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dublin / animal rights Monday December 15, 2008 - 21:56 by Stephan Wymore
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On December 10th during ‘International Day for Animal Rights 2008’ a huge 10ft ‘elephant’ led a peaceful demonstration outside the Department of Agriculture in Dublin on behalf of Animal Rights Action Network and Animal Defenders International as our campaigners geared up for an important meeting to discuss the new upcoming revised Irish animal welfare bill which is due to be published during 2009. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday December 15, 2008 - 03:21 by Contaminated Crow
Waste,a quarry, waste, a powerplant, waste, a missing planning file and more waste ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Sunday December 14, 2008 - 14:59 by Pooka McFee
10 comments (last - thursday january 01, 2009 - 23:59) 7 images
Over the last week/ten days, local people in what Shell and the government like to style as the 'receiving communities' of Rossport, Glenamoy and Pullathomas (as if a dirty big refinery, a dangerous experimental pipeline and a gombeen-facilitated Gas Robbery were gifts beyond price!) joined with solidarity activists from elsewhere in Ireland to pursue a project more sustaining and sustainable than Corrib - the gradual re-afforestation of magnificent beautiful Erris with appropriate species of trees! Photos and additional reporting courtesy of FSB! ... read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 13, 2008 - 19:59 by Joe Moore
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December 10th 2008 marked the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) This event was marked across the globe last Wednesday. The anniversary was also marked by numerous events around Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / miscellaneous Saturday December 13, 2008 - 08:27 by saoirse
Picket in support of Republican prisoners in the Six Counties ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday December 13, 2008 - 01:33 by sdv
10 comments (last - thursday june 03, 2010 - 05:49)
"Gunned down by idiot cops. That's life hey?" the message left on the myspace page of a 15 year old boy killed by police in Australia. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 12, 2008 - 18:39 by Seano
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Businessmen don't like the result of first ever election in Sark and fire 140 people. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / crime and justice Friday December 12, 2008 - 16:11 by Rudiger
8 comments (last - saturday december 13, 2008 - 02:39) 2 images
Last Wednesday, the 10th December 2008, in Belmullet District Court, Judge Mary Devins showed, in my opinion, her clearest example so far, that she has no interest in the notion of proper and real justice. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Friday December 12, 2008 - 14:58 by ALiberation
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Fur Free Activists asked Naomi Campbell some choice questions about her questionable choices in Dublin on Wednesday. She didn’t comment. She did look briefly at the poster of a mutilated fox with the words “Ban Irish Fur Farms”. ... read full story / add a comment 
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 12, 2008 - 09:06 by John Lannon
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On Thursday, just after 10.30am, Limerick’s Congolese community along with Irish friends and supporters marched from Arthur’s Quay in the city centre, up O’Connell St., to O’Connell Avenue. There, a memorandum to the Irish Government and the International Community was read, calling their attention to the ongoing tragedy taking place in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It noted that over the last decade the world has allowed the deaths of 5 million people in Congo, and that in the eastern part of the country sexual abuse of women, forced recruitment of child soldiers and displacement from villages and homes are once again part of everyday life. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / gender and sexuality Thursday December 11, 2008 - 20:47 by Andrew
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Audio of a 45 minute talk/discussion given at the Dublin Independent Zine fair last Sunday in New Square about RAG, the magazine of the Revolutionary Anarcho-Feminist Group. ... read full story / add a comment
meath / animal rights Thursday December 11, 2008 - 17:25 by ICABS
6 comments (last - saturday december 19, 2009 - 23:43) 1 video file
Witness the lengths to which followers of the Ward Union hunt will go to hide the suffering caused to deer during their cruel hunt. Our short film includes scenes in which hunt monitors from the Irish Council Against Blood Sports are verbally abused and harassed on public roads. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday December 11, 2008 - 16:54 by Timothy Danaos
21 comments (last - saturday july 11, 2009 - 16:26) 7 images 7 video files 1 audio file
News of the workers and student's uprising against the Right Wing Greek government is rapidly disappearing off the news reports. Here is a declaration from the uprising. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Thursday December 11, 2008 - 14:38 by anarchia
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The cop who murdered Alexis Grigoropoulos is named Korkoneas and comes from Kalamata. He has a ultra right wing biography and family tradition. As per Indymedia Athens, his family environment and family members members, were participating in the right wing ProNAZI gangs during the German occupation in Greece (WWII), collaborating with the Fascists. (Tagmatasfalites). He is member of the Golden Dawn, a greek fascist organisation which also carried members to the city of Patras to fight anarchists with knives and sticks in the last days. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 11, 2008 - 12:05 by Gingerbeard
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Greek Embassy Picket 9th December Dublin WE DON’T FOGET WE DON’T BACK DOWN A good crowd gathered at the top of Grafton street at about 5.15pm on the cold dark Tuesday evening in December. We moved off towards St. Stephens green, about 25 of us heading towards Lesson street and the Greek Embassy. We went against the flow of people escaping work and rushing towards the illuminated beacon of the shopping centre. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 10, 2008 - 16:14 by Educate to be Free
11 comments (last - sunday december 14, 2008 - 10:48) 2 images 1 video file
At their National Congress in Cork City, on Saturday 6 December, Ógra Shinn Féin launched a new national campaign on education. The campaign, titled 'Educate to be Free' was launched by ÓSF National Organiser Barry McColgan, and was endorsed by Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams who was present. Following the launch, the republican youth movement organised a No! Fees Protest on Cork's Patrick Street, which was well recieved by the public. The following is the text from the launch: ... read full story / add a comment 
national / education Wednesday December 10, 2008 - 14:01 by Emma Beckett
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The student who was manhandled last night by Minister Eamon O Cuiv has called for an apology from the minister. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday December 09, 2008 - 19:01 by Paula Geraghty
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Buses were organised from Ballyfermot, another créche marched from The Coombe, Roscommon was present as was Ringsend and many other creches from around Dublin city and nationwide. Everyone taking a stand- not about the low pay, not about the conditions but about their and other childrens futures. Fed up of being considered babysitters, creche workers supported by parents, politicians and the SIPTU Community Branch (who organised the protest) marched to the to the Office of Minister of Children, Hawkins House, Poolbeg St., Dublin 2, to hand in their letters ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Tuesday December 09, 2008 - 03:25 by Western Writers' Centre
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Renowned author Ulick O'Connor presented his new collection of poems, 'The Kiss - New and Selected Poems and Translations,' in Dublin this evening. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Monday December 08, 2008 - 22:51 by Niall Harnett
18 comments (last - tuesday february 03, 2009 - 17:31) 20 images 3 video files
On Friday 5th December 2008, Ministers Eamon Ryan and Eamon O'Cuiv hosted a 'Forum' at the Broadhaven Bay Hotel, Belmullet, Erris, Co Mayo. Set in the context of the Shell Corrib Gas Project, what the forum is about or what it's supposed to address is not clear. “It's not a decision making forum”, said the chairman, Joe Brosnan. Meanwhile, in another room at the same venue, local residents and community activists hosted a parallel forum, the People's Forum, to address what the Ministers' forum will not address … the substantive issues, which are: Health, Safety & the Environment. The Great Gas Giveaway. Community Consent ... read full story / add a comment |
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