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international / politics / elections Friday June 05, 2009 - 23:31 by prurience
 7 comments (last - wednesday june 10, 2009 - 06:09)  1 image
The controversial ex-prime minister of the Czech Republic and rotating leader of the EU for most of this year, Mirek Topolanek has responded to the publication of five images taken by a Sardinian journalist's collection of many hundreds at the holiday villa of Italian billionaire, media mogul and prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. The publication of the photographs have provoked legal action from both Berlusconi and Topolanek despite their unprecendent sucess. "El Pais" has issued both English and Italian language editorials and garnered the complete support of the spanish union of journalists. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Friday June 05, 2009 - 17:05 by Sean
6 comments (last - thursday june 25, 2009 - 22:23) 1 attached file
When the Warzone Centre/Giros closed in 2003 a lot of people in Belfast didn’t realise what they’d had until it was gone. Since then different individuals and groups have talked about maybe getting something going again. The will was certainly there but some sort of catalyst was needed and then towards the end of 2007 a few of us discussed resurrecting the Warzone label to bring some of the old bands into the digital age; to document those times but also,more poignantly, we hoped that it would maybe inspire people to get motivated. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / miscellaneous Friday June 05, 2009 - 12:04 by Jen Debender
17 comments (last - saturday june 06, 2009 - 11:17) 16 images
After the afternoon confrontation in Broadhaven Bay which resulted in one man’s arrest and a couple hours of halted work for the dredgers (http://www.indymedia.ie/article/92555), the Shell to Sea fleet of kayaks headed out on the water a second time around 6pm and two protesters managed to board one of the dredgers, climbing on to the neck of the crane, occupying it and halting work for 10 hours. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 04, 2009 - 23:22 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain
3 comments (last - monday june 08, 2009 - 16:37)
The fight to protect the Tara landscape from the destruction caused by the Double Tolled M3 Motorway took a surprising turn earlier this month. Some 14 protesters, some of whom had been subject to strict bail conditions for the last two years, had cases against them dismissed at Trim District Court. This was a matter of major public concern but it passed silently and without any interest from the mainstream media. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / politics / elections Thursday June 04, 2009 - 22:29 by prurience
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Today Emma Bonino vice-president of the Italian Senate (since May 8th), former European Union commissioner for humanitarian affairs & currently leader of the "Italian radical party" went on hunger and thirst strike last night in the main offices of the state TV RAI to protest (1) the unfair allottment of state media time to the electoral parties (2) the utter farce which has been the EU elections in Italy. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / politics / elections Thursday June 04, 2009 - 12:05 by Joe Higgins.eu
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This is the final election broadcast of Joe Higgins, who is standing for the Euro elections in Dublin, with a chance of beating Fianna Fail's Eoin Ryan, and winning a seat. In the video Joe summarizes why he wants people to vote for the Socialist Party in the Euro & Local elections. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / politics / elections Wednesday June 03, 2009 - 20:26 by Sparky
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Ahead of Friday's poll, two election candidates have been facing quite different problems getting their message out through campaign posters. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Wednesday June 03, 2009 - 18:58 by Edward Horgan and Patricia McKenna
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Edward Horgan Resigns from Green Party Veteran UN peacekeeper and human rights activist Dr. Edward Horgan was a prominent Green Party member until he resigned and gave his support for the EU elections to independent candidate Patricia McKenna. Mr Horgan who was a prominent member of the Greens for many years tore up his Green Party membership card during a Green Party press conference saying that the party had not only let their voters down but also members of their own party. Patricia McKenna stated; “I welcome Edward’s support, he has a great track record on highlighting human rights abuses and I am honoured that he is supporting my campaign.” ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Wednesday June 03, 2009 - 14:33 by Reporter
