Magaretta D'Arcy, a 79 year old peace activist who is also undergoing cancer treatment was arrested at home in Galway but NOT for bankrupting the country and saddling it with billions of debt, NOT for corruption and other white collar crime, but for the crime of having a conscience and actually caring about her fellow human beings. That's correct. In this country you can destroy it in all sorts of ways and you will be fine as no banker, politician, developer, bond holder or other types of people who have been involved in economically destroying this country, and causing widespread austerity, hardship and misery which in itself has led to many suicides and so forth. None of these people have come before the courts or been jailed. However for the really serious crimes of still having your humanity at 79 and doing something about it instead of shutting up and doing nothing, for these crimes, the state will bring the full force of the law against you and will always find some narrow argument to shut out the wider context of your action, to convict you and get you quickly behind bar. In that way the state quickly ensures that this dangerous contagion doesn't spread and it serves as a lesson to all as to what might happen to them.

Magaretta D'Arcy, a 79 year old peace activist who is also undergoing cancer treatment was arrested at home in Galway.

Events: Demo in Support of Margaretta D'Arcy outside Limerick Prison on Fri 24th Jan at 5pm.

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It seems like everytime I view the Fas website more and more real jobs are dissapearing from it and being replaced with free labour internships. When I search for specific sectors now all I seem to find are internships. This scheme is absolutely sickening me as it has potentially destroyed several thousand entry level jobs. I can't believe that Joan Burton and the labour party have completely ruined the youth labour market with a scheme which is:

-replacing real paid jobs with "internships"
-exploiting the jobless
-wasting tax-payer money to provide companies with free labour
-putting underqualified/inexperienced/unvetted people in jobs with far too much responsibility(working with kids etc...)
-distorting our unemployment figures
-putting existing paid jobs at risk
-being used to makeup for a shortfall of skills in the public service due to the recruitment embargo

Related Links: www.ScamBridge.ie | ScamBridge: How the Scam Works | RBB of People Before Profit TD, challenges Minister Burton on outrageous abuse of JobBridge Scheme by private waste company with state contracts
Indy Links: Job bridge converting paid work into unpaid work,and the massaging of dole figures... | Job bridge or exploitation scheme

Drumm: Wanted by the people for High Treason

The astonishing tapes show senior manager John Bowe, who had been involved in negotiations with the Central Bank, laughing and joking as he tells another senior manager, Peter Fitzgerald, how Anglo was luring the State into giving it billions of euro. Mr Fitzgerald had not been involved in the negotiations with the Central Bank and has confirmed he was unaware of any strategy or intention to mislead the authorities. Mr Bowe, in a statement last night, categorically denied that he had misled the Central Bank.

The audio recordings are from the bank's own internal telephone system and date from the heart of the financial crisis that brought the State to its knees in Sept 08.

Anglo itself was within days of complete meltdown – and in the years ahead would eat up €30bn of taxpayer money. Mr Bowe speaks about how the State had been asked for €7bn to bail out Anglo – but Anglo's negotiators knew all along this was not enough to save the bank.

Related Links: Police Draw Batons on Bank Bailout protestors | Ireland and the shadow Banking System - A Talk by Dr. Conor McCabe| The Recession, Bank Bailout or our Deficit? | Audio from Conor McCabe on Banker and Rancher Interests in the Modern Irish Economy | Anglo Irish Bank Protesters to Plead Not Guilty -Here we have a case where the govt tries to convict people protesting against the bankers but not the actual bankers themselves. | Banner Protest outside Anglo Irish Bank | Eirigí Protest at Anglo Irish Bank - 13 Photos Essay | Why the Fianna Fail Party wants to avoid bank nationalisation. | Workers Party Press Release Dec 2008 on Anglo Irish Bank | Initial Thoughts on the Govt's Guarantee to Irish Banks and Its Wider Implications | Communist Party Demand the sacking of all CEO's of Irish banks

This year's G8 promises to be different for a number of reasons. G8s and G8 protests have, by now, become something of a ritual. One where each side already knows the rules of the game. The great and good come together to discuss how they might set the world to right, and the protestors outside condemn them for not doing it quickly enough – or not really intending to do it at all. Charity is promised to Africa, and folks like Sir Bob Geldof will proclaim that a successful G8 has been had. Other folks will throw bricks and bottles at the police, and feel that they have stuck a blow for the cause. What cause exactly is not always clear. The media have a field day – a morning glimpse of presidents and prime ministers, and then spend the rest of the day with the unwashed outside; hoping that they will start a riot – or, at least, do something that looks good on camera and will fill thirty seconds on primetime news. And the general public have a little bit of entertainment to lighten the daily drudge of work, or more and more commonly, unemployment. So why should the G8 Summit on the 17th and 18th of June 2013 be any different?

Related Links: Dublin Alternative G8: March on the American Chamber of Commerce | Dublin Alternative G8 Summit | Anarchists Condemn G8 Scaremongering - press release | Another World is Possible! - Festival of Alternatives to the G8 | Dublin Alternative G8 | Irish Republican Alternative to the G8 | G8 Summit Fermanagh | Statement from Stop the G8 regarding the summit in Fermanagh this year | Verdicts in for the Genoa 10: guilty | Final sentences for police forces involved in Diaz school butchery at 2001 G8 summit in Genoa | Genoa isn't over: new support campaign for G8 2001 in Genoa, Italy | Ten Reasons Why We Need a New, Anticapitalist Alternative | 2010: Blockades, direct action and demonstrations in France. 2011: G8-G20 in France | 30th of January 1972, 14 civil rights activists were shot dead. 38 years later Justice came to Derry | Genoa riot police get 5 years | Blair & Geldof's Africa panel? | From the Hill District in Pittsburgh - where the real G20 Action is taking place | Food Sovereignty in Africa | FDC to G8-funded World Bank: Cancel all illegitimate debts | Italy - Document of summit protest against G8 economy in Lecce, June 12-13 2009 | Interview: NYC anarchist at the G8 in Japan

Make this the week you come to visit Rossport

Call Out:
Come to the Rossport Solidarity Camp, Pullathomas, Co. Mayo for a week of action in June against Shell’s Corrib Gas Project. This week has been called to coincide with one of Shell’s busiest work times. Come to act in solidarity with the 13 year old campaign in Mayo against Shell’s Corrib Gas Project. The week will be jam packed with a wide variety of actions! There will be something useful for everyone to do, regardless of your experience and skills. The Rossport Solidarity Camp is being erected specifically for this week, and will be taken back down when the week is completed. So if you are planning on traveling to Mayo this summer – make it this week!

Related Links: 1,600 billion - Massive scale of oil giveaway revealed in Shell to Sea report | Corrib campaigners protest as Shell announce €19.6 billion profit | Jail! | Resistance to Shell in Galway City | Shell Accused of Corrupting Irish Police Force | Shell to Sea campaigner jailed for 3 months. Solidarity protest in support of Shell to Sea prisoner Izzy Ní Ghraidm | Protesters continue to frustrate Shell's work | Just another manic monday. | Belmullet District Court Report - Shell and Mayo County Council stand co-accused of obstructing the public highway. | 17th Anniversary of Ogoni Nine marked at Shell HQ, Dublin | Shell's Tunnel Boring Machine Fiasco | Video testimony of human rights and civil liberty abuses in Ireland | Pat Rabbitte disrupted at energy conference