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international / environment Monday November 30, 2009 - 12:24 by dunk
 17 comments (last - wednesday january 13, 2010 - 15:36)  23 images  9 video files  8 audio files
“The day the political landscape changed forever“, was how Fritjof Capra referred to events of N30, Tuesday 30th of November 1999, in his book The Hidden Connections. He was referring to the day when 1000´s of global justice activists came together and succeeded in shutting down the first WTO (World Trade Organisation) talks in the US using (mostly) non violent direct actions (NVDA) in the north western US city of Seattle. This was the event which brought the “globalisation” debate to the mainstream. It has been misleadingly described as anti-globalisation, what it should be accurately described as is anti corporate globalisation. 10 years on and again there is rubber bullets, tear gas and flames in the streets. This time in Geneva, as people from all over the world converge in the lead up to COP15, the climate change talks in Copenhagen... amongst others, the Social and Climate justice caravan. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday November 30, 2009 - 11:35 by Andrew
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On the 24th of November something extraordinary happened. Some 250,000 workers acted together in a day-long strike against the public sector wage cuts planned by the government. The vast majority of these workers had never gone on strike before, yet across almost all workplaces the strike involved 90% or more of those working. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 30, 2009 - 01:37 by iosaf
7 comments (last - friday december 18, 2009 - 13:59) 2 images
A referendum was held in Switzerland on 29 November 2009. Three questions were put to the voters: * a ban on the construction of new minarets; * a ban on exporting weapons and war materiel; * a prescription that money raised from taxes on aviation fuel should be used for aviation matters. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday November 29, 2009 - 23:24 by Paula Geraghty
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Hear Public Sector workers give their side of the story from the picket lines last Tuesday 24th November 2009 ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 29, 2009 - 10:49 by TD
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Last Friday, same as on all the preceding Fridays the past five years, Bil'in villagers marched to the nearby Apartheid Wall to protest against the theft of over 60% of their land to facilitate the construction of a monstrous affront to international and humanitarian law and the illegal Israeli colonies skulking behind it. Last Friday, same as on all the preceding Fridays for the past five years, the peaceful protestors were assaulted, this time, with unremitting blizzards of tear gas and percussion "sound" bombs with dozens of the marchers severly distressed from tear gas inhalation - thanking the good lord for small mercies, as it were, there were no high velocity tear gas projectiles used, "rockets" of the lethal kind that was fired point blank into the chest of Bassem Abu-Rahma last April 17th smashing three of his ribs one of which punctuted his heart thus killing, murdering him. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 28, 2009 - 15:57 by Conor. M
16 comments (last - monday november 30, 2009 - 09:33) 4 images
TCD library has just been occupied by the students union ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 26, 2009 - 23:59 by Amnesty International
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A group of about 45 people (latest news figure is now 57) were ambushed and abducted by about 100 armed men, according to reports. The military recovered the bodies of 13 women and eight men—some of them mutilated. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Thursday November 26, 2009 - 23:38 by ERS
13 comments (last - sunday december 19, 2010 - 12:07) 20 images 2 audio files
RTÉ Primetime Investigates next Thursday is a special on the death of Michael Dwyer. Dwyer worked for Shell as a security guard in Mayo last year, and while there, made contact with extremists from right-wing militia groups. He joined with a number of these men and spent time in Bolivia, where after an investigation he was killed when police stormed his hotel room. It will be interesting to see what spin RTE will place on the events in Bolivia and Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday November 26, 2009 - 02:38 by Bazooka Joe
4 comments (last - friday november 27, 2009 - 15:21) 5 images
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Venezuela on Wednesday to meet with President Hugo Chavez. President Ahmadinejad is completing the third part of a successful South American tour where he also had meetings with President Evo Morales of Bolivia and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday November 25, 2009 - 13:57 by DSF
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Sinn Féin workers in Leinster House took a principled decision not to pass the picket lines during yesterday's industrial action. ... read full story / add a comment 
kildare / education Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 21:10 by Donal Fallon- Free Education for Everyone NUI Maynooth
11 comments (last - sunday november 29, 2009 - 16:46) 6 images 1 video file
Solidarity pickets placed on both North and South campuses of NUI Maynooth. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 19:21 by Basque Info
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In the early hours of today 34 Basque pro-independence political activists were arrested and 92 properties were searched by 650 Spanish policemen. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 17:57 by Gregor Kerr
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From before 8a.m. this morning, members of the Irish National Teachers Organisation were on the picket line outside the Department of Education and Science in Dublin’s Marlborough Street, alongside Special Needs Assistant colleagues, members of IMPACT, and workers based in the DES building itself, members of SIPTU, CPSU and PSEU. ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 12:56 by Cork WSM
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Strikes took off across Cork city and county this morning as workers took direct action to stop the Government's attack on wages and conditions. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 10:16 by Bernie Wright
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The anti-blood sports/anti-greyhound industry book Bad Hare Days has this week moved rapidly up the list of books sold online in Ireland. John fitzgerald ,one of the organisers of the upcoming Clonmel hare Coursing final demonstration in Feb 2010 said 'Today, (Monday) it is highly placed on the Bestsellers.ie site, in all its categories: biography, Irish history, local history, local Irish history etc.' ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 23, 2009 - 23:05 by TD
4 comments (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 - 14:06) 10 images 4 video files
Following the temporary withdrawal of the International Solidarity Movement from Hebron due to that organisations difficulty in finding a suitable base there, a number of internationals from the village of Bil'in journeyed down there last week to take up the slack with night patrols, checkpoint monitoring and especially the safeguarding of Palestinian children to and from school from stone throwing, spitting Israeli "settler children and adults. Four in number, we found accomodation in the homes of the Al-Awawi and Egnabi families,previously fire bombed by the colonising "settlers" and illegally evicted but both families still overflowing with the milk of human kindness despite their travails. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / housing Monday November 23, 2009 - 20:41 by dunk
4 comments (last - monday december 21, 2009 - 19:05) 5 images 2 audio files
Brian Anson - Architect, Story Teller, Poet, Revolutionary Inspiration (1934-2009) Brian Anson passed away over the weekend after being inflicted with a sudden illness. Audio documentary; Stories of architecture and social struggle with Brian Anson http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/37463 ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday November 23, 2009 - 16:39 by Contaminated Crow
Five masts, a mushroom plant, a waste facility and golf club dunes ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday November 23, 2009 - 11:23 by Alan MacSimóin
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Working people hit the streets in huge numbers on November 6th. The protests showed, once again, that there is a willingness to resist the government’s attacks on living standards. Most observers put the total number who walked out of work to take part in the eight protests at around 100,000. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 22, 2009 - 16:10 by Solidarity
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On November 16, 1989, an elite unit of the Salvadoran military entered the gates of the Jesuit-run Central American University in San Salvador. When they left, six Jesuit priests lay dead, along with their housekeeper and her teenage daughter. ... read full story / add a comment |
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