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international / arts and media Thursday March 05, 2009 - 18:15 by Laois Man   text 17 comments (last - wednesday january 06, 2016 - 22:34)   image 1 image
What is happening?

IRMA, the Irish Recorded Music Association, wants to block Irish Internet users' access to certain websites. They have written letters to Irish Internet providers telling them, under threat of legal action, to allow IRMA to tell them what websites to block. Eircom has already agreed to this. They will settle every application for website blocking out of court. No sites have been blocked yet. We have limited time to act before the bans are set.

A copy of the letter sent out to Irish ISPs has been kindly made available by Michele Neylon of Blacknight Solutions. Read it here. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Thursday March 05, 2009 - 01:36 by Conor.M   text 21 comments (last - friday april 24, 2009 - 07:50)
The new group formed in Swords called SEED is a social group set up to facilitate different opinions and to introduce alternative and radical ideas for 'newcomers' to activism.

In a town like Swords, which has been disgustingly overdeveloped with no social facilities, it is important for young people interested in taking control of their lives to come together to share their experiences and ideas to re-establish a sense of community and to work together to make a better and more sustainable society for all. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday March 05, 2009 - 00:36 by CNTista   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 05, 2009 - 19:34)


A brief statement from the CNT, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union, about a conflict with Ryanair.

The CNT declares a Conflict at Ryanair-Zaragoza ... read full story / add a comment
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meath / environment Wednesday March 04, 2009 - 14:04 by TD   text 28 comments (last - tuesday march 10, 2009 - 23:49)   image 16 images   video 2 video files
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 04, 2009 - 00:28 by Kev   text 3 comments (last - friday march 06, 2009 - 11:44)   image 5 images
On Tuesday 3rd March members and supporters of the Irish Anti War Movement and Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign staged a symbolic hour long protest at the Eircom HQ on Military Road in Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
tyrone / anti-capitalism Tuesday March 03, 2009 - 11:00 by Workers Solidarity   text 2 comments (last - tuesday march 03, 2009 - 16:59)
There is no money left, it’s all gone. At least that’s what you might think after listening to Peter Robinson, Caitriona Ruane, and the parade of capitalist economists and pundits who parrot this nonsense. Yes, we are heading into a deep recession but guess who is expected to pay the cost? ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday March 02, 2009 - 22:17 by Internationalist   video 1 video file
Ógra Shinn Féin recently (17 – 19 Feb) attended an International Festival in Corsica. The Scontri Internaziunali, was organised by youth movement Ghjuventú Indipendentista, and held in Corte, the historic Capital of the Corsican Nation.

The festival was organised to celebrate the diversity of culture, language and heritage in small occupied nations, and the various movement’s struggle for emancipation and freedom. ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Monday March 02, 2009 - 16:47 by J.Carax   text 3 comments (last - tuesday march 03, 2009 - 01:06)
Free Education for Everyone held its first National Conference on Saturday, January 31st. Over forty student activists traveled from UCD, TCD, Maynooth, Galway, Limerick and Cork. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / gender and sexuality Monday March 02, 2009 - 14:59 by amnesty1   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 04, 2009 - 15:46)   image 1 image
8,000 girls are mutilated every single day around the world.

You can help make it stop.

