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clare / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 12, 2010 - 00:45 by John Lannon   text 14 comments (last - friday january 22, 2010 - 16:55)   image 1 image
On January 10th eight people braved the cold conditions at Shannon to highlight the broken promises of the US president and the Irish government over Guantanamo and renditions. Shannon airport is known to have facilitated the illegal US rendition programme and may even continue to do so. ... read full story / add a comment
This is when the JCB driver started breaking the ice while the boys were still out there skating..
cork / miscellaneous Monday January 11, 2010 - 15:18 by Hilary Quinn   text 32 comments (last - saturday january 16, 2010 - 22:48)   image 5 images
On Sunday 10th January at approximately 6pm, 4 ice-skaters were almost left stranded on a breaking sheet of ice by Gardai. ... read full story / add a comment
Nawal
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday January 11, 2010 - 11:18 by TD   text 11 comments (last - sunday january 17, 2010 - 14:29)   image 18 images   video 5 video files
Every Saturday afternoon, Israeli colonists some tooled up with M-16's venture forth from their fortified "settlements" to swagger through the souk in Hebron's Old City for a so called "heritage tour", heavily guarded by Israeli Occupation Forces, some as snipers on the roof tops, they strut through the narrow market spitting at, abusing and threatening all who meet their displeasure which in their virulently paranoid view of things, means just about everyone on this planet and such was the case last Saturday where one souk trader; Nawal, was spat at and threatened. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday January 11, 2010 - 07:30 by Rose Kelleher
This is a story about problems of security faced by former members of the royal Nepali family. A former princess was threatened and the perpetrators are being brought to justice in Kathmandu This article covers the details of the court case. ... read full story / add a comment
Irish brutality in Britain's army in India - an indian view CLICK TO READ
mayo / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 09, 2010 - 20:20 by Harry Wells   text 9 comments (last - thursday january 21, 2010 - 13:40)   image 5 images
Michael Feeney is becoming an M-MBE for organising a war park that is called, not surprisingly, a ‘peace’ park. It celebrates soldiers who helped put down India’s first fight for independence, and who fought and died in the British and US armies. It is a celebration of those who killed people struggling for their freedom against imperialism and colonialism.

The only qualification the killers meet is having been born in Ireland. Feeney's Member of the British Empire (MBE) medal also states, 'For God and the Empire.'
... read full story / add a comment
The Derry Anti War Coalition is calling for people to come out in solidarity on Monday
derry / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 09, 2010 - 15:22 by shane ocurry   text 1 comment (last - monday january 11, 2010 - 14:54)   image 1 image
14 Derry people are being arraigned at Derry Crown Court, this Monday, 11 January. The proceedings are to take place one day short of the anniversary of the action on 12 January 2009 during which 9 women barricaded themselves into Raytheon’s Derry plant in protest at the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza strip, during which over 1400 Palestinians, including 320 children, were killed. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 08, 2010 - 22:32 by anarkitty   text 1 comment (last - thursday january 14, 2010 - 10:01)   image 1 image
On 3rd January 2010, Mary Daly moved once and for all beyond the "imprisoning mental, physical, emotional and spiritual walls of the State of Possession" as she described consensual reality in the bio at the beginning of "Quintessence... Realizing the Archaic Future a Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto" (her penultimate book) ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media Friday January 08, 2010 - 16:46 by DCTV   text 1 comment (last - friday january 08, 2010 - 17:42)   video 1 video file
Over the past week we’ve moved forward light years ahead in terms of our capability to deliver information on our programming. As well as our monthly schedules that detail the content and play out times of our programme blocks, we now offer a daily schedule which breaks down and provides exact information on all our programming. On this page you’ll also find links to online versions of our programming and more information where it is available.

