Upcoming Eventsno events match your query! New Eventsno events posted in last week Dublin´s Metamorphosis 16:27 Mar 02 2 comments Door-to-door collections to fund childrens education? 13:34 Mar 01 5 comments Irish Working Class Take Action 00:25 Mar 01 0 comments 15,000 demonstrated against nuclear power in Germany with 52 kilometres of light 09:57 Feb 28 3 comments Smithsonian Magazine: Endangered Site: The Hill of Tara, Ireland 11:16 Feb 27 3 comments more >>Blog Feeds
Public InquiryInterested in maladministration. Estd. 2005RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony Waiting for SIPO Anthony
Human Rights in IrelandPromoting Human Rights in Ireland
Lockdown Skeptics
Thoughts on the Fifth Anniversary of Leaving the European Union Sat Feb 01, 2025 09:00 | Dr David McGrogan
Was the Washington Plane Crash Caused by a Diversity Hire? Sat Feb 01, 2025 07:00 | James Leary
News Round-Up Sat Feb 01, 2025 01:01 | Toby Young
The Death of Diversity Kitsch Fri Jan 31, 2025 18:01 | Dr David McGrogan
Transgender Emilia P?rez Star Under Fire for Anti-Islam and Anti-BLM Social Media Posts Fri Jan 31, 2025 15:10 | Will Jones
Voltaire NetworkVoltaire, international editionMisinterpretations of US trends (1/2), by Thierry Meyssan Tue Jan 28, 2025 06:59 | en Voltaire, International Newsletter #117 Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:54 | en The United States bets its hegemony on the Fourth Industrial Revolution Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:26 | en For Thierry Meyssan, the Sarkozy trial for illegal financing of the 2007 preside... Fri Jan 24, 2025 19:23 | en Should we condemn or not the glorification of Nazism?, by Thierry Meyssan Wed Jan 22, 2025 14:05 | en |
national / environment Thursday November 24, 2005 18:00 by MUIREANN DE BARRA
*** Due to unforeseen circumstances the Dublin meeting on water privatisation has been postponed until Sunday Nov 27th. It will take place in the Teachers Club, Parnell Sq. at 5pm. ***
In January 2005 Bolivia’s second water war was launched in the city of El Alto. Armed with sticks, traditional indigenous Aymara flags and the words - ‘Fuera Aguas del Illimani! Aguas del Illimani must go!’ - the people of El Alto challenged Bolivia’s President and the World Bank to expel Suez - one of the world’s largest water corporations - and return water to public control. In a city of 800,000 poor indigenous rural migrants -the privatisation of water left 200,000 people without access to a water service and imposed a $500 connection fee on people living on less than $1 a day. Inspired by the success of Bolivia’s first water war in Cochabamba (2000) - which saw the termination of a 30-year private water contract with US engineering giant, Bechtel Corporation - the people of El Alto were determined to fight for their right to water. As a representative of El Fejuve, Julian Perez will speak in Dublin and Derry on the 25th and 26th November respectively about the citizen led campaign to reverse the privatisation of water service as demanded by World Bank lending conditions. In both venues he will be joined by local campaigners involved in resisting water privatisation on the Island of Ireland.
national / arts and media Wednesday November 23, 2005 23:09 by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group
A to Z of the Irish Times By Dave Lordan (From collection titled 'Clonakilty Red Pudding'. The collection is dedicated to ‘Tom Barry’s Missing Statue’) All strikes are wrong, particularly the ones that go on. Some of the more recent poetry from the collection "The Boy in the Ring" which won the prize for Dave is available here as is a poem on the subject of Shannon Airport. The Kavanagh Award has been awarded yearly since 1971 and previous winners have included Pat Boran, Celia de Freine, Paul Durcan, Sinead Morrissey, Peter Sirr and Joseph Woods. Lilliput Press published an anthology of the recipients of the award since 1971 in 2004 titled Dancing With Kitty Stobling. Most Indymedia readers will know Dave Lordan as an unabashed socialist activist and this is often reflected head on in his writing. Here for example is Dave's Tribute To Joe Strummer and also his response to the events in Genoa in 2001.
Around 75 community and housing activists from across the city gathered in the Macro Community Resource Centre on North King St last night, for the launching of a new Tenants First booklet, entitled "The Real Guide to Regeneration for Communities: Making The Right Decision About Urban Regeneration". The booklet has been in production for several months, and five thousand copies have been printed up for distribution around local authority flat complexes and housing estates right across Dublin City. The booklet was produced not as a leaflet to be shoved through letterboxes, but rather as a tool that local communities can use in facilitating workshops and discussions when faced with regeneration (which based on the contributions from the floor last night, seems to be widespread and increasing). "12 steps to making the right decision about regeneration" are mapped out, and take tenants from the initial stages of finding out information and understanding what is happening, to organising your own agenda, getting resources and fighting for what you want. Three speakers, Joe Donohue from Fatima Groups United, John Bissett from St Michael's Estate, and Lena Jordan from O'Devaney Gardens gave a brief outline of their experiences to date of the regeneration process. They talked of how each of their communities had experienced difficulties with Dublin City Council, at all stages of the planning and organisation. Also prevalent was the continuing presence of PPPs (Public Private Partnerships) in redevelopments. The results of PPPs were varied, but inevitably lead to the reduction in the number or physical space afforded to social housing, and an increase in housing densities coupled with a loss of open space areas.
