Britain's lethal blindspot.
In British political and media discourse, the consequences for Northern Ireland, the peace process, and the Good Friday Agreement that flow from the next Tory or Tory/Reform British government attempting to leave the European Convention on Human Rights are dangerously underpriced. More often than not they aren't considered at all.
But NI is the anvil upon which the attempt to leave the ECHR will be broken.🧵 ...
“It is time for the UK Government to stop making increasingly convoluted semantic arguments to detract from the colossal mess which is the Legacy Act.” https://administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2024/09/20/the-legacy-act-judgment/
A major new report on the application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in Northern Ireland post-Brexit.
It highlights the non-diminution clause in the Windsor Framework which prohibits the British govt from undermining the rights set out in the Good Friday Agreement, and that as a consequence NI’s legal standards must dynamically align with evolving EU laws and protections, as well as with the European Convention on Human Rights.
https://nihrc.org/news/detail/new-report-released-on-eu-charter-of-fundamental-rights-post-brexit
"Loser's consent" in referendums, especially in sovereignty transfer referendums, and specifically in the case of the referendums that will reunify Ireland.
What does it mean? Why does it matter? How do we go about maximising it?
“..the power of the sovereign government with jurisdiction shall be exercised with rigorous impartiality on behalf of all the people in the diversity of their identities & traditions & shall be founded on the principles of full respect for, & equality of, civil, political, social, & cultural rights, of freedom from discrimination for all citizens, & of parity of esteem & of just & equal treatment for the identity, ethos, & aspirations of both communities.”
https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2024/03/04/ewan-smith-and-tom-flynn-parity-of-esteem-ni-cheapaim/
“For the last century, children have been segregated down religious lines from the age of five, allowing societal division to flourish.”
Emma DeSouza / @BylineTimes
“The beauty of the Good Friday Agreement was that you could be Irish, British or both. Borders didn’t matter as much because we were all part of the European Union. Brexit ended all of that and shows in very real terms, that if we want to control our destiny across Ireland, then we need to be reunited.” - Ben Collins
The Constitution of Ireland (Bunreacht na hÉireann) was enacted by the people #OTD 1937.
Draft of Article 3 (March 1937) drawn up by Arthur V. Matheson with annotations by de Valera. Article 3 was removed by referendum in 1998 as part of the ratification of the #GFA.
EKINTZAILETZA KOOPERATIBOKO ESKOLA
Sei proiekturen aurkezpenarekin itxi dugu aurtengo Ekintzailetza Kooperatiboko Eskola.
Brexit blamed as court ruling leaves UK immigration policy in chaos | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-immigration-court-ruling-northern-ireland-b2544791.html
#Brexit
#NorthernIreland
#Immigration
#AsylumSeekers
#IllegalImmigrationAct
#SDLP
#Hanna
#Pursglove
#SafetyOfRwandaAsylumAndImmigrationBill
#Rwanda
#Sunak
#WindsorFramework
#ERG
#Jones
#Major
#Blair
#Braverman
#Francois
#ECHR
#DUP
#Robinson
#GFA
#EU
The Good Friday Agreement #GFA, signed in 1998, ended most of the violence of #TheTroubles.
It called for a commission to review policing in #NorthernIreland. As a consequence, in 2001, the Royal Ulster Constabulary #RUC was reformed and renamed to #PSNI.
Jon Boutcher, the Chief Constable of the PSNI, leads Operation #Kenova, which has spent the last seven years, and £40m, investigating 101 murders and abductions linked to the #British military double-agent known by the code #Stakeknife.
One of the report’s most serious conclusions is that the impunity was discussed at Cabinet level during the conflict and continued until six years after the #IRA ceasefire of 1994 and two years after the Good Friday Agreement.
(Prime Ministers: Margaret #Thatcher, #JohnMajor, Tony #Blair.)
Here is the report: https://www.kenova.co.uk/publication-of-kenova-interim-report
#Nationalists #counterTerrorism #stateViolence #Ulster #UK #Ireland #BritishArmy #colonies #IrishHistory #history #intelligence #doubleAgent #impunity #law #lawAndOrder
