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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday May 04, 2006 - 15:01 by Madam K
 13 comments (last - friday may 26, 2006 - 17:33)  29 images
Freedom of speech in Dublin. Fighting the poster ban ... ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 03, 2006 - 19:43 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
Socialist members of the European Parliament's committee investigating the CIA's activities in Europe have called for a NATO representative to appear before the committee to answer questions concerning the possible involvement of the NATO-led Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina (SFOR) in the abduction of six people from Bosnia. The call follows EU foreign affairs chief Javier Solana's denial of any knowledge of the CIA's use of European countries for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners, which he made in response to questions from members of the committee on Tuesday 2 May. The TDIP committee's interim report dated 24 April proposes a resolution in which the European Parliament will judge it implausible that certain European countries have been unaware of extraordinary renditions that have taken place on their territory and in their airspace or airports, and will deplore the extraordinary rendition by Bosnian authorities of six persons of Algerian origin to agents of the CIA. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday May 03, 2006 - 16:51 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi
17 comments (last - wednesday july 19, 2006 - 18:51) 3 images
Bolivia has nationalised her fuel resources. I'll bring you through it simply :- * Last June Bolivia entered popular rebellion and verged on civil war. * Morales emerged as popular leader of the Left & said if elected he would nationalise Fuel resources. * He got elected. and sworn in 22/1/2006 * His thinking man Garcia Linera went about figuring out how that would happen. * the oil companies (Repsol - Spain) said they'd sue if their investments were "misappropriated". * Morales met Zapatero and promised he'd go about it easily in a staged way. * Garcia Linera said it wouldn't be a surprise. * May 1, 2006 morales put on his presidential sash and announced a presidential decree. * May 2, 2006 the Bolivian army accompanied by Police in riot gear turned up at the installations kicked every inside out, and put up banners "nationalised for the Bolivian people". ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Wednesday May 03, 2006 - 14:43 by iosaf mac diarmada
4 comments (last - thursday september 07, 2006 - 17:27) 1 image
3 little mafia news items not really getting attention in the Irish Commercial Press to put everything in perspective for you as to the quality and depth of our "liberal democratic system" this May 3rd which as we all know is "World Press Freedom Day". Which the UN wants us to use to correlate media freedom and the eradication of poverty, as you may obviously see from this mornings commercial newspapers. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Wednesday May 03, 2006 - 09:00 by Kathy Sinnott
5 comments (last - wednesday june 07, 2006 - 17:48)
Listening to the debate on privatising Aer Lingus, sometimes I wonder. Don't worry this is not going to be a column about Aer Lingus. I think there is one issue that is clear whether you like privatisation or not. Having a privately run Irish Aer Lingus connecting Ireland to the rest of the world is not what we will have 5 or 10 years down the line. We will have a formerly Irish airline bought by a newer and much richer airline for its prime airport piers and landing rights, flying wherever will make the most money. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday May 02, 2006 - 17:43 by john throne
7 comments (last - wednesday may 03, 2006 - 22:13) 5 images
Over 2 million marched in the US over the past four days. This is a great step forward. I try to discuss here some issues this movement faces. Especially the issues of leadership and program. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 02, 2006 - 16:43 by Paula Geraghty
12 comments (last - monday may 08, 2006 - 11:40) 14 images
Some images outside the US embassy on May Day 2006 ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 02, 2006 - 12:53 by Paula Geraghty
6 comments (last - tuesday may 02, 2006 - 13:38) 28 images
Some images from this years SARI event, held in Crumlin villages. Alas, all the food was gone by the time I had gotten there. The Scouts had burgers but no buns! ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Monday May 01, 2006 - 21:25 by Our Los Angeles Correspondent
18 comments (last - monday may 15, 2006 - 21:14) 42 images
Downtown Los Angeles echoes to the chants of mass solidarity on May 1st. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous Monday May 01, 2006 - 01:06 by Noise Hacker
11 comments (last - tuesday may 02, 2006 - 01:19) 51 images
[All images are Copyleft] ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday April 30, 2006 - 21:25 by Paula Geraghty
7 comments (last - tuesday may 02, 2006 - 12:19) 17 images
national / arts and media Sunday April 30, 2006 - 19:48 by Rastavidhead
4 comments (last - wednesday may 03, 2006 - 01:50) 1 image 3 attached files
