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international / crime and justice Saturday December 13, 2008 - 01:33 by sdv   text 10 comments (last - thursday june 03, 2010 - 05:49)
"Gunned down by idiot cops. That's life hey?" the message left on the myspace page of a 15 year old boy killed by police in Australia. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 12, 2008 - 18:39 by Seano   text 1 comment (last - saturday december 13, 2008 - 10:43)
Businessmen don't like the result of first ever election in Sark and fire 140 people. ... read full story / add a comment
Judge Devins never addressed how these injuries came about
mayo / crime and justice Friday December 12, 2008 - 16:11 by Rudiger   text 8 comments (last - saturday december 13, 2008 - 02:39)   image 2 images
Last Wednesday, the 10th December 2008, in Belmullet District Court, Judge Mary Devins showed, in my opinion, her clearest example so far, that she has no interest in the notion of proper and real justice. ... read full story / add a comment
Fur Industry at work
international / animal rights Friday December 12, 2008 - 14:58 by ALiberation   text 1 comment (last - saturday december 13, 2008 - 03:17)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Fur Free Activists asked Naomi Campbell some choice questions about her questionable choices in Dublin on Wednesday. She didn’t comment.
She did look briefly at the poster of a mutilated fox with the words “Ban Irish Fur Farms”.
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limerick / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 12, 2008 - 09:06 by John Lannon   image 5 images
On Thursday, just after 10.30am, Limerick’s Congolese community along with Irish friends and supporters marched from Arthur’s Quay in the city centre, up O’Connell St., to O’Connell Avenue. There, a memorandum to the Irish Government and the International Community was read, calling their attention to the ongoing tragedy taking place in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It noted that over the last decade the world has allowed the deaths of 5 million people in Congo, and that in the eastern part of the country sexual abuse of women, forced recruitment of child soldiers and displacement from villages and homes are once again part of everyday life. ... read full story / add a comment
The 3 issues of RAG
national / gender and sexuality Thursday December 11, 2008 - 20:47 by Andrew   text 1 comment (last - friday december 12, 2008 - 12:45)   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
Audio of a 45 minute talk/discussion given at the Dublin Independent Zine fair last Sunday in New Square about RAG, the magazine of the Revolutionary Anarcho-Feminist Group. ... read full story / add a comment
meath / animal rights Thursday December 11, 2008 - 17:25 by ICABS   text 6 comments (last - saturday december 19, 2009 - 23:43)   video 1 video file
Witness the lengths to which followers of the Ward Union hunt will go to hide the suffering caused to deer during their cruel hunt. Our short film includes scenes in which hunt monitors from the Irish Council Against Blood Sports are verbally abused and harassed on public roads. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday December 11, 2008 - 16:54 by Timothy Danaos   text 21 comments (last - saturday july 11, 2009 - 16:26)   image 7 images   video 7 video files   audio 1 audio file
News of the workers and student's uprising against the Right Wing Greek government is rapidly disappearing off the news reports. Here is a declaration from the uprising. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous Thursday December 11, 2008 - 14:38 by anarchia   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 11, 2008 - 16:42)   image 2 images
The cop who murdered Alexis Grigoropoulos is named Korkoneas and comes from Kalamata. He has a ultra right wing biography and family tradition. As per Indymedia Athens, his family environment and family members members, were participating in the right wing ProNAZI gangs during the German occupation in Greece (WWII), collaborating with the Fascists. (Tagmatasfalites). He is member of the Golden Dawn, a greek fascist organisation which also carried members to the city of Patras to fight anarchists with knives and sticks in the last days.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 11, 2008 - 12:05 by Gingerbeard   text 8 comments (last - saturday december 13, 2008 - 15:24)   image 3 images
Greek Embassy Picket
9th December Dublin
WE DON’T FOGET WE DON’T BACK DOWN

A good crowd gathered at the top of Grafton street at about 5.15pm on the cold dark Tuesday evening in December. We moved off towards St. Stephens green, about 25 of us heading towards Lesson street and the Greek Embassy. We went against the flow of people escaping work and rushing towards the illuminated beacon of the shopping centre.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 10, 2008 - 16:14 by Educate to be Free   text 11 comments (last - sunday december 14, 2008 - 10:48)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
At their National Congress in Cork City, on Saturday 6 December, Ógra Shinn Féin launched a new national campaign on education. The campaign, titled 'Educate to be Free' was launched by ÓSF National Organiser Barry McColgan, and was endorsed by Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams who was present.

Following the launch, the republican youth movement organised a No! Fees Protest on Cork's Patrick Street, which was well recieved by the public.

