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**Family evicted from Dublin's Regency Hotel win offer of more secure alternative accommodation , 20 hour long picket of Regency Hotel by family and supporters ended.** The Irish Housing Network has ended their protest outside the Regency Hotel in Dublin following the success of the family in securing alternative accommodation. The Network believes that the success of the family in securing safe alternative accommodation is thanks to the family’s persistence and courage in seeking decent accommodation for their family, and the response and level of solidarity shown by members of the public, the north Dublin community and housing groups across the city. These forces stood together in solidarity, putting significant pressure on the homeless services to provide the support previously denied to the family. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Friday June 10, 2016 - 15:19 by Greg Williams
The House passed Puerto Rico debt crisis legislation 297-127. The Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act now heads to the US Senate for approval. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Friday June 03, 2016 - 17:30 by Greg Williams
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau releases new rules governing "payday" lending - high interest loans that impact low-income communities. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / politics / elections Wednesday June 01, 2016 - 13:29 by Alex de Jong
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Rodrigo Duterte’s authoritarian neoliberalism isn’t the answer to poverty and political abuse in the Philippines. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 30, 2016 - 11:06 by Solidarity
VID (2 mins)-Julian Assange 2000 days arbitrarily detained in England: statement by former anti-war prisoner of U.S Ciaron O'Reilly https://youtu.be/HDB0jKI6st0 ... read full story / add a comment 
The regular news digest of the People’s Movement, No. 147 is out now. It can be freely downloaded from the People's movement website and this issue has articles covering TTIP and a trade union view on Brexit. Recently Greenpeace published details of secret negotiations between the EU-US which were leaked and they indicated that EU officials had completely sold out to the US on all their corporate agenda demands. The TTIP agreement is by far and away the most undemocratic agreement ever devised and will shred protections of all kinds and oblierate the sovereignty every state that has this imposed on them. However the mainstream rightwing corporate media is not covering what is in TTIP and simply make false statements that it will bring jobs and growth, where the core issues are central to what it means to how society right across both the EU and US is run. Naturally our own mainstream political parties of FG and FF are completely for this corporate power grab of an agreement. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday May 25, 2016 - 10:36 by Justin Morahan
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Peace activists were arrested after they had sprayed a red cross on runway and arrived at a US jet to examine it for arms. ... read full story / add a comment 
Dublin Tenants Association are launching a campaign for rent controls and security of tenure, to coincide with their submission to the Oireachtas housing committee. They are asking people to submit photos (anonymous) of themselves with a short sign telling people about their stories from the private rental sector. See attached example. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday May 16, 2016 - 15:00 by Anti-fracker
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Woodburn Forest near Carrickfergus in County Antrim has become the site of the first operational fracking rig on the island of Ireland. On Monday 16 May InfraStrata PLC began to drill, seeking to confirm a viable oil find which will pave the way for large scale extraction. Community campaigners continue to resist and all support is welcome on the site to stop the drilling while one local mounts a legal challenge. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday May 14, 2016 - 19:24 by Jake Arden
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100 years ago, if a Dublin Castle tout had entered the Connolly Books building on Essex Street, Temple Bar, he would have been quids in. Sitting hugger mugger around a huge table in the centre of the room are more than 20 of the most subversive characters in Ireland, spouting socialist verse and preaching revolution and rebellion. They include communists, trotskyists, anarchists, republicans, trade unionists, anti-austerity activists, pacifists, militant feminists, internationalists, environmentalists, ex political prisoners, independent TDs, writers, poets, singers, artists, and actors. They have banded together in one bold adventure: to read, over a series of lunchtimes, the entire, epic, 24-hour Non Stop Connolly Show. ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Wednesday May 11, 2016 - 22:28 by cd
