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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday October 03, 2003 22:43 by Jay Shaft   text 3 comments (last - monday october 06, 2003 23:26)
Our combined voices have been heard around the world by many nations and widely separate and diverse cultures. We have all raised our voices against war in a chorus of many languages and tongues. We have cried out in one unified voice against the governments massing the greed filled, profit driven war machine of corporate enrichment. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Friday October 03, 2003 20:05 by An Mangaire Sugach
Last weekend I managed to make it up to Leitrim to catch the last of the Green Festival that was going on there. I missed many of the walks, talks, films and sessions of the previous week but still managed to go to a few interesting workshops and get a sense of what was going on. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday October 03, 2003 18:50 by john francis   text 4 comments (last - saturday october 11, 2003 23:21)
This is a reminder to come out to IQ's Immigrant Freedom Ride contingent, tomorrow (Saturday) -- and to make sure everyone knows that Wyclef Jean is a headline performer at the event! (So is local homophobe Cardinal Egan, but whatever.)

We'll have signs that identify us as Irish community members and queers supporting the demands of immigrant workers: legalization, fair rewards for work, and civil and human rights. Our signs will also demand that queer immigrants -- not just traditional, heterosexual immigrant families -- be included in that struggle. Bring your own signs if you can...

Meeting-up info:
9:45 am
111th St. and 45th Ave. (corner of the park)
Take the 7 train to 111th St. read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday October 03, 2003 18:50 by CAWC   text 6 comments (last - friday october 10, 2003 14:55)
The following article was published in the latest edition of the Limerick Leader, 4th October 2003. read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Friday October 03, 2003 17:15 by axe the bin tax!   text 18 comments (last - monday october 06, 2003 16:28)
Sinn Féin Cllr. Mark Daly tells residents to pay the bin tax - its only a bill in an interview with the Tallaght echo local newspaper. read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / press release Friday October 03, 2003 16:42 by Oscar The Grouch   text 23 comments (last - monday october 06, 2003 12:31)
Picket Dublin City Council. Anti Bin Tax Demo, City Hall, Dame Street, Monday, 6 October, 6.30 pm. Let the councillors know what you think of them. Lets have a mass demonstration. We faced them down last night in Grangegorman but Dublin City Council are seeking to have 25 anti bin tax campaigners imprisoned.

Contact the following councillors who support the Bin Tax and the imprisonment of protesters:

Cllr. Ryan Meade,
93 Clonmacnoise Road,
Dublin 12
(Green)
086 817 6657(M)
email:
[email protected]
Electoral Ward: Rathmines
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Cllr. Claire Wheeler,
27 Oaklands Park,
Dublin 4.
(Green)
Ph. 660 8582
Mobile No. 086 3831335
Email: [email protected]
Electoral Ward: South East Inner City read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / press release Friday October 03, 2003 14:28 by Sean   text 3 comments (last - saturday october 04, 2003 11:56)
A representative group from the Cork Householders Against Service Charges Campaign will visit Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins in Mountjoy Prison tomorrow (Saturday).

The group are are all activists in the Cork Campaign and have all been jailed on the water / bin tax issue . read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Friday October 03, 2003 12:29 by Robert Walgate
According to a report in the British broadsheet The Guardian yesterday (October 2), the UK's extensive field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops show that "two out of three…oil seed rape and sugar beet, appear more harmful to the environment than conventional crops and should not be grown in the UK."
But the trial results have not yet been published. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday October 03, 2003 05:09 by Sam Hananel   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 07, 2003 13:59)
Nader called the Texas Republican Party's platform the most radically conservative he has ever seen, calling for: withdrawing from the UN, retaking the Panama Canal, repealing the minimum wage, and abolishing the Department of Education and the IRS. read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Friday October 03, 2003 01:58 by Ronan Stenson   text 18 comments (last - friday october 03, 2003 22:10)
From about 5pm thursday evening a blockade was placed on the Council waste depot at Grangegorman on the north side of Dublin. This was to disrupt the evening rubbish collection in the city centre. More than eighty people took part.

