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The Covid Inquiry's presumption that the vaccines were safe and effective is like the Post Office Inquiry presuming that Horizon was reliable, say Ben Kingsley and Molly Kingsley. It compromises the entire enterprise.
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Left Communists fight in the German Revolution
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday December 21, 2007 10:18 by Oisin Mac Giollamoir   text 29 comments (last - wednesday january 16, 2008 07:05)   image 4 images
An introduction and critique of an often forgoteen tendency in the revolutionary movement. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday December 20, 2007 22:04 by IPSC   text 3 comments (last - tuesday december 25, 2007 19:46)   image 6 images
Last weekend members of the Ireland-Paleatine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) were on the streets in Dublin, Galway and Limerick to inform shoppers about the likelihood of unwittingly supporting the apartheid regime in Israel if they purchase diamonds without knowing where they were crafted. read full story / add a comment
Nelson Perez, Luis Eduardo Garcia, Jose Domingo Flores, Javier Correa
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday December 20, 2007 15:07 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 20, 2007 19:05)   image 1 image
Coke is certainly the real thing, once again it is using Rightwing Death-squads to terrorise and murder workers.

In the last fortnight, three Coca-Cola workers in Bucaramanga, Colombia have
been told that before the end of December they will be killed and buried in
a mass grave. The threat demands that their union cease all protest against
Coca-Cola. read full story / add a comment
CIA Rendition Plane N71PG  at Shannon 3 Dec 2007
national / anti-war / imperialism / feature Thursday December 20, 2007 08:30 by Seán Ryan   text 35 comments (last - thursday january 03, 2008 21:40)   image 1 image
A first-hand account of a meeting of the Department of Foreign Affairs Select Committee on Wednesday 19th December to discuss the issue of Extraordinary Rendition (the transport of abducted prisoners for the purpose of torture in another country) through Irish air-space. read full story / add a comment
Kevin Higgins
galway / arts and media / event notice Thursday December 20, 2007 02:00 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
Choice of Poetry workshops with Kevin Higgins at Galway Arts Centre in January read full story / add a comment
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday December 19, 2007 19:28 by gz   text 3 comments (last - saturday january 05, 2008 11:37)   image 1 image
A fundraiser gig for Seomra Spraoi social centre read full story / add a comment
Ronan and Grainne
international / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday December 19, 2007 18:00 by ronanlawlor.org   text 2 comments (last - monday january 07, 2008 12:01)   image 1 image
Grainne Lawlor, cousin of Irish Backpacker, Ronan Lawlor who is missing in Torres Del Paine National Park has issued a statement outlining her distress as promised extra resources do not arrive. Grainne and Ronan's friend Bernard McCabe are participating in the search and rescue every day. read full story / add a comment
Imprisoned Students.
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday December 19, 2007 16:03 by Asqar Karimi   text 1 comment (last - thursday january 17, 2008 11:33)   image 1 image
Below is an appeal on behalf of imprisoned students. International Solidarity has forced the Iranian Regime to release trade union activists. Send your protest letters/emails to the addresses at the end of this piece.

In the last two weeks more than 40 student leaders and activists have been rounded up by the Ministry of Information of the Islamic regime of Iran. We have been informed that at least 43 of the detainees are being held in the notorious Evin Prison, and the whereabouts of the rest is unknown. These students were arrested on or before 7 December 2007 in anticipation of protests on Student Day.
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international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday December 19, 2007 15:00 by funderland on crack   text 2 comments (last - friday december 21, 2007 12:06)   image 1 image
46 of 52 of the individuals who have faced trial this last year for links to ETA have received sentances today totaling 527 years in prison. The trial saw leaders of groups engaged in media support & internalisation of support for the Basque armed struggle independence tradition sit together in the dock in a process described by some as a "macro-trial". In the statement read to the court at sentancing the presiding judge Angela Murillo commented ......"KAS and EKIN are "much more than satellite organizations"; KAS "was ETA's media organization" and "EKIN is not any other thing than KAS in an apparent legal disguise..." read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday December 19, 2007 12:48 by Mariella F   text 8 comments (last - friday april 11, 2008 14:37)   image 1 image
An entirely innocent business man on his way home from work is tazered eight times. Guess what? He's black. These weapons are cleary designed to intimidate ordinary people. read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media / news report Tuesday December 18, 2007 21:54 by El Libertario, Venezuela   image 1 image
* The collective editors of the Venezuelan journal El Libertario and the Organizacion Nelson Garrido, have issued a call out for filmmakers and video activists from all over the world to present their recent autonomous works concerning active social movements in struggle. This will be held in Caracas, Venezuela, between the 21st and the 28th of January 2008. read full story / add a comment
Pat on protest duty on the Old Head of Kinsale, August 2007
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday December 18, 2007 16:14 by Fintan Lane   text 40 comments (last - monday november 15, 2010 12:31)   image 7 images
Pat Allen, known to many as "Pat the Picket" (because of his tireless social justice campaigning), is today sitting in Cork Prison following a protest against homelessness in the city. read full story / add a comment
Front Cover of the Double Album
international / environment / press release Tuesday December 18, 2007 15:58 by TaraTaraTara   text 4 comments (last - thursday december 20, 2007 14:54)   image 1 image
national / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday December 18, 2007 15:18 by Cian Prendiville   text 4 comments (last - saturday january 05, 2008 21:02)   image 1 image   1 attached file
On Saturday January 5th I, Cian Prendiville, will be going for a sponsored swim in the icy-fresh waters of Malahide beach, Dublin. Money raised goes to the Socialist Party and Socialist Youth campaign fund.

