Bridget Mary Meehan

Oct 15, 2024 | znetwork.org | Bridget Mary Meehan

Ahead of the 2024 US presidential elections, we at ZNetwork thought that now might be a good time to remind all our readers of an original series we ran back in 2022 called Don’t Think of a Republican. The series selected excerpts from a book by Lonnie Ray Atkinson entitled “Don’t Think Of A Republican – How I Won A Republican Primary As A Lefty Progressive And You Can Too”.

Sep 15, 2024 | znetwork.org | Bridget Mary Meehan

This article was submitted to ZNetwork by Eros Salvatore, a writer and filmmaker living in Bellingham, Washington. They have been published in the journals Anti-Heroin Chic and The Blue Nib among others, and have shown two short films in festivals. Eros brings stories from Gaza based on the firsthand accounts of those living there. Alaa Jamal’s pain and suffering is wound so tightly around her heart that it shields it from all the horrors she’s lived through.

Aug 20, 2024 | znetwork.org | Bridget Mary Meehan

Frequent contributor to ZNetwork, Badri Raina, has shared this poem with us in response to the genocide in Palestine:You bleed again as the world watchesIn civilized wisdom;As you take little babies for burial,With fresh bombs bursting behindBefore and on you,The Zionists feel threatened by your resolve. Such is your prowess:No lion is thought quite dead till dead. And you are not about to die either,Take it from me.

Aug 19, 2024 | znetwork.org | Rukia Lumumba |Bridget Mary Meehan

A relentless campaign of public advocacy, legal challenges, and community mobilisation involving the People’s Advocacy Institute, the Poor People’s Campaign, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Forward Justice, and ACLU of Mississippi, recently won a victory in the courts for clean, safe and public drinking water in Jackson, Mississippi.

Aug 2, 2024 | znetwork.org | Bridget Mary Meehan |Dessie Donnelly |Fintan Bradshaw

For a long time, the prospects for a unified Ireland were bleak; it was an idea consigned to the dustbin of history, remembered only by romantics, historians, diehard republicans and fringe elements of Irish society. Its status as an aspiration never managed to translate into everyday relevance. Thanks to Brexit, ironically, the subject has been pulled out of the bin, dusted off, and given the status of a genuinely credible prospect worthy of consideration.