Offaly human rights campaigner stages one-day hunger strike in Dublin
Photo: Patrick Abbott, Dublin, Catherine Longworth, Tullamore and Tom Roche handing in a letter of protest at UNICEF's offices in Dublin during Mr Roche's one-day hunger strike By Ger Scully 19 Sep 2023 2:46 PM Tullamore Tribune An Offaly based human rights and...
Just Forests persuades Cork libraries to reconsider hosting art competition
Pic above: Tullamore furniture maker and long-time environmental campaigner Tom Roche, 74, visited Cork City Library on Monday 2nd October to ask that it no longer host the Texaco Children's Art Competition due to the fossil fuel company's sponsorship of the event....
Creator of Limerick sculpture to hunger strike over ‘conflict of interest’
Photo : Tom Roche with US human rights attorney Steven Donziger in New York in June 2023 THE CREATOR of a much-loved Limerick sculpture is to stage a hunger strike over his concerns surrounding oil company Texaco. Cathal Doherty 18 Aug 2023 9:00 AM...
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“We seem trapped in a world where fossil fuel producers and financiers have humanity by the throat. For decades, the fossil fuel industry has invested heavily in pseudoscience and public relations – with a false narrative to minimise their responsibility for climate change and undermine ambitious climate policies.
“They exploited precisely the same scandalous tactics as big tobacco decades before. Like tobacco interests, fossil fuel interests and their financial accomplices must not escape responsibility.”