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international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 24, 2010 - 14:23 by Iyad Burnat
 8 comments (last - sunday october 10, 2010 - 15:00)  3 images
24 September 2010 Bil`in, West Bank-Ashraf Al-Khatib was shot in the leg with a 0.22” caliber live bullet at the weekly demonstration against the illegal apartheid wall. An international nonviolent activist was also hit in the shoulder with a low-flying tear gas canister. The hundreds of other participants were attacked with huge quantities of tear gas. The weekly protest is against land theft by the illegal apartheid wall and the Israeli occupation in general. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 23, 2010 - 18:08 by TD
6 comments (last - sunday september 26, 2010 - 20:34) 5 images
Yesterday, the UN Human Rights Council issued, a 56 page damning indictment of Israeli actions on the night of May 31st last when the Gaza Freedom Flotilla was attacked in international waters resulting in the murders of 9 humanitarian activists and serious injuries to many of the other participants. The report recommends the prosecution of the Israelis concerned but led by the US and the Quisling Palestinian Authority, no doubt, the "international community" will be strenuously resisting this.? For as Arun Gupta brilliantly and witheringly puts it in his Indypendent article; The Victim that is Israel http://www.indypendent.org/2010/06/23/the-victim/ ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism Thursday September 23, 2010 - 11:27 by Brian & Gregor
3 comments (last - wednesday september 29, 2010 - 05:10) 1 image
The 1% network has announced details of a ‘political walking tour’ through the affluent districts of Dublin 2 and Dublin 4. The tour, which will bring protesters through the ‘heartland of the Golden Circle’, will stop at a number of locations, including the new headquarters of Anglo Irish Bank on Burlington Road, property developer Johnny Ronan’s property on Burlington Road and IBEC headquarters on Baggot Street. The tour will assemble at the Wolfe Tone Monument on Stephens Green at 1pm on Saturday, October 9th, 2010. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Wednesday September 22, 2010 - 15:51 by jen debender
6 comments (last - saturday september 25, 2010 - 00:24) 15 images
This Monday, 20th September two Shell to Sea campaigners tied themselves to a drill on one of Shell's platforms, and remained up there stopping work for a total of 12 hours, from 7am to 7pm. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday September 21, 2010 - 21:04 by Pilibire
The 1% We have all heard of the ‘golden circle’. We all know that there is one law for the rich and another law for the rest of us. But did you know that just 1% of the population are estimated to own at least 34% of the wealth of the country? Property developers, landlords, bankers, barristers, media tycoons and politician are amongst the 1% that own so much, but contribute so little ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday September 21, 2010 - 13:54 by Ciaron
1 comment (last - thursday september 23, 2010 - 11:17)
* Some of the footage Bradley Manning is accused of leaking www.collateralmurder.com ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 20, 2010 - 17:16 by Ciaron O'Reilly
16 comments (last - wednesday february 02, 2011 - 16:08)  1 video file
14 Catholic Worker and other friends have been on trial in Las Vegas for the nonviolent resistance action they took at Creech Air Force Base in the Nevada desert (USA) against drone warfare that is directed from the base over Pakistan and Afghanistan. Below is a good article about how the trial proceeded and the judge's decision to take four months to study the issue. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Sunday September 19, 2010 - 22:21 by Trade Union TV
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Artists performed at Kildare Street to highlight low pay and the inability to organise because of the unjust Competition Act lunchtime 16th September 2010. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday September 18, 2010 - 13:27 by Assembly for Solidarity
Responding to the Call for International Solidarity by the persecuted and rebellious comrades in Chile, we call on people around the world to express their solidarity and in Athens we invite a Gathering of Solidarity on Friday, September 24th at 5pm, outside of the Chilean Embassy (Bas. Sofias 25) ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / arts and media Saturday September 18, 2010 - 10:41 by JM
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The Mayo-based Connaught Telegraph weekly newspaper ran an on-line poll this week on the Corrib gas pipeline project, with unsurprising results. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / arts and media Friday September 17, 2010 - 19:52 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 
mayo / environment Friday September 17, 2010 - 15:15 by jen debender and da ram
8 comments (last - sunday september 19, 2010 - 12:28) 7 images 1 video file
Representatives from Shell and their panel of expert witnesses were prevented from leaving the An Bord Pleanála oral hearing Thursday night by peaceful protesters. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Wednesday September 15, 2010 - 23:23 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 / consumer issues Wednesday September 15, 2010 - 19:42 by Seán Ryan and Madam K
32 comments (last - tuesday september 28, 2010 - 11:44) 15 images 3 video files
A man of the people. Flawed yes. But a man of the people all the same. Some alcohol, some nudity and some public urination, we take to the streets with Brian Cowen to say sorry. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 14, 2010 - 22:44 by Lulu
1 comment (last - wednesday september 15, 2010 - 00:25) 1 video file
The Bord Pleannala oral hearing saga continued today in Bellmullet at the Broadhaven Bay Hotel, looking at the Compulsory Acquisition Orders of the present project application of the Shell Corrib Gas proposed estuary pipeline route, as well as various other aspects of the project. The various concerns raised by local objectors and the Rossport Solidarity Camp were not appeased by Shell's experts, and the question of whether the project was in 'the public interest' was once again raised by Mr Leo Mulrooney, Barrister for local land owners. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday September 14, 2010 - 06:46 by Ciaron O'Reilly/Plowshares
6 comments (last - tuesday may 31, 2011 - 07:58)
When I left Australia in May 2010, the OZ military fatalities in Afghanistan stood at 11 over the previous 9 years. They have now doubled in the last few months including the death of an Irish born man from Carlow serving with the Australian SAS. Australian fatlities..... http://www.icasualties.org/oef/Nationality.aspx?hndQry=...ralia ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Monday September 13, 2010 - 19:06 by jen debender
4 comments (last - tuesday september 14, 2010 - 14:26) 5 images 1 video file
Local residents gathered at the Shell office in Belmullet early Monday morning to serve a Compulsory Acquisition Order (CAO) on Shell’s property and to prevent Shell workers from entering the building. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday September 11, 2010 - 15:42 by Paul Hardy
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Trade union SIPTU, whose Health Division represents nurses, care assistants and support staff at Merlin Park Hospital In Galway, applauds the 500 people who marched from Merlin Park Hospital to Eyre Square today (September 11) ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Friday September 10, 2010 - 21:13 by RSC
4 comments (last - sunday september 12, 2010 - 20:16) 5 images 1 video file
Last Wednesday protesters disrupted Shell's work as they moved one of their hideous drilling rigs into a shallow part of the SAC estuary, close to the Rossport solidarity camp. Protesters used kayaks to get to the rig which was flanked by fourteen boats of I-RMS security and Gardai. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Friday September 10, 2010 - 20:36 by Shell to Hell
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Whilst the Oral Hearing on Shell's pipeline route continues, the last few weeks have seen yet more successful actions against the borehole drilling in the Special Area of Conservation Sruwaddacon estuary. ... read full story / add a comment |
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