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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 09:34 by Ciaron
 1 comment (last - friday august 22, 2008 - 07:37)
As Tibet solidarity and other human rights activists are rounded up i Beijing, a designated protest pen is transformed into a trap from where people disappear (77 applications were made to enter this "protest pen" - all have been withdrawn, suspended or rejected!), a Chinese girl is ditched from the Olympic Opening Ceremony for not having "the look" to go with the voice, the Party promotes, the corporates profit and prima don athletes are expected to keep a housebroken silence - one's mind is cast back to an iconic image from Mexico '68. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Tuesday August 19, 2008 - 22:09 by Alfied
4 comments (last - monday august 25, 2008 - 23:28)
At present there are 50 plus mobile phone masts on top of the Northside Swimming Pool in Coolock. I find it's sad that we have got to the stage without anybody lifting a finger. I am not living in the area at the moment, but appeal to anybody from Coolock who reads this, and thinks it is an outrage, to make a commitment to do something about it. Phone, write, make a leaflet, tell friends and family and let's try and get a public meeting on the go. ... read full story / add a comment 
Conscience their lodestar, Israeli violence their sword of Damocles,the Boats of Mercy sail for Gaza
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 18, 2008 - 17:39 by TD
16 comments (last - monday august 25, 2008 - 10:36)  12 images  1 video file
More the decks of a Noah's ark than a cobblestoned trading emporium, Free Palestine Campaign activists took to rain deluged Shop Street last Saturday in solidarity with the brave women and men who presently will be sailing from Cyprus in two boats to break the medieval siege of Gaza and on what Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire, calls a "pilgrimage of justice and peace." ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday August 18, 2008 - 15:25 by Contaminated Crow
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This week's reports on environmental campaigns and controversies from the local papers ... read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech Friday August 15, 2008 - 10:43 by Cookie Monster
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Can corporations censor the Internet? ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday August 14, 2008 - 17:52 by Seba
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The case between an unfairly dismissed union activist and Lionbridge corporation started in July with solidarity pickets throughout Europe. On August 13, the parties in the dispute met again in the Warsaw Labor Court. ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday August 13, 2008 - 23:31 by Sean Matthews
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Interview with Antifa, a militant anti-fascist organisation by Sean Matthews (personal capacity) from the Workers Solidarity Movement. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Wednesday August 13, 2008 - 09:56 by Tara Tara Tara
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Just before the torrential rains of last weekend, work on the Crib Walling of Rath Lugh National Monument finally began amidst much speculation as to the long delay. This was contrary to the recommendations made in the Technical Report of Golder Associates. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Wednesday August 13, 2008 - 03:25 by JM
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The so-called "Corrib Armada" may be heading for the same fate as the Spanish original, as several Shell-hired vessels have entered the troubled waters of the ongoing Corrib gas saga. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Tuesday August 12, 2008 - 20:05 by stop shell
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During the next 2 weeks, the Solitaire (the biggest pipe laying ship in the world) is set to begin illegally constructing the offshore section of the pipeline. It is believed that the Solitaire is on a pretty tight schedule & booked up for the next 2 years, so ANY disruption provides us with a real opportunity to delay the project significantly. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday August 12, 2008 - 14:45 by The Contaminated Crow
Short reports on five environmental controversies based on reports in the local papers. ... read full story / add a comment
longford / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 12, 2008 - 09:13 by Margaret O'Regan
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A black woman was handcuffed and arrested at Longford Railway Station yesterday evening at about 6 pm for not paying her fare on a bus or train. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Monday August 11, 2008 - 15:37 by Andrew
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The 34th G8 summit took place in Japan July 7th to 9th 2008. Andrew Flood interviewed Diane K. a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the (US) Northeast Federation of Anarchist-Communists (NEFAC) who traveled to Japan from New York to take part in the summit protests and counter summit. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday August 11, 2008 - 13:15 by Anarchist Prisoner Support
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Amadeu Casellas is a well known anarchist prisoner. Amadeu spent already 25 years in jail, in fact he's the most veteran prisoner in Catalonia. He joined many collective protests, hunger strikes, rebellions, etc and suffered many tortures and reprisals as a direct consequence of his permanent confrontational attitude towards the system. Now Amadeu thinks that it's time to be released, but the prison authorities don't want to release him, so he decided to take a step forward again and started an indefinite hunger strike. Amadeu said that the only options are freedom or death. He's already at the sickbay of Quatre Camins prison and his health is going worse everyday. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 09, 2008 - 11:07 by Michael Gallagher
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I was on my way to the printers (to get photos printed for anti war exhibition) yesterday (Fri. Aug.8th) and came across this protest/vigil that was organised by the 'Burma Action Ireland' group. I was surprised to see this, as I had heard or read nothing about it, I was even more surprised, given the important significance of the date, 8-8-88, that it wasn't advertised in the events section on indymedia. I have my own ideas why this was, but would any of you care to comment? While I am here, I will post some of the text from the press release. ... read full story / add a comment
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
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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
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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 |
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