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national / arts and media / press release Thursday May 03, 2012 15:10 by Left of the Dial
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The Lee Harveys go into the studio to record their debut album in June, they join us on Left of the Dial this coming Friday (4th of May) to talk about that, and lots of other things too. read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday May 03, 2012 14:00 by Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL)
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THOUSANDS of trade unionists and activists poured into the streets of Manila and other key cities to celebrate May Day amid renewed hopes that the two latest efforts at labor unity will provide strong impetus to their uphill battle for labor and trade union rights. read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / press release Wednesday May 02, 2012 19:38 by Occupy Galway
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Occupy Galway is launching a voter registration initiative ahead of the Fiscal Compact Treaty referendum on the 31st of May. Registration and Change of Address forms along with information on the treaty will be available at the camp in Eyre Square in the run up to the vote. read full story / add a comment 
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 02, 2012 02:48 by Darcy
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BUT WHAT HAPPENS IF WE VOTE NO? COULD IRELAND’S ACCESS TO A FUTURE BAILOUT FROM THE ESM RESCUE FUND BE PUT AT JEOPARDY BY THAT DECISION? This is the so-called ‘Blackmail Clause’ contained in Article 136 of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Treaty. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday May 01, 2012 23:38 by Participants in No Fracking Ireland
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No Fracking Ireland regret to learn that Manorhamilton Enterprise Forum have decided to take €20,000 from Tamboran Resources, the Australian/Canadian fracking company who wish to drill thousands of wells to extract shale gas in the north west region. We understand this money is being used by the business forum to fund plans for a hotel in Manorhamilton town. Manorhamilton Enterprise Forum claim to be working at promoting tourism, fracking runs counter to this worthy objective. Only weeks prior to this announcement by the Manorhamilton business group, visiting German geoscientist and politician Helmut Fehr appealed to locals not to sell out to this highly controversial and damaging industry stating, “Don’t take the company’s money it is like selling your soul.” read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights / press release Tuesday May 01, 2012 13:05 by Campaign for the Abolition of Cruel Sports
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Symbolic victory for anti-blood sports campaign as “I Love Hare Coursing” accessories destined for Ireland and the UK withdrawn from sale. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism / press release Monday April 30, 2012 20:34 by M Gilliland
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Read it online now at thefreeonline.wordpress.com. (or free download for all apps) The original of The Free was set in a fictional Ireland, and even in this huge updated 4th edition you can recognize streets, and Dublin banter. The thriller story is more topical than ever, set in an anarchist/feminist social revolution which triumphs due to the collapse of Capitalism caused by climate chaos. Now it's a world book, with 2035 'Friends on Farsebook', but the first chapters could be the backstreets of Dublin. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Monday April 30, 2012 13:41 by June gathering
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The seventh annual Rossport Solidarity Camp gathering is taking place in Erris, Co.Mayo from the 1st-4th June. You are invited to take part in workshops/discussions, skillshares, music and fun! read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday April 30, 2012 05:19 by lefty
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For the last while we have been cultivated like proverbial economic mushrooms, "kept in the dark and fed a lot of economic shit". The fact is the current conditions have been deliberately cultivated to achieve exactly the effect they are having. read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-capitalism / event notice Saturday April 28, 2012 05:14 by Occupy Galway
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To celebrate May day and the 200th day on Eyre Square, Occupy Galway will be hosting a Citizen’s assembly at 7pm in Eyre Square. All are welcome to attend and participate. The topic of the assembly will be “The EU Fiscal Treaty, a good deal for Irish workers?” read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday April 27, 2012 10:23 by Ciaron
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On April 20 there’s a memorial for Christopher Hitchens at the Cooper Union in Manhattan. There’s a PEN tribute, also in Manhattan, on April 30. Here’s my own little envoi. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Thursday April 26, 2012 15:50 by Rita Fagan
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Dear Friends, the Spectacle of Defiance and Hope are calling on all of you who disagree with the policies of Austerity against the Irish People, along with the unemployed, low paid workers, people being strangled with unrealistic mortgage payments, the household charges and the community, youth and voluntary sector are bearing this very heavy weight. Communities will be left without lifelines if they continue to close down vital projects and services and axe one job after another read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday April 26, 2012 14:32 by Dublin Basque
