John Barry

@profjohnbarry.bsky.social

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Ideas merchant, activist-academic, worried parent and angry citizen, hypocrite on a burning planet trying to replace passive and dangerous tech-optimism about the future with active and collective hope.. Democratise. Decolonise. Decarbonise. Decommodify.. .. more

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John Joseph Barry is an Irish academic, green political economist and former Green Party politician. He was a councillor on Ards and North Down Borough Council from May 2014 to March 2018. .. more

Political science 27%

Environmental science 27%

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All Island Climate & Biodiversity Research Network @aicbrn.bsky.social · 3d

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John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · 3d

Settler Violence as Settler-Colonialism in Palestine

Dr Mais Qandeel (University of Galway)

Wednesday 28th January

7pm, Peter Froggatt Centre, room 02/017

Queen's University Belfast

Free and all welcome but registration required:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/qubseca/t-jx...

www.ticketsource.co.uk

John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · 3d

All across Europe, homes are disappearing for ordinary people. Families freeze, students struggle, locals are pushed out — while investors get richer. Sign now to tell EU leaders: Homes for people, not profit.👉 action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...

Make Homes for People, Not for Profit

Families freeze, students struggle, locals are pushed out — while investors get richer. Join thousands demanding homes for people, not profit. Add your name:

action.wemove.eu

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Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 3d

Minneapolis groups call for ‘general strike’. "...several local unions—including Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, and St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28—have lent their support to the strike." www.commondreams.org/news/minneap...

Minneapolis Labor, Community Leaders Join Call for Jan. 23 General Strike to Demand ICE Out | Common Dreams

Minneapolis labor unions and community groups call for a general strike to push out federal immigration agents.

www.commondreams.org

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 4d

'Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address.'

www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid

Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...

www.404media.co

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 4d

Challenging corporate power in Ireland means challenging a model of development that is dependent on US FDI. No one says it will be easy but the contradictions of this dependency are becoming more and more visible.

Prof Jennie Stephens in today's IT.

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Time to challenge corporate power in Ireland

Greta Thunberg and Bohemian Football Club together stress need to put communities before companies

www.irishtimes.com

John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · 6d

PFAS are linked to cancer and contaminate our water and food - yet chemical giants are lobbying to weaken protections to our health. Europe can still act. I just signed. Will you? action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-01...

Ban Forever Chemicals Now

Forever chemicals are poisoning Europe’s water, food, and even our blood. Chemical giants are lobbying to weaken protections - but people across Europe are pushing back. Sign now to ban PFAS and put h...

action.wemove.eu

John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · 10d

"Yankee Go Home - Oil and Empire"

Stiofan O'Nuallain chatting to @joecguinan.bsky.social of the @democracycollab.bsky.social about Venezuela, Imperialism and the end of the 'rules based order'.

open.spotify.com/episode/4aQA...

Poster depicting a map of South America with the words 'Yankee go home' and images of an oil 'noddying donkey' and American troops and helicopter

John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · 10d

"When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going" – Audre Lorde

Photo of Audre Lorde with the following text, "When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going" – Audre Lorde

John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · 10d

“Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex”
Frank Zappa.

Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex, quote from Frank Zappa

John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · 10d

“The Fascist State expresses the will to exercise power and to command.... Fascism sees in the imperialistic spirit — i.e., in the tendency of nations to expand — a manifestation of their vitality.” —
Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism

John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · 10d

A new trade deal with South America called the EU-Mercosur deal would bring more food grown with banned pesticides into Europe, threatening our health and the livelihood of European farmers. Act NOW to protect Europe’s food standards #StopMercosur action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-02...

Keep Banned Pesticides Out of our Food

A new trade deal with South America called the EU-Mercosur deal would bring more food grown with banned pesticides into Europe, threatening our health and the livelihood of small, local farmers. We ne...

action.wemove.eu

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Marty @marty-beck.bsky.social · 10d

The term is applicable to all US administrations. The US is a lawless rogue nation and we didn't just achieve this status with the coming of Orange Jesus. It's been this way for decades. But Trump has removed the mask, no more niceties, just raw unadulterated fascism and greed. Refreshing.

John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · 10d

Surely we are now past the point where we need to start calling the ‘Trump administration’ the ‘Trump regime’?

John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks Patrick!

