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national / miscellaneous Saturday January 10, 2009 - 21:59 by Peadar O'Donnell
A protest organised by Sinn Féin (P) was attended by a wide variety of people from across the community. The event was supported by the North West Solidarity Network. Below is a report from the North West Solidarity Network. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday January 10, 2009 - 21:53 by breather
 94 comments (last - saturday september 04, 2010 - 21:14)  18 images  3 video files
Just before today's march in support of the people of Gaza, a number of activists marked the shelves of the Marks and Spencer's stores in Dublin with stickers bearing the slogan: Stop the Slaughter in Gaza- Boycott Israeli Goods. Although not everything for sale in M&S comes from Israel, the company has a unique relationship with the Zionist state, judging support for the country as a fundamental business objective. As Naomi Klein argues in her article from thenation.com (reprinted in the Guardian today), Israel's leaders can be comfortable that there is no economic cost to their genocidal actions in Palestine. The Israeli stockmarket has actually risen since the attack on Gaza began. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 10, 2009 - 19:44 by Miriam
12 comments (last - monday january 12, 2009 - 22:25) 1 image
Approximately 1,200 people attended - it was a spirited protest with some very good speeches. Many joined the march as it made its way from Daunt Square down the length of Patrick Street, down Merchants Quay and then into Parnell Place where it halted near the CIE bus station - where bus drivers are organising a collection for the people of Gaza. Then there were a few more addresses and the march turned round and retraced its steps back to Daunt Square. So far as I am aware nobody from either Fine Gael or Fianna Fail was there - but good representation from Socialist Workers Party, Socialist Party, a Green Party councillor speaking for himself, Sinn Fein, Kathy Sinnott MEP. Representatives from Cork Muslim Community spoke as did Dr Hamid Abas, of the Deaprt of Micro Science at UCC - who is also Chair of the Cork Muslim Group. Present also was Humaira, Cahirperson of the Women of the World Group in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Saturday January 10, 2009 - 19:35 by Shannonwatch
7 comments (last - sunday january 11, 2009 - 20:39) 2 images
Israel has been using a huge amount of munitions and explosives in its assault on Gaza. War crimes have been committed during this assault in which over 800 Palestinian people have been killed including as many as 250 children. Over the past 48 hours four Hercules military aircraft landed and were refuelled at Shannon airport. Their destination is not yet known, but in recent times only about four military aircraft were refuelled at Shannon per month. The possibility exists that Israel is being resupplies with munitions expended in its murderous attacks on Palestinians by aircraft transiting through Ireland and Irish airspace with the permission of the Irish Government. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 10, 2009 - 19:22 by Paula Geraghty
2 comments (last - sunday january 11, 2009 - 00:01) 20 images
Images from protests in Amsterdam last Saturday 3rd January against the slaughter in Gaza. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Saturday January 10, 2009 - 14:39 by robert
a call for solidarity action is coming from frankfurt/germany in support of the struggle against profit driven expansion of frankfurt airport ... read full story / add a comment 
clare / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 10, 2009 - 13:19 by Margaretta D'Arcy
6 comments (last - thursday january 15, 2009 - 12:24) 2 images 2 video files
Nollaig na nBan, 6th January: in sub-zero conditions women (and some men) kept alive the tradition of the Shannon Airport Women’s Peace Camp. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Friday January 09, 2009 - 21:51 by Tim
5 comments (last - monday february 23, 2009 - 18:28) 5 images 2 video files
US: OAKLAND : On January 1st, 22 year old Oscar Grant was executed by Officer Johannes Mehserle of the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) police in plain view of a number of people while he was laying face down on the ground with his hands behind his back and reportedly handcuffed. Cell phone videos show Mehserle pulling out a gun and shooting 22 year-old Oscar Grant in the back while he was lying face down on the ground on a subway platform. Grant worked as a butcher at an Oakland grocery store and was the father of a four-year-old daughter. POLICE FATALLY SHOOT UNARMED MAN - Laying Face Down and Shot in The Back! CAUGHT ON VIDEO! http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHjhtYZpX0 ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday January 09, 2009 - 21:01 by Carbon Town Cryer
3 comments (last - saturday january 10, 2009 - 21:58) 1 video file
Saturday January 3rd, Art Not Oil activists put on an impromptu performance in the foyer of the National Theatre prior to the matinee performance of Shell-sponsored 'Oedipus'. ... read full story / add a comment 
derry / anti-war / imperialism Friday January 09, 2009 - 11:37 by George Row
9 comments (last - sunday february 08, 2009 - 20:51) 8 images
A group of 70 -100 antiwar protesters staged a dawn blockade of Raytheon's Derry plant. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday January 09, 2009 - 10:41 by Chekov Feeney
3 comments (last - wednesday january 14, 2009 - 00:21)
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett commented on the US financial crisis that “it’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked, and Wall Street now looks like a nudist beach.” Well when it comes to Ireland, the receding tide of the global economy has revealed that not only were our business and political elites swimming naked, they were engaged in a great big orgy as well. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday January 09, 2009 - 09:11 by Miriam
3 comments (last - saturday january 10, 2009 - 07:54)
Al Jazeera English have been reporting from the UN throughout the night about how the UN Resolution was adopted and how its terms are a capitulation to all of Israel's demands.
