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Nanny state zealots, in a post-pandemic world obsessed with what's good and bad for us, have ensured all debate remains tilted in their direction using skewed statistics and emotional anecdotes, says Abbie MacGregor.
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Keir Starmer's new Health Minister Ashley Dalton previously called for an end to women's toilets and backed people identifying as llamas.
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kilkenny / health / disability issues Friday September 23, 2005 - 18:33 by Paul Ryan   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 24, 2005 - 11:41)
Camphill Community, Ballytobin, near Callan in County Kilkenny, is a small rural community caring at present for 22 children and 12 adults, all with disabilities. It was established in 1979 as a therapeutic farm, to provide a home and school maily for children with exceptional needs, some with multiple disabilities and disturbances.

This video was made during their recent Open Day and tries to give a feeling of what that day was like along with some history and a bit about the renewable energy and sustainable living projects that are going on out there. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Friday September 23, 2005 - 14:53 by Basil Miller   text 2 comments (last - monday august 07, 2006 - 13:07)
Norwegian scientists say the suicide risk involved in taking SSRI antidepressants indicates that warnings for adults are necessary. The research bolsters demands to the Irish Medicines Board to extend to adults the suicide warnings to children (under-18s) included with these drugs, and to make them more prominent. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / anti-capitalism Thursday September 22, 2005 - 17:48 by Various   text 8 comments (last - friday september 23, 2005 - 14:12)   image 5 images
Detailed report from Tenth Grassroots Gathering, consisting of a brief overview of what went on, plus minutes/notes from those workshops which have produced minutes/report backs. ... read full story / add a comment
The camp in late July
mayo / environment Thursday September 22, 2005 - 17:12 by Various   text 3 comments (last - thursday september 22, 2005 - 18:07)   image 13 images
These are some photos taken by various participants in Rossport Solidarity Camp during July and August, which never made it to indymedia. The photos are of a variety of events. ... read full story / add a comment
this is what they look like from space or the moon.
international / environment Thursday September 22, 2005 - 14:28 by ipsiphi   text 15 comments (last - sunday september 25, 2005 - 14:29)   image 5 images
This time "everyone" is going to do their best to avert apocalypse for the paycheck heads.

As as you'd expect, facing a category 5 hurricane, they've ordered evacuation of one million people.

And as you'll have learnt by now, everyone doesn't have a car to get out, and if you're very smart, you'll have realised that the rush on gasoline prices since Katrina didn't really help the poor folks stock up on fuel. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday September 22, 2005 - 12:44 by SP4   text 18 comments (last - monday september 26, 2005 - 18:58)
In the first Federal conspiracy trial against war resisters since the Vietnam War, the Judge has charged two of the Catholic Worker defendants with contempt.

Peter Demott-Grady & Teresa Grady were charged yesterday with contempt as the Federal judge tried to strip their St. Patricks Day 2003 sit in at a military recruitment centre of context. Peter & Teresa are two of the St. Patricks Day 4 whose trial on 4 felony charges started this past Monday. Peter, Teresa & Clare Grady were cross examined by the Prosecutor as to their presence in Ireland during the PIt Stop Ploughshares trial in Dublin in March. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 22, 2005 - 11:59 by Basque Observatory of Human Rights   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 22, 2005 - 15:13)   image 1 image
The subjects we have included in this issue:
- Cutbacks on the right to demonstrate
- Conclusions on the Jarrai-Haika-Segi trial
- Behatokia addressed the UN Human Rights Sub-commission on the issue of antiterrorist measures and human rights
- Iñaki de Juana Chaos: arbitrary incarceration
- Two police forces 11 incommunicado detainees
- Greater distances and more accidents caused by the policy of dispersal ... read full story / add a comment
no bombs in russian and then two types of romanian.
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday September 22, 2005 - 01:22 by Anitya O' Flynn   image 1 image
The participants of Ecotopia in Moldova made this declaration during their stay in the camp, performances and a symbolic statement to raise awareness on the Colbasna arms dump. there was also a large action at the camp, and the next day we were on Moldavian news for 15mins! So any way many people, using various languages originally, wrote this. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 21, 2005 - 22:42 by fellow traveller   text 11 comments (last - wednesday october 05, 2005 - 00:19)
Today up to 20 Travellers picketed the Labour Party HQ in support of Cllr. Declan Bree during a party disciplinary hearing to censure the Sligo Councillor for supporting Travellers rights. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 21, 2005 - 19:47 by Tommy Donnellan   text 7 comments (last - saturday october 01, 2005 - 14:46)   image 10 images
parties, the recruiting/info tables of Eco Soc, Human Rights Society, Sinn Fein, Socialist, Labour & Green Parties and the SWP were largely given over to the plight of the R5; postcards to them in Cloverhill were sold at cost and the students in the teeming Arus Na Maclein Hall were encouraged to sign the petition form - now over 16,000 signatures. The Eco Soc's showed Margaretta D'Arcys Shell to Sea documentary on their laptop.

