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international / miscellaneous Wednesday January 18, 2006 - 00:46 by Robbie Sinnott   text 5 comments (last - tuesday january 31, 2006 - 17:37)   audio 1 audio file
54min mp3 64kbps

Majority World, No. 110.

Intro

1: Vigil at Irish Aviation Authority Building on Fri evening, Jan 6th, 2006 (md interviews incl. with Kethleen from Code Pink).

6: music – Moon performed and written by Joanne Kearney from her demo cd.

10: Stephen Thornhill from Cómhlámh talks about the prospects for global agriculture in the wake of last month’s Hong Kong summit of the WTO.

22: Abdul on descriminatory security policy in Britain.

27: Michael Shanrahan music and interview on the impact of internet on the music industry and the meaning of music as we know it. Piece ends with more of Michael’s music.

49: Kieran Allen on the weekend’s People Before Profit Conference in Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
San Jose's Monument dedicated to all those killed in the Colombian civil war.
international / crime and justice Tuesday January 17, 2006 - 21:16 by San Jose de Apartado   text 2 comments (last - wednesday january 18, 2006 - 23:18)   image 1 image
Amidst all the fear, all the pain, all the anguish, a sentiment exists that unites us all, that is dignity. Our dignity will not allow us keep silent. This is why they have to assassinate us with our heads held high.

The following piece of writing is evidence of the fruits of our assassin state.

San Jose de Apartado Peace Community
Uraba, Colombia. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 17, 2006 - 18:59 by Cian   text 100 comments (last - wednesday february 15, 2006 - 14:47)   image 2 images
ON the day of the greatest Trade Union protest in 25 years, 10 students from Ard scoil Ris Limerick joined the protest. A month on and we are now being punished for it. What is worse is even students that did as the principal asked (brought in a note the following week) are being punished...
DEFEND THE RIGHT TO PROTEST
FIGHT FOR STUDENTS RIGHTS

[Note, this is only preliminary - things could change quickly] ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday January 17, 2006 - 15:00 by Alan MacSimoin   text 25 comments (last - friday january 20, 2006 - 13:58)
Rabbitte and O’Connor have decided to place the blame for driving down wages on the migrant workers themselves and not on the bosses. They want us to see our greedy employers as some sort of powerless bystanders, not as the enemy who make these decisions. ... read full story / add a comment
tyrone / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 17, 2006 - 11:04 by Ógra B   text 29 comments (last - monday october 02, 2006 - 19:53)
Fifteen months after their arrest, two Ógra Shinn Féin activists John McDermot from Strabane and Daniel Turnbull from Omagh have appeared in court charged with obstruction, disorderly behaviour and resisting arrest. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Tuesday January 17, 2006 - 10:54 by WS   text 8 comments (last - tuesday january 17, 2006 - 22:25)
Late last year some younger anarchists in Dublin and Wicklow got together and formed their own organisation. Workers Solidarity asked them why? ... read full story / add a comment
Joanne Delaney 22 year old sacked for wearing a union pin
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday January 16, 2006 - 17:09 by Maura   text 25 comments (last - friday december 29, 2006 - 22:14)   image 1 image
Joanne Delaney is a 22-year-old shop steward, a member of the Mandate trade union, and two months ago Dunnes fired her for wearing her union pin on her uniform. And despite pressure from her union, they are refusing to take her back. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Monday January 16, 2006 - 16:34 by Bin Tax Campaigner   text 7 comments (last - sunday april 06, 2008 - 14:37)
Last week DCC claimed that 95% of households have paid the Bin Tax. Today they claimed it was 80%. Here are the accurate figures as provided in a reply to Cllr. Joan Collins (Ind.).

Waiver: 40,000 households
Fully Paid: 35,000 households
Not paid/Arrears: 36,000 households

So over half the households due to pay have not paid the tax in full or have not paid at all. This does not take into account the fact that many households have withdrawn from the service (one quarter nationally) and that rates of non-payment are much higher than average in working class areas of the city.

