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national / miscellaneous / news report Friday September 06, 2002 10:38 by Kino
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Janine Allis-Smith, active with the CORE Campaign, Cumbria, displays a newspaper reporting the death of Ronald Marr, who hanged himself aged 19 after battling luekemia since the age of 5. Janine told us that Ronald had been the last survivor of a group of children that she took on a day out to London some years ago, the rest have all died. Ronald lived in a highly contaminated area. [... Soil samples taken by Greenpeace 11.5 km south of Sellafield, were 400 times higher than those taken 11 km from Chernobyl. These radiation levels are a result of nearly 50 years of reprocessing and have made the Irish Sea the most radioactively contaminated sea in the world. These levels would not be allowed inside Sellafield and are illlegal in BNFL's customer countries....] read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday September 05, 2002 19:27 by Kino
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Sunday the 1st September 2002. The Irish Sea Nuclear Free Flotilla launched from Poolbeg Yacht and Boat Club. The Official site for the flotilla is currently www.nuclearfreeflotilla.org and it has good background info about the issue. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday September 05, 2002 13:49 by chris
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ANTI-NUCLEAR campaigners from the SHUT DOWN SELLAFIELD Campaign will depart Ireland this Friday to travel to the English port of Barrow-on-Furness to inform the people of Barrow of Irish opposition to Sellafield and especially the trafficking of deadly MOX through the Irish Sea. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday September 05, 2002 11:58 by Cork SWP
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Poster for meeting on Saturday in Cork, regards read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday September 05, 2002 00:05 by Graham Caswell
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The Earth Summit produced lots and lots and lots of talk - often full of high ideals. But there's almost no sign of real committment to real action. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday September 04, 2002 22:15 by Pat Finnegan
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The Irish NGOs representing development, environmental and social concerns, stated that the WSSD Plan of Implementation represents the lowest common denominator and will not deliver what our leaders promised. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday September 04, 2002 00:06 by Graham Caswell
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In today's issue ECO Equity gives an overview of the Heads of States marathon of 5-minute speeches. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday September 03, 2002 14:33 by Andrew
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Monday night saw another picket of the Dublin corporation council meeting to protest the continuing attempt to impose bin charges on the cities population. Meanwhile the council has issued the first summons against non payers (4 from Fingals have been summonsed). Full report additional with additional photos at http://struggle.ws/wsm/news/2002/bintaxSEPT.html read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday September 03, 2002 04:36 by Wiz
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The next Reclaim The Streets free street party is being organised for September 22nd (meet 2.30 at Stephens Green). Unfortunately, it costs a bit of money to throw a free party, so we ask all supporters and anybody who wants to have a good time to come along to the Fundraiser next Saturday night. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday September 02, 2002 22:10 by Graham Caswell
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In today's issue a letter to the Heads of State now arriving at the Earth Summit charges that so far negotiatiors have merely found new, creative ways of expressing agreement already reached elsewhere. However, unlike the negotiators the Heads of State are not anonymous. Their names will be associated with this agreement and history will judge them harshly if it fails or proves ineffective. "The world knows who you are", the letter states, "and it is watching". read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday September 01, 2002 21:04 by Graham Caswell
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Earth Summit Ireland, the umbrella group of Irish environmental organizations attending the World Summit on Sustainable Development [WSSD] in Johannesburg, have claimed that a key clause is being omitted from the proposed WSSD agreement which will "abdicate sustainable subsidies control" to the World Trade Organization [WTO] read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday August 31, 2002 22:23 by Greenpeace Press Release
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British Nuclear Fuel's (BNFL's) controversial plutonium fuel programme (MOX)suffered another blow when Japan's largest nuclear utility announced last night that there has been a major safety scandal at its nuclearpower plants. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday August 31, 2002 17:25 by Graham Caswell
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The 'indefinite Postponement' of Japanese use of MOX fuel has been confirmed by Greenpeace and Japanese media in a major development that dramatically threatens the economic viability of Sellafield. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday August 31, 2002 14:23 by Graham Caswell
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ECO Equity - the NGO newsletter published each day during the Earth Summit- offers a Mid-Summit Assessment of the Earth Summit. While there's a lot of brinkmanship in the negotioations and nothings over until the final agreement is signed, it's not looking great. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday August 31, 2002 11:50 by J. Walshe
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In the early hours of Saturday morning activists occupied the archaeological site of Carrickmines Castle in a non-violent direction that could rival the Glen of the Downs protest. The excavation of the site, which is still incomplete, was wound up on Friday evening to make way for its destruction for the completion of the M50 motorway. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday August 30, 2002 17:11 by Blisset (Slight Return)
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Referendum Commission Website: No FXXking mention of the following terms: Search Results No Documents Found for query "GATS WTO" Search Results No Documents Found for query "GATS" Search Results No Documents Found for query "wto" read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday August 29, 2002 22:11 by Graham Caswell
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Issue # 4 of ECO Equity - the NGO newsletter published each day during the Earth Summit- reveals that after twelve hours of negotiations on Tuesday and Wednesday there had been more than 100 references to the Doha Declaration and the Monterrey Consensus and only two references to environment and sustainable development. Are these really trade talks? read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday August 29, 2002 11:56 by Derikos
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JERUSALEM *8-29-2002) occupation Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer expressed regret on Thursday for the zionazi army's slaughter of four members of a Palestinian family while in there home in a tank raid on a Gaza Strip village. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday August 28, 2002 23:04 by Graham Caswell
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The daily newsletter from the ECO coalition of NGOs is available from the Earth Summit Ireland website at www.earthsummit-Ireland.org/updates.htm. The newsletter is issued daily during the summit and covers all the key issues from the perspective of environmental and social justice NGOs. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday August 28, 2002 07:56 by PROFIT
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Court Calls For Open Detainee Hearings U.S. Chastised on Immigration Case Secrecy Policy With the onset of violent suppression of dissent as seen last week in Portland the shooting and disappearance of protesters is becoming common place, look forward to a major terrorist attack maybe small-pox or something else very lethal by shrub and his owners soon to use as cover for the dictator taking full control read full story / add a comment |
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