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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday June 02, 2010 01:13 by RNU PRO
The REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY (RNU) Spokesperson, DANNY MCBREARTY has condemned the completely unjustifiable killings, injuries and "arrests" of Peace Activists on board the aid flotilla to Gaza. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Tuesday June 01, 2010 16:23 by Tommy McKearney
IWU National Executive condemns arrest of its member Fintan Lane by Israel's armed forces read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday June 01, 2010 14:33 by Sarah C
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SpunOut.ie a national web based youth organisation, is going to run a pilot project youth activist training programme this summer. The organisation has long held the view that younger people are often treated like 'people in waiting' rather that citizens with a right to partcipate in Irish Society. We hope that through efforts, such as this course and some other longer term projects that we are brewing up here in SpunOut.ie that we can help to facilitate younger people to get active about changing the things that bother them .We think this is really urgent at the moment due to the levels of youth unemployment and disengagement from the political or civic sphere here. We are seeking your input and suggestions for the content of our short courses. We seek input from activists young old or inbetween- details below for how you can share your ideas with us. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Tuesday June 01, 2010 01:53 by Citizen X
We regret and deplore the killings which took place as Israeli troops, in defiance of international law, boarded and assaulted ships, and wounded many and killed some of the participants in a flotilla seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza (itself a morally outrageous policy) to bring humanitarian aid. We ask all people of peace to dedicate at least fifteen minutes today (Memorial Day in the US) to silent memorial for those peace activists who have been killed (and we call upon all synagogues around the world to say Kaddish for those people at their Shabbat services this coming weekend), and for prayer for the speedy recovery of all those wounded in this attack (mostly peace activists, but also the Israeli soldiers who boarded the boats with violence). read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Tuesday June 01, 2010 01:44 by Citizen X
Press Release via email 05/31/2010 Uri Avnery: this night a crime was perpetrated in the middle of the sea, by order of the government of Israel and the IDF Command. A warlike attack against aid ships and deadly shooting at peace and humanitarian aid activists. It is a crazy thing that only a government that crossed all red lines can do. read full story / add a comment 
tyrone / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday May 31, 2010 17:11 by Free Palestine
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Young republicans from across County Tyrone outraged by today's murderous piracy by Israel have organised a number of actions over the coming week to protest and highlight local anger over these brutal abuses of human rights. So far 19 deaths and dozens of injured have been claimed when Israeli soldiers boarded a ship and opened fire on civilian humanitarian workers who were bringing much needed aid to the stricken and besieged Palestinian people living in Gaza. Actions will include graffiti, murals, protests and vigils. A protest is organised by South Tyrone Ógra at the Ballygawley Round at 5pm today, Strabane Ógra and Coalisland/Clonoe Ógra will each be organizing protests respectively and West Tyrone Ógra having already adorned the now vacant Omagh Brit Camp with graffiti and are erecting a mural. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / press release Sunday May 30, 2010 13:30 by Mina Ahadi
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Majid Tavakoli, a 24 year old student activist at Amir Kabir University, must not become another victim of the Islamic regime of Iran. He has been arrested and tortured a number of times for his student activities. The last time he was arrested was in December 2009 for a speech about the ruling dictatorship and for criticising Khamenei. He has started a hunger strike on 23 May and is in very poor health. On 26 May, Mina Ahadi of the International Committee against Executions briefly spoke to his mother. His mother is also on hunger strike in support of her son. She is very worried and concerned about his health. She said that no matter where she goes, she is given no information on him nor allowed to speak to or see him. read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights / press release Friday May 28, 2010 23:35 by bernie wright
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26-5-2010 . Yesterday at 6.40pm a thin black horse was subjected to a continuous beating by a Sulkie or harness racing driver in Tallaght, Dublin 24 . The horse which was pulling a two wheeled cart was beaten repeatedly by the driver who was accompanied by a youth. The incident happened opposite the Cukoo’s Nest Pub and all traffic was stopped both ways as the horse reared up on his back legs with fright. He was wide-eyed and not wearing blinkers. He was hit repeatedly with straps or reins by the driver. read full story / add a comment
donegal / environment / press release Friday May 28, 2010 19:11 by Donegal ATP
The second 'Save Our Scenery!' concert to benefit Donegal Alternatives to Pylons will take place in Leo's Tavern, Meenaleck, Donegal on June 3rd, 2010 and will feature Brian Kennedy, The Celtic Tenors and Frances Black, hosted by Moya Brennan. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday May 28, 2010 13:47 by IPSC
