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international / gender and sexuality / other press Thursday July 22, 2010 13:26 by Clara Zetkin
 11 comments (last - friday august 27, 2010 22:52)
The ban on the wearing of the burqa is wrong. Just as it it is wrong to force women to wear the veil. The French Left have been found wanting. Full story at link. The fact that only one French MP - a member of the rightwing UMP - voted against the ban on the burqa says it all. On July 13, the bill prohibiting the “covering of the face in public” received the votes of 335 deputies. The bill does not specify Muslims or women, but everyone knows who the targets are - the less than 2,000 women in France who normally dress in the full-length burqa or niqab. After the law comes into force next year - it has yet to pass through the senate and may face a challenge in the constitutional court - those who continue to cover up will face a €150 fine and/or compulsory citizenship classes. Those who “force” a person to wear such attire could be looking at a €30,000 fine and a one-year jail sentence (the penalties will be even stiffer if a minor is made to cover their face). read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Thursday July 22, 2010 12:29 by Cleo de Vito
A unique opportunity is presented by visiting specialist & co-editor of The Automatic Earth – Nicole Foss aka Stoneleigh - to discuss Community Solutions to the Global Crises. This inaugural event of the Mayo Sustainability Forum will take place on Monday 2nd August with keynote speaker, Nicole Foss, presenting her talk ‘Making Sense of the Global Financial Crises in the Era of Peak Oil’ - to date this is her only engagement in the West of Ireland. The venue will be the Linenhall Theatre in Castlebar, & will begin at 7pm. Admission is free. read full story / add a comment
dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Thursday July 22, 2010 10:12 by Choice Ireland
Choice Ireland will be holding the latest in a series of demos against the rogue crisis pregnancy agency WRC at 50 Upper Dorset Street this Saturday at 1pm. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Wednesday July 21, 2010 18:16 by Dorothy Gale
Right-wing think tanks that deny climate change is even happening are advocating climate engineering to fix it. Don't listen to them. Full text of article by Clive Hamilton at link. IN 1892 Edvard Munch witnessed a blood-red sunset over Oslo, Norway. Shaken by it, he wrote in his diary that he felt "a great, unending scream piercing through nature". The incident inspired him to create his most famous painting, The Scream. The striking sunset was probably caused by the eruption of Krakatoa, which sent a massive plume of ash and gas into the upper atmosphere, turning sunsets red around the globe and cooling the Earth by more than a degree. Now a powerful group of scientists, venture capitalists and conservative think tanks is coalescing around the idea of reproducing this cooling effect by injecting sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere to counter climate change. Despite the enormity of what is being proposed - nothing less than seizing control of the climate - the public has been almost entirely excluded from the planning. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 20, 2010 11:42 by Sean Keir Moriarty
2 comments (last - wednesday july 21, 2010 22:21)
Dear Prime Minister Cowen, Over the course of the past three (3) years, I've written you, Mr. Gormley, the members of Dáil Éireann, the Meath County Council, archaeologists at NUI Galway, UC Dublin, UC Cork, The Heritage Council, The Discovery Programme and the OPW on numerous occasions regarding my research paper, 'Orthostat, the Mound of the Hostages'. http://www.knowth.com/tara-pdf.htm The purpose for doing so was to convince The Heritage Council, The Discovery Programme & OPW to complete the geo-physical mapping of Tara, which I have no doubt will confirm the hypothesis set forth in my paper, that the symbols carved on Orthostat L2 within the Mound of the Hostages, constitute a map of the Hill of Tara, as it existed during the Neolithic Age. ( ca. 3200 BC) The response I received from The Discovery Programme was that "no one here is compet read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday July 19, 2010 16:23 by Ciaron O'Reilly
11 comments (last - monday august 09, 2010 21:02)
It was over a decade since Chris Cole and I had been at the gates of British Aerospace (BAE) Warton in Lancashire, England. That was back in the day when BAE were making their money from butchering East Timorese. read full story / add a comment
donegal / miscellaneous / event notice Monday July 19, 2010 16:16 by Séamus Mac Lochlainn
This Saturday 24th July 2010 two activists, Dr Fintan Lane and Fiachra Ó Luain willl address a public meeting in Donegal Town. The event is being organised by the North West Solidarity Network. The event will take place at 3pm in the Central Hotel in Donegal Town. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday July 19, 2010 15:55 by Paddy Hackett
1 comment (last - tuesday july 20, 2010 16:23)
