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cork / worker & community struggles and protests Friday September 26, 2008 - 15:49 by Peter Sullivan 2 images
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 6 comments (last - wednesday october 01, 2008 - 15:42) 4 images
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 4 comments (last - wednesday september 24, 2008 - 12:59) 15 images
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 7 comments (last - wednesday september 24, 2008 - 12:53) 1 video file
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 21 comments (last - sunday september 28, 2008 - 13:28)
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 3 comments (last - sunday september 21, 2008 - 23:49) 2 images
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 1 image 1 audio file
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 2 comments (last - monday september 22, 2008 - 10:16) 6 images
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 1 comment (last - monday february 23, 2009 - 10:13) 1 image
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. 11 comments (last - monday september 22, 2008 - 18:04) 10 images 3 video files
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
cork / environment Thursday September 18, 2008 - 22:28 by dáithí is dócha 1 comment (last - friday september 19, 2008 - 11:48) 2 images
Bhí airneán anocht i gCorcaigh ag Shell chun Sáile Corcaigh i ndlúthchomar le Maura Harrington agus sí ag leanúint a stailc ocrais. Tá dea-mhéin againn di! ... read full story / add a comment
cork / environment Thursday September 18, 2008 - 19:49 by John 7 comments (last - saturday september 20, 2008 - 15:18) 3 images
Cork Shell to Sea paid a visit to the Green Party office on Douglas St this afternoon as part of the sustained and mounting campaign to get the Solitaire out of Ireland, Shell out to Sea and Irish Gas in the hands of the Irish people. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 18, 2008 - 17:32 by TD 2 comments (last - friday october 03, 2008 - 17:15) 5 images
Now that today's expressions of solidarity for Maura in Galway have been serendiptously overtaken by Shell's announcement that "the Solitaire will leave Killybegs today for a UK Port where deep water berthing facilities are available," at the risk of wrongly second guessing her, a sweet and honourable ending to her hunger strike is, surely, in the offing.? ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Thursday September 18, 2008 - 15:07 by Plane madder 3 comments (last - thursday september 25, 2008 - 15:40) 2 images
Today a group of climate activists disrupted the AGM of Ryanair at the Radisson Hotel, Dublin Airport. Campaigners dropped a banner from the hotel with a subvertised Ryanair logo reading ' LYINAIR.CON'. One campaigner confronted a dumb-struck Michael O'Leary at the podium, while other eco-clowns juggled outside. The PLANE MAD campaigners are campaigning for responsible aviation. By pioneering the cheap flights model Ryanair have been responsible for a significant proportion of the massive growth in the aviation industry. Aviation is currently the fastest growing source of greenhouse gases. While governments and individuals are gearing up to tackle their carbon emissions it is necessary to accept the reality that flying is the most polluting form of transport. Plane Mad is an Irish campaigning group taking action against the unsustainable nature of aviation in Ireland. To find out more visit www.planemad.org ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Thursday September 18, 2008 - 00:23 by FSB! et al. 8 comments (last - friday september 19, 2008 - 12:50) 13 images
Shell to Sea paid a visit to Shell’s offices in Belmullet this afternoon and draped a banner from the roof saying ‘Solitaire Out Now’, and protested outside the office until after the workers inside went home. Two people were arrested just after they came down from the roof. Maura Harrington’s hunger strike continued into its ninth day today. Her strike will end when Shell’s pipe-laying ship the Solitaire leaves Irish territorial waters, or she will die. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 17, 2008 - 21:18 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin 1 comment (last - wednesday september 17, 2008 - 22:14) 5 images
Tháinig ar a laghad 50 duine chuig léirsiú Shell chun Sáile i mBaile Andarsain i mBéal Feirste tráthnóna inniu, ag tacú le Maura Harrington agus ag éileamh go gcuirtear an Solitaire thar sáile. Níorbh fhada gur chuir bainisteoir an staisiúin Shell scairt ar na póilíní, ach lean na gníomhaígh leis an agóid, ag scaipeadh billeogaí faoi Maura ags an cás i Maigh Eo faoi láthair. Mar is gnáth, fuair na gníomhaígh tacaíocht mhór ón phobal, tiománaithe ag buladh a mbonnán agus coisithe ag tabhairt a mbeannacht leis an fheachtas. Leanfar leis na léirsithe agus an feachtas ag dul chun cinn. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 17, 2008 - 15:33 by Dublin Shell To Sea 10 comments (last - thursday september 18, 2008 - 19:46) 6 images
Several prominent politicians today called for Shell to immediately make explicit what the intent of the pipe laying ship Solitiare is. Given that Maura Harrington is entering her 10th day of hunger strike, and there are various rumours going around about the sea worthiness of the pipelaying vessel, Tony Gregory TD, Sen. David Norris, Joe Higgins, Patricia McKenna, Andy Storey (Afri) and the filmmaker Ken Loach all signed up to the joint statement calling for the Multinational Shell to give an unequivocal annoucement , rather than playing with the life of local campaigner Ms Harrington ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 17, 2008 - 00:55 by Starstruck 6 comments (last - wednesday september 17, 2008 - 17:25) 10 images
A large crowd assembled at 6pm today to show solidarity for Maura Harrington and the Shell to Sea cause and outrage at the continuing situation in North West Mayo. A Shell to Sea activist was accosted and arrested for refusing to give his name by two special brnachers after the vigil as he was walking down the street. Intimidation of this kind is unfortunately to be expected as the state uses last nights bomb threat to increase the pressure on the S2S activists and supporters. The vigil continues today at 6pm and there will be a 24 hour fast and film screening beginning 6pm Friday should Mauras action be ongoing at that stage. ... read full story / add a comment |
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