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offsite link The Blob Has Sunk to New Depths in Its Quest to Destroy Educational Freedom Thu Feb 06, 2025 19:00 | Randall Hardy
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offsite link Lego Can Be Anti-LGBT, Says Science Museum Thu Feb 06, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Lego can be anti-LGBT, the Science Museum has said. As part of its 'Seeing Things Queerly' tour showcasing "stories of queer communities", Lego bricks are said to reinforce the idea that heterosexuality "is the norm".
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A document reported by Ukrainian media to be Trump's 'Peace Plan for Ukraine' has been leaked and includes a ceasefire by Easter, the ceding of land to Russia and no NATO membership.
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offsite link Birbalsingh Blasts Phillipson: ?You Don?t Know Your Own Bill? Thu Feb 06, 2025 13:35 | Will Jones
Katharine Birbalsingh, the head of one of Britain's best state schools, has written an excoriating letter to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson after a meeting where Phillipson exposed her ignorance of her own bill.
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A new study shows that Germans substantially underestimate the number of asylum seekers in Germany. This contradicts the Left-wing narrative according to which people oppose immigration because they're misinformed.
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national / education Monday March 02, 2009 - 16:47 by J.Carax   text 3 comments (last - tuesday march 03, 2009 - 01:06)
Free Education for Everyone held its first National Conference on Saturday, January 31st. Over forty student activists traveled from UCD, TCD, Maynooth, Galway, Limerick and Cork. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / gender and sexuality Monday March 02, 2009 - 14:59 by amnesty1   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 04, 2009 - 15:46)   image 1 image
8,000 girls are mutilated every single day around the world.

You can help make it stop.

Log on to http://www.amnesty.ie/endfgm ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Monday March 02, 2009 - 12:03 by Andrew Flood & Ashanti Alston   text 2 comments (last - monday march 02, 2009 - 16:08)   image 1 image   audio 2 audio files
US Anarchist Ashanti Alston who is speaking at the Anarchist Bookfair in Dublin this March 7th has spent that last few days speaking at meetings in Cork and Galway and hanging out with anarchists in Dublin. In this interview recorded last night in Kilmainham he talks about his visit to Ireland, the post Seattle anarchist wave in the USA, the formation of Anarchist People Of Color (APOC) the current capitalist crisis and the need to seize the moment. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday March 01, 2009 - 20:02 by TD   text 15 comments (last - thursday march 05, 2009 - 08:48)   image 8 images   video 4 video files
Yesterday, activists with Galway, Free Palestine Campaign in solidarity with Israeli Apartheid Week (1st to 8th March) and in harmony with the "chorus of international opposition to Israeli apartheid and to bolster support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign" manned an informaton table in Shop Street dispensing flyers on what Israeli goods/foodstuffs and their purveyors to boycott and gathering signatures for a petition calling on the Board of Eircom "To exclude from consideration the IBM consortium , which includes the Israeli based company Amdocs, for the soon to be awarded contract to provide your company with a new computer billing system." ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 28, 2009 - 23:58 by Cormac Mac Gall   text 5 comments (last - monday march 02, 2009 - 14:16)   image 5 images
As part of International Solidarity with the Basque Country Week, the Irish Basque Solidarity Committees invited a representative of Kamaradak to speak at a number of venues in Dublin and Belfast. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday February 28, 2009 - 21:35 by Contaminated Crow
A powerline, water extraction, a sewage treatment plant, a telemast, a LNG pipeline, a landfill and a windfarm ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 28, 2009 - 19:21 by Cormac Mac Gall   text 3 comments (last - monday march 09, 2009 - 05:54)   image 6 images
International organisations condemn Spanish use of torture and repression while the Basque movement steps up resistance and calls for international solidarity with its struggle. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday February 27, 2009 - 22:52 by Saoirse   text 2 comments (last - tuesday march 03, 2009 - 15:45)
An open letter to the President of the GAA protesting at the presence of the England Rugby team in Croke Park on Saturday February 28. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Friday February 27, 2009 - 18:20 by stop shell   text 14 comments (last - tuesday march 10, 2009 - 15:59)   image 1 image
Check out Shell's application under Section 40 of the Gas Act and write to Eamon Ryan before the 9th March.

Section 40 Application & Environmental Impact Statement
http://www.corribgaspipeline.com/index.php?page=section-40-application

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The largest act of civil disobedience to happen in the US this Monday!!!
international / environment Friday February 27, 2009 - 17:02 by dunk   text 13 comments (last - thursday march 05, 2009 - 18:29)   image 8 images   video 10 video files   audio 6 audio files
Al Gore: "I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants."

