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galway / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday September 26, 2010 - 23:06 by Paul Hardy
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Around 500 protestors joined a protest march and rally called jointly by SIPTU and the Galway Says No to Health Cuts group ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / arts and media Friday September 24, 2010 - 16:47 by DCTV
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Hello dole fiends. Are you unemployed, frustrated, bored, permanently smashed and sick of how the state, employers and media are framing the recession? Well, in the spirit of community media DCTV volunteers are working on a new regular magazine show called Dole TV. It’s a space for your concerns to get a hearing. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Friday September 24, 2010 - 15:24 by RSC
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In the afternoon on the 22nd September, three protesters climbed the legs of a drilling rig to disrupt Shell's work in the SAC Sruwaddacon Bay estuary ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 24, 2010 - 14:23 by Iyad Burnat
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24 September 2010 Bil`in, West Bank-Ashraf Al-Khatib was shot in the leg with a 0.22” caliber live bullet at the weekly demonstration against the illegal apartheid wall. An international nonviolent activist was also hit in the shoulder with a low-flying tear gas canister. The hundreds of other participants were attacked with huge quantities of tear gas. The weekly protest is against land theft by the illegal apartheid wall and the Israeli occupation in general. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 23, 2010 - 18:08 by TD
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Yesterday, the UN Human Rights Council issued, a 56 page damning indictment of Israeli actions on the night of May 31st last when the Gaza Freedom Flotilla was attacked in international waters resulting in the murders of 9 humanitarian activists and serious injuries to many of the other participants. The report recommends the prosecution of the Israelis concerned but led by the US and the Quisling Palestinian Authority, no doubt, the "international community" will be strenuously resisting this.? For as Arun Gupta brilliantly and witheringly puts it in his Indypendent article; The Victim that is Israel http://www.indypendent.org/2010/06/23/the-victim/ ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism Thursday September 23, 2010 - 11:27 by Brian & Gregor
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The 1% network has announced details of a ‘political walking tour’ through the affluent districts of Dublin 2 and Dublin 4. The tour, which will bring protesters through the ‘heartland of the Golden Circle’, will stop at a number of locations, including the new headquarters of Anglo Irish Bank on Burlington Road, property developer Johnny Ronan’s property on Burlington Road and IBEC headquarters on Baggot Street. The tour will assemble at the Wolfe Tone Monument on Stephens Green at 1pm on Saturday, October 9th, 2010. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Wednesday September 22, 2010 - 15:51 by jen debender
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This Monday, 20th September two Shell to Sea campaigners tied themselves to a drill on one of Shell's platforms, and remained up there stopping work for a total of 12 hours, from 7am to 7pm. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday September 21, 2010 - 21:04 by Pilibire
The 1% We have all heard of the ‘golden circle’. We all know that there is one law for the rich and another law for the rest of us. But did you know that just 1% of the population are estimated to own at least 34% of the wealth of the country? Property developers, landlords, bankers, barristers, media tycoons and politician are amongst the 1% that own so much, but contribute so little ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday September 21, 2010 - 13:54 by Ciaron
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* Some of the footage Bradley Manning is accused of leaking www.collateralmurder.com ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 20, 2010 - 17:16 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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14 Catholic Worker and other friends have been on trial in Las Vegas for the nonviolent resistance action they took at Creech Air Force Base in the Nevada desert (USA) against drone warfare that is directed from the base over Pakistan and Afghanistan. Below is a good article about how the trial proceeded and the judge's decision to take four months to study the issue. ... read full story / add a comment |
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