|
Upcoming Eventsno events match your query! New Eventsno events posted in last week
Blog Feeds
Anti-Empire
Human Rights in IrelandPromoting Human Rights in Ireland
Lockdown Skeptics
Voltaire NetworkVoltaire, international edition
|
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday July 27, 2006 02:13 by io
 1 comment (last - thursday july 27, 2006 10:22)
By now most western Europeans with fair to middling interest in current affairs know that the UN observers in southern Lebanon, observed in time that Israeli artillery shells were landing close to their position. Ireland which prides itself on leading the way in UNIFIL operations knows how many phone calls were made - 10. We also all pride ourselves on knowing the mandate finishes next Monday. Most of the UN observers stationed with UNIFIL at that observer post were Indian, though those killed weren't. The first reports to hit Indian newswatchers that their own soldiers were in the line of fire came from the BBC who had their own team "observing" in the same little zone. This is how things work :- FINUL, the UN, the BBC, the government & army of Lebanon, the government & army of Israel, and even Hezbollah exchange phone numbers. They tell each other where they are. So "little accidents" like "friendly fire" don't happen. Otherwise indeed the whole idea of "UN peace-keeping" which started 50 years ago with the thereafter Nobel peace laureate, former prime minister of Canada Lester B. Pearson, would fall apart at the seams. So I thought I'd give you a round-up of Indian media reaction since as we all realise the UNIFIL mandate expires next Monday :- (we did all realise that didn't we???????????) _____________________________________________________________________________ read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday July 27, 2006 00:26 by Tommy Donnellan
Protest with the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Galway Alliance Against War against the ongoing horrific rape of Lebanon and the Gaza Strip by the IDF. Enough is enough !. No more, the criminal use of white phosphorus and cluster bombs against civilians. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / other press Wednesday July 26, 2006 23:04 by Ciaran Long
3 comments (last - friday august 11, 2006 22:44)
Every hunting season it's a regular occurrence for Saboteurs to be beaten up, some murdered, hospitalised, have their transport damaged and their personal belongings stolen by hunters and supporters. It's very seldom that anyone is charged. And if they are it's usually just a slap on the wrist. But when the table is turned, it's a totally different story. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday July 26, 2006 23:01 by Terry
3 comments (last - saturday july 29, 2006 01:07)
Brief update on current Shell to Sea activism in Mayo. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday July 26, 2006 18:02 by Conor Cregan
16 comments (last - monday august 07, 2006 21:34)
As the Lebanon burns by blitzkrieg the lucky ones escape through the west of Ireland and those of us reading through lines wait for “Laser Guided Munitions” or “Smart Bombs” to travel through Shannon International Airport. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday July 26, 2006 09:52 by tora
Today 26, July 2006 everything has an unreasonable hue a certain irrational shimmer. I can taste the air and it is bitter with unreason and cruelty. I am able to detect the world passing all the horror, lies and weeping. I must be dreaming or I could be mad! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday July 26, 2006 09:35 by court reporter
3 comments (last - wednesday july 26, 2006 17:30)
In the Pitstop Ploughshares case at the Four Courts, the Judge's charging of the jury on Friday was difficult to hear. Three members of the public asked that the sound be turned up, - but without success. On Monday the Judge went through the evidence of the defendants and the defence witnesses at break-neck speed and sent the jury out at ten past three to consider if they could reach a unanimous verdict. This is a report on what followed in court on Monday and Tuesday. Apologies for all errors and omissions. Apparent quotes do not mean to convey exact words. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday July 26, 2006 01:39 by poetry news
A celebration of poetry and song with established and emerging poets at literary Dublin's spiritual home read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / news report Tuesday July 25, 2006 20:19 by iosaf
3 comments (last - friday december 14, 2007 01:08)
Today those elected to the Peruvian government earlier this year to serve till 2011 must each swear an oath of allegiance. Its part of a series of constitutional rituals which will lead up to the presidential inauguration this coming Friday which is also Peru's national day. The formula for the oath is very simple - (they often are) - each deputy takes his place in turn & recorded by stenographers and pictured on live TV recites the formula of loyalty. But already some deputies oaths have been rejected :- read full story / add a comment
