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international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 17, 2005 - 22:34 by Gabriel   text 1 comment (last - saturday november 19, 2005 - 00:09)
This morning "Voices in the Wilderness(UK)" founder Milan Rai was sentenced to 28 days imprisonment for refusing to pay £2000 "compensation" to the British Government for spray-painting the Foreign Office with the words "Don't Attack Fallujah. Black Watch Out" on 3 November 2004, just days before last year's devastating US assault on the city (see www.j-n-v.org for background and pictures).
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national / miscellaneous Thursday November 17, 2005 - 16:43 by Ógra B   text 4 comments (last - friday november 18, 2005 - 17:04)
Ógra Shinn Féin has announced this week that it is to hold its annual congress in Dublin from Friday 20 January to Saturday 21 January. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday November 16, 2005 - 20:37 by Peter   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 24, 2005 - 01:21)   image 1 image
On 12 November a
protest
against the US military bases, which are going to be situated near the
villages Novo Selo, Bezmer and near the Burgas' port, took place in Sofia
(Bulgaria's capitol). More than 500 people marched through the central streets
of Sofia, expressing their stand against all military bases. The protest ended
in front of the National Theater "Ivan Vazov". In the protest took part the anarcho-block of autonomous antiauthoritarian group "AnarchoResistance"
(around 60 people). Few nationalists from BNS (Bulgarian National Union) were
also there but left quickly after the demo.
On the evening of 10 November two activists were arrested and brutally beaten
by the police, while they were sticking posters for the protest near the
Synagogue. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday November 16, 2005 - 16:25 by Ógra B   text 7 comments (last - thursday november 17, 2005 - 22:53)
A large crowd of Ógra Shinn Féin activists gathered outside Queen’s University in Belfast on Wednesday 16th November for a Demilitarisation and Anti- Collusion protest. The theme of protest was ‘End British Army/ OTC recruitment in our University’. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday November 16, 2005 - 11:57 by Sean Maguire   text 25 comments (last - thursday december 08, 2005 - 11:28)   image 1 image
It's taken decades for the mask of evil to finally be fully exposed. The report by the inquiry into child sexual abuse by pervert priests in the Ferns diocese has at last exposed the suffering endured by huge numbers for people. Now all across the country the truth is finally being told ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Tuesday November 15, 2005 - 20:24 by Apparently   text 7 comments (last - tuesday november 22, 2005 - 13:09)
Irish Frog Farm to close

Liberation
At the end of October the largest breeder of frogs in Europe for vivisection was visited by the ALF, with appropriate messages left behind. Their details were published not long afterwards. And now this beautiful bit of info...

ALF Ireland received information from Denis McCarthy of the Frog Farm,
Kells, Co. Meath that he has agreed to close down his business in April
2006, he has also agreed not to sell the business on.
As thousands of frogs are taken from the wild every month and tortured to death in vivisection labs around the world because of his activities we demand that Denis McCarthy end his business at the end of December 2005. Until he ceases trading and all of his equipment is given to animal
welfarists for rescue use he will remain a legitimate target.

ALF Ireland................till all are free ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Tuesday November 15, 2005 - 14:14 by John O'Neill   text 16 comments (last - wednesday november 16, 2005 - 13:51)
cost of tag for bin collection in Blanchardstown jumps a massive 50 per cent. ... read full story / add a comment
armagh / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 14, 2005 - 19:27 by A Comrade   text 44 comments (last - monday june 12, 2006 - 14:36)
IRA - North Armagh Brigade

On thursday, 10th november as i watched the evening news i saw a report of a women who informed the viewers of how the MOD came knocking on her door delivering news that her partner had been killedby the Iraqi Resistance forces.

Damn imperialists i thought, they get what they deserve! Further more i thought how would i repond if someone came to my door to inform me that a Comrade had been killed?

The following day i was completely and uterly shocked to read on one of the Celtic e news lists that Martin Conlon had been killed in 'mysterious circumstances on Monday, 6th November.'

I would like to pay a tribute to the late Vol. Martin 'Golfball' Conlon. Golfball was a good friend, a Comrade, unrepentant in every sense of the word, a true Republican. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 14, 2005 - 19:17 by Dr. Coilín ÓhAiseadha   text 5 comments (last - tuesday november 15, 2005 - 15:52)
A Greenlandic member of the Danish parliament has today asked the Danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, to clarify the perceived hazards and emergency precautions associated with overflights and transits of CIA aircraft in Greenland.

An English translation of the full text of his question is provided below. ... read full story / add a comment
the current very powerful image of reporters without borders : for the christmas cards.
international / sci-tech Monday November 14, 2005 - 14:24 by iosaf   text 4 comments (last - thursday november 17, 2005 - 15:53)   image 1 image
This week the second and final meeting of the "World Summit on the Information Society" takes place in Tunis, starting on Wednesday.

