On 11th of July, I was invited to be part of an online open conversation on flood adaptation in the river Poddle catchment kindly organized by Social Rights Ireland. Flood adaption is rarely if never genuinely discussed. A dominant assumption guiding flood adaptation is that engineering is going to make us safe! But there is nothing inherently good about flood alleviation infrastructure. As anything, the infrastructure is embedded in defined social, political, historical contexts. We must urgently create spaces to discuss, scrutinize, challenge our approach to flood adaptation: who decides, who gains, who loses and what kind of futures it promotes/forecloses!
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“Social Rights Ireland is an anti-imperialist, grassroots organisation in Ireland. Our allegiance is to the working class which is why we feel the subject of the Poddle FAS is relevant given that it highlights how democracy works to serve the interests of the ruling class while creating the illusion that the ordinary people of Dublin matter. Our recent activism is focusing on Breaking the chains of Zionism as the genocidal regime could not happen without the might of the Zionist empire. Ireland is not free, nor will be free as long as it is under imperialist subjugation. As James Connolly said: ‘Governments of capitalist societies are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the rich.’ We serve neither King, Kaiser nor Zionist.” (Róisín McAleer, SRI)
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