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antrim / arts and media / event notice Saturday October 30, 2010 19:47 by Glór na Móna
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Féile Gaeilge le Bród is back again for another year to showcase the best in Irish language, culture and sport in Upper Springfield. And better still – there’s free entry to every event! This year’s festival will be taking place between Monday 8 and Sunday 14 November. read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media / news report Saturday October 30, 2010 19:00 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday October 30, 2010 17:52 by Kev
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On Saturday 30th October 2010 the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) held a nationwide awareness-raising day to expose the contamination of the global diamond market with Israeli “blood diamonds” ahead of the annual meeting of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KP) in Jerusalem on November 1st. To launch the Boycott Israeli Blood Diamonds campaign activists from the IPSC in Cork, Galway, Limerick, Wexford and Waterford activists from the IPSC handed out thousands of leaflets and collected petition signatures to while in Dublin, a blood-stained Marilyn Monroe even turned up to endorse the campaign saying "the fact that Israeli diamonds are sold as 'conflict free' means that diamonds can no longer be considered a girl's best friend!" read full story / add a comment 
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday October 29, 2010 20:59 by Paul McAndrew
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Travel Queeries Sat 13th | 4.00pm | Gate Cinema Travel Queeries will screen with Father I Have Sinned Elliat Graney-Saucke Germany | 2009 | 68mins Travel Queeries is a feature-length documentary film that examines the culture, art and activism of radical queers in contemporary Europe. Through personal interviews, documentation of performances, festivals, multi-media arts and community spaces, the film explores queer as a political identity in 21st century Europe, how language and identities translate over cultural and physical borders. read full story / add a comment 
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday October 29, 2010 20:45 by Paul McAndrew
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Stonewall Uprising Fri 12th | 4.00pm |Gate Cinema Kate Davis & David Heilbroner United States | 2010 | 82mins | Digibeta “It was the Rosa Parks moment,” says one man. June 28, 1969: NYC police raid a Greenwich Village Mafia-run gay bar, The Stonewall Inn. For the first time, patrons refuse to be led into paddy wagons, setting off a 3-day riot that launches the Gay Rights Movement. Told by Stonewall patrons, Village Voice reporters and the cop who led the raid, STONEWALL UPRISING compellingly recalls the bad old days when psychoanalysts equated homosexuality with mental illness and advised aversion therapy, and even lobotomies; public service announcements warned youngsters against predatory homosexuals; and police entrapment was rampant. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday October 28, 2010 15:25 by Kev
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This Saturday 30th October 2010 the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) will hold a nationwide awareness-raising day to expose the contamination of the global diamond market with Israeli “blood diamonds” ahead of the annual meeting of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KP) in Jerusalem on November 1st. Activists from the IPSC will be staging stalls and awareness raising actions in a number of cities and towns including Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Wednesday October 27, 2010 19:39 by RAG
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Rag celebrates the launch of our 5th annual magazine with a Queer Anarchafeminist Cabaret. Food, feminists reading magazines, dancing, music fun fun fun fun. read full story / add a comment 
cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday October 27, 2010 19:20 by Paul McAndrew
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Fancy Dress Halloween Fiesta City Limits/Comedy Club, Coburg St, Cork More info Wiggle, Ninjabit, Lamp, TarSeer and Hark will play a mix-mash Halloween evening of fancy-dress fun. And to add all proceeds will go to aid and awareness raising for Palestine and the Cork Palestine Link. Worthy cause and a fun night......what more could you ask for? read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday October 27, 2010 17:09 by Anna
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Screening movie: CORAZÓN DEL TIEMPO (HEART OF TIME) The fi lm is set in an autonomous indigenous community in Chiapas, Mexico. It is about is tradition, compassion and the concept of communal living. Original version (Spanish) with English subtitles read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice / press release Wednesday October 27, 2010 10:56 by RNU PRO
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Since his death at Strand Road Barracks, the bereaved family of John Brady has had serious concerns that the Ombudsman inquiry into the death of the prominent Republican while in constabulary custody might produce another McGurk type fiasco, or worse a whitewash, instead of trustworthy findings. read full story / add a comment 
cork / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday October 26, 2010 11:17 by Paul McAndrew
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At Solidarity Books, 43, Douglas Street, Cork (opposite Fionbarra's Pub) suggested donation 2 euro "The Garden" is a brilliant and moving account of the battle for the rights to access land and a way of life in central LA. Telling the story of the largelyHispanic community who farmed 14 acres of once derelict ground when they challenge the interests of greedy developers and various corrupt politicians and community leaders. The film raises crucial questions about liberty, justice, racism, class war and land rights in the US and across the globe. This award winnning film is a must see for anyone concerned with these issues or with an interest in community gardening. Running Time: 80 mins read full story / add a comment 
cork / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday October 26, 2010 11:04 by Paul McAndrew
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Jim McLaughlin lectured in political Geography in UCC for many years. His current research interests are in Political Geography of Race and Racism, Irish Emigration, Irish minority populations Identity politics and ethnonationalism, Gypsies, Travellers and nomadism, Latin American studies History of the social sciences. He has been widely published. read full story / add a comment 
cork / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday October 26, 2010 10:33 by Paul McAndrew
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Conor Kostick teaches medieval history in Trinity. He is the author of ... a number of books and a former editor or Socialist Worker. read full story / add a comment 
cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday October 26, 2010 10:23 by Paul McAndrew
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The talk is a broad picture of the forces at work in the revolution and how their ideas and actions were tested in struggle. Solidarity Books 8pm, Tuesday, 2nd Novemb read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday October 25, 2010 16:50 by Avi Weinstein
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In an exclusive CounterPunch report, Professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley; Nancy Scheper-Hughes dishes the dirt on one of the many vile crimes of Israel. read full story / add a comment 
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday October 25, 2010 13:58 by Cathal McCarthy
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A petition calling on the Minister for Environment, John Gormley TD, to sack the CEO of Limerick’s Regeneration Agencies was launched this week. read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / press release Monday October 25, 2010 00:14 by RNU PRO
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THE REPUBLICAN NETWORK FOR UNITY (RNU) CATHAOIRLEACH/CHAIRPERSON, DANNY MCBREARTY has denounced the deceptiveness of the totalitarian puppets in power that have condemned the Irish working-class to a life of destitution, and brought nothing but misery to the people of this island. read full story / add a comment 
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday October 24, 2010 21:50 by Gan ainm
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Just Books, fundraiser, Thursday night From LIBCOM Just Books new venue fundraiser & new Leveller winter issue (now in colour!) launch party. Just Books would be very happy if you would decide to come along and listen to some very, very good music on Thursday 28th October and help us to raise funds for our new premises. read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Sunday October 24, 2010 15:11 by John Cornford
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A prominent Chinese labour activist was sentenced on 20 October to three years in jail for “gathering a crowd to disrupt social order” . Zhao Dongmin was arrested on 19 August last year after organizing more than 380 workers from about 20 state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to form a labour rights group tasked with overseeing and monitoring SOE restructuring, and reporting corruption and abuses of power. The Shaanxi Union Rights Defence Representative Congress was formally banned by the city government of Xi’an on 27 July 2009. Zhao then wrote an open letter of protest to the State Council, the city, provincial and central committees of the Chinese Communist Party. He was arrested 18 days later. read full story / add a comment 
cork / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday October 24, 2010 14:09 by Eric
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A series of Winter Talks are being held at Solidarity Books, Douglas street, Cork City – every Tuesday, 8pm, from Oct 19th to Nov 23rd. This week's talk is, 8pm, Tuesday, 26th October The Lost Revolution - Brian Hanley read full story / add a comment |
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