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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday June 28, 2009 - 17:44 by Belfast Branch
 1 comment (last - sunday june 28, 2009 - 18:06)  1 image  2 audio files
Working people continue to bear the brunt of the economic recession in terms on job cuts, poverty wages and house repossessions, while the rich and powerful in our society are bailed out again. This is state capitalism and comes under various forms from thatcherism to neo-liberalism. The Belfast Anarchist Communist Discussion Group, set up by the Belfast branch of the Workers Solidarity Movement recently invited Michael Reinsborough to give a talk on the topic of neo-liberalism. The public meeting took place on Wednesday 17th June in the Belfast Unemployment Centre. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday June 28, 2009 - 17:12 by TD
8 comments (last - monday june 29, 2009 - 13:58) 4 images  2 video files
Yesterday, in Shop Street, activists and supporters of Shell to Sea and Galway Free Palestine Campaign found common cause and empathy in their resistance to the murderous abuse of state and corporate power: in the case of Israel; egregious and genocidal, in the case of Shell, the bending of corrupt governments to its will; from the judicial murder of the Ogoni 9 in Nigeria to, in Ireland, the jailing of the Rossport 5, economic treason through the giveaway of the Corrib field gas by notorious corrupt politicians, the criminalization and bulldozing of dissent through the deployment of Navy gunships, the shoot-to-kill Emergency Response Unit and a security outfit, hand in glove with the Garda, arm-in-arm with an openly fascist paramilitary group and favoured by Fianna Fail for its Ard Fheiseanna over the past few years. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday June 28, 2009 - 13:36 by Edward Horgan
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On 26 June, Amnesty Ireland issued a special report "BREAKING THE CHAIN: ENDING IRELAND'S ROLE IN RENDITION". At the launch of the report, Colm O'Gorman Amnesty Director described as "barely credible" Green Party TD Ciaran Cuffe's statement that he did not believe that Shannon airport was being used by US flights involved in extraordinary rendition. Meanwhile, business as usual at Shannon, with Omni air troop carriers, Hercules C130 warplane, and National (Murray) Air munitions plane at Shannon on 27 June 2009 ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday June 27, 2009 - 20:56 by éirígí PRO
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Members of the PSNI riot squad, backed by armoured jeeps and dogs, today blocked éirígí protesters from even reaching protest assembly point in Belfast city centre. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday June 27, 2009 - 18:15 by Revolt Video Collective
7 comments (last - monday june 29, 2009 - 21:00) 5 images 1 video file
A look at the massive security operation currently taking place in Erris and the subservient mainstream media, protecting the interests of corrupt politicians and the corporate takeover of Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday June 26, 2009 - 22:21 by Jolly Red Giant
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Lindsey Oil Refinery (LOR) construction workers, who have been on strike for a fortnight, have won a stunning victory. All the workers’ demands have been met. The bosses’ 647 dismissals have been withdrawn, the 51 redundancies rescinded ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 26, 2009 - 22:05 by Wordsmith Kev – IPSC (pers cap) and images by Paula Geragh
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At 4.30pm on Friday 26th June, politicians Chris Andrews TD (FF), Mary Lou McDonald (SF), Proinsias De Rossa MEP (Lab) and Cllr. Richard Boyd Barrett (PBPA) handed in a petition to Eircom Headquarters calling on Eircom not to sign a proposed deal with an IBM-led consortium which includes the Israeli telecommunications billing company Amdocs. Signatures to the petition were collected by the Irish Anti War Movement (IAWM) and the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), online and on the streets. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 26, 2009 - 19:08 by I.Greene
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On 8 June 2009 Mr Justice (Sir) Declan Morgan delivered the judgment in the marathon Omagh civil case. The judgment delivery ended the year long hearing leaving more questions unanswered than answered with its content less than convincing. The burden of proof in civil cases is based on the laws of probability and in this case Mr. Justice Morgan stretched the probability rule well outside the boundaries. The judgment in its entirety contained multiple ambiguities and inevitably the defendants will appeal. One can only assume that Mr Morgan is a highly intelligent man by the very fact that he has recently been elevated to the office of Lord Chief Justice, however this particular judgment may come back to haunt him. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Friday June 26, 2009 - 14:09 by iosaf
