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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday November 25, 2005 - 12:59 by Bryan
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In the next few days, the Catholic Worker Crew are setting off from Brisbane in a Citizen's Inspection Vehicle, powered by recycled fish 'n chip vegetable oil, to confront the U.S. NSA Pine Gap Base near Alice Springs. Pine Gap sattelite targets for U.S. first strike nuclear weapons and also recent drive by cruise missile attacks on Afghanistan, Sudan & Iraq. Some of the folks go to trial Monday in Rockhampton, Queensland for blockading joint U.S./Australian military Operation Talisman Sabre exerecises this past June. The Australian government erases civil liberties on the basis of anit-terror hysteria while hosting State terrorist facilities. The Australian Defence Minister has recently threatened the CW crew with svere punishment if they go ahead with their nonviolent action. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday November 25, 2005 - 12:24 by Not RTE
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Ignoring expert medical advice, the EPA has licenced a Belgian corporation to operate three waste incinerators - two in Cork ,one in Meath. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Friday November 25, 2005 - 06:42 by Terry
7 comments (last - sunday november 27, 2005 - 19:04) 12 images
Over the course of the last month participants in Rossport Solidarity Camp have been speaking at public meetings in UCC, Tallaght IT, UCD, Trinity, NUI Maynooth, Dundalk town, as well as at twelve meetings in England; this is a report of the English part of the tour; we are still looking for more meetings, make contact at the above e-mail address, the purpose is to garner sufficient recruits and logistical support for the new ‘construction season’ in the spring of 2006, when the camp re-opens. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 24, 2005 - 20:16 by Dave
23 comments (last - saturday december 03, 2005 - 18:19)
Speculation is mounting on the future of former Sligo-Leitrim Labour TD Declan Bree after a complaint he made against party leader Pat Rabbitte was rejected by an internal disciplinary committee. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 24, 2005 - 17:55 by Socialist Party
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Two members of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) in Russia and a sympathizer were arrested yesterday ... read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues Thursday November 24, 2005 - 13:59 by ,,,,
4 comments (last - thursday november 24, 2005 - 17:10)
I have just heard that there are deportations arranged for today. I spoke briefly to a member of Residents Against Racism and I understand they will be down at Burgh Quay at 2pm. If you are in the city centre please get down there. If I get any more details I will post them here. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 15:33 by ollie
5 comments (last - friday november 25, 2005 - 14:11)
breaking news: According to rte's website, in the last hour 'A report published today by the Centre for Public Inquiry into the €900m Corrib Gas Project says the controversial gas pipeline carries a real and substantial risk of failure.' ... read full story / add a comment 
international / summit mobilisations Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 15:22 by Comhlámh
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1 Dáil Debate on WTO Hong Kong 2 Understanding Hong Kong - an educational poster ... read full story / add a comment 
meath / environment Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 00:28 by Meath on Track campaign
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Meath on Track's first public meeting was held tonight in the Ardboyne Hotel, Navan. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday November 21, 2005 - 16:53 by Aisling Walsh
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada is symbolically served with the legal documents the US Government has failed to serve him with for 4 months, demanding his return to Bolivia. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Monday November 21, 2005 - 15:20 by diet simon
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NEWSFLASH: ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 21, 2005 - 14:56 by ElSuper
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ARTICLE 19, the Global Campaign for Free Expression, is concerned at the news that Basque-language newspaper Euskaldunon Egunkaria remains unable to resume publication following its closure by the Spanish authorities in 2003, due to alleged links with the banned terrorist group ETA. Euskaldunon Egunkaria, established in 1990 as the first and only Basque-language daily newspaper, reportedly with a readership of 15,000 and widely respected throughout the Basque community, was raided by the authorities on 20 February 2003. On this occasion, documents and computers were seized, and the newspaper’s assets frozen. In addition, ten individuals who were or had been members of staff, including the newspaper’s managing director Iñaki Uria and former editor Pello Zubiria, were arrested in dawn raids and held incommunicado for up to five days. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 21, 2005 - 13:57 by Repeater
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The children die at the hands of the suicidists one day, regular military the next. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 21, 2005 - 00:03 by Pax
5 comments (last - friday november 25, 2005 - 21:00)
On Nov 16th 1989, six Jesuits (one a graduate of Milltown, Dublin) were slained be elite Salvadoran troops trained at the School of the Americas, Ft. Benning, Georgia, USA. Around the anniversary of these deaths human rights activists gather to march on SOA chanting the names of Latin American dead slain by SOA graduates, some trespass facing 6-18 months in prison. Thousands of Latin Americans have been killed by the gradiates of SOA. 10,000 Colomban troops alone have been trained at Ft. Benning (USA) in the past ten years. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Sunday November 20, 2005 - 09:55 by cearbhuil
Since the founding of this Peace Community in 1997, San Jose has suffered assassinations, kidnappings, forced displacements and tortures by The COlombian Army. The President of Colombia wants to exterminate this peace community as they offer alternatives to slavery, poverty and dictatorship. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Sunday November 20, 2005 - 06:47 by Brian
22 comments (last - monday january 16, 2006 - 11:18)
A short account of the meeting on Garda, legal and state corruption chaired by Frank McBrearty at the Mansion House Dublin 20 Nov 2005. (My apologies in advance for any errors and omissions.) ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / bin tax / household tax / water tax Saturday November 19, 2005 - 18:07 by Paul
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Sligo/North Leitrim Labour Party election candidate has angered local party supporters over his recent support for an increase in bin charges. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 19, 2005 - 10:01 by Paul O'C
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I just recieved this report through escr.net, thought it would be of interest to all, in particular those involved in the Rossport/Corrib campaigns. (p.s. there is some odd sintax in the main post, just ignore it). ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 19, 2005 - 04:13 by Justin Morahan
10 comments (last - tuesday january 03, 2006 - 20:01)
The long persecution of Mordechai Vanunu continues as the State of Israel continues to refuse to Let Vanunu Go For releasing the secrets of Israel's illicit nuclear arsenal, the powers that be within Israel seem bent on breaking his indomitable spirit. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Friday November 18, 2005 - 21:35 by Sean Crudden
"Were you ever out in the great alone when the moon shone awful clear And the icy mountains hemmed you in with a silence you `most could hear With only the cry of the timber wolf and you camped out there in the cold - A half dead thing in a half starved world clean mad for that muck called gold?" Robert W Service ... read full story / add a comment |
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