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dublin / anti-capitalism / press release Monday April 30, 2012 20:34 by M Gilliland   text 1 comment (last - monday april 30, 2012 19:58)   image 6 images
Read it online now at thefreeonline.wordpress.com. (or free download for all apps)
The original of The Free was set in a fictional Ireland, and even in this huge updated 4th edition you can recognize streets, and Dublin banter.
The thriller story is more topical than ever, set in an anarchist/feminist social revolution which triumphs due to the collapse of Capitalism caused by climate chaos.
Now it's a world book, with 2035 'Friends on Farsebook', but the first chapters could be the backstreets of Dublin.
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Come up to Mayo this June bank holiday!
mayo / environment / news report Monday April 30, 2012 13:41 by June gathering   text 1 comment (last - monday april 30, 2012 13:51)   image 1 image
The seventh annual Rossport Solidarity Camp gathering is taking place in Erris, Co.Mayo from the 1st-4th June. You are invited to take part in workshops/discussions, skillshares, music and fun! read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday April 30, 2012 05:19 by lefty   text 1 comment (last - monday april 30, 2012 09:03)   image 2 images
For the last while we have been cultivated like proverbial economic mushrooms, "kept in the dark and fed a lot of economic shit". The fact is the current conditions have been deliberately cultivated to achieve exactly the effect they are having. read full story / add a comment
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galway / anti-capitalism / event notice Saturday April 28, 2012 05:14 by Occupy Galway   image 1 image
To celebrate May day and the 200th day on Eyre Square, Occupy Galway will be hosting a Citizen’s assembly at 7pm in Eyre Square. All are welcome to attend and participate. The topic of the assembly will be “The EU Fiscal Treaty, a good deal for Irish workers?” read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday April 27, 2012 10:23 by Ciaron   text 42 comments (last - sunday may 06, 2012 14:03)   image 3 images   video 2 video files
On April 20 there’s a memorial for Christopher Hitchens at the Cooper Union in Manhattan.
There’s a PEN tribute, also in Manhattan, on April 30.
Here’s my own little envoi. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Thursday April 26, 2012 15:50 by Rita Fagan   image 1 image
Dear Friends,

the Spectacle of Defiance and Hope are calling on all of you who disagree with the policies of Austerity against the Irish People, along with the unemployed, low paid workers, people being strangled with unrealistic mortgage payments, the household charges and the community, youth and voluntary sector are bearing this very heavy weight.

Communities will be left without lifelines if they continue to close down vital projects and services and axe one job after another
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday April 26, 2012 14:32 by Dublin Basque   text 2 comments (last - saturday april 28, 2012 18:01)   image 1 image
This week 75 years ago, the Basquetown of Gernika was virtually destroyed with huge loss of life in a bombing raid by the Condor Legion, a cover name for a detachment of the Luftwaffe loaned to the Spanish generals leading a mutiny against the elected Popular Front government of the Spanish state. The Dublin Basque Solidarity Committee will be commemorating this event on Friday 27th (the actual anniversary is the 28th). read full story / add a comment
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dublin / environment / event notice Wednesday April 25, 2012 22:33 by T   image 1 image
Protect Dublin Bay – No Oil Rigs on Our Coast. Protest this Sun 12 midday – Meet at Seafront Entrance to People’s Park Dun Laoghaire.

Tony O Reilly’s Providence Resources wants to drill for oil in Dublin Bay just 6km off the coast of Dalkey Island. Providence have applied for a foreshore licence to the Minister for the Environment, Phil Hogan, who will decide on this in the coming weeks or months. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday April 25, 2012 22:19 by anon   text 6 comments (last - monday april 30, 2012 21:53)   image 1 image
Calling the disgruntled, the city's messers and tricksters, all those bored and sick of this age of austerity, ravers, rockers, buskers, artists, the unemployed, trade unionists, wage slaves, wee ones and the retired. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Wednesday April 25, 2012 16:37 by Cormac Mac Gall   text 3 comments (last - saturday may 12, 2012 01:30)   image 6 images   video 1 video file
A political struggle in a European nation of less than three million, largely ignored by other socialists in Europe, has nevertheless come to the fore in the capitalist media repeatedly since the late 1960s. This has been largely as a result of the the Basque people’s struggle for socialism and independence from the Spanish and French states, a struggle led for decades by Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, the marxist armed organisation better known by its acronym, ETA. The organisation reawakened Basque national consciousness, has worked with others for the restoration of Euskara, the Basque language, organised Basque workers and faced the repression of the General Franco dictatorship in the Spanish state. Famously, in 1973 it assassinated the Prime Minister of the state, Admiral Carrero Blanco, Franco’s right-hand man, which hastened the fragmentation of the dictatorship and its passage to partial democracy.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday April 24, 2012 23:46 by anon   text 1 comment (last - saturday august 04, 2012 00:18)   image 2 images   1 attached file
Jerrie Ann Sullivan, one of the women who made a recording public in the Garda "rape tape" controversy, has said that the Garda Ombudsman investigation into the incident has been "about protecting An Garda Síochána".

But James Gill, the sergeant found to have made remarks about two female protesters arrested at a controversial Shell gas project at Erris, Co Mayo will escape any action because he recently retired. read full story / add a comment
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cork / arts and media / event notice Tuesday April 24, 2012 11:42 by Eric   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 25, 2012 02:11)   image 1 image
Join us this Thursday April 26th in Solidarity Books for a screening of "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, Director Adam Curtis" . The latest documentary from Adam Curtis. We will show all three parts with a short interval for tea and cake !

Film description below.
Start time is 8pm. read full story / add a comment
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national / eu / feature Tuesday April 24, 2012 06:00 by Sonya Oldham   text 21 comments (last - saturday april 02, 2022 00:32)   image 2 images   1 attached file

Once again we are being asked to vote on yet another EU treaty. This time it is the Fiscal Treaty otherwise known as the permanent austerity treaty. Most of the people of Europe are against this treaty and they are once again relying on us although as usual most of the governments of Europe are for the treaty because well they represent the people in power -the large banks, corporations and financial elite in general. As we know they call the shots these days in every country and it has got to the stage where "investors" will lend money to governments and charge a nice rate of interest too and in this way they get to decide how much they will allow governments to spend on luxuries for the middle class and poor like health, education, social welfare, pensions, water and sewage etc. And since the financial crisis they have come to the realization that none of this is neccesary. In fact the only arms of government really required are the police, army, courts and prisons.

Anyhow in this feature the folks from People's Association Watchdog have done a really good job in going through the Fiscal Treaty line by line and doing alot of other research and analysis to discover and explains what it really means. And don't forget if enough of us vote No, the government will be back to give us plenty of more chances to vote Yes, just like they did with the Nice Treaty and the Lisbon Treaty.

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