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international / housing / feature Wednesday October 17, 2007 23:53 by dunk
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This morning at 8.30 the Mossos arrived and carried out the eviction of anohter of Barcelonas most important social centres, Ruina Amalia, one of the last few squatted spaces in the Raval nieghbourhood of the old city. The centre was another of the critical spaces and nodal points of BCN's social movements, about 20 people lived in the squatted space and its social centre hosted a wide range of services and support to the social movement: Okupa office, ASF (architects sans frontiers: arx without borders) support, free internet access, Carcoma the popular carpenter, costume workshop, free shop, kilombo library, theatre and dance space, flamenco patio with cheap bar and cafe. This is another severe blow to critical nodal points of the cities social movement. It seems blow after blow has been dealt out with no real response from the movements..... Is it time for a change of thinking or acting? read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / event notice Wednesday October 17, 2007 21:36 by Eve
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Friday 9th November, almost one year since Gardai batoned people protesting the Corrib Gas Project and twelve years since Ken Saro Wiwa and the Ogoni eight were hanged by the Nigerian government Shell to Sea has called a day of action at Bellanaboy, Co. Mayo. read full story / add a comment 
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday October 16, 2007 16:51 by Barra
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This Tuesday 16th October will mark the 15th Anniversary of leading Sinn Féin activist Sheena Campbell. read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media / event notice Tuesday October 16, 2007 12:56 by Undercurrents
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Undercurrents is calling for submissions of short videos and animations on the theme of the festival: social justice and environmental action. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday October 16, 2007 10:57 by Georgi Chicherin
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Student activists at Tehran University confronted "President" Ahmadinejad and chanted "Death To The Dictator". The Universioties are no longer a safe haven for Ahmadinejad. About 100 students staged a rare protest yesterday against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a "dictator" as he gave a speech marking the beginning of the academic year at Tehran University. The protest prompted scuffles between the demonstrators and hardline university students loyal to Ahmadinejad, who ignored chants of "Death to dictator" and continued his speech on the merits of science and pitfalls of Western-style democracy, witnesses said. The hardline students chanted back "Thank you president" as police looked on from the outside the university's gates. No physical altercations took place, and the protesters dispersed after the car carrying Ahmadinejad left the campus. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / other press Monday October 15, 2007 23:26 by Charlie Bird
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Francis O'Reilly was said to be "summarily dismissed" Sinn Fein has dismissed a party member who was one of four football hooligans jailed last week for an attack on a pub in Londonderry. read full story / add a comment 
antrim / history and heritage / news report Monday October 15, 2007 22:38 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin
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With the International Brigade Memorial Trust AGM taking place in Belfast on the weekend of 12-14 October, attendees were overjoyed to witness the unveiling of a memorial to those who took a stand in defence of the Spanish Republic on Saturday 13th October in Writers' Square. read full story / add a comment
offaly / history and heritage / news report Monday October 15, 2007 21:14 by Vercingetorix
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Did you know that in the name of protecting it, The Irish Government have decided to move The Turoe Stone (the most important piece of Celtic stone-art in the world) from its rural home environment in Turoe to a museum in Galway City? read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday October 15, 2007 10:48 by Georgi Chicherin
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In the story below Hamid Tehrani gives an update on the situation of the sugar cane workers on strike in Shoush in Iran. Full text at the link at the end of this article. Thousands of unpaid Haft Tapeh sugar cane factory workers in Shoush in the Khuzestan province in Iran started a strike last week. Government sent security forces to repress the workers but strike continues. Several bloggers covered this event, and other related stories of difficult conditions of labor activists. Kaargar (means worker) says[Fa] that thousands of Haft Tapeh sugar cane factory in Khouzestan province started strike on Saturday 27th October. The blog adds that one of the upaid workers' slogan was “Haftapeh workers are hungry”. The blogger adds the number of workers was around 3000 and they wanted to demonstrate in front of governor's office but police stopped them. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday October 15, 2007 01:53 by Michael Gallagher
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From Ballinaboy to Pullathomas and back again. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday October 15, 2007 00:55 by Michael Gallagher
