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international / crime and justice Saturday April 15, 2006 - 01:04 by Edward Horgan
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On 20th April, while many are enjoying Easter holidays, Edward Horgan will be making a significant submission to the European Parliament special committee investigating Extraordinary Rendition for Torture, in Brussels. He has been invited by the committee to make a special presentation focusing on the use of Shannon airport for rendering prisoners for torture and the Irish Government's complicity in this torture process. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Friday April 14, 2006 - 20:16 by Text: Terry Photos: Eve and Terry
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Report on today's Good Friday march along route of Shell's never to be built gas pipeline in Rossport, Erris, County Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday April 14, 2006 - 03:36 by Anti-War Prisoner Solidarity
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Teresa Grady is one of the 3 Grady family presently in U.S. prisons for a nonviolent occupation of the Ithaca Military Recruitment Centre on St. Patricks Day 2003, days before the U.S.Shock & Awe Bombing campaign over Iraq. Initially experiencing a hung jury. The defendants houses were raided by the FBI days before 11 Gradys departed for Ireland to attend the first trial of the Pit Stop Ploughshares.The FBI recharged the St. Patricks Four with felonies for the original anti-war action. Since writing the letter below, Teresa has since beeen moved from Broome County Jail to a Federal faciity -in Danbury Conneticut. ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / miscellaneous Wednesday April 12, 2006 - 22:22 by Lappalitis
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Members of the Vol. James Sheridan Ogra Shinn Fein Cumann in Jordanstown University recently toured the site of Long Kesh outside Lisburn. The cumann were privlidged to be accompanied on the tour by South Derry Republican, Paul McGlinchey who was incarcirated in both the cages and the H-Blocks during the 1970's and 80's. Pauls personal accounts and recollections on the republican history of the prison gave the cumann members a more indepth and real sense of the struggle fought by republican soldiers especially during the time of the no wash protest and the hungerstrike. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 12, 2006 - 18:58 by Niall Farrell
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It has been brought to the attention of the Galway Alliance Against War that the local Fianna Fail cumann is due to hold its Easter Commemoration after 12 o’clock mass at Liam Mellowes statue. Our commemoration - the main speaker at which will be the brother of a Guantanamo internee - begins at 12.30pm at the same statue. This means the two commemorations will probably coincide. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage Wednesday April 12, 2006 - 13:07 by Jonah
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Members of Sinn Féin and Ógra Shinn Féin carried out a direct action at James Adams & Sons Auctioneers on Stephen's Green. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday April 11, 2006 - 12:35 by Cathy Swift
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On April 7th, the fourth in a series of information meetings organised by People before Profit was held in the IFI in Dublin. This meeting - on the issue of privatisation of the Irish health service - was addressed by Louise O'Reilly of SIPTU, Peadar O'Grady of the SWP and Dave Hughes of the INO. Participants were urged to support the Patients Together Lie In at the Dáil on Good Friday at 12.00. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Tuesday April 11, 2006 - 06:13 by %
The canton of Bern in Switzerland held elections on Sunday and results indicate a definite SWING to the social democrats and greens, who won with a LANDSLIDE / AVALANCHE result and gained 3 of the 7 seats. CONFUSION The right wing Swiss People's Party were HARDEST HIT. They'd held out for a 4th seat but lost one! DEAD HEAT Centre right radical party hopefuls saw their weekend celebrations DASHED when they lost one seat to a greenie. ""For the government election, it was a case of voters wanting to punish the Right for trying to claim six out of seven seats," said Hanspeter Kriesi, head of the Center for Comparative and international Studies in Zurich & EXPERT. Too arrogant "The Right was seen as too arrogant. Even so, it was a surprise since Bern is traditionally conservative.".... "The Greens helped the Left " ..... ribbid gurggle ..... PHOTOFINISH Yes indeed for the People's party are very anti-European. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage Monday April 10, 2006 - 23:16 by Chris Murray
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Harold's Cross Park celebrated it's centenary in 1994. A plaque commemorates the endowment of the Victorian Park to the people of the Rathmines/Harold's Cross townland. Cllr Mary Frehill performed the dedication ceremony. The park is a protected structure in its whole integrity including the original railings, the promenade ring, the hankerchief tree which commerorates the Women's Laundry strike and the view of the chapel and cemetry at Mount Jerome. Today at 11am, I walked to the park with my daughter to find the park be-ribboned and works ongoing which are dedicated to the removal of the Victorian (or Edwardian ) railings, for 'safety reasons'. There has been no planning notice to this effect on the railings or access points to the park. There has been no public consultation with the residents of the area as to the plans undertaken by Dublin City Council. When I started to take photographs I was threatened by a council worker that he would take a photo of me and that he would call the gardai, thus I confined my mobile camera to the pretty ribbons, until braver people came along. I asked a park keeper if this work would not affect the visual integrity of the park and if planning permission had been sought. He replied that as it was a safety excerise, that he did not believe that permissions were required. The protected structures within the park: two red-brick out-buildings are protected but the park itself was under the jurisdiction of the council. Councillor Frehill, when contacted stated that the works were going to be stopped pending a site visit this evening and a look at the plans for works. There has been in effect a complete stoppage of works until the reason for works and plans are inspected, under enforcement regulations. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 10, 2006 - 20:54 by D_D
