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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
The Blob has sunk to new depths in its quest to destroy educational freedom. No wonder, says Randall Hardy. It's only the right to withdraw children from the state system that restrains its worst indoctrinating tendencies.
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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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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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offsite link Germans Underestimate Number of Asylum Seekers in Germany, Study Finds Thu Feb 06, 2025 11:00 | Noah Carl
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 / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 16, 2008 - 17:22 by Saoirse   text 9 comments (last - saturday january 03, 2009 - 17:43)   image 5 images   video 2 video files
Ógra Shinn Féin got active across Ireland in the past weekend to demand the immediate release of IRA Prisoners of War, some of whom qualify under the terms of the GFA for release and all because the leadership of Óglaidh na hÉireann formally called an end to their armed campaign over 3 years ago.

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Dec 11 th Peoples Mouvement and members of Cap - Onzezeg
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday December 16, 2008 - 14:13 by Valentine   image 1 image
On Dec 8 th 2008 the Belgian campaign Notre mot à dire/Onze Zeg ("Our Voice", aiming at a democratic referendum on the EU Lisbon Treaty ) addressed the Constitutional Court of Belgium. In a first request, they demand the cancellation of the Flemish ratification.

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national / education Tuesday December 16, 2008 - 12:57 by People Before Profit Alliance
Rory Hearne, who recently completed a PhD on PPPs in Trinity College Dublin and who is a candidate for the People Before Profit Alliance in the upcoming local elections in Dublin South East, has criticised the decision to develop another bundle of schools through the PPP mechanism.

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dublin / animal rights Monday December 15, 2008 - 21:56 by Stephan Wymore   text 1 comment (last - saturday january 10, 2009 - 03:21)   image 1 image
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
A journey...
mayo / environment Sunday December 14, 2008 - 14:59 by Pooka McFee   text 10 comments (last - thursday january 01, 2009 - 23:59)   image 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!
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 13, 2008 - 19:59 by Joe Moore   text 3 comments (last - monday december 15, 2008 - 12:54)
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   text 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   text 1 comment (last - saturday december 13, 2008 - 10:43)
Businessmen don't like the result of first ever election in Sark and fire 140 people. ... read full story / add a comment
Judge Devins never addressed how these injuries came about
mayo / crime and justice Friday December 12, 2008 - 16:11 by Rudiger   text 8 comments (last - saturday december 13, 2008 - 02:39)   image 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
Fur Industry at work
international / animal rights Friday December 12, 2008 - 14:58 by ALiberation   text 1 comment (last - saturday december 13, 2008 - 03:17)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
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”.
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limerick / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 12, 2008 - 09:06 by John Lannon   image 5 images
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
The 3 issues of RAG
national / gender and sexuality Thursday December 11, 2008 - 20:47 by Andrew   text 1 comment (last - friday december 12, 2008 - 12:45)   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
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   text 6 comments (last - saturday december 19, 2009 - 23:43)   video 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   text 21 comments (last - saturday july 11, 2009 - 16:26)   image 7 images   video 7 video files   audio 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
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international / miscellaneous Thursday December 11, 2008 - 14:38 by anarchia   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 11, 2008 - 16:42)   image 2 images
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.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 11, 2008 - 12:05 by Gingerbeard   text 8 comments (last - saturday december 13, 2008 - 15:24)   image 3 images
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.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 10, 2008 - 16:14 by Educate to be Free   text 11 comments (last - sunday december 14, 2008 - 10:48)   image 2 images   video 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:
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national / education Wednesday December 10, 2008 - 14:01 by Emma Beckett   text 9 comments (last - thursday february 05, 2009 - 22:54)   image 4 images   1 attached file
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
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