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national / public consultation / irish social forum / press release Tuesday May 16, 2006 15:33 by Union of Students in Ireland
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has hailed an important victory in the battle against the creeping marketisation of higher education, following news that the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) will not pursue a profit-driven plan to relocate its central Dublin campus. read full story / add a comment
galway / animal rights / event notice Tuesday May 16, 2006 12:47 by Hedgehog
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A new animal rights group based in Galway has its first meeting tonight (16th may ) at 7pm in the victoria hotel just off eyre square Galway. website: http://www.haasireland.com/index.htm read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday May 16, 2006 11:54 by Cork Antiwar
On Sunday May 28th, Cork Alliance Against War and the Irish Anti War movement will host a special Day of Information/discussion/Fundraiser in the fight against War and Torture. Details are as follows. The Road to Guantanamo (A film by Michael Winterbottom) Special Introduction by Abu Baker Deghayes. (Brother of Guantanamo prisoner) Kino Cinema Washington Street Sun May 28th 12:00 Noon Public Meeting Stop the US war and torture machine Speakers: Abu Baker Deghayes (brother of Guantanamo prisoner) Ed Horgan (Author of rendition for Torture report to EU parliament) Richard Boyd Barrett (Chair: Irish Anti War Movement) Paddy O'Keeffe (British Stop the War coalition) An Spailpin Fanach Sunday May 28th 3:00 P.M. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday May 16, 2006 01:33 by Fintan Lane
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A vigil in solidarity with the Afghan hunger strikers, who are currently in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, will be held outside the building at 6.30pm today. Organised by anti-war activists, the vigil is intended to show our support and solidarity with those inside in their resistance to their impending deportation back to war-torn Afghanistan. Please make a special effort to attend and encourage others to come along also. This is important. These men have been without food since Sunday and have also decided to refuse water. It is imperative that the extent of public support for their demand to remain in Ireland is made clear to Minister McDowell and the Fianna Fail/PD government. A vigil will also be held at 12.30pm today for those who can make it during the day. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday May 15, 2006 23:21 by Gar Fitzpatrick
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The International Court of Justice and successive United Nations resolutions have made clear that Western Sahara is Africa’s last colony, with a right to self-determination. For the past 30 years Morocco has occupied the territory and many of the Saharawi people have been forced into exile in Algeria. read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues / event notice Monday May 15, 2006 20:39 by Madam K
Vigil In Support of Afghan Hunger Strikers St Patricks Cathedral, Christchurch @ 12.30 All are encouraged to come along and support the 41 men on hunger and thirst strike for their right to stay in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / news report Monday May 15, 2006 18:36 by Paul Baynes
Short report on gathering at Dolphin's Barn community garden read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / press release Monday May 15, 2006 18:15 by Irish Anti War Movement
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The Irish Anti War Movement supports the asylum claims of the Afghan hunger strikers in St Patrick’s Cathedral. The desperate measure by the 36 asylum seekers highlights the lies and the myth that the US and its allies are spreading democracy through its ‘war on terror’. The reality is that the US has replaced one group of thugs that it helped to create and fund – the Taliban, with another group that it now funds – the Northern Alliance (NA), to rule Afghanistan. The real agenda behind the US ‘war on terror’ is the extension of US power and dominance in the world. The Irish Anti War Movement calls on the Irish government to approve their asylum claims in recognition of the continued oppression and absence of democracy that exists in Afghanistan. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday May 15, 2006 17:42 by Scot MacCreamhain
Short commemorative article on the Irishmen of the International Brigades read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / press release Monday May 15, 2006 16:49 by Union of Students in Ireland
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has expressed dismay that marriage equality has been sidestepped by the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) in its new report on the rights of same-sex and opposite-sex couples. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / press release Monday May 15, 2006 16:06 by Niamh Nic Carthaigh
