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Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 31, 2010 - 16:37 by Media Team   text 4 comments (last - sunday january 02, 2011 - 18:46)   image 8 images   video 1 video file
On New Year's Eve the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign held their annual event in remembrance of the victim's of Israel's 2008/09 massacre of over 1,400 people in Gaza. People gathered for an hour on the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin and decked the area with colourful flags and banners, and handed out leaflets to curious passersby. ... read full story / add a comment
Wikileaks
international / miscellaneous Thursday December 30, 2010 - 20:59 by Dreyfusard   image 1 image   1 attached file
U.S and USAID AGENT IS THE PRESIDENT OF PARAGUAY ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 30, 2010 - 11:26 by lcw   text 11 comments (last - sunday january 02, 2011 - 05:09)   image 22 images
NORTHWOOD PERMANENT JOINT HEADQUARTERS (British Military)
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/WhatWeDo...s.htm

Catholic Workers from St Francis House/ Oxford, Farmhouse/ Rickmansworth http://www.thecatholicworkerfarm.org/
and Giuseppe Conlon House/ London communities www.londoncatholicworker.org were joined by 20 anti-war activists, in solidarity with the imprisoned Pfc Bradley Manning, http://www.bradleymanning.org/
and in resistance to the continued war on Afghanistan, at the gates of Northwood HQ/ London on Wednesday morning Dec 29th.
... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Thursday December 30, 2010 - 00:43 by tony batter
Street fighting on a wednesday evening - sure why wouldn't two carloads of men be carrying weapons on a main Dublin thoroughfare - you never know when you might have to use them on a couple of other motorists. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 24, 2010 - 21:50 by London Catholic Worker   text 3 comments (last - sunday march 25, 2012 - 23:26)
YOUTUBE (4 mins 37 secs)
"WAR IS OVER... if you want it!" - Merry Christmas from the London Catholic Worker

... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Wednesday December 22, 2010 - 14:40 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo
Any day now Shell will find out whether it will be able to continue with the dangerous Corrib Gas Project in Co. Mayo, Ireland ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / environment Wednesday December 22, 2010 - 14:27 by getouttamyhead   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 23, 2010 - 15:40)
Kildare Conty Council has ruled that communications antennae and other equipment adjacent to a junior primary school are "exempt development" following a six-month delay.

Antennae were placed at the side of a hotel over several years without planning permission. The most recent installation included two cabinets, antennae and trunked cabling which was installed to go over the roof.

The 280 children at Scoil San Carlo, Confy, Leixlip are being exposed to numerous signals. It is a recognised scientific fact that children absorb 75 percent of this type of radiation into their brains. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 21, 2010 - 18:22 by Trade Union TV   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 21, 2010 - 22:48)   video 1 video file
The Feminist Open Forum held a demonstration alongside other activist groups at the GPO last Saturday advocating for abortion legislation in line with X case judgement. The rally is in concurrence with the results of the successful ABC case that took place this week at the European Court of Human Rights. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday December 20, 2010 - 07:58 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 35 comments (last - friday march 16, 2012 - 07:59)
CONTENTS
1) 18 December 2010: A Typical Day for PFC Bradley Manning
2) State of Play (according to the English "Independent" newspaper
Sat. Dec. 18th) - "Assange begins mansion arrest but his 'source' feels
the heat".
3) "He's in There for Us, We're on the Loose for Him!"
- Solidarity,the only Way to Counter the Techniques fine-tuned at Guantanamo
& Abu Ghraib Unleashed on Manning!
4) What we can Do To Support the Nonviolent Resistance of Bradley Manning
5) Three Men Who May Spend the Rest of their Lives in Prison Because
of this War!
6) Vid (10 mins) - Daniel Ellsberg of the Vietnam War's Pentagon Papers Speaks in Support of Bradley Manning & Julian Assange Before His Arrest At White House Protest ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday December 18, 2010 - 14:23 by arnonym
On Sunday the 12th of December 2010 a undercover agent working for the Landeskriminalamt (LKA) Baden-Württemberg was uncovered in Heidelberg, Germany. His aim was to make contact with the Antifa scene via open left structures and to gather information about individuals as well as group structures to be presented directly to the LKA and the local state security division. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 17, 2010 - 17:10 by watcher   text 2 comments (last - sunday december 19, 2010 - 14:49)
Former Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern suggested that "cover" for any US torture taxis that "surfaced" would be provided through random inspections at Shannon, a new confidential cable on the Wikileaks site reveals.Ahern said that he "could use a little more information" about US flights in 2007, “musing that it might not be a bad idea to allow the random inspection of a few planes to proceed, which would provide cover if a rendition flight ever surfaced”, stated former US ambassador to Ireland Thomas Foley. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 17, 2010 - 08:03 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 11 comments (last - sunday december 19, 2010 - 21:28)
At about 6pm Thursday December 16th., Julian Assange emerged from Britain's HIgh Court on the Strand, London. He had finally been released on bail after nine days in solitary confinement at Wandsworth Prison. Harsher bail conditions were added by the High Court than were imposed days earlier at the Westminister Magistrates Court.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/16/julian-assa...-jail
... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 16, 2010 - 13:22 by DfC
Doctors For Choice welcomes the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in favour of one of the three women applicants in the ABC case and demands that the government now legislate on abortion provision as a matter of urgency. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday December 16, 2010 - 11:10 by Madam K
Two very different videos from yesterday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 16, 2010 - 09:02 by Ciaron O'Reilly
YOUTUBE (2min22sec)
- Irish/Australian Plowshare/Catholic Worker Activist Ciaron O'Reilly
does Solidarity Speaks Out Outside Westminster Court
While Assange Denied Bail! (Dec 7 2010)
- Solidarity with Assange and Manning!
http://youtu.be/8Tw98tv0sso ... read full story / add a comment
laois / politics / elections Tuesday December 14, 2010 - 11:35 by Eóin Breathnach   text 13 comments (last - wednesday february 02, 2011 - 02:06)
John Whelan imposed in Laois/Offaly by Labour after party walkout on voting. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 14, 2010 - 10:01 by Australians for the Immediate Release of Julian Assange   text 5 comments (last - thursday december 16, 2010 - 04:31)   image 12 images
On Monday 13th December at 5 pm, concerned Australian academics, artists, activists and expats occupied the foyer of the Australian Embassy on The Strand, London. They refused instruction by embassy security to vacate the building reading aloud a letter of demands addressed to the Australian High Commissioner. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday December 13, 2010 - 12:32 by dropping by
The latest round of diplomatic cables released by wikileaks candidly reveals the Irish government's attitudes towards the use of Shannon airport by the US military. No great surprise that the Irish government co-operated with military flights to Iraq for a diplomatic back scratch and to boost the Shannon economy. The ploughshares action and acquittal case gets a couple of mentions.

Here are the Cables: ... read full story / add a comment
USI President Gary Redmond with his fellow Fianna Failers, UCD.
national / education Sunday December 12, 2010 - 15:47 by FEE   text 1 comment (last - sunday december 12, 2010 - 18:06)   image 1 image
Shocking call from the Union of Students in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 12, 2010 - 13:13 by john throne
Please take your time to send support to the inspiring movement of prisoners in the state of Georgis. And please take your time to back up wikileaks as capitalism tries to crush it in its publication of the systems dirty secrets and lies. ... read full story / add a comment
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