Kevin O'Dell
kevodell.bsky.social
Kevin O'Dell
@kevodell.bsky.social
'Be realistic, demand the impossible' - all things Irish and with a particular interest in Guatemala. The plight of Palestine breaks my heart.
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🚨 Assembly point confirmed - National march for Palestine - End the genocide
⏰12 noon, 31 January
📍 Russel Square

The assembly point for the march for Palestine has been confirmed. We will assemble at Russel Square at 12 noon before marching from there to Whitehall. Join us.
January 16, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.

If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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Here's another of my Labour MP profiles and this one's a humdinger.
- Peter Swallow, MP for Bracknell. 🥀
- His partner is a lobbyist and has worked for 5 years at Mandelson's Global Counsel.
- He has been funded by arms firms including Elbit Systems.
labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/t...
January 5, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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The last family in the Palestinian village of Yanoun left their home last week, joining a growing list of communities that have been erased from existence through the establishment of Israeli "shepherding outposts" in their place.

mondoweiss.net/2026/01/this...

#Palestine #Israel
This is how Israeli settlers, backed by the military, erased a Palestinian village from existence last week
The last family in the Palestinian village of Yanoun left their home last week, joining a growing list of communities that have been erased from existence through the establishment of Israeli “shepherding...
mondoweiss.net
January 4, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Inside the West Bank: Life under Israeli occupation is cruel and violent. My op ed today jrnl.ie/6911841
Inside the West Bank: Life under Israeli occupation is cruel and violent
Karol Balfe shares the stories of two women living in the West Bank and writes that Ireland needs to honour its commitment to pass the Occupied Territories Bill.
jrnl.ie
December 30, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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This anti-Palestinian censorship, which poses serious questions as to the intellectual integrity of these groups, is now in our 2025 archive 👇. It is, sadly, yet another example of why we were right to create Everyday Orientalism 10 years ago. Fin.4/ everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/a...
Archaeologists and Antiquity Scholars on Palestine in 2025: An Archive
cover art and post: Katherine Blouin How are Antiquity scholars and organizations responding to Israel’s campaign of annihilation of Palestine’s past, present and future? What do archaeologists and…
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Lush's soap most of the money from which goes to funding Medical Services for Palestinians in Gaza.

Let everybody know.
December 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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so much love for the Give Up Yer Aul Sins nativity story. Dozens of classic lines in it

#spéirgorm

youtu.be/qEM6VLjZJbk
Give Up Yer Aul Sins - The Birth of Jesus
YouTube video by Brown Bag Films
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December 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Performance artist Regina José Galindo uses poetry and performance to engage society and explain the social contexts behind her work and the role of political art in Central America’s democratic crisis, reports Ramiro Guevara.
beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight...
Regina José Galindo, Performance Artist: “In Guatemala, we don’t live with the truth”
She walked barefoot, leaving footprints of human blood outside the Constitutional Court. She underwent surgery to reconstruct her hymen and become a virgin again. She had a doctor injected her in the...
beta.elfaro.net
December 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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‘Nine Minutes in the Fire, Eight Years For the First Light’ @edu-grattan.bsky.social @elfaroenglish.bsky.social #Guatemalahashtag/Guatemala_Hogar_Seguro_Virgen_de_la_Asunci%C3%B3n" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#Guatemala_Hogar_Seguro_Virgen_de_la_Asunción #Guatemala #Guatemala_Impunity #Guatemala_GBV #GBV
Nine Minutes in the Fire, Eight Years For the First Light
El Faro English presented an English version of a piece by Edward Grattan relating to the tiral and sentencing of those found responsible for the deaths of the 41 young girls in the fire at the Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción. It took eight grueling years for Guatemala’s Supreme Court of Justice to place charges on those accused in the 2017 tragedy at the shelter home Hogar Seguro where 41 young girls were killed after being locked in a dorm room fire.
guatemalasolidarity.org.uk
December 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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When Maya Ixil survivors demanded accountability for when troops razed their villages, they found a Guatemalan justice system in ruins. A retired general was about to launch his final counteroffensive in a trial collapsing from within. #ChronicleOfTheYear
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The Massacre of a Trial for Genocide
Benedicto Lucas García, a star paratrooper trained by the French and Americans, was an icon of the Guatemalan counterinsurgency. More than four decades after the horror, when a group of Maya Ixil…
beta.elfaro.net
December 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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#OtD 11 Dec 1981 a Reagan-backed death squad massacred around 1000 people in El Mozote, El Salvador. Prior to being killed, many of the victims were tortured and girls as young as 10 were raped by the US-trained troops stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8281...
December 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Tomorrow's front page 📰

'The UK is letting these people die'
December 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Israeli attacks on the occupied West Bank are reaching a critical level. It is imperative we act to call out these heinous attacks, raids, abductions, and violence of the Israeli occupation.
December 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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A Guatemalan immigrant held at Camp East Montana here in El Paso has died. He had been held at the facility since September. At least 25 migrants have died in ICE detention this year.
Guatemalan immigrant held at Camp East Montana dies
A Guatemalan immigrant has died in the Camp East Montana immigration detention facility.
www.elpasotimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Forest City 1 is a charter city proposal by a network of right-wing libertarians, anarcho-capitalists, centrists, and even so-called green supporters. The Guardian, Spiked, CAPX, the Free Speech Union are signatories, something is going very wrong with UK free zones
open.substack.com/pub/european...
LBC’s Forest City Lovefest: How the Spiked Network Sold a Libertarian Dream as Community Housing
On 5 December 2025, LBC’s Ali Miraj gave Austin Williams 45 minutes of unchallenged airtime to promote Forest City 1, a proposed million-person city on 45,000 acres between Newmarket and Haverhill in ...
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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In Guatemala City, deportees are in tears, disoriented, or greeted by sobbing relatives. People who, in the world of simplistic metaphors, had a dream that they called American. When they leave that place, that dream, if it was one, is over. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...
Guatemala’s Tarmac of Tears
In Guatemala City, Trump’s deportees are in tears, disoriented, or greeted by sobbing relatives. People who, in the trite world of simplistic metaphors, had a dream that they called American. When…
beta.elfaro.net
December 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"Ryanair is shutting its frequent flyers members’ club after only eight months because customers exploited its benefits too much."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Go figure!
Ryanair closes frequent flyers club after members take advantage of discounts
Airline says 55,000 people signed up to Prime, making €4.4m, but passengers benefited by more than €6m
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Forest City 1 Suffolk is the beginning of many more charter cities dependent on deregulated SEZ frameworks, and billions in public money.
Find out more here👇🏻
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URGENT WARNING: Forest City 1 and the Charter City Agenda
This is not a housing development. This is a pilot project for privatised governance.
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM