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international / anti-capitalism Monday November 20, 2006 - 23:58 by KBranno 1 comment (last - wednesday november 22, 2006 - 20:11) 3 images
Just before kick off and during the half time interval of Saturday’s SPL encounter of Celtic and Inverness Calley Thistle a group of Celtic fans held up a paper mill declaring “Send Shell to Sea”. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 20, 2006 - 23:18 by LA
Student severely beaten by undercover policemen, right after the 17N demonstration ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday November 20, 2006 - 23:08 by www.chaseireland.org 44 comments (last - tuesday august 14, 2007 - 08:45) 1 image
Yet again the Government has appointed a member of industry with direct links to proposed incinerators to a key decision making position. On Friday last 17 November, Minister Dick Roche appointed Conal Boland of RPS Consulting to the Board of An Bord Pleanala. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Monday November 20, 2006 - 23:06 by Ringsend Campaign Against the Bin Tax 10 comments (last - tuesday january 23, 2007 - 17:26) 1 image
Today the Council received objections from residents to the management of waste collection in the area. ... read full story / add a comment
international / housing Monday November 20, 2006 - 14:47 by dunk 44 comments (last - monday july 09, 2007 - 13:42) 52 images
3 Barcelona squats under attack in 3 seperate early morning raids by police, riot squad and security guards. Pouble Nou barrio: Makabra eviction began at 8.20am lasted 3 hours for processing, people with no papers taken away. no resistance, no violence, street party shaping up outside squat which is still held by armed cops with helicopter support 191 Pillars: squatters attacked by security guards, women beaten with metal bars and knives, much trouble, things calmed now, lawyer tried to stay there, squatter won, court case upcoming. 3rd squat somewhere in Raval area in city centre, no more news as yet ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Sunday November 19, 2006 - 22:53 by Paula Geraghty 8 comments (last - tuesday november 21, 2006 - 10:41) 11 images
Bin -tax campaigners in the Dublin 8 and Dublin 12 area, gathered on Saturday morning to show the council that the Campaign and community was not going to be bullied by use of force. A jovial, positive and large crowd gathered pick up where the council let off.............................. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Sunday November 19, 2006 - 19:05 by Bren
Dcu fashion show misleads contributors. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 19, 2006 - 13:02 by Dave Donnellan 11 comments (last - friday december 08, 2006 - 21:56) 5 images
The Dead Who Were Commemorated ... Ignacio Ellacuria, 59, was rector of the Central American University Ignacio Martin-Baro, vice rector, 50, founder and director of the Public Opinion Institute, Segundo Montes, 56, a Spanish-born sociology professor and Jesuit priest Arnando Lopez, 53, a Spanish-born philosophy professor and Jesuit priest. Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, 71, a Salvadoran-born Jesuit priest Juan Ramon Moreno, 56, a Spanish-born Jesuit priest who was director of two university-related programs. Julia Elba Ramos, 42, a cook, and Cecilia Ramos, her daughter, 15. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Sunday November 19, 2006 - 11:08 by m.m.mccarron
The Sierra Club USA is the largest grassroots environmental movement in the United States. It is divided into Chapters and has also an active presence in Canada where Dr. Owens Wiwa was attached to its directotrate for a time. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / politics / elections Sunday November 19, 2006 - 08:53 by ray 21 comments (last - monday december 04, 2006 - 19:58)
The worst kept secret in Galway politics was confirmed this week as Cllr Catherine Connolly officially launched her campaign as an Independent candidate for Galway West in the 2007 General Election. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Saturday November 18, 2006 - 17:27 by C Murray 1 comment (last - sunday november 19, 2006 - 12:10)
Monica Roa from Women's Link Worldwide addressed the Safe and Legal Forum In
Dublin last evening, as part of a week of Prochoice events organised by IFPA and
safe and Legal. She made Legal History in Columbia by challenging the abortion
laws as a human rights issue. The campaign by Women's Link Worldwide was called
