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Depending on which echo chamber you get your news from, this week Mark Zuckerberg took steps to either save democracy or to end it. But how far is he really going in his new commitment to free speech, asks Rebekah Barnett.
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday December 21, 2009 11:39 by Stabilo Boss   text 7 comments (last - thursday december 24, 2009 17:06)
People Before Profit Alliance councillors to oppose cuts in Council budgets
Protest at Dublin City Hall, Monday December 21, 6.15 pm
Removal of waivers for bin charges to hit social welfare recipients read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday December 21, 2009 11:04 by pat c   text 8 comments (last - thursday april 08, 2010 14:20)
The truth is out! Those who revealed that the Israelis were harvesting the organs of palestinians were denounced as anti-Semites. But now Dr Jehuda Hiss, former head of Israel's Abu Kabir forensic institute has admitted its true. The Israeli military say they stopped doing this a decade ago. Who would believe them? Full text at link.

Israel has admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission of their families. The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel's Abu Kabir forensic institute, Dr Jehuda Hiss. The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic, who released it because of a huge controversy last summer over an allegation by a Swedish newspaper that Israel was killing Palestinians in order to harvest their organs. Israel hotly denied the charge. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday December 20, 2009 17:06 by Fintan Lane
IRELAND PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN

PRESS RELEASE, 20/12/09

Irish citizens travel to Middle East in Christmas bid to break Israeli blockade on Gaza

Following several months of fundraising, four teams from across Ireland departed on Saturday, 5 December, to travel 4,000 miles across land to Gaza in Palestine to deliver ambulances and humanitarian aid to the besieged people of that tiny region. Concerned Irish citizens from Cork, Derry, Dublin, Galway and Tyrone are bringing two ambulances, a mini-bus, and a truck filled with over 10 tonnes of humanitarian aid.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday December 20, 2009 15:08 by John Cornford
Yassamine Mather and Chris Strafford write on how internal squabbles continue to plague the Islamist Regime. Meanwhile the opposition movement continues to radicalise and surge ahead. They point to need to oppose sanctions against Iran saying: Sanctions against Iran are a stepping stone to military aggression. Full text at link.

Each day that goes by, the gap between the protesters and the leaders of the ‘green movement’ increases. The statements of Moussavi, Khatami and Karroubi expressing allegiance to Khomeini will not go down well with many of their own supporters. Moussavi is clearly concerned that he is losing control of the protests, as he keeps warning everyone about the threat of “radicalism”. On Monday December 15 he said: “If people’s questions were answered and they were not confronted violently, we would not see some of the controversial moves today ... People want an end to the security-obsessed atmosphere: in such an atmosphere radicalism grows.” read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday December 19, 2009 10:42 by RSF
The very idea that the future of Shannon Airport should be dependent on American conflict around the world is the latest U turn from the Green Party in Clare, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Fein said today.

Paddy Kenneally from Crusheen, a party spokesman in North Clare said that the latest statement by the Green Party Councillor Brian Meany in relation to the future of Shannon Airport is an insult to all the Irish people who have campaigned against imperialism and American military expansionism.

To say that more American troop carrying planes should transit Shannon Airport and that the Airport should go after this business is an appalling statement to make. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday December 19, 2009 09:38 by Cathal   text 1 comment (last - saturday december 19, 2009 14:36)
The Irish Times has published some quotes from emails between the Department of Finance and the IMF. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday December 18, 2009 21:59 by John Hurson   text 3 comments (last - saturday december 19, 2009 12:54)
On the 27th of December, 10 Irish people in 3 vehicles loaded with humanitarian aid will attempt
to cross into Gaza. They will have spent 3 weeks on the road, and cover over 4,000 miles.
They form part of a 250 vehicle convoy, driven by people from all over the World. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday December 18, 2009 11:42 by pat c
Professors Mario Barbieri, Maurizio Barbieri & Paola Manduca have prepared a a report which shows that the 2006 and 2009 Israeli bombing has left Gaza in a dangerous copndition for its inhabitants. Not just from unexploded bombs but also from toxic metals in the soils. Full text at link.

The 2006 and 2009 Israeli bombings in Gaza Strip have left a high concentration of toxic metals in the soil. Those metals can cause tumours and problems with fertility, and they can have serious effects on newly born babies, like deformities and genetic pathologies. The metals are in particular tungsten, mercury, molybdenum, cadmium and cobalt.

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clare / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday December 16, 2009 20:38 by Fred Johnston   text 3 comments (last - monday december 21, 2009 19:59)
The Green Party have managed to lose even more credibility, if that were possible, by reiterating their belief that the US military presence in Shannon - which is PERMANENT, lest we forget - is good for the region read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday December 16, 2009 17:55 by Makhno
Yassamine Mather and Chris Srafford write on the developing unrest in Iran. They say its no longer just a matter of the leadership: the future of the Islamic Republic of Iran is in question. Full text at link.

The 56th anniversary of the murder of three students by the shah's security forces during vice president Richard Nixon?s visit to Tehran in 1953 may prove to be the last Students Day commemorated under the heel of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Hundreds of thousands of students, youth and workers took to the streets in protest against the regime and the barbaric repression meted out since the June elections.People taking part in the various actions carried Iranian flags, but without the Islamic Republic's sign of Allah, showing that the movement is moving beyond the slogans of the "reformists".
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday December 16, 2009 14:30 by pat c
Paul Roberts writes on the continuing campaign of Ethnic Cleansing carried out against the Palestinian People. Not just by the state of Israel: Zionists Planters are alloed to carry out attacks on Palestinians and to destroy their property with impunity. Full text at link.

“Settlers attack West Bank mosque and burn holy Muslim books” was a London Times headline on December 11, 2009.

These attacks, together with the demolition of Palestinian homes, the uprooting of Palestinians’ olive groves, the innumerable checkpoints that prevent Palestinians from accessing schools, work, and medical care, the Israeli Wall that denies Palestinians access to the land stolen from them, and the isolation and blockade of the Gaza Ghetto, are part of the Israeli government’s policy of genocide for the Palestinians. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday December 15, 2009 21:00 by Paul McAndrew
Screening on Friday 18th Dec.
The Other Place Community Centre, 8 South Main Street.
7.30pm for 8.00pm, €5 on door. read full story / add a comment
galway / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Tuesday December 15, 2009 19:59 by Fred Johnston   text 2 comments (last - monday december 21, 2009 20:08)
In a move that belongs to the X-Files, Galway City Council have granted €25,000 to kick start a display of US and UK warplanes . . . .but no one asked them to! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday December 15, 2009 15:45 by Mina   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 15, 2009 15:55)
Here are extracts from a report by Amnesty International which documents the outrages carried out by Iranian militia and police. Vids and the full text is at the link.

Human rights violations in Iran are now as bad as at any time in the past 20 years, Amnesty International has said in a new report on the aftermath of last June’s presidential election.

"The Iranian leadership must ensure that the many allegations of torture, including rape, unlawful killings and other abuses are fully and independently investigated," said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy Director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Programme.
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national / crime and justice / news report Tuesday December 15, 2009 14:32 by damh   text 8 comments (last - thursday december 17, 2009 18:59)
Justice in erris.

Is clean water and fresh air and a safe enironment to live in now considered a passionate belief ?

One would wonder how to interprate judge Haughton's concluding words in court on thurs, last before he sent Maura Harrington to jail for 9 months. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday December 15, 2009 13:10 by Amnesty Ireland   text 2 comments (last - wednesday december 16, 2009 01:31)
The Irish Government is failing children with mental health difficulties. Urgent reform of the