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cork / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 05, 2006 - 23:15 by Niall Harnett
 26 comments (last - wednesday november 26, 2008 - 20:56)  6 images
The Bantry Concerned Action Group want the ESB to put this 14km stretch of powerline underground, as is the accepted norm now internationally, for health and safety reasons. Know this … pylons and overhead lines cause leukaemia and cancer. Following the recent high court injunction granted to the ESB against 6 Bantry landowners, effective from last Thursday June 1st, local residents, inspired by the Rossport Five, are committed to treating this injunction with the contempt it deserves and will be blockading any attempts by the ESB to start work on their land from tomorrow Tuesday 6th June onwards. ... read full story / add a comment 
limerick / environment Monday June 05, 2006 - 22:55 by Niall Harnett
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The Bleach Lough Spring Water Retention Group want to stay connected to the lake which has provided them with spring water for more than 50 years. Limerick Co Council want to divert them to a water supply from the polluted River Deel. Last Thursday 1st June, Limerick Co. Council obtained a high court injunction against 7 local residents who have drawn a line in the road and are blocking this ‘new’ pipeline from crossing that line and coming any further. They will continue to walk the line from tomorrow Tuesday 6th June, when Co Council workers are expected to try and force their way through using the threat of this injunction. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Monday June 05, 2006 - 19:07 by zhanara
5 homes in Bakai squatters' community demolished without warning, residents caught by surprise. Rumors of a child killed by the police as residents clashed with the authorities on June 1, 2006. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday June 05, 2006 - 06:34 by Frank
4 comments (last - sunday june 11, 2006 - 08:42)
Frank Cordaro is serving a 6 month sentence in the U.S. as a Federal Prisoner for a nonviolent anti-war trespass at Offcut U.S. Air Force Base, Omaha, Nebraska. This is Franks 7th. 6 month sentence for resistance to the high crimes planned at Offcut over the last 25 years. Frank writes from the U.S. jail system presently inhabited by 2.2 million people. Letters or postcards of support to Frank Cordaro #13093-047 FPC Yankton PO Box 700 Yankton, SD 57078 USA ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday June 04, 2006 - 17:54 by Charlie Donnelly
143 comments (last - thursday march 29, 2007 - 21:42) 14 images
Anti Fascist Action and members of Anarchist Youth routed a planned meeting of Nazi bonehead gang, the Celtic Wolves in Dublin city centre yesterday. What was planned as the first meeting in Dublin this year for these sad tossers ended in utter humiliation as anti-fascists first evicted them from their meeting point in a city centre pub and then proceeded to beat them up and down O'Connell Street. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday June 04, 2006 - 01:38 by Brian Mac Grath
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Day of action in support of the oppressed villages of Daechuri and Doduri in South Korea. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday June 03, 2006 - 23:41 by COT
5 comments (last - sunday june 11, 2006 - 18:47)
These days G is a busy man. Meeting him at his house, I see that he has converted his bedroom into a pseudo-office, full of computers and court documents, which he is currently transferring onto his newly launched website. He tells me that he has been working long hours recently on the website, but it seems clear that his enthusiasm and energy haven’t tired. G is a man with a mission and seems about ready to pick up where he left off in his own personal campaign for justice against the state and county law makers of California. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday June 03, 2006 - 18:44 by kevin
1 comment (last - tuesday june 06, 2006 - 20:47) 20 images
Selection of images from earlier today. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 02, 2006 - 18:33 by Oliver Cromwell, the Lord High Protector
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30 years after the deaths of De Valera & Franco the difference between Spain & Ireland's social & gender debate could not be starker. Today as the Spanish Cabinet approved yet another of their election manifesto promises of 2004 to "enact equality of gender identification legislation", The Irish Legislature found itself discussing the legalities of a 60 year old man engaging in oral sex with a 15 year old boy. What was in one state simply another move at Cabinet Executive level to correct intolerable wrongs of the past counterpointed an Emergency Session of the Legislature in the other state to patch yet another hole in the 1937 constitution left to the majority of Irish people by De Valera. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 02, 2006 - 14:38 by chris murray