Each day when I wake up I think, In this world I assume, I’m a failure, no lies. But knowing that, each night, I can dream, Imagine being free, I project my self and observe, I fly far from your hellish world, Where there are eyes that penetrate. They look, they judge, criticising, censoring, punishing. Mirror, mirror what do you see? You are deaf, blind and mute, And what I say, you believe, Where are my mistakes? I’ve been looking for years. I’ve revised my past, my body floats through the present and in the future is my mind, Resolving problems. Existence is a dilemma, In my opinion, he who thinks the most, reaches the answer first. I see myself moving closer. How nice life is when there is no hassle, The landscape is still green and on high the clouds are stretching by. The air is clean and free flows the wind, Through the fields. I get up and stretch, I walk and sing, the birds follow me and I smile, hearing melodies in the chirp, chirp, chirp. Or the tranquillity of the music of a river instead of city trains, cars and screams. Aiee, its my paradise. There’s no need, and I have no fancy mobile, I have no motorcycle, I step on no accelerator, there is no requirement. I’m alive and the taste is so exquisite. For so many awaited and by not many appreciated, let’s not talk about them because they’re finished. We have to try again, be born again, love and see ourselves flourish, Mind the earth, because in the end, it’s going to be drained, it’s going to be drained. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday April 30, 2006 - 14:54 by Anomino-anarko
9 comments (last - thursday may 04, 2006 - 15:52) 18 images
Mayday street art-action City arts centre ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Saturday April 29, 2006 - 23:55 by ipsiphi
13 comments (last - monday july 31, 2006 - 03:13) 6 images
All of the Peruvian commercial media regardless of their stance on the recent presidential elections have combined forces to condemn Hugo Chavez, "the Caudillo" who in his latest demonstration of megolomania has threatened to withdraw the Venezuelan diplomatic mission from Lima if Garcia is elected. indymedia peru are calling for a support of indefinite strikes and have not featured the election (*) Meanwhile the Peruvian state has appealed to all international bodies to safeguard the legitimacy of the second round of Presidential voting. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday April 29, 2006 - 17:55 by Jim
46 comments (last - friday april 06, 2007 - 20:44) 38 images
There was a small enough turnout as per usual at this years May Day demonstration. Though suprisingly there was a very visible contingent of communists. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Saturday April 29, 2006 - 02:07 by Shell to Sea
7 comments (last - tuesday may 09, 2006 - 14:50) 15 images
Erris drinking water comes from Carrowmore Lake. The lake is becoming heavily contaminated with aluminium as a by-product of the removal of peat from the site of the giant gas refinery that Shell seek to construct at Beal an Átha Buí (known in English as Ballinaboy or Bellinaboy). As a part of Shell's scheme the company's contractors have had to transfer tons of peat from Beal an Átha Buí to a facility owned and operated by Bord na Móna at Srahmore. Underneath the top layer of peat is a substance called dobe, which has a very high aluminium content. Rain causes pools of aluminium contaminated water on the site to overflow and run into nearby Carrowmore Lake. Carrowmore Lake is the source of Mayo County Council's drinking water supply for the Erris area. Controversy has raged about the condition of the drinking water in Erris, since it was found that the water treatment machinery that Shell's contractors are using has never worked to its full capacity. Shell to Sea observers have recorded that the machinery meant to purify the water has rarely worked at all. The local authority has claimed that there is no problem with the water in Carrowmore Lake. The Council's own testing regime has detected high aluminium content in the drinking water, but instead of properly investigating, they have claimed that this is a consequence of human error in the laboratory. Campaigners from Shell to Sea set up a table on Friday at lunchtime at the pedestrian entrance to the the Customs House and offered glasses of water from the Erris drinking water supply to staff of the Department of the Environment and Local Government as they leave for lunch. An invitation to attend the water tasting event was sent to Environment Minister Dick Roche, but no reply was received, and of course he didn't appear. Unsurprisingly, no one accepted the offer of a glass of water, nor did anyone from the Department come out to speak to the protesters. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Saturday April 29, 2006 - 00:19 by Edward Horgan
3 comments (last - monday may 01, 2006 - 17:24) 2 images
In spite of efforts by Euro MEP Sean O'Neachtain and others to discredit the facts that the CIA has been using Shannon airport for its torture rendition programme, the truth is gradually leaking out. It may take several years for so-called "concrete evidence" such as lists of tortured prisoners who were "rendered" through Shannon, and details of Irish government ministers knowledge and approval of these crimes, to become public, but this will come too. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 28, 2006 - 23:26 by John Kelly
5 comments (last - wednesday may 03, 2006 - 16:11)
The right of free speech has been limited. We will not be told to shut up and we're taking this message to the Mayor of Dublin next Thursday. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment Friday April 28, 2006 - 22:44 by Noise Hacker
24 comments (last - tuesday june 13, 2006 - 15:12) 31 images
Dublin's Critical Mass Bike Ride 28th April 2006 6.30pm-8.00pm Dublin City Graffiti images are from Dublin City (Images taken on a low end camera, hence the quality!) ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 28, 2006 - 19:44 by Erin McGann
Foreigners in Angola left high and dry as passports are detained. The situation is the result of restructuring the passport office in Luanda. This all comes at a time of inceasing unease in Angola's political climate. There have been reports of passports having been detained for up to two months now and still no sign of them being returned. Hundreds of foreigners, wishing to return to Europe and other destinations have had to cancel flights as a result of the confusion. ... read full story / add a comment |
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