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national / environment Monday January 29, 2007 - 15:55 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain   text 9 comments (last - thursday february 01, 2007 - 10:52)   image 5 images
Message from the Vigil Camp at Tara. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday January 28, 2007 - 21:14 by Jane Horgan Jones   text 12 comments (last - tuesday february 13, 2007 - 10:34)   image 5 images
Over 60 pro choice activists from all political backgrounds and none gathered last Saturday in the Central Hotel on Exchequer St to discuss the Irish pro choice campaign and strategise for the future. In addition, over two hundred euro was raised in a whip around which will go a long way to getting some of the many great initiatives decided upon on Saturday going. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday January 27, 2007 - 19:52 by Rasta4i's   audio 1 audio file
Audio 1:47,46 .mp3 (mono)

Trafficking in Persons
MODERN DAY SLAVERY

Today, trafficking is a truly global industry.

During the 1980s alone, more women and children were enslaved by trafficking from Asia than all the people sold into slavery from Africa during 400 years of the slave trade. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday January 27, 2007 - 19:39 by Coillte Reporter   text 6 comments (last - friday february 09, 2007 - 17:14)   image 1 image
The following is another account of Coillte bullying at Nowen Hill, Dunmanway, Co. Cork. Coillte now are in dispute with three parties at this site. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday January 27, 2007 - 18:14 by ChrisM   text 2 comments (last - monday january 29, 2007 - 19:35)
The Irish Primary School Principals have press-released asking Parents
of Primary school-children not to contribute cash to the upkeep and building
funds of their schools in September 2007.

This is because they would like the State to meet the exorbitant costs
of mantaining and renovating of schools. Each year we are asked to
contribute money through fund-raising drives, 'voluntary' contributions
and sales (raffles, bread sales, shows) and we do.
... read full story / add a comment
Enjoying the Belfast weather
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday January 27, 2007 - 02:15 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin   text 3 comments (last - tuesday january 30, 2007 - 01:01)   image 4 images
Over a dozen Shell to Sea activists held a picket outside the Shell station on the Andersonstown Road, in solidarity with the people who are out day and daily in Bellanaboy despite continued Garda harassment. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / worker & community struggles and protests Friday January 26, 2007 - 17:38 by Keith Martin- Councillor   text 6 comments (last - wednesday january 31, 2007 - 14:35)
The ICTU in Mayo is closing down the Westport Centre for the Unemployed. ... read full story / add a comment
The cops line up.
mayo / environment Friday January 26, 2007 - 13:10 by Eve   text 18 comments (last - monday january 29, 2007 - 19:48)   image 11 images
Today’s Mayo ‘day of support’ at Bellanaboy passed off peacefully despite large number of Gardai. Protester numbers were bolstered by supporters from around the county and the county making over one hundred and fifty in total. ... read full story / add a comment
The National Development Report revealed.
national / politics / elections Friday January 26, 2007 - 11:33 by John McDermott   image 1 image
Bartholmew (affectionately known as "Bertie") Ahern,the successful author of numerous best sellers previews his new story book for both the very young children and the "young at heart" among the electorate.
Under the National Development Plan, a free copy will be distributed to every citizen for consumption.. ... read full story / add a comment
Cathy tells it like it is.
mayo / environment Wednesday January 24, 2007 - 12:51 by Eve   text 41 comments (last - tuesday january 30, 2007 - 12:18)   image 5 images
Campaigners were out in full force from 6am this morning outside Shell’s proposed refinery site at Bellanaboy. As the convoy of jeeps buses and trucks pulled into the site at half seven the dawn had not yet broken over the bogs of Erris. Protesters stood holding placards and shouting slogans at the vehicles flanked by Gardaí drove in the site’s shiny metal gates. ... read full story / add a comment
Sudanese citizens in rural Darfur
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 23, 2007 - 21:48 by Rónán Ó Dochartaigh   text 2 comments (last - friday january 26, 2007 - 19:04)   image 2 images
Over three months after Irish politicians first raised the issue, the National Pension Reserve Fund still holds investments to the tune of over €30 million in corporations providing revenue to the Sudanese government. Darfur, a province in western Sudan, has in recent times been host to one of the most significant humanitarian debacles of the last few years. It has prompted widespread calls for an ethical investment policy which would prevent taxpayer’s money from contributing to what the US refers to as “a policy of genocide” in the region. In December, I spoke to Senator David Norris, one of the most vocal Irish political figures on this issue. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 23, 2007 - 18:26 by Dúlra   text 45 comments (last - friday february 02, 2007 - 03:42)   image 1 image
In a formal statement to an Irish Times journalist a spokesperson for the Governemnt said yesterday that there are ‘no plans at the moment’ to include members of the Pagan community to the first structured talks between the State and various faith groups.

