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wicklow / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday July 17, 2006 16:04 by John Kelly
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A 33 year old man was sentenced to seven days in jail for wearing the T-shirt with the words "Never mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols" at a court in Bray on Friday July, 16, 2006. The judge Murrough Connellan refused an attempt by the man to purge his "contempt" after his partner Lorraine Fitzpatrick purchased a plain blue T-shirt. The judge said he had not furnished "good reason" for wearing the garment. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday July 17, 2006 15:21 by One of G8 Press&Info Group
Police in Russia have targeted press coverage of the anti G8 protests. Yesterday they arrested accredited Associated Press journalists for covering a protest. They also attacked photographers, broke cameras and arrested six Ukrainian activists for holding a press conference read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Monday July 17, 2006 11:29 by Friends of the Earth
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Friends of the Earth has described the government's climate pollution plan, published on Friday, as " the ultimate stealth tax". It will cost the public at least €2 million a week according to the environmental justice group. The EPA plan estimates the rise in Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions will be twice what is allowed under the Kyoto Protocol from 2008 to 2012 or, put another way, an average of 7 million tonnes of excess pollution a year[1]. Every tonne of this overshoot will have to be offset by an emissions permit. The government is assuming permit prices will remain steady at around €15 a tonne giving a total cost to Ireland of €105 million a year or €2 million a week for five years[2]. Commenting on how government inaction will cost the consumer and the taxpayer, Friends of the Earth Director, Oisin Coghlan said: "This is the ultimate stealth tax. The government has replaced the polluter-pays principle with the public-pays principle. On the one hand industry will get their pollution permits for free but raise consumer prices to reflect their value [3]. On the other hand the government will use taxpayers' money to buy permits for the rest of our Kyoto overshoot. It's a double whammy for the average household." read full story / add a comment
PLOUGHSHARES TRIAL- 8.30am Anti-War Vigil at Spire *10.45 am Peace Walk to Court *11am Trial Resumes
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday July 17, 2006 00:36 by X
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Trial of the Pitstop Ploughshares 5/Shannon 5/Catholic Worker 5 resumes in Court 23 at 11am. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / press release Sunday July 16, 2006 23:31 by G8-int
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Russian 'Network Against The G8' and international activists blockaded the entrance of a hotel in St. Petersburg where delegates of this year's G8 summit were staying Police heavy-handed. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday July 16, 2006 20:20 by Fintan Lane
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Today's Sunday Independent carries two advertisements seeking to recruit Irish people to work as Sales Representatives for a company, apparently called 'Exchange', whose sole function is to sell cars, motorbikes and utility vehicles to US military personnel serving abroad. These particular adverts are looking for people to service the US war machine in Iraq, Kuwait and the Middle East in general. Those employed will be based on US military facilities in Iraq and Kuwait. Prospective applicants are directed to a website, which carries the company motto: 'The only overseas car-buying program created by the [US] military, for the military'. It is a disgrace that an Irish newspaper is carrying advertisements recruiting civilians to service the US war machine in Iraq. Those who consider applying should bear in mind that they will be viewed in Iraq as servants of the US military and their lives will be at grave risk. Holding Irish citizenship will make no difference. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday July 16, 2006 19:00 by gan
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Gone are the days of a fair fight and a ‘just’ war – whatever that insane expression is supposed to mean – today we have the actions of the ‘might is right’ ideology of barbarism. This ‘new’ primitivism is evident in the actions of Zionist Israel and the Zionist influenced USA. Today’s wars are the most inglorious wars in human history. How proud we should be of our achievements when we allow idiotic differences and greed to escalate into bloodshed. What a ‘noble’ race of ‘civilised’ humans we are! View this planet as a visitor and be thoroughly appalled. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Sunday July 16, 2006 17:02 by AWI (Belfast)