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This week 75 years ago, the Basquetown of Gernika was virtually destroyed with huge loss of life in a bombing raid by the Condor Legion, a cover name for a detachment of the Luftwaffe loaned to the Spanish generals leading a mutiny against the elected Popular Front government of the Spanish state. The Dublin Basque Solidarity Committee will be commemorating this event on Friday 27th (the actual anniversary is the 28th). read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment / event notice Wednesday April 25, 2012 22:33 by T
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Protect Dublin Bay – No Oil Rigs on Our Coast. Protest this Sun 12 midday – Meet at Seafront Entrance to People’s Park Dun Laoghaire. Tony O Reilly’s Providence Resources wants to drill for oil in Dublin Bay just 6km off the coast of Dalkey Island. Providence have applied for a foreshore licence to the Minister for the Environment, Phil Hogan, who will decide on this in the coming weeks or months. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday April 25, 2012 22:19 by anon
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Calling the disgruntled, the city's messers and tricksters, all those bored and sick of this age of austerity, ravers, rockers, buskers, artists, the unemployed, trade unionists, wage slaves, wee ones and the retired. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Wednesday April 25, 2012 16:37 by Cormac Mac Gall
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A political struggle in a European nation of less than three million, largely ignored by other socialists in Europe, has nevertheless come to the fore in the capitalist media repeatedly since the late 1960s. This has been largely as a result of the the Basque people’s struggle for socialism and independence from the Spanish and French states, a struggle led for decades by Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, the marxist armed organisation better known by its acronym, ETA. The organisation reawakened Basque national consciousness, has worked with others for the restoration of Euskara, the Basque language, organised Basque workers and faced the repression of the General Franco dictatorship in the Spanish state. Famously, in 1973 it assassinated the Prime Minister of the state, Admiral Carrero Blanco, Franco’s right-hand man, which hastened the fragmentation of the dictatorship and its passage to partial democracy. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday April 24, 2012 23:46 by anon
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Jerrie Ann Sullivan, one of the women who made a recording public in the Garda "rape tape" controversy, has said that the Garda Ombudsman investigation into the incident has been "about protecting An Garda Síochána". But James Gill, the sergeant found to have made remarks about two female protesters arrested at a controversial Shell gas project at Erris, Co Mayo will escape any action because he recently retired. read full story / add a comment 
cork / arts and media / event notice Tuesday April 24, 2012 11:42 by Eric
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Join us this Thursday April 26th in Solidarity Books for a screening of "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, Director Adam Curtis" . The latest documentary from Adam Curtis. We will show all three parts with a short interval for tea and cake ! Film description below. Start time is 8pm. read full story / add a comment 
national / eu / feature Tuesday April 24, 2012 06:00 by Sonya Oldham
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Once again we are being asked to vote on yet another EU treaty. This time it is the Fiscal Treaty otherwise known as the permanent austerity treaty. Most of the people of Europe are against this treaty and they are once again relying on us although as usual most of the governments of Europe are for the treaty because well they represent the people in power -the large banks, corporations and financial elite in general. As we know they call the shots these days in every country and it has got to the stage where "investors" will lend money to governments and charge a nice rate of interest too and in this way they get to decide how much they will allow governments to spend on luxuries for the middle class and poor like health, education, social welfare, pensions, water and sewage etc. And since the financial crisis they have come to the realization that none of this is neccesary. In fact the only arms of government really required are the police, army, courts and prisons. Anyhow in this feature the folks from People's Association Watchdog have done a really good job in going through the Fiscal Treaty line by line and doing alot of other research and analysis to discover and explains what it really means. And don't forget if enough of us vote No, the government will be back to give us plenty of more chances to vote Yes, just like they did with the Nice Treaty and the Lisbon Treaty. read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / event notice Monday April 23, 2012 23:57 by Stoneybatter CAHWT
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The East Wall, Cabra & Stoneybatter groups have organised a protest outside the offices of Joe Costello TD and Paschal Donoghoe TD for this Saturday (April 28th). Meet at noon, St Peter's church (junction of Cabra Road & North Circular Road) These TDs never sought a mandate for household or water taxes. We will not hand over our hard earned money to bail out unsuccessful speculators, bank bosses and other gamblers. Over 800,000 are boycotting the home tax. read full story / add a comment |
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