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Freedom flotilla expected to arrive soon with vital humanitarian supplies for the people of Gaza, among the vessels is the newly named M.V. Rachel Corry on her maiden voyage. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday May 26, 2010 16:36 by PRO WSM
Kicking off on Friday night with a launch party for new magazine ‘Irish Anarchist Review’ in Seomra Spraoi, Dublin’s autonomous social centre (http://www.seomraspraoi.org:8080/Plone) and finishing on Sunday with a Radical Walking Tour of Dublin, this weekend’s Dublin Anarchist Bookfair will have something for every radical with discussions and debates on a huge variety of topics likely to appeal to every radical – from those with a worked out view of how society can be improved to those who have a niggling feeling that capitalism just isn’t working and that there must be a better way of ordering society. read full story / add a comment
derry / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday May 26, 2010 12:58 by STM
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See below some footage of the Public Event held in Magherafelt on 24th May 2010. Many Thanks to Johnny Hudson for posting this video on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sypMU2-gnBk read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday May 26, 2010 12:38 by Kev
(Hearklin, Crete, Tuesday, May 25, 2010) As Israel continues to insist it will stop the seven-ship international Freedom Flotilla, two more ships departed from Greece to Gaza today. A 2000 ton cargo ship and fifty-person passenger ship owned by the European Campaign Against the Siege of Gaza, and Swedish/Greek Ship to Gaza campaigns left Athens to meet the Freedom Flotilla in international waters. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday May 25, 2010 20:09 by Mairead Maguire
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Irish Peace Nobelist Mairead Maguire Calls on Peace Nobelists President Obama and President Shimon Perez to do all they can to Free Mordechai Vanunu read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday May 25, 2010 16:17 by Malachy Steenson
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Thanasis Vlontzos, one of those most centrally involved in organising the huge protests against EU and IMF enforced austerity measures in Greece will attend a Press Conference in Dublin this Thursday (27 May) organised by the Workers Party. Mr. Vlontzos is in Ireland where he will be guest of honour at the Workers’ Party Ard Fheis which is being held in the Marriot Hotel, Ashbourne on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th May. read full story / add a comment 
cork / arts and media / press release Monday May 24, 2010 15:21 by mutantspace
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The Trash Culture Revue will be held from Wednesday 16 - Sunday 20 June, in Cork and will be run through mutantspace.ie, an Irish online arts resource that’s run on the gift economy principle. With over 500 members across the country and over 1500 skills in its resource bank mutantspace.ie is the largest independent resource of its kind in the country and is in the perfect position to provide free practical support to the development and production of this Revue. It is this alternative production system that lies at the heart of The Trash Culture Revue. It is this freedom to create that allows us to give people a new space in which to experiment, fail, make and play no matter who they are, where they are, what they do or when they do it. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Monday May 24, 2010 12:06 by Malachy Steenson
Malachy Steenson, Workers' Party representative in Dublin Central, has again demanded a full public inquiry into the Dublin Docklands Development Authority. This renewed demand follows revelations that key documents relating to DDDA committee meetings concerning the purchase of the Glass Bottle site have gone missing. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday May 24, 2010 10:34 by Derek Leinster
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A Dublin Cemetery has been discovered as the gravesite of forgotten children from the Bethany Home Dublin. Bethany Home was associated with the Church of Ireland and Church of Ireland missionary society, the Irish Church Missions to Roman Catholics. It operated in Blackhall Place, Dublin, from 1921-34 and in Orwell Road, Rathgar, until it closed in 1972. The Bethany Home was a combined maternity home, children’s home and place of detention for women convicted of petty theft, prostitution, infanticide and birth concealment. The home and the religious ethos that sustained and ran it was part of what James Smith of Boston College in his book, ‘Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment’ (2007), termed an Irish ‘containment culture’ that focused on single women and effectively criminalised childbirth out of wedlock. read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / press release Monday May 24, 2010 08:53 by Andrew St Ledger
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The Woodland League accuses Coillte of 'stealth privatisation' of state forests read full story / add a comment 
tyrone / gender and sexuality / press release Sunday May 23, 2010 23:00 by Ní Saoirse go Saoirse na mBan
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"A very comradely initiative" is how guest speaker Barry McElduff MLA described Ógra Shinn Féin's 'celebrating the women of struggle' dinner dance. The national event held in the Fir Trees, in Strabane last Saturday night attracted a large crowd from across Ireland gathered to pay tribute to the woman on the roll of honour, to their families and a number of honourees. read full story / add a comment |
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