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national / anti-capitalism Tuesday September 30, 2008 - 16:30 by S.Cat
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The Leinster House Government has announced its intention to guarantee all deposits and borrowings for the six Irish-owned financial institutions for the next two years. The list is as follows: Allied Irish Bank, Anglo Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland, Irish Life & Permanent, Irish Nationwide Building Society and the EBS. Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan has been giving interviews to the corporate media all day to explain why this is a good idea. He says all deposits and debt will be covered by the State. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Monday September 29, 2008 - 21:16 by FSB!
6 comments (last - wednesday october 01, 2008 - 18:37) 7 images
A number of groups from Erris and Co. Mayo went to meet with two government ministers, Éamon Ryan (Natural Resources) and Éamon Ó Cuív (Gaeltacht & Community Affairs) in Ballina today. These groups included Shell to Sea, Pobal Chill Chomáin, and Pobal le Chéile; a number of Erris fishermen accompanied by the parish priest of Kilcommon also met the ministers despite not having been invited. The ministers also met with the Pro- Gas Mayo Group and the Council for the West, organisations that could be candidly described as ‘astroturf’ (i.e. fake grassroots) and stalking horses for Shell. Following these encounters, the ministers met with the TDs for Mayo and county councillors from Erris, to round off what was a cynical PR exercise by an alarmed clueless government. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday September 29, 2008 - 21:08 by Valentine Julien
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Yes, you find it in the papers all over Europe and today in Belgium in de Morgen .....but is it true? Declan Ganley is initiator of the No means No campaign in Ireland. Cohn Bendit (green party EU parliament) and his Anti-American friends try with a personnel attack to save the European Union as it is, by asking an EU investigation on the legality of this No campaign. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday September 29, 2008 - 14:44 by TD
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Besides highlighting EU hypocrisy in turning the blind eye to Israel's egregious violations of the Agreement, the Euro-Med Agreement, which economically privileges rogue state Israel with access to the EU market ( "Relations between the Parties, as well as all the provisions of the Agreement itself, shall be based on respect for human rights and democratic principles, which guides their internal and international policy and constitutes an essential element of this Agreement.") the other concern of the Free Palestine Campaign at last Saturday's info stall in Shop Street was Zionism's collusion with Nazism and the betrayal of the Jewish people leading up to and during the Holocaust . ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Monday September 29, 2008 - 13:59 by Reyning
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Shell to Sea Kayakers visit the Solitaire in Scotland ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday September 28, 2008 - 20:02 by Elinor
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Pirates Granuaile and Mad Maguire M.C. ed a fabulous array of local talent and general madness last thursday night in the Victoria Hotel in Cork. They also proved superb at evicting a troublesome man known by us to have Nazi involvement ! It was great to see lots of new faces at this fundraiser for shell to sea after the past few weeks of intense activity. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday September 28, 2008 - 16:01 by Jo ta ke!
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SEGI Revolutionary Youth Organisation Euskal Herria The recent arrests of activists from the left independentist movement in Northern Euskal Herria, demonstrates the war strategy of the French State. The French state is taking its strategy from the Spanish, working hand in hand with the Spanish State in an attempt to end the liberation movement. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday September 27, 2008 - 20:23 by Contaminated Crow
Water extraction, wind farm, telemast. rehabilitation at last at Gortmore and latest from the National Miners Group ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / worker & community struggles and protests Friday September 26, 2008 - 15:49 by Peter Sullivan
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Cork hospitals are under attack with major cuts planned ... Meanwhile Beacon Medical Group's planned 'Co-location' hospital in Cork draws nearer. It would seem like high-time to call in the union and put manners on a few people ... but where is Joe? ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Wednesday September 24, 2008 - 18:29 by westside
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Whilst the solitaire is in for repairs, we'd thought we'd remind the government that activists haven't taken their eye off the ball. We also thought we would dedicate this action to Maura. ... read full story / add a comment 
derry / anti-capitalism Wednesday September 24, 2008 - 11:45 by MAOR
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Activists from Derry on Saturday traveled to Glengad in a gesture of solidarity with activists there. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 22, 2008 - 20:35 by Decwell's
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Ciaron O'Reilly discusses all your hardware needs in this three minute rough cut from a forthcoming film on activism in Ireland. Hammers, mattocks and other pieces of equipment are all weighed up by this seasoned activist. A shears (or even a scissors) does not make it out of the bag, so perhaps the film will act as a timely reminder of the need to raise funds for anti-war causes (in ways other than sponsored haircuts). ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday September 22, 2008 - 16:17 by Soundmigration
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At this stage its unsurprising in the least to read Royal Dutch Shell propoganda being presented as "journalism" by the Irish Independent and its stable mate, the Sunday Indo. Most readers of this site will be only too aware that the paper's owner 'Sir' Tony O Reilly has a very practical and profitable interest in the vast amounts of oil and gas of the West coast of Ireland. However even by the hack standards of journalism, and right wing opinions, that grace the paper, yesterdays piece by Maeve Sheehan suggest not just the usual biased and unnuaced 'presentation of facts' but has an almost willful ignorance of the facts on the ground. Combined with a willingness to present Shell and Police PR without any simple background checks or colloratory evidence over such an 'extensive' (read: its got a big word count) this article would be most useful for any who sought a practical example of what Noam Chomsky describes as the 'manufacturing of consent' ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Sunday September 21, 2008 - 13:11 by CH
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Following a request from Shell to Sea, people on the West Coast of Scotland were trying to track the pipe-laying ship Solitaire. Photos confirm that the boat is where it was reported to be. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 20, 2008 - 18:49 by Belfast Anarchist Black Cross
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The meeting which was billed as part of the West Belfast feile and took place in the Culturlann on August 9th 2007. It was introduced by a speaker from Belfast ABC and addressed by Linda Moore of the Human rights commission in a personal capacity and Phil Scratton prison abolishonist and Professor of criminology at Queens university Belfast as well as contributions from the floor. ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / environment Saturday September 20, 2008 - 18:02 by John
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Eager to make the most of the head of steam built up by recent events Cork s2s activists had a busy day with their new banner ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Saturday September 20, 2008 - 01:49 by Belfast WSM
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Harold H. Thompson is an anarchist prisoner serving life plus sentences in Tennessee, USA after a series of farcical trials. Harold is well known for his work as a 'jailhouse lawyer' and copes with prison by fighting for his fellow prisoner in the courts for some semblance of real justice. "I am an anti-authoritarian, anti-racist, anti-sexist, anarchist revolutionary of proud Irish heritage. I am also a vegetarian and strongly support the animal liberation movement. I stand for civil/human rights and will not break, bend nor be intimidated. I stand in solidarity with all people struggling against oppression but most particularly with my brothers and sisters in the anarchist movement". ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday September 20, 2008 - 00:47 by Contaminated Crow
A quiet week -airport objections and an oral hearing ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 19, 2008 - 19:41 by Cormac Mac Gall
Dublin Committee condemns latest action of Spanish state in banning yet another Basque political party as part of a campaign of repression against all democratic and peaceful expression of Basque left-nationalist aspirations. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 19, 2008 - 18:56 by FSB! et al.
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This afternoon, the Shell to Sea campaigner Maura Harrington ended her 10-day-old hunger strike after confirmation that the Solitaire had indeed left Irish waters. She read a statement to the press and the public outside the gates of Shell’s compound at Glengad in Erris, Co. Mayo, and then announced that her hunger strike had come to an end. ... read full story / add a comment |
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