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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday July 14, 2009 - 22:11 by Paula Geraghty   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 15, 2009 - 09:45)   image 4 images
On Monday 13th July at 1pm the People Before Profit Alliance organised a protest in support of 13 contract cleaners who were unlawfully dismissed by the private contractor in the Custom House. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday July 14, 2009 - 19:51 by Contaminated Crow   text 2 comments (last - friday july 17, 2009 - 11:02)
A telemast, an incinerator, a waste treatment plant, turfcutting rights and sewage sludge spreading ... read full story / add a comment
Cllr Brid Smith (PBPA) speaking at  protest at HSE over the cuts
dublin / miscellaneous Tuesday July 14, 2009 - 15:26 by PBPA   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 15, 2009 - 09:46)   image 1 image
People Before Profit Councillor Brid Smith and patients’ families learned today from the HSE in Cherryorchard Hospital that the controversial decision to close the Beech Unit has been reversed. The Beech Unit will remain open for the foreseeable future. This has been the result of a magnificent campaign by the families who care for the patients and the local community ... read full story / add a comment
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derry / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 13, 2009 - 19:54 by Free Derry Activists   text 18 comments (last - tuesday july 21, 2009 - 15:04)   image 65 images
A make shift camp was created at Free Derry Corner earlier today in Derry's Bogside as a gesture of international solidarity with the continued Israeli Policy of wide spread house evictions.

Activists also held a street collection in an effort to raise money for Derry - Gaza Medical Aid Convoy currently being organised by the Derry Anti War Coalition who will be taking part in an international convoy to Palestine this coming October.

Several hundred information leaflets were also distributed to passers by on today's world wide event of which Derry played an important role. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous Sunday July 12, 2009 - 21:20 by Jio   text 9 comments (last - monday august 17, 2009 - 17:06)   image 2 images
Founded in 1977, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) is the oldest political organization active in Afghanistan. Its' priority is the establishment of a democratic and secular regime, based on the self-determination of the Afghan people and the recognition of the rights of women [1]. RAWA conducts clandestine educational operations. The activists are constantly at risk and thus act under cover of humanitarian action. However, RAWA is 'not a humanitarian organization', and its social activism is driven by political goals.

As part of a lecture tour in February, Alternative Libertaire had the opportunity to speak with one of its activists, Zoya. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday July 12, 2009 - 15:54 by Visteon Occupation supporter
Visteon Corp., which moved last week to cut off retiree health-care benefits, has asked a bankruptcy judge to authorize up to $80 million in management and insider bonuses. ... read full story / add a comment
fermanagh / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 11, 2009 - 20:01 by Le Chéile Saor   text 6 comments (last - tuesday july 14, 2009 - 01:24)
I.R.A Continue To Resist Occupation. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 10, 2009 - 20:00 by TD   text 1 comment (last - monday august 03, 2009 - 17:04)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
Irish Friends of Palestine Against Lisbon (IFPAL) is an organisation founded in June 2009 to call for a No vote in the imminent second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, on the grounds that the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) is inimical to the interests of the Palestinian people and detrimental to Ireland's relationship with the Arab and Islamic world.

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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday July 10, 2009 - 17:56 by Al Giordano, General Joe, and jamie   text 3 comments (last - saturday july 11, 2009 - 19:52)
"No, it's not parody. Rather, it's instructive of the state of mind of the coup defenders. (You can see it in repeated online comments on Twitter and elsewhere attacking Organization of American States chairman Jose Miguel Insulza because he was part of the elected Allende government before Allende was assassinated by Pinochet's forces.) They see the Pinochet coup of 36 years ago as a heroic act, and long for the bad old days when they could simply stamp out democratic will by rounding all dissenters into a stadium and assassinating more than 3,000 in a single week, which is what happened after September 11, 1973 in Santiago de Chile.
It is another proof positive that they are trying to start that ball rolling all over again throughout the hemisphere. And it demonstrates exactly why not a single government in América or in the entire world recognizes their illegitimate regime." ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Friday July 10, 2009 - 13:39 by Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC)   image 2 images
MANILA, Philippines. Members of the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) staged a protest action in front of the World Bank office here today to demand the total and unconditional cancellation of all debts it is claiming from the Philippines and developing nations. The protest action coincided with the opening of the Group of Eight Nations’ (G8) 35th Summit in Italy which sets among its agenda the development of a comprehensive response to the global economic crisis.

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national / education Friday July 10, 2009 - 10:17 by Vincent O'Malley   text 2 comments (last - friday july 10, 2009 - 20:44)   image 1 image
On RTE news on 18/5/09, Mary Hanafin stated, in her usual Orwellian fashion, that the Department of Social and Family Affairs (DSFA) had now provided a financial incentive to encourage those under 20 to go into training or education. This ’financial incentive’ involved cutting the dole to €100 per week for new claimants under the age of 20. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / racism & migration related issues Friday July 10, 2009 - 01:42 by Residents Against Racism   text 3 comments (last - sunday june 01, 2014 - 20:46)   image 5 images
As the Dáil drew to a close, a group of Irish citizen children gathered to deliver a heartfelt message to Minister Dermot Ahern: please don't send our daddies away.

