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Outside Tesco, Rathmines
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 05, 2007 - 22:04 by IPSC   text 2 comments (last - friday july 06, 2007 - 18:50)   image 8 images   1 attached file
Today the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign began the "Boycott Israeli Potatoes" campaign with a picket outside Tesco in Rathmines, Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday July 05, 2007 - 15:54 by ISNer   text 86 comments (last - sunday july 15, 2007 - 22:12)
The first issue of the new Irish Socialist Network paper, 'Resistance' (the July/August edition), is now available.

The Dublin North-West Branch of the Irish Socialist Network has long produced a local newsletter, which is primarily distributed in the Finglas area. That will continue. However, a publication group drawn from the three ISN branches (Dublin Central, Dublin North West and Belfast) is now committed to regularly producing a new national paper, which has been titled 'Resistance'.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 05, 2007 - 15:06 by antifa   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 09, 2007 - 11:48)   image 1 image
20 luglio 2001- 20 luglio 2007 commemoration of the death of Carlo Giuliani. His case was pigeon- holed in Italy and now the court of Strasbourg is re-opening the case. In love memory of Carlo we ask justice for all !

The italian police chief , De Gennaro, is now investigated for having ordered to use brutal force with a group of activists sleeping in the Diaz school during the G8 in Genoa. A lot of activists are still under accuse.

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Baronstown in April 2007
international / miscellaneous Wednesday July 04, 2007 - 18:46 by Roestown   text 69 comments (last - thursday july 04, 2013 - 06:22)   image 13 images   1 attached file
The SIAC/Ferrovial construction company, Eurolink, resorted to underhand tactics in the early hours of Wednesday morning July 4th when they arrived at Baronstown, reportedly, at 4am with machines to destroy the monument there. This may very well have been a National Monument along with the extraordinary graveyard at Collierstown.
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday July 04, 2007 - 14:31 by mick b   text 13 comments (last - friday august 10, 2007 - 07:22)   image 2 images
Unemployed building workers picket wins Support from Ballymun community ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Wednesday July 04, 2007 - 11:51 by sicklygreen   text 8 comments (last - monday july 09, 2007 - 04:19)
Green Councillor David Healy, who opposed the FF/Green pact, has accepted a job with John Gormley ... read full story / add a comment
It's that time of year again -  kill a catholic time (Ir News 3 july07 Click to read)
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 03, 2007 - 21:58 by Harry Wells   text 154 comments (last - friday september 14, 2007 - 15:42)   image 36 images
It is that time of year again, the time to attack Catholics, or 'taigs', as they are known in unionist parlance. It comes around every year alongside the Orange Order's determination to go into frenzied celebration of its Protestant and ‘British' way of life.

It's a bit like if, in Britain, the British National Party decided every year to 'celebrate' Britishness, and this was accompanied by attacks on black people or Muslims, accompanied by thousands of marches, mainly through the areas were the people subject to the attacks live. But wait, that "thousands" can't be right. In Northern Ireland there are over 2,000 marches every year between Easter and late August. Why, that would translate in Britain into tens of thousands of marches. Yes, that sounds about right. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / miscellaneous Tuesday July 03, 2007 - 21:08 by Left of Limerick   text 38 comments (last - wednesday july 25, 2007 - 14:03)   image 13 images   1 attached file
On Monday the 2nd of July, a group of around 20 Youth Defence distributed their anti-abortion material throughout the city of Limerick. One of the points upon which they decided to mobilise was the Limerick Family planning clinic (27 Mallow Street, Limerick. Tel: 061 312 02). It is in this building that men and woman go to get information on matters of contraception and abortion clinics . Pro-choice activists believe that women should have access to safe and legal abortion and, equally, that women should be protected from forced abortions.About 5 left wing activists staged a counter protest on the doors of the clinic for the majority of the time the extremists were present. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday July 03, 2007 - 13:03 by antifa   text 12 comments (last - wednesday july 11, 2007 - 17:43)
30 fascists in the night of 1st of july, attacked people who where in a concert in a public space of Rome. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday July 03, 2007 - 07:59 by Starstruck
Red Help Rostock demands to immidiatelly release the last two remaining summit-prisoners, who are still held in custody in Waldeck jail. They were arrested on the big international demonstration at the 2nd of June during the brutal attacks of the police, in which several hundred protesters were hurt, some severly injured.