Monthly schedule: http://www.dctv.ie/main/?page_id=75
Daily schedule: http://www.dctv.ie/main/?page_id=1349
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One of the casualties of the airstrike
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 08, 2010 - 16:19 by Kev   text 3 comments (last - sunday january 10, 2010 - 06:23)   image 5 images
The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) has learned that all international members, including the Irish participants, of the Viva Palestina aid convoy safely left Gaza this afternoon and are in Egypt. Reports are just coming in that all convoy members have been escorted to the airport in Cairo and are facing de facto deportation and black-listing. There were fears for their safety last night after reports emerged from Gaza that Israeli air-strikes had struck up to seven locations in the Gaza Strip. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday January 08, 2010 - 08:42 by John Hurson   text 1 comment (last - friday january 08, 2010 - 16:51)
Report on the "Viva Palestina Humanitarian Aid Convoy".
On Wednesday January 6th, 2010, 517 volunteers in 200 vehicles delivered humanitarian aid to the stricken region of Gaza.
Despite many obstacles, they completed their journey which started out from London on December 6th. ... read full story / add a comment
Israeli Airforce strikes Gaza
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 08, 2010 - 00:19 by Freda H and Fintan Lane   text 4 comments (last - friday january 08, 2010 - 17:01)   image 5 images
There are fears tonight for the safety of several Irish people who entered Gaza yesterday with the Viva Palestina aid convoy. Reports have just reached the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) from both official Palestinian and Israeli sources that the area is under attack by Israeli warplanes. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday January 07, 2010 - 17:41 by tomeile   text 2 comments (last - friday january 08, 2010 - 08:58)
Police arrested Slovak national, Stefan Gonda, on Tuesday after he had unwittingly brought plastic explosives into Ireland three days earlier on a plane. He was later released without charge . The pilot of the Danube Wings plane had been informed before take off from Poprad-Tatry airport in eastern Slovakia that the explosive material was on board , but decided to carry on with the plane’s scheduled flight .
Slovak chief of border police Tibor Mako said the explosives had been attached to the straps of the man's backpack “to test security at Slovakia’s Poprad-Tatry Airport.” ... read full story / add a comment
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clare / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 07, 2010 - 15:47 by Kev   text 1 comment (last - friday january 08, 2010 - 12:05)   image 1 image
Report by Grainne V: On December 31st 2009, 18 people gathered together on Scarriff Bridge to remember the over 1,400 Palestinians in Gaza who were killed by the Israeli Army last year and to stand in solidarity with the survivors of that attack, cynically named 'Operation Cast Lead'. We were one of many groups nationwide who met on bridges around the country at the same time as 1,400 internationals attempted to cross into Gaza through the Rafah crossing from Egypt bringing much-needed aid and solidarity. ... read full story / add a comment
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down / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday January 07, 2010 - 12:03 by MH   text 6 comments (last - saturday january 09, 2010 - 14:11)   image 4 images
Fujitsu workers in the North have begun 3 days of strike action in opposition to a massive assault by bosses on conditions. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 06, 2010 - 17:04 by Fintan Lane
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) has learned in the past few minutes that the Gaza aid convoy is finally at the Rafah crossing in Egypt and will cross into Gaza this evening.

... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 06, 2010 - 15:09 by Kev   image 3 images
# Viva Palestina Convoy, including Irish citizens, attacked by police in Egypt

# Over 40 activists injured, including 6 Irish / seven arrested

# Convoy due to reach Gaza later today, after deal ... read full story / add a comment
Photo: Hamde Abu Rahma
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 06, 2010 - 14:29 by TD   text 1 comment (last - thursday january 07, 2010 - 00:31)   image 5 images   video 2 video files
At Dawn today, some 35 to 40 Israeli Occupation Forces in 6 jeeps and a troop carrier raided the home of Rani Ayub in the West Bank village of Bil'in: there were no arrests as Rani was arrested four weeks ago in his home and has been held, incommunicado, since then in the notorious Mascobia (Russian Compound) police/interrogation center in West Jerusalem with no family visits, access to lawyers or even a charge. Iyad Burnat, head of Bil'in's Popular Committee say's the occupation soldiers were on a trawling exercise, seeking documentation and Rani Ayub's mobile phone. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 06, 2010 - 08:32 by TD   text 3 comments (last - wednesday january 06, 2010 - 12:16)
These are the contents of two emails from Alice Howard of Viva Palestina

6:50am UK, Wednesday January 06, 2010
James Jordan, Sky News Online
Controversial MP George Galloway has been involved in scuffles with Egyptian police as a group of pro-Palestinian activists tried to get a relief convoy into the Gaza Strip.

According to medics 55 people were injured after the 520 activists broke down the gate at the port in El-Arish to protest against an Egyptian decision to ship some of the goods through Israel.

They blocked the two entrances to the Sinai port with vehicles and clashed with police who used water cannon to control the protests.

... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 05, 2010 - 23:40 by THE DIGGER   image 4 images
AND YOU THOUGHT IT WAS THE SEASON OF GOODWILL !.............AND THE ZIONIST KILLING MACHINE SAW IT AS AN OPEN SEASON ON CIVILLIANS! ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 05, 2010 - 22:58 by KSI
On December 24th, more than 80 people related to the BDP (Peace and Democracy Party), as well as human rights defenders and members of NGO’s were arrested across Turkey ... read full story / add a comment
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