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On Saturday August 22nd members of IFPAL (Irish Friends of Palestine Against Lisbon) and Free Palestine Campaign spent 10 hours on the streets of Galway city providing information on why IFPAL is calling for a No vote in the Lisbon referendum as a protest against the EU's support for Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people. Almost 1000 leaflets were distributed to passersby, who were mostly supportive. The demonstration was joined in solidarity by a stalwart of the Shell to Sea Campaign, Naoise Ó Mongáin. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday August 21, 2009 - 16:31 by Contaminated Crow
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Four masts, a windfarm, a climate camp, an airport, a piggery, powerlines, a helipad, turfcutting and prospecting for oil off Kerry ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 20, 2009 - 22:52 by Daithi Byrne
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Dublin Ógra Shinn Féin protested today against the arrival of the British naval vessel the HMS Mersey (P283) in Dublin Port. The vessel, which is armed with a 20mm cannon and two machine guns arrived in Dublin yesterday morning and is due to leave on Thursday at 0600. Dublin Ógra Shinn Féin spokesperson Daithi Byrne said; ''This ship is representative of the same navy that is responsible for occupation and oppression across the globe. We are here today to tell the British Navy that there are not welcome in Ireland and to show our opposition to the display of British force. The open arm welcoming of this ship by the Government is insensitive and unacceptable.'' ... read full story / add a comment 
offaly / environment Wednesday August 19, 2009 - 00:17 by Climate Camper
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Climate campers of all ages at Shannonbridge took a direct action this morning Aug. 18th, on a nearby bog by filling in trenches that are used to drain the bog for cutting. The peaceful demonstrations lasted 2 hours with police curiously onlooking at the hard working activists. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / eu Tuesday August 18, 2009 - 22:05 by Michael Gallagher
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Today at UNITE Hall and Liberty Hall, the CAEUC held a press conference and official public launch of the No to Lisbon campaign. Same Treaty - Same Answer -NO to LISBON. Article to follow. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Tuesday August 18, 2009 - 20:37 by Bike are great!
Bicycle repair classes & Bike Workshop in Seomra Spraoi ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday August 18, 2009 - 17:27 by madam k
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Ireland has some of the world’s most important bogs. Peatlands comprise almost a fifth of Ireland’s land cover, and lock away a massive 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon. They are also home to around half our endangered bird species and around a quarter of endangered plant species. Peat bogs are amazingly efficient carbon sponges. A healthy bog typically stores 10 times more carbon per hectare than any other system, including forests. Peatland protection, according to the UN Environment Programme is “among the most cost-effective options for mitigating climate change”. Damage to peat bogs is now producing the equivalent of over a tenth of total global fossil-fuel emissions. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Tuesday August 18, 2009 - 15:30 by Optimist
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Shell has published a public notice as part of its application for a Foreshore Licence in respect of the revised Corrib Gas pipeline route in the Examiner 18th August 2009, p.33. Public submissions are allowable for a period of 2 months from this date. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous Tuesday August 18, 2009 - 10:36 by éirígí pro
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Over 100 people attended éirígí events marking the 100th anniversary of Fianna Éireann over the weekend in Dublin city centre, the historical birthplace of the youth movement. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Tuesday August 18, 2009 - 00:25 by iosaf
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The US National Security Archive has in the last hours presented unto us its National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 282.”. There is both tension & worry in the two South American states with the largest and best equipped military forces, Chile & Brazil at the decision of Colombia to host 7 US bases as reaction to the decision by Ecuador not to renew the US lease on its “Manta base. In the last week the 6th democratically elected president of Brazil, Lula called for a meeting with Obama to discuss the US bases and said "the climate of unease disturbs me". Indeed the Brazilian government had already refused US overtones to use its base at Recife. I really think a considered glimpse at these new declassified files might be of interest to readers As such this article on the 6th Brazilian military dictatorship figurehead and Nixon follows my text yesterday entitled “The new Latin American century, FARC, arms races, US bases & sundry fibs”. ... read full story / add a comment 
