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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 10, 2005 - 21:33 by Dunlo Tom   text 1 comment (last - sunday july 10, 2005 - 21:45)   image 6 images
Today, at the football final between Galway and Mayo, some 30 activists from Sinn Fein and the Shell to Sea campaign highlighted the injustice that was visited on the Rossport Five and, in their ongoing struggle with Shell Oil, the travails of the Erris community. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 10, 2005 - 19:50 by H. Finck   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 12, 2005 - 13:08)
60 years ago the german pacifist and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was murdered by the Nazis.
"Translated in nearly all the languages of the world, Bonhoeffer's texts encourage liberating the Bible from the godless bonds of fundamentalist interpretations and protesting increasingly perfect weapons and destructive relations with the goods of the earth." ... read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations Sunday July 10, 2005 - 19:14 by A. via imc irl contact form   text 4 comments (last - monday july 11, 2005 - 11:49)
On the morning of the 5th of July I was on a cow-field near a section of the M9 (close to Stirling), where earlier a blockade had been dissolved when the police arrived. ... read full story / add a comment
March to Gleneagles
international / summit mobilisations Sunday July 10, 2005 - 17:56 by treena   text 1 comment (last - sunday july 10, 2005 - 18:04)   image 9 images
Images from Gleneagles during G8 summit Wednesday 6 July: actions and rally/march ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 10, 2005 - 16:42 by Hilaal   text 7 comments (last - wednesday july 13, 2005 - 22:32)
A memo attributed to British Defence Minister John Reid states that the UK is to reduce it's troops from 8,500 to 3,000 by this time next year. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Sunday July 10, 2005 - 15:34 by iosaf   text 6 comments (last - wednesday july 13, 2005 - 00:10)
Today 218,000 approx, citizens of Luxembourg will vote to accept or reject the draft European Constitution.

They will be the 4th EU state to vote.

Spain ratified it with little over 50% participation.

France and the Netherlands rejected it. ... read full story / add a comment
Limerick IPSC members protest against the apartheid wall in Palestine
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 10, 2005 - 15:21 by Sean Clinton   text 24 comments (last - friday july 15, 2005 - 14:36)   image 1 image
Members of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign yesterday staged a protest against the continued construction of the apartheid wall in Palestine in defiance of the International Court of Justice ruling. ... read full story / add a comment
Some of the 2,5000 protesters !
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 10, 2005 - 03:33 by Tommy Donnellan   text 23 comments (last - friday january 27, 2006 - 01:06)   image 13 images
With five prisoners of conscience in Cloverhill gaol for an indefinite period, our government intent on selling our family silver for a mess of pottage and a song and Shell, hell bent on robbing our resources, enough is enough. Please contribute unstintingly to the fund set up to support the families of the Rossport Five.

ULSTER BANK
Sort Code : 985314
Account No : 23987020
Bank ID : ULSBIE2D
IBAN : 1E74 ULSB 9853 1423 9870 20
(International Bank Account Number) ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Sunday July 10, 2005 - 01:18 by Terry   text 5 comments (last - friday july 22, 2005 - 20:56)   image 7 images
Latest news and photos from Rossport Solidarity Camp. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / environment Saturday July 09, 2005 - 14:53 by Paul Lynch   text 4 comments (last - saturday july 09, 2005 - 18:07)   image 7 images
Sinn Fein Received Support From Motorist and passers by when they picketed the shell station on kylemore Road Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism Saturday July 09, 2005 - 13:40 by Paul Lynch   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 09, 2005 - 15:25)   image 1 image
Members of Ogra Shinn Fein Occupied the roof of the Sony building on O'Connel Street During the make Poverty History Rally in Dublin and Dropped banner. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Saturday July 09, 2005 - 03:01 by Markus   text 3 comments (last - saturday july 09, 2005 - 18:44)
The Irish Examiner has published an article (July 7) which (in a sidebar) takes seven quotes from the forums on Archiseek.com out of context and uses them to back up its claim that Archiseek.com is anti-OAP. Inside Cork reiterates the allegations while commenting that they declined to reply. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 09, 2005 - 02:59 by Hilaal   text 3 comments (last - sunday july 10, 2005 - 15:56)
Italian Prime Minister Sylvio Berlusconi announced Friday that the 3000 Italian troops in Iraq are to be withdrawn , starting this September. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / environment Saturday July 09, 2005 - 01:26 by anarchaeologist   text 6 comments (last - sunday july 10, 2005 - 00:02)   image 3 images
Members of DGN and other concerned citizens tonight closed down the Shell station on Parnell Rd. in protest at the continued jailing of the Rossport 5 and the continuing collaboration of the FF/PD coalition with this multinational. ... read full story / add a comment
Navan Sinn Féin member Dave Finney
meath / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 08, 2005 - 23:05 by Meath Sinn Féin   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 09, 2005 - 16:42)   image 5 images
Meath Sinn Féin protested at Navan Shopping Centre in support of the 5 jailed Mayo men on Saturday evening ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 08, 2005 - 23:03 by Chris   text 10 comments (last - sunday july 10, 2005 - 17:43)
Fine Gael has called for new legislation to be inacted which would grant the Taoiseach unprecedented sweeping executive powers in times of crisis. In a statement today their Defence Spokesman Billy Timmins TD claimed executive powers should be increased immediately and centralised at the "highest level" of Government.

Legislation in the UK allows the so-called COBRA committee to rule by executive decree with the power to:

Suspend sittings of Parliament
Destroy or requisition private property
Ban public assemblies
Limit freedom of movement
Establish special courts to try suspects ... read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations Friday July 08, 2005 - 09:47 by [email protected]   text 3 comments (last - friday july 08, 2005 - 17:13)
Most of us had barely been asleep an hour, when at three o'clock the alarm went off. I woke to the sound of people shouting 'get out of your tent, the police are here'. Our delegates were sent to the front gate while the rest of us waited. They came back with the word that twenty police vans had arrived but they had said that they would not enter the camp. A small group of watchers stayed awake, the rest of us went back to our cold beds. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday July 08, 2005 - 00:54 by iosaf   text 2 comments (last - monday july 25, 2005 - 12:59)
Al Qaeda in Iraq
have issued a statement
to the effect that they have killed
Ihab el-Sharif the ambassador of Egypt to Iraq.

This statement has been confirmed by the Egyptian authorities.
It has been less than a week since Egypt tabled several motions in favour of total debt relief for Africa, and reduced military intervention in Africa at the 2005 African Union conference attended by 52 african states and hosted in Libya. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism Thursday July 07, 2005 - 17:12 by Rossport Supporter   text 4 comments (last - friday july 08, 2005 - 18:01)
A list of all known actions in Dublin on the Rossport Campaign over the next seven days. Please add to it as we go. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday July 07, 2005 - 12:15 by ShellToSea   text 15 comments (last - friday july 08, 2005 - 15:59)   image 29 images
About 500 people joined the protest Wednesday evening in Dublin to protest at the jailing of the Mayo 5. This was very good considering it was called at short notice.
A further protest is to be held in Belmullet 2pm Saturday July 9.
A car cavalcade is being organised from Dublin meeting at 8.30am at Liberty Hall. If you have a car and have spaces or want to be a passenger please phone 087-2839964 so we can estimate numbers. ... read full story / add a comment
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