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international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday May 16, 2010 - 18:29 by TD   text 4 comments (last - monday may 17, 2010 - 00:32)   image 3 images
The weeky protests in Nabi Saleh have quickly gained a reputation as the most violent of the West Bank demonstrations, last Friday's proved true to the norm where an arrested Israeli woman was repeatedly kicked and savaged on the ground by a Border Police thug and the villagers were subjected to blizzards of tear gas and live fire. This morning YouTube pulled the video (Nabi Saleh protest 14-05-2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL3MOCi5JRU) showing the savage assault on the Israeli Anarchist Against the Wall activist on the weasel basis that: This video or group may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as flagged by YouTube's user community. To view this video or group, please verify that you are 18 or older by signing in or signing up. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism Sunday May 16, 2010 - 00:39 by Michael Gallagher   text 9 comments (last - monday may 17, 2010 - 20:14)   image 13 images
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday May 15, 2010 - 12:26 by JB   text 38 comments (last - monday may 17, 2010 - 08:16)   image 6 images
Gardai have again attacked campaigners protesting at the bank bailouts this time with batons and dogs. This morning around 7am four people got onto on the overhang of Anglo irish Bank and chained themselves together with a banner read that read 'People of Ireland Rise Up.' In the last half hour a force of some 50 police, secret police and dogs attacked them and their supporters on the ground with batons, fists and feet. At least six were arrested as a melee broke out on Dawson street. ... read full story / add a comment
The MV Rachel Corrie, which is now on its way to Gaza
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday May 15, 2010 - 01:50 by Fintan Lane   text 10 comments (last - wednesday may 19, 2010 - 00:28)   image 5 images
The MV Rachel Corrie, a 1200-ton cargo ship, part of the eight-vessel Freedom Flotilla, is on its way from Ireland to the Mediterranean Sea. There, ships from Turkey and Greece will join her, then sail to Gaza.
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Fintan O'Toole.  "...we are not peasents..."
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Friday May 14, 2010 - 16:14 by Michael Gallagher   text 5 comments (last - friday may 14, 2010 - 16:32)   image 27 images
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For the record, I want to give my account of what I witnessed at the Dáil on Tuesday at the Right To Work Campaign march.

Having been at many demonstrations in Dublin over the past 15-20 years, it’s common knowledge that the gardai and mainstream media (RTE usually) always underestimate the attendances. From what I saw, 1700 - 2000+ people is a fair estimation of those that took part. Considering the bad weather and the fact that Dublin City Council had most of the march posters taken down beforehand, it was a good turnout. Hopefully, it will be built on.

All images © Michael Gallagher ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 14, 2010 - 09:57 by Shannonwatch   image 1 image
U.S. military traffic through Shannon was down significantly in April due to the spread of the volcanic ash cloud from Iceland. The ongoing presence of this ash in and around Irish airspace has now resulted in the re-routing of all troop and military cargo flights through different bases worldwide. Since early May there have been no U.S. Air Force cargo or troop carriers at Shannon. Clearly the U.S. military leaders are not prepared to risk having cargo or soldiers that are essential to their wars of occupation sitting on the ground in the west of Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday May 12, 2010 - 16:55 by Trade Union TV   text 3 comments (last - wednesday may 12, 2010 - 20:09)   video 1 video file
'I'm sick of being one of the sheep'- watch why people took to the streets to protest last night in the rain. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 12, 2010 - 08:19 by TD   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 12, 2010 - 08:24)   image 3 images   video 3 video files
Last night, Israeli Occupation Forces raided the West Bank village of Bil'in, the home of noted activist Ashraf Abu Rahma was targeted this time and Ashraf - arrested last Friday by the IOF but released - was their quarry. Bil'in, after five years of frequent terrorising invasions by Israeli forces, has a well honed warning system and the villagers were alerted as the invasion soldiers mustered on the edge of the village. Ashraf's attempted rearrest follows hard on the heels of the arrests of Bil'in's stalwart videographer Haitham al-Katib and farmer Waji Bornat at last Friday's weekly protest against the nearby Apartheid -Annexation Wall. Ashraf managed to evade the raiding soldiers this time but he's now faced with the hard dilemma of seeing the notorious Shabak "internal security" this morning or else toughening it out and triggering further raids.