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From Ballinaboy to Pullenthomas and back again. read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday October 14, 2007 20:35 by Seán Ryan
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A story appeared in the Irish Mail On Sunday today and it prompted this article. Not a single plane has been searched in Shannon despite Green promises that state otherwise. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday October 13, 2007 21:54 by Gerald Kelly
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Digna Ochoa was a human rights defender who defended people who had suffered serious violations of their human rights. To this date the investigation into her murder has made little progress and the suspicion is growing that the judicial authorities in Mexico have no desire to bring to justice the people responsible. Jesús Ochoa is Digna's brother. Since her death he has campaigned tirelessly on her behalf. As part of a tour of European countries and as a guest of Amnesty International he will be talking in Dublin on Thursday 18 October at 8.00 PM in The Teachers Club on Parnell Square. read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday October 13, 2007 16:02 by Guy de Cervens
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March 2006, a DC9 is seized at Campeche airport in Mexico carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine. Two weeks ago a Gulf Stream 2 crash-landed with 132 bags of cocaine weighing four tons in Yaucatan, Mexico. It has now been emerging that the planes and cocaine were the property of a CIA type front company whose owners and directors have CIA and Government connections. read full story / add a comment 
international / public consultation / irish social forum / press release Saturday October 13, 2007 12:53 by Jay Dooling
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The IAUC hailed the success of this year's national convention in Boston, calling it a ground- breaking effort on behalf of Irish America in the encouragement and facilitation of cross-community dialogue in the north of Ireland. read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Friday October 12, 2007 22:19 by iosaf mac diarmada
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Yesterday night the switch was flicked on one of the largest satellite arrays on the planet. Named after Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen the system brings together his dilletentism or whims as a mega-geek & the anglo-saxon culture industrially vital world of SETI and the very murky US involvement in deep Space radio telescope exploration in one project with one stated aim :- The search for intelligent Alien life. I'm going to treat today's "system booting" as a piece of tech-news & come at it from the ever reliable anti-trust angle. Thus I hope to raise awareness of the capitalist & philosophical elements of the project rather than spurn the "tinfoil hat" brigade onto anything sillier than they've achieved mostly not by being too suspicious or paranoid but rather by not putting their theories in social or historical context. To that end I'll mix news with a bit of analysis & bit of opinion. read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media / other press Friday October 12, 2007 19:43 by C Murray
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In 2004 two members of the Critical Art Ensemble were arrested for 'bioterrorism' under the Patriot Act. The organisation of which they are members is called the CAE and the area they were exploring was biotech. http://www.critical-art.net http://www.critical-art.net/biotech/index.html The campaign has been running awhile on , amongst other publications : The New Left Curve. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/82109. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday October 12, 2007 19:18 by Oisín
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On the 4th of October the National Executive of Batasuna, the Basque independence party, were arrested by the Spanish police at a meeting in Segura. This represents a great disrespect on thepart of the Spanish Government for the crisis prone Basque peace process and the fact that it is still their firm belief that the Basque people have no right to freedom and democracy. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday October 12, 2007 17:52 by TJ
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Today's, Shell to Sea well humoured protest outside Shell's Bellanaboy proposed gas refinery site was marred by heavy-handed policing; sit down protesters blockading the Rossport bridge dragged by the hair, one activist, at least, having vivid red throttling finger marks around his throat and concerted harassment of attending photographers - including myself. read full story / add a comment 
antrim / miscellaneous / news report Friday October 12, 2007 15:51 by A . Chara
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This week marks the twentieth anniversery of a man murdered to protect a high ranking British agent within the Provisional IRA. It also sees the seventh anniversery of his grandson who himself was murdered only yards away. Yet the ability to commemorate either of these republicans has been made impossible by a criminal gang operating within the Ballymurphy area. How could this happen in 'republican' west Belfast? read full story / add a comment |
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