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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 19:21 by Basque Info 2 comments (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 - 11:06)
In the early hours of today 34 Basque pro-independence political activists were arrested and 92 properties were searched by 650 Spanish policemen. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 17:57 by Gregor Kerr 9 comments (last - thursday november 26, 2009 - 23:45) 1 image
From before 8a.m. this morning, members of the Irish National Teachers Organisation were on the picket line outside the Department of Education and Science in Dublin’s Marlborough Street, alongside Special Needs Assistant colleagues, members of IMPACT, and workers based in the DES building itself, members of SIPTU, CPSU and PSEU. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 12:56 by Cork WSM 13 comments (last - thursday november 26, 2009 - 03:58) 6 images
Strikes took off across Cork city and county this morning as workers took direct action to stop the Government's attack on wages and conditions. ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 10:16 by Bernie Wright 2 comments (last - wednesday august 21, 2013 - 10:00) 4 images
The anti-blood sports/anti-greyhound industry book Bad Hare Days has this week moved rapidly up the list of books sold online in Ireland. John fitzgerald ,one of the organisers of the upcoming Clonmel hare Coursing final demonstration in Feb 2010 said 'Today, (Monday) it is highly placed on the Bestsellers.ie site, in all its categories: biography, Irish history, local history, local Irish history etc.' ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 23, 2009 - 23:05 by TD 4 comments (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 - 14:06) 10 images 4 video files
Following the temporary withdrawal of the International Solidarity Movement from Hebron due to that organisations difficulty in finding a suitable base there, a number of internationals from the village of Bil'in journeyed down there last week to take up the slack with night patrols, checkpoint monitoring and especially the safeguarding of Palestinian children to and from school from stone throwing, spitting Israeli "settler children and adults. Four in number, we found accomodation in the homes of the Al-Awawi and Egnabi families,previously fire bombed by the colonising "settlers" and illegally evicted but both families still overflowing with the milk of human kindness despite their travails. ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Monday November 23, 2009 - 20:41 by dunk 4 comments (last - monday december 21, 2009 - 19:05) 5 images 2 audio files
Brian Anson - Architect, Story Teller, Poet, Revolutionary Inspiration (1934-2009) Brian Anson passed away over the weekend after being inflicted with a sudden illness. Audio documentary; Stories of architecture and social struggle with Brian Anson http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/37463 ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday November 23, 2009 - 16:39 by Contaminated Crow
Five masts, a mushroom plant, a waste facility and golf club dunes ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday November 23, 2009 - 11:23 by Alan MacSimóin 6 comments (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 - 17:40)
Working people hit the streets in huge numbers on November 6th. The protests showed, once again, that there is a willingness to resist the government’s attacks on living standards. Most observers put the total number who walked out of work to take part in the eight protests at around 100,000. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 22, 2009 - 16:10 by Solidarity 5 comments (last - friday june 18, 2010 - 23:12)
On November 16, 1989, an elite unit of the Salvadoran military entered the gates of the Jesuit-run Central American University in San Salvador. When they left, six Jesuit priests lay dead, along with their housekeeper and her teenage daughter. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 22, 2009 - 15:29 by Evans 1 image
“Hello! Let me introduce myself. I am Mahmeud, one of the Iranian political refugees that United Nations High Committee for the Refugees has already recognized as political refugees at 2006. But, unfortunately, since we entered Greece and applied for asylum from the state, about 2 years ago, we haven’t got any answer yet. That’s why we started hunger strike on 19 October. This is a peaceful protest to show them that we want our rights." ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 22, 2009 - 14:46 by Andrew
