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Stewart at Heathrow: 'I think the coalition - or parts of it - has got to become more threatening... There are differences in the movement as to whether violence against property is justified'
national / environment / event notice Thursday August 06, 2009 14:25 by Climatecamp   text 1 comment (last - thursday august 06, 2009 14:27)   image 1 image
Effective Direct Action Campaigning - 'Lessons from the anti-roads and anti-aviation campaigns in the UK'
John Stuart is a life-long activist supporting environmental direct action campaigns accross Europe. The Independent on Sunday has named him Britain's most effective green activist, and by friends 'the greatest eco-warrior of our age'. read full story / add a comment
Public Meeting
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Thursday August 06, 2009 12:56 by Laura   image 1 image
This public meeting will have one of the workers who occupied Thomas Cook offices on Grafton St. from Friday 31st of July until the early hours of the morning on Tuesday the 4th of August after being forcibly removed by over 80 Gardai. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday August 05, 2009 17:56 by Saoirse   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Ógra Shinn Féin welcomes home Pearse McCauley and Kevin Walsh and we also wish them the best of luck. Both men have been released this morning from Castlerea jail in Roscommon after 10 years of imprisonment.
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Jimmy Devins
national / politics / elections / news report Wednesday August 05, 2009 17:45 by Noble 7   text 15 comments (last - tuesday january 11, 2011 19:10)   image 1 image
Jimmy Devins TD has resigned from the Fianna Fáil party.

Devins may be best known to Indymedia readers as the husband of Mary Devins, the judge who presides over many court cases involving opponents of the Shell plan to install an experimental pipeline in Erris, County Mayo.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 05, 2009 16:34 by redjade   text 2 comments (last - friday august 07, 2009 23:16)   image 1 image
Mary Robinson's 'long public record of hostility and one-sided bias against the Jewish state' read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday August 05, 2009 13:26 by Fred Johnston   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 12, 2009 20:05)   image 1 image
New Poetry Collection Launched in Galway read full story / add a comment
Caoimhe Butterly
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday August 05, 2009 11:34 by TD   text 2 comments (last - wednesday august 05, 2009 23:27)   image 1 image
Now that IDB Holding Corp through its Clal Industries unit, Mashav, an Israeli holding company for Nesher Cement, in which Irish building material group CRH has a 25% stake is acquiring Israel's second largest building materials company; Hanson Israel, it's clear CRH are getting big in that rogue state and deeper in its complicity in the construction of the illegal Apartheid Wall: Amnesty International, "C.R.H., through its subsidiaries Mashav and Nesher is likely to be providing the raw material of the fence/wall...if so, it would contravene the U.N. norms on the responsibilities of Transnational Corp. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Wednesday August 05, 2009 07:58 by K.Nikolaisen   text 57 comments (last - sunday august 09, 2009 15:17)   image 22 images   video 2 video files
At 5 AM this morning, over 150 Garda took part in an opperation to remove Thomas Cook workers who had occupied the building.They sealed off the street, dragged peaceful demonstrators away from the front door,and smashed their way in with a battering ram. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday August 04, 2009 23:21 by Enough is Enough   text 10 comments (last - thursday august 06, 2009 13:13)   image 1 image
Gort na Móna historical discussion
antrim / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday August 04, 2009 22:33 by Gort   image 1 image
"The Fenians, the Gaelic Revival and their relevance to Ireland today"

Public discussion with Dr Feargal McCluskey
and Dr Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh
Followed by traditional session read full story / add a comment
Mr. Binman Workers Protest
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Tuesday August 04, 2009 21:29 by Ann-Katrin Orr   text 1 comment (last - friday august 07, 2009 15:22)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
On March 25th workers at Mr. Binman’s Carrick-on-Suir depot in Tipperary were called into a general meeting. The privatized bin company wanted pay cuts of 10% across the board from the workers. The following day workers were called one by one into management offices and told that for them, 10% would not be enough. Wage cuts of 20, 30, 40 or even 49% were demanded.

In response, the workers organized a meeting of their own. They quickly learned that, not only were there different pay cuts for different workers – there was also different pay rates, different work hours and different conditions. They decided to fight these pay cuts, and get unionised, joining SIPTU. The company refused to recognize the union, or negotiate with them, and strike notice was served. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Tuesday August 04, 2009 16:18 by Susan Boyle   text 4 comments (last - thursday august 06, 2009 16:55)   image 1 image
Those of us whose holidays or vacations are generally spent eating healthy salad, considering the holistic benefits of poverty which reduce alcohol consumption & welcome soft slumber - are often left with only two things to do.