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Dr Edward Horgan (Comdt. retd.), former UN peacekeeper and anti-war/human rights activist today resigned his membership of the Green Party. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday June 03, 2009 - 12:52 by Solidarity
2 comments (last - saturday january 30, 2010 - 18:36)
Consider writing a solidarity letter/postcard to Elijah Smith - in an English jail for resisting the bombing of Gaza! ... read full story / add a comment 
international / summit mobilisations Wednesday June 03, 2009 - 01:26 by NO G8
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In 2001 G8 met in Genova. They were violent days of the suspension of civil rights that still weigh on the collective consciousness, along with the memory and sorrow for the death of Carlo Giuliani. They were also days in which the "greatest men of the earth" developed the new creed of liberal globalization as it was a new universal religion. ... read full story / add a comment 
kildare / politics / elections Wednesday June 03, 2009 - 00:04 by Bazra B
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Euro Candidate For Sinn Féin Kathleen Funchion, Visits Newbridge ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 03, 2009 - 00:01 by Sparky
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Kurdish protestors have begun a hunger strike and are preparing to camp out in front of the EU's Dublin headquarters tonight to highlight a threatened extradition that they say will lead to the torture of Kurdish leader Remzi Kartal, currently held in Spain, if he is handed over to Turkish authorities. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday June 02, 2009 - 22:39 by Contaminated Crow
A telemast, two quarries, wind turbines and high-voltage powerlines ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Tuesday June 02, 2009 - 20:31 by Darragh
11 comments (last - friday june 05, 2009 - 21:15) 2 images
Monday the 1st of June saw the arrival of a multitude of assorted vessels to Broadhaven bay. The boats, which are subcontracted by The Royal Dutch Shell company, are attempting to prepare for works on the controversial Corrib gas project. Today however, their progress has been significantly impaired by resident Shell to Sea activists that had already gathered a small, albeit formidable, fleet of kayaks, ready to deploy within short notice. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / miscellaneous Tuesday June 02, 2009 - 18:23 by jerry
6 comments (last - sunday june 14, 2009 - 12:39) 2 images 1 video file
Part of the Shell causeway extending into the sea at Glengad was yesterday evening removed by Shell to Sea protesters. This was in protest at the illegal blocking of access to the public beach and to oppose the forcing of this unsafe project on the local community and the giveaway of Ireland's natural resources. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Tuesday June 02, 2009 - 16:43 by Carmel Diviney
82 comments (last - wednesday may 25, 2011 - 14:51) 16 images 1 video file
The new deepwater port, a joint venture between REO and Drogheda Port with Hong Kong maritime conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa lined up to develop the master plan, could ultimately replace Dublin Port if the Government was to decide that it should be relocated; one of Bremore’s selling points is its close proximity to the M1 motorway.....so many unrealised plans by different developers over the past 20 years that it seems as if some sort of jinx hangs over it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Tuesday June 02, 2009 - 12:29 by dctv
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Greetings fans of community TV, the new schedule for Dublin Community TV has made it’s way to the screen and our schedule brochure is now available online. Give us a dig out and promote it through your social networks so we can keep the ground swell around DCTV going. Leap over to http://www.dctv.ie/main/?p=445 to download it and view our June schedule newsletter. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous Sunday May 31, 2009 - 19:59 by gordon
8 comments (last - friday june 05, 2009 - 00:21) 18 images 4 video files
This afternoon at 5pm, over 200 people from the local community and the Rossport Solidarity Camp Summer Gathering attempted to dismantle Shell's illegal compound at Glengad. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-war / imperialism Sunday May 31, 2009 - 13:39 by TD
8 comments (last - monday august 24, 2009 - 01:34) 5 images 1 video file
Yesterday, in the Galway Alliance Against War organised 99 Red Balloons Peace Event, revulsion and outrage were expressed against the highjacking of the relatively pristine Volvo Ocean Race to piggy back a display by the RAF Red Arrows over Galway Bay, touting militarism with their bullshit antics in the sky and catering to the desensitized appetites of the faithful down below - some of whom, in the throes of their warped morality hurled abuse at the peace mongers assembled in the Spanish Arch Plaza. ... read full story / add a comment |
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