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mayo / environment Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 14:48 by Rudiger
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Yesterday at 1pm, 3 kayakers paddled out from close by to Killybegs Harbour to deliver a letter from Shell to Sea to Captain Van Der Plicht on the Solitaire, the biggest pipe laying ship in the world. ... read full story / add a comment ![]()
international / miscellaneous Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 12:37 by anti-fascist
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You have to hand it to those tireless activists over at British National Party HQ in the land of the brave and the home of the free (England, for the unitiated in imperialist propaganda). The intrepid campaigners for racial purity have been so busy churning out their ‘information’ on “immigration invasion” that they simply haven’t had the time to verify the appropriateness of some of the images they’ve been using on their website. In an August 4 article entitled Spot the Difference: Zimbabwe or the EU?, far-right readers are confronted with a prominent image of a No to Lisbon leaflet (carried here for those who don't wish to boost the ratings of Britain's super xenophobes) recently published by none other than an Irish socialist-republican party, éirígí. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 09:34 by Ciaron
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As Tibet solidarity and other human rights activists are rounded up i Beijing, a designated protest pen is transformed into a trap from where people disappear (77 applications were made to enter this "protest pen" - all have been withdrawn, suspended or rejected!), a Chinese girl is ditched from the Olympic Opening Ceremony for not having "the look" to go with the voice, the Party promotes, the corporates profit and prima don athletes are expected to keep a housebroken silence - one's mind is cast back to an iconic image from Mexico '68. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Tuesday August 19, 2008 - 22:09 by Alfied
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At present there are 50 plus mobile phone masts on top of the Northside Swimming Pool in Coolock. I find it's sad that we have got to the stage without anybody lifting a finger. I am not living in the area at the moment, but appeal to anybody from Coolock who reads this, and thinks it is an outrage, to make a commitment to do something about it. Phone, write, make a leaflet, tell friends and family and let's try and get a public meeting on the go. ... read full story / add a comment ![]()
Conscience their lodestar, Israeli violence their sword of Damocles,the Boats of Mercy sail for Gaza
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 18, 2008 - 17:39 by TD
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More the decks of a Noah's ark than a cobblestoned trading emporium, Free Palestine Campaign activists took to rain deluged Shop Street last Saturday in solidarity with the brave women and men who presently will be sailing from Cyprus in two boats to break the medieval siege of Gaza and on what Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire, calls a "pilgrimage of justice and peace." ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday August 18, 2008 - 15:25 by Contaminated Crow
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This week's reports on environmental campaigns and controversies from the local papers ... read full story / add a comment ![]()
international / sci-tech Friday August 15, 2008 - 10:43 by Cookie Monster
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Can corporations censor the Internet? ... read full story / add a comment ![]()
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday August 14, 2008 - 17:52 by Seba
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The case between an unfairly dismissed union activist and Lionbridge corporation started in July with solidarity pickets throughout Europe. On August 13, the parties in the dispute met again in the Warsaw Labor Court. ... read full story / add a comment |
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