Present will be the current "web masters" the USA and the principle partners who created the www most notably Switzerland (who co-organised with the UN the first phase), and a plethora of states who don't allow their citizens freedom of speech or association.

The UN wants to change the "US webmaster" balance in favour of one of four options which would give control to UN appointed bodies.

Many other states, just want to stop the internet.
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Ogoni 9 memorial crosses laid by Nigerian Asylum seekers
mayo / miscellaneous Monday November 14, 2005 - 10:39 by RSupport   text 11 comments (last - tuesday october 31, 2006 - 23:19)   image 5 images
Hundreds of people from all walks of life braved the Mayo weather on Saturday to witness a truly spectacular event.

A mural of murdered Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was unveiled outside the planned Shell/Statoil Bellanaboy refinery. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / politics / elections Sunday November 13, 2005 - 23:46 by Pat   text 39 comments (last - sunday november 20, 2005 - 22:14)
Following his decision not to seek a nomination for the Labour Party for the forthcoming General Election, speculation is now rife that Clr. Declan Bree may run as an Independent candidate. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous Saturday November 12, 2005 - 03:48 by Noise Hacker   text 46 comments (last - wednesday march 13, 2013 - 00:28)   image 69 images
{All images are copyleft} ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday November 11, 2005 - 19:38 by rikki
a video of the anti-shell actions in london in solidarity with the rossport struggle ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Friday November 11, 2005 - 16:54 by Parent   text 2 comments (last - tuesday november 15, 2005 - 04:25)
Chairman of the Pairc Na Coille Residents Association issues a Cead Mile Failte to Gaelscoile Na Cruaiche ... read full story / add a comment
Google's logo as displayed on Google.ie today
national / history and heritage Friday November 11, 2005 - 13:05 by S.Cat   text 134 comments (last - tuesday december 16, 2008 - 17:21)   image 9 images
Will we see a lily at Easter?

My grandfather fought in the first world war. He was in the Munster Fusiliers and fought in France and Belgium, and also at Gallipoli. I have no problem with people commemorating the first World War, and the many Irish men and women who were caught up in it.

But I do have a problem with the Red Poppy, which is the symbol of the British Legion. As another contributor to this site recently put it:

"[The Poppy] is worn to commemorate ALL of Britain's acts of war since the Great Slaughter of 1914-18- and that includes the Black and Tan War, Bloody Sunday, the invasion of Iraq, and the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. If you want to wear a poppy, do so by all means. Just be sure you know what it stands for"

So I think it's amazing that a supposedly neutral Internet Search Engine like Google should plaster a symbol associated with the British Army on the front page of its Irish site. ... read full story / add a comment
Chea Mony, Blackrock Co. Dublin
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 11, 2005 - 11:49 by Jane Doran   image 1 image
A Cambodian human rights defender, who came to Ireland to attend a conference, cannot return to his country because Cambodian authorities have issued a warrant for his arrest for signing a statement that criticised a border treaty with Vietnam ... read full story / add a comment
At The Shell Oil Petrol Station in Blackpool, Cork
cork / anti-capitalism Friday November 11, 2005 - 00:16 by KD   image 2 images
About thirty people protested tonight at the Shell Oil Petrol Station in Blackpool, Cork to mark the anniversary of the Shell Oil sponsored execution of the Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. The protest was called by Cork Shell To Sea to mark the ongoing resistant and bloody struggle by the Ogoni people in Nigeria against the Shell Oil Corporation. It also aimed to promote the link between the ongoing struggle against Shell Oil in Rossport in Mayo and the international activities of the Shell Corporation which in the case of the Ogoni lands has led to huge environmental damage, resource robbery and repression at Shell’s behest. A huge banner proclaiming Nigeria 1995-Mayo 2005 was hung over the front of the Shell Station. Gardaí were in attendance but did not intervene. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 10, 2005 - 21:29 by Shell to Sea   text 1 comment (last - friday november 11, 2005 - 19:22)   image 4 images
Below is the text of the letter which representatives from Ogoni Solidarity Ireland, Afri and Shell to Sea sought to hand in to Shell's Headquarters at Corrib House today, November 10th. The letter was accompanied with a wreath in memory of Ken Saro Wiwa and the Ogoni Eight, who were executed 10 years ago today.

At first Shell refused to even respond to us, but eventually they accepted the letter through the gap in the plate glass door at the side of the building. ... read full story / add a comment
Dr Ian Atack (Chairing The Press Conference), Finian McGrath (Independent TD) And Joe Costello (Labour TD)
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 10, 2005 - 17:31 by Elaine   text 21 comments (last - monday november 14, 2005 - 11:00)   image 8 images
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