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Congress highlights ‘falling wages in a booming economy’ (ICTU press release) ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 10, 2006 - 20:09 by Cia Out Of Ireland
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There are 3 main ways to get to Baldonnel Warport on the day, chose one, have fun, stay safe! ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 10, 2006 - 19:35 by Jepu
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April 7th, 6,000 riot police and 700 hired thugs attacked the Autonomous Peace Village of Daechuri. They succeeded in destroying the irrigation system, making farming a near impossibility. 40 protesters were arrested, 30 were injured, 5 of those seriously. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 10, 2006 - 18:41 by stencilist
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The Dublin City Council are enforcing an illegal poster ban which silences all small non-profit, non-corporate groups - political or otherwise. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 10, 2006 - 15:14 by Frank
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Sinn Fein staged a protest on Saturday 8 April at the Airport Roundabout against the Privatisation of Aer Lingus. The protest was attended by Gerry Adams MP, Bairbre De Brun MEP as well as Cllr Dessie Ellis and Cllr Felix Gallagher. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Monday April 10, 2006 - 13:27 by Kevin Wingfield
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The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has claimed that ‘the proclamation of the Republic on Easter Monday was a cry of radical idealism that shook the world in 1916 and still challenges us today’. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Monday April 10, 2006 - 00:44 by Stephan Wymore
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Dear ARAN Friend! Good news from Scotland. Just recently the Minister for Environment and Rural Development, Ross Finnie, confirmed his intention to introduce a ban on the use of wild animals in traveling circuses in secondary legislation following the implementation of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Bill. This follows a successful campaign by the Born Free Foundation, Advocates for Animals and other animal welfare organizations to ensure that the complex needs of wild animals are not overlooked in national legislation. This is extremely encouraging news as days before that announcement we heard about similar plans from the UK government to ban ‘wild’ or ‘certain’ animals in circuses in the UK. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Sunday April 09, 2006 - 17:21 by iosaf mac diarmada
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It has been long observed that people for some reason on their non-banking days readily absorb shite about Dangerous Places, Famous People, Sensible Saving Options, Holidays, Interesting facts, Sport results, Media, gardening and health as well looking ahead at “democratic evolution” and looking back at "how history was made". This week's edition is very short. In fact I almost didn't write one, and like the "house arrest" edition that never transpired, the Judas edition almost escaped the open publishing network. But you're not getting off that easily. _______________________________________________________________________________ ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 08, 2006 - 22:43 by Tommy Donnellan
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Today, in strength, Galway's Amnesty International activists took to William Street to protest over the obscenity that every year throughout the world, more than half a million people are killed by armed violence – that’s one person every minute and to let the Irish government and UN know that there is a solution; a legally binding, rigorously enforced, international Arms Trade Treaty that will seriously kybosh the flow of arms to countries that use them to ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Saturday April 08, 2006 - 22:39 by Damien Moran
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national / environment Saturday April 08, 2006 - 22:24 by Revolt Video
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Some videos from yesterdays events at the Four Courts and the subsequent action at Statoil's offices at the IFSC. Video from Four Courts: ' 5 Go Free at the Four Courts' http://obin.org/video/wawa/07-04-06-rosport5.mpg (11 mins) Video Trailer From Statoil Action: 'Dangerous Pipe' http://obin.org/video/wawa/07-04-06-statoilpipe.mpg (2 mins) Flmed and produced by Revolt Video Collective, a video activist collective. Our goals include... Physical and Virtual Distribution of Irish Activist Video. Workshops and Skill Sharing. Ambitious video projects chosen via consenus and tackled collectively. To get involved please send an email to: [email protected] Related links: Rossport Solidarity Camp: http://www.struggle.ws/rsc/ http://www.shelltosea.com ... read full story / add a comment |
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