I came down the Grangegorman Road about 4.30 this evening. As I passed the depot all was quiet so I went a further couple of hundred yards until I met between seven and ten people waiting at the corner of a side street. I only recognised a couple of them. A couple more seemed to be members of the media, one of them had a video camera. Someone else had a sack with some placards.

We waited there until close to 5pm, then began to make our way up toward the depot. As we arrived more people were also arriving, some in small groups and others on their own. Some of the people were from nearby houses. We began to walk around in a circle in front of the depot gate. The placards had words to the effect "How to defeat this tax" and had sp read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Friday October 03, 2003 00:53 by Barry O'Donovan   text 2 comments (last - wednesday july 28, 2004 11:49)
A 'consultative workshop' is due to take place somewhere in Dublin on Friday 3rd October to outline to the largest polluting industries how Irelands share of the industrialised worlds right to pollute will be divvyied up. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday October 02, 2003 21:09 by Fintan Lane   text 5 comments (last - tuesday october 07, 2003 19:50)
At last Sunday's Irish Anti-War Movement AGM, a decision was taken to support a demonstration called by the Tralee Anti-War Group to be held at the forthcoming Ard Fheis of Fianna Fail. This annual jamboree of the corrupt and the corruptible is due to be held on Saturday week in Killarney. It is vital that people make a serious effort to get to this demonstration, which will be focused on the abuse of Shannon airport as a U.S. military refuelling stop. read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Thursday October 02, 2003 18:58 by Bin there, dumped that   text 4 comments (last - friday october 03, 2003 12:23)
Reports of various blockades that I have received today. I know that others have happened elsewhere, so please add reports. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday October 02, 2003 17:55 by Davy Carlin   text 11 comments (last - saturday october 04, 2003 15:38)
The Left Unity meeting in Belfast was standing room only and spilled into a second room. Also a report of next Anti Racist meeting. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / press release Thursday October 02, 2003 17:15 by Sylvia Pankhurst
Details of public meeting in Galway with Mary Kelly, the Pitstop Ploughshares, Nuria Dunne and Adam from Gluaiseacht. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / press release Thursday October 02, 2003 14:38 by W MC CORMACK   text 21 comments (last - saturday october 04, 2003 19:57)
The famous picture of Che Guevara has once again become a icon for a new generation of ani/capitalists and anti/imperialist.But the mass of workers of CUBA played little part in the downfall of BASTISTA and no part in the construcion of the post revolutionary state.On sat 4th of oct at 3pm in An SPAILPIN FANACH bar,south main st. cork city,a MARXIST FORUM will take place on CHE GUEVARA AND THE POLITICS OF REVOLOTION. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday October 02, 2003 14:12 by Johnny X   text 6 comments (last - wednesday october 08, 2003 00:32)
An inside look, from one who knows read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday October 02, 2003 11:33 by Blank   text 4 comments (last - thursday october 02, 2003 17:28)
Minister for Justice outlines cost of policing read full story / add a comment
dublin / sci-tech / news report Thursday October 02, 2003 04:15 by hj   text 3 comments (last - tuesday october 07, 2003 15:40)
Government's phone system hacked, reveals report from the State's financial watchdog .

Anyone got an ireland.com account ??
Can they post the full article?? (Wednesday's Irish Times) read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Thursday October 02, 2003 02:09 by Friends of the Irish Environment   text 2 comments (last - thursday october 02, 2003 14:02)
-There should be no exemptions from the tax for the large polluters.
There have been proposals that the biggest polluters should be exempted from the tax in order to protect their economic position. This would lead to a greater burden on all other economic sectors and consumers. It would both be unfair and lead to higher emissions than would be achieved on a level playing pitch.

-Poorer households must be compensated.
Because poorer households spend a higher percentage of their income on energy than wealthier households, they must be compensated. This should be through changes to the social welfare and tax systems and investment in insulation and other energy efficiency measures.

-Money raised should be used to fund a transfer to a low-carbon economy.
A substantial part of the money raised should be used in a decarbonisation fund, to bring about a rapid change to a more energy-efficient, renewables-based economy. read full story / add a comment
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