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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 14, 2007 - 20:17 by IFC POW Dept.
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Three Irish Republican POWs are on punishment blocks, and more are likely to follow in the coming week, for their refusal to remove their Easter lilies and for their refusal to co-operate with the punishment system at Maghaberry jail. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Saturday April 14, 2007 - 17:28 by Eve
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Work at Shell's proposed refinery site at Bellanaboy was interupted for the second day running today with 30 protesters engaging in a trespass of the site. Fifteen campaigners managed to get into the inner compound stopping work for some time. Six people were arrested. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Saturday April 14, 2007 - 15:48 by Eve
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Fourteen women from Erris, Cork, Dublin and the Solidarity Camp gained access to Shell proposed refinery site at Bellanaboy yesterday morning, Friday the 13th April. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Friday April 13, 2007 - 23:30 by Shell to Sea
22 comments (last - saturday april 28, 2007 - 22:08) 19 images
Today in Mayo activists from Shell to Sea disrupted the peat haulage process which has been going on since the beginning of April. In what was seen as a reconnaissance, a small group of protesters arranged to have a close look at the situation, and see if they could lock themselves on to the Iggy Madden haulage trucks as they passed. Heavy-handed Garda tactics meant that none of the attempts were successful, although some were close enough to make those involved confident that the process of stripping the peat can be stopped by peaceful direct action protest methods. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 13, 2007 - 21:43 by IFC POW Dept
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As a result of their refusal to remove Easter Lilies on Easter Sunday, Monday and Tuesday; fifteen Irish Republican Political Prisoners at Maghaberry Gaol met with aggression and sectarian abuse from prison staff this week. Adjudication for three of the POWs in the incident commenced on Wednesday last, with all three POWs refusing to co-operate with the adjudication process and being immediately placed on punishment blocks. Eight other POWs face adjudication in the coming week. ... read full story / add a comment
international / health / disability issues Friday April 13, 2007 - 21:42 by Kevin t. Walsh
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The other day I received through my door a booklet on Fine Gael's Lucinda Creighton. The name rang a bell for one main reason. A lady of 29 years facing eviction last October and three emails I sent to Lucinda Creighton. Eventually with my partner Michelle and the assistance of Ruari Quinn we got an extension for this woman of several months. I ask where is this woman's humanity towards the vulnerable people, she is supposed to represent in Dublin 4. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment Friday April 13, 2007 - 16:13 by Mick
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Hundreds of students gathered outside the Dáil ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday April 13, 2007 - 11:49 by Chris O Ralaigh
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Bellenaboy refinery shutdown ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday April 12, 2007 - 14:48 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
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Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen cannot be prosecuted for the war in Iraq, the High Court of Denmark ruled on Wednesday 11 April.
The court found that the plaintiffs were not entitled to prosecute, as they did not have "legal interest" in the matter. They will now appeal to the Supreme Court. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 12, 2007 - 11:16 by Internationale
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Ógra Shinn Féin activist Ian Breslin has just returned home from a tour of the Basque Country (5 - 10 April). Ian was there to show our support for Segi, after they were deemed a ‘terrorist organisation’ by the Spanish courts. Whilst in the Basque country Ian addressed various gatherings and demonstrations. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / arts and media Wednesday April 11, 2007 - 19:17 by Anthony Wisener
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Ballymena born writer Gerard McKeown has won The New Belfast PerformancePoetry Cup, after competing in an intensive slam contest, which featured competitors from all over Ulster. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 11, 2007 - 15:17 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
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In Leipzig over the Easter weekend, Irish activists participated in an international discussion of tactics for the anti-war movement, in the formulation of a declaration demanding an end to the ongoing militarisation of Leipzig-Halle airport, and in a protest march from the nearby town of Schkeuditz to the airport. We also distributed a few hundred black shamrocks, which were very well received. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday April 11, 2007 - 13:18 by KBranno
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One of the last Scottish veterans of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War has died, aged 99. James Maley, a life-long communist, went to Spain in 1936 to fight for the Republican government against the insurgence by fascists under Franco. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / consumer issues Tuesday April 10, 2007 - 12:28 by NN
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Venezuela has an interesting relationship with the energy giant Shell. They actually force them to pay taxes, and when they submit estimates which the govt doesn't believe, they audit them and present them with a bill. Today they told Shell to pay back over thirteen million dollars that the company was trying to weasel out of from 2005. The Irish government, of course, has a more compliant attitude to the big energy companies... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 09, 2007 - 19:02 by IFC POW Dept
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In an emergency message from Maghaberry prison this morning the Irish Freedom Committee has learned there was a clash with screws on wings Easter morning Maghaberry prison and fifteen republican POWs are now charged with wearing Easter lilies. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Monday April 09, 2007 - 14:06 by Clive Sullish
3 comments (last - thursday april 12, 2007 - 12:00)
A new ‘probability-based’ report, prepared for England’s Ministry of Defence by Rear Admiral Chris Parry, warns of the dangers to political stability which may present themselves during the 2030s. Competition for scarce resources and climate change in a context of growing population will fuel the continuing conflict in the Middle East and possibly give rise to conflict between Islam and an economically-vibrant and still-atheist China. ‘Terrorism’ will be facilitated by technological developments. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 08, 2007 - 20:04 by Mick Butler
6 comments (last - monday april 23, 2007 - 21:14)
Underpinning the principles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS adopted and proclaimed by the UN General Assembly on December 10th 1948. These legal instruments are wholly pertinent for political activists, in the broadest meaning of that term, in dealing with organs of the state such as DCC. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 08, 2007 - 14:32 by TD
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Yesterday, the Galway branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign did a six hour petition/info table, as part of the ongoing campaign against Israeli Blood Diamonds and DIY stores Atlantic Homecare and Woodie's, outside Lynch's castle in Shop Street, ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Sunday April 08, 2007 - 03:22 by Emilio de Lima
We want to make in the place a first experience of an untouched reserve with respectful exploitation, in permanent expansion, that later can be taken to other regions of the world. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday April 06, 2007 - 03:05 by Diet Simon
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Opponents of Germany’s main dump for highly radioactive nuclear waste are crying foul over a deal the environment minister is proposing. The deal would be to resume exploration of a salt deposit as a final repository if the minister’s opponents agree to a wider search for alternative sites. Local opponents to dumping near the northern village of Gorleben point out that since the early 80s there has been scientific proof that the salt dome there cannot prevent atomic waste from entering the biosphere because it lacks rock cover. ... read full story / add a comment |
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