clare / sci-tech / press release Tuesday July 25, 2006 16:55 by Stefan Zalewski (a.k.a mufti_el_ping)
3 comments (last - thursday december 18, 2008 16:09)
Volunteers have built and operate a highspeed wireless data network at the west coast. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday July 25, 2006 16:49 by anon
NOBEL peace laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday, lashing out at US President George W.Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren. "I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence', because I don't believe that I am non-violent," said Ms Williams, 64. "Right now, I would love to kill George Bush." Her young audience at the Brisbane City Hall clapped and cheered. "I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life." read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Tuesday July 25, 2006 14:25 by Dominic Carroll
Anti-War Ireland welcomes the acquittal in Dublin of the Pitstop Ploughshares defendants, who had been on trial for unlawful damage to a US military plane at Shannon Airport. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday July 25, 2006 13:16 by ploughshares support
37 comments (last - thursday july 27, 2006 06:34)
statement read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday July 25, 2006 13:04 by Chris Murray
3 comments (last - wednesday september 19, 2007 16:00)
Most Irish newspapers carried an advertisement yesterday which included details of the issues which will be studied in relation to the 'CC' case and the 'A' case. These are published as perameters for the fifteen member committee which contains three women, one TD(fine Gael) and two senators. The'CC' case prompted an expected constitutional crisis, wherein the 1935 legislation pertaining to the 'honest mistake' mechanism was allowed in the case of someone accused of statutory rape but of an age with the victim. Justice Mary Laffoy had no option within the perameters of that legislation but to release 'CC'. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Tuesday July 25, 2006 12:27 by Barry Finnegan
5 comments (last - sunday july 30, 2006 11:53)
[BF, personal opinion: Check this out - USI, supposedly a "Union" to protect and advance student's rights as well as being an official affiliate of SIPTU charged with advancing trade union rights, when it's bosses weren't able to harass and bully this employee to their satisfaction, they suspended him without pay. If all the details of this case go public next month after the Rights Commissioner, it is going to have a devastating impact on those who still believe that the USI is a progressive social force in Ireland. To date The Examiner and Irish Indo have carried the story.] read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday July 25, 2006 07:24 by Kathy Kelly
6 comments (last - tuesday july 25, 2006 13:05)
Kathy Kelly, Catholic Worker & Founder of the nonviolent sanctions busting "Voices in the Wilderness" has been called as a witness in all three Dublin Pit Stop Ploughshares trials. read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday July 24, 2006 23:24 by Roger C
2 comments (last - tuesday july 25, 2006 03:06)
Can anyone explain what all the penny pinching and panicing has been about? This year the Department of Education has UNDER SPENT by £68 million!!!!! read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday July 24, 2006 23:21 by Fintan Lane
3 comments (last - friday july 28, 2006 14:43)
The following notice of a national demo against Israeli aggression was circulated in the past few days by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign. See you all there! [DUBLIN] NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST ISRAELI WAR CRIMES Saturday the 29th of July 2pm at the Garden of Remembrance, Dublin. Called by the IAWM and the IPSC - all welcome. THE IPSC WILL BE SENDING OUT REQUESTS FOR VOLUNTEERS OVER THE COMING DAYS. ANYONE WHO CAN HELP OR - ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO ORGANISE AN EVENT IN THEIR OWN AREA - PLEASE CALL THE DUBLIN OFFICE OR REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. 01-6770253 read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday July 24, 2006 23:11 by Ploughshares Support
Verdict Day in 3rd. Trial of Pit Stop Ploughshares. Carged with $US 2.5 million "criminal damage without lawful excuse". Facing 10 years max if convicted. Facing big party if acquitted. Facing groundhog day /trial 4 if hung jury! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday July 24, 2006 16:40 by Max
7 comments (last - wednesday july 26, 2006 19:47)
Ógra Fianna Fáil has called for the immediate reconvening of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on European Affairs to discuss the implications of recent Israeli actions to the EU-Israel Association Agreement which governs trade relations between the EU and Israel. read full story / add a comment |
|
|
