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national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 19, 2006 - 19:56 by RTE Watcher   text 22 comments (last - monday august 21, 2006 - 18:15)
Just got a phone call from Ed Horgan.
He is to debate on Prime Time tonight with David B. Rivkin, a US lawyer who served in the Justice Department under President Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and who writes articles attacking the red-cross and Amnesty as "Anti-American" ironically, he is a member of the U.N. Sub-commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 19, 2006 - 15:14 by watcher   text 7 comments (last - thursday january 19, 2006 - 18:57)   image 2 images
Rendition of suspects by the US is illegal under UK law, according to a leaked document given to the New Statesman. The full document is at the last link below.

Some questions arise for the Irish government, civil service, Gardai and Irish army, who shamefully make us complicit in serious breaches of human rights law. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 18, 2006 - 21:52 by shane ocurry   text 9 comments (last - friday january 20, 2006 - 19:28)   image 1 image
An event commemorating the murder of 14 innocent civilians & subsequent cover-up by the British State, and which has as its keynote speaker the widower of one of the victims of the 1993 IRA Shankill bomb, is one that is bound to get the hair standing up on the back of your neck. This year the Bloody Sunday Week-end Committee have really put the boat out to re-focus the weekend as a beacon for the community and politically minded from throughout Ireland, and abroad. A glance through the programme of events tells it all... ... read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous Wednesday January 18, 2006 - 00:46 by Noise Hacker   text 12 comments (last - wednesday january 18, 2006 - 19:34)   image 38 images
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
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