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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 26, 2009 - 23:59 by Amnesty International   image 2 images
A group of about 45 people (latest news figure is now 57) were ambushed and abducted by about 100 armed men, according to reports. The military recovered the bodies of 13 women and eight men—some of them mutilated.
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international / arts and media Thursday November 26, 2009 - 23:38 by ERS   text 13 comments (last - sunday december 19, 2010 - 12:07)   image 20 images   audio 2 audio files
RTÉ Primetime Investigates next Thursday is a special on the death of Michael Dwyer.

Dwyer worked for Shell as a security guard in Mayo last year, and while there, made contact with extremists from right-wing militia groups. He joined with a number of these men and spent time in Bolivia, where after an investigation he was killed when police stormed his hotel room. It will be interesting to see what spin RTE will place on the events in Bolivia and Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday November 26, 2009 - 02:38 by Bazooka Joe   text 4 comments (last - friday november 27, 2009 - 15:21)   image 5 images
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Venezuela on Wednesday to meet with President Hugo Chavez. President Ahmadinejad is completing the third part of a successful South American tour where he also had meetings with President Evo Morales of Bolivia and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday November 25, 2009 - 13:57 by DSF   text 14 comments (last - saturday november 28, 2009 - 00:30)   video 1 video file
Sinn Féin workers in Leinster House took a principled decision not to pass the picket lines during yesterday's industrial action. ... read full story / add a comment
Some NUI Maynooth students on the picket line today.
kildare / education Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 21:10 by Donal Fallon- Free Education for Everyone NUI Maynooth   text 11 comments (last - sunday november 29, 2009 - 16:46)   image 6 images   video 1 video file
Solidarity pickets placed on both North and South campuses of NUI Maynooth. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 19:21 by Basque Info   text 2 comments (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 - 11:06)
In the early hours of today 34 Basque pro-independence political activists were arrested and 92 properties were searched by 650 Spanish policemen. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 17:57 by Gregor Kerr   text 9 comments (last - thursday november 26, 2009 - 23:45)   image 1 image
From before 8a.m. this morning, members of the Irish National Teachers Organisation were on the picket line outside the Department of Education and Science in Dublin’s Marlborough Street, alongside Special Needs Assistant colleagues, members of IMPACT, and workers based in the DES building itself, members of SIPTU, CPSU and PSEU. ... read full story / add a comment
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cork / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 12:56 by Cork WSM   text 13 comments (last - thursday november 26, 2009 - 03:58)   image 6 images
Strikes took off across Cork city and county this morning as workers took direct action to stop the Government's attack on wages and conditions. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / animal rights Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 10:16 by Bernie Wright   text 2 comments (last - wednesday august 21, 2013 - 10:00)   image 4 images
The anti-blood sports/anti-greyhound industry book Bad Hare Days has this week moved rapidly up the list of books sold online in Ireland.

John fitzgerald ,one of the organisers of the upcoming Clonmel hare Coursing final demonstration in Feb 2010 said 'Today, (Monday) it is highly placed on the Bestsellers.ie site, in all its categories: biography, Irish history, local history, local Irish history etc.'

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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 23, 2009 - 23:05 by TD   text 4 comments (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 - 14:06)   image 10 images   video 4 video files
Following the temporary withdrawal of the International Solidarity Movement from Hebron due to that organisations difficulty in finding a suitable base there, a number of internationals from the village of Bil'in journeyed down there last week to take up the slack with night patrols, checkpoint monitoring and especially the safeguarding of Palestinian children to and from school from stone throwing, spitting Israeli "settler children and adults. Four in number, we found accomodation in the homes of the Al-Awawi and Egnabi families,previously fire bombed by the colonising "settlers" and illegally evicted but both families still overflowing with the milk of human kindness despite their travails. ... read full story / add a comment
Brian Anson - Architect, Story Teller, Poet, Revolutionary... painting for kids book
national / housing Monday November 23, 2009 - 20:41 by dunk   text 4 comments (last - monday december 21, 2009 - 19:05)   image 5 images   audio 2 audio files
Brian Anson - Architect, Story Teller, Poet, Revolutionary

Inspiration (1934-2009)

Brian Anson passed away over the weekend after being inflicted with a sudden illness.

