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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday February 04, 2012 08:33 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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By the time I lived in community with Phil Berrigan, he was a wise old man. He had served many years in U.S. prisons for his nonviolent resistance to the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons - initiating the draft board raids and plowshares movements. After I moved on, he would serve many more years. He was in the very best sense disillusioned with popular American pretensions. He suffered from few illusions. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Friday February 03, 2012 11:00 by Indyjourno with Geri Timmons
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Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist was born in 1944 in North Dakota on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. He is the 11th child of 13 children and from his early years suffered racism and brutal poverty at the hands of US government and its officials.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday February 03, 2012 09:05 by Derek Leinster
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Labour TD Robert Dowds is putting down a Dail question to the Justice Minister Alan Satter based on Alan Shatter's letter to WIlliam Irwin MLA - see graphic. The question will ask: "What consideration is being given to issues relating to the former Bethany Home and the appropriateness and practicality of such issues being addressed in a satisfactory manner and would the Minister make a statement on the subject." This is the second time that a member of the Northern Assembly has expressed concern about the government's neglect of this group of survivors. Minister Arlene Foster wrote to Martin McAleese asking him to include Bethany Home in in his investigation of Magdalen laundries. The government refused to allow this - see letters. read full story / add a comment 
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday February 02, 2012 19:38 by Theobald Wolfe Tone
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The Irish News 2 February 2012 Exclusive - Full scale of abuse against Catholic worker revealed Seanin Graham, Health Correspondent, The full scale of the sectarian abuse against a Catholic social worker can be revealed today. Co Down woman Laurena Kane (43) was awarded a £60,000 payout from the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust at the High Court last week but The Irish News has now seen the result of an internal investigation which sets out the case in full. While the trust did not admit liability until last month, the internal 2009 investigation concludes the "sustained" sectarian comments represented a "serious case of alleged harassment" which the trust failed to address. The leaked document reveals the contents of interviews with the "chief protagonist" of the abuse - named in court as Barbara Lowry - and six other staff members. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / housing / news report Thursday February 02, 2012 16:28 by Andrew interviews Cat & Moira
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On Saturday 28th January Unlock NAMA opened an occupied building in the center of Dublin for a day of lectures about NAMA, Ireland's 'Bad Bank.' The event was cut short by a large number of police who turned up and ordered them out of the building. In this 40 minute interview Andrew Flood interviews Cat & Moira from Unlock NAMA about the occupation, what NAMA is and what Unlock NAMA demands. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / news report Thursday February 02, 2012 02:26 by Justin Morahan
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The website www.rate-your-solicitor.com. has been shut down without trace. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday January 31, 2012 22:59 by RAG Dublin
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A meeting in Dublin for anti-authoritarian groups and individuals read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 31, 2012 08:29 by Ban Hare Coursing Now!
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We hope politicians of all parties who oppose the savagery of hare coursing will support the Private Members Bill that Dail Deputies Maureen O’ Sullivan and Clare Daly intend to move shortly. read full story / add a comment 
galway / miscellaneous / event notice Monday January 30, 2012 18:02 by wageslave
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Occupy Galway will hold a night of live music in Aid of Cope & The Samaritans Galway, at Monroe's Bar this Wednesday, February 1st. Both of these charities are overworked and underfunded in these times of austerity so please come along and support them. read full story / add a comment 
cork / arts and media / event notice Monday January 30, 2012 13:18 by Eric
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Join us Thursday Feb 9th at Solidarity Books for a screening of 'The End of Violence Wim Wenders (1997)' (details of film below). Start time is 8pm. All welcome, donations appreciated. read full story / add a comment 
cork / arts and media / event notice Monday January 30, 2012 11:07 by Eric
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Join us this Thursday, Feb 2nd at Solidarity Books for a screening of 'Z' (details of film below). Start time is 8pm. All welcome, donations appreciated. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday January 30, 2012 01:11 by Geri Timmons