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Debate on Criminal Law(sexual offences ) Bill 2006. Democracy -Lite. Three opposition parties welcomed Mc Dowell's Bill, with reservations. Enda didn't broach the subject of resignation, but told Michael that "he Knew what he should do"..... Section 5 is an absurdity, according to Labour as it is not gender neutral and is open to constituional challenge by young men, not to mention the ever increasing discussion on sexual positions that peppered the chamber, that led to the departure of the rather more faint-hearted TDs, including most of the Front Bench. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / environment Friday June 02, 2006 - 01:59 by christina
2 comments (last - wednesday june 07, 2006 - 23:46)
Limerick County Councils intimidation tactics reach new levels as injunction against additional supporters of the anti-Deel water campaign has been granted. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / summit mobilisations Thursday June 01, 2006 - 19:51 by Paula Geraghty
3 comments (last - thursday june 01, 2006 - 20:10) 19 images
Popular beat combos such as the Basque favourite Am Paranoia (?), Rashid Taha and some really good Greek bands played to entertain the masses after the heavy days foruming! ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Thursday June 01, 2006 - 18:50 by Noise Hacker
12 comments (last - saturday june 10, 2006 - 19:52) 43 images
[ All images are Copyleft! ] ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Thursday June 01, 2006 - 18:34 by chris murray
1 comment (last - thursday june 01, 2006 - 20:17)
The Strategic infrastructure Bill , published in Feburary of this year by Mr Dick Roche TD is to be pushed through the houses of the Oireachtas next week. No date for the debate has been set, but it is an attempt to regain public confidence in the wake of the Statutory Rape debacle. The bill allows for the creation of a separate entity within An Bord Pleanala which will fast-track infrastructure projects which are judged Strategic.( Or Contentious). ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 01, 2006 - 12:56 by Another brick in the wall
11 comments (last - monday june 05, 2006 - 23:42)
AB Yehoshua called for war crimes to be committed against Palestinian civilians ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 01, 2006 - 11:32 by Chris Murray
37 comments (last - saturday july 15, 2006 - 17:46) 3 images
The attempt by Michael Mc Dowell to defuse the crisis over the statutory rape ruling of Last week, and the Laffoy decision on the Mister A case smacks of indolence. The usual political opportunism of the Government is revealed in an attempt to bury the issue in the Summer recess and hope it will all go away. The catalogue of Laissez -faire policy indicated by the State's refusal to deal with the issue which was amply signposted and reported in Yesterday's article is compounded by reports that the state was told in 1990 by the Law Reform Commission that the law should be changed , because it was open to constitutional challenge on the grounds of reasonable belief. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Thursday June 01, 2006 - 09:55 by poetry news
The Galway-based literary organisation Over The Edge is to receive funding from the national Arts Council to support the literary events they organise in Galway City Library and at Sheridan’s Wine Bar. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 01, 2006 - 00:33 by anarchyvist
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Too mean to pay the €27 for the bus, 3 activists took part in a cycle from Dublin to this weekend's gathering at the Rossport Solidarity Camp... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday May 31, 2006 - 19:17 by L. Akai
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Various strike actions have been taking place for months and mass action for the last three weeks. Medical workers from over 120 hospitals in Poland are on strike. The government demanded workers be fired and waged a media war against the strikers. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 31, 2006 - 12:28 by Chris Murray
15 comments (last - sunday june 04, 2006 - 06:12)
Section 1(1) of the 1935 Criminal Law (Amendment Act), was declared unconstitutional last week in relation to a case wherein a man claimed that at the time of the 'unlawful carnal knowledge' of a minor, of which he was convicted, he believed that she was of age. Yesterday's judgement by Ms justice Mary Laffoy in another case involving a then, 38 year old man and twelve year old girl had no choice but to take this section of the act into account, but to reject the whole section of the act in toto. Coverage of the Judgement is splashed all over the corporate media this morning. The issue of lack of protections for the child herein, scrape the surface of the failure of this administration through consistent legislative failures which encompass not alone the Dept of Justice, but also the Dept of Education. The administration as a whole with regard to Church /State indemnity, the collapse of the Laffoy Commission and this Latest fiasco which leaves our most vulnerable citizens at risk. ... read full story / add a comment |
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