The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack


Latest Episodes

1463. We Need to Fight Anti-Trans Lawfare
May 30, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Alexa Moore is the Policy Campaigns and Communications Manager at the Rainbow Project in Northern Ireland. She's also an LGBTQ activist and a formidable Tra

64. ‘I Saved Him Only For My Taxes To Pay For The Bomb That Then Killed Him’
May 28, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack US-based Dr. Feroze Sidhwa has travelled to Gaza over the course of the ongoing Genoide to heal the wounds of many, many Palestinians. As a trauma surgeon,

1459. Gaza, Hollywood and Cork with Lexi Alexander
May 26, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Lexi Alexander is the daughter of a Palestinian father and German mother; she is also a former World Kickboxing Champion and close-quarter-combat instructor

389. Finding Hope and Community when Everything Is Broken – Abubaker Abed
May 22, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic Rory & Tony talk to the incredible young Gazan journalist Abubaker Abed about his journey from Gaza to Ireland, the importance of so

1458. Electric Picnic for Trade Union nerds!
May 21, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack You asked us to look closer at the Trade Union movement in Ireland, so consider this an opening conversation with two Union stalwarts, Scott Miller and Padd

63. Banyas the Storyteller.
May 20, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast we are joined from Gaza by teacher, storyteller and mother, Banyas Abu Harab, who focuses on educating, comforting and inspiring young learn

1460. “Keir Starmer came out as a full-on racist”
May 19, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this extraordinary podcast, Prof Richard Murphy pulls no punches in addressing Keir Starmer's recent speech on migration and the so-called "island of str

1457. Ireland’s One Trillion Euro Tax Mirage
May 17, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack "Ireland, once a proud republic of ideas and insurgents, now resembles a serfdom for supranational capital. It is time long past time for a reckoning. T

62. I’m Not a Beast with a Horn, But a Freedom Fighter with a Stone
May 14, 2025

Dr. Akram Habeeb is a professor of English at the Islamic University of Gaza. He taught and inspired many academics including Dr. Refaat Alareer. He left Gaza after 45 days of displacement in Rafah, w

1455. Everyone Should Have a Home – 3 Years On
May 13, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this echo chamber podcast you'll hear from writer, musician and activist, Martin Leahy, whose weekly one-man housing protest outside the Dil is coming u