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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 10, 2009 - 16:18 by Climate Caravan Radio
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3 days ago a group from the SOCIAL AND CLIMATE JUSTICE CARAVAN visited the Canadian embassy in Brussels to seek protection for a man from Colombia who has received death treaths from Colombian Paramilitaries. The Canadian state is responsible for this due to upcoming free trade agreements as well as, along with the US, not signing the charter to protect indigenous around the world. Also Canadian mining business COSIGO RESOURCES are implicated in using these paramilitaries to obtain native lands. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 10, 2009 - 11:40 by Freda H and John Hurson
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After 6 months of fundraising, 4 teams from all across Ireland left their hometowns on Friday December 4th, to travel 4,000 miles to Gaza, to deliver Ambulances and Humanitarian aid to the stricken region. A truck filled with aid from Glasgow (through Cairde Na hEireann)and Ireland (through various groups and individuals) left Dublin Port at 9pm on Saturday 5th December. There was a short 'send off' at 7pm in the Dublin Port Topaz Service Station (at the intersection of Bond Drive and Promenade St. The event was attended by members of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, RTE's Duncan Stewart and the general public who came to wish the three brave volunteers accompanying this aid to Gaza well. Paul Diplacito and Omar Ibrahim from Glasgow and David Callendar from Tyroneloaded the last few bags of children's toys and clothes onto the truck before supporters waved them off. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 09, 2009 - 22:04 by Freda H and Ronan O'D
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On Wednesday 9th December 2009 at 6.30pm members of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) and concerned residents of the Dublin 15 area held a peaceful protest against the presence of Israeli-made products in the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre despite dreadful weather conditions ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Wednesday December 09, 2009 - 10:48 by Andrew
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Today will see the greatest budget attack on workers in Ireland in a couple of decades with services and pay being slashed. Many unions and other organisations have called protests outside the Dail from the early morning to the late evening. WSM members will be taking part in these protests throughout the day and providing live updates, photos and video from them via our twitter account. During the 24th Novemeber strike we provided 70 updates from the picket lines throughout the day using this method. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 09, 2009 - 10:44 by UD
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Aminatou Haidar is now three weeks drinking sugar-water at Lanzarote airport because her papers were stolen by Morocco. The Spanish government has little to say on the issue of a Peace-activist and Nobel recommended woman dying on their doorstep and Morocco presses ahead with whatever attracts them in the Western Sahara. http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/17393/fedissah-pre...ation ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 08, 2009 - 21:17 by Seán Ryan
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Yesterday, on Monday the 7th of December, Mr Robert Ševcik was in the Richmond Court to conclude a marathon hearing that had spilled into a second day. Mr. Ševcik an animal rights activist, was answering to four charges, ranging from threatening, insulting and abusive behaviour, under the Public Order Act, to failing to produce his passport upon demand, under the Immigration Act. All of these charges arose out of a protest at Barnado's Furriers on Grafton st. close to the Molly Malone statue, on the 18th of October, 2008. It was a case littered with perjury, a missing garda sergeant and a mysterious garda inspector. Nonetheless, at the end of the case, the judge accepted Mr Ševcik's evidence and he walked out of the court, with each and every charge dismissed. VegaPlanet: http://www.vegaplanet.org/ Aliberation: http://aliberation.vegaplanet.org/ How long shall we continue to allow this rotten State continue its attempt at snuffing out the most basic and fundamental of rights? ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday December 07, 2009 - 21:41 by James McB WSM personal capacity
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The Garda Representative Association today announced a ballot of their members for possible industrial action. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights Sunday December 06, 2009 - 21:31 by Thomas Janak
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PART 1 of 2 ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Saturday December 05, 2009 - 17:22 by Fred Johnston
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A project top have three Irish-language poets give their impressions of Galway, sponsored by one of a series of awards from Bus Éireann and Foras Na Gaeilge is launched in Galway City Museum ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Saturday December 05, 2009 - 09:46 by Social & Climate Justice Caravan
