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dublin / consumer issues / news report Tuesday December 01, 2009 14:31 by Ramon Eyan
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The Department of Transport has issued a notice to mariners to steer clear of an area in Dublin Bay where an exploration vessel is to conduct tests to check the viability of a plan to convert under sea deposits of coal to gas which could be used to produce energy. The tests will be carried out on behalf of a company called VP Power in the Kish Basin, around thirteen miles east of Bray Head starting on December 7th. VP Power is group of investors who have raised money to fund the testing of the experimental gas-from-coal prospect. Brian Geoghegan, husband of health minister Mary Harney, is one of the backers of the scheme. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday November 30, 2009 17:22 by Laura
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It has been mooted that the government plan to cut the dole for under 23 year olds to 160 euro per month. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday November 30, 2009 15:32 by Bloom - Movement for Global Justice
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The Bloom Movement for Global Justice presents a Training Day for people new to, or wanting to learn more about Global Justice Activism. The meeting will particularly provide an open, supportive space for members of migrant communities. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday November 30, 2009 13:41 by North West Red
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This article highlights the growing levels of harrasment and intimidation by the British army and the PSNI throughout the six counties in recent times, but particularly in Fermanagh. It also highlights the deployment of undercover British troops in operations here in Ireland, the latest example being the revelation that the British army Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) were involved in a joint operation with the PSNI in Garrison on the Fermanagh/Leitrim border. This article runs a counter to the perceived notion that there has been demilitarisation and a new beginning to policing in the six counties read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / news report Monday November 30, 2009 12:24 by dunk
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“The day the political landscape changed forever“, was how Fritjof Capra referred to events of N30, Tuesday 30th of November 1999, in his book The Hidden Connections. He was referring to the day when 1000´s of global justice activists came together and succeeded in shutting down the first WTO (World Trade Organisation) talks in the US using (mostly) non violent direct actions (NVDA) in the north western US city of Seattle. This was the event which brought the “globalisation” debate to the mainstream. It has been misleadingly described as anti-globalisation, what it should be accurately described as is anti corporate globalisation. 10 years on and again there is rubber bullets, tear gas and flames in the streets. This time in Geneva, as people from all over the world converge in the lead up to COP15, the climate change talks in Copenhagen... amongst others, the Social and Climate justice caravan. read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday November 30, 2009 11:35 by Andrew
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On the 24th of November something extraordinary happened. Some 250,000 workers acted together in a day-long strike against the public sector wage cuts planned by the government. The vast majority of these workers had never gone on strike before, yet across almost all workplaces the strike involved 90% or more of those working. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday November 30, 2009 01:37 by iosaf
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A referendum was held in Switzerland on 29 November 2009. Three questions were put to the voters: * a ban on the construction of new minarets; * a ban on exporting weapons and war materiel; * a prescription that money raised from taxes on aviation fuel should be used for aviation matters. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Sunday November 29, 2009 23:48 by Kev S & Freda H
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The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign took part in this year’s International Week of Solidarity called by the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (http://www.stopthewall.org). An international call to activists was put out to launch a week of global mobilisation against the walls of apartheid in Palestine from November 9th to 16th 2009. The IPSC used this opportunity to highlight the necessity of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, with specific reference to the ongoing role of Irish construction company CRH (formerly Cement Roadstone Holdings) in the building of the Apartheid Wall and illegal colonial settlements in the West Bank. read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Sunday November 29, 2009 20:31 by Sarah C
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David Salgado was a seasonal agricultural worker who died in the course of his work as a 'jornalero', that is a seasonal migrant worker on an industrial farming operation. His death occurred in Sinaloa state in northern Mexico in January 2007. Deaths in farming are all too frequent worldwide but this case was different, David , who hailed from Guerrerro one of Mexico's poorest states, was eight years old. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday November 29, 2009 14:56 by Chas D
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Initial results in this week’s referendum to ban construction of new minarets in Switzerland suggests a small minority in favour of the prohibition. As in other democracies , the minaret is seen by many Swiss as the power symbol of political Islam and Sharia law. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday November 29, 2009 13:08 by TaraWatch
