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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 05, 2011 - 17:46 by Ciaron
 5 comments (last - thursday september 29, 2011 - 09:49)
We are ten years into a war on Aghanistan, 20 years into a war on Iraq and 250+ daze into the confinement without charge of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has done so much to expose the true nature of these wars. Wars that have no end date, no popular support and presently little visible opposition. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday September 03, 2011 - 13:39 by Joe Mcivor
2 comments (last - friday november 18, 2011 - 09:52)
RTE’s website carried a story yesterday about cancellations in Dublin’s transport building program . The article said that it was now “ [by] no means certain that any of the major transport projects for Dublin will be built in the next five years “. The report’s first paragraph reads: “Transport Minister Leo Varadkar said the country is in receivership and it is by no means certain that any of the major transport projects for Dublin will be built in the next five years.” The accompanying RTE News report does not include a full quote or a reference to where and when the government minister said that Ireland was “in receivership”. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday September 02, 2011 - 12:34 by CW
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Catholic Workers Head to British GCHQ at Cheltenham on eve of 10th Anniversary of the Wars ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Wednesday August 31, 2011 - 22:28 by j debender
3 comments (last - monday september 05, 2011 - 21:07) 7 images  1 video file
On Wednesday 31st August at 8am 15 people entered Barrett’s quarry, just outside Bangor Erris in Co. Mayo and stopped work for the whole day, leaving at 5:30pm. Barrett’s is a subcontractor on the Corrib Gas Project, currently bringing truckloads of gravel and hardcore to Shell’s site in Aughoose. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Friday August 26, 2011 - 20:12 by j debender
2 comments (last - wednesday august 31, 2011 - 16:49) 10 images
Between lock-ons, mass trespasses, lorry climbing and a breach of security at Shell's refinery, this week brought a lot of people out protesting. Locals who haven't been out on the roads in years have come out this week, and momentum is building. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Friday August 26, 2011 - 18:54 by Frank
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From 6.00am to 9.30am Friday 26th August, three campaigners occupied Aghoos Road, as part of the ongoing protests against the controversial Shell refinery at Bellinaboy. They formed a triangle in the middle of the road using a set of especially made arm-tubes. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / miscellaneous Friday August 26, 2011 - 11:06 by Rossport SC
4 comments (last - friday august 26, 2011 - 18:20) 11 images 1 video file
Local Shell to Sea campaigners and their supporters at Rossport Solidarity Camp are resting after another bizarre day of lows, highs and outright idiocy during their ongoing protest against Shell in co. Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday August 26, 2011 - 00:04 by Fritz Watson
3 comments (last - saturday september 10, 2011 - 08:08)
He called aggressive war "the greatest menace of our times." International law defines crimes against peace as "planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of wars of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing." All US post-WW II wars fall under this definition. ........ ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Wednesday August 24, 2011 - 08:04 by Frank
2 comments (last - thursday august 25, 2011 - 12:23) 7 images
Today 25 people from Rossport Solidarity Camp sustained a barrage of actions against the site Shell is preparing for its tunnel boring machine. Despite 80 security and three vans of gardaí they were unable to keeps the protesters out. In the chaos that ensued one person got through the lines to d-lock themselves to one of the diggers and remained up there stopping work for 4 hours. Elsewhere other diggers had to stop working as protestors approached. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Tuesday August 23, 2011 - 23:43 by j debender
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Monday 22nd August at 6am, two people locked their arms into concrete barrels in the road between Shell's Ballinaboy refinery and the tunneling compound in Aughoose. The lock-on lasted for 7 hours, stopping all deliveries to the compound during that time. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday August 21, 2011 - 23:44 by Kurdistan Solidarity Ireland
Seven civilians killed by Turkish actions across the Iraqi border which have been targeting Kurdish positions for five days. The Turkish action has been met by silence from the international communty and media. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Tuesday August 16, 2011 - 23:26 by j debender
3 comments (last - monday september 05, 2011 - 16:25) 13 images
Monday 15th August at 9am a group of 12 people went down to Shell's compound in Aughoose to stop work. Eventually Shell's private security (IRMS) and the Gardaí began working together to police the roads and protect deliveries of equipment to the compound. ... read full story / add a comment
OPPORTUNITY MISSED - Pentagon Documents reveal U.S. military were willing to abandon Ireland as a...
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 15, 2011 - 12:14 by Ciaron
2 comments (last - tuesday august 16, 2011 - 09:34)
RTE TV News August 12th. 2011 (1 min 52 secs) http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0812/shannon.html#video RTE AUDIO Agust 12th. 2011(2mins 37 secs) http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0812/shannon.html#audio More documents RTE http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0812/shannon.html Ahern suspected US carried prisoners through Shannon: WikiLeaks http://www.thejournal.ie/ahern-suspected-us-carried-pri...0-12/ ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Saturday August 13, 2011 - 23:07 by Sparky
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The UNEP recently issued a report detailing the destructive effects of decades of Shell oil production activities in Ogoniland in Nigeria. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Thursday August 11, 2011 - 23:36 by j debender
3 comments (last - sunday august 14, 2011 - 16:48) 7 images
Between a mass trespass in the morning, someone blocking the road for 2 and ½ hours by climbing on top of a lorry, and a protest outside Shell's Ballinaboy refinery, Thursday 11th August was a day full of blocking Shell. ... read full story / add a comment
YOUTUBE&REPORT -Solidarity with Afghanistan War Refusenik Michael Lyons - Colchester Military Prison
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 11, 2011 - 16:57 by Solidarity
4 comments (last - tuesday september 20, 2011 - 12:57)
YOUTUBE Speaking Outside Colchester Military Prison - Ciaron O'Reilly from Giuseppe Conlon House/ Catholic Worker, Naomi from "UK Friends of Bradley Manning", Katrina recites a poem, Ben Griffin Afghanistan/Iraq combt veteran "Veterans for Peace", Jill Harris Michael Lyon's mother, Fr. Martin Newell Giuseppe Conlon House , Giorgio Riva Payday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxazNPBw8oo ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 10, 2011 - 22:39 by Brad
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Rossport Solidarity Camp members resist the construction of Shell's pipe laying compound at Aughoose which results in I-RMS unlawfully obstructing public highway. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Wednesday August 10, 2011 - 15:45 by B
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Work was halted at Bord na Mona's Shrahmore peat deposition siteon Monday August 8th by protesters from Rossport Solidarity Camp. From 11am up until 6pm four protesters prevented Barrett's and Lennon's quarry trucks from entering the site with road building gravel. Inside the compound, two of the protesters climbed up onto a digger in order to stop it proceeding with the road construction on the site. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Thursday August 04, 2011 - 23:24 by j debender
16 comments (last - monday august 08, 2011 - 13:56) 19 images
Between a concrete lock-on blocking the road for almost 4 hours and a bluegrass country band playing tunes in front of a Shell truck, Wednesday 3rd August was another impressive day of stopping Shell's work on the onshore pipeline of the Corrib Gas Project. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Wednesday August 03, 2011 - 17:27 by j debender
4 comments (last - wednesday august 03, 2011 - 23:04) 20 images
On Tuesday 2nd August Shell's work was halted for most of the day, only two tractors getting into the Aughoose compound by 3.30pm. There was a heavily increased garda presence with up to 40 guards being drafted in from Roscommon and elsewhere, and four arrests were made. ... read full story / add a comment |
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