A Bolivian state TV broadcast of mobile phone video that appears to show Flores, Dwyer, Arpad etc discussing a missed opportunity to blow up Morala's and his cabanet on Lake Titicaca http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT-ErWIpDC4 A pretty detailed summary of events at http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6178 includes what appears to be this transcript from the video "Shit, if only I had known in time about the government session in Titicaca the other day. I would have sent one of these guys (an image of his comrades Dwyer and Arpak, along with Tadic next to a column, appears) in scuba gear to blow up the boat. Every single last one, every single last one of them was there; not one was missing," Rózsa says with the boastfulness of a leader. " ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday November 21, 2009 - 23:25 by john throne 4 comments (last - tuesday march 09, 2010 - 01:38)
The California students at UCLA are using the old methods. ... read full story / add a comment
international / housing Saturday November 21, 2009 - 21:50 by "Spirit of unity" collective 6 comments (last - sunday november 22, 2009 - 14:14) 1 image
We are squatters from the Netherlands. We are asking you to organize a protest (for example by dutch embassy) in your country against squatting prohibition in the Netherlands. We suggest to organize your protests between 26 and 28 of November, because Eerste Kamer (First Chamber of dutch parliament) will vote about squatting prohibition beginnig of December. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous Saturday November 21, 2009 - 19:05 by Rebel City 7 comments (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 - 00:35)
Water crisis as council relies on shopkeepers ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Saturday November 21, 2009 - 18:59 by iosaf mac diarmada 3 comments (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 - 11:08) 1 image
The French chattering classes are reacting to the news that Sarkozy wishes to move the body of Albert Camus from his grave in Lourmarin in southern France where he was buried after the car crash which killed the then recently Nobel Laureated writer and his publisher to the Pantheon in Paris where France has collected over 70 "illustrious dead men" and one "radioactive woman". Camus will be the second individual claimed by anarchism to be given a place in the Pantheon following the pacifist and anarchosyndicalist opposer to WW1, Jean Jaures moved there in 1924). Camus would be the first Pantheon resident to have been born in Algeria. His kids don't want him moved at all. However, I see in this a consistent concern I have articulated over the years at how contemporary regimes and society abuse the memory of the dead and use their legacy :- .:.The Selective & Collective memory : Memory as fetishised community : Communality as fetishised memorial.:. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Friday November 20, 2009 - 16:29 by Andrew 7 comments (last - saturday november 21, 2009 - 23:08) 2 images
A leader of the Bolivian Confederation of Peasant Workers (CSUTCB) is in Ireland this weekend to visit the local people who continue to resist Shell's experimental gas pipeline in Rossport and to demand that the Irish government investigate the role of Shell's security company IRMS in the attempt to start a civil war in Bolivia. Meanwhile in the wake of the An Bord Planala decision Shell's dangerous experimental pipe has been exposed as just that and many people are starting to question the wisdom of giving the energy corporations 420 billion of oil and gas for next to nothing. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday November 20, 2009 - 16:03 by ADM Delegate 4 comments (last - tuesday november 24, 2009 - 11:20)
The national Union of Journalists have voted to support Indymedia. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media Friday November 20, 2009 - 15:24 by FCTV
FCTV is a new station for the Fingal area that is currently airing on the web at www.fctv.ie until such time as their broadcast licence is obtained. The aim of FCTV is to provide high quality community based programming of which is of interest to the people of Fingal. FCTV will look to showcase Fingal talent, events, businesses and anything that is of interest to the people it serves. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Friday November 20, 2009 - 00:01 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora 1 comment (last - saturday november 21, 2009 - 17:33) 2 images
www.myspace.com/armuinnamuice www.bebo.com/armuinnamuice http://nearpodcast.org/podcast www.near.ie ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 19, 2009 - 21:35 by candlelight 2 comments (last - tuesday december 01, 2009 - 11:19)
Franco Claretti, Mayor of Coccaglio, near Brescia in Northern Italy said” Our objective is to clean the town out”. Claudio Abiendi, Northern League Councillor for Security stated “Christmas isn’t a Welcome Festival, it’s Christian tradition that celebrates our identity” And two neighbouring towns Castelcovati and Castrezzato are copying the initiative. ... read full story / add a comment |
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