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international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday July 13, 2005 - 13:45 by EM
 19 comments (last - wednesday july 20, 2005 - 23:07)  2 images
Translated report from the Xarxa d'Enllaç amb Palestina, Boicot Preveniu and the Plataforma Aturem la Guerra. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 13, 2005 - 10:22 by europhile
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Members of the European Left/Nordic Greens have requested the Chairperson of a delegation to Norway from the Parliament to ask the Norwegian Government to instruct Statoil to use its influence to stop all activity on the pipeline pending an agreement that addresses the concerns of the imprisoned men. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism Wednesday July 13, 2005 - 00:36 by Kevin Doyle
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A second successful blockade was held this morning outside the Shell Oil Terminal on Centre Park Rd. in Cork. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 12, 2005 - 22:33 by rory hearne
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this evening as protestors supporting the Rossport five blockaded the entrance ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday July 12, 2005 - 22:15 by Martin
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Some information about companies exploiting migrant workers in Ireland ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Tuesday July 12, 2005 - 21:40 by EW
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Supporters of the Rossport 5 blockaded the Shell Station on Glasnevin Avenue, Ballymun, today, in a protest organised by the Finglas branch of the Irish Socialist Network. The protest was held between 6pm and 7pm to coordinate with many similar solidarity protests being organised throughout the city. Amongst those involved were three members of the Finglas Anti-Bin Tax Campaign who served two weeks in jail in 2003 for defying a court injunction. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / racism & migration related issues Tuesday July 12, 2005 - 16:43 by ibn khalud
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Today we mark our cultural diversity and tolerance and geniune all round superiority in all things religious. Ireland as foreign readers might need to be reminded as a land of GOD! there are two dominant versions. Kathurlickism and Calvinism and today is international Calvinist day, when dissenting protestants are invited to march the world over and celebrate their Irishness. ... read full story / add a comment 
leitrim / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 12, 2005 - 02:50 by Dunlo Tom
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Last Friday, Sin Fein and Shell to Sea activists took to the highways and byways of Leitrim to publicise the case of the Rossport Five. Further protests are planned. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Monday July 11, 2005 - 22:51 by Elaine
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in solidarity with victims of the 'war on terror' in London, Iraq, Afganistan and elsewhere ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues Monday July 11, 2005 - 14:42 by Dave
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Dozens of Nigerian women from four local hostels are currently living in fear of deportation - despite their harrowing accounts of abuse. They have called a 1pm protest on Thursday 14th July at Dáil Éireann to highlight their situation. Below, two of the women explain a little of their stories and the threats they face if returned by Justice Minister McDowell’s fast-tracking policy. Residents Against Racism is working closely with the women and lending its full support to the protest. Spokesperson Rosanna Flynn commented: “The oppression of Nigerian women is no ‘cock and bull story’. It’s time McDowell started listening and stopped sending women and children back to persecution.” ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Monday July 11, 2005 - 13:49 by Ivan
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The case of five Mayo men jailed at the request of Shell is back in the High Court today, Monday at 2pm in Court 6. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / crime and justice Monday July 11, 2005 - 13:14 by m.m. mc carron
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a big natural gas pipeline exploded on friday night. two killed. several injured. residents fled on foot explosions and total closedown. a rural area no warning. houses cars and cattle destroyed. four villages and hundreds of people affected dozens in hospital. . ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Monday July 11, 2005 - 02:15 by Noise Hacker
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 10, 2005 - 21:33 by Dunlo Tom
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Today, at the football final between Galway and Mayo, some 30 activists from Sinn Fein and the Shell to Sea campaign highlighted the injustice that was visited on the Rossport Five and, in their ongoing struggle with Shell Oil, the travails of the Erris community. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 10, 2005 - 19:50 by H. Finck
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60 years ago the german pacifist and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was murdered by the Nazis. "Translated in nearly all the languages of the world, Bonhoeffer's texts encourage liberating the Bible from the godless bonds of fundamentalist interpretations and protesting increasingly perfect weapons and destructive relations with the goods of the earth." ... read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations Sunday July 10, 2005 - 19:14 by A. via imc irl contact form
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On the morning of the 5th of July I was on a cow-field near a section of the M9 (close to Stirling), where earlier a blockade had been dissolved when the police arrived. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / summit mobilisations Sunday July 10, 2005 - 17:56 by treena
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Images from Gleneagles during G8 summit Wednesday 6 July: actions and rally/march ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 10, 2005 - 16:42 by Hilaal
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A memo attributed to British Defence Minister John Reid states that the UK is to reduce it's troops from 8,500 to 3,000 by this time next year. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Sunday July 10, 2005 - 15:34 by iosaf
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Today 218,000 approx, citizens of Luxembourg will vote to accept or reject the draft European Constitution. They will be the 4th EU state to vote. Spain ratified it with little over 50% participation. France and the Netherlands rejected it. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 10, 2005 - 15:21 by Sean Clinton
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Members of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign yesterday staged a protest against the continued construction of the apartheid wall in Palestine in defiance of the International Court of Justice ruling. ... read full story / add a comment |
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