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international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 07, 2010 - 23:29 by Patricia McKenna
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As the Trilateral Commission meet in Ireland this weekend political campaigners have made a call on for the media report on the issue and let us the public know what is going on there - and most of all who is attending this behind closed doors meeting which is being kept secret and protected at taxpayers expense. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 05, 2010 - 19:26 by Eoin O L
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On the 21st April in Ballina Circuit Court, Shell to Sea campaigner Niall Harnett was sentenced to 6 months in jail, for an assault on Garda Hugh Egan on Glengad beach. Defence barrister Leo Mulrooney summed it up, without correction from the judge, that the incident was “as close to a technical offence as possible”. Essentially Niall Harnett was found guilty of assault of a Garda for putting his hand on Garda Egan while Garda Egan was pulling out of a fellow protestor (myself), whose leg was caught on Shell’s illegally constructed fencing. At a previous appeal sitting of the Circuit Court, Mr Harnett had been given 240 hours community service in lieu of the 6 month jail sentence, however he refused to do the community service, and so received the 6 months. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 05, 2010 - 19:09 by Fintan Lane
7 comments (last - thursday may 06, 2010 - 13:00) 12 images 1 video file
Palestine Dominates CRH AGM at the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire Today, Wednesday 5th May, a large number of Palestine solidarity activists staged a demonstration outside the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Irish multinational CRH, while concerned shareholders inside asked serious and pointed questions about the role of the Irish cement company in supplying construction materials being used in the building of Israel’s apartheid Separation Wall and in illegal settlements in Palestine. CRH has a 25% stake in the Israeli Mashav group, which acts as a holding company for Israel’s sole cement producer, Nesher. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 05, 2010 - 11:48 by Fintan Lane
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John Ging, the Irish-born head of the UN humanitarian agency in Gaza - the UNRWA - demanded yesterday that the international community should break the Israeli siege of Gaza by sea. ... read full story / add a comment 
derry / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday May 04, 2010 - 22:09 by Solidarity With Raytheon 14
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Much publicity has been made out of the recent adds by Hunky Dorys in 'support' of Ruby ... ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday May 04, 2010 - 20:48 by Paula Geraghty
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Hundreds marched in support of a better and fairer way for workers and society from Parnell Square to Liberty Hall. Speakers included Hilda Regaspi from the Domestic Workers Action Group, Arthur Scargill, Phil McFadden (President, Dublin Trades Council), Sam Nolan (Secretary, Dublin Trades Council and Louise O'Reily, Siptu. ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Tuesday May 04, 2010 - 01:55 by Thomas Janak
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Recorded on may bankholiday monday at the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 03, 2010 - 21:09 by Desso
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Declan O’ Shea speaks with Tommy Donnelan, Irish Activist presently in the village of Bil’in, West Bank. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday May 03, 2010 - 18:16 by getouttamyhead
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The Alliance for Irish Radiation Protection (AIRP) has declared the month of May as Electromagnetic Sensitivity Month in Ireland in line with growing world-wide concern about the dangers of microwave radiation. Microwave technology is behind the proliferation of cell phones, the use of the Tetra signal by the emergency services and the MiMAX signal developed at NUI Maynooth. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday May 02, 2010 - 21:13 by Paulo Nunes dos Santos
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May Day protest march in Dublin. [MULTIMEDIA] ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism Sunday May 02, 2010 - 16:38 by Andrew N Flood
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On a miserable wet day around 400 workers marched through Dublin in the annual Mayday march organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. Speakers at the end included Arthur Scargill, president of the British National Union of Mine Workers during the bitter year long 1984 strike in which 10 people were killed. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday May 02, 2010 - 16:22 by Iyad Burnat
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April 30, 2010 Today’s demonstration began with speeches in honor of International Workers’ Day by the Union of Palestine Workers, after which the crowd processed to the Wall. After several minutes, soldiers fired the first rounds of tear gas into the crowd, and continued to launch tear gas deep into the protestors’ route. Soldiers aggressively entered the village in waves in an effort to make arrests. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday May 02, 2010 - 16:08 by Iyad Burnat
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Israel Bans Popular Struggle Leader From Traveling Press Release - Bil’in Sunday May2nd 2010 Iyad Burnat, a leader in the popular struggle against the Israeli wall, was banned by Israel’s military from crossing the West Bank borders into Jordan on Saturday. Burnat is head of the local committee against the wall and settlement in the central West Bank village of Bil’in. The villagers of Bil’in have been organizing weekly anti wall protest since five years. ... read full story / add a comment 
derry / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday May 01, 2010 - 21:32 by Shane
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 30, 2010 - 16:46 by Kev
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Irish activist and documentarian Tommy Donnelan, 63, was this afternoon wounded and detained for two hours by the Israeli Military in the West Bank. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 29, 2010 - 15:04 by LASC
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The two individuals whose deaths have been confirmed are Beatríz Alberta Cariño, the director of CACTUS and member of the Southeast Mexican Indigenous Community Radios Network, and Jyri Jaakkola, an international solidarity observer from Finland. Four people have been confirmed disappeared: David Venegas Reyes and Noe Bautista Jimenez, from VOCAL, and Érika Ramírez and David Cilia, reporters from Contralínea. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday April 29, 2010 - 10:21 by Paula Geraghty
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"USI haven't gone away- and we're gonna wreck your heads, until students get their way!" USI hold protest at Fianna Fail Green party attacks on those who want to participate in the knowledge society. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 27, 2010 - 21:44 by TD
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Beit Jala : One of the fronts of the popular struggle in the West Bank is now Beit Jala, Bethlehem district. The whole of the Bethlehem district has been surrounded by the Apartheid-Annexation Wall and ever-expanding settlements for years. Now, Beit Jala is being hit even harder by the apartheid policies of the Israeli army and government via the new path of the Apartheid Wall in the area. On the morning of Tuesday, April 22nd 2010, Israeli bulldozers reached the home of Beit Jala resident Mitri Ghneim and started to level and damage the garden of his house. This event was just the most recent attack by Israeli soldiers. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday April 27, 2010 - 16:57 by Paula Geraghty
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Workers from Connolly Shoes are in their third week of a strike. Trade Union TV caught up with the strikers at a rally to support the strike organised by People Before Profit, saturday 24th 2010. ... read full story / add a comment 
derry / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday April 27, 2010 - 11:43 by Solidarity with the 14 Raytheon accused
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The trial of 14 people in connection with a protest at the defence company Raytheon in Derry is to begin at Belfast Crown Court on Tuesday May 4th. Solidarity pickets are being planned to coincide with the court hearings outside of the Laganside Court complex. ... read full story / add a comment |
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