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A cross party group of TDs have expressed concern at the jailing of two political activists, Sean Doyle and Eamonn McGrath. Both men have been remanded in custody until the 21st of May and 24th of June respectively for taking part in a peaceful protest in Kilcoole. Sean was arrested after being assaulted by an individual in front of Gardai while his attacker went unpunished. The same attacker then viciously pushed a woman to the ground. The Gardaí present saw fit to arrest the protesters for trespass while they gently escorted the assailant away. No charges have been brought against this man. The continuation of the political policing of the Irish Water protests exposes the Garda, yet again, as a force used to protect the status quo at the expense of ordinary people. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday May 08, 2016 - 11:38 by Jake Arden
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In Dublin’s Temple Bar, within gunshot of the General Post Office, a diverse band of Irish citizen actors are planning to strike a blow against war and imperialism and for Irish freedom. This is not a costumed re-enactment of the 1916 Easter Rising but an act of contemporary revolutionary theatre, where the audience for the epic 1970s play the Non Stop Connolly Show, by Margaretta D’Arcy and John Arden, become the cast. Each lunchtime between 27 April and 12 May, volunteers muster at Connolly Books to take reading parts in the play which covers the life, struggles and death of James Connolly. Not only has the fourth wall been broken down, but the spirit of text has spurred solidarity action by the players in support of Maura Harrington, jailed in Mountjoy on Friday for her opposition to Shell’s rape of the the West of Ireland countryside. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / politics / elections Saturday May 07, 2016 - 08:31 by Party of the Laboring Masses (PLM)
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Like it or not, Rodrigo Duterte has been leading the presidential polls in successive surveys. ... read full story / add a comment 
Today in Limerick Court, the Irish state on behalf of capitalism and property in favour of its own citizens and the original ideals of the 1916 proclamation, was planning to use the resource of the state to carry out 170 home evications throwing potentially hundreds more citizens onto the streets. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 03, 2016 - 19:17 by Mack MacThomais
Recenly the emergence of a "new party" in Ireland made headlines, however social democracy is not new whatsoever. The legacy of this idealogy has left millions dead across the world however this article will focus on its impact in Mexico and how the Irish government were the only government in the world at the time to break off diplomatic relations with Mexico and its social democracy policies. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Monday May 02, 2016 - 00:07 by Dhjana
Weekly police raids, harsh living conditions, constant threaths of violence, arrest and detention by authorities, these are just some of the things that more than a thousand children in the Netherlands have to deal with. As part of refugee families whose asylum application has been turned down by the Dutch state, these children live in family camps spread over the country. Even though in the last years different organizations have campaigned against these human right violations and studies have pointed out the intense emotional harm these children face, the Dutch state has done nothing but building a new prison for refugee families who are about to be deported. At this point several families have formed a collective with political activists. Next to local demonstrations at the family camps, they call out for international support to pressure the Dutch state to end the violations of the children’s rights and those of their families. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / politics / elections Sunday April 24, 2016 - 07:29 by Chanco CJ
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Rodrigo Duterte’s authoritarian vision is no way forward for the Philippines. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Thursday April 07, 2016 - 11:23 by Plowshares
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100 years after reducing downtown Dublin to rubble the British Navy returned during last week's Easter 1916 commemorations. Accompanied by U.S. warships, they docked in Dublin as part of the NATO fleet presently waging wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East. ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / environment Tuesday March 15, 2016 - 23:21 by shale
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Work is proceeding in Woodburn Forest, near Carrickfergus (NI), to construct a drill site for an exploratory well. The Stop the Drill campaign opposes the drilling, which will take place 380 m uphill from a major drinking water reservoir serving 130,000 people, arguing that it places drinking water at risk of contamination. The site is owned by NI Water, Northern Ireland’s only water utility, which has given permission for the drilling by Infrastrata to go ahead, on the condition that hydraulic fracturing is not used. ... read full story / add a comment
derry / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday March 15, 2016 - 05:16 by Michael Donahue Steinberg
Ireland is celebrating the 100 year anniversary of its Revolution that partially freed it from British rule. But the nation is still one of many around the globe that has yet to complete its “Unfinished Revolution,” because that phase of the struggle ended with its northeastern region partitioned in the 1920s into a new entity, “Northern Ireland,” so that places like Strabane still remain under British domination and occupation to this day. ... read full story / add a comment |
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