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An tAire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta Éamon Ó Cuív TD
national / arts and media / news report Friday October 30, 2009 17:13 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   text 1 comment (last - tuesday november 03, 2009 17:20)   image 2 images
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2007 Garda surveillance & intelligence gathering of anti-war protests at Shannon
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Friday October 30, 2009 16:40 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 15 comments (last - friday january 17, 2020 20:59)   image 5 images   video 1 video file
Thanks to the publication of a British police intelligence "spotter card" issued to rank & file coppers for a climate change protest in 2007 this week by a British newspaper, many people regardless of whether they are activists in the UK or Ireland or indeed elsewhere in the EU are wondering about their constitutional and statutory rights in the face of the European wide creation of intelligence databases by police forces. Whereas those whose images appeared without prior consent in this week's British media may have recourse to legal action and a bit of chatter, Irish political activists, protesters & ordinary citizens thus far enjoy no public recognition of the existence of such databases in Ireland nor it would appear have any mechanism to ensure that their details if not guilty of any criminal offence are removed from the intelligence files of the Garda Siochana. read full story / add a comment
An IWW version of the class pyramid referred to in the talk
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday October 30, 2009 14:44 by Speaker Paul B recorded by Andrew   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
Recording of a WSM branch education that looks at 'what is class' and outlines many of the different classifications that have been used before asking whether this is right approach to the question at all. Followed by a brief discussion of class in relation to Joe Duffy phone ins demanding a public sector pay cut. read full story / add a comment
Terryland Forest Park
galway / environment / event notice Thursday October 29, 2009 10:57 by Liamo   text 1 comment (last - monday november 09, 2009 11:40)   image 1 image
Volunteers are invited to help out in a major clean-up of Terryland Forest Park. This will start at 2.30pm on Sunday November 15 in the Terryland Forest Park. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday October 28, 2009 19:43 by Cathal   text 5 comments (last - thursday november 12, 2009 15:02)   image 3 images   audio 2 audio files
Yesterday evening the Cork branch of the Worker’s Solidarity Movement hosted a talk by South African anarchist and ZABALAZA Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) member, Jonathan. The ZACF is an organisation of anarchist individuals from South Africa who identify with the communist tradition within Anarchism. The front is organised around the principles of theoretical and tactical unity, collective responsibility and federalism. Their activities include study and theoretical development, anarchist agitation and propaganda, and participation within the class struggle. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday October 28, 2009 16:17 by Dublin Masser   text 2 comments (last - thursday october 29, 2009 19:11)   image 3 images
It is impossible to give credit to one place, one time, one person for the starting of any social movement, as it takes the ideas, energy and enthusiasm of countless people to reach a 'Critical Mass', but San Francisco, September 1992, certainly marked itself clearly on the map as a launch-pad for the Critical Mass movement, going on from there to spread throughout the world to all nine(?) corners of the globe and taking place in an estimated 325 cities. Now after seventeen years it is still growing and currently takes place in four cities around Ireland (that we know of?).

In true DIY style Critical Mass co-incidentally returned to the streets of Belfast and Dublin simultaneously on Friday the 25th of September last after being sorely missed by many for a long time. To their credit Cork and Galway have been keeping it going for many years now (albeit in an on-off fashion). read full story / add a comment
Charlie Byrne's Bookshop
galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday October 28, 2009 12:42 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
On THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5th, from 6pm
Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop in association with Over The Edge
presents an evening of poetry to celebrate their new shop in Oranmore at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Oranmore Village (near the filling station!) read full story / add a comment
Limerick Protest Poster
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Wednesday October 28, 2009 12:30 by SIPTU Community   image 1 image
As part of the ongoing campaign against cuts to the Community Sector, a protest march will be held on:

Thursday 5th November, The Mechanics Institute, Pery's Square, Limerick, 12 noon

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Declan Sweeney, Director of ReConnect Autism
national / health / disability issues / press release Tuesday October 27, 2009 09:55 by Biddy Hughes   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 27, 2009 12:14)   image 2 images
Launching today, ReConnect Autism Consultancy and Training delivers autism consultancy and training services to parents of children on the autism spectrum that result in improved quality of life. Based in Wicklow and servicing families nationwide, ReConnect Autism recently won a Social Entrepreneurs Ireland award for the social contribution of bringing the Relationship Development Intervention (RDI) programme to Ireland. ReConnect Autism is headed up by Declan Sweeney B.Sc. ACE (Autism) who brings over 16 years experience in delivering autism services in the U.K. as well as working as a Team Leader on the U.K.’s Autism Services Accreditation Programme. Please visit www.ReConnectAutism.org for more information. read full story / add a comment
London Metropolitan Police spotter card
international / crime and justice / other press Monday October 26, 2009 00:13 by fitwatcher   text 17 comments (last - friday october 30, 2009 13:35)   image 3 images
Ever notice how the police on demonstrations seem to know your name and use it?

