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international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 01, 2010 - 23:27 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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Last Monday I went to Conway Hall in downtown London to welcome Joe Glenton out of 4 months in a military prison in Colchester. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Saturday July 31, 2010 - 23:14 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo
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On Wed 28th July a delegation of residents handed in their objections to An Bord Pleanála and Eamon Ryan regarding Shell's latest plan to put a raw gas pipeline close to homes and through the Special Protected Area (SPA) of Sruwaddacon estuary. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Saturday July 31, 2010 - 22:52 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo
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Gormley was quite happy to not grant a foreshore licence for the Poolbeg incinerator in his own constituency, but seems set to allow Shell to put the health and safety of the community in Erris at risk and destroy a Special Area of Conservation. If Gormley is seeking to renegotiate on Poolbeg and withhold the granting of a foreshore licence, why can't he do the same with Shell? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 31, 2010 - 09:15 by Trade Union TV
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Watch the protest and picket here at Trade Union TV with Aonghus O'Snodaigh TD, Brendan Archbold, Unite, Freda Hughes and David Landy of the IPSC. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Friday July 30, 2010 - 17:35 by Rossport Solidarity Camp
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10 people from the Rossport solidarity camp delayed Shell’s survey work for the dangerous and experimental Corrib gas pipeline yesterday. The campaigners waded out to one of the rigs drilling boreholes in the Sruwaddacon estuarythe rig at high tide, fixed rope around the legs of the rig, and occupied the space underneath it to prevent the being moved to a new site. Work was delayed for around two hours. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Friday July 30, 2010 - 11:22 by Andrew
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Dublin Shell to Sea yesterday held a demonstration in solidarity with Niall Harnett who spent his 100th day in prison for opposing Shell's experimental gas pipeline in Erris. That morning another 7 people were arrested while protesting the pipeline testing in Sruwaddacon estuary Special Protested Area. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 29, 2010 - 16:54 by Freda H
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Today, Thursday 29th July 2010, at 1pm, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) delivered a petition to Dunnes Stores signed by 6,000 shoppers across Ireland. The petition demands that Dunnes Stores stop stocking Israeli products, until Israel respects Palestinian rights and international law. Present at the handing-in were Brendan Archbold, the trade union official at the centre of the 1980s Dunnes strike when workers refused to handle South African goods, Freda Hughes IPSC National Chairperson, Aengus O'Snodaigh of Sinn Fein along with supporters of the campaign and members of both the Palestinian and South African communities in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
derry / anti-capitalism Wednesday July 28, 2010 - 20:17 by Eleanor
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On Monday 26th July 2010, an event organised by the Free Derry Collective was held to mark the centenary of James Connolly's return to Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Wednesday July 28, 2010 - 16:53 by iosaf mac diarmada
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Today the Catalan parliament became the 2nd of the Spanish state's regional legislatures to prohibit bull fighting following the decision by the Canary islands. The Canary decision was more palatable for afficionados of bullfighting because they had never had a tradition of the ritual which leaves neither side indifferent. The decision by the Catalan parliament to become the first Iberian mainland regional government to prohibit bullfights (noting that the tradition is practised in Portugal as well) has of course been and was going to be linked to Catalonia's resentment of the insistence of the Spanish state to homogenise identity and culture to the detriment of its own plurality. ... read full story / add a comment 
donegal / miscellaneous Tuesday July 27, 2010 - 22:37 by Séamus Mac Lochlainn
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A public meeting was held in Donegal Town on Saturday 24th July 2010 in the Central Hotel. It was organised by the North West Solidarity Network, a group of local activists who work together to develop events and initatives aimed at awareness raising and practical solidarity. The meeting was organised to address the issue of the Free Gaza flotilla and to look at possible ways forward for local actions. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 27, 2010 - 00:28 by KSI
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Kurdish spokesman's lawyer condemns arrest as political in nature. ... read full story / add a comment |
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