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national / animal rights Monday July 02, 2007 - 19:06 by Siobhan Higgins   text 6 comments (last - sunday september 07, 2008 - 11:05)   image 1 image
With just days to go before PETA’s Running of the Nudes (www.runningofthenudes.com) PETA members including an Irish activist painted in the Irish flag colors staged a creative event outside the Spanish embassy in London today at 12 noon, wearing little more than body paint and a banner that read “The World Is Watching – Ban Bullfighting”. Every year Irish Animal Rights Action Network members travel to Pamplona to take part in PETA’s Running of the Nudes which is a fun and humane alternative to the cruel running of bulls and bullfighting. Last year over 1000 people took part in this fun event, check out www.ARAN.ie to see more.
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 01, 2007 - 18:35 by TD   text 11 comments (last - sunday december 23, 2007 - 16:48)   image 3 images
Following BBC and Democracy Now news reports that the Director of the internationally acclaimed and award winning documentary, Jenin Jenin, Mohamed Bakri, is being sued and facing possible jail time in a case brought this month in Israel by five Israeli soldiers who are accusing him of libelously portraying them and their comrades as war criminals in his film (the five are not shown or mentioned by name in Jenin Jenin). Galway IPSC, yesterday, outraged at this obscenity too far, took to the streets in protest. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Sunday July 01, 2007 - 18:09 by Maurice Ross   text 57 comments (last - tuesday july 24, 2007 - 12:46)
In the upcoming Seanad general election Sinn Féin will instruct its Councillors and TDs to vote for Fianna Fáil candidates in many of the panels (constituencies). In an election that would otherwise see the Government in a minority in the Upper House SF's decision will greatly help Ahern retain a majority. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 01, 2007 - 17:52 by Shell to Sea   text 27 comments (last - tuesday july 10, 2007 - 23:30)   image 12 images
In Erris, protests continue every day at the site of the proposed refinery at Bellanaboy, County Mayo.

Last Friday, June 29th, was the second anniversary of the imprisonment of the Rossport Five. The day saw the continuing of the operation to strip the surface peat away from the Bellanaboy refinery site, and as is now normal, local people protesting were joined by supporters of the Shell to Sea campaign from other parts of Ireland and abroad.

As usual, the Garda response to the protests was brutal. One protester was arrested and many more were assaulted. Gardaí also threw activists into the deep ditches near the Bellanaboy site.

Videos of the protests on Friday morning can be seen here: http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=kAXKHu3_bKo

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=tSMF4GgnC_I

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=u7jnUOq8LYA

or check www.youtube.ie/shelltohell ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 01, 2007 - 11:39 by Solidarity   text 10 comments (last - saturday july 07, 2007 - 17:47)
The re-trial of Fairford disarmers Margaret Jones and Paul Milling - two peace
activists who non-violently disabled three tankers used for refuelling the
bombers at RAF Fairford in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq – will begin
10am Monday July 2nd.. Please be at the Bristol Crown Courts to support them if you can!

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"win-win" or "froth for losers"?
international / anti-capitalism Friday June 29, 2007 - 21:45 by iosaf   text 1 comment (last - sunday july 15, 2007 - 02:39)   image 1 image
3 years ago the state of Ethiopia began what would become a monumental struggle when they announced their intention to trademark their Coffee Bean. The Ethiopian highlands & the surrounding "horn of Africa" were the origin of the drink coffee as far back as the 9th century [common era]. Specifically the Ethiopian state wanted to assert internationally recognised intellectual copyright on a range of coffee beans which to this day are mostly cultivated in the east African state. Many welcomed the move as evidence that late 20th century capitalism which has seen ownership concepts extended to ideas, living organisms & even specific genecodes could be a game which the poorest states might play to their advantage as well. Then came the orchestrated response of the Seattle USA based multi-national corporation Starbucks. Earlier this month both the company and state came to a settlement. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 29, 2007 - 12:43 by thefemaleeunach   text 1 comment (last - friday june 29, 2007 - 14:49)   1 attached file
Choice Ireland a recently formed reproductive rights group placed 20 suitcases outside Dail Eireann in order to highlight the fact that 20 or more Irish women leave Ireland every day to access abortion services ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday June 28, 2007 - 21:47 by greendublin2007   text 15 comments (last - thursday july 19, 2007 - 13:40)
After recent denials of interest in Green Party leadership it emerges John Gormley has been soliciting support for the last week. ... read full story / add a comment
Oh no! Another Pride?
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 28, 2007 - 20:38 by Paula Geraghty   text 2 comments (last - thursday june 28, 2007 - 21:00)   image 30 images
Yet another year and Stonewall is commemorated with a big celebration of joy. ... read full story / add a comment
If diagrams of female genitals (with or without clitoris) offend you don't look at this image.
international / gender and sexuality Thursday June 28, 2007 - 20:31 by ribbid   text 7 comments (last - wednesday december 17, 2014 - 02:21)   image 1 image
A 2005 UNICEF report suggested 97%of Egyptian women between ages 15 and 49 had undergone some type of genital mutilation or circumcision. Last week ago Bodur Ahmed Shaker an 11 year old girl died after undergoing the operation at a private clinic in Minya province in the south of the state. Doctors at the clinic had suggested her death was due to a a heavy dose of anaesthetic and her operation is believed to have been a result of her parents wish to preserve her chastity..,

Since then the Egyptian establishment has moved to close a final loop-hole in their legislation which had allowed a practise which has been common since Pharonic times to continue. The change to the law announced this afternoon followed statements on Islamic theology from the state mufti (supporting the end to this barbaric practice and reminding all it has no scriptural basis in either Quran or Talmud [old testament] ) ... read full story / add a comment
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