WBAI-FM Upcoming Program
Radio Free Eireann

Sun, Jan 11, 2026 11:00 AM

NY IRISH FOR PALESTINE ON HUNGER STRIKE IN THE UK

 I will talk to Sean Hansen labor lawyer and community organizer based in Woodside, Queens. A founding member of New York Irish for Palestine, Sean will speak about support for the Prisoners for Palestine hunger strike in the United Kingdom, which began on November 2, 2025. The strike involves eight people incarcerated for alleged pro-Palestine protest actions and is the largest hunger strike in UK prisons since the 1981 Irish hunger strike.
Seán Whelan, Chairperson of the National Graves Association, will discuss the organization’s next campaign: erecting a monument to the famous Catalpa Rescue. That daring 1876 operation freed six Fenian prisoners from the notorious Fremantle Prison in Western Australia and brought them safely to the United States in August of that year. The National Graves Association plans to build a commemorative monument in Ireland—remarkably, there is currently no monument to the Catalpa Rescue anywhere in the 32 counties of Ireland.

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