The latest Christian Aid report, ‘The climate of poverty: the facts, fears and hope’, launched to coincide with Christian Aid Week (14-20 May), highlights that climate change is now threatening development goals for billions of the world’s poorest people. The report reveals the stark reality that a staggering 182 million people in sub-Saharan Africa alone could die of disease directly attributable to climate change by the end of the century. Many millions more throughout the world face death and devastation due to climate-induced floods, famine, drought and conflict. The report calls on the Irish government to lead rich countries in taking urgent action to curb global warming. For a full copy of the report, please email [email protected] or visit www.christianaid.ie read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday May 15, 2006 15:52 by shell to sea
8PM EENGO 10a Lwr Camden Street Dublin 2 regular Shell to Sea Activists meeting, 8PM at EENGO (above the Bounty Stores) read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday May 15, 2006 15:10 by Eamonn
Socialist Workers Party public Forum read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday May 14, 2006 19:25 by Laure Akai
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For the second week in a row, Students’ Initiative organized protests across the country against the radical right. More protests planned. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday May 14, 2006 19:23 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
The editor-in-chief of the conservative daily newspaper, Berlingske Tidende, is satisfied that he has now been charged with leaking classified intelligence documents in his newspaper in February 2004. The two journalists who wrote the articles about the leaked documents had already been charged at the end of April. Their editor expects all three to be acquitted if the case against them proceeds. In a series of articles in the newspaper from 22 February 2004, Michael Bjerre and Jesper Larsen published excerpts of reports which they had obtained from Major Frank Grevil of the Danish Defence Intelligence Service (Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste, FE). Grevil, a secret agent who helped to write FE’s intelligence assessments of Iraq’s weapons capabilities for the Danish government, felt that Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen had exaggerated existing information about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction in order to persuade the Danish parliament to participate in the ill-fated invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Grevil himself has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment, but is appealing his sentence in the European Court of Human Rights, on the basis that evidence that might play a decisive part in his defence has been withheld. More detail about the most recent development, plus link to background article, below. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday May 14, 2006 17:16 by sper
Joe Higgins demands for social housing Government aids “speculator landlords” and “profiteering developers” read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Sunday May 14, 2006 13:00 by Kevin Higgins
This month’s Featured Readers – Mike McCormack, Jan Schlegel & Mags Treanor - are all fiction writers. read full story / add a comment
donegal / eu / event notice Sunday May 14, 2006 12:20 by redjade
The conference will open with a keynote address by Marian Harkin, independent Member of the European Parliament for the North West of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday May 14, 2006 09:41 by Afri
Christy Moore and Dr. Owens Wiwa, Vincent and Maureen McGrath to Lead Annual Famine Walk from Doolough to Louisburgh on Saturday May 20th 2006 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday May 14, 2006 04:02 by Coilín Oscar ÓhAiseadha
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In a letter to the Ombudsman of the Danish Parliament, staff at the Danish Prime Minister's Office have invoked "very wide powers of discretion" under the legislation, to defend Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's persistent refusal to be interviewed by prize-winning journalist Bo Elkjær. In response, Elkjær points out that Fogh promised to give him an interview when they met at the offices of the Danish Union of Journalists in Copenhagen in January 2004. On that occasion, Elkjær had just been awarded the prestigious Cavling Prize for his work in exposing the lies by which Fogh and his cabinet persuaded the parliament to support Denmark's invasion of Iraq. By Elkjær's account, staff at the Prime Minister's Office have made the excuse that Mr Fogh "did not have space in his calendar," even though Elkjær has given the Prime Minister's Office complete freedom to set the time and place for an interview. Fogh's staff have repeatedly failed to keep promises that they "would call back". One of Elkjær's intentions for an interview is to ask why, at a press conference on 21 March 2003, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen "emphasised a nuclear threat [from Iraq] that the government several days before, in an internal paper, had clearly and unequivocally rejected." "It is clear from the records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the government had several days previously arrived at the definitive conclusion that Iraq did not have a nuclear weapons programme, or indeed any nuclear programme at all," says Elkjær. Please read Billy O'Shea's translation of the latest exchange below. read full story / add a comment |
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