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national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 08, 2005 - 12:09 by The Workers' Party   text 139 comments (last - thursday january 26, 2006 - 11:51)   image 1 image
The Central Executive Commitee of the Workers' Party of Ireland condemns in the strongest terms the provocative and politically motivated arrest of Party President, Sean Garland, on the opening night of the party's annual delegate conference (Ard Fheis) in Belfast last night (Friday). ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Saturday October 08, 2005 - 11:43 by Kathy Sinnott   text 14 comments (last - saturday october 15, 2005 - 18:13)   image 1 image
Kathy Sinnott, Member of the European Parlaiment, reports on discussions at EU level about precautions to be taken in the face of the apparently imminent avian flu pandemic. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 07, 2005 - 23:50 by Allen   text 5 comments (last - sunday october 09, 2005 - 16:58)
THE special committee established by the Labour Party to consider a complaint against Councillor Declan Bree will reconvene in Dublin this Saturday (8th October), at noon. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 07, 2005 - 23:38 by BS
A hunger strike by prisoners at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp has entered a serious stage, the International Committee of the Red Cross says. ... read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum Friday October 07, 2005 - 00:54 by Roger Eldridge   text 39 comments (last - tuesday october 11, 2005 - 23:58)
The furore surrounding the publication of research on parental versus institutional child care raises some interesting points other the ones that hit the headlines. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 06, 2005 - 18:09 by Seamus O Raghallaigh   text 25 comments (last - monday december 16, 2013 - 07:59)
An personal encounter with the Irish version of the Stasi- the special branch of an Garda Siochana. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 06, 2005 - 16:35 by Anne
At the end of September a 5-day meeting of many Colombian Communities in Resistance and supporters from several countries took place in the pretty green hill-top village of la Union, which is at the heart of the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartadó. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday October 06, 2005 - 12:21 by iosaf   text 3 comments (last - tuesday november 29, 2005 - 12:32)   image 1 image
Stan, the storm after Rita has killed at least 150 people in Central America last night.

The countries and areas affected include -
Guatemala, San Salvador, Chiapas in Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua.

El Salvador has just seen its largest Volcano erupt and is recording the most deaths.
32,045 evacuees are presently in 309 temporary shelters. The rain is not stopping movement is very difficult. Both El Salvador and its neighbour Guatemala are in states of emergency. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Thursday October 06, 2005 - 10:55 by Ploughshares   text 6 comments (last - saturday october 08, 2005 - 22:11)
**APPEAL****
To Help The PIT STOP PLOUGHSHARES
(Deirdre Clancy, Nuin Dunlop, Karen Fallon, Damien Moran, Ciaron O'Reilly)

ON TRIAL - Dublin Four Courts, October 24th. 2005 ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Wednesday October 05, 2005 - 23:11 by Mik W   text 6 comments (last - tuesday october 11, 2005 - 13:01)
On 27th September a sleep in protest to highlight the plight of homeless people in Ireland was staged outside Leinster House. Up till then I had no idea of the extent of homelessness in Ireland or how little the state seems to care about people who are homeless. I wrote down my impression of the events that night. What follows is my account of the few hours I spent in solidarity with my fellow citizens who have no place to call home. The only way homelessness will end in Ireland or anywhere else is if the people decide to end it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday October 05, 2005 - 14:02 by Dáil observer   text 4 comments (last - thursday october 06, 2005 - 18:18)   image 1 image
Joe Higgins questions Taoiseach in Dáil on Irish Ferries during Tuesday's Leaders' Questions and asks him: "Why are ships flying banana boat flags of convenience allowed to ply EU waters with impunity after all the Taoiseach's talk of social charters, workers' rights and the rest of it during, for example, recent referenda?" ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday October 04, 2005 - 22:41 by iosaf   text 2 comments (last - tuesday march 06, 2007 - 03:00)
the death of Aldo Bonomo on the first of September left a vacancy at the top of the italian holding company "fininvest" which controls television, radio, books, magazines, movies, Internet, directory enquiries, football club AC Milan and a stake in asset manager Mediolanum.