In excluding those of Pagan faith the Government is quite content to contribute to the continued malignisation and sidelining of thousands of people. The exclusion also constitutes a wilful neglect of duty to these Irish people.
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We'll just tell them it's none of their business.
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 23, 2007 - 17:06 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha   text 24 comments (last - thursday january 25, 2007 - 21:59)   image 1 image
On Monday 29 January, the High Court of Eastern Denmark will begin its hearing of a case in which a group of Danish citizens assert that Denmark’s participation in the invasion of Iraq was in breach of the Danish constitution.

The article below is based on a press release issued by the Danish Constitution Committee, Grundlovskomiteen af 2003, which is bringing the case against the Danish Prime Minister.
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another one of the million things to do : Metro to Sants, drop flyers out to Contra Infos
international / housing Tuesday January 23, 2007 - 16:41 by ((i)) Africa volunteer   text 22 comments (last - tuesday december 01, 2009 - 15:34)   image 9 images   audio 2 audio files   1 attached file
After 3 months of asking for assistance for a support project for the WSF, things did´nt come through, why?

Perhaps now in the last frantic moments, when still a million things need to be done, will support come, who knows?
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dublin / gender and sexuality Tuesday January 23, 2007 - 15:25 by Jane   text 37 comments (last - sunday april 08, 2007 - 09:35)   image 3 images
Thousands of Pro Choice Leaflets were distributed in Dublin City Centre last weekend as part of a campaign to increase visibility of pro choice activism and to put the issue of Abortion Rights back on the agenda. Members of Labour Youth and BODY distributed leaflets advertising a Pro Choice Meeting that is taking place this Saturday at 3pm in the Central Hotel. There was an excellent reaction from passers by with several people stopping and to lend their support.

... read full story / add a comment
"I looked at the great President Bush and I said to him, you know, 'I want to be sure to be sure' and he assured me."
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 23, 2007 - 14:25 by dublin joe   text 8 comments (last - thursday february 01, 2007 - 13:16)   image 1 image
An EU report wants a Dáil investigation of CIA rendition flights through Shannon airport. It also criticizes Bertie Ahern for trusting President Bush's personal assurances that no torture suspects were aboard the "Guantanamo Express" planes that landed in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 23, 2007 - 13:29 by Solidarity   text 8 comments (last - monday january 29, 2007 - 14:13)
Chris Cole Jailed for Anti-War Protest on "Feast of Innocents" at Ministry of Defence (London) ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 23, 2007 - 12:47 by Justin Morahan
"You must put a stamp on the envelope and post it" said the Ambassador's representative ... read full story / add a comment
Former RUC Special Branch and Chief Constable 'Sir' Ronnie Flanagan in the frame
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 23, 2007 - 12:31 by Harry Wells   text 2 comments (last - thursday january 25, 2007 - 10:33)   image 2 images   2 attached files
The RUC ran the UVF in Belfast and in other parts of the North. RUC Special Branch let their agents in the UVF kill at will. They blocked arrests and tipped off the UVF to raids for arms and explosives.

Former RUC detective, Johnston Browne, opens his account of his years in the RUC, Into the Dark with a description of a vicious beating - his own from RUC colleagues, in an RUC barracks. His 'crime' was to arrest an armed gang of UVF members.
... read full story / add a comment
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national / environment Tuesday January 23, 2007 - 08:00 by hanorah   text 3 comments (last - friday august 24, 2007 - 16:25)   image 1 image   1 attached file
An historic meeting between victims of radiofrequency radiation, activistists, representatives of the Irish Doctors Environmental association and senior officials was held on Tue 16th of Janurary at the headquarters of the World Health Organisation in Geneva.
The meeting was held in memory of the Late Dr. Denis O' Connor and his Late wife Ann of Kenmare, Co Kerry. Dr O 'Connor had written to the W.H.O. after they both contacted cancer while living under the shadow of a mobile phone mast. ... read full story / add a comment
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