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galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday May 06, 2009 15:40 by Over The Edge
The Freedom Café makeover celebration!
What: Launch of the new-look Amnesty Freedom Café with poetry, talks, music and, of course, great coffee read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Wednesday May 06, 2009 14:41 by Comhlamh   text 1 comment (last - saturday may 16, 2009 11:59)
Lobby your MEP Candidates to put trade justice for the Global South on their political agenda in the next European Parliament
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dublin / eu / event notice Wednesday May 06, 2009 14:37 by Comhlamh
Lobby your MEP Candidates to put trade justice for the Global South on their political agenda in the next European Parliament
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galway / eu / event notice Wednesday May 06, 2009 14:32 by Comhlamh
Lobby your MEP Candidates to put trade justice for the Global South on their political agenda in the next European Parliament read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Wednesday May 06, 2009 14:09 by KHC   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 06, 2009 16:02)
Workers and freedom loving people!

This is a follow up statement to the May Day Organizing Committee’s first report on the violent attack by police and intelligence forces at the May Day rally in Laleh Park, Tehran, May 1st, 2009, during which more than 150 workers and their families as well as activists of women’s and students’ movements were arrested. The updates for public information and appropriate actions, as of today, are as follows:
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday May 06, 2009 14:09 by Lucy Parsons   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 12, 2009 15:31)
Capitalism is Failing Us, Anarchism is Fighting Back read full story / add a comment
limerick / animal rights / press release Wednesday May 06, 2009 13:38 by Bernie Wright   text 6 comments (last - sunday may 10, 2009 21:28)
The Alliance for Animal Rights (AFAR) is horrified that a CONVICTED serial animal abuser in County Limerick is apparently running for a Council seat in the Adare area elections. Richard Smith,(48) a dairy farmer and also owner of Company Richie Tryes on the Kilmallock Road* is hoping people will vote him in as a Councillor in Adare. He has repeatedly abused animals, this being his possible third conviction for abuse to animals on his farm. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday May 06, 2009 09:02 by Wallshaveears   text 12 comments (last - friday may 08, 2009 12:39)
HAMAS POLITBURO chief Khaled Meshaal said yesterday the movement was ready to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the basis of the two-state solution. read full story / add a comment
sligo / education / event notice Wednesday May 06, 2009 08:57 by robert   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 12, 2009 10:50)
Public Talk: Sligo, Wednesday, 13th of May, 8 p.m., Harmony Café (former Clifford Electrical Building, Harmony Hill) - David Gribble, founder of Sands School, Devon UK, will be in Sligo to present his views on childcentredness in school contexts. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Wednesday May 06, 2009 06:53 by MAOR   text 3 comments (last - wednesday may 06, 2009 13:27)
Donegal and Derry based lobby group MAOR have urged the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Eamon Ryan TD not to grant Frontier Exploration Licences for oil and gas exploration off the West Coast of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Tuesday May 05, 2009 21:41 by Sean Matthews
A former Visteon worker will be speaking this Saturday 9th May in An Culturlann, in a public meeting organised by the Workers Solidarity Movement. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / press release Tuesday May 05, 2009 16:01 by Adherents to the sixth declaration of the Lacandon jungle   text 2 comments (last - tuesday may 05, 2009 17:55)
8 other campaign activists have been unjustly and illegally imprisoned, tortured, badly treated, stigmatized by the media, and are now awaiting possible incarceration for false accusations. read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Tuesday May 05, 2009 11:53 by PMC
Public briefing organised by the People's Movement.

It will be an opportunity for you to be briefed on the issues concerning the Lisbon Treaty, the economic situation and the forthcoming Second Referendum.

Date: Tuesday, 5th May 2009.

Time: 8.00 p.m.

Venue: The Plaza Hotel, Tallaght (Beside The Square Shopping Centre).

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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 05, 2009 10:05 by Paul Bowman
At the beginning of April, the G20 group of major world economies met in London. Media attention focused as much on the confrontation between police and demonstrators outside the conference as on what was going on between the suits inside. The London police were their usual charmless selves and even managed to kill an uninvolved man, Ian Tomlinson, on his way home from work. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday May 05, 2009 10:05 by Dublin Shell to Sea
Dublin Shell to Sea will be having a meeting this evening for all interested in going to Erris, Mayo for the National Day of Action on this coming Saturday.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday May 05, 2009 02:45 by frequentblasphemer   text 3 comments (last - tuesday may 05, 2009 13:07)
In the Irish Times Fintan O'Toole points out that 2009 is the centenary of the occasion when a play by Bernard Shaw, "The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet", was used to show up the absurdity of having blasphemy laws. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday May 04, 2009 21:38 by Peter Kenealy   text 6 comments (last - wednesday may 20, 2009 11:49)
On 16th May, a day of action has been called by the European Trade Union Congress under the banner ‘Fight The Crisis. Put People First.’

Grassroots Unite are calling on everyone - trade unionist or not, public AND private sector workers and the unemployed to get out on the streets and protest against the bailout of the banks, socially unjust taxes, pension and income levies, cuts in jobs, pay, hours, pension benefits, medical services, education and social welfare.

Let’s unite with workers across Europe and use the opportunity to begin to build a fightback in Ireland. Assemble at the Central Bank, Dame St., Dublin - 2.30pm on May 16th. read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / event notice Monday May 04, 2009 15:24 by Soupstone
Gardening festival at Soupstone kindergarten - all welcome, 2 - 6 pm read full story / add a comment
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