The following is the text from the launch:
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national / education Wednesday December 10, 2008 - 14:01 by Emma Beckett   text 9 comments (last - thursday february 05, 2009 - 22:54)   image 4 images   1 attached file
The student who was manhandled last night by Minister Eamon O Cuiv has called for an apology from the minister. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday December 09, 2008 - 19:01 by Paula Geraghty   text 9 comments (last - friday december 12, 2008 - 17:25)   image 20 images
Buses were organised from Ballyfermot, another créche marched from The Coombe, Roscommon was present as was Ringsend and many other creches from around Dublin city and nationwide. Everyone taking a stand- not about the low pay, not about the conditions but about their and other childrens futures. Fed up of being considered babysitters, creche workers supported by parents, politicians and the SIPTU Community Branch (who organised the protest) marched to the to the Office of Minister of Children, Hawkins House, Poolbeg St., Dublin 2, to hand in their letters
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Left to right: Ulick O'Connor, Fred Johnston (Western Writers' Centre, Galway, Joseph Woods (Poetry Ireland)
national / arts and media Tuesday December 09, 2008 - 03:25 by Western Writers' Centre   image 1 image
Renowned author Ulick O'Connor presented his new collection of poems, 'The Kiss - New and Selected Poems and Translations,' in Dublin this evening. ... read full story / add a comment
The People's Forum
mayo / environment Monday December 08, 2008 - 22:51 by Niall Harnett   text 18 comments (last - tuesday february 03, 2009 - 17:31)   image 20 images   video 3 video files
On Friday 5th December 2008, Ministers Eamon Ryan and Eamon O'Cuiv hosted a 'Forum' at the Broadhaven Bay Hotel, Belmullet, Erris, Co Mayo.

Set in the context of the Shell Corrib Gas Project, what the forum is about or what it's supposed to address is not clear. “It's not a decision making forum”, said the chairman, Joe Brosnan.

Meanwhile, in another room at the same venue, local residents and community activists hosted a parallel forum, the People's Forum, to address what the Ministers' forum will not address … the substantive issues, which are:

Health, Safety & the Environment.
The Great Gas Giveaway.
Community Consent

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national / education Sunday December 07, 2008 - 22:55 by Paula Geraghty   image 10 images
Rallies and protests against the education cuts have taken place in Cork, Donegal, Galway and now Dublin. The same unions which have accepted the National Pay Deal are not accepting the cuts, the same people who voted to accepted the pay deal are not accepting the education cuts. This unresolved contradiction is at the heart of this new protest movement. The ideology of the market which became entrenched under Partnership and the Celtic Tiger is unravelling. These images reflect the search for a new language of resistance and a confusion on taking it forward. Who can do it? Who will do it? What will it take? ... read full story / add a comment
Michael McKevitt
national / crime and justice Sunday December 07, 2008 - 22:32 by Ian Greene   text 4 comments (last - saturday february 14, 2009 - 13:28)   image 1 image
Lawyers acting on behalf of Michael McKevitt have submitted a fresh application to the Supreme Court in Dublin seeking to have a previous Supreme Court judgement overturned and a new appeal initiated. This unprecedented action by McKevitt’s legal team is prompted by the fact that the previous Supreme Court judgement (July 2008) relied greatly on ‘facts’ provided by the prosecution. Subsequently, the Director of Public Prosecutions has acknowledged these to be inaccurate.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 07, 2008 - 22:32 by Paula Geraghty   text 5 comments (last - friday december 19, 2008 - 14:09)   image 44 images   video 2 video files
Rallies and protests against the education cuts have taken place in Cork, Donegal, Galway and now Dublin. The same unions which have accepted the National Pay Deal are not accepting the cuts, the same people who voted to accepted the pay deal are not accepting the education cuts. This unresolved contradiction is at the heart of this new protest movement. The ideology of the market which became entrenched under Partnership and the Celtic Tiger is unravelling. These images reflect the search for a new language of resistance and a confusion on taking it forward. Who can do it? Who will do it? ... read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday December 07, 2008 - 22:31 by Sean Matthews (pc)   text 2 comments (last - thursday january 01, 2009 - 23:11)   image 1 image
Pickets escalate against the sacking of Subway migrant worker Natalia Szymanska in Belfast.... ... read full story / add a comment
Eat lead, eat cake, bring back PD clone McCreevy - the FF Ryanair solution to the crisis
national / anti-capitalism Sunday December 07, 2008 - 11:16 by Salvador Allende   text 8 comments (last - thursday december 11, 2008 - 10:10)   image 1 image   video 1 video file   1 attached file
THE Ryanair boss has made big mistakes, buying fuel at inflated prices, coming under pressure to cut in a company with the fat already peeled back to the bone.

What does he do to distract attention - he gets more and more hysterical and wants to finally destroy the former state asset, Aer Lingus by buying it up to sell it off. He wants to be the monopoly he said he was going into business to prevent.

O'Leary calls for "board members -- with a few notable exceptions -- to be 'taken out and shot' describing them as 'useless'." He is focusing in his Sunday Independent interview on trade unions and their representatives - this is the boss who says he can deal with trade unions - he will start by shooting them.

Now he want to sell off CIE and the ESB to himself and his rich pals at knock-down prices

We need a workers' solution - re-nationalise the lot and take over Ryanair - shoot O'Leary with publicly owned bullets if he resists. Sauce for the goose..... ... read full story / add a comment
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