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In front of the international head quarters of WWF (World Wildlife Fund) in Gland-Geneva, participants of the Social and Climate Justice Caravan made their first protest action. Delegates from farming organisations, indigenous and fisher folk from the South denounced the greenwashing carried out by WWF in their respective countries. web: http://www.climatecaravan.org/ blog: http://climatecaravan.wordpress.com/ climate caravan radio: http://radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/4090 Social & Climate Justice Caravan -reader PDF: http://www.climatecaravan.org/images/Caravan_bulletin_0...9.pdf ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Friday December 04, 2009 - 22:50 by Bernie Wright
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Dont buy items with feathers/duvets, jackets, hanging decorations, xmas decorations,....etc.. Down is the soft layer of feathers closest to birds’ skin, primarily on the chest area. These feathers are valued because they do not have any hard quills. Products labeled as “down” may contain a combination of these underfeathers and other feathers or fillers. While most down and feathers are removed from birds during slaughter, geese from breeders and ones bred for meat and those on foie gras farms may be live-plucked. , ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Thursday December 03, 2009 - 19:47 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora
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www.myspace.com/armuinnamuice www.bebo.com/armuinnamuice www.nearpodcast.org www.near.ie ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Thursday December 03, 2009 - 15:08 by Fred Johnston
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The Galway-based Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlín Maude - is hoping to create a literary link between Brittany and Galway. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 02, 2009 - 22:39 by Paula Geraghty
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Listen and see why some of the people came from around the country to take part in yesterday's protest ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 02, 2009 - 19:43 by Rudiger
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This weekend saw the annual Ken Saro Wiwa memorial weekend being held in Erris, Co Mayo. This was the 14th such memorial weekend, and is held in memory of the Ogoni leader who was hung along with 8 other men because of their opposition to Shell. The weekend was organised as Sr Majella McCarron, who told the assembled crowd during the weekend of how she had worked closely with Saro Wiwa for 18 months while she was in Ogoniland and continued to communicate with him up until the time he was detained and subsequently hung. ... read full story / add a comment 
kildare / education Wednesday December 02, 2009 - 17:26 by Donal Ó Fallúin - WSM/FEE NUIM
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national / consumer issues Wednesday December 02, 2009 - 12:40 by cirrius
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People who used to get the Christmas payment include those on the blind pension, Invalidity pension, widows allowance, long term unemployed people, people on carer's allowance, state pension, and the families of those in prison. Contrast their treatment with the pensions paid every week to former government ministers like Ray Burke and Bertie Ahern, or the billions ploughed into the budgets of banks and developers. This year, the Fianna Fáil/Green Party coalition, backed by various Independents, has axed the Christmas payment to pensioners and those on the dole. Yesterday Sinn Féin held a protest outside Leinster Houses demanding that the payment be restored. Aengus Ó Snodaigh said: “Economic recovery will not be achieved by driving people into poverty. The recession will deepen if the government persists in taking money from those who spend it on everyday necessities. If these cuts are not resisted we face a prolonged recession with more and more people living in poverty.” ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 02, 2009 - 09:37 by Paula Geraghty
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Symphysiotomy: The story of a cruel childbirth operation. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 02, 2009 - 04:22 by Basque Info
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Protests were held in Belfast, Dublin, Limerick, Omagh, Strabane and in Dungannon in solidarity with the Basque pro-Independence Left movement and in protest at a massive Spanish police repressive operation involving 650 police, raids on over 60 premises and the arrest of 34 Basque youth as a result of their political activities. The Basque Country itself saw a number of school strikes and other protests during the week, including one of 20,430 in Bilbao, the capital, on Saturday. Further protests are being organised. Thirty-one of the youth were sent to prison, bringing the total of Basque political prisoners to 762, the highest in 35 years. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / animal rights Tuesday December 01, 2009 - 19:40 by ARAN
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This Sunday join compassionate people from across Ireland and beyond to gather in Dublin for a peaceful march and rally to call for stronger laws in the upcoming animal welfare bill due to be released in 2010 – the rally also aims to highlight the problem of animal abuse in Ireland to the nation and call for tougher penalties for those who abuse animals and who currently get away with a mere a slap on the wrist. The march also aims to establish rights for animals and to remove from society that animals are nothing more than commodities. ... read full story / add a comment |
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