The sensible : decorate the gaff.
The frustrating : read about other people's holidays.

Oh, if I had enough for a decent roller and emulsion I'd have enough for a six pack & oriental massage on my local beach. So instead I offer to the reader a miscellany of links covering former President Clinton's surprise day trip to North Korea. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Tuesday August 04, 2009 13:51 by RSC   text 20 comments (last - wednesday august 05, 2009 09:24)   image 5 images
Shell to Sea campaigners Maura Harrington and Niall Harnett were sentenced to four and eight months in jail respectively at Bellmulet district court today. Both protesters have been convicted for taking action as part of a campaign of peaceful civil disobedience against the ill-fated Corrib Gas Project. Maura was given her four month sentence under Section 8 of the Public Order Act; 'failing to comply with the directions of a Garda'. The sentence was handed down in relation to an incident that occurred duing a protest at Shell's 'landfall' compound gate on 30th August 2008. Niall was sentenced to eight months in relation to two separate incidents. He was given a four month sentence under Section 8 of the Public order act, and another four months under Section 2, for the supposed assault of a Garda. read full story / add a comment
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limerick / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Tuesday August 04, 2009 13:34 by Cian Prendiville   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 30, 2009 20:23)   image 1 image
Element Six/De Beers’ plan to shut their Shannon plant, sacking 370 workers, and move production elsewhere is a disgusting stab in the back of the workers whose hard work has made them billions in profits over the years.

After huge sacrifices, including working part time on the promise that this would save jobs, the company now want to pack up and jump ship, with only a pittance of a redundancy. The entire cost of the redundancy scheme to the company is only €6.6m, about one week’s turnover for the factory, according to the Irish Independent!

Note: This article was written before management started discussing an "alternative" proposal saving "some" jobs, probably only a stay of execution, and demanding much reduced wages and terms and conditions. Therefore, the need for a fight still very much stands. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday August 04, 2009 12:25 by iosaf   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 04, 2009 21:04)   image 1 image
Mr Celerino Castillo, known as "Cele" to his friends, was once an agent of the DEA, that US secret service branch which supposedly fights the war to end production of drugs like cocaine and heroin from the jungles of Latin America to the dusty mountains of Afghanistan. Whilst working for the DEA he saw with his own little eyes how another chap working for the DEA & CIA, Mr Luis Posada Carriles, ran guns out of El Salvador's "llopango" base, he also casebooked murders by CIA "assets". "Cele" not only noted all the little details down : he did his best to tell the world. His testimony would form part of the backdrop to what is now known as the "Iran Contra" affair which as it name suggests spun a web from the mountains of central America, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua to Iran via the US covert military machine, SOA, Pentagon & of course the regime of Reagan, Bush senior, Rumsfeld, Cheney etc. read full story / add a comment
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kildare / miscellaneous / event notice Monday August 03, 2009 16:23 by Kildare Sinn Féin   text 18 comments (last - thursday august 13, 2009 20:45)   image 1 image
New Bob Doyle/Dinny Barry Cumann Launch in Newbridge, Co. Kildare. read full story / add a comment
Howards Zinn's "Marx in Soho" comes to Seomra Spraoi, Dublin
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday August 03, 2009 01:18 by Seomra Spraoi Autonomous Social Center   text 1 comment (last - friday august 07, 2009 12:17)   image 1 image
Seomra Spraoi is proud to present the Irish dates of Howard Zinn's "Marx in Soho". Having travelled much of Europe this is your chance to see Jerry Levy perform this timely, witty and reflective one person play.

I hope you get as excited as we are. read full story / add a comment
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sligo / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday August 02, 2009 23:19 by robert   text 2 comments (last - monday august 10, 2009 23:58)   image 1 image
Friday, 7th of August
Barry's in Grange, Co. Sligo
Solidarity concert for the community of rossport read full story / add a comment
Poster
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday August 02, 2009 20:59 by Kev   image 1 image
Help us raise money for the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and have a groove-tastic night to boot! read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Sunday August 02, 2009 18:56 by Dublin Port Workers supporter   text 3 comments (last - tuesday august 11, 2009 23:41)   image 1 image
Monday. 10th August, 10.30 AM

Meet at St.Josephs School, East Wall Road

(March to East Link Bridge, to meet supporters from South Docklands).

Dublin Port Workers Support Group
Contact: [email protected]

Local contact - [email protected] read full story / add a comment
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