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Illustration by Sabine Springer: canal lock-gates
national / arts and media Wednesday November 04, 2009 - 16:30 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
A new Irish-language project award gave birth to a book of three personal and poetic Galway histories - ... read full story / add a comment
AGE OF STUPID - outdoor screening on streets of Barcelona this evening.
international / environment Tuesday November 03, 2009 - 17:54 by Dunk   text 12 comments (last - friday november 06, 2009 - 22:52)   image 14 images   video 7 video files
This week (monday 2 - friday 6) the Barcelona International Climate Change Talks are happening, five days of formal negotiations, in the lead up to COP 15. Since Saturday there have been a series of actions in the cities streets as well as at the conference centre to raise awereness, to unite eco movements and to try to force change during this window of opportunity in the conference centre at the far side of Montjuic. But will it be enough to get us out of our AGE OF STUPID? Perhaps not, news has just come through today that African countries have abandoned the talks.

Talks Timeline
Saturday - Manifestation in Barcelona streets - The climate is not for sale
Sunday - Outdoor film screening in city streets - 11th hour - Age of Stupid - Eco hopes
Monday - TckTckTck wake up call for climate talks - Anarchist night greeting
Tuesday - Africa boycott U.N. climate talks, demands CO2 cuts ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Tuesday November 03, 2009 - 15:37 by Rudiger   text 7 comments (last - thursday november 05, 2009 - 12:35)   image 10 images
This morning An Bord Pleanala have announced that they are deferring the decision on the onshore section of the Corrib Gas pipeline. Bord Pleanala says that approximately 5.6km (or 62% of the whole onshore pipeline) is considered unacceptable because of its proximity to dwelling houses located within its hazard range should a pipeline failure occur. See the latest RTE news report on this here: http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1103/corrib.html or Irish Times report: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1103/...0.htm
More on the Bord Pleanala decision will follow later, this is a report on yesterdays People's Forum in Belmullet and Minister's Forum in Corran Buí. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / environment Tuesday November 03, 2009 - 02:48 by Rafael Uzcategui   image 1 image
* The latest demonstration of political criminalization of autonomous social movements by the Venezuelan government is exposed by Rafael Uzcategui, a member of the anarchist collective El Libertario. ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Monday November 02, 2009 - 16:28 by Ciaran O'Carroll
On Wednesday 28th October 2009 Berlanty Azzam, originally from Gaza but studying at Bethlehem University, was arrested at a military checkpoint between Bethlehem and Ramallah. She was then loaded onto an Israeli military jeep - blindfolded and handcuffed - and moved from Bethlehem to Gaza - against her will. When they arrived at the Gaza border around 11:00pm, she was released into the dark and told only, “You are in Gaza.” Berlanty was just two months away from graduating from Bethlehem University with a degree in business studies, now she is imprisoned in one of the world’s most deadly conflict zones. ... read full story / add a comment
War Criminals
national / miscellaneous Monday November 02, 2009 - 11:46 by Pete Slovo   text 6 comments (last - wednesday january 27, 2010 - 20:30)   image 1 image
Next Sunday 8th. November ... read full story / add a comment
Willie O'Dea admits lying to High Court
limerick / crime and justice Sunday November 01, 2009 - 16:16 by Limerick Born   text 2 comments (last - monday november 02, 2009 - 14:10)   image 3 images
Willie O'Dea,Irish Minister for Defence admits giving false evidence to High Court after tape of what he really said emerged. Makes you wonder he much truth he is telling about Irish neutrality. ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday November 01, 2009 - 12:19 by Paula Geraghty   text 2 comments (last - tuesday november 03, 2009 - 15:21)   video 1 video file
Management at Green Isle still refuse to engage with TEEU, LRC, NIB, or Labour Court. This despite the fact that they have accepted Irish State Aid to the tune of €43,000,000. Green Isle's capacity to suck money out of the Irish exchequer is matched by their contempt for workers and the Trade Union movement. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 30, 2009 - 20:52 by Defend Right to Protest   text 6 comments (last - thursday november 05, 2009 - 15:54)
FEE (Free Education for Everyone) activists in Ireland involved in an occupation of Paul Gogarty TD's offices (Green Party Education Spokesperson) in December 2008 have now been threatened almost a year later with "adult cautions" by the Gardai. This is an appeal for solidarity emails and phone calls to remove that threat. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday October 30, 2009 - 20:26 by Judy   text 1 comment (last - friday october 30, 2009 - 22:51)
The following was an email received by all HSE staff into their email accounts by management this week. ... read full story / add a comment
An tAire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta Éamon Ó Cuív TD
national / arts and media Friday October 30, 2009 - 17:13 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   text 1 comment (last - tuesday november 03, 2009 - 17:20)   image 2 images
