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national / crime and justice / other press Friday June 10, 2011 11:56 by Anon
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This report from the WSM highlights the deepending crisis in the Irish prison system. Over the years the number of people per capita going to prison has been steadily rising and there are huge dangers with disease and infection from the practice of slopping out. And now an outbreak of TB is reported in three of the prisons. As elsewhere an dangerous drug resistant and largely incurable form of TB is on the rise. This might not seem of relevance to most people but it is not well known that in 2010 there were 520 people were imprisoned for non payment of fines like TV licences, parking fines etc. read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights / press release Friday June 10, 2011 09:55 by Bernie Wright
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A new craze where Panda Garra fish suck dead skin from feet is currently being offered in Dublin. The Alliance for Animal Rights is concerned about the fish and will be calling on the NSAI to investigate this.In 14 states in the US it is already banned as being unsanitary. This craze started in the US when the fish were imported from China. read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum / other press Wednesday June 08, 2011 21:21 by Speranza
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Climate scientists lives are at risk. Why? Because they have produced evidence which shows the erxtent of Global Warming and the damage done to the environment. The deniers don't like this and neither do the big mining and oil companies. They go crazy at the idea of paying a carbon tax. These companies have deep pockets and it wouldn't be surprising if they slipped a few dollars to the nuttier deniers to threaten scientists and perhaps go further. Most deniers are harmless folk, they rarely leave their computers and wouldn't have the nerve to counter protest at an environmental demo. But there is always the mad few, looks as if they may be at work in Autralia. A number of Australia's leading climate scientists have been moved into safer accommodation after receiving death threats, in a further escalation of the country's increasingly febrile carbon price debate. The revelation of the death threats follows a week of bitter exchanges between the government and the opposition in the wake of a pro-carbon price TV advert featuring actor Cate Blanchet. Being a denier of GLOBAL warming and supporting the destruction of the Environment is easy. read full story / add a comment 
antrim / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday June 08, 2011 15:22 by Northern Ireland Student Assembly
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The Northern Ireland Student Assembly (NISA) has called a protest in accordance with the Prime Minister, David Cameron's visit to Stormont to talk in favour of a corporation tax cut in Northern Ireland. NISA is encouraging young people and trade unions to attend the protest. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 08, 2011 14:32 by James Blake
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Conflict over resources has been a particularly strong feature of the last 500 years or a period regarded by some commentators as the five centuries of global capitalist expansion, begun by Christopher Columbus and followed up by the brutal conquistadors such as Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro, who searched for 'Eldorado', the city of gold. Millions of indigenous Indians from the islands of the Caribbean down the spine of Central America to the mountains of Bolivia, toiled the fields and mines to serve European monarchies who, on the back of exploited labour, built ostentatious cathedrals and palaces as, according to Eduardo Galeano in 'Open Veins of Latin America', tens of millions of souls perished from this earth. read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights / press release Tuesday June 07, 2011 21:51 by meat-abolition.org
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Throughout the world, individuals, groups and organizations stand up to proclaim their dissent. We demand the banning of animal agriculture, fishing and hunting. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday June 06, 2011 10:48 by Costas A.
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Last night in Athens, took place the bigest gathering i ever witnesed myself in 37 years. read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday June 05, 2011 18:31 by John Cornford
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Supporters of Hands of the People of Iran have produced a bulletin on working class struggle in Iran for trade unionists and anti-war activists. Articles include: Trade union successes “Selling your kidney has turned into a profession" Unemployment rises by 1.6million each year read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Sunday June 05, 2011 00:07 by Diarmuid Breatnach
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As Elizabeth Windsor's visit moves into history it is time to analyse the reasons for the visit and what happened during it: the small protests, the massive restrictions on movement in Ireland's capital city, the huge violations of the right to protest, read full story / add a comment 
wicklow / environment / event notice Saturday June 04, 2011 21:24 by Kruk
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We will be screening Planeat movie on 24th of June at The Happy Pear in Greystones. Planeat is the story of three men's life-long search for a diet, which is good for our health, animals, good for the environment and good for the future of the planet. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday June 04, 2011 21:23 by Hypatia
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Roisin Ingle writes on the growing number atheists, agnostics, humanists in Ireland and their struggle for recognition. A FEW WEEKS ago Brian Whiteside of the Humanist Association of Ireland addressed a gathering that included Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Minister for Justice Alan Shatter as well as various religious leaders. He used the opportunity to raise the issue of our religious presidential oath, which he says is just one example of State discrimination against the growing godless community. The oath, the wording of which is enshrined in the Constitution, is taken in “the presence of Almighty God” and is a non-negotiable promise that must be given by whoever is elected president. It concludes, “May God direct and sustain me.” read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Saturday June 04, 2011 17:39 by Young Ho Chi