Log on to http://www.amnesty.ie/endfgm ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Monday March 02, 2009 - 12:03 by Andrew Flood & Ashanti Alston   text 2 comments (last - monday march 02, 2009 - 16:08)   image 1 image   audio 2 audio files
US Anarchist Ashanti Alston who is speaking at the Anarchist Bookfair in Dublin this March 7th has spent that last few days speaking at meetings in Cork and Galway and hanging out with anarchists in Dublin. In this interview recorded last night in Kilmainham he talks about his visit to Ireland, the post Seattle anarchist wave in the USA, the formation of Anarchist People Of Color (APOC) the current capitalist crisis and the need to seize the moment. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday March 01, 2009 - 20:02 by TD   text 15 comments (last - thursday march 05, 2009 - 08:48)   image 8 images   video 4 video files
Yesterday, activists with Galway, Free Palestine Campaign in solidarity with Israeli Apartheid Week (1st to 8th March) and in harmony with the "chorus of international opposition to Israeli apartheid and to bolster support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign" manned an informaton table in Shop Street dispensing flyers on what Israeli goods/foodstuffs and their purveyors to boycott and gathering signatures for a petition calling on the Board of Eircom "To exclude from consideration the IBM consortium , which includes the Israeli based company Amdocs, for the soon to be awarded contract to provide your company with a new computer billing system." ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 28, 2009 - 23:58 by Cormac Mac Gall   text 5 comments (last - monday march 02, 2009 - 14:16)   image 5 images
As part of International Solidarity with the Basque Country Week, the Irish Basque Solidarity Committees invited a representative of Kamaradak to speak at a number of venues in Dublin and Belfast. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday February 28, 2009 - 21:35 by Contaminated Crow
A powerline, water extraction, a sewage treatment plant, a telemast, a LNG pipeline, a landfill and a windfarm ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 28, 2009 - 19:21 by Cormac Mac Gall   text 3 comments (last - monday march 09, 2009 - 05:54)   image 6 images
International organisations condemn Spanish use of torture and repression while the Basque movement steps up resistance and calls for international solidarity with its struggle. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday February 27, 2009 - 22:52 by Saoirse   text 2 comments (last - tuesday march 03, 2009 - 15:45)
An open letter to the President of the GAA protesting at the presence of the England Rugby team in Croke Park on Saturday February 28. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Friday February 27, 2009 - 18:20 by stop shell   text 14 comments (last - tuesday march 10, 2009 - 15:59)   image 1 image
Check out Shell's application under Section 40 of the Gas Act and write to Eamon Ryan before the 9th March.

Section 40 Application & Environmental Impact Statement
http://www.corribgaspipeline.com/index.php?page=section-40-application

... read full story / add a comment
The largest act of civil disobedience to happen in the US this Monday!!!
international / environment Friday February 27, 2009 - 17:02 by dunk   text 13 comments (last - thursday march 05, 2009 - 18:29)   image 8 images   video 10 video files   audio 6 audio files
Al Gore: "I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants."

Next Monday The largest act of civil disobedience will happen against global warming in the US. A large protest has been called at a coal-fired plant in Washington, D.C, 11,000 people are expected. In the days leading up to the protest, youth climate activists are organizing a conference called Power Shift ’09. Thousands of student activists plan to lobby lawmakers on Capitol Hill, urging them to rebuild the economy through bold climate and clean energy policy.

Looks like the "climate camp movement" is continuing to grow globally and momentum is building in the lead up to COP15... Ireland too are organising thing for this summer. Also Greenpeace´s "lawful excuse" court battle win might open the flood gates for more direct action... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday February 26, 2009 - 12:27 by ISM Gaza Strip   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 01, 2009 - 17:38)
24th February 2009

Khoza'a, Khan Younis , Gaza Strip: Palestinian farmers, accompanied by international human rights workers, were fired upon by Israeli forces in the village of Khozaa, near Khan Younis, this morning. The farmers and human rights workers were attempting to work on land around 300m from the Green Line.

... read full story / add a comment
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waterford / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 26, 2009 - 11:01 by James McBarron   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
The workers at Waterford Crystal occupying the plant are an example to us all. Rather than accept the closure of the business, the loss of all the jobs and the destruction of the area’s premier industry; workers seized the buildings making liquidation impossible for the receiver. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 26, 2009 - 03:18 by pl
Under the title: The "proconsul" is leaving, but he is continuing with subversion, the newspaper said the mentioned figure has left his post, after enjoying two years of salary, to join Creative Associates International, a company of the gloomy CIA.
... read full story / add a comment
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