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international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday March 01, 2007 - 06:40 by Michelle
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Greg Boertje-Obed, Fr. Carl Kabat OMI and Vietnam Veteran Michael Walli had no trouble finding Weapons of Mass Destruction. They looked in North Dakota rather than Iraq! Known as the "Weapons of Mass Destruction Here! Plowshares" they are presently imprisoned for their nonviolent disarmament work on an ISBM Missile Silo in North Dakota, USA. They are part of a growing body of folks imprisoned for resisting the war. Consider wrting a postacrd or letter to them! More background www.jonahhouse.org ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Wednesday February 28, 2007 - 23:06 by Eve
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As Shell subcontractors RPS held an information evening on the pipeline route selection process and community consultation, the message from Shell to Sea campaigners was clear; the problem is not just the pipeline but the entire project. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / public consultation / irish social forum Wednesday February 28, 2007 - 19:49 by Dr Nick
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Not a day for statistics but a day for action...... ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday February 27, 2007 - 20:23 by w.
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John Monaghan is a resident of Rossport county Mayo and part of the Shell To Sea campaign. Shell's pipeline, if it were built, would be located less than 70m from his home. Here he speaks about how the jailing of his father in law Micheál Ó Seighin drew him into the campaign and how the struggle against Shell has raised greater national questions for him about local democracy and control of natural resources. "Every problem we are facing in this country right now, like the health crisis...seems to be a lack of money, and we are giving this natural resource away when we should be developing it for the good of the country." John also discusses last fridays direct action, which stopped work at the refinery site for the first time since it began last October, and how the campaign can move on from here. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 27, 2007 - 12:31 by Boycott Killer Coke
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There was a good turnout in the Davis Theatre in Trinity for a meeting hosted by TCD One World, Anarchist Society, Labour Youth, Pol Soc and SWSS. The meeting started with two short news videos which featured Coca Cola workers in Colombia and also the leader of an independent investigation to the bottling plants. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 26, 2007 - 23:44 by TD
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With significant funding from Trócaire and also sponsorship from UL Arts Office and UL Students Union the week long visit of Jerulalem based Al-Quds to Ireland was organised by the University of Limerick Palestine Solidarity Society. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Monday February 26, 2007 - 22:17 by In The Know
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CDP's warned off by Government in advance of elections. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / public consultation / irish social forum Monday February 26, 2007 - 19:35 by J. P. Anderson
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Responding to recent reports about 'underage drinking' the Minister for Children is set to establish a Comittee and have a chat to some 'young people' in order to unravel the new and great mystery about, why children drink?. This data may assist him in his quest. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / crime and justice Monday February 26, 2007 - 13:55 by Dave Donnellan
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An important principle which emerged in the 1985 Handshu Agreement in New York was that Police have no right to investigate purely political activity. The ruling handed down last week by Judge Charles Haight of the New York Supreme Court forbids police from routine video-taping of people at public gatherings as it contavenes the spirit of the Hanshu Agreement. People involved in this country in purely peaceful, political protests will know that such Garda surveillance has become routine even though no criminal activity is present. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / environment Monday February 26, 2007 - 12:46 by Ken
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A number of people from Kildimo/Pallaskenry are off to Brussels today . ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 25, 2007 - 19:35 by w. - sound s. - pix
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Saturdays protest against the playing of "God save the Queen" at Croke park never turned into a repeat of last years Love Ulster riot as many had predicted, although things got quite heated between the Gardai and the protestors on several occasions. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 25, 2007 - 18:50 by Joan McAnthony
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Eoghan Harris attacked Manus O’Riordan in his Sunday Independent column of February 11, after a February 4 letter from O’Rordan: Memories of an Irish Waffen SS man, by Manus O'Riordan . http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=...15221 O’Riordan wrote after Harris attempted to link Irish republicanism with fascism in successive columns. O’Riordan pointed to a fascist he had come across, who was a member of a party Harris was in (SF the Workers Party, the one he was in longest). O’Riordan’s father, Communist Party General Secretary, Michael O’Riordan warned SFWP of the connection. The warning was ignored. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Friday February 23, 2007 - 23:42 by Paula Geraghty
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Images from the launch of Connolly House, home of the Communist Party of Ireland, on Essex St. tonight! ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 23, 2007 - 19:32 by TD
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After last Friday's peak experience in Bellanaboy, after that quantum lift to our spirits by the peaceful occupation of Shell's refinery site it was back to the foot slogging of picketing again and, in comparison, the banality of pro forma activism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday February 23, 2007 - 18:49 by SPer
On 21 February, the Italian coalition government fell when the Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, resigned. This crisis came just four days after the magnificent 200,000 strong demonstration in Vicenza against the government's decision to approve the expansion of the US base in that town. The government did not get an overall majority in the Senate for a motion outlining its foreign policy, including keeping troops in Afghanistan and maintaining 'good relations' with the US. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 23, 2007 - 17:37 by Gerald
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Respected human rights lawyer who completed an investigation into claims of organ harvesting on Falun Gong practitioners to give public talk in Trinity College Dublin ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday February 23, 2007 - 15:25 by love croker
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Jesús Mari Zabala Mugira is reported as having begun a hunger strike on the 16th of February. His protest which seems without indications to the contrary to be his own decision has been reported quite speedily by the Basque "political prisoner support network" who yesterday sent out the word to various media organisations only 7 days after he began what is still technically an extended fast. Zabala is about to finish serving a sentence in Saint Martin de Re prison in France (on the 8th of March) whereupon he will most likely be extradited to Spain to face other charges. His hunger strike is aimed at evading that transfer. He was detained in the French Basque in 2000 as part of an operation against the logistic structure of the terrorist organisation. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 23, 2007 - 13:16 by Boycott Killer Coke
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As the third referendum in Trinity college on the sale of Coca Cola products reaches its climax - union activists Ray Rodgers is coming to Dublin and will speak in the Davis Theatre in TCD Arts Block on Monday at 7pm. Students in Trinity have already voted twice in support of Colombian Coca Cola workers who have faced torture, intimidation, threats, kindnappings and murder for been members of a trade union. The campaign to support human rights and the Colombia workers is receiving an excellent response in Trinity and the visit of Ray Rogers is set to bolster the campaign. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Friday February 23, 2007 - 09:22 by M. Ni Bhrolchain
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A series of photographs of the activity in the Gabhra Valley over the last 6 weeks. The wonderful sites that are being exposed and explored are being prepared for the destruction. Bodies and artefacts are removed from huge sites that are so large that they now back one on the other. Protests take place each Friday at 3pm on the N3 just after the entrance to Tara on the way to Navan in the Gabhra Valley where it meets the Hill of Tara. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Thursday February 22, 2007 - 22:36 by John
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Just a few photos taken inside the refinery site that may be of interest. ... read full story / add a comment |
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