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national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday February 15, 2006 15:13 by Dáil Observer
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Today (Wednesday) in the Dáil Joe Higgins T.D. challenged the Taoiseach on the fact that 70,000 to 120,000 construction workers are being criminally denied their legal and mandatory pension rights by construction bosses. He asked "Can the Taoiseach name one construction boss, builder or developer who has spent one hour in jail for this criminal denial of workers' rights? He cannot, because it has not happened. However, three bricklayers who put a picket on a Dún Laoghaire County Council building site protesting anti trade union practices found themselves in the High Court and within days in Mountjoy jail where they now languish. The learned judges eyes are wide open to breaches of their injunctions in favour of construction employers, but their wigs apparently fall over their eyes when it comes to routine criminality from those same construction bosses towards workers". read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday February 15, 2006 15:11 by anarchaeologist
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Dublin Shell to Sea have organised a demo with a difference outside the Department of the Marine and Natural Resources on Adelaide Road this Friday. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday February 15, 2006 13:59 by Shannon
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The US government sent our troops into Iraq siting the posession of "weaponds of mass destruction" as the reason to enter. We've found none. As a result, the government is now telling us that we still needed to be there because it is a country accomodating terrorist organizations. Thousands of US troops and Iraqi civilians have been killed as a result of this "war on terror." Now, as I read an article in the Guardian about "The Long War" I cannot help wondering if the fighting will ever end. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday February 15, 2006 13:14 by Irish Basque Committees
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18th February, saturday, 2006 Worldwide day of protest against the 18/98 political show trial in Madrid read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / event notice Wednesday February 15, 2006 12:51 by Martin O'Sullivan
The families an survivers of the stardust fire are protesting against the opening of the silver swan. They are going to hold a protest Every night starting at 18:00 until saturday when that Bastard Eamon Butterly plans to open his pub on the site of the Stardust Fire which happened 25 years ago on the 14th February. The families want anyone who can to come along. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday February 15, 2006 02:40 by Seán Mac Suibhne
Connolly Books, Bloom Lane, Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin 1 Sunday, 19th February 2006 2.00 pm Is ceiliúradh é an taispeántas ar na mórshiúlta agóide an daonra ar an 15ú Feabhra 2003 in aghaidh bagairt cogaidh ar an Iaráic. This screening celebrates the mass mobilization of people around the World on Saturday 15th February 2003, united against the threat of War against Iraq. Beidh failte roimh chách / All welcome. Saor in aisce / Admission free [Fair Trade refreshments available after screening and discussion] Silken Thomas, The Square, Kildare town. Thursday 16th March 2006 8.00 pm. Is comóradh an taispeántas seo ar easpa daonlathais an SAM agus a ‘chairde’ – ag leanúint leis an gcogadh, is cuma cén costas. This is a commemoration of the lack of democracy exhibited by the US and its ‘comrades’ to go to war, regardless of the cost. Beidh fáilte roimh chách / All welcome Saor in aisce / admission free [Fair Trade (Java Republic) is available in The Silken Thomas] Comh-imeacht idir Ionad Buail Isteach na Gaeilge (www.ionad.org) agus Comhaontas na Síochana is na Neodrachta (PANA). A co-operation between The Irish Language Drop-in Centre (www.ionad.org) and Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA). Bean an tí / M.C : Máire Ní Bheaglaoich, PANA / Ionad Buail Isteach na Gaeilge. read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum / news report Wednesday February 15, 2006 00:39 by Liam Mullen
According to a report published by the London School of Economics and written by Joan O’Mahony, the Pope in his position as Cardinal and head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith knew of the existence of married priests in the Czech church in 1990. The problem arose because Czechoslovakia was under strict Communist rule for 40 years, and launched a crackdown on Catholic clergy. Under the Communist regime, a “secret clergy” or “underground” church developed when Czech bishops took over the clandestine ordination of men whom the state refused to approve for ordination. This was a requirement of the Czech State at the time. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 15, 2006 00:31 by Liam Mullen
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Noam Chomsky’s recent visit to Ireland highlighted yet again the dilemma the Irish government faces in whether to accept American assurances that no rendition flights passed through Shannon Airport. As a close economic partner of the US, the Irish government faces embarrassment if it decides to call Condoleezza Rice’s bluff, and insist on checking American flights landing in Shannon. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday February 15, 2006 00:22 by Liam Mullen
Last year when I ran with a story and interviewed Leslie Laskow, a Dutch expert on the Darfur region of Sudan and human right’s activist for Human Rights Watch, Leslie spoke about the problem of “child soldiers” in Sudan, and she stressed that children as young as twelve years of age were being recruited for military purposes. A year later, and the problems of child soldiers have resurfaced in yet another African country – the Côte d’Ivoire. According to a recent report put by the Human Rights watchdog security forces in the Côte d’Ivoire are robbing and extorting money from citizens at checkpoints, and that they have even progressed to extrajudicial executions. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday February 15, 2006 00:15 by Liam Mullen
