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international / gender and sexuality Friday August 08, 2008 - 21:57 by pat c
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Kobra Najjar, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery has lost her final appeal for amnesty. Iranian women’s rights activists working on her case saythat Kobra has exhausted all domestic legal remedies and that her execution by stoning could happen any time. Kobra is a victim of domestic violence who was forced into prostitution by her abusive husband in order to support his heroin addiction. He was murdered by one of Kobra’s “clients” who sympathized with her plight. Kobra has already served 8 years in prison as an accessory to her husband’s murder. The man who murdered her husband also served 8 years in prison and was free after paying blood money and undergoing 100 lashes, while Kobra faces imminent stoning to death for adultery - the prostitution her husband forced upon her. Yet another example of Iranian justice. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Friday August 08, 2008 - 13:44 by vegan agenda
28 comments (last - saturday september 20, 2008 - 01:00)  5 images  2 video files
Animal Rights groups were tipped off that the Hunting Association of Ireland was going to be hosting a breakfast seminar this morning to unite groups and companies which have been the subject of protest for their treatment of animals. The main speaker at the event was Lt. Col. Dennis Foster (US Army, ret'd) who was described as an ''expert on animal rights terrorists" . ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday August 07, 2008 - 23:03 by Candle in the Wind
In Italy in 2007 there were twice as many workplace deaths and 8 times as many road deaths as murders. But the government is focusing all its energy on combating crime ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 07, 2008 - 18:01 by nuachtan
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It's been reported that the gardaí have spent 11,000,000 euro on policing the protests against the Shell scheme to install a production pipeline and refinery in Kilcommon County Mayo. The amount is more than half of what is being spent on fighting organised crime (€20M) and the Irish Independent newspaper reports that Garda sources are concerned that policing the protests is draining overtime budgets. In May this year the Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission recommended that there should be a general review of the way public protests are policed, in the light of more than 70 complaints received about the Corrib protests. GSOC wrote to Minister for Justice proposing that it carry out an examination of management of crowd protests and civil disobedience. However, the minister turned down the proposal, as he “did not feel that it was appropriate at that time”. http://www.corribsos.com/index.php?id=1774 ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / animal rights Wednesday August 06, 2008 - 22:55 by NARA
2 comments (last - thursday august 21, 2008 - 20:48) 5 images
For the past few weeks we've been having regular demonstrations outside Novartis in Dublin (Regus House, Harcourt Road, Dublin 2). ... read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday August 05, 2008 - 22:40 by Cork Warship Watch
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A Royal Navy ship, HMS Enterprise is due in the port of Cork tomorrow morning (Wednesday) where she will tie up at the city's North Custom House Quay. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 05, 2008 - 19:03 by TD
39 comments (last - wednesday august 27, 2008 - 14:38) 6 images
Stephen Lendman in a Znet article http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18348 succinctly puts the moral imperatives behind the Free Gaza Movement's brave sailings to the Israeli besieged Gaza Strip: "After Hamas' January 25, 2006 electoral victory, Israel targeted Gaza oppressively. All outside aid was cut off. Sanctions and an economic embargo were imposed, and the democratically elected government was falsely called a terrorist organization and isolated. Stepped up repression followed along with repeated IDF incursions, attacks, killings, targeted assassinations, arrests, destruction of property and more in a pattern all too familiar to Palestinians for over six decades. Gazans are imprisoned in their own land and have been traumatized for months. In June 2007, things got worse after Israel placed the Territory under siege - described by some as medieval because of its extreme harshness". ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Tuesday August 05, 2008 - 06:20 by Dave Donnellan
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A potpourrai of events on Grafton Street last Saturday including the fur protest! ... read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality Friday August 01, 2008 - 19:14 by Paula Geraghty
4 comments (last - friday august 01, 2008 - 22:28) 22 images 1 video file
Last year Pride in Latvia took place hemmed in a closed off park surrounded by Riot Police and hundreds of homophobic protesters. These images and report follows on the fight for sexual freedom and civil rights one year on in Latvia. ... read full story / add a comment 
louth / arts and media Friday August 01, 2008 - 11:03 by Sean Crudden
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A very attractive program of Russian music was presented in the refurbished Marist Church, Dundalk, last night. Tickets were €15. The program and the performance was captivating and exemplary. ... read full story / add a comment 
derry / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 31, 2008 - 17:45 by DAWC
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Members of the Derry Anti War Coalition marked the second anniversary of the massacre at Qana in Lebanon with a vigil at the Derry Raytheon plant on Wednesday. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / consumer issues Thursday July 31, 2008 - 15:33 by Gu.com reader
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Shell announced second quarter profits of $8,000,000,000 today. The company is currently exploiting Irish Natural gas off the west coast for which it is liable for zero royalties. While tax may be charged at some point in the future on Shell Ireland's profits, the Anglo-Dutch company has shown itself to be skilled in avoiding tax when it can. Irish gas bills for domestic users are set to raise by 20% in September, with another 20% rise expected in the new year. The Irish state owns no stake in the Corrib field. New licences on the same giveaway terms are currently being issued for Irish offshore blocks in the Rockall Basin. http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Natural/Petroleum+Affairs+Divis...d.htm ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday July 29, 2008 - 20:11 by Seán Ryan
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Today, Mary Kelly appealed her conviction of a suspended sentence of 2 years (2 years and 1 year running concurrently) for her decommissioning of a war plane in Shannon Airport. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Tuesday July 29, 2008 - 15:24 by Rudiger
26 comments (last - tuesday june 23, 2009 - 20:54) 11 images 2 video files
The latest from Glengad beach, were Shell have occupied a section of the beach and fenced it off from the local community ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday July 28, 2008 - 21:22 by Edward Horgan
8 comments (last - wednesday august 06, 2008 - 21:48) 1 image 2 attached files
Shannon airport and Irish airspace are being used on a daily basis by US warplanes, with the permission of the Irish Government, in contravention of international laws on neutrality, in spite of the Irish Governments claims that Ireland is still a neutral state. Lies, Lies and Damn Lies ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Monday July 28, 2008 - 10:22 by Dolphin Watcher
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A school of curious dolphins were attacked yesterday lunchtime by a vessel supporting Shell's offshore pipeline works in Broadhaven Bay at Glengad. The Niamh Aine - a pleasure boat hired to escort various work vessels around the area - drove across the path of two of the dolphins who were inspecting the Vlaanderen VII barge. ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday July 27, 2008 - 23:14 by Sean Matthews
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“In 1907 there was only one Jim Larkin in Belfast; in 2008 there are thousands of Jim Larkin’s.” (Gerry Trainer, SIPTU shop steward, Andersonstown News, 19/07/08) ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / gender and sexuality Saturday July 26, 2008 - 20:20 by Andrew
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Saturday lunchtime saw dozens of pro-choice activists take part in the final picket of the month of action against the rogue pregnancy counselling agency on Dorset street, ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 26, 2008 - 13:20 by éirígí
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37 years ago, the doors of working class nationalist homes across the Six Counties came crashing down as the British government's armed thugs went on the offensive in defence of the Stormont junta. ... read full story / add a comment
OZ Catholic Workers Acquitted for Criminal Damage Charges Arising from Exorcism of Raytheon Brisbane
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 26, 2008 - 13:00 by Jim Dowling
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An hour after a Wynnum magistrate found Lisa Bridle and I not guilty of "disobeying a police direction", police rang my home to let me know that Raytheon did not wish to proceed with willful damages charges resulting form another (our third) exorcism at their Brisbane offices. ... read full story / add a comment |
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