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international / history and heritage / feature Wednesday January 20, 2010 18:00 by Andrew Flood
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As predictions for the death toll from the Haitian earthquakes rise over 200,000, ABC News have reported that planes carrying medical equipment and relief supplies are having to compete with soldiers for the valuable slots at Port-au-Prince airport which was taken over by the US military after the quake. Since the start of the great anti-slavery republican insurrection nearly 220 years ago, Haiti has been presented as a dangerous place incapable of running its own affairs and requiring foreign intervention. Yet the reality is its people were the first enslaved population to deliver themselves from slavery and also carried out what was only the third successful republican insurrection on the planet. The threat of this good example was rewarded with centuries of invasion, blackmail, the robbery of Haiti's natural resources and the impoverishment of its people. This articles summarizes that history of intervention and the resistance to it in order to put into context what is happening in Haiti after the quake read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday January 20, 2010 16:37 by Kev
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On Saturday, January 16th, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) and supporters held boycott actions across the country, asking shoppers not to buy Israeli goods in solidarity with the people of Gaza who are still being starved by the Israeli government. Along with the IPSC, the following groups supported the Boycott Day of Action: Anti-War Ireland, éirígí, Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS), ICTU Trade Union Friends of Palestine, Irish Anti-War Movement, Palestinian Rights Initiative, Sinn Fein and UNITE Trade Union. read full story / add a comment 
wexford / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday January 19, 2010 19:00 by Kev
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On Saturday, January 23rd the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) and our supporters holding a boycott Israeli goods action in Wexford town. We will be asking shoppers not to buy Israeli goods in solidarity with the people of Gaza who are still being starved by the Israeli government. read full story / add a comment 
kilkenny / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday January 19, 2010 18:52 by Kev
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Form a Human Chain over a bridge to show solidarity with the people of Gaza. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday January 18, 2010 19:44 by Michael Gallagher
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At a well attended press launching in Dublin, human rights activists Andy Storey, Dennis Halliday and Benny McCabe outlined some of the history over the last ten years since Shell arrived in Erris, County Mayo, Ireland. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday January 18, 2010 13:28 by Marcas MacCaoimhin
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Bohemian FC will hold a fundraising night for the people of Haiti in the Phoenix Bar, Dalymount Park, Phibsboro this Friday, 22nd January. read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality / news report Sunday January 17, 2010 20:35 by Zwischengeschlecht.org
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Discriminating, unfair and harmful treatment of intersexed athletes ("hermaphrodites") in women's sports has a long and painful history. The "suspected" athletes' dignity and human rights keep getting violated on a regular basis by both of the ruling international sports bodies, the International Olympics Committee (IOC) and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), as well as by their subsidiaries and affiliates. Until today, the governing bodies keep on denying their responsibilities and refusing dialogue, as well as seemingly reacting only when forced by public pressure, and if so pro forma only. Case in point: The IOC's attitude with regards to their syposium on "'ambiguous' gender cases" ending in Miami today. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / crime and justice / news report Sunday January 17, 2010 19:59 by John Ayres
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Kevin Flanagan protests out side the GPO in Dublin, highlighting the lack of response from the government after the 3 reports have been published. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Sunday January 17, 2010 13:07 by Archbishop Michael Desmond Hynes OMD PhD
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The workshop will address the Theme of “Back to Basics - A Plan for Survival trying to establish what this downturn can entail and does it or does it not exist? As well we shall look at the changing patterns of over the years, government policies in dealing with economic and social survival and see what conclusions can be made and/or what recommendations can be made for a better environmental and healthy society for the betterment of all the populous. read full story / add a comment
galway / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday January 17, 2010 11:51 by donkylemore
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Privileged officers of the State getting generous pensions, having taken an oath to the State or to their profession have chosen to go on strike in a wave of rolling industrial actions which set out to subvert some of the most essential services in the State. In other circumstances this would be deemed sedition . Should legal rather than disciplinary action be taken against members of both groups if is is suspected that they are in breach of their contracts? read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday January 16, 2010 17:41 by Freda H & Ronan OD
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Successful Israeli boycott actions were held across Dublin today by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign and several other organisations. read full story / add a comment 
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday January 16, 2010 17:08 by Fintan Lane
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A large number of Palestine solidarity activists gathered in Cork city centre today to stage pickets outside stores that sell Israeli produce. This was part of the national boycott Day of Action, with similiar protests held across the country. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday January 16, 2010 12:56 by Sharon.
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After a peaceful Civil Rights march on January 30th , 1972 - from Creggan to Free Derry Corner - units of the British army Parachute Regiment opened fire with automatic rifles and shot dead 13 unarmed civilians , injuring many more.... read full story / add a comment 
international / eu / news report Friday January 15, 2010 14:46 by redjade
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these are reports from her Facebook page - since I cannot find these writings elsewhere I will liberate these texts from globo-corporate control.... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday January 14, 2010 16:25 by anarchaeologist
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This year the annual commemoration at Jarama will also see the completion of a project initiated in 2007 by the Friends of Charlie Donnelly with the help of AABI. The intention has been to pay tribute to this young Irish poet who died on 27 February 1937 in the last action of the Battle of the Jarama. We're holding a fund-raiser to help pay for the transportation of the stone from Tyrone to Madrid and all are welcome. read full story / add a comment
derry / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday January 13, 2010 11:35 by doopa
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The BBC is reporting that Raytheon is to close its Derry Plant. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/foy...5.stm read full story / add a comment 
dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday January 12, 2010 21:27 by seomra spraoi
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D.i.Y. Sundays @ Seomra Spraoi Great food you can afford, skillshares & workshops, every Sunday at Seomra Spraoi. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday January 12, 2010 20:52 by seomra spraoi
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Hip Hop Night! jazz, soul, broken beat, afro, latin, dubstep.... Seomra Spraoi Friday 15th Jan Suggested donation €5(more/less as you can afford) Princess 4Q & Fluid 45 coming down from Belfast to spin tunes.... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday January 12, 2010 19:23 by Eguzki Bideoak
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TO SHOOT AN ELEPHANT The “To shoot an elephant” team calls for a Global Screening-Global Screaming Day for Gaza on January 18^th , 2010 The 18^th of January 2010 is the first anniversary of the end to the bombing by Israel of the Gaza Strip; an attack which began on the 27^th of December 2008, and lasted until the 18^th of January 2009, and in which 1,412 Palestinians lost their lives. The documentary /To shoot an elephant/ is an eye witness account from within the Gaza Strip of what occurred during those days. This direct and privileged narration becomes a tool with which we can confront the Israeli propaganda about what really happened there and the silence of the international community. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday January 12, 2010 18:58 by Kev
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Date: 18 Jan 2010 Time: 7:00PM Venue: The New Theatre, Connolly Books, 43 East Essex St, Temple Bar , Dublin 2 read full story / add a comment |
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