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Protesters wall off the embassy gate, while Diarmuid recites his poem.
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 09, 2009 - 23:00 by Freda   text 4 comments (last - friday july 10, 2009 - 10:12)   image 13 images   video 1 video file
Today, Thursday 9th July, about 50 members and supporters of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) held a loud and lively two hour demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy in Ballsbridge. Protesters chanted pro-Palestinian slogans and formed a ‘human wall’ at the gates of the embassy to symbolise the Apartheid Wall under construction by the Israeli government in the West Bank since 2002. Gardai informed the organisers that the embassy staff had all been given a half day due to the planned demonstration outside, meaning that the IPSC successfully closed down the embassy for half a day.
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If he is to serve his sentence He will have to live to 116 years. That's longer than Hitler. according to some.
international / crime and justice Thursday July 09, 2009 - 22:51 by iosaf   text 1 comment (last - friday july 10, 2009 - 14:18)   image 2 images
Colonel Luis Arce Gómez was the right hand man of Luis García Meza who headed up the bloody coup d'etat in Bolivia on the 17th of July 1981. His extradition to serve a prison sentence for abuses of human rights and international drug trafficking has long been sought and expected as the least sign that one really can squeeze blood from stones without resorting to magical alchemy or that elusive Nobel prize category of finest plasterers or Quantum brickies.

As of writing this man born in 1938 can only enjoy only sparse internet biographical referential coverage in either Spanish language or English. Though I'm sure we can correct that soon enough. We need to explain so much about the chap who as usurping minister of the interior counted on such luminaries and advisors as the convicted NAZI and ex-SS officer, Klaus Barbie as well as the Italian fascist terrorist, assassin of trade unionists & champion of arch-catholic values Stefano Delle.

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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday July 09, 2009 - 16:50 by Alan MacSimóin   image 1 image
The occupation of the Visteon motor parts factory in Belfast ended on May 3rd when the company gave in and agreed pay extra compensation of between six month’s and nearly two year’s money to the workforce for the loss of their jobs. ... read full story / add a comment
Veteran members of the Catholic Worker movement Jim Dowling and Ciaron O'Reilly prepare to block a major access road to the Talisman Sabre military exercise
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 09, 2009 - 10:47 by Rachael   text 6 comments (last - tuesday july 14, 2009 - 10:23)   image 7 images
Australian Catholic Workers, Jim Dowling and Ciaron O'Reilly were arrested this morning while blocking a major military access road to the Talisman Sabre 09 exercises being held at Shoalwater, central Queensland, Australia. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday July 08, 2009 - 15:13 by Joe Higgins MEP   text 3 comments (last - thursday july 09, 2009 - 08:57)   image 1 image
In this letter from Joe Higgins MEP to Sri Lankan President Rajapakse, Joe condemns the brutal attacks on the Tamil people and journalists , and Rajapakse's governments complicity in this. ... read full story / add a comment
Free Derry Corner in January 2005. Copyleft Jim Collins.
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 08, 2009 - 13:37 by Shane OCurry   text 9 comments (last - sunday july 12, 2009 - 15:05)   image 1 image
Activists from Derry and Donegal have called for people to join in the creation of a “Tent City” at Free Derry Corner, this Monday, 13 July. The family-friendly action is to be in solidarity with Palestinian families whose homes are currently being demolished by the Israeli State. Families and individuals have been asked to come to Free Derry Corner between 11 am and 2pm on Monday, and pitch a tent if they have one. The area is to be cordoned off, in order to create a child-friendly space. ... read full story / add a comment
international / health / disability issues Wednesday July 08, 2009 - 10:54 by Sevinch Karaca
In recent weeks, EI member organisation Egitim-Sen and the Confederation of Public Employees’ Unions (KESK) .. have suffered a series of attacks by the Turkish authorities, including the occupation and searches of the trade union premises by the security forces, arrest and preventive detention of trade union leaders and the use of excessive violence by the police against teachers demonstrating peacefully (...) On 29 May 2009, EI, together with the ITUC, wrote to the Turkish Government to protest against these anti-union attacks. Egitim-Sen and KESK received support from many trade union organisations around the world. However the authorities disregarded the international appeals to stop the attacks. Join EI in our appeal to stop the attacks on trade unions! There are currently still 22 Egitim-Sen and KESK officials in detention, including the women secretaries of both organisations. Go to www.ei-ie.org/turkey to read/sign Urgent Action Appeal..
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