Next Monday The largest act of civil disobedience will happen against global warming in the US. A large protest has been called at a coal-fired plant in Washington, D.C, 11,000 people are expected. In the days leading up to the protest, youth climate activists are organizing a conference called Power Shift ’09. Thousands of student activists plan to lobby lawmakers on Capitol Hill, urging them to rebuild the economy through bold climate and clean energy policy.

Looks like the "climate camp movement" is continuing to grow globally and momentum is building in the lead up to COP15... Ireland too are organising thing for this summer. Also Greenpeace´s "lawful excuse" court battle win might open the flood gates for more direct action... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday February 26, 2009 - 12:27 by ISM Gaza Strip   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 01, 2009 - 17:38)
24th February 2009

Khoza'a, Khan Younis , Gaza Strip: Palestinian farmers, accompanied by international human rights workers, were fired upon by Israeli forces in the village of Khozaa, near Khan Younis, this morning. The farmers and human rights workers were attempting to work on land around 300m from the Green Line.

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waterford / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 26, 2009 - 11:01 by James McBarron   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
The workers at Waterford Crystal occupying the plant are an example to us all. Rather than accept the closure of the business, the loss of all the jobs and the destruction of the area’s premier industry; workers seized the buildings making liquidation impossible for the receiver. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 26, 2009 - 03:18 by pl
Under the title: The "proconsul" is leaving, but he is continuing with subversion, the newspaper said the mentioned figure has left his post, after enjoying two years of salary, to join Creative Associates International, a company of the gloomy CIA.
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national / racism & migration related issues Wednesday February 25, 2009 - 20:13 by Joe Moore   text 4 comments (last - friday february 27, 2009 - 18:28)
At present a number of Nigerian people are being checked onto a chartered flight to Lagos. These are not holiday makers but people who came to this country to seek refugee status. They are now however victims of the racist policies been implemented by the Irish government. The plane is due to leave at 9.30pm. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 25, 2009 - 15:54 by Diarmuid   text 4 comments (last - sunday march 01, 2009 - 10:20)   image 8 images
The Dublin branch of Irish Basque Solidarity Committees held a protest against repression and torture in the Basque Country on Saturday February 14th in O'Connell Street, the main street of Ireland's capital city. They also linked in with the celebration of the late Bob Doyle, last of the Irish who fought in Spain against Franco 1936 -- 39. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 24, 2009 - 18:22 by Teachers United   text 18 comments (last - thursday march 26, 2009 - 10:10)
One Hundred Years of Organising
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 24, 2009 - 12:08 by Worker   image 1 image
Like many others who attended the march on Saturday 21st February I was surprised at the massive turn out. At 13.50 I was walking up O’Connell street and the march was passing the GPO. I walked around the march, curious to see how it was arranged, and what groups were represented. Eventually, I trickled down to the back of the march which passed the GPO at around 3.30pm. There were at least 120,000 protesters on the march. Some estimate slightly more, some slightly less. ICTU claim it was the biggest march in thirty years at 150,000+ , whilst RTE claim less than 100,000. But, overall I think 120,000 is a fair estimate. Either way there can be no disputing the fact that this was a huge turnout.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 24, 2009 - 11:50 by Alan MacSimoin   text 6 comments (last - friday february 27, 2009 - 00:32)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
The economy's crashing, the dole queues are growing. Yet the bankers, bosses and developers responsible are untouchable - because the politicians supposed to hold them to account had their noses in the same trough. So-called experts bluster to cover their confusion, make tut-tut noises about corruption and greed, then shake their heads and agree, that in the end its the ordinary workers and taxpayers that will have to foot the bill. Because that's just the way it has to be... ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Monday February 23, 2009 - 16:17 by Spark
The Irish Republican Youth Movement, Ógra Shinn Féin, launching their new e-zine Spark at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis. The online magazine which can be viewed at www.splanc.ie aims to discuss the most relevant issues concerning young republicans and Irish youth today.

The first edition features articles on policing, drugs, gay rights, music and tracing 100 years of Irish Republican youth. The youth production also has a distinct international flavor to it with an exclusive interview with banned and censored Basque youth movement, Segi.
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national / animal rights Monday February 23, 2009 - 16:15 by Laura Broxson   text 21 comments (last - wednesday march 04, 2009 - 18:18)   image 2 images   audio 1 audio file
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