or in other words a very large share of Italian media and entertainment which boasts the largest independent TV and radio station in the state. ... read full story / add a comment
Fr Bill Bixell SJ - The Rebel Priest
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Monday October 03, 2005 - 23:19 by Elaine   text 8 comments (last - wednesday october 05, 2005 - 01:08)   image 12 images
dublin / miscellaneous Monday October 03, 2005 - 17:41 by karen   text 7 comments (last - tuesday october 04, 2005 - 21:27)
barry O'Donnovan was on trial today on the charge of causing a disturbance thereby a breach of the peace,under section 6 of the 1994 public order act.
Barry was charged under this for having the audacity to be on the Navan road and being part of the mayday MARCH ON 2004. He was arrested at approximately 9p.m. by the riot cops that evening. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday October 03, 2005 - 15:31 by -   text 2 comments (last - friday october 07, 2005 - 18:27)
It has been exactly one year since the arrest on October 3 2004 of "Mikel Antza" (Mikel Albizu born 1961), a writer attributed with leading the organisation ETA since 1992, thought to be directly responsible for 120 deaths.
He was arrested with his partner "anboto" (Soledad Iparagirre - born 1961) who is blamed for 14 deaths.

They were detained in a villa at Salíes-de-Béarn with 17 other presumed members of ETA, a quantity of arms, 1,300 kilograms of explosive and two SAM7 rocket launchers (supplied by irish dissident republicans).

This morning the succesors to that couple were arrested (also in France) along with a quantity of arms in the 6th joint operation between Spain and France aimed at the total disarticulation of the terrorist group. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Monday October 03, 2005 - 01:57 by Coilín Oscar ÓhAiseadha
Warren Mitofsky, founder-president of one of the two polling firms that conducted the exit polls in the US presidential elections of November 2004, has agreed to debate the likely cause of the significant discrepancies between the exit poll data, which predicted that John Kerry would win with a margin of 3% of the popular vote, and the final vote tallies, which returned George Bush to the White House with a margin of 2.5%.

The debate will be sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Organizational Dynamics and Department of Political Science, and will take place at lunchtime in Logan Hall, 249 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, on 14 October. For further details, please see the university's announcement below. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Sunday October 02, 2005 - 19:21 by rikki
repost of BOTH versions of video of shell centre demo on 30th september ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday October 01, 2005 - 12:01 by Joe   text 9 comments (last - thursday october 06, 2005 - 22:51)   image 5 images
Yesterday a demonstration against the ongoing occupation of Haiti by the UN took place at the central bank. It was organised by the Latin American Solidarity Centre ... read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations Saturday October 01, 2005 - 00:04 by Revolt Video   text 33 comments (last - thursday october 06, 2005 - 10:28)   image 10 images   video 1 video file
The film covers the day of blockades in an agit prop, music video style. It tries to explain the frustration of the previous 2 days of being " penned in " by the police at protests and the contrast between the direct action blockades and what was going on at Live 8.

Tech stuff: This video was encoded with the Xvid open source codec.

Install Xvid on Pc http://www.koepi.org/XviD-1.0.3-20122004.exe

How to get Xvid running on Mac http://www.unitethecows.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-876.html


If you have footage that you think will go well with this film please contact us at the above email, please do the same if you have any suggestions or comments. ... read full story / add a comment
Padraig and Tom blasting it out
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 30, 2005 - 21:36 by Tommy Donnellan   text 4 comments (last - sunday october 02, 2005 - 19:09)   image 9 images
The photo's tell the story of our jubilitation and celebration in Shop Street, at the news that the men who endured so much, finally prevailed today as regards emerging from Cloverhill, unbowed, unbloodied and their consciences very much intact and unsullied.

Alright Rossport Five, lead the way, you've earned the right !. ... read full story / add a comment
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