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Of course news attention is overwhelmingly focussed today on the passing of the king of pop, Michael Jackson. We are even told that global internet traffic slowed whilst humanity came to terms with its loss. However, hard as it is believe and as impalatable as it may be for some to stomach, in poorer countries life has appeared to have gone as normal. General Romeo Vasquez chief of staff of the Honduran army put tanks on the streets surrounding the presidential palace where democratically elected Mr Manuel Zelaya lives and up till yesterday was mostly worrying about winning a referendum which will allow him to be re-elected and sit more terms. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday June 26, 2009 - 13:17 by kevin
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Speaking at a public meeting in Wynn’s Hotel on his new book, Ireland’s Economic Crash, Kieran Allen, long-standing socialist and a senior UCD sociologist condemned the ‘elite consensus’ that wage cuts will bring an economic recovery to Ireland. A recording of the meeting with slideshow will be posted on www.swp.ie later today. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Friday June 26, 2009 - 11:17 by Rossport Solidarity Camp
23 comments (last - tuesday june 30, 2009 - 22:16) 16 images 2 video files
In a daring action by the Shell to Sea kayak team Shell's pipe-laying ship the Solitaire was forced to flee from activists late yesterday. Read on... ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 25, 2009 - 12:57 by adam and steve
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A group of Marriage Equality Protesters have blocked access to Leinster House on Kildare Street by locking themselves to the gates of the entrance. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday June 25, 2009 - 12:09 by watcher
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Marathon's share in the controversy-ridden Corrib gas project is to be sold on to Canadian firm Vermillion Energy Trust, which claims to "live and breathe" a motto of "excellence, trust, respect and responsibility every day". ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 25, 2009 - 11:09 by FSB! et al
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In a reprise of last year's repeated arrests on the waters of Broadhaven Bay, Shell's Gardai have arrested Pat 'the Chief' O'Donnell and his son Jonathan while they were fishing in Broadhaven Bay this morning. Their two boats were commandeered by Gardai and brought to Ballyglass pier under tow and naval escort. Gardai claim that the two boats were 'loitering', the new term for criminalising fishermen exercising their rights to fish in their native waters. Pat's brother Martin is currently still on the water in the bay fishing in his boat. Meanwhile the Solitaire is less than an hour away from arriving off Glengad. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Thursday June 25, 2009 - 00:15 by S2S
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The last few days have seen some very interesting developments in the situation after Pat O'Donnell's boat was sunk. First of all, we had an appeal from Pat for State protection (see below) to the Gardai on Sunday. This was read out in full on local radio on Wednesday, and it went into some other media coverage too. Following on from this, the Gardai called out to Mr. O'Donnell, and asked him what he wanted in terms of protection – his reply was: a 500 metre exclusion zone around his boat, and a Garda RIB to accompany him when he goes out. They agreed to the second one, and didn't really comment on the first(!). Two swimmers were also arrested this evening Wednesday, despite being well outside Shell's so-called exclusion zone. Well, the 200+ Gardai up here have to justify their existence somehow... ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Wednesday June 24, 2009 - 23:49 by Reclaim the resources,protect the communty!
7 comments (last - friday june 26, 2009 - 11:35) 13 images 1 video file
As the Solitaires arrival looms large,the state ups the pressure with more frivolous arrests ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / miscellaneous Wednesday June 24, 2009 - 15:41 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin
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Go gearr i ndiaidh na n-ionsaithe ar theaghlaigh Rómánacha i gceantar Dheisceart Bhéal Feirste, chuaigh múrphictiúr nua suas ar an Bhalla Idirnáisiúnta ar Bhóthar na bhFál ag cáineadh gach cineál biogóideachta agus na ngnímh a dtagann astu. Tá an múrphictiúr bunaithe ar cheann déanta cheana in Ard Eoin, i ndiaidh na seachtainí de chiapadh agus de dhroch-íde a d'fhulaing páistí scoile ag Scoil Chailíní na Croise Naofa i dTuaisceart Bhéal Feirste. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 24, 2009 - 11:31 by Margaretta D'Arcy
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A motion advocating common ownership of Ireland's natural resources was finally passed despite an extraordinary attempt to block it by delegates from SIPTU and the Labour Party. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday June 24, 2009 - 04:04 by PQ
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The world's largest pipe laying ship, the MV Solitaire, will arrive back in Irish waters this week. It has emerged that the operators of the ship do not pay the minimum rate of pay for Ireland, as the ship is registered under a Panamanian flag of convenience. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 24, 2009 - 00:28 by Paula Geraghty
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Over one hundred predominantly Iranians took part in a protest at the Dail from 12-2pm in Dublin today. No slogans were chanted images (c) ... read full story / add a comment |
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