On last year’s St. Patrick’s Day, progressives of Irish ancestry organized the first “Irish Stand” rally at Riverside Church in New York City to protest the xenophobic and racist policies of the Trump administration. The rally represented an energizing shift in Irish American social consciousness back toward an original culture of resistance.
(ANTIMEDIA) Much of the rhetoric that supports U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s ramped up efforts to deport undocumented immigrants focuses on the salvation of Western civilization. Advocates of heavy-handed immigration policies often simultaneously tout the superiority of the West and the threat it faces from outside infiltrators.
(ANTIMEDIA) Washington, D.C. — Donald Trump is spending St. Patrick’s day meeting foreign heads of state at the White House. One such leader was Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who gave a joint press conference with Donald Trump on the topic of Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland and immigrant the holiday is named after.
