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international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 30, 2018 - 19:37 by ipsc
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In a letter published today in the Irish Times ( https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/israel-and-arms-trade-...78396 ) newspaper, Minister of State Finian McGrath and fifty other Irish TDs and Senators have called for an arms embargo to be placed on Israel, and for “an end to the bi-lateral arms trade between Ireland and the apartheid state”. In addition to independent Minister McGrath, the signatories include members of Sinn Féin, Solidarity-People Before Profit, Labour, the Green Party, Independents 4 Change and other independent members of the Oireachtas, who condemn “the shooting dead of some 205 [Palestinian] protestors, including 40 children, and wounding of more than 5,000 people by live fire [on the Great March of Return] in Gaza since April”. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Sunday October 07, 2018 - 22:43 by Climate Case Ireland
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New IPCC report on 1.5°C shows the urgency of transformational policy change if we are to avoid dangerous climate change. But Ireland is still lagging behind. The IPCC special report on global warming of 1.5°C is the most important climate science report of the decade. It offers the most exhaustive and authoritative assessment of the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and the action needed to stay below this threshold. The report will hugely influence international, EU and domestic climate policy making over the next few years. ... read full story / add a comment 
Ten thousand people attended a lunchtime protest outside the Dáil on Wednesday, Oct 3 to protest Government inaction on the growing housing crisis and demand change. The protest was called by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) and the National Homeless and Housing coalition – a coalition of student unions, Housing campaigners, political parties including Solidarity, trade unions and others. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / housing Thursday September 13, 2018 - 23:15 by wsm
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Masked Garda threatening people with batons in the aftermath of the violent eviction carried out by thugs in Dublin last night. Pepper spray, dogs and batons were deployed, there were 5 or 6 arrests and four housing campaigners required hosptial visits from injuries received in the course of the eviction of the Frederick St occupation. Video at https://youtu.be/BaBTdaWv3Ro ... read full story / add a comment 
Yesterday the housing activist occupation at 35 Summerhill Parade entered its third day. Approximately 100 people attended the 'Leo’s Early Risers'* event yesterday evening to show solidarity and support to the local community and all those involved in the occupation. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 03, 2018 - 01:19 by Justin Morahan
Justin and Anne Morahan have started a petition to Pope Francis asking him to intervene in the case of Julian Assange. There have been recent reports of Julian's health deteriorating due to lack of light, fresh air, isolation (no visitors allowed). There are also rumours afloat that he may be removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London and extradited to Mr Trump's United States where capital punishment is still in vogue. ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Monday July 23, 2018 - 20:59 by Roger Yates
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The Vegan Information Project are saying a sad farewell to Temple Bar Square in the heart of Dublin after featuring its "Vegan Information Day" events there since 2013. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / arts and media Tuesday July 17, 2018 - 23:33 by BAOITE Publicist
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BAOITE, is a new play by Darach Mac Con Iomaire, premiering this week at the Galway International Arts Festival. A fishing family leads a desperate fight to defend their coastal community from the imminent threat of offshore fracking ? but as the constant pressure of campaigning mounts, hidden fractures appear in the once-solid clan... ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 20, 2018 - 12:52 by Justin Morahan
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As part of a worldwide protest, solidarity was shown in Dublin to Julian Assange. Mairead Maguire called on the Irish Government to mediate between Britain and Ecuador to secure his release. Mick Wallace and Clare Daly also spoke. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 16, 2018 - 18:03 by séamas carraher
Ongoing abduction and rape of women and young girls by Turkish ‘Security’ Forces in Afrin, Rojava ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday May 15, 2018 - 18:06 by ipsc
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n response to Israel’s horrific massacre of some 60 unarmed Palestinians, and wounding of thousands, yesterday in Gaza, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) has organised a series of protests around Ireland to take place today. Protests are expected to continue in Gaza, and casualties are expected to mount. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 04, 2018 - 10:03 by Dorothy Grace Guerrero
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Since Rodrigo Duterte began his term as the 16th president of the Philippines in 30 June 2016, Filipinos and the international community have watched in horror at accounts of dead bodies found nightly in the country’s streets, linked to extra-judicial killings (EJKs). ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 26, 2018 - 14:02 by Justin Morahan
After dozens were killed and hundreds injured in the Friday demonstrations in Gaza, it appears inevitable that there will be further such killings and mutilations tomorrow as the protests continue. The following letter to the Israeli Ambassador in Ireland expresses fears that Israel will continue their unjust use of violence. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday April 22, 2018 - 20:48 by pbp
While the Irish media focus only Macron bombing Syria and making speeches in praise of the EU French workers and students are in full scale revolt against the French President’s neo-liberal policies. The past few weeks have seen an explosion of resistance to Macron’s proposed anti-worker Labour Laws, his plans to cut 120,000 jobs in the public sector and introduce individualised “payment by results” for workers, along with his attacks on free higher education. Rail workers led the way but many other sectors have followed suit in mass strikes across the country. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 19, 2018 - 22:27 by ipsc
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Posted belatedly Today (17th April), on the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Political Prisoners, more than 150 European trade unions, political parties, human rights organizations and faith groups from over 16 European countries issued a call urging the EU to uphold its legal responsibilities and exclude Israeli military companies from EU Framework Programs. This call – accompanied by an explainer video – comes at a time when at least 35 unarmed Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli snipers during three weeks of protests at Gaza’s border with Israel. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Wednesday April 18, 2018 - 16:47 by MDEG
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As printed 2018 edition ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 17, 2018 - 14:24 by Justin Morahan
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(On 28 March the new Ecuadorian government and its President cut off all use of the internet from Julian and forbade him all future visitors. His friends have rallied and are asking all who care to protest and work on his behalf. The letter below explains itself) ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday April 08, 2018 - 07:11 by Jason 0'Phelan
Yaser Murtaja, a Palestinian journalist has died after succumbing to wounds he sustained during clashes with Israeli forces near the border between the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied Palestinian territories. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday April 06, 2018 - 22:32 by Michael Donahue Steinberg
An Irish American's Visit To the North of Ireland in 1983 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday March 24, 2018 - 10:33 by séamas carraher
An International Day of Global Solidarity has been called for Afrin, Rojava, Saturday, March 24… Make noise… so that together we can say its long past time when lunatic dictators with an addiction to power and violence can hold half the world to ransom... ... read full story / add a comment |
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