offaly / education Monday August 17, 2009 - 18:32 by Bob Wilson
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Climate Camp is up and running at Shannonbridge, Co.Offaly - started Saturday 15th August and goes on til Sunday 23rd August. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Monday August 17, 2009 - 11:22 by Joe Mooney
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Supporters of striking Dublin dockers picket Deutsche Bank, linked to dispute. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday August 15, 2009 - 15:11 by Contaminated Crow
Ex-workers to protest at Corrib, four masts, two quarries, an incinerator, a power station, an ESB sub-station, powerlines and a pulp mill ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / animal rights Friday August 14, 2009 - 23:30 by ARAN
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Animal Rights Action Network staged a highly visual and lively demonstration outside the offices of Department of Environment in Dublin to call on Green Party minister, John Gormley not to renew hare coursing license for the upcoming season and to ban the bloodsport outright. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights Friday August 14, 2009 - 15:11 by Thomas Janak
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ARAN, the animal rights action network, staged an anti hare coursing protest on Thursday, August 13th 2009. Thomas Janak from WILD TIME joined the event. The footage features interviews with supporters icluding artist Tracey O' Neill, Model Susan Macabe and Helena Le-Mahieu from ASH. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Thursday August 13, 2009 - 23:20 by Angel
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Niall Harnett will appear at the High Court at Cloverhill in Dublin, Monday 17th August at 11.00am, in order to appeal the extremely restrictive bail terms which were applied to him at Belmullet Court on Thursday, 30th July. Niall is currently serving two consecutive four month jail terms at Castlerea Prison for his part in legitimate acts of civil disobedience and protest against the Corrib Gas Project. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / eu Thursday August 13, 2009 - 21:10 by TD
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Yesterday morning, in a pantomine the wrong side of Christmas that elicited mirth, bemusement, alarm and some head scratching from passersby but which outraged an IFPAL activist watching over his charge, two Galway City Council workmen, shovel in hand, boarded a stage prop in the shape of an old pontoon in Claddagh Quay and as if the water were a potato drill, dug and shovelled their way out to the raft; MV IFPAL 2 - proudly displaying two large placards urging voters of conscience to Vote No in the Lisbon referendum. Resisting advice, shouted from the quayside, to give up their 'aul sins, behave in decent fashion and leave our raft be, a stickler for duty, one of Galway City Councils' Quaystone Cops, instead ... ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 12, 2009 - 01:08 by Emma Clancy
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The Don't Extradite the Basques Campaign held a very successful conference on political persecution in the Basque Country on Saturday August 8 in An Chultúrlann in west Belfast as part of the annual Féile an Phobail (Festival of the People). Julen Arzuaga, a lawyer from Behatokia, the Basque Observatory of Human Rights, travelled from the Basque Country to speak at the conference, which also heard from Iñaki de Juana and Arturo Beñat Villanueva, two Belfast-based Basque activists who are fighting extradition charges by the Spanish government. Colleen Gildernew from Kevin Winters Solicitors, the firm representing both men, outlined the legal efforts to defeat the extradition charges. Introducing the conference, veteran republican activist Danny Morrison ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday August 11, 2009 - 12:51 by Niamh Rooney
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Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested and charged with breach of the terms of house arrest in May 2009, just days before her current term of house arrest was due to end. The lengthy trial has now ended and the Nobel Peace Prize winner has been found guilty and sentenced to three years jail and hard labour. However, in a move surely aimed at avoiding international sanctions, Home Affairs minister General Maung Oo said outside the court that military ruler Than Shwe had signed a special order suspending the sentence and ordered that Suu Kyi should spend 18 months under house arrest. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday August 10, 2009 - 23:24 by Michael Gallagher
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A large crowd of 200-300, made up mainly of families and workers from North and South city dockland communities, showed their support for the sriking dockers today in Dublin. Marching from the East Wall/North Wall and Ringsend/Irishtown, the meeting point for the supporters was the Point Depot Bridge from where they marched united to the gates of the Marine Terminal Limited. ... read full story / add a comment |
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