Through-out Ireland, the SP and SY consistently campaign against low pay, health cuts, privatisation, environmental destruction and war. We fight for a society where people come before profit.

Sponsors get emailed photographic proof of my swim. Audience welcome!

To sponsor me go to: www.sponsorformsonline.co.uk/cian.asp read full story / add a comment
Ebrahim Madadi celebrates his release with his family and union members.
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday December 18, 2007 14:47 by pat c   text 12 comments (last - thursday march 06, 2008 15:31)   image 2 images
A statement below from the ITF regarding the release of Ebrahim Madadi; however the ITF are concerned regarding the continuing detention of Mahmoud Salehi who is seriously ill.

In response to the release yesterday of Ebrahim Madadi, the Vice President of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, David Cockroft, ITF General Secretary said: "This is very good news - Madadi had committed no crime. Let us hope that the Iranian authorities have finally understood that trade union activities are a vital part of any strong society."
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The EU closed their offices in response to the protest
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday December 18, 2007 12:59 by Garry   text 12 comments (last - wednesday march 02, 2011 14:47)   image 10 images
Over 20 IPSC activists spent their lunchbreak protesting at the EU offices on Thursday 13th December, protesting against the ongoing siege of Gaza. The EU closed their offices in response. After an hour of maintaining the protest, an EU official met with the IPSC secretary who handed over a letter of protest. 500 leaflets were handed out to members of the general public who passed by the offices. read full story / add a comment
The move to 4 Mary's Abbey has seen Seomra Spraoi grow dramatically
dublin / miscellaneous / feature Tuesday December 18, 2007 11:06 by Seomra Spraoi   text 17 comments (last - saturday february 09, 2008 21:49)   image 5 images
Seomra Spraoi is a large and vibrant social centre, just off Capel St in Dublin. It is used by small campaign and informal groups for meetings, workshops and is also a place where arts, crafts and children's activities take place. For a community of people engaged in seeking positive social change, it is a point of contact, a source of resources and information and a base for skills and knowledge sharing. Recently, the gardai have succeeded in having the place temporarily shut down, presenting the collective that runs the centre with a complex legal and bureaucratic situation. Maybe you can be of some assistance.
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Muriel Lesters block access
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Tuesday December 18, 2007 11:06 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 15 comments (last - thursday january 17, 2008 21:03)   image 6 images
Well apparently they weren't all Grannies,

......but they were definitely ragin' in the best nonviolent sense and it certainly was an interesting demographic that kept knocking on the London Catholic Worker (LCW) door the previous night. Knocking for a meeting that was down at the Catholic Worker cafe. So my humble role of redirecting more militant traffic in the direction of the last fine tuning meeting remained constant.
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an arranged marriage in Afghanistan unites a 40 year old man & an 11 year old girl - their wedding photo gets UNICEF 1st prize 2007
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday December 18, 2007 00:03 by -   image 2 images
- Stephanie Clare's photo of 11 year old Ghulam a girl in Afghanistan sitting next to her 40 year old husband on their arranged wedding day ( as in the marriage was arranged against her wishes - not that they should really come into it anyway - your 11 year old wants to get married to anyone - you say no ) won the 2007 UNICEF photo award today at a ceremony in Berlin (Europe).

Many people will remember that one of the most admired & thought provoking photographs in the late 20th century was also of an Afghani girl Sharbat Gula who at 12 years of age was photographed by Steve Mc Curry and made th egfront cover of "National Geographic" to celebrate the end of the Taliban in 1995. It moved us all to take action. The americans went into to sort it out. The rest is the history of how the Taliban came back. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday December 17, 2007 21:58 by JohnC   text 13 comments (last - thursday january 03, 2008 18:37)   image 1 image
It has been announced that the Salthill Air Show for 2008 has been cancelled. Organisers attribute the cancellation to difficulties in raising commercial sponsorship, something they blame on the campaigning of the Galway Alliance Against War (GAAW). Potential business sponsors, evidently, do not wish to be associated with something as controversial as this air show. read full story / add a comment
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