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Children as young as 12 are fighting in the Darfur region of Sudan according to Leslie Leskow, a spokeswoman for the watchdog ‘Human Rights Watch’. She explained that, “rebel movements and the central government in Khartoum are locked in a devastating campaign against farmers in the Darfur area, and there have always been differences between these two groups”. It is unclear if the children are recruited directly to participate in the conflict, but concerned observers are closely monitoring the situation. Many are orphans whose parents have been killed in the fighting. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 23:59 by Liam Mullen
“Few have captured the spirit of the Enlightenment, its intellectual and social agenda, as has Mozart in his operas.”1 The Enlightenment was a period when a break away from the time we know as the Renaissance took place. It was driven by developments in the Natural Sciences, and especially the work of Newton and Galileo. The German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, had questioned: “What is Enlightenment?” From the Roman poet, Horace, he coined a phrase “Sapere aude” (‘dare to know’).2 Two important events conspired to bring about change. The Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 23:43 by james travers
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An essay that questions the problem associated with the publishing of a series of cartoons in a French newspaper that depicts Mohammad carrying a bomb on his head, Is there more to the backlask and is our country setting itself up for racial tension in the future. The question is asked for comment and opinion read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 23:24 by Liam Mullen
INTRODUCTION Robert Pollin opens his book with an introduction that acknowledges how the book came about. He states that in examining the economic policies of the 1990’s under President Clinton, and Clinton’s “third way” approach to fiscal rectitude, that he became unconvinced by the rhetoric emerging from the Clinton administration in relation to US “Economic growth, living standards, and the fragility of the financial system.” His paper on the subject appeared in the June 2000 issue of New Left Review, and later in a volume edited by Professor Arestis and Sawyer, entitled: The Economics of the Third Way: Experiences from Around the World. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 23:16 by Liam Mullen
BRIEF INTRODUCTION In her book ‘The Face of War’, the American journalist, Martha Gellhorn, recognises the importance of “peacemakers”, and understands the importance of a man like Mikhail Gorbachev when he ushered in “glasnost”, and effectively ended the Cold War. (Gellhorn 1998, p365). Gellhorn is a journalist who has filed reports on a number of conflicts, including the Civil War in Spain, The War in Finland, the Japanese invasion of China, the Second World War, the War in Java, the Vietnam War, the Six Day War, and various conflicts in Central America and Panama. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 23:15 by Brian
Twenty-five years ago today, 48 young people lost their lives in the former Stardust Nightclub, Butterly Business Park, Kilmore Road, Artane, Dublin 5. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 23:09 by Liam Mullen
INTRODUCTION Eleven years after the conflict, which claimed an untold numbers of lives, it seems that it is only now seeping into the western consciousness the scale of the human genocide that occurred in this region with the shooting down of President Habyarimana’s airplane, and the death of Burundi's President Cyprien Ntaryamira. Writing for the Irish Times a year after he first reported on the conflict, Ed O’Loughlin, states that the unrest between the Hutu majority and the wealthier Tutsi minority runs deep and that massacres occurred here back in 1959, 1961, 1963 and 1972. In many ways O’Loughlin’s report sounds like a class struggle between rich and poor, uneducated and educated, and this kind of struggle has been replicated in many other arenas and trouble spots around the world. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 22:58 by Liam Mullen
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Philip Knightley wrote ‘The First Casualty’ in 1975, and the updated edition was published in 2003 by André Deutsch to take account of new conflicts. The New Yorker describes it as “Disturbing, even dismaying, yet also in its painful way, enormously entertaining.” The renowned journalist, John Pilger, describes the work as follows: “Philip Knightley’s clear-sighted and principled book throws down a challenge to journalists to examine their role in the promotion of war.” (Book Jacket) The title of the work is derived from what American Senator Hiram Johnson said in 1917: “The first casualty when war comes, is truth.” read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 14, 2006 22:28 by Liam Mullen
Introduction. When looking at the reasons why the NGO’s might be up in arms when facing the policies of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, I have decided to focus on Trócaire and Concern, two Irish organisations passionately involved in debt relief for the Third World. Concern has been in existence since the Biafra famine of 1968, and has become internationally recognised in the intervening years. Trócaire was set up by the Irish Catholic Church in 1973 as a response mechanism to combat disasters, famines, and to offer aid to the “world’s poorest and most oppressed peoples”. (http://www.trócaire.org). read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Tuesday February 14, 2006 22:18 by Liam Mullen
As part of the 2003 Wexford Festival Opera, the Dublin writer Hugo Hamilton gave a talk about his new work – The speckled People. A tall thin man, dressed in black, Hugo stepped up to the podium in the children’s section of Wexford Library and began to speak softly about his latest work. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / event notice Tuesday February 14, 2006 20:36 by freek
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Call on EPA to prohibit GMO potato experiment Irish farmers, food producers and consumers will hold a public protest at the entrance to the Dáil at 1.15pm on Wednesday 22 February to call for the Government to ban genetically modified (GM) crops in Ireland, and prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from authorising the release of GMO potatoes in Co. Meath. 22 February is the deadline set by the EPA for public submissions on a proposal by BASF Plant Science GmbH to conduct a five-year GMO potato experiment at a Teagasc research centre in Summerhill, Co. Meath, located near the Hill of Tara in the Boyne Valley, one of the oldest cultivated sites in Europe. The experiment is due to begin this April and continue till October 2010. read full story / add a comment |
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