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national / politics / elections / event notice Saturday August 14, 2010 16:32 by Thomas Burke
For too long the Irish people have had to settle for excuses when we seek answers from our government. Not once have we gotten a straight or wholly truthful answer. We ask why it is that the people that are most affected by the recession are punished while those that presided over it, those that perpetrated it, get off with a slap on the wrist. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Saturday August 14, 2010 15:42 by Alan Davis
An event presenting the social struggle of Greece in two parts. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Saturday August 14, 2010 15:40 by Alan Davis
An event presenting the social struggle of Greece in two parts. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday August 12, 2010 12:47 by éirígí Sligeach
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The decision to increase the price of electricity will lead to increased poverty, illness and deaths read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday August 12, 2010 08:18 by children_of_lir
10 comments (last - thursday november 04, 2010 05:30)
From Guardan Newspaper Article: "The Iranian woman whose sentence to death by stoning sparked an international outcry is feared to be facing imminent execution, after she was put on a state-run TV programme last night where she confessed to adultery and involvement in a murder." read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday August 12, 2010 00:27 by Anthony Ravlich
Because of human rights omission New Zealand has suffered major social problems, some social statistics worse than other countries, at the bottom of the social scale but it is hidden from mainstream New Zealanders. Fear is pervasive and there is a sense of hoelessness which is holding back progress and adaptation to global changes. A focus on the truth rather than power politics and the 'money grab' will help overcome this. It has, in my opinion, modeled itself on the British class system permitting mass social class discrimination. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 11, 2010 20:41 by Solidarity
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There were several acts of nonviolent resistance to nuclear weapons during the past week's anniversaries of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / other press Wednesday August 11, 2010 19:41 by Sean Crudden
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What jumps out at me about the recent report by PNA (Psychiatric Nurses Association) to the Minister of Health is that it underlines a definite antagonism between providers and patients in the mental health services. It conveys graphically and in a rather stock way a strong underlying sense of fear and loathing of mental patients. Undoubtedly relations between patients and nurses can assume knife-edge proportions at times. And it is, as we all know from human experience, at times of heightened tension or drama that basic and fundamental motivation emerges clearly in the spotlight. I believe Mr. Kavanagh (general secretary of PNA) when he says nurses in their hundreds have been injured by patients. I am sure he, too, can remember the names of John Carthy and Anthony Burke. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / event notice Wednesday August 11, 2010 00:38 by Paul King
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Join the “Protest the Pope” Campaign in this large-scale march against the State Visit of Pope Ratzinger in the UK. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 10, 2010 19:25 by George Hill
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The People Before Profit Alliance have made an official complaint against Independent Senator Rónán Mullen in relation to reports he made in Seanad. This raises questions about PBPA's judgement and their approach towards elected office. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 10, 2010 12:13 by Latif Serhildan
The oppressive fascist Turkish regime attempted to eliminate the Kurdish population more than decades now. One has to look at the brief history of the Kurds to know what Turkish state has tried to do with the Kurds. In 1921 at Kocgiri; 1925 at Sex Sait; 1930 at Agri and Zilan by killing more than fifty thousand people. In 1938, at Dersim an estimated seventy thousand children and elderly men and women were killed. Since 1984, more than forty thousand people have lost their lives due to the Kurdish conflict in Turkey. Kurds have not only been deprived of their basic rights and freedoms, read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday August 09, 2010 12:54 by Joe Higgins MEP
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As you may already be aware, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), the European wide umbrella to which ICTU is affiliated, has named Wednesday 29 September as the date for European wide action under the title 'No to Austerity - Priority for Jobs and Growth'. See http://www.etuc.org/a/7407 for details on their website. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday August 09, 2010 11:42 by SIPTU Community Campaign
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Day of action to defend Community and Voluntary Sector read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / opinion/analysis Monday August 09, 2010 00:29 by mat
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NO ONE IS ILLEGAL clip read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday August 08, 2010 12:18 by Laura Broxson
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Do you think animals like being in a zoo? Then think again! read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Saturday August 07, 2010 11:46 by Paddy Hackett
The Good Friday Agreement makes the false assumption that the six county sectarian state can be re-established as a democratic sectarian-free state. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Friday August 06, 2010 21:33 by Tony Lowes
The environmental group Friends of the Irish Environment have written to the Minister for the Environment calling for prosecutions to follow the recent complete levelling of two listed ringforts by a farmer in County Cork. The ringforts were located in the townland of Knockacareagh, near Killmurray in north Cork. The farm was auctioned on 24 June, 2010. The new owner obliterated the ring forts, which were marked on maps and included in a photograph on the auctioneer's website, within a week of taking possession. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / press release Friday August 06, 2010 21:22 by Mina Ahadi
For Immediate Publication. Iran stoning case, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is at imminent risk of execution in Tabriz prison. Moreover, her well known human rights lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, is in prison in Turkey after having fled the country to evade arrest for his advocacy work. His wife remains in prison in Iran – held hostage – until he is remanded into the regime’s custody (http://stopstonningnow.com/wpress/?p=1652). Given Turkey’s close relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mostafaei can face deportation back to Iran even though he has applied for refugee status with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees there. Campaigners are concerned about the safety of Mostafaei and his wife. We are also extremely concerned for Ashtiani’s life. The regime may be preparing to execute her within the next few days, particularly given that the Tabriz prosecutor has demanded her execution and is awaiting the Tehran high court’s confirmation (http://stopstonningnow.com/wpress/?p=1665). read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Friday August 06, 2010 15:52 by Volunteer
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As news that Ireland's unemployment rate continues to rise sinks in, 20 young people from across Ireland are gathering in Galway this weekend to prepare their effort in bringing about much needed change. The SpunOut.ie Academy of Activism, supported by the Huston Film School at NUIG, is a free training course for young people of different backgrounds who are passionate about making a difference in the world around them. The training is offered by the multi-award winning SpunOut.ie youth charity as part of its work in empowering young people in their personal and social development. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Friday August 06, 2010 13:52 by pat c
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There has been much in the news media of late regarding political prisoners in Cuba. You hear little of Cuban political prisoners in US Jails. Take the case of Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Miami Five imprisoned in the US for fighting terrorism. Gerardo is suffering under another punishment from the US government. Since July 21, Gerardo has been held in the ‘hole’ - a windowless cell of 7x3 feet which he shares with another prisoner, with little ventilation and reaching temperatures of 95 degrees. He is unable to take a shower and is taken outside in a cage for just one hour every other day. read full story / add a comment |
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