Yesterday, Trevor Sergeant, head honcho of the Greens stopped for an hour at our Shop Street stall, wearing a 'Justice for the Rossport Five' tee-shirt and giving maximum solidarity. ... read full story / add a comment
Anne Doyle reporting on current events
mayo / anti-capitalism Wednesday September 21, 2005 - 16:31 by Pammypoo   text 8 comments (last - thursday september 22, 2005 - 10:22)   image 10 images
These pictures are from the street theatre that was preformed by people from the camp during the Rossport Solidarity Week.

The play outlined the struggle that's occured up to now.

On Thursday the 25th August the group preformed on three occassions in prominant locations in Castlebar.

All received great response and support :-) ... read full story / add a comment
Steel door on former Magpie Squat last night
dublin / housing Tuesday September 20, 2005 - 21:35 by W   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 20, 2005 - 23:29)   image 4 images
In August 2003 some anarchists, autonomists and punx fed up paying extortionate rents to greedy landlords (and working shitty precarious jobs to keep him fat) decided enough was enough and occupied a long derelict building on Leeson street. ... read full story / add a comment
Angelica Alvarez (centre) of Venezuela's Women's Development Bank, March 2005 in Galway, where she spoke about the constitution as part of a European tour organised by the Global Women's Strike
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 20, 2005 - 18:08 by Global Women's Strike   text 13 comments (last - saturday september 24, 2005 - 02:26)   image 1 image
Proposed wording for 41.2.1

The State recognises caring work done within the home, often extending to the community, as a social and economic activity that produces social welfare and economic wealth, and entitles carers, starting with mothers, to economic and other support.

The State also recognises that in rural areas caring work has included work on the land which has kept families and communities alive and strong despite poverty and emigration.
... ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Tuesday September 20, 2005 - 16:28 by Sean Crudden   text 3 comments (last - thursday september 22, 2005 - 12:41)
Anne Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis enthralled a packed National Concert Hall on Saturday night 17 September 2005. ... read full story / add a comment
Pallas studios and heights - map
dublin / arts and media Tuesday September 20, 2005 - 12:49 by dunk   text 4 comments (last - thursday march 23, 2006 - 14:56)   image 15 images
"In 1996 Artists Mark Cullen and Brian Duggan formed Pallas Studios in Dublin's inner city. This multi functional art space has a wide range of services and ongoing Projects. From Art studios to contemporary exhibitions Pallas was established to harness, engage and provoke."
5 years later the city council gave them a derelict flat which they have turned into an art gallery.
Last week some of the seomra spraoi collective visited the group, saw the spaces and interviewed them
14 minute radio interview with Brian Duggan
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/brian_and_pallas.wav ... read full story / add a comment
Simon Wiesenthal 1908 - 2005
international / crime and justice Tuesday September 20, 2005 - 10:08 by iosaf .:.   text 20 comments (last - friday september 23, 2005 - 21:41)   image 1 image
Simon Wiesenthal has died in Vienna at 96 years of age.

"When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it."

Wiesenthal survived the Holocaust ( he had been held in Mauthaussen along with hundreds of thousands of other jews and the spanish republican prisoners) but never returned to his career as architect, instead he became the most effective and well known hunter of nazi war criminals. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday September 20, 2005 - 00:12 by Not Donal Nevin   text 3 comments (last - wednesday october 12, 2005 - 13:11)
This evening a half dozen ESB apprentices were occupying the hallway of the headquarters of the TEEU trade union in Parnell Square, Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Monday September 19, 2005 - 23:55 by Radio Listener   text 10 comments (last - thursday june 20, 2013 - 09:54)
It came as little surprise to those involved in the programme's creation that as and from now the environmental/Gaeilge/Community open access radio show has completed its latest broadcast on Thursday last at 6pm. ... read full story / add a comment
Digging in the Gabhra Valley - Tara on right
meath / history and heritage Monday September 19, 2005 - 21:46 by Tara SOS   text 4 comments (last - tuesday september 27, 2005 - 22:54)   image 9 images
Dr. Pat Wallace, National Museum: 'Mechanical topsoil stripping of known areas of archaeology would not be desirable given the fact that the burnt spreads have already been exposed.'

This is a site with burnt spreads. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday September 19, 2005 - 19:13 by Pól MacGiolla Bán   text 3 comments (last - wednesday september 21, 2005 - 18:15)
Chinese dissidents protested in Dublin on Saturday ... read full story / add a comment
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