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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday December 09, 2011 09:45 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
The grim face of totalitarianism is emerging in the National Defense Authorization Act(NDAA) now before Congress. This bill is the last mile post on America’s sad, well-traveled road to the butcher shop of dictatorship. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday December 09, 2011 00:24 by Pól Ó Cionsalaígh
A Chara,
Our 'leaders' are trying to wave through a terrifying Merkel/Sarkozy plan that would abolish our right to choose sane economic policies and that would permanently ban vital public spending - all to appease big banks. But we live in a democracy and we should have the right to vote on any permanent changes to how Europe operates, and together, we can stop our leaders trashing our democracy and our jobs. read full story / add a comment
national / sci-tech / press release Thursday December 08, 2011 21:18 by Kevin O'Brien
Sanncus is being launched as part of the “The 12 Business Days of Christmas” running from 1st to 20th of December. The initiative, created by DCU Business School and LINK, the Leadership, Innovation and Knowledge Research Centre, is supported by AIB. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday December 08, 2011 13:35 by pat c
An article outlining the devastation and mass murder caused by oil companies in Nigeria.
Current investment in exploring for gas and oil in Nigeria is expected to reach 45 billion dollars this month, according to a 30 November report in the industry newsletter Sweetcrude. By coincidence, in a statement cosigned by numerous European film stars and other public figures issued the day before, Amnesty International France called for the major oil companies to be "compelled" to fund a massive proposal to clean up the damage they have already caused during the last half-century of oil drilling in the Niger River Delta. The initial cost of this plan drafted by the UN Environmental Programme would be a billion dollars. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday December 07, 2011 15:40 by Mclien
Join us at the Garden of Remembrance on Saturday the 10th of December 2011 at 2pm. We intend marching to the site of the ongoing #OccupyDameStreet occupation. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday December 07, 2011 13:11 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
Meeting in the Donnycarney Community Centre (Lé Chéile) to plan a Campaign Of Resistance to the Household Tax (Poll Tax!) and the other cuts and tax rises in the Budget at 8 tonight. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday December 07, 2011 10:08 by Red Banner
Issue 46 of Red Banner is out now, available from bookshops or the address above for €2 / £1.50. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday December 06, 2011 23:47 by Diarmuid Breatnach
PROTEST CONTINUING REPRESSION OF SAHARAWI PEOPLE. POLITICAL ACTIVISTS A YEAR IN MOROCCAN PRISON WITHOUT EVEN A CHARGE. TORTURE A REGULAR OCCURRENCE. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday December 06, 2011 09:20 by Alan Gibson
Protest outside Cobh Town Hall
from 3:30pm, Monday 12 Dec read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 06, 2011 03:42 by Nestor Makhno
Remember, remember, the second of November -- and all the many things we can improve on next time around... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday December 06, 2011 00:02 by anon
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Protest against the Budget Cuts outside the Dail.
Why should we pay for the bets of speculators by cutting social services and hit the weakness and those in most need? read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday December 05, 2011 21:52 by Connolly Soviet
The Last Friday Comedy Club will have a Christmas Special on Friday 16th December at the Maple Hotel, Gardiner Street, Dublin 1. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday December 05, 2011 18:40 by Ciaron
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Today, Veterans for Peace, Catholic Workers, Occupy London and other anti-war activists gathered outside the High Court in London in solidarity with WikiLeaks activist Julain Assange. Julian has spent the past 363 days in England under house arrest without charge.
A secret U.S. Grand Jury continues to sit in Virginia pursuing indictments. Leading U.S. Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gringrich has stated "Julian Assange is engaged in terrorism. He should be treated as an enemy combatant." We believe the U.S., British, Swedish and Australian governments are planning to do just that!
We are all weary of the war which has now entered its second decade. We need to question the lies of our war making governments, defend the human rights and offer solidarity to those resisters like Julian Assange and Bradley Manning who are being defamed and pursecuted for exposing the nature of these wars in which our governments remain complicit read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday December 02, 2011 13:17 by Tony Fitzsimons
Burma Action Ireland vigil read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Friday December 02, 2011 12:38 by Anne McShane
Anne McShane writes about the cutbacks, the DCTU march and the inadequacies of the fughtback campaign to date.
On November 26 2,000 demonstrators marched in Dublin against the December 5-6 budget. This budget marks year two of a four-year plan to slash public spending and raise taxes - all part of stringency measures imposed by the International Monetary Fund/European Central Bank 2010 bailout.
The numbers on this year’s demonstration were tiny compared to last November. Then a mass demonstration was organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. An estimated 150,000 braved snow and ice to show their opposition to the strategy of draconian austerity. Militant speeches were given by the president of ICTU, Jack O’Connor, and its secretary, David Begg. Both pledged their active and wholehearted resistance to the IMF/ECB deal and vowed to defeat it. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 01, 2011 14:34 by pat c
Ramzy Baroud is the editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story (Pluto Press, London). Here he gives an analysis of the Arab Spring and what constitutes a revolition. Full text at link.
The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ is creating an intellectual divide that threatens any sensible understanding of the turmoil engulfing several Arab countries. While it is widely understood that revolutions endeavor to overthrow political structures and aim to change the social order and power paradigm within any given society, there is still no single, inclusive understanding of what actually constitutes a revolution. Nor is there any consensus as to exactly what a revolution is supposed to achieve. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday November 30, 2011 21:24 by Kevin O'Brien
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Each business day, a team of staff and students from Dublin City University will help launch a new Internet start-up from the 1st to 20th of December with support from AIB. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday November 30, 2011 17:35 by Ray and Kristi
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Fellow women, you are cordially invited to a Women in Black anti-war commemoration vigil on Saturday 3rd December at 6pm in Cork city. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 30, 2011 13:53 by pat c
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1. Wars have been the most terrifying phenomena people have confronted since the istant past. In our society, millions of Iranians have been living under the ominous shadow of the eight-year war with Iraq. The reminiscences of air raid sirens, damp shelters, overnight power cuts, nameless bodies, severed limbs, mothers who lost their children, children who lost their fathers, famine and hunger, homeless refugees and dozens of other frightening pictures at the back or forefront of our minds, vividly or vaguely, whether like a nightmare or a constant fear, is weighing down on everyone of us.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday November 30, 2011 12:12 by Solidarity
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FREE BRADLEY MANNING! END THE WARS!
*Ft. Meade, Maryland, USA
http://www.bradleymanning.org/news/march-rally-for-brad...aring
*U.S. Embassy, London
http://wiseupforbradleymanning.wordpress.com/2011/11/30...ning/
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