Check Indymedia for info on public meetings throughout Dublin this week. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Monday January 16, 2006 - 11:51 by Finbar Dwyer   text 3 comments (last - tuesday january 17, 2006 - 18:00)
Though the issue of the Rossport pipeline was last in the news when the the five local men were released from prison, the conflict with Shell hasn't gone away. Since then the government commissioned a report, which essentially whitewashed Shell and gave the go ahead to build this dangerous pipeline ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 16, 2006 - 08:58 by Michael   text 5 comments (last - wednesday february 08, 2006 - 01:00)
Ms. Justice Macken is due to decide today on costs arising from Eoin Dubsky's failed legal challenge to US military refueling in Ireland. On December 13th she returned the High Court's judgement, denying that a "war" is an "armed conflict", and thus Ireland cannot be said to be "participating in war". Furthermore it is sufficient for the government to make Government policy verbally, never writing down what exactly it is they have decided to do. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday January 15, 2006 - 22:53 by iosaf   text 4 comments (last - monday january 16, 2006 - 13:24)
:-) its a Sunday, and that means "mass" things. & in Chile the mass did the voting thing, and because it is a *legal obligation* of Chilean citizenship when in residence and of suffrage age to vote...

Thus there really isn't a "not vote" count. But over 200,000 people have presented their documents in Chilean police stations today to prove they were more than 200km from their polling point. Considering Chile is a country which stretches for over 6,340 kilometres in length, its quite easy to dodge the polls. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Saturday January 14, 2006 - 15:57 by seedot   text 11 comments (last - thursday february 09, 2006 - 20:38)
The City council has announced that they will start non-collection next week - with two routes selected to leave rubbish behind. Will your neighbourhood be one of the lucky ones the council has decided to be fair to? ... read full story / add a comment
Untermenschen !, if Arbeit didn't free you, Armageddon surely will.
galway / anti-war / imperialism Friday January 13, 2006 - 18:34 by Tommy Donnellan   text 13 comments (last - saturday june 24, 2006 - 03:32)   image 6 images
Last Wednesday, a small group of anti-war activists took to the streets of Galway to lay bare, as it were, the psychopathology of the war criminals in the White House.

With the sabre being rattled in the face of Iran at the moment, the envisaged plan to attack China and "regionalize" it still viable and the military option against Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Syria and North Korea alive and well on the drawing boards of the Pentagon, we were not indulging in gratuitous bogey man theatrics, be afraid, be very afraid. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday January 12, 2006 - 22:42 by Richard Mellor
Between 500 and 1000 thousand auto workers, other trade unionists and supporters picketed the International Auto Show in Detroit on Jan 8th ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 12, 2006 - 17:23 by kahootz   text 7 comments (last - friday january 13, 2006 - 16:30)
Two previously unknown defence agreements with the US, one of which relates directly to Irish Government complicity in torture, were revealed today in the Dail Eireann by Labour's Michael D. Higgins. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday January 12, 2006 - 16:10 by Freelance Journalist   text 26 comments (last - sunday june 08, 2014 - 20:01)
The recent events regarding "Stormontgate" are now reaching to Scotland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 12, 2006 - 13:15 by Aileen O'Carroll   text 49 comments (last - friday april 14, 2006 - 21:08)
Official Ireland pretends that abortion doesn't exist, the estimated 100,000 women who have travelled abroad to terminate pregnancies since the 1983 amendment to the Constitution know different. Workers Solidarity spoke to Niav Keating from the new pro-choice youth group. ... read full story / add a comment
international / health / disability issues Wednesday January 11, 2006 - 20:54 by Kathy Sinnott   text 1 comment (last - thursday february 02, 2006 - 22:28)
The absence of formal data on the incidence of autism throughout the EU is about to be addressed. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 11, 2006 - 02:45 by Hans Chr. Andersen   text 37 comments (last - friday january 27, 2006 - 16:32)   image 2 images
At a meeting in meeting in Paris on 14 December, the Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a draft resolution and a draft recommendation on the "Need for international condemnation of the crimes of totalitarian communist regimes".
Two Danish communist parties have launched a petition to stop the "witch hunt" that this resolution would invoke, resulting in the "persecution of the European communist parties, people active in trade unions, and other democratic and popular forces". ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Wednesday January 11, 2006 - 00:44 by Saoririseoir   text 6 comments (last - saturday january 14, 2006 - 21:21)   audio 1 audio file
At 3:30 pm, Two Hours of Speaker's Square began in Temple Bar Square, Dublin City. Three regular speakers and one by-stander held forth on various issues, and interjections from many (of the up to 20 audience), were numerous.

Speaker's Square or Cearnóg na gCainteoirí is an occasional experiment which was revived in April 2004, and its aim, apart from to engage in stimulating realtime discussion, is to reclaim our public space from its commercial surrounds; and to fill it with ideas and opinions that one are not likely to find in the mainstream media. ... read full story / add a comment
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