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www.near.ie ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday October 30, 2009 - 16:25 by Contaminated Crow
An incinerator, a windfarm, CCTV cameras, four telemasts and a factory chimney ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday October 30, 2009 - 14:07 by Paul Kinsella   text 5 comments (last - friday november 06, 2009 - 08:46)
I would like to start compiling a list of workplaces walking out, and services affected on the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) Day Of Action next Friday, November 6th. This list to be updated regularly by anyone reading this between now and next Friday, including on the day itself, as workers come out, and services are affected. The format below is subject to change, in conjunction with requests I may be making to the editors. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Wednesday October 28, 2009 - 21:01 by Fred Johnston   text 3 comments (last - saturday october 31, 2009 - 18:42)
The Western Writers' Centre, Galway (Ionad Scribhneoiri Chaitlín Maude) have been gifted no fewer than 400 copies of books by eminent European authors, complete with display furniture and are the legal, documented owners of this immense and valuable library. But the Centre, eight years in existence in Galway, has nowhere to house it. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism Wednesday October 28, 2009 - 19:43 by Cathal   text 5 comments (last - thursday november 12, 2009 - 15:02)   image 3 images   audio 2 audio files
Yesterday evening the Cork branch of the Worker’s Solidarity Movement hosted a talk by South African anarchist and ZABALAZA Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) member, Jonathan. The ZACF is an organisation of anarchist individuals from South Africa who identify with the communist tradition within Anarchism. The front is organised around the principles of theoretical and tactical unity, collective responsibility and federalism. Their activities include study and theoretical development, anarchist agitation and propaganda, and participation within the class struggle. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Wednesday October 28, 2009 - 16:17 by Dublin Masser   text 2 comments (last - thursday october 29, 2009 - 19:11)   image 3 images
It is impossible to give credit to one place, one time, one person for the starting of any social movement, as it takes the ideas, energy and enthusiasm of countless people to reach a 'Critical Mass', but San Francisco, September 1992, certainly marked itself clearly on the map as a launch-pad for the Critical Mass movement, going on from there to spread throughout the world to all nine(?) corners of the globe and taking place in an estimated 325 cities. Now after seventeen years it is still growing and currently takes place in four cities around Ireland (that we know of?).

In true DIY style Critical Mass co-incidentally returned to the streets of Belfast and Dublin simultaneously on Friday the 25th of September last after being sorely missed by many for a long time. To their credit Cork and Galway have been keeping it going for many years now (albeit in an on-off fashion). ... read full story / add a comment
L-R: Dan Finn, Freda Hughes, Kevin Squires, David Landy, Mark McDonnell, Martin O'Quigley, Ronan O'Dowd, Ronan Nolan (members of the IPSC National Committee)
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 24, 2009 - 18:20 by Freda Hughes   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 25, 2009 - 23:12)   image 2 images
Today, Saturday, October 24, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) elected David Landy, an Irish-Jewish academic as their new chairperson. Mr Landy, who lives in Dublin city centre, has long been active in Palestine solidarity work. He was one of the organisers of the public letters from Irish academics in 2006 and 2009 calling for a moratorium of EU funding of Israeli universities. He has written on Zionism and on British Jewish opposition to Israel, and is currently teaching in the Department of Sociology in Trinity College. ... read full story / add a comment
Comh. Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (LO)
national / arts and media Saturday October 24, 2009 - 10:04 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   text 3 comments (last - thursday november 12, 2009 - 18:46)   image 4 images
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Nóta: nasc podchraoladh le teacht ar an Máirt. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 23, 2009 - 14:39 by greek anarchist
Christos Stratigopoulos is a greek anarchist who recently arrested for bank robbery together with Italian anarchist Alfredo Bonnano. They both are in prison ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 22, 2009 - 18:18 by Jen Debender   text 14 comments (last - sunday november 01, 2009 - 13:55)   image 11 images
Early this morning the 22 October, four Shell to Sea campaigners entered the field in Glengad where Shell is working (the same field where work was stopped by a digger-occupier yesterday- http://www.indymedia.ie/article/94519). Two people managed to get on top of the same digger, but IRMS (Shell's private security contractors) got violent and dragged them down, injuring them both in the process. ... read full story / add a comment
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