John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · 11d

Text I’ve just send into @BBC Good Morning Ulster … which they did not read out.

Falsely equating state finances to how household finances work is not only empirically incorrect, but in legitimating austerity will result in people dying and being harmed.

John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · 11d

Stop the "Catapult Killer Influencers": Across the UK, children and teenagers are buying military-grade catapults hunting for "content". But now there’s something we can all do to end this sickening social media trend. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Stop the "Catapult Killer Influencers"

Across the UK, children and teenagers are buying military-grade catapults hunting for "content". But now there’s something we can all do to end this sickening social media trend. Add your name:

you.38degrees.org.uk

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29d

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 29d

Beggars belief that a senior officer in the Irish Military Intelligence Service said this in an interview.

“It can be hugely detrimental to the West if you empower them [China] by educating them simply because they come to a university with funds."

www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

Spy agency tells universities to beware China

The Irish Military Intelligence Service highlights sensitive research areas

www.thetimes.com

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💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 29d

🌲 Merry #Capitalism.

I WANT YOU TO SPEND A LOT
TO PROVE YOU LOVE YOUR FAMILY

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💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 29d

The Zionist lobby is trying to convince us pro-Palestine protests caused the Bondi shootings.

They did not, but it still won’t stop Israel lying about it and weaponizing hate to create to more hate and killing.

www.threads.com/@kristenzeta...

kristenzeta • 1h
The Zionist lobby is trying to convince us pro-Palestine protests caused the Bondi shootings.
On 7 September 2025, two months before the shootings, a Jewish-led protest against the Palestinian genocide was held at Bondi Beach.
Watch this to see how white nationalist, ethnosupremacist local Zionists turned out to greet them.
It's not the anti-genocide protestors preaching hate and violence.
• sleekit.scotsman
"this our land"
&SLEEKIT.SCOTSMAN
THIS IS OUR LAND,
teachers4palestine_nsw
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racism on full display in the wiled above. The.
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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · Dec 18

The fossil fuel industry’s “energy security” argument is dangerous, misleading and fundamentally flawed. Ireland should not be building new fossil fuel infrastructure. My piece in today’s Irish Times. #climate #climateobstruction #climatejustice #fossilfuels

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Ireland is falling for the American fossil fuel industry’s ‘energy security’ con

One of the reasons this argument has been so effective is because, like all good propaganda, there is an element of truth to it

www.irishtimes.com

John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · Dec 15

The EU could adopt Trump-style rules that would allow home raids and deporting people to countries they’ve never set foot in. If we don’t speak up now, this could become the new normal. Sign the petition! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...

Say No to Mass Deportations in Europe

action.wemove.eu

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · Dec 15

I had to re-read this a few times because it is hard to believe.

Demand from proposed new data centres might be as high as 5.8GW, equivalent to *peak electricity demand for the entire country*.

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

New data centres may need additional electricity supply close to Ireland’s peak demand

Expected new demand for data centres of 5.8GW would exceed Ireland’s 2030 offshore wind target of 5GW

www.irishtimes.com

John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · Dec 12

'Settler Violence as Settler-Colonialism in Palestine'

Dr Mais Qandeel
Wednesday 28th January
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
7pm, Peter Froggatt Centre, room 02/017

Free and all welcome but registration required:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/qubseca/t-jx...

John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · Dec 12

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Václav Havel

John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · Dec 12

The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants: toxic pesticides could stay on the market forever, with no safety tests at all. Yes, forever approvals. Yes, this is real. Sign now to stop it. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...

Protect Our Food From Toxic Pesticides

The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants, and a nightmare for the rest of us. A new proposal could let toxic pesticides, including glyphosate, stay on the market forever.Yes, forever approvals....

action.wemove.eu

John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · Dec 10

From darkness to light: Wintersong
Saturday 13th December
7pm, Quaker Meeting House
South Belfast

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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.bsky.social · Dec 10

PSA

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Dec 9

"Further attention must be given to this #climate tragedy, not only to apply pressure to speed up rescue & recovery...[&] to recognize the planetaryscale crisis that humanity is currently facing. A new future awaits us- we need to recognize its patterns now, before more lives are lost"

#Indonesia 🇮🇩

The Indian Ocean disaster is a climate tragedy — and needs more attention

A region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week. The world needs to ask why this happened, not look away.

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