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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday May 19, 2008 11:49 by Marie O'Connor
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This morning Raidió na Gaeltachta reported that Fresenius, a dialysis giant awarded multi-million contracts by the HSE, had been fined almost half a billion dollars by the US Justice Department in 2000. 'This case broke all US Justice Dept records for both criminal and civil fines', said Marie O'Connor. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday May 19, 2008 10:55 by jim
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Cluster bombs come in many forms. Cluster munitions can be delivered using artillery guns, long range rockets and ground attack aircraft. The cluster munitions are often small bomblets often about the size of a hand grenade packed into large pod. The pod breaks apart over the target, dispersing the bomblets which can shower an area the size of several football fields. Their effects on civilians can be devastating. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday May 18, 2008 17:03 by Laura Broxson
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SAY NO TO ANIMAL CIRCUSES!!! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday May 18, 2008 15:15 by Ciaron
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In May 1968, during the Vietnam War ine people walked into a Selective Service Office, in Catonsville Maryland U.S.A., took hundreds of draft files from a cabinet, took them outside, doused them with homemade napalm and burned them in the name of peace. It raised serious questions about nonviolent resistance to the U.S. war in Vietnam and initiated a praxis that today engages U.S. wars in Iraq & Afghanistan Footage of action.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3SHRc-NTrk read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / press release Sunday May 18, 2008 14:07 by Laura Broxson
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------------------PRESS RELEASE------------------ The Pearl Brasserie restaurant hoses and threatens peaceful anti-foie gras protesters Contact National Animal Rights Association Spokesperson: Laura Broxson 086 8729 444 read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Saturday May 17, 2008 20:47 by pat c
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In the latest developments in the Haft Tapeh strike the workers and their supporters have clashed with the Iranian Military and police. On this the 13th day of the strike by Haft Tapeh , crowds joined the workers' protest in their thousands and confronted the security forces. According to the latest reports the military and police are using tear gas and batons to disperse the demonstrators. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / news report Saturday May 17, 2008 12:36 by F.E.M.
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Dutch minister Hirsch Ballin wants txt, telephone conversations and emails that people send in the Netherlands and from and to the Netherlands to be kept for 18 months on file instead of the 6 months it is currently kept for. The law on the protection of privacy is outweighed by the need for protection of the state they conclude. The new European law states that the states will have to keep the conversations on file for more than lf a year. Another reason to vote no to the treaty. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Saturday May 17, 2008 12:27 by mary
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Now Shell have applied for planning for their 'new' pipeline route, we must act swiftly to oppose it at every stage. Everyone can make submissions! This entire project has been the cause of untold misery, strife and unhappiness for our families and community. We will continue to resist Shell through every legal, political and campaigning means open to us, even though this could lead to more years of unnecessary conflict. Please support us and make a submission. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Saturday May 17, 2008 11:56 by Howard Holby
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The propaganda recently launched by the government in support of the new federal EU constitution nicknamed as “Lisbon Treaty”, has failed to actually attach the text of the Treaty to their claims on the treaty. The voters of Ireland will be called to submit their votes on an international treaty that is not available for them as of today, less than a month before the referendum. By not providing information on this fact, the current government campaigns to promote a yes vote on the referendum, amounts to the deprivation of the Irish voters of their most fundamental constitutional-democratic right to fair and free elections. The article includes a web address from where the consolidated version (the actual text) of the Lisbon Treaty can be downloaded. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday May 17, 2008 11:01 by GH
Yet another delay to the Raytheon 9 trial. Protest Tues 27th instead read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday May 16, 2008 18:44 by pat c
Hamid Dabashi, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York writes on Hillary Clintons outburst regarding Iran in the 8 may issue of al-Ahram. Hamid writes: The only legitimate manner in which the Islamic Republic can be prevented from becoming a nuclear power is by ensuring that all the other nuclear powers in its neighbourhood engage in regional disarmament, first and foremost the mirror image of the Islamic Republic, the Jewish apartheid state of Israel. The latter is fully supported and sustained by the American Christian Empire, and will be after Senator Golda Clinton Meir possibly becomes its Commander-in-Chief. Full text at link. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Friday May 16, 2008 17:05 by Jim
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The replacement of Bertie "Liar Liar Pants On Fire" Ahern with Brian "Biffo" Cowen has led to a boost in popular support for Fianna Fail. Sinn Fein the only party who are opposed to the Lisbon Treaty show a worrying decrease in support. Brian Cowen has come out fighting in the last week trying to persuade the electorate to vote in favour of the Treaty after recent polls showed poor levels of support. Is Cowen likely to change the opinions of the electorate by transfering a boost in support into support for Lisbon. It looks dangerously likely read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday May 16, 2008 14:55 by Ciaron
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Pauline Campbell, who was found dead yesterday morning, put the deaths of women in prison on the map. A formidable and tireless campaigner, she had personal experience of deaths in custody. Just over five years ago, her much-loved daughter Sarah, 18, died of a drug overdose at Styal prison. Campbell's body was discovered close to her daughter's grave in Oakhills cemetery in Malpas, Cheshire. As we went to press, it was not clear whether she had killed herself or died of other causes, but it looks bleak. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday May 15, 2008 15:30 by éirígí
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Speaking at the graves of the leaders of the Easter Rising on Saturday (May 10), éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson called for an honest assessment of the state of radical politics in modern-day Ireland. “Radical, revolutionary, separatist, republicanism is far weaker now than what it was a decade ago – in both political and organisational terms," Leeson said. "Acceptance of this fact is the first necessary step in the process of reorganising and re-building a diverse social movement for the combined objectives of British withdrawal and social and economic justice." read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday May 15, 2008 15:22 by Ms. L
Applicants for asylum are the latest targets in efforts to quietly legalize imprisonment without trial for people who have never been accused of any wrong. Two EU countries have now followed the lead of the US: where this policy was the first legal stepping stone in the nefarious "rendition" program of kidnapping, imprisonment, disappearance and torture without cause. read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday May 15, 2008 14:48 by x
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Please print off leaflets (links provided below) and contact Unite to protest against their refusal to pay the legal costs and adequate compensation to the sacked workes. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday May 15, 2008 11:59 by Sub Editor
‘Achieving a Cluster Munitions Treaty: Blueprint for an Ethical Foreign Policy?'Public Talk with Former Assistant UN Secretary General Denis Halliday Hosted by Action from Ireland (Afri) Thursday, 29 May 2008, 7.30pm-9.00pm, Thomas Davis Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday May 15, 2008 11:52 by Sub Editor
‘Deadly Playground'A film night with panel discussion on the impact of cluster munitions in Lebanon showing: ‘Fields of Fire' by IRIN, ‘Deadly Playground' by Katia Saleh, and ‘Postcard from Lebanon' by Jocelyn Ajami. Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 7.30pm-9.30pm, Filmbase, Curved Street Building, Temple Bar, Dublin read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday May 15, 2008 11:41 by Sub Editor
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Nobel Peace Prize Laureates: ‘No Exceptions. No Delays. No Excuses.'Reflections on a New Ban on Cluster Bombs by Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Jody Williams. Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 7.30pm-9.00pm, Liberty Hall, Eden Quay, Dublin read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday May 15, 2008 11:34 by Sub Editor
‘Yellow Killers'by Svetlana Lukic and Svetlana Vukovic Film Screening, Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre, 27-31 Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin Thursday, 22 May 2008, 7.30pm-9.00pm read full story / add a comment |
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