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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday April 08, 2009 03:19 by Seomra Spraoi   image 1 image
Awesome vegan food, this & every Sunday at Seomra Spraoi. Food Served 3 to 4pm Suggested donation for food €4 /more/less as you can afford. Along with weekly Bike Workshops from 2 to 4pm, and Seomra Spraoi Cinema from 5 to 7.30pm

Venue: Seomra Spraoi
10 Belvedere Court, off Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin 1
See http://www.seomraspraoi.org/ for map directions. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / environment / event notice Wednesday April 08, 2009 02:38 by Dublin Climate Camp Group   image 1 image
Venue: Seomra Spraoi
10 Belvedere Court, off Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin 1
See http://www.seomraspraoi.org/ for map directions.
Date: Saturday April 11th
Time: Doors open 6pm, event starts 6.30pm sharp!
Format: Introduction of event and slideshows, Food served @6.30, Film: The Power of Community, starts 7.30pm, after film there will be open discussion about Climate Camp Aims and Principles and a chance to have all questions answered. Also, some short clips of previous Climate Camps and Ecotopia.
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Our Problems Stem from our Acceptance of this Filthy Rotten System
international / anti-capitalism / feature Tuesday April 07, 2009 21:52 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 22 comments (last - saturday april 03, 2010 11:40)   image 2 images   video 5 video files
Sometime during the second decade of the sorrowful mysteries, I had a sense we were not alone. Martin, Katrina and I were sat alone in a small East London park facing the Excel Centre where the G20 of the most powerful government leaders were gathered to rearrange deckchairs on their sinking ship. Thousands of police had been deployed around the Excel Centre keeping the few hundreds of protesters who gathered a quarter of a mile from the site. A case of overcatering evidently. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday April 07, 2009 17:28 by Dublin Shell To Sea   text 10 comments (last - friday april 17, 2009 15:06)   image 6 images
Shell to Sea campaigner, Maura Harrington was released from Mountjoy Women’s Prison this morning after serving 28 days. Maura had been imprisoned for allegedly slapping a member of Garda Siochana, a charge which she denies.

Maura proceeded from Mountjoy Women’s Prison to Dail Eireann, where she was accompanied into the Dail by Aengus O Snodaigh TD and Martin Ferris TD. Maura met with press outside Dail Eireann where an impromptu press conference had been called.
Maura called for an end to the gas give away: “Our pension fund was given to bail out the banks, and we now stand to gain nothing from our own natural gas and oil resources. The government is putting pressure on the people of Ireland today with this new Budget, but the oil and gas companies are feeling no pressure.” read full story / add a comment
Unemployment Out Of Control
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday April 07, 2009 13:29 by Paul Lynch   text 8 comments (last - friday april 17, 2009 17:19)   image 1 image
Dublin Sinn Féin M.E.P Mary Lou McDonald and Balbriggan Sinn Féin Local Election and Town Council Candidate Fergus Byrne would like to invite you to a public meeting in the Function Room in the Milestone Bar Balbriggan. The meeting will layout Sinn Féin's Public Finance Proposals including the key area's of Job Creation and Retraining. read full story / add a comment
Ógra activists carry portratits of 1916 Leaders
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday April 07, 2009 12:38 by Irish Republican Youth   image 1 image
In this the 93rd anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, Ógra Shinn Féin remembers proudly all those who died for the freedom of Ireland. We send fraternal greetings to our imprisoned comrades, their families and the families of Ireland’s patriot dead. We also extend solidarity greetings to our international comrades, in particular, pledging our ongoing support for the oppressed people of Palestine who have stood steadfast in the face of a brutal massacre. read full story / add a comment
Flags were all over Strasburg
international / summit mobilisations / news report Tuesday April 07, 2009 12:15 by Paula Geraghty   text 17 comments (last - thursday april 09, 2009 20:20)   image 15 images
World Leaders shut down Strasbourg and invalidated international treaties, locally negotiated agreements just for a photoshoot of global leaders on the 60 'BirthDeath' of Nato. More Police were deployed on the streets of Strasbourg than is being promised to Afghanistan. read full story / add a comment
On the picket
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday April 06, 2009 23:32 by Padraic   image 1 image
Subway targeted in Day of Action in defense of Natalia Szymanska, a 19 year old Polish worker who was sacked from her job Belfast one month after informing her boss that she was pregnant. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday April 06, 2009 11:20 by Lemuel Gulliver IV   text 16 comments (last - tuesday april 14, 2009 11:42)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
In a report published in the Irish Times print and Web editions on Thursday 2 April, Mark Weiss in Jerusalem tells us that Israel’s new prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, will pursue peace "negations" on three levels. Not peace negotiations, but "peace negations".

