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national / animal rights Wednesday July 29, 2009 - 21:03 by Laura Broxson   text 2 comments (last - friday july 31, 2009 - 01:57)
Hi,

CAFT Ireland launched the country's first ever 'Fur Farm Exposé Tour' on Saturday 4th July. This was to highlight the recent undercover exposé on Irish fur farms, which can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/naracampaigns

We travelled to every county that has a fur farm, tabled and leafleted in the major town near each farm, and protested outside all 5 mink farms - something that has never been done before, and something that we pledge to keep doing on a regular basis. ... read full story / add a comment
Bray Beach with its original Blue Railings
wicklow / history and heritage Wednesday July 29, 2009 - 17:28 by Alyson Burke and Wayne Tobin   text 13 comments (last - wednesday september 14, 2016 - 12:05)   image 4 images
We announce the Launch of a campaign of opposition to the so called "Riveria" apartments close to seaside area in Bray. We intend to maximise the number of objections against any development proposals and build a grassroots movement based on "people power". We are also opposed to further slot machines in the area which may lead to serious addiction problems and can be a source of trouble within families. We will strongly oppose any plans for development in the one scenic area of Bray left. Instead our campaign believes investment should be concentrated in the town centre. Some of our other aims include campaigning for the re-instatement of the Blue Flag for our Beach which we had in 1991. We also demand greater transparency and accountability in the planning process. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 28, 2009 - 18:51 by Graham   text 9 comments (last - wednesday july 29, 2009 - 15:12)   image 1 image
Yesterday afternoon, Monday the 28th of July, Shell to Sea campaigners organised a demonstration at Glenamoy crossroads Co. Mayo. The crossroads is the access point to Rossport, where Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht affairs Eamon Ó, Cuív had purported to be arriving with the intention of ceremonially launching an already open community center. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday July 28, 2009 - 14:19 by Paula Geraghty   text 4 comments (last - monday august 03, 2009 - 17:58)   image 4 images
Communities unite on East link bridge in solidarity with Dublin Port strikers ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday July 27, 2009 - 14:39 by Ronoc   text 16 comments (last - thursday july 30, 2009 - 20:47)   video 1 video file
Joe Higgins first speech at the EU parliment... ... read full story / add a comment
Protestors Outside Topaz
kildare / miscellaneous Saturday July 25, 2009 - 18:12 by Bazra B   text 17 comments (last - thursday september 10, 2009 - 01:20)   image 9 images
Shell to Sea protest outside Topaz in Newbridge, Co. Kildare ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday July 25, 2009 - 14:50 by Contaminated Crow   text 3 comments (last - monday july 27, 2009 - 20:43)
Two telemasts, pylons, two waste sites, a respite house and turfcutting ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday July 25, 2009 - 05:25 by Periódico El Libertario
After taking part in a demonstartion for lack of job security in 2006, 14 workers of contractor “Transportes Camila de Sidor” could be sentenced to 5 to 10 years in jail ... read full story / add a comment
Seahorses and fish will now be plastic.
dublin / animal rights Saturday July 25, 2009 - 00:53 by Bernie Wright   image 1 image
Having been contacted by concerned individuals, many working in the airport. The wall mounted fish tanks on the ‘Street’ at Dublin Airport were again brought to our attention.

In 2006 AFAR did a demo at Dublin Airport and as a result had SEAHORSES removed from the ESTEE LAUDER Crème de la Mer tanks after hearing many Seahorses had died due to lack of feeding and regular care.
Now in 2009 the fish that had replaced the seahorses were suffering the same fate. ... read full story / add a comment
Picture taken below the Black Mountain in West Belfast
antrim / miscellaneous Thursday July 23, 2009 - 13:01 by Sean Matthews- personal capacity   text 4 comments (last - tuesday november 03, 2009 - 10:55)   image 1 image   audio 3 audio files
A conversation with WSM member Davy Carlin, from his early childhood growing up in the Ballymurphy housing estate in the midst of an ‘Irish War’ to community politics. Davy also reflects on his involvement in struggles to date from anti-racism, workplace organising and organisations from the Socialist Workers Party to Organise! Finally, we touch upon the politics of anarchism and his hope for the future. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / eu Wednesday July 22, 2009 - 19:47 by Sheilanagig   text 12 comments (last - sunday august 30, 2009 - 23:24)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
This is an obsure but alarming article. I had to read it twice to figure what it was saying: that it is a crime to advocate boycotting Israeli products in France. A man has been fined €1000 for organising a boycott of Israeli products; and the French appeals court and Council of Europe's European Court of Human Rights upheld this. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / crime and justice Wednesday July 22, 2009 - 19:20 by Cathar   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 23, 2009 - 11:44)
IRMS are still failing to wear identity badges. Part conyents of letter from local Resident to PSA. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday July 22, 2009 - 13:12 by Federico Fuentes General Joe and friends   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 23, 2009 - 23:00)
"Ironically, the only time in Venezuela that a TV channel was taken off air, constitutional rights suspended, and journalists arrested and assaulted since Chavez’s 1998 election was during the two days when he was removed from power in a short-lived coup in April 2002."

