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national / racism & migration related issues Friday January 28, 2005 - 17:26 by Maria
 11 comments (last - monday january 31, 2005 - 18:57)
“The Government has not done enough to accept multicultural society”, said Benedicta Attoh, Louth African Women’s Support Group representative at the Anti-Racism Report release last week in Dublin. The Non Government Organisation (NGO) Alliance Shadow Report has been launched in response to a perceived failure of the Government to address immigration issues. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday January 28, 2005 - 11:45 by 30 Years Ago
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Interesting story about how British repeatedly denied they used the gas Dibenzoxazepine (10 times stronger than tear gas) in Long Kesh in 1974. (Posting it here as the original site containing the report is subscription based) ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Thursday January 27, 2005 - 23:20 by reclaim the planet!
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Today President Lula addressed thousands of activists in social movements in Brazil, and through them millions more across the globe. And he got jeered by the impatient. You'll get that. We live in the time of soundbytes. & translators. & interpreters. & thinktanks. & billionaire philanthropist pacifists with major stock in arms corps and undeclared interests in narcotic routes and the fine post-graduates who work for them spinning tissues of deceit and benovelance. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Thursday January 27, 2005 - 10:44 by Noise Hacker
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 26, 2005 - 16:29 by Jon Glackin
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The Rachel Corrie Rebuilding Campaign in Gaza has been nominated for a GlobalGiving.com competition. http://www.globalgiving.com/cb/gpf/...0/proj929a.html ... read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech Wednesday January 26, 2005 - 10:11 by iosaf mac d
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# diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough) measles, tuberculosis, and polio. These are the illnesses you ought to have been immunised against as a child or as a teenager if you're female. With the exception of tuberculosis these desiese are now controlled in the developed world. TB is returning and TB treatment centres are found in most eastern US cities and many European cities. I'll write about the new forms of TB in the fourth of this series. # hepatitis B # Hib # yellow fever are desieses against which many millions of children in the non developed world need vaccines. Yesterday, the Gates foundation gave 750 million$ to GAVI the global vaccine alliance. The donation was immediately supported by the state of Norway which gave $290 million, and this morning the UK has committed a further 750mil$ (=£400m) . These are comitments of annual support until the year 2015. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 25, 2005 - 11:53 by Elvert Barnes
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On Wednesday afternoon, 29 December 2004 Dorothy Day Catholic Workers of Washington DC and Jonah House of Baltimore, Maryland held a 'Faith Resistance' in front of the White House in protest against the Iraq war resulting in several arrests. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 25, 2005 - 00:27 by defend padraigin drinan
Law Society cannot be allowed to succeed in long running campaign to silence human rights solicitor ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday January 24, 2005 - 20:31 by Paul Kinsella
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Not sure whether you're aware of this, but it looks like something major is about to erupt in the SDS! Apparently it’s over the planned relocation of the SDS to Portlaoise. Just to let you know that the company have started suspending Sorters in SDS and the next move is the Drivers, I will keep you informed. These are the latest developments in the SDS. A rapidly exploding situation. All the late staff have now been suspended. Watch this space! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 24, 2005 - 11:24 by W.Witness
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The israeli military forces awakened the sleeping Palestinian in Nablus and took their young men naked into an known destiny ... read full story / add a comment
derry / crime and justice Friday January 21, 2005 - 15:09 by Shane OCurry
3 comments (last - monday january 24, 2005 - 22:14)
A Derry man who had refused the subpoena by British judge Lord Saville's enquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings was arrested on Wednesday. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 20, 2005 - 18:30 by redjade
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national / environment Wednesday January 19, 2005 - 13:57 by draoi
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The real life and land of Reilly emerges ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Wednesday January 19, 2005 - 00:17 by Wastewatcher
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With the attempt of Dublin City Council to impose a policy of non-collection of bins of those who owe bin tax arrears the Bin Tax war has entered a phase of renewed conflict. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 18, 2005 - 14:13 by Pit Stop Ploughshares Defence
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Before the illegal invasion & bombing of Iraq, five members of the pacifist Catholic Worker movement made their way into Shannon Airport & non-violently disarmed a US Navy Warplane in the early hours of Feb 3rd. 2003. The Pit Stop Ploughshares, Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop, Karen Fallon, Damien Moran & Ciaron O'Reilly have spent 4-11 weeks in Limerick Prison & two years on bail. They go to trial at Dublin's Four Courts on March 7th. They are charged with 2 counts of criminal damage 100euro & $US2million. They face a maximum of ten years imprisonment, if convicted. They need your active solidarity over the next 8 weeks! ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Monday January 17, 2005 - 21:58 by nick watson
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The World's Richest People The Top Ten Billionaires ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Monday January 17, 2005 - 16:43 by Vincent
We need people in Dublin on Wednesday to assist the public in making submissions to the Environment Committee and the Minister, Dick Roche. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Sunday January 16, 2005 - 20:25 by www.ck-la.tk
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Patryk Cichoń, an antifascist from Stalowa Wola (south-eastern Poland) and an animator of the RASH (Red & Anarchist Skinheads) group there was convicted to three years in jail for alleged beating and robbery. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / arts and media Sunday January 16, 2005 - 14:22 by Text: Terry Photos: Hanna
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A new literary website Transformation was recently launched by the Arts Office of NUI, Galway, it features a collection of tales of terror and lyrical poetry by scottish/irish dissident writer Rab Swannock Fulton. The website is here: http://frink.nuigalway.ie/~rab/ ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday January 16, 2005 - 11:29 by Observer
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One of Ireland's leading think-tanks have released two new reports, on the issue of Famine and Belarus. ... read full story / add a comment |
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