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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 16, 2009 - 17:44 by TD
 20 comments (last - sunday february 22, 2009 - 22:05)  4 images  3 video files
"It's a living organism that has a very nasty, evil side to its ideology, but it ends there, it begins there and it ends there and we shouldn't, again, exaggerate our analysis of Zionism beyond the fact that from a Palestine perspective, it is a destructive ideology, it's bad enough, it has nothing else to it and nothing else should be added to this." "They (EU politicians) don't want to talk about Zionism as colonialism, as racism, they don't want to talk about genocidal policies, ethnic cleansing policies, crimes against humanity, war crimes" "It is the only prison in the world that children are being born in it that have no chance of getting out of it" ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday February 14, 2009 - 20:19 by John Jefferies
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The Workers' Party today held a protest at the constitutency office of Junior Minister Billy Kelleher who earlier this week strongly hinted at moves to cut the statutory Minimum Wage. ... read full story / add a comment
kerry / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 13, 2009 - 22:01 by sean moraghan
Public Sector workers in Tralee are holding protests outside the clinics of Kerry TDs, tomorrow, Saturday 14th February. PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT ALLIANCE (Tralee) lends its full support to the Tralee union protests against the attacks on the Public Sector. The demo will begin at the offices of Tom McEllistrim, Fianna Fail TD. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 13, 2009 - 17:41 by Teachers United
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Three teachers' unions - the TUI, the ASTI and the INTO - are to ballot their members on industrial action against the Government's decision on a public service pension levy. Arrangements are to start immediately to ballot the INTO union's 30,000 members. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 13, 2009 - 17:02 by Worker
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The Labour party has overtaken Fianna Fáil in the recent TNS/MRBI poll. The first time in the history of the state. A historic moment for those interested in the wider labour movement (as opposed to the revolutionary movement olr the labour party). I am not too familiar with the methodology behind this poll but I assume it is a fair and honest reflection of the electorate at the present moment. The TNS/MRBI poll predicted the outcome of the last election with relative precision. Fianna Fáil’s satisfaction rating has plummeted to 14 percent. 62 per cent want a change of government. The support for the parties is as follows: Fianna Fáil, 22 per cent (down 5 points); Fine Gael, 32 per cent (down 2 points); Labour, 24 per cent (up 10 points); Sinn Féin, 9 per cent (up 1 point); Green Party, 4 per cent (no change); and Independents/others, 9 per cent (down 4 points). The message is simple: the electorate want Fianna Fáil out of office. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Thursday February 12, 2009 - 21:25 by John Carmody
6 comments (last - wednesday february 18, 2009 - 20:48) 2 images 2 video files
Braving the cold this afternoon, five sexy PETA activists stripped off nearly naked and urged foie gras-peddling Selfridges to ‘Have a Heart’ for ducks and geese this Valentine’s Day. The topless girls (including model Monica Harris) and one dishy guy handed out delicious vegan chocolates and roses to passers-by who just couldn’t help but stare – and take photos on their mobile phones, of course! ... read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism Thursday February 12, 2009 - 16:22 by Cork HOV
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Hands off Venezuela (HOV) held a highly successful public meeting in the Victoria Hotel In Cork on Wednesday February 11. The meeting posed the question : The venezuelan Revolution: An Alternative to the Capitalist Crisis? Francesco Merli of the HOV international campaign, addressed the meeting. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday February 11, 2009 - 23:24 by Activist
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Dublin Bus workers protest at Noel Dempsey, Minister for transport, over the proposed cutbacks in jobs and services in Dublin Bus ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday February 11, 2009 - 20:05 by Niall Smyth
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This evening, Wednesday 11th February, a packed emergency meeting attended by 500 members of Dublin City North Branch of the INTO, held in the Regency Hotel, unanimously passed a resolution calling for a strong campaign of united industrial action across the public service. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 11, 2009 - 17:20 by Irish Basque Solidarity Committees
As for the third year International Week of Solidarity with the Basque Country has been organised. Here in Éire also many events will take place across the country. The Irish Basque Solidarity Committees want to reflect on the terrible political situation in the Basque Country and encourage everybody to take part in the events organised. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 10, 2009 - 23:04 by Paula Geraghty
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Taxi Drivers staged a protest this Monday 9th of February from the Garden of Remberance, Parnell Square to Merrion Square to demand an immediate stop to the issuing of new Taxi licences. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday February 09, 2009 - 23:00 by Contaminated Crow
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A metal recycling plant, a sewage treatment plant, two quarries, a landfill, electricity pylons and a telemast ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday February 09, 2009 - 22:38 by Paula Geraghty
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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 |
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