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The next picket/leaflet distribution in Belfast in solidarity with the Pitstop Ploughshares will be at Belfast City Hall on Tuesday the 18th of July between 5.30pm and 6.30pm. This time is to facilitate people who are working. Turn up, help out and show your solidarity with these five anti-war activists as they face the southern courts for their decommissioning of a US warplane at Shannon. All welcome!!! Organised by Anti-War Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday July 15, 2006 22:15 by Sean Crudden
How far are the rights of the dead to be respected, upheld and vindicted by our judges and our courts? Has anyone the right to act in the name of a dead person? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday July 15, 2006 16:08 by g8 press berlin
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Global Day of Action Against the G8, Solidarity Shown with Protesters in St. Petersburg Worldwide. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday July 15, 2006 10:22 by Ed Lee
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The Israeli-Lebanese+Gaza conflict and wildifires in California. I can't help but think both situations are alike. Both cause destruction and can easily spread. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday July 14, 2006 23:53 by reposted
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Ben Franklin read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Friday July 14, 2006 23:53 by FG
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Inflation Set to Wipe Out Wage Increases Campaign Calls For Pay deal To be Rejected read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday July 14, 2006 22:56 by Brian Mac Grath
This article provides some background to the terrible events at Daechuri, and the neighbouring village of Doduri, where the South Korean state is using powers equivalent to the Irish Compulsory Purchase Order to clear the local farmers off their ancestral lands for a proposed expansion of the existing Camp Humphreys military facility, previously a Japanese military base. The farmers have been moved off their lands with extreme brutality, and the village is now surrounded by thousands of troops and police, villagers have been served with eviction notices and the area is enclosed by barbed wire. Protest by letter and e-mail to the South Korean Embassy: 15 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland. City: Dublin Phone: + (353 -1) - 660 - 8800/8053, 668 - 2109 Fax: (+353-1) - 660 - 8716. Updates on the situation can be found on: http://antigizi.or.kr/english/ http://www.saveptfarmers.org/Daechuri_background http://saveptfarmers.org/blog/ Brian Mac Grath. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Friday July 14, 2006 22:52 by Dr Liam Leonard
This week sees the release of Green Nation: the Irish Environmental Movement from Carnsore Point to the Rossport 5 by Dr Liam Leonard of NUIG. The book places Irish environmental campaigns in the context of a populist 'rural sentiment' which communities under threat from infrastructural projects draw on to mobilise territorial dissent. read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Friday July 14, 2006 20:58 by Spinning Quickly
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Imfamous club closes after five months read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday July 14, 2006 18:22 by greta
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Balseskin Reception Centre is a 380 bed accomodation centre for asylum seekers and their families in Finglas, north Dublin. It was purpose built some 5 years ago and has a well functioning medical unit, providing specialist health screening and medical care to the residents of the centre. However the centre is to be closed on ministerial orders, at short notice (next Friday) and without any consultation with staff in the HSE and the RIA (Reception and Integration Agency, Dept. of Justice). The 260 residents of the centre now have to be housed elsewhere. This will inevitably cause a disruption in medical care and infectious disease surveillance as no other specialist service for asylum seekers is available in Dublin city. read full story / add a comment
dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Friday July 14, 2006 17:45 by Oisin O' Reilly
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BeLonG To Youth Project are organising a protest to mark the first anniversary of the state murder of gay Iranian teenagers Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni. Wednesday July 19th 2006, 5.30pm, The Central Bank, Dame Street read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday July 14, 2006 16:43 by RPAG
On Friday 14th July 2006 Republican POW’s both in Maghaberry and Portlaoise will hold a 24hour fast in protest against the regime in Maghaberry and the attempts to criminalise Republican Prisoners by enforcing sub-standard conditions on the segregated landings. SUPPORT THE POWs read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Friday July 14, 2006 16:38 by Red Wedge
John McDonnell, chair of the socialist campaign group of Britsh Labour MPs and MP for Hayes and Harlington, has announced that he will stand for leader of the British Labour Party when Blair steps down. read full story / add a comment |
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