Audio documentary; Stories of architecture and social struggle with Brian Anson
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/37463 ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday November 23, 2009 - 16:39 by Contaminated Crow
Five masts, a mushroom plant, a waste facility and golf club dunes ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday November 23, 2009 - 11:23 by Alan MacSimóin   text 6 comments (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 - 17:40)
Working people hit the streets in huge numbers on November 6th. The protests showed, once again, that there is a willingness to resist the government’s attacks on living standards. Most observers put the total number who walked out of work to take part in the eight protests at around 100,000. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 22, 2009 - 16:10 by Solidarity   text 5 comments (last - friday june 18, 2010 - 23:12)
On November 16, 1989, an elite unit of the Salvadoran military entered the gates of the Jesuit-run Central American University in San Salvador. When they left, six Jesuit priests lay dead, along with their housekeeper and her teenage daughter.
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Iranian refugees in Greece are denied asylum
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 22, 2009 - 15:29 by Evans   image 1 image
“Hello! Let me introduce myself. I am Mahmeud, one of the Iranian political refugees that United Nations High Committee for the Refugees has already recognized as political refugees at 2006. But, unfortunately, since we entered Greece and applied for asylum from the state, about 2 years ago, we haven’t got any answer yet. That’s why we started hunger strike on 19 October. This is a peaceful protest to show them that we want our rights." ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 22, 2009 - 14:46 by Andrew
A Bolivian state TV broadcast of mobile phone video that appears to show Flores, Dwyer, Arpad etc discussing a missed opportunity to blow up Morala's and his cabanet on Lake Titicaca
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT-ErWIpDC4

A pretty detailed summary of events at http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6178 includes what appears to be this transcript from the video "Shit, if only I had known in time about the government session in Titicaca the other day. I would have sent one of these guys (an image of his comrades Dwyer and Arpak, along with Tadic next to a column, appears) in scuba gear to blow up the boat. Every single last one, every single last one of them was there; not one was missing," Rózsa says with the boastfulness of a leader. "
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international / anti-capitalism Saturday November 21, 2009 - 23:25 by john throne   text 4 comments (last - tuesday march 09, 2010 - 01:38)
The California students at UCLA are using the old methods. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / housing Saturday November 21, 2009 - 21:50 by "Spirit of unity" collective   text 6 comments (last - sunday november 22, 2009 - 14:14)   image 1 image
We are squatters from the Netherlands. We are asking you to organize a protest (for example by dutch embassy) in your country against squatting prohibition in the Netherlands. We suggest to organize your protests between 26 and 28 of November, because Eerste Kamer (First Chamber of dutch parliament) will vote about squatting prohibition beginnig of December.

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cork / miscellaneous Saturday November 21, 2009 - 19:05 by Rebel City   text 7 comments (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 - 00:35)
Water crisis as council relies on shopkeepers ... read full story / add a comment
Foucault's pendulum at the Pantheon in Paris. "still swinging away over the stolen dead - thus turneth our world"
international / history and heritage Saturday November 21, 2009 - 18:59 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 3 comments (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 - 11:08)   image 1 image
The French chattering classes are reacting to the news that Sarkozy wishes to move the body of Albert Camus from his grave in Lourmarin in southern France where he was buried after the car crash which killed the then recently Nobel Laureated writer and his publisher to the Pantheon in Paris where France has collected over 70 "illustrious dead men" and one "radioactive woman". Camus will be the second individual claimed by anarchism to be given a place in the Pantheon following the pacifist and anarchosyndicalist opposer to WW1, Jean Jaures moved there in 1924). Camus would be the first Pantheon resident to have been born in Algeria. His kids don't want him moved at all. However, I see in this a consistent concern I have articulated over the years at how contemporary regimes and society abuse the memory of the dead and use their legacy :-
.:.The Selective & Collective memory : Memory as fetishised community : Communality as fetishised memorial.:. ... read full story / add a comment
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