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international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 30, 2010 - 16:46 by Kev
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Irish activist and documentarian Tommy Donnelan, 63, was this afternoon wounded and detained for two hours by the Israeli Military in the West Bank. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 29, 2010 - 15:04 by LASC
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The two individuals whose deaths have been confirmed are Beatríz Alberta Cariño, the director of CACTUS and member of the Southeast Mexican Indigenous Community Radios Network, and Jyri Jaakkola, an international solidarity observer from Finland. Four people have been confirmed disappeared: David Venegas Reyes and Noe Bautista Jimenez, from VOCAL, and Érika Ramírez and David Cilia, reporters from Contralínea. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday April 29, 2010 - 10:21 by Paula Geraghty
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"USI haven't gone away- and we're gonna wreck your heads, until students get their way!" USI hold protest at Fianna Fail Green party attacks on those who want to participate in the knowledge society. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 27, 2010 - 21:44 by TD
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Beit Jala : One of the fronts of the popular struggle in the West Bank is now Beit Jala, Bethlehem district. The whole of the Bethlehem district has been surrounded by the Apartheid-Annexation Wall and ever-expanding settlements for years. Now, Beit Jala is being hit even harder by the apartheid policies of the Israeli army and government via the new path of the Apartheid Wall in the area. On the morning of Tuesday, April 22nd 2010, Israeli bulldozers reached the home of Beit Jala resident Mitri Ghneim and started to level and damage the garden of his house. This event was just the most recent attack by Israeli soldiers. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday April 27, 2010 - 16:57 by Paula Geraghty
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Workers from Connolly Shoes are in their third week of a strike. Trade Union TV caught up with the strikers at a rally to support the strike organised by People Before Profit, saturday 24th 2010. ... read full story / add a comment 
derry / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday April 27, 2010 - 11:43 by Solidarity with the 14 Raytheon accused
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The trial of 14 people in connection with a protest at the defence company Raytheon in Derry is to begin at Belfast Crown Court on Tuesday May 4th. Solidarity pickets are being planned to coincide with the court hearings outside of the Laganside Court complex. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Saturday April 24, 2010 - 23:19 by Sharon.
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A 48-hour fast will be held shortly by Republican POW's in Portlaoise Prison in support of their comrades in Maghaberry Prison. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Saturday April 24, 2010 - 10:38 by Kev
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I just got a call from an eirigi comrade, saying a group of them are currently occupying the Anglo-Irish building on St Stephen's Green. They are looking for supporters to get down there now. Please spread the word, and go down in solidarity if you can. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 21, 2010 - 12:43 by dD
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It's being reported by the he Garda Ombudsman that a man has been found dead in a garda cell in Dublin. The man was arrested for a public order offence on Tuesday evening and held at Tallaght Garda Station where he was found dead at 9.30 last night. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 21, 2010 - 12:04 by Paula Geraghty
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About 30 people came out to change the law on users of cannabis for medicinal purposes. ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 20, 2010 - 23:39 by Ray
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Members of the Cork and Kinsale Shell to Sea groups held information stalls on their respective main streets to keep the imprisonment of Pat 'the Chief' O'Donnell in the eye of the genneral public. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 19, 2010 - 21:41 by Kev
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(Sorry about the delayed nature of this report, been busy!) On the evening of Monday 12th April 2010 around 40 members and supporters of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) staged a solidarity demonstration outside Dublin City Hall in support of the anti-Veoila motion that was tabled to be voted on by Dublin City Council (DCC). ... read full story / add a comment
galway / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 19, 2010 - 12:55 by Paula Geraghty
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Trade Union TV presents the Restaurant Workers Action Group protest at Supermac's Eyre Square Galway to defend restaurant workers minimum wages (16/04/2010) Start you week with a little bit of resistance! ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Monday April 19, 2010 - 08:03 by Solidaritywiththechief
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Around 25 activists have set up 2 blockades around the Shell Gas terminal in Bacton, Norfolk, UK in solidarity with Pat O'Donnell & the community in Rossport, Mayo and against the destruction of environment and communities by Shell world-wide. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 18, 2010 - 20:53 by Fintan Lane
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A large number of people turned out at 2pm on Saturday, 17 April, for the Palestinian Prisoners’ Day demonstration outside the Israeli embassy in Dublin. The protest was organised conjointly by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) and éirígí (the socialist republican party formed in 2006), and the focus was on a call for the release of ALL Palestinian political prisoners imprisoned by the Israeli State - those 'convicted' in Israeli Military courts and those interned without trial under the 'Administrative Detention' regime. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 17, 2010 - 22:08 by Paula Geraghty
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Three communities protested in unity at Dublin City Council to save local services under threat of closure. Crumlin, Sean McDermot Street and Coolock pools are facing closure by DCC. These communities held a protest at a council meeting where the council passed a motion to defend the pools. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday April 15, 2010 - 23:31 by Fintan Lane
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Speaking at a public meeting held this evening in the Central Hotel in Dublin, a spokesperson for the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) commended the nine women - Roisin Barton, Roisin Bryce, Betty Doherty, Goretti Horgan, Diana King, Jackie McKenna, Sharon Meenan, Helen Reynolds and Julia Torrojo - who are currently facing charges in Belfast as a result of their anti-war action on 12 January 2009 at arms manufacturer Raytheon Systems in Derry. ... read full story / add a comment
Mental Health Commission Refuses to Investigate Cover-Up of Medical Misconduct Despite ‘Smoking Gun’
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 14, 2010 - 20:14 by An tSionainn
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Despite being presented with documented “smoking gun” evidence from medical prescription records obtained after lengthy FOI appeals, the Mental Health Commission today refused to initiate an investigation into a cover-up of medical misconduct by a centre's registerd proprietor in which a former MHC CEO and Inspector were complicit.. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 14, 2010 - 12:53 by Freda H and Kev
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Yesterday evening pro-Palestine groups staged a protest against the presence of former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Dore Gold and Israeli Embassy delegates at the Clinton Institute in University College Dublin. Gold, who also served as an advisor to Ariel Sharon during the years 2001 – 2003 (years which saw vicious repression of Palestinians during the second intifada, including Operation ‘Defensive Shield’ which killed over 500 people in three weeks), was engaged in an Israeli *hasbara* operation, giving a lecture on the ‘two state solution’ to a small select invite-only audience. One presumes – given that we were not allowed inside - arguing for a Palestinian Bantustan statelet and the primacy of Israeli ‘security concerns’ over the right to Palestinian self-determination. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday April 13, 2010 - 18:44 by James
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SIPTU public sector executive call for vote in favour of the "Croke Park" deal ... read full story / add a comment |
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