How they take pictures and video of specific individuals but not others?

This report from London might explain things. Of course, the gardaí don't use similar tactics and systems for catagorizing "trouble-makers" and people "who may instigate offences".

Oh no. That could never happen here. read full story / add a comment
33rd consecutive CABHAIR Christmas Day Swim!
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday October 25, 2009 20:51 by Sharon.   text 11 comments (last - saturday december 26, 2009 23:54)   image 5 images
This coming December 25th will mark the 33rd consecutive CABHAIR Christmas Day Swim in the Grand Canal , Dublin ! read full story / add a comment
L-R: Dan Finn, Freda Hughes, Kevin Squires, David Landy, Mark McDonnell, Martin O'Quigley, Ronan O'Dowd, Ronan Nolan (members of the IPSC National Committee)
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday October 24, 2009 18:20 by Freda Hughes   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 25, 2009 23:12)   image 2 images
Today, Saturday, October 24, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) elected David Landy, an Irish-Jewish academic as their new chairperson. Mr Landy, who lives in Dublin city centre, has long been active in Palestine solidarity work. He was one of the organisers of the public letters from Irish academics in 2006 and 2009 calling for a moratorium of EU funding of Israeli universities. He has written on Zionism and on British Jewish opposition to Israel, and is currently teaching in the Department of Sociology in Trinity College. read full story / add a comment
chomsky.jpe
national / miscellaneous / other press Saturday October 24, 2009 11:02 by Volunteer   text 8 comments (last - wednesday february 24, 2010 00:02)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
In his forthcoming book - Hopes and Prospects, Noam Chomsky predicts hope for the future through grassroots activism as a mechanism for progressive change. “Activism is growing all over the world and ordinary people are realising that they can be agents for change”, he says.

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Comh. Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (LO)
national / arts and media / news report Saturday October 24, 2009 10:04 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   text 3 comments (last - thursday november 12, 2009 18:46)   image 4 images
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Nóta: nasc podchraoladh le teacht ar an Máirt. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / event notice Friday October 23, 2009 15:47 by Kevin Flanagan   text 56 comments (last - tuesday december 15, 2009 01:32)   image 1 image
Public meeting for clerical and religious abuse survivors and their supporters . Axis Centre Ballymun 7.30 pm , Dec 12 read full story / add a comment
Gary King
galway / arts and media / event notice Friday October 23, 2009 12:08 by Over The Edge   text 1 comment (last - friday october 23, 2009 12:37)   image 2 images
Pluto's Noon Sky - Gary King launches his debut collection
at 12 Noon on Saturday, 31st October in Galway City Museum. read full story / add a comment
October Flea Market
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Friday October 23, 2009 11:36 by Caybarboy   image 1 image
The October Flea Market promises a veritable feast for the senses... read full story / add a comment
limerick / environment / event notice Friday October 23, 2009 10:49 by Liamo   text 2 comments (last - sunday november 01, 2009 14:12)   image 1 image
The Age of Stupid (2009) is a film by Franny Armstrong, director of McLibel and founder of 10:10, and first-time producer Lizzie Gillett. The Executive Producer is John Battsek, producer of One Day in September.

The film is a drama-documentary-animation hybrid which stars Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008 and asking "Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?", referring to the current global warming.
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different generation - same hatred.
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Friday October 23, 2009 10:46 by ipsiphi   text 19 comments (last - friday october 30, 2009 13:03)   image 5 images
As this article is published the leader of the BNP, England's neo-fascist racist political party & one of the principle articulators of European neo-nazism in the English language has entered the BBC studios in London to take part in a BBC "question time" broadcast. The presence of Griffin has not gone without protest or reaction in Britain as much as in Ireland. This article collates much of the recent coverage of that reaction & puts this week's publishing on the internet on "Wikileaks" of the current BNP membership list in context.

But the point of this article is to examine from a leftist and Irish perspective the possible consequences of the BBC invitation to Griffin and the reaction in the liberal English chattering classes and at parliamentary level. Rather than moving to a revamping of the Race Relations Act the British it seems are considering a return to the censorship which was applied to the factions of the north of Ireland in general and Sinn Fein in particular. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday October 22, 2009 18:18 by Jen Debender   text 14 comments (last - sunday november 01, 2009 13:55)   image 11 images
Early this morning the 22 October, four Shell to Sea campaigners entered the field in Glengad where Shell is working (the same field where work was stopped by a digger-occupier yesterday- http://www.indymedia.ie/article/94519). Two people managed to get on top of the same digger, but IRMS (Shell's private security contractors) got violent and dragged them down, injuring them both in the process. read full story / add a comment
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