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Defend Irish Neutrality
No Complicity in Genocide

As the bombs drop on Iran and Palestine is choked by the US-Israel axis, the Irish political class prepares to come to the US for St. Patrick’s Day to secure their slice of the spoils of war. While they hide behind their status as a “former” colony (despite ongoing occupation of the North and neocolonial class relations in the South), they quietly open their airports and data centers to their imperial masters.

In response, Chicago Irish for Palestine calls on all people of conscience to stand with the resistance and the global working class to resist emerald washing and demand and end to occupation everywhere. Join us the morning of Friday 3/13 at 8am on the corner of Clark and Jackson to remind our special guest, the Irish Minister of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, that you cannot erase the people off the land and replace them with luxury real estate and data centers without repercussions. Not in Palestine, not in Ireland, and not on Turtle Island.

Our demands are simple: No more US arms shipments and ICE deportations through Irish air space. No more spyware, targeting systems, and data center construction. Enact and enforce the occupied territories bill as part of the global movement of Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions against the settler-colonial entity. And finally…

Saoirse na hÉireann! Saoirse don Phalaistín!

Photos taken from a protest at Shannon Airport in Oct 2024. Credit to @claireloughshots