The left and the right are the same. They merely perform different political and ideological functions. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday July 19, 2010 11:51 by Greg T
Thursday 22nd July @ 7.30PM in Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2 Ask at the Central Hotel Desk for directions to the meeting.. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Sunday July 18, 2010 18:37 by MN
3 comments (last - monday july 19, 2010 05:14)
For Immediate Publication. Two suicide bombings outside a mosque in Zahedan on Thursday 15 July 2010 have left scores dead and hundreds wounded. As well as the two suicide bombers and members of the Pasdaran Army, casualties included many ordinary people. The bombings have led to fears among the people and have allowed the Islamic regime to step up its militarisation of the city and of the whole region. The group Jundullah has claimed responsibility, publishing photos of two young people said to be the bombers. The group said the bombings were in retaliation for the recent execution of the group’s leader Abdolmalek Rigi, as well as in support of the “Sunni people”. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday July 18, 2010 16:10 by Dublin Basque
2 comments (last - thursday september 16, 2010 12:58)
BASQUE FOOD, MUSIC, EXHIBITION SHORT VIDEOS AND FEATURE FILMS. IRISH AND BASQUE MUSIC CONCERT. 12 noon to 12 midnight Saturday 18th September IONAD AN PHIARSAIGH, THE PEARSE CENTRE, Institiúid na hÉireann, The Ireland Institute, 27 Sráid an Phiarsaigh, 27 Pearse Street, Baile Átha Cliath 2. Dublin 2. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday July 18, 2010 16:04 by Laura Broxson
Foie gras is illegal to produce in Ireland - so why is it acceptable to import and sell it? HELP US GET FOIE GRAS OUT OF IRELAND! read full story / add a comment
galway / consumer issues / other press Sunday July 18, 2010 14:31 by gníomhaí
If you're based in Galway come and get good local food from the veg garden in Woodlands, Renmore (beside Brothers of Charity and Gaelscoil Dara) read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Saturday July 17, 2010 10:42 by Film Qlub
The Dublin Film Qlub is pleased to announce its September screening... A selection of shorts from the silent era, from the hilarious to the sublime! read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Saturday July 17, 2010 09:48 by Susan Anthony
Established in 1977, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) www.seashepehrd.org is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organisation. Our mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world's oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Saturday July 17, 2010 00:14 by Laurence Cox
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donegal / anti-capitalism / press release Friday July 16, 2010 18:01 by éirígí Tir Chonaill
1 comment (last - saturday july 17, 2010 17:19)
A call has come for support of Pat O'Donnell and those protesting against the actions of Shell in County Mayo, and for the nationalization of Irish oil and gas for the benefit of the Irish people. read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / event notice Friday July 16, 2010 10:54 by Film Qlub
Do you like Books? Would you like to know more about DICKENS, WILDE, WOOLF, BRONTË... and other classic writers? Are you interested in how radical and conservative ideas shape culture? We have the course for you! “19th and 20th Century Literature: A Grand Tour ” DATE & TIME: Mondays 7:30-9:30pm, 27 Sep-6 Dec (10 evening classes) LOCATION: Adult Education Centre, UCD Buses 10, 11, 46A... 20 min walk from DART. INFORMATION: 01-7167123, www.ucd.ie/adulted/ PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE OF LITERATURE IS NOT REQUIRED. A LOVE OF BOOKS IS ESSENTIAL. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Friday July 16, 2010 10:43 by Film Qlub
A hypnotic thriller, 'Different from the Others' is also a remarkable historical document. The flourishing of art and activism in Germany in the early years of the twentieth century came to a dramatic close in 1933, when the Nazi regime began to systematically destroy books, artworks, and films they considered too provocative or ‘decadent’. This extraordinary film miraculously survived, in a damaged copy which was discovered in 1979, and restored with the help of stills. 'Different from the Others' is a landmark in gay/human rights filmmaking, and this is a rare opportunity to watch it on the screen. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday July 15, 2010 20:02 by climate camp dublin
A screening of a short documentary about Climate Camp Ireland 2009 and a collection of other shorts from previous Climate Camps in other countries accompanied by a brief talk about what Irish Climate is and where/what it will be this year. There will also be a chance to ask questions of some of the people involved. The main film is 20 minutes along and the others are between five and twelve minutes. read full story / add a comment |
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