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national / arts and media Monday August 25, 2008 - 10:25 by M. Ni Bhrolchain
 21 comments (last - saturday august 29, 2009 - 15:44)  34 images  1 video file
On Sunday 24 August 2008 Save Tara campaigners presented an international gathering of poets and musicians at Tara to honour and celebrate the place and our heritage. It was organised by Susan McKeown and Paul Muldoon. Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer prize-winner, read their poetry and were joined by Grammy award-winner Susan McKeown who was accompanied by Aidan Brennan. Laoise Kelly and Steve Cooney also playing at the event. ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday August 24, 2008 - 23:54 by Michael McGovern
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Since its inception early this year the Belfast branch of WSM continues to go from strength to strength, growing in size and establishing new contacts. At the moment we distribute a 1000 copies of the Ulster edition of Workers Solidarity to homes across Belfast and at political events. We hope to expand our current distribution in the coming months. WSM members continue to take part in the current campaign against the water charges. We have attended and helped to organise pickets in solidarity with fellow workers on struggle in the midst of the current neo-liberal offensive and attacks on our living conditions and workers rights by the neo-colonial administration at Stormont. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday August 24, 2008 - 16:34 by TD
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Despite all odds, with scrambled radio and jammed phones courtesy of dirty tricks, a seasick passenger, in rough waves with a storm brewing, the small boats, the SS Free Gaza and the SS Liberty, successfully landed in Gaza early yesterday evening, breaking the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.They left Cyprus on Thursday morning, sailing over 350 kilometers through choppy seas. They made the journey despite threats that the Israeli government would use force to stop them. They continued sailing although they lost almost all communications and navigation systems due to outside jamming by some unknown party. They arrived in Gaza to the cheers and joyful tears of hundreds of Palestinians who came out to the beaches to welcome them. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Saturday August 23, 2008 - 12:45 by EYFA
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The participants of the 20th Ecotopia international environmentalist gathering at Sarikum nature reserve, Sinop, on the Turkish Black Sea coast, are awaiting and preparing for forceful eviction of their campsite by the Jandarma (Turkish Police), which are already present with undercover agents and several cars. The 70 participants from over 30 countries will peacefully resist this unjustified raid. The offical reason for the announced eviction was the announcement of the intention to take part in the weekly permitted press conference of the local anti-nuclear initiative SİNYAD (Sinop Nükleersiz Kent ve Yaşam Derneği ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Thursday August 21, 2008 - 16:08 by BR
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A number of protesters have been arrested in Mayo resisting Shell contractors who have been trying to install pipeline infrastructure on Glengad beach. Five people were reportedly arrested this morning and another three this afternoon. It is unclear whether all those arrested have been charged under the Public Order Act or have simply been detained. Shell has been working on the beach, which is a Special Area of Conservation, under a foreshore licence granted by Minister Mary Coughlan and permissions from Minister Eamon Ryan, even though they have yet to receive planning permission for the onshore section of their proposed pipeline. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 14:48 by Rudiger
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Yesterday at 1pm, 3 kayakers paddled out from close by to Killybegs Harbour to deliver a letter from Shell to Sea to Captain Van Der Plicht on the Solitaire, the biggest pipe laying ship in the world. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 12:37 by anti-fascist
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You have to hand it to those tireless activists over at British National Party HQ in the land of the brave and the home of the free (England, for the unitiated in imperialist propaganda). The intrepid campaigners for racial purity have been so busy churning out their ‘information’ on “immigration invasion” that they simply haven’t had the time to verify the appropriateness of some of the images they’ve been using on their website. In an August 4 article entitled Spot the Difference: Zimbabwe or the EU?, far-right readers are confronted with a prominent image of a No to Lisbon leaflet (carried here for those who don't wish to boost the ratings of Britain's super xenophobes) recently published by none other than an Irish socialist-republican party, éirígí. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 09:34 by Ciaron
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As Tibet solidarity and other human rights activists are rounded up i Beijing, a designated protest pen is transformed into a trap from where people disappear (77 applications were made to enter this "protest pen" - all have been withdrawn, suspended or rejected!), a Chinese girl is ditched from the Olympic Opening Ceremony for not having "the look" to go with the voice, the Party promotes, the corporates profit and prima don athletes are expected to keep a housebroken silence - one's mind is cast back to an iconic image from Mexico '68. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Tuesday August 19, 2008 - 22:09 by Alfied
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At present there are 50 plus mobile phone masts on top of the Northside Swimming Pool in Coolock. I find it's sad that we have got to the stage without anybody lifting a finger. I am not living in the area at the moment, but appeal to anybody from Coolock who reads this, and thinks it is an outrage, to make a commitment to do something about it. Phone, write, make a leaflet, tell friends and family and let's try and get a public meeting on the go. ... read full story / add a comment 
Conscience their lodestar, Israeli violence their sword of Damocles,the Boats of Mercy sail for Gaza
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 18, 2008 - 17:39 by TD
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More the decks of a Noah's ark than a cobblestoned trading emporium, Free Palestine Campaign activists took to rain deluged Shop Street last Saturday in solidarity with the brave women and men who presently will be sailing from Cyprus in two boats to break the medieval siege of Gaza and on what Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire, calls a "pilgrimage of justice and peace." ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday August 18, 2008 - 15:25 by Contaminated Crow
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This week's reports on environmental campaigns and controversies from the local papers ... read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech Friday August 15, 2008 - 10:43 by Cookie Monster
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Can corporations censor the Internet? ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday August 14, 2008 - 17:52 by Seba
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The case between an unfairly dismissed union activist and Lionbridge corporation started in July with solidarity pickets throughout Europe. On August 13, the parties in the dispute met again in the Warsaw Labor Court. ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday August 13, 2008 - 23:31 by Sean Matthews
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Interview with Antifa, a militant anti-fascist organisation by Sean Matthews (personal capacity) from the Workers Solidarity Movement. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Wednesday August 13, 2008 - 09:56 by Tara Tara Tara
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Just before the torrential rains of last weekend, work on the Crib Walling of Rath Lugh National Monument finally began amidst much speculation as to the long delay. This was contrary to the recommendations made in the Technical Report of Golder Associates. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Wednesday August 13, 2008 - 03:25 by JM
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The so-called "Corrib Armada" may be heading for the same fate as the Spanish original, as several Shell-hired vessels have entered the troubled waters of the ongoing Corrib gas saga. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Tuesday August 12, 2008 - 20:05 by stop shell
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During the next 2 weeks, the Solitaire (the biggest pipe laying ship in the world) is set to begin illegally constructing the offshore section of the pipeline. It is believed that the Solitaire is on a pretty tight schedule & booked up for the next 2 years, so ANY disruption provides us with a real opportunity to delay the project significantly. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday August 12, 2008 - 14:45 by The Contaminated Crow
Short reports on five environmental controversies based on reports in the local papers. ... read full story / add a comment
longford / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 12, 2008 - 09:13 by Margaret O'Regan
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A black woman was handcuffed and arrested at Longford Railway Station yesterday evening at about 6 pm for not paying her fare on a bus or train. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Monday August 11, 2008 - 15:37 by Andrew
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The 34th G8 summit took place in Japan July 7th to 9th 2008. Andrew Flood interviewed Diane K. a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the (US) Northeast Federation of Anarchist-Communists (NEFAC) who traveled to Japan from New York to take part in the summit protests and counter summit. ... read full story / add a comment |
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