the Laicia Campaign. And the talk was very interesting. Monica showed a film of the campaign from start to finish, including the agit-prop, media coverage and the day of the Judgement. The documentary was short and in Spainish with acompanying English Subtitles. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 18, 2006 - 00:12 by Elinor and Ray 2 comments (last - saturday november 18, 2006 - 01:02) 9 images
Following on the heels of our previous two Cabarets, the Cork Shell to Sea benefit gig on Wednesday night last was a splendid and resounding success. We were told we have a name for providing the best entertainment in town! Big thanks to Karan Casey and Niall Vallelly, Ger Woulfe, Mick Flannery, Hank and Ray, Diarmuid Ó Dálaigh and Con Creedon. Thanks too to Niamh who did the door all night and thanks to Tom O’Connor for getting it all started and getting the line-up together. There are others to thank too – all those who helped along the way to a memorable extravaganza. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 17, 2006 - 17:15 by Elinor 1 comment (last - saturday november 18, 2006 - 00:36) 4 images
The Ken Saro-Wiwa Memorial Seminar was held at UCC, Cork this year. This event also marked the launch of 'Niger Delta Awareness' by Philip Ikurusi who comes from a small island off the Delta region. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 17, 2006 - 17:02 by James 1 comment (last - friday november 17, 2006 - 17:10) 4 images
This is the account of James - a WSM member from Cork - of what happened to him at the November 10th day of action in Rossport. James was the person with the bloody face whose image was featured on indymedia and the TV3 footage of the event. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday November 17, 2006 - 14:23 by Bill 14 comments (last - friday december 22, 2006 - 17:18) 4 images
The "WMD Here!" Plowshares have been in custody since their nonvviolent disarmament of a ICBM missile silo in North Dakota - June '06. Fr. Carl Kabat OMI and former soldiers/ now Catholic Workers Greg Bortje-Obed and Michael Walli were sentenced this past week. ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Friday November 17, 2006 - 13:07 by Anti Bothar Campaign 96 comments (last - thursday may 14, 2009 - 09:13)
A new group, the 'Anti Bothar Campaign', has been formed which aims are to highlight the cruelty to animals that the Bothar charity encourage and participate in- in the hopes of stopping them from promoting this cruelty ever again. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 17, 2006 - 11:37 by Cork Shell to Sea supporter 8 comments (last - sunday november 19, 2006 - 17:29) 15 images
Cork Shell to Sea members this morning placed a picket on the Munster Headquarters of the Garda Siochána in protest against garda brutality against peaceful protesters in Co. Mayo opposing the location of the Corrib Gas refinery and pipeline. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 17, 2006 - 03:45 by an fear súil 7 comments (last - sunday november 19, 2006 - 15:04)
14 a bhí i láthair ag an gcruinniú neamhfhoirmiúil a thionóladh in Ostán Benners sa Daingean, Deardaoin an 16ú Samhain. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 16, 2006 - 19:07 by JD 4 comments (last - monday november 20, 2006 - 20:13) 8 images
With his contemptible inversion and perversion of events in Erris last Friday, Demsey is rubbing salt into the wounds of the activists who journeyed to Rossport to engage in democratic protest and, were greeted instead with its antithesis : Brown Shirted thuggery in the form of wanton batoning, punching, kicking, treading on, women being tossed over fences like capers, vilication, goading,etc, the list of Gardai brutality and veniality is endless. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 16, 2006 - 13:44 by Stuart 16 comments (last - friday february 16, 2007 - 11:32) 1 image
Professor Enda McDonagh, the Chairman of the Governing Body of UCC, has announced the identity and remit of the "external and independent" person to review allegations of "corruption", financial mismanagement and bullying at the university. In a move that seems destined to delay rather than supplant a formal enquiry, the remit is to exclude all issues that have already been put before the Governing Body and to include input from Professor Michael Shattock, a co-author of the OECD Report on Higher Education in Ireland that is central to UCC's own restructuring plans (http://www.ucc.ie/en/restructuring/). The oversight of the review process by the very people either involved in, or investigating, the excluded allegations would appear to generate the potential for significant conflicts of interest. ... read full story / add a comment |
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