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Connolly Soviet is launching a Left Wing \ Alternative stand up comedy night at Seomra Spraoi, 10 Belvedere Court, Dublin 1 (next to Mountjoy Square) on Friday, 24 June. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / press release Saturday June 04, 2011 11:29 by GRAI
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Irish greyhounds and dogs of all breeds with their owners will be meeting in Dublin City Centre on Sunday June 19th for the first “Walk for the Greyhounds”, which has been organised to promote greyhounds as family pets. Hundreds of two legged and four legged walkers are expected from all over Ireland, the UK, and other European countries. Walkers will meet at 12 noon, near the Fusilliers Arch at St Stehen’s Green. The walk which will start at 1pm is just over two kilometres through the centre of Dublin. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday June 03, 2011 13:08 by éirígí Sligeach
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Fine Gael & Labour politicians abandon yet more pre-election promises. This time in relation to the restoration of breast cancer services to Sligo General Hospital within 100 days of taking office. read full story / add a comment 
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Friday June 03, 2011 12:40 by PRO
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SIPTU’s campaign to reverse the decision to cut funding to Art Ability continues. Thankfully as a result of the Campaign some element of funding has been secured but not sufficient to ensure it can continue to cater for the needs of the most vulnerable in society. Indeed 4 members of staff have been forced to seek alternative employment despite having initially worked on without pay to protect the needs of the clients of the centre. Art Ability provides training and support for 48 young people aged between six and 16 as well as 24 adults. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous / news report Thursday June 02, 2011 23:20 by Mick
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Join us on June 11th for the launch of the Campaign for the Old City Arts Building (COCAB). Our aim is to take back the Old City Arts building, 23-25 Mosse St (near Tara dart station) which has been abandoned for nearly a decade and is now part of the National Assets Management Agency (NAMA). We want the building to be opened up for use as an educational and cultural space, managed collectively by anyone who wants to take part, independent of private or state institutions. We also want to broaden this by demanding that the NAMA legislation be changed so that all disused NAMA buildings can be used by the citizens for social and cultural projects, social housing or (in the case of undeveloped land) community gardens. It is clear that the politics of ‘elected representatives’ has completely failed in the context of the crisis- only people power and direct action can bring real change. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday June 02, 2011 22:13 by nautilus collective
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OLTREMARA dances ELIANA VALENTINI (tamburello, percussion, dance) ANTONELLA DI PALO (voice and dance) GERRY ANDERSON (guitar and mandolin) http://www.oltremara.org OLTREMARA dances Oltremara is organizing an evening focused on Traditional Dances from the South of Italy. Through the deep percussions sound, using Italian traditional drums as TAMBURELLO SALENTINO and TAMMORRA NAPOLETANA the odience will be involved in a boby and soul experiece with live sound of these strong percussions. Oltremara will guide everyone into the rythm using the body language and let people free to experiment their own personal expression. read full story / add a comment 
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday June 02, 2011 21:24 by Ciarán
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Gort na Móna CLG & Glór na Móna present Community Lecture Series 2011 June – Saturday 25th, 7pm Michael McCann – 1969 Falls Pogroms, Scarman and Revisionism read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights / press release Thursday June 02, 2011 13:16 by Bernie Wright
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RISE group nominated for PR excellence for their failed pro-hunt campaign. AOHS to demonstrate at PRII AWARDS. Pro animal abuse group RISE has been nominated for the shortlist of the Awards for ‘Excellence in Public Relations 2011’by the Public relations Institute of Ireland. Rise who ran a campaign of lies, intimidation and false claims has made the shortlist for this year's PR Awards for Excellence. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Thursday June 02, 2011 12:41 by Chris Hedges
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Those who concede that the planet is warming but insist we can learn to live with it are perhaps more dangerous than the buffoons who decide to shut their eyes. This is the message from Chris Hedges as he writes on the weird weather and the danger to our planet. Full story at url. The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming, which is disfiguring the ecosystem at a swifter pace than even the gloomiest scientific studies predicted a few years ago, has been confronted by the power elite with two kinds of self-delusion. There are those, many of whom hold elected office, who dismiss the science and empirical evidence as false. There are others who accept the science surrounding global warming but insist that the human species can adapt. Our only salvation—the rapid dismantling of the fossil fuel industry—is ignored by both groups. And we will be led, unless we build popular resistance movements and carry out sustained acts of civil disobedience, toward collective self-annihilation by dimwitted pied pipers and fools. read full story / add a comment |
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