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Matt Schwoebel wanted to take statements from protesters objecting to the construction of the M3 motorway through the Hill of Tara. He is drafting a complaint to the UN Commission on Human Rights about the way the government has handled objections and treated those who made them. But when he arrived at Dublin Airport, officers from the Garda National Immigration Bureau informed him he would not be allowed into the country. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday November 29, 2009 10:49 by TD
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Last Friday, same as on all the preceding Fridays the past five years, Bil'in villagers marched to the nearby Apartheid Wall to protest against the theft of over 60% of their land to facilitate the construction of a monstrous affront to international and humanitarian law and the illegal Israeli colonies skulking behind it. Last Friday, same as on all the preceding Fridays for the past five years, the peaceful protestors were assaulted, this time, with unremitting blizzards of tear gas and percussion "sound" bombs with dozens of the marchers severly distressed from tear gas inhalation - thanking the good lord for small mercies, as it were, there were no high velocity tear gas projectiles used, "rockets" of the lethal kind that was fired point blank into the chest of Bassem Abu-Rahma last April 17th smashing three of his ribs one of which punctuted his heart thus killing, murdering him. read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Saturday November 28, 2009 23:09 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
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Kibera Slum read full story / add a comment 
antrim / miscellaneous / press release Saturday November 28, 2009 17:15 by Richard Walsh
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Around sixty protesters attended the Republican Sinn Féin picket outside the maximum security Maghaberry Gaol in County Antrim on Saturday. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday November 28, 2009 16:42 by pat c
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Saeed Valadbaygi writes about the execution of Ehsan Fattahian and of how other Kurds languish on Iranian death rows. Saeedd makes it clear that the Iranian Theocracy will not be able to kill the revolution: Even if the executions continue, they will not only fail to succeed in keeping the people back, but rather will drive stronger nails into the Islamic Republic’s coffin. Full text at link. Ehsan Fattahian, a poltical activist in Kurdistan was executed on Wednesday last week. Shirko Moarefi and Habib-Allah Latifi, two other political activists are in danger of execution now. One woman and 11 more men, also in Kurdistan languish in prison with the burden of a death sentence. These executions are designed to create an atmosphere of terror in society and hold back the people from the streets in an effort to stabilize the system after the electoral coup d’etat. The Islamic Republic that today faces a big challenge by the name of the people’s revolution against their rulers, has no choice but such encounters. This way of suppressing for us who remember as a lesson for the current revolution, the first years of the 1357 (1979) revolution, is very familiar. In those years too, the Islamic Republic went to war with people with the same vast wave of imprisonment and execution of political prisoners in order to take control of social and political conditions in Iran. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday November 28, 2009 15:57 by Conor. M
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TCD library has just been occupied by the students union read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Saturday November 28, 2009 01:06 by Mark C
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This is part one of a two part report, based on the Report by The Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin. Part One deals with the generalities of the report – a damning indictment of the church in general for its handling of the reporting of clerical child sexual abuse, its cover up, and the comlicity (or otherwise) of the Gardaí. Part Two will look at the abuse, abuse, and more abuse handed out by individuals. Prepare yourself for some pretty sickening reading. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday November 27, 2009 04:21 by Kevin Pina
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What is real democracy when the US and the international community allow one of their client states to bar the "most popular political force" in Haiti from participating in free and honest elections? read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday November 26, 2009 23:59 by Amnesty International
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A group of about 45 people (latest news figure is now 57) were ambushed and abducted by about 100 armed men, according to reports. The military recovered the bodies of 13 women and eight men—some of them mutilated. read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media / news report Thursday November 26, 2009 23:38 by ERS
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RTÉ Primetime Investigates next Thursday is a special on the death of Michael Dwyer. Dwyer worked for Shell as a security guard in Mayo last year, and while there, made contact with extremists from right-wing militia groups. He joined with a number of these men and spent time in Bolivia, where after an investigation he was killed when police stormed his hotel room. It will be interesting to see what spin RTE will place on the events in Bolivia and Ireland. read full story / add a comment |
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