"While it “condemns” some of the attacks on freedom of speech, it has little to say about the coup regime itself.

This is because, for the IAPA, there was no coup.

Its July 14 statement said the democratically elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was simply “stood down” — not kidnapped and dumped in a different country by balaclava-clad soldiers." ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Monday July 20, 2009 - 16:48 by Workers Solidarity Movement   text 9 comments (last - wednesday july 22, 2009 - 15:10)   image 1 image   audio 7 audio files
The Workers Solidarity Movement and Anarchist Communist Discussion Group in Belfast, organised a successful day of discussions and workshops last Saturday in the Belfast Unemployed Centre tackling issues such as fighting fascism and racism from a class perspective, anarchist organisation and our vision of a free, classless, post-capitalist society.

... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 20, 2009 - 14:52 by Kev (words) - TD (a/v)   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 21, 2009 - 11:49)   image 4 images   video 2 video files
As part of the international Cultural Boycott of Israel campaign, on the evening of Sunday 19th July, members and supporters of the IPSC gathered outside the O2 Arena in the Dublin Docklands and distributed leaflets to concert goers, asking Leonard Cohen not to carry on with his scheduled tour finale in Tel Aviv. ... read full story / add a comment
No Fanfare at Billboard Unveiling
galway / eu Sunday July 19, 2009 - 13:10 by Galway Observer   text 6 comments (last - wednesday august 12, 2009 - 21:28)   image 4 images
An anonymous group appears to have launched an expensive billboard campaign in Galway against the Lisbon Treaty.

Clearly no expense was spared to capture a highly visible on Galway's coast road to Oranmore.
Every picture tells a story. ... read full story / add a comment
This Serica map shows their licenced blocks, and (oddly) shows the Corrib pipeline in place.
national / environment Saturday July 18, 2009 - 14:35 by AM   text 15 comments (last - tuesday december 08, 2009 - 17:27)   image 1 image
Serica, the British energy company, has found oil in the Slyne basin, off the west coast of Ireland.

Under current licencing agreements, all oil found in Irish waters will belong exclusively to the finder, with no royalty payable to the people of Ireland. All exploration and development costs will be claimed back before tax is paid. Minor changes to the licencing terms, brought in by Eamon Ryan in 2007, won't apply to this find.

In a Reuter's interview last year, Paul Ellis, the company's chief executive, said of the Irish exploration: "They are look-a-like prospects to Shell's Corrib prospects, and are attractive partly due to the tax rate in Ireland." ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday July 17, 2009 - 19:42 by Contaminated Crow
Three masts, a powerline, a landfill, a quarry and the turfcutting campaign intensifies ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 17, 2009 - 08:18 by Margaretta D'Arcy   text 8 comments (last - monday july 20, 2009 - 10:14)   image 3 images

Michael Clifford's piece from The Sunday Tribune (12th July) is a serious misrepresentation of our 27th-June Shell2Sea street-meeting in Galway. ... read full story / add a comment
louth / crime and justice Thursday July 16, 2009 - 19:22 by Alison Kelly   text 1 comment (last - thursday july 16, 2009 - 22:30)
This is an update to a previously published story from Alison Kelly, a woman who was misdiagnosed regarding Breast Cancer, and the subsequent twists and turns of trying to take a civil legal action against the HSE. ... read full story / add a comment
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