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dublin / anti-capitalism Saturday October 04, 2008 - 22:24 by Andrew
 5 comments (last - tuesday october 07, 2008 - 13:53)  1 video file
Seomra Spraoi, the Dublin social center project, is back once again. This afternoon I visited and splashed some paint on the walls of the new premises at 10 Belvedere Court, 1 lane North of Mountjoy square. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / arts and media Friday October 03, 2008 - 17:47 by Mark
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We're looking for strong hi-res images from the Mayo struggle, to add to our 'Shell's Wild Lie' exhibition (http://www.artnotoil.org.uk/gallery/v/Shell/). Faces of those involved are good, but so are land/seascapes from the struggle etc. Please write to [email protected] if you might be able to help. Thanks, Mark PS. We'd love any other images to consider, Shell-related or beyond, for the main Art Not Oil gallery, and here's some info we've sent to artists asking them to respond to the production of the Shell-sponsored 'Oedipus' in London: ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 03, 2008 - 17:03 by Paula Geraghty
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Hundreds attended a mass meeting organised by the INTO, the Irish National Teachers Organisation last night at the RDS, a part of the ongoing campaign to highlight the fact that primary school classes in Ireland are still the second most overcrowded in the EU. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 03, 2008 - 16:09 by Justin Morahan
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire of the Peace People was among a party of internationals waiting in Larnaca, Cyprus recently for a sea-worthy boat to take them to Gaza with food and medicines. The venture has been postponed because near deals with boat owners fell through repeatedly and also because of high seas. However the 22 people involved including five Palestinian doctors, intend to return to Gaza and invite others to join them Here is the full text of a statement by Mairead Maguire concerning the venture. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 03, 2008 - 15:29 by Paul O'Mahony
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A Concern video on rising food prices in Kenya has notched up over 100,000 views ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Wednesday October 01, 2008 - 15:48 by GU
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The lawyer of Rozbrat squat has obtained information that the bailiff/debt collector has sent the records and complete documentation to the court in order to set the date of the auction. This date may appear soon. The ground where Rozbrat is situated may be sold. The campaign "Rozbrat stays!" was not very loud in the last months but it does not mean that the situation of Rozbrat has stabilized. We ask you to keep your eyes open and support us when necessary. Our stand is unchanged: we won't give up without fight! ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Tuesday September 30, 2008 - 21:04 by Full Irish
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Just in case you thought all the talk about the Great Gas Rip Off ® was lefty treehugger claptrap ®, it was confirmed today by no less a personage than the government's own energy watchdog, who turns out to be highly-paid civil servant called Dermot Nolan. He works for a shower called the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) , and he told the Oireachtas Energy Committee today that as far as the Irish consumer is concerned, the gas from the Corrib field may as well be coming from Outer Mongolia (he didn't use those exact words). ... read full story / add a comment 
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!
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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 |
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