dublin / miscellaneous Tuesday November 22, 2005 17:24 by k
I met up with Maria MhicMheanmain in a small redbrick terraced house in the shadow of Croke Park in Summerhill. She's involved in the campaign against the opening of a new strip club and "adult entertainment" venue on Parnell Street, run by English businessman Peter Stringfellow. The club has already began to advertise in the Irish media and recruitment websites for positions (no pun intended) in the club. The campaign against Stringfellows was started by a woman called Vera Brady, who lives on Parnell Street. Her family have been there for a hundred years, over several generations. Maria and Vera have known each other a long time, with connections through their families. Maria says, "We dont have a name on our group yet, its just a group of concerned residents who dont want to see this club open in this location. Vera organised Matt Talbot hall for our first public meeting, and also did extensive leaflet drops in the area in order to get local people along. "The first I heard of the proposed strip club on Parnell Street was on TV on a Friday night, the Late Late Show, a number of weeks ago. My initial reaction was, Christ, where they're planning on building a lapdancing club is less than a minute's walk away from my old secondary school (Mount Carmel). I was aware of a lapdancing club in Galway which opens at midday, and I was enraged that the possibility existed of men queueing up to get into a club like this, while young teenage girls were in the immediate vicinity on their lunch break."
national / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday November 20, 2005 05:34 by eamprn cuubden
In 1990 the Industrial Relations Act was passed in this country which brough many of the Thatcherite reforms of trade unions onto our shores. Along with Social Partnership, this has been described by many as a major loss by the trade union movement. The
IWU
classified it as one of those laws : "designed in democratic bourgeois societies like ours to keep the working class in their place". So when Trade Unionists discuss via political articles how to fight Irish Ferries type attacks on workers, the question of the law must come into it. Our unions have the power to shut down Irish Ferries until they agree to employ all of their staff on trade union rates of pay. However, doing this would bring our unions into conflict with the law. The Industrial Relations Act makes solidarity action unlawful. UPDATE: Nov 24thworkers barricade themselves into engine room as company thugs attempt to bring in strike-breaking replacement crew. |
Sat 01 Feb, 10:05 Ógra Shinn Féin builds solidarity links in Corsica 22:17 Mon 02 Mar 0 comments Report on FEE national conference 16:47 Mon 02 Mar 3 comments Amnesty Ireland launching End FGM Campaign 14:59 Mon 02 Mar 1 comments Interview with former Black Panther Ashanti Alston in Ireland 12:03 Mon 02 Mar 2 comments Galway : Israeli Apartheid Week 2009 & What next for Israel and Palestine? 20:02 Sun 01 Mar 15 comments "Give up poltics or face 30 years in jail" 23:58 Sat 28 Feb 5 comments News from down the country 21:35 Sat 28 Feb 0 comments Repression and Torture of Basque activists 19:21 Sat 28 Feb 3 comments Open letter to the President of the GAA 22:52 Fri 27 Feb 2 comments Shell's pipeline application-deadline for objections 9th March 18:20 Fri 27 Feb 14 comments more >>Guerilla Tactics and the National Question Mar 01 4 comments 'Upping the Stakes' - Keep the pressure on for a National Strike Mar 01 4 comments Lisbon Treaty RTE Coverage unbalanced in favour of Yes Side Feb 26 0 comments Indymedia and March 30th (M30) -National Strike Feb 26 6 comments A Road Map to Peace? Feb 26 0 comments more >>Na Fianna Éireann- New Book Mar 02 0 comments Mallabraca Mar 02 ngo peacealliance 0 comments Dublin Community TV Launches March Schedule. Mar 02 0 comments Shell to Sea concerned over Garda overtime Mar 02 Shell to Sea 7 comments Fingal Harriers Hunt Ball Demo Feb 27 Association of Hunt Saboteurs(AOHS) 0 comments more >>Israeli Forces Invade a Wedding Hall, Open Fire at a Vehicle, in Hebron Sat Feb 01, 2025 07:22 | Ali Salam Israeli Forces Shoot Two Children in Ramallah, Injure Citizens Near Nablus Sat Feb 01, 2025 02:49 | Ali Salam Israeli Soldiers Demolish Homes In Tulkarem Refugee Camp Fri Jan 31, 2025 23:42 | IMEMC News Soldiers Injure Several Palestinians In Bethlehem Fri Jan 31, 2025 23:23 | IMEMC News Israeli Navy Kills A Palestinian In Central Gaza Fri Jan 31, 2025 09:15 | IMEMC News |