🌘 Into the Pot: Solstice 2025 🌒

Welcome to 🌘 Into the Pot: Solstice 2025 🌒

On the shortest day of the year, Breaking the Firewall, Chicago Irish for Palestine, and Advocates 4 Justice invite you to share the Solstice with us, live on Zoom. ✨

Hit the green "RSVP or Donate Here!" button to RSVP for one or both of our Solstice events, or donate without an RSVP to help raise at least $1000 in direct aid for the Mahmoud family in Gaza. To meet our goal, we suggest at least $25, but any amount helps, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

12-2 PM CST (Zoom)
Into the Pot: Stewing on Power
Community Conversation with Breaking the Firewall
As the Sun reaches its lowest arc and begins its slow return, we’ll gather around our virtual pot to simmer some thoughts on the shadowy intersections of energy policy, tech infrastructure, and "post-television" media. From our unique vantage point as an Irish diaspora collective, inspired by the work of comrades on the island, we'll shed some light on the bigger picture surrounding the hyperscale data centers pulling enormous amounts of power to feed systems of "sustainable" surveillance and targeting while locking in "green" fossil fuel dependence, promoting a "carbon-neutral" mining boom, and accelerating the devastation of communities around the world.

What does it look like to kindle a more just future together? Inspired by struggles near and far, we're excited to welcome some special guests, including IL-06 Congressional candidate, software engineer and former basketball pro Joey Ruzevich, to help us stir the pot as we examine the ingredients shaping these currents and reclaim the power to nourish people, not death machines. Join us to share knowledge, ask questions, and cook up some pathways to a future full of warmth and nourishment while raising funds to support a family in Gaza right now.

2:30-4:30 PM CST (Zoom)
The Night Won't End
Film Screening (79 min) & Discussion
Join Chicago Irish for Palestine and Advocates 4 Justice for a screening and discussion of The Night Won't End, an Al Jazeera English documentary from Fault Lines. The film investigates the last two years of genocide in Gaza through the stories of three families fighting to survive. Watch preview clips here and RSVP to help us show some love to a family in Gaza.

Bígí linn (join us!) We're looking forward to seeing our friends and meeting new ones. Thank you!