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national / miscellaneous Friday August 30, 2002 - 14:55 by TheMan
 9 comments (last - sunday september 01, 2002 - 16:16)
Folks, regardless of your political persuasions... Bertie is towing the EU line in the new cold war of spying, tracking, subverting and all the other violations of basic free speech, expression and civil liberties. Part and parcel of it has been him signing us up to the global spy network Echelon http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/503224.stm It doesn't matter if you are an organic farmer, Indymedia supporter or a street reclaimer - they've got you down as a suspected Terror monger. Ridiculous but true! DUMP THOSE NASTY HOTMAIL AND YAHOO! ACCOUNTS NOW!!! FREE SECURE EMAIL IS AT https://www.ziplip.com/ps/app/services/home.jsp It's not perfect but it's a help..... ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday August 30, 2002 - 13:52 by Jon Wilde
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The Global Corruption Report. (Exactly what it says on the tin) is available free from http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/ as a .PDF file. Transparency International site at http://www.transparency.org/ ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday August 30, 2002 - 13:37 by Jon Wilde
Full story in www.independent.ie at http://www.unison.ie/stories.php3?ca=27&si=818150 (Free subscription needed) and at http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=328766 Summary: Marta Andreasen, the European Commission's former chief accountant, who was at the centre of a bitter row after publicly comparing the EU's accounting standards to those of Enron, has been suspended. She's compared the accounting practices of the EU Government and associated bodies to those of Enron. Anyone listening to The Last Word yesterday will have heard stories of intimidation and violence against whistle blowers. No wonder Bertie wants to get more involved. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday August 30, 2002 - 13:02 by MG
The environmental organisation An Taisce has revealed that it is considering legal action to prevent the construction of a motorway through the site of Carrickmines Castle in south Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday August 30, 2002 - 12:18 by MG
1 comment (last - friday august 30, 2002 - 17:41)
A UCD professor has discovered that the Government has been lying all along about the extent of the funds to be cut from Ireland's overseas aid budget. The Fianna Fail-Progressive Democrats cabal official line is that planned expenditure on aid will be reduced by 32m this year, but the true figure is 8 to 10m higher. This flies in the face of the Government's commitment to give 0.7% of GNP in aid to developing countries within five years... ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday August 30, 2002 - 11:00 by Simon Basketter
26 comments (last - tuesday september 03, 2002 - 13:32)
Links to SW latest news. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday August 30, 2002 - 00:26 by Barry O'Donovan
1 comment (last - friday august 30, 2002 - 14:19)
A carnival of fools going to laugh at BNFLs continued folly. Come join us ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday August 29, 2002 - 23:15 by henry silke
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SUPPORT UNION RIGHTS Kazakhstan Leader of Karaganda Confederation of Free Trade Unions remains in jail Call for an international protest on 7 September 2002 Four activists from the Karaganda Confederation of Free Trade Unions in Kazakhstan are currently under arrest and are facing serious charges. This is a continuation of the type of repression doled out to worker activists who are building an independent class opposition to the authoritarian rule of gangster-capitalist Nazabayev regime. For more details: www.worldsocialist-cwi.org ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Thursday August 29, 2002 - 22:11 by Graham Caswell
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Issue # 4 of ECO Equity - the NGO newsletter published each day during the Earth Summit- reveals that after twelve hours of negotiations on Tuesday and Wednesday there had been more than 100 references to the Doha Declaration and the Monterrey Consensus and only two references to environment and sustainable development. Are these really trade talks? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday August 29, 2002 - 18:58 by ciara
6 comments (last - sunday september 01, 2002 - 10:50)
trouble for sellafield ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday August 29, 2002 - 18:47 by Ozwald
5 comments (last - friday august 30, 2002 - 14:24)
The events of the following article are all true. The names and locations in the article have been modified so as ensure the privacy of the person/s involved. This could be happening to a person in your city/town/village or worse someone you know. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday August 29, 2002 - 18:08 by Rene
Forum Education and Demonstration at september 13 & 14 in Cologne (Germany) Tuition fees, budget cuts, deregulation, privatisation, lack of democracy - all a coincidence? Why should education be a commodity for sale? Why are we denied our basic right to a state-funded education? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday August 29, 2002 - 17:46 by ciara
bad news for BNFL ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday August 29, 2002 - 17:10 by Sean Dolan
2 comments (last - friday august 30, 2002 - 10:01)
possible some grassroots people might be interested in this conference I saw listed on www.activelink.ie - all the suits and ageing social justice heads will be here , incl. the president - might be time to enage 'em with some radical and much needed debate!!!! check out www.activelink.ie ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday August 29, 2002 - 14:56 by dave lordan
14 comments (last - friday august 30, 2002 - 23:11)
Eyewitness report from protests at Earth summit Naomi Klein etc ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday August 29, 2002 - 13:22 by Movement of the Imagination
4 comments (last - tuesday september 03, 2002 - 00:41)
Benefit Gig for the protestors arrested outside the Burlington Hotel last year- they are up in court in September and could face hefty fines and criminal records for protesting- any groups interested in having stalls please phone us ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Thursday August 29, 2002 - 11:56 by Derikos
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JERUSALEM *8-29-2002) occupation Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer expressed regret on Thursday for the zionazi army's slaughter of four members of a Palestinian family while in there home in a tank raid on a Gaza Strip village. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday August 29, 2002 - 11:05 by oren
4 comments (last - friday august 30, 2002 - 23:32)
as you all know (or don't know), adidas recently started using kangaroo skin to manufacture it's shoes. write them and tell them what you think about that! ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday August 29, 2002 - 02:29 by pissed off
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Repression. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Wednesday August 28, 2002 - 23:04 by Graham Caswell
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The daily newsletter from the ECO coalition of NGOs is available from the Earth Summit Ireland website at www.earthsummit-Ireland.org/updates.htm. The newsletter is issued daily during the summit and covers all the key issues from the perspective of environmental and social justice NGOs. ... read full story / add a comment |
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