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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 17, 2010 - 17:10 by watcher
 2 comments (last - sunday december 19, 2010 - 14:49)
Former Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern suggested that "cover" for any US torture taxis that "surfaced" would be provided through random inspections at Shannon, a new confidential cable on the Wikileaks site reveals.Ahern said that he "could use a little more information" about US flights in 2007, “musing that it might not be a bad idea to allow the random inspection of a few planes to proceed, which would provide cover if a rendition flight ever surfaced”, stated former US ambassador to Ireland Thomas Foley.
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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 17, 2010 - 08:03 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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At about 6pm Thursday December 16th., Julian Assange emerged from Britain's HIgh Court on the Strand, London. He had finally been released on bail after nine days in solitary confinement at Wandsworth Prison. Harsher bail conditions were added by the High Court than were imposed days earlier at the Westminister Magistrates Court. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/16/julian-assa...-jail ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 16, 2010 - 13:22 by DfC
Doctors For Choice welcomes the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in favour of one of the three women applicants in the ABC case and demands that the government now legislate on abortion provision as a matter of urgency. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday December 16, 2010 - 11:10 by Madam K
Two very different videos from yesterday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 16, 2010 - 09:02 by Ciaron O'Reilly
YOUTUBE (2min22sec) - Irish/Australian Plowshare/Catholic Worker Activist Ciaron O'Reilly does Solidarity Speaks Out Outside Westminster Court While Assange Denied Bail! (Dec 7 2010) - Solidarity with Assange and Manning! http://youtu.be/8Tw98tv0sso ... read full story / add a comment
laois / politics / elections Tuesday December 14, 2010 - 11:35 by Eóin Breathnach
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John Whelan imposed in Laois/Offaly by Labour after party walkout on voting. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 14, 2010 - 10:01 by Australians for the Immediate Release of Julian Assange
5 comments (last - thursday december 16, 2010 - 04:31)  12 images
On Monday 13th December at 5 pm, concerned Australian academics, artists, activists and expats occupied the foyer of the Australian Embassy on The Strand, London. They refused instruction by embassy security to vacate the building reading aloud a letter of demands addressed to the Australian High Commissioner. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday December 13, 2010 - 12:32 by dropping by
The latest round of diplomatic cables released by wikileaks candidly reveals the Irish government's attitudes towards the use of Shannon airport by the US military. No great surprise that the Irish government co-operated with military flights to Iraq for a diplomatic back scratch and to boost the Shannon economy. The ploughshares action and acquittal case gets a couple of mentions. Here are the Cables: ... read full story / add a comment 
national / education Sunday December 12, 2010 - 15:47 by FEE
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Shocking call from the Union of Students in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 12, 2010 - 13:13 by john throne
Please take your time to send support to the inspiring movement of prisoners in the state of Georgis. And please take your time to back up wikileaks as capitalism tries to crush it in its publication of the systems dirty secrets and lies. ... read full story / add a comment
Mon. D13 6pm@ OZEmbassy: Australians in London Demand Release of Assange&Confront OZGovt. Complicity
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 12, 2010 - 09:44 by Australians in London 4 Immediate Release of Julian Assange
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6pm MONDAY DEC 13th. *Australian Embassy, The Strand, London If you can attend, RSVP your intention to attend on Monday by phone/txt Ciaron at 079 392 905 76 ...this will help us organise the event ***if the response is large today/ Sunday...we may start the vigil earlier at 4.30 pm (formalities, spechs, music will be at 6 pm ither way) while the embassy is open.......check this Irish indymedia thread for updates..or make contact on the mobile number provided... ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 12, 2010 - 05:29 by john throne
In a brilliant inspiring display of unity and struggle prisoners in the entire state of Georgia, USA have been on strike now for three days. They need you help. Please call and email the prison authorities. Do not put it off These Sisters and Brothers need your help. This unity of prisoners in struggle that has been forged has not been seen in decades. Please do all you can to help. Get them support and also spread this post to all your friends. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / education Saturday December 11, 2010 - 02:26 by FEE
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Walkout in Castlebar on Thursday, December 9. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 10, 2010 - 20:56 by Anonymous
32 comments (last - tuesday june 14, 2011 - 12:13) 34 images  6 video files
Hello World. We are Anonymous. What you do or do not know about us is irrelevant. We have decided to write to you, the media, and all citizens of the free world at large to inform you of the message, our intentions, potential targets, and our ongoing peaceful campaign for freedom. We Are Anonymous, We Are Legion And Divided By Zero. We Do Not Forgive Internet Censorship. And We Do Not Forget Free Speech. We Are Over 9000. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 10, 2010 - 15:41 by Claiming Our Future
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Demonstration against cutting the minimum wage. ... read full story / add a comment 
Approximately 1500-2000 people took the streets in Belfast today, marching from schools and universities to congregate at the City Hall, Belfast to protest the proposed increase in fees, which could see people being charged up to £9,000 a year for tuition. The protest was also against the cuts in EMA, a small fee paid to secondary school students from lower-income families to help pay for their final two years of higher education. ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / anti-capitalism Thursday December 09, 2010 - 23:33 by Ray
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600 Corkonians braved the cold weather on Wednesday night to participate in the anti-budget protest march and rally called by the Independent Workers Union. ... read full story / add a comment
Young Derry students make a stand for education. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 08, 2010 - 19:09 by TD
29 comments (last - friday december 10, 2010 - 15:38) 29 images 1 video file
It's cold comfort that yesterday's inhuman budget was the last sting of a vicious, dying government, chilling to realise it was allowed to flourish and pass by the broad mass of the Irish people standing idly by and not engaging in mass protest.? Yesterdays proceedings outside the Dáil were mild, ultra-mild and weak when compared to the mass protests in Greece and France and the fact that the EU/ECB/IMF attacks on our poor, vulnerable, working classes and middle classes, through their willing government catspaws, are far more severe here than the aforementioned countries.? ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday December 08, 2010 - 16:24 by Feudal Castrato
25 comments (last - saturday december 11, 2010 - 22:48)
here is a video of Joe Higgins interviewed at budget protest by RT. Contrastingly, Vincent Browne interviews him in a snide manner on TV3 while crawling to protect Topaz sales after a shell to sea banner accidentally creeps into his interviews ... read full story / add a comment |
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