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Leonard Peltier is a Native American serving his 36th year in prison. The events that led to arrest and the falsification of evidence used to convict him have long been highlighted by award winning films like Michael Apted's "Incident at Oglala" and best selling books such as Peter Matthiessen's "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse". Leonard is an example of how a person can be imprisoned but not broken. His struggle is compared to Nelson Mandela's and his message is also one of hope. His prison writings are full of love and belief that his people are stronger than the miserable conditions they fine themselves on the reservation or the poverty many of them find them in cities. Despite his ailing health and diminishing eyesight, Leonard is still a inspirational leader to Native Americans generally and his own Lakota people particularly. Please show your support and join us on read full story / add a comment 
mayo / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday January 29, 2012 15:50 by Dublin Shell to Sea
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The next day of solidarity will be held on Friday 17th February. The last one was a great success with all peat and gravel haulage stopped for the day. Please arrive Thursday night for a briefing and early morning action the next day. If they are working on Saturday we will do something then too. There is a fundraiser for the camp at McGrath's pub on Saturday night read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Saturday January 28, 2012 14:16 by Catherine O'Dea
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Free Laughter Yoga in City Centre: Wednesday 8th February at 5 pm in Carmelite Community Centre, Aungier St, Dublin 2. To book a place e-mail Catherine at “[email protected]”. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / crime and justice / feature Saturday January 28, 2012 14:05 by Indyjourno
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Today's occupation is happening at 66-67 Great Strand Street, Dublin 1. Come down and support the occupation - get involved in the debate during the day.
Today one of NAMA’s properties in Dublin has been opened to the public. The building will host a series of talks and workshops engaging the public in the questions that surround debt, property speculation and asking how we can use NAMA buildings for social and community purposes. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Saturday January 28, 2012 13:45 by Catherine O'Dea
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Free Laughter Yoga in City Centre: Wednesday 8th February at 5 pm in Carmelite Community Centre, Aungier St, Dublin 2. To book a place e-mail Catherine at “[email protected]”. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday January 27, 2012 10:01 by Indyjourno
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Sean Sherlock, Minister for Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation, has introduced new legislation that is being called Irelands SOPA. The legislation is being introduced as a statutory instrument which means that it will be implemented by the signature of the Minster and not a vote in the Dáil. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday January 26, 2012 15:56 by Seven Towers
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The Seven Towers Agency begins its monthly cycle of events, with space kindly supplied courtesy of the Loft bookshop (upstairs at The Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street). Three poets read from their work (be it poetry or prose) and attendees are invited to browse the bookshelves and grab a bite to eat or a coffee. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Thursday January 26, 2012 13:48 by Yassamine Mather
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Make your voice heard against war and repression, urges Hands Off the People of Iran chair, Yassamine Mather The war drums against Iran are beating ever louder. The new embargo on Iranian oil, to come into force on July 1, is only the latest in a long list of measures imposed by US and EU imperialism. It bans all new oil contracts with Iran, and cuts off all existing deals. Also, all of the Iranian central bank’s European assets are to be frozen. We are told that the sanctions are designed to weaken the regime and “force Iran back to the negotiating table” over its nuclear programme. This is clearly nonsense: In reality, the ‘nuclear danger’ is used by imperialism as an excuse to deal with an increasingly unstable situation in the Middle East. Imperialism has recently lost a number of friendly regimes in the region (like Egypt) and needs to reassert control in this oil-rich area. War is also a useful distraction from economic misery and the current crisis of capitalism. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday January 25, 2012 02:12 by pat c
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Matt Lygate the Scottish Socialist Republican has died. Here is an obituary.Matt was a believer, not just in Socialism but also in Christianity. If there is an afterlife then he has gone to join John Maclean and James Connolly. Full text at link. Born on 26/12/1938 in Govan Glasgow. From early on,Matt became an accomplished artist, orator, and thinker. He always loved the great outdoors and would often dissapear for hours up hills and down gullies. As a teenager, he moved to Sunderland with his family and became one of the best renouned tailor’s cutters of his time. When ordered to join the British Army (conscription was still in place even after the war), Matt, like his father during WWI, refused stating he would never join an imperialist British Army. That same week, he was on a boat to New Zealand before the powers that be could abscond him. Matt had been an avid member of the CPGB as well as a devout Christian, believing that Christ himself was a revolutionary socialist. read full story / add a comment |
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