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national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday February 09, 2009 - 22:38 by Paula Geraghty
 9 comments (last - monday february 23, 2009 - 18:51)  5 images
Teachers say enough is enough as they are pilloried for their pensions and underfunded workplaces while banks plead they can't reduce top bankers pay due to 'contractual obligations'. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 09, 2009 - 20:01 by iosaf
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Eluana Englaro has died peacefully this evening Tomorrow Italy's progressives and secularists will demonstrate against Berlusoni's unconstitutional decree attempting to ensure a woman who was in a coma since 1992 continues in that vegetative state. In Berlusconi's words :- "She is alive enough to get pregnant". Leaving one only to wonder who would have fathered her child and what would have been the morailty of such an act. However, the 11th president of the Italian Republic Goirgio Napolitano refused to sign Berlusconi's decree deeming it to be unconstitional. A petition started by Umberto Eco and Dario Foy amongst others has now collected over 1000 signatures. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 09, 2009 - 18:48 by TD
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Last Saturday in the Nun's Island Theatre, Galway, fundraiser and activist with the Palestine Children's Appeal, Treasa Ni Cheannabhain, delivered a harrrowing and powerful eyewitness account of her recent humanitarian mission to Gaza and Free Gaza Movement and Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign activist, Derek Graham, made an impassioned plea for funds to purchase a ship that would be instrumental in ferrying building materials essential for the rebuilding of Gaza's war shattered infrastructure. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday February 08, 2009 - 23:11 by Edward
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Business as usual at Shannon airport on 8 Feb 09, showed few commercial airlines landing but three OMNI Air chartered aircraft were being refuelled as they were transporting hundreds of armed US troops through Shannon airport. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday February 08, 2009 - 18:00 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
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At a ceremony held in Copenhagen on 26 January, 2009, former Danish military intelligence officer Frank Grevil was given the Sam Adams award for integrity in intelligence, in recognition of the role he played in exposing the falsehoods that led to Denmark's invasion of Iraq in 2003. ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Sunday February 08, 2009 - 10:29 by Julian - UCD FEE
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This is a report from the February 4th national protest and the FEE breakaway that followed. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / education Saturday February 07, 2009 - 21:38 by Paula Geraghty
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The day public servants discovered how much Cowan was taking from their take home pay to bail out the system , 25,000 students took to the streets of Dublin shouting 'No Cutbacks, No Fees, No Fianna Fáil TD's!' ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 05, 2009 - 15:40 by Educate to be Free
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Ógra Shinn Féin activists from across Ireland, students and workers alike, joined with thousands of people yesterday marching against the introduction of student fees by Minister Batt O Keefe and the Fianna Fáil led government. Ógra Shinn Féin held banners, and placards, distributed thousands of leaflets and Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty passionately addressed the thronged crowd of protestors at Leinster house to a very warm and enthusiastic reception. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Thursday February 05, 2009 - 10:42 by t.a.
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday February 04, 2009 - 22:19 by Kevin 1
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DEFEND BUS SERVICES: SUPPORT THE BUS WORKERS Dublin Bus drivers, members of the NBRU, are balloting over the next week for industrial action if the company press ahead with 160 threatened sackings. And Dublin North West People Before Profit is organising a protest meeting on the cuts plan in Ballymun Thursday 5th February 8pm Axis Centre ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday February 04, 2009 - 19:20 by Paula Geraghty
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international / animal rights Wednesday February 04, 2009 - 18:14 by John Carmody
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Today a groundbreaking new documentary revealing the all too visible distress that lab primates face on a daily basis is revealed by Animal Defenders International (ADI). The Save The Primates investigation exposes every aspect of the global primate trade across three continents, including one of Europes largest testing facilities “ Huntingdon Life Sciences in Cambridgeshire. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 03, 2009 - 17:54 by Blacbloc
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The extortionate pension levies imposed on public sector workers by Brian Cowen and IBEC this afternoon will further devastate the lives of the low and middle income earners. Nothing further was announced to curb the salaries of the highest paid public and private sector workers - the class of people the government is extending itself to protect above all others. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 03, 2009 - 09:35 by zaraz.org
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Today at 9:30 more than 300 workers occupied the administrative building of Kherson Engineering Plant. The workers demand payment of wages, nationalization of the plant without compensation to its owner and are decisively inclined to occupy the building until complete fulfillment of their demands. During occupation no worker has injured. Factory guards did not resist seriously. The situation is controlled by yesterday elected workers council. The police has not yet appeared near the building. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday February 03, 2009 - 00:45 by Teddy
On Saturday the 31st January approximately 80 concerned citizens demonstrated in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their plight for justice. The group convened at Daunt Square at 1pm and commenced a tour of the city's shopping centres before marching for a mile past Turners Cross to Woodies DIY Store near the Kinsale Road Roundabout. The protest called on the people of Cork to join in the campaign to Boycott Israel and in particular for shoppers to be conscience of what they may be supporting in buying Israeli products namely the recent massacre in Gaza and the persistent violations of Human Rights and Humanitarian legal standards. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday February 02, 2009 - 23:12 by C.D. Stelzer
Press accounts published in Ireland over the past decade, however, have linked the company to an influence-peddling scandal that rocked the Irish political establishment during the 1990s. Moreover, the man at the center of the controversy has had past ties to Carlyle Group, an American equity investment firm that is stacked with high-ranking former U.S. government officials with checkered careers. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday February 02, 2009 - 22:29 by Contaminated Crow
Two landfills, an incinerator, pylons, a telemast, a sewage treatment plant, water extraction, a windfarm, two industrial parks and the return of animal health problems at Askeaton ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Monday February 02, 2009 - 19:43 by David L
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A hundred people assembled on Saturday afternoon, January 31 in Dublin city centre to mourn the dead of Gaza. The demonstrators marched around the central pedestrian zone on O Connell Bridge in a silent protest against the massacre that Israel perpetrated. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 02, 2009 - 18:56 by TD
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Last Saturday, members of the Galway Palestine Children's Appeal were "overwhelmed" by the public response to their appeal for humanitarian aid for the children and people of Gaza - expecting one 40ft container to be filled with medical supplies, household goods, non perishable food, clothes and toys, a further two had to be ordered and to ease the pressure, a request was broadcast by the local radio station, Galway Bay FM, for donors to procrastinate their visit to the drop-off point at the Black Box theatre until the delivery of the third container - this morning, at 7AM two of the stuffed containers started their journey of mercy and there is a large stockpile of aid awaiting the arrival of the third. Including an operating table from Letterkenny Hospital, medical staff in the west donated money and supplies and businesses such as the Galway Radisson Hotel gifted 100 duvets and pillows. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / animal rights Sunday February 01, 2009 - 12:38 by SHAC Ireland
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Friday, 30th January A wet and windy night saw lots of activists turn out at a Bayer / Schering Pharma meeting and dinner-dance in the Four Seasons Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment |
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