There will be an acoustic gig at Seomra Spraoi on August 20th at 8pm. Ryan Harvey of the riot Folk Collective and Chelsea Carnes from the Florida folk-punk band Dirty Fist will be playing.  Entry by donation, €5 for unwaged €10 for waged. 

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The police killing of Mark Duggan resulted in four nights of rioting across England. The immediate trigger was the killing itself, and the disrespect shown by the police to Mark’s family and friends. But the riots rapidly broadened to expressions of a more general anger and alienation; an anger that was all too often unfocused and striking out at the nearest target of opportunity. This resulted in widespread destruction of resources in already deprived neighborhoods and some anti-social attacks on bystanders. Despite this, the roots of the riots lie in the economic and political conditions of these districts, and not in ‘poor parenting’ or ‘mindless criminality’. These conditions were created by the very politicians and business elite who now call for a return to normality and repression.

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The Save Brendan Lillis' Dublin Campaign call on all humanitarians to support Brendan's plight this Tuesday outside the "Northern Ireland" Tourist Office, Suffolk Street, Dublin and demand Brendan's release! Le gach beannacht!

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The Last Friday Comedy Club will run as a benefit night for Brendan Lillis this month. The night will also feature a benefit draw, with POW art as the main prizes. Please support the event in any way you can:
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Between a mass trespass in the morning, someone blocking the road for 2 and ½ hours by climbing on top of a lorry, and a protest outside Shell's Ballinaboy refinery, Thursday 11th August was a day full of blocking Shell. read full story / add a comment

Rossport Solidarity Camp members resist the construction of Shell's pipe laying compound at Aughoose which results in I-RMS unlawfully obstructing public highway.

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REPUBLICAN NETWORK FOR UNITY (RNU) Cogus Spokesperson, CIARAN CUNNINGHAM has demanded the full implementation of last August’s Maghaberry Agreement.

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Work was halted at Bord na Mona's Shrahmore peat deposition siteon Monday August 8th by protesters from Rossport Solidarity Camp. From 11am up until 6pm four protesters prevented Barrett's and Lennon's quarry trucks from entering the site with road building gravel. Inside the compound, two of the protesters climbed up onto a digger in order to stop it proceeding with the road construction on the site.

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On 6th April last, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign appealed to Riverdance to cancel its tour of Israel scheduled for 1-13 September next.

In response, Riverdance posted the following on its website: “Riverdance supports the policy of the Irish Government and indeed the policy of every other EU state that cultural interaction is preferable to isolation.” Significantly, all feedback comments were disabled for this posting.

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Riverdance is scheduled to perform a series of shows in Israel in September (see here: http://www.ipsc.ie/press-r​eleases/riverdance-sho...203;h). To protest this the IPSC are organising another demo outside Riverdance’s ongoing run at the Gaiety Theatre (South King St, off Grafton St – map here: http://bit.ly/nOFHgt ) at 6.30pm on Thursday 18th August. This will be the final action in our series of ongoing protests before Riverdance heads to perform for Israeli Apartheid – so please make the effort to come along! read full story / add a comment

So the bankers and politicians made a lot of mess and people have to pay the bill. No jobs, cutbacks, more taxes, low salaries, lost houses, debts, IMF, corruption, crisis. Sounds familiar? It happened in Argentine in 2001 . Check out how they coped with that on September 9th at The Happy Pear in Greystones! We’ll be showing THE TAKE.

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This year the IPSC Sponsored Hill Walk will take place on Saturday 3rd September 2011. We will be setting off from Laughanstown, Co. Dublin at 11.30am and finishing up with a meal and some liquid sustenance in Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow. The route will take us through the Dublin/Wicklow mountains via Lead Mines and Prince William's Seat on a beautiful scenic walk.

The last four years’ walks have been enormous fun and raised a lot of money for the IPSC, as well as letting people get to know each other a little better.

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