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national / environment Wednesday February 18, 2009 - 23:44 by Contaminated Crow
Two landfills, two incinerators, a sewage plant, two telemasts, a windfarm, a metal recycling plant, an industrial site, Tara and a county council depot ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 17, 2009 - 11:10 by Andrew
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Did the idea of the so called 'Pensions Levy' come from some of the very ICTU leadership who are supposed to negotiate on behalf of workers. This is one revelation that emerged on Saturday morning at a meeting of over 100 public sector trade unionists and two delegates from the Waterford Glass occupation. We were meeting in the Davenport hotel, Dublin to discuss a collective response to government attacks on workers and in particular the public sector pay cut. Most of those present were on branch committees or even national executives with a couple of branches delegating representatives to the meeting. The gathering could in that context be said to reflect the views of a large number of branches across the unions that organise public sector workers. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday February 16, 2009 - 19:44 by Margaretta D'Arcy
Copies of a Shell2Sea document and a Kilcommon parish document have been faxed in vast quantities to clog people's fax machines and create ill will toward opponents of Shell. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 16, 2009 - 17:44 by TD
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"It's a living organism that has a very nasty, evil side to its ideology, but it ends there, it begins there and it ends there and we shouldn't, again, exaggerate our analysis of Zionism beyond the fact that from a Palestine perspective, it is a destructive ideology, it's bad enough, it has nothing else to it and nothing else should be added to this." "They (EU politicians) don't want to talk about Zionism as colonialism, as racism, they don't want to talk about genocidal policies, ethnic cleansing policies, crimes against humanity, war crimes" "It is the only prison in the world that children are being born in it that have no chance of getting out of it" ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday February 14, 2009 - 20:19 by John Jefferies
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The Workers' Party today held a protest at the constitutency office of Junior Minister Billy Kelleher who earlier this week strongly hinted at moves to cut the statutory Minimum Wage. ... read full story / add a comment
kerry / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 13, 2009 - 22:01 by sean moraghan
Public Sector workers in Tralee are holding protests outside the clinics of Kerry TDs, tomorrow, Saturday 14th February. PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT ALLIANCE (Tralee) lends its full support to the Tralee union protests against the attacks on the Public Sector. The demo will begin at the offices of Tom McEllistrim, Fianna Fail TD. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 13, 2009 - 17:41 by Teachers United
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Three teachers' unions - the TUI, the ASTI and the INTO - are to ballot their members on industrial action against the Government's decision on a public service pension levy. Arrangements are to start immediately to ballot the INTO union's 30,000 members. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 13, 2009 - 17:02 by Worker
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The Labour party has overtaken Fianna Fáil in the recent TNS/MRBI poll. The first time in the history of the state. A historic moment for those interested in the wider labour movement (as opposed to the revolutionary movement olr the labour party). I am not too familiar with the methodology behind this poll but I assume it is a fair and honest reflection of the electorate at the present moment. The TNS/MRBI poll predicted the outcome of the last election with relative precision. Fianna Fáil’s satisfaction rating has plummeted to 14 percent. 62 per cent want a change of government. The support for the parties is as follows: Fianna Fáil, 22 per cent (down 5 points); Fine Gael, 32 per cent (down 2 points); Labour, 24 per cent (up 10 points); Sinn Féin, 9 per cent (up 1 point); Green Party, 4 per cent (no change); and Independents/others, 9 per cent (down 4 points). The message is simple: the electorate want Fianna Fáil out of office. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Thursday February 12, 2009 - 21:25 by John Carmody
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Braving the cold this afternoon, five sexy PETA activists stripped off nearly naked and urged foie gras-peddling Selfridges to ‘Have a Heart’ for ducks and geese this Valentine’s Day. The topless girls (including model Monica Harris) and one dishy guy handed out delicious vegan chocolates and roses to passers-by who just couldn’t help but stare – and take photos on their mobile phones, of course! ... read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism Thursday February 12, 2009 - 16:22 by Cork HOV
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Hands off Venezuela (HOV) held a highly successful public meeting in the Victoria Hotel In Cork on Wednesday February 11. The meeting posed the question : The venezuelan Revolution: An Alternative to the Capitalist Crisis? Francesco Merli of the HOV international campaign, addressed the meeting. ... read full story / add a comment |
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