Is the coining of this new term the work of the reporter's automatic spell checker, or is it a Freudian slip that reveals an unconscious truth about Netanyahu's attitude to peace with the Palestinians?
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Save Us
international / animal rights / other press Sunday April 05, 2009 17:57 by Sea Lion Defense Brigade   image 1 image
In the Northwest United States, on the Columbia river, a war is being waged against Nature. Humans are at war with the fish, with the sea lions, and with the river itself. As fishing industry is killing off tens of thousands of endangered salmon, and the Bonneville dam is killing of tens of thousands more, wildlife "managers" are executing sea lions as scapegoats so that they can raise fishing quotas yet again, for the third year in a row, on the endangered salmon. The sea lions are supposed to be congressionally protected, but wildlife "managers" claim that they must kill off predators in order to leave more fish for fishermen to kill in their nets. PLEASE HELP US to stop this. read full story / add a comment
Callum Sandeman the Black Watch Paedophile
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday April 05, 2009 13:38 by Bazooka Joe   image 2 images
A recent case involving a paedophile in the Black Watch has revealed how the British Army is sheltering many child abusers. read full story / add a comment
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limerick / history and heritage / event notice Saturday April 04, 2009 21:41 by Limerick Socialist   text 2 comments (last - thursday april 16, 2009 11:55)   image 3 images   video 1 video file   2 attached files
On Easter Saturday April 11th those interested in the history of Limerick and labour struggles get a unique opportunity to join a free walking tour of the sights of the Limerick Soviet. The tour, guided by local historian and expert in the period, Dominic Haugh, is being organized to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the momentous general strike in Limerick.

The walking tour will feature the sights of all the main events and an introduction to the events of this fascinating as well as often overlooked episode in the history of the city. There will be two groups, one at 12pm and one at 3pm, starting at St. Camilus' Hopsital, Shelbourne Rd. If you would like to go on one of the tours it would be appreciated if you could send us a short e-mail or phone us to book your place in advance. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / feature Friday April 03, 2009 22:25 by Niall Harnett   text 12 comments (last - saturday april 11, 2009 14:21)   image 13 images   video 2 video files
For the third time this week nets at Glengad have been put up by Shell and taken down by local residents. The purpose of the net is to stop sand-martins from nesting in the cliff-face.

What was once thought to be a specially protected priority habitat for birds and wildlife has actually, in effect, become a priority habitat for Shell.

All sorts of chats, communications and rumours abound about the permission for this and the consent for that, the legality of one thing and the illegality of another. But as Kevin Moore, An Bord Pleanala Senior Planning Inspector predicted in 2002, everything about this project is wrong. And it’s the right thing to do to disallow it and to stop it whatever the law says.
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Poster for meeting
international / consumer issues / news report Friday April 03, 2009 16:55 by Andrew recording Stanley Aronowitz   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
This is a recording of Stanley Aronowitz speaking on 'Popular Education in a Time of Struggle' to a Workers Solidarity Movement meeting in the Seomra Spraoi Social centre, Dublin the end of March 2009. Stanley Aronowitz is professor of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a veteran political activist and cultural critic and an advocate for organized labor. read full story / add a comment
RCPI Public Meeting - Ageing Well - Ageing Positively
national / public consultation / irish social forum / event notice Friday April 03, 2009 16:11 by RCPI   image 1 image
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

In the last seven years Ireland's population grew faster than in any other EU state and by 2011 it is estimated that 14 per cent of people living in Ireland will be aged 65 and over
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In the hope of straightening things out.
galway / arts and media / press release Friday April 03, 2009 13:32 by Lee Welch   image 2 images
At the still point of the turning world.
Lee Welch

Preview: Thrusday 16th 2009 6-8pm
April 17th - May 23th 2009

At the still point of the turning world. offers a constellation of points of reference, provocation and stimulation. Nonetheless, the show is modest in its form, comprising of a small array of carefully selected elements, which have been placed with thoughtful deliberation throughout the gallery space. Materials derived from contemporary phenomena and historic events make up much of this exhibition, including vintage magazine advertisements, rare editions of books and bootleg records. As the title suggests, At the still point of the turning world. offers a quiet and still space for reflection. read full story / add a comment
The Diversity of Labour
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday April 02, 2009 18:35 by A.R   text 28 comments (last - thursday april 30, 2009 01:35)   image 2 images
The purpose of this article is to challenge the assumption that it is the 'leaders' who sell out rank and file members, and to highlight that 'leaders' reflect the median moderate worker within Trade Unions. It therefore favours a more bottom-up grassroots focused analysis of Trade Union activity over a top down hierarchical 'leadership' focused analysis. It is my argument that constantly talking about the ICTU 'leaders' is disempowering and a more actor-worker-centered focus is better suited to Libertarian politics. read full story / add a comment
Pete as archivist
dublin / environment / event notice Thursday April 02, 2009 17:40 by Pepe   image 1 image
Saturday 25th April | 8pm film followed by gathering til late | €5 donation requested to help pay the screening fee

The new four-year epic from McLibel director Franny Armstrong. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

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Has his allegiance coloured McDonald's 'official' history?
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday April 02, 2009 17:01 by Paul Larkin   text 4 comments (last - tuesday april 21, 2009 12:24)   image 5 images   1 attached file
(Henry McDonald is Ireland Correspondent for the Guardian newspaper)

Having worked as a journalist and film maker for BBC Northern Ireland’s investigative programme Spotlight in the late 1980s through to 1994, and having also written a book about collusion between the British intelligence services and loyalist paramilitaries, I have had occasion to read a good many books about the most recent round of the Irish Troubles. Even the poorest of these books has had some redeeming quality, some insight, which for me, as an informed reader, provided a new understanding of some aspect of the Troubles. I regret to say that Henry McDonald’s latest book has no such redeeming feature. read full story / add a comment
Read the truth about events inside occupied Ireland
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday April 02, 2009 16:07 by Irish Freedom News   image 1 image
http://irishfreedomnews.freeforums.org is a Republican forum to discuss your Republican views without censorship. read full story / add a comment
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