Ashraf's attempted arrest apart, after a four week hiatus, it's feared last night's proceedings is a harbinger for worst to come. ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / education Wednesday May 12, 2010 - 01:13 by Professor Ahern NUIM.   text 9 comments (last - tuesday may 18, 2010 - 14:18)
Only weeks after Bill Cullen dismissed Irish young people as lazy and almost allergic to work, telling us that we should be working for free, this gem arrives in the email inbox of every student in Maynooth. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday May 11, 2010 - 21:20 by skynews   text 12 comments (last - thursday may 13, 2010 - 17:17)   image 3 images
Sky news reports that protesters have stormed Irish parliament. ... read full story / add a comment
IPSC anti-Veolia vigil outside Dublin City Hall this evening as the vote was being taken
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 10, 2010 - 23:44 by Kevin   text 8 comments (last - saturday may 15, 2010 - 02:17)   image 5 images
The international Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement today scored a major victory as Dublin City Council passed a resolution calling on the City Manager not to sign or renew any contracts with French multinational Veolia[1] – the operators of the LUAS who have also tendered for the Metro North project[2]. Veolia operate Israeli rail, bus and waste services in the illegally occupied West Bank, making them complicit in Israel’s contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Indeed, Veolia has a direct involvement in building the infrastructure of apartheid in Israel/Palestine. ... read full story / add a comment
INTO members give the Croke park Deal the Red card!
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday May 10, 2010 - 22:53 by INTO Vote NO   image 1 image
Members of the ‘INTO Vote No’ Campaign gathered outside Croke Park today ) to call on members of their union, the Irish National Teachers Organisation, and other public sector unions to reject the Croke Park deal in the ballot currently underway.
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday May 09, 2010 - 21:49 by Paula Geraghty   text 33 comments (last - sunday may 08, 2011 - 16:39)   image 22 images   video 1 video file
Huyndreds of mostly young working class kids came out to protest and demand that using cannabis is decriminalised. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday May 09, 2010 - 20:27 by Green syndicalist   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 08, 2011 - 19:50)
A Trilateral Commission Dublin AGM report from Temple Bar,
& some ideas on what we can do.

Reports here are being done with very little sleep,alot of stress & need of a pint,
apologies for any bad punctuation, etc in this or previous articles
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national / miscellaneous Sunday May 09, 2010 - 18:10 by SF   text 8 comments (last - tuesday may 11, 2010 - 13:39)   video 1 video file
Sinn Féin launches new animated YouTube video on head shops ... read full story / add a comment
Children's shoes were placed in front of a memorial banner to remember the children of Palestine
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday May 08, 2010 - 19:27 by Fintan Lane   image 5 images
A large number of Palestine solidarity activists and supporters gathered at the Spire on O'Connell Street in Dublin today to remember the children of Palestine who were killed and injured since the Nakba began in 1948. Children's shoes were laid symbolically on the ground in front of an evocative memorial banner featuring the handprints of children.

The event was organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) and the first in its programme of Nakba Week events (see links on front page of indymedia for further details or go to www.ipsc.ie). ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday May 08, 2010 - 01:13 by IshtarCelt   text 12 comments (last - wednesday november 17, 2010 - 18:40)
Elaine Boyle, socialist, feminist, revolutionary, writer, and poet from Drimnagh, sadly and suddenly passed away last week. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 07, 2010 - 23:29 by Patricia McKenna   text 12 comments (last - saturday may 15, 2010 - 16:45)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
As the Trilateral Commission meet in Ireland this weekend political campaigners have made a call on for the media report on the issue and let us the public know what is going on there - and most of all who is attending this behind closed doors meeting which is being kept secret and protected at taxpayers expense. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 05, 2010 - 19:26 by Eoin O L   text 3 comments (last - thursday july 29, 2010 - 14:41)   image 3 images   video 2 video files
On the 21st April in Ballina Circuit Court, Shell to Sea campaigner Niall Harnett was sentenced to 6 months in jail, for an assault on Garda Hugh Egan on Glengad beach. Defence barrister Leo Mulrooney summed it up, without correction from the judge, that the incident was “as close to a technical offence as possible”. Essentially Niall Harnett was found guilty of assault of a Garda for putting his hand on Garda Egan while Garda Egan was pulling out of a fellow protestor (myself), whose leg was caught on Shell’s illegally constructed fencing.
At a previous appeal sitting of the Circuit Court, Mr Harnett had been given 240 hours community service in lieu of the 6 month jail sentence, however he refused to do the community service, and so received the 6 months. ... read full story / add a comment
IPSC Chair Dr David Landy tells assembled supporters about the intervention in the AGM
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 05, 2010 - 19:09 by Fintan Lane   text 7 comments (last - thursday may 06, 2010 - 13:00)   image 12 images   video 1 video file
Palestine Dominates CRH AGM at the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire
Today, Wednesday 5th May, a large number of Palestine solidarity activists staged a demonstration outside the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Irish multinational CRH, while concerned shareholders inside asked serious and pointed questions about the role of the Irish cement company in supplying construction materials being used in the building of Israel’s apartheid Separation Wall and in illegal settlements in Palestine.

CRH has a 25% stake in the Israeli Mashav group, which acts as a holding company for Israel’s sole cement producer, Nesher.
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