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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday January 09, 2009 - 02:54 by Fred Johnston
14 comments (last - wednesday january 14, 2009 - 13:33)
The laughingly-termed Israeli defence Forces have put up videos and propaganda news - and have turned off the 'Comments' provision to prevent anyone commenting on it ... read full story / add a comment 
Photos: Demonstration outside Israel Defence Ministry this evening in Tel Aviv against Gaza killings
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 08, 2009 - 19:48 by TD
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Organised by the Israeli Courage to Refuse group, some 200 people protested outside the Israeli Ministry of Defence this evening against the wanton killing in Gaza, considerably down from the 10,000 who attended last Sunday's demo but in the light of last Tuesday's protest in Jaffa and yesterday's in Tel Aviv, the numbers were still heartening. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 08, 2009 - 15:49 by Free Palestine
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A chara, The following video traces some of the solidarity actions that have taken place for the brutalised people of Gaza over the last 2 weeks. It also carries some of Mary Lou McDonald MEP's speech to the Dublin Rally on Saturday 3 January. Please raise awareness of the current massacre in Gaza, watch the video and PASS ON to all contacts. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 08, 2009 - 15:05 by Muntadhar
13 comments (last - saturday january 10, 2009 - 15:28) 6 images
Marks and Spencer's won the The Queen's Award For Enterprise Innovation in 2000 for the development of "Secret Support" lingerie. It has been said that every woman in England used to own at least one pair of M&S knickers, because if she didn't buy them herself, her mother would. In Ireland, the company has operated successfully for a number of years, although a 1990's plan to place a Marks and Spencers store in close proximity to every Dunnes Stores outlet in the country came to nothing. A recent round of store closures and job losses in Britain has not had an effect on M&S shops in Ireland, since the company is so successful here. However, activists in Britain are often surprised by the lack of awareness in this country of the nasty side of Marks and Spencers. It's not just the lingerie that has "secret support". ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday January 08, 2009 - 11:17 by Vincent O’Malley
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Workers Solidarity’s Vincent O’Malley spoke to his local Citizens Information Centre about some of the obstacles facing people who have lost their jobs. ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday January 07, 2009 - 20:37 by Carl
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On a freezing early evening in Cork city a stall was set up and a vigil held to show solidarity and support for the innocent people in Gaza. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday January 07, 2009 - 12:56 by Joe King (interviewee)
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WSM member Joe King, a clerical officer in the public sector, responds to the calls for pay cuts and redundancies. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday January 07, 2009 - 11:12 by Truth-Teller
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In a recent article in the Irish Times, Young Green Party chairperson Barra Rowntree expressed his disappointment that the large Dublin Gaza protest had been disrupted by "a small group of fanatics". Speaking after attending the protest, Roantree said the fact some people had used the opportunity to burn the Israeli flag and dress children in military fatigues was "not only unhelpful, but utterly contradictory to the aims of the world peace movement": "Those who burn flags and glorify violence only fan the flames of the tragic conflict in the Middle East." ... read full story / add a comment |
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