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mayo / anti-capitalism Saturday December 22, 2007 - 21:15 by Chekov
 16 comments (last - friday december 28, 2007 - 11:36)  3 images
This 7 minute documentary follows a couple of protestors who travelled down to Rossport in February 2007 to protest against Shell's construction of an on-shore refinery. This video follows their progress as they take part in an invasion of the site. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Saturday December 22, 2007 - 16:36 by TaraTaraTara
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Happy Winter Solstice from Tara Defenders at Newgrange. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday December 21, 2007 - 12:38 by Socialist Youth
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Recently Domino's pizza store workers in Wolverhampton and Derby earned negative wages after working for a month. Bosses had charged them extortionate amounts for rent and insurance to cheat them out of their wages. It leaves no doubt as to how Domino’s makes their £700 million every year. To highlight this scandal Socialist Youth in Belfast organised a stall outside a local Domino’s on the Antrim Road on a busy Friday night. We received a warm response from customers to our leaflets. The response of Domino’s however was to ring the police. There is nothing criminal about campaigning for an £8 an hour minimum wage, but the actions of Domino’s in England should be considered criminal ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday December 19, 2007 - 18:54 by Moilligh Síos
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Ógra Shinn Féin have produced a short film following the weekend's road safety vigil in Dublin. The road safety film includes shocking statistics on the number of deaths so far this year on Irish roads and includes interviews from activists representing Ógra Shinn Féin, Labour Youth and Young Greens. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 21:54 by El Libertario, Venezuela
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* The collective editors of the Venezuelan journal El Libertario and the Organizacion Nelson Garrido, have issued a call out for filmmakers and video activists from all over the world to present their recent autonomous works concerning active social movements in struggle. This will be held in Caracas, Venezuela, between the 21st and the 28th of January 2008. ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 16:14 by Fintan Lane
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Pat Allen, known to many as "Pat the Picket" (because of his tireless social justice campaigning), is today sitting in Cork Prison following a protest against homelessness in the city. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 12:59 by Garry
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Over 20 IPSC activists spent their lunchbreak protesting at the EU offices on Thursday 13th December, protesting against the ongoing siege of Gaza. The EU closed their offices in response. After an hour of maintaining the protest, an EU official met with the IPSC secretary who handed over a letter of protest. 500 leaflets were handed out to members of the general public who passed by the offices. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Monday December 17, 2007 - 21:58 by JohnC
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It has been announced that the Salthill Air Show for 2008 has been cancelled. Organisers attribute the cancellation to difficulties in raising commercial sponsorship, something they blame on the campaigning of the Galway Alliance Against War (GAAW). Potential business sponsors, evidently, do not wish to be associated with something as controversial as this air show. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 17, 2007 - 18:06 by Barry McColgan
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Ógra Shinn Féin held a demonstration outside the GPO in Dublin Saturday last in solidarity with the people of the Basque country, especially the leaders of Batasuna and SEGI, who have been recently arrested and sentenced to irrational jail terms, by the Spanish authorities. In response to this Ógra Shinn Féin working with the Dublin Basque committee mobilised onto the streets of Dublin to bring the issue to the public. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 17, 2007 - 00:12 by Gregor Kerr
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Over 200 people packed into the Royal Dublin Hotel on Dublin’s O’Connell Street in early December for a public meeting on the topic ‘Democracy and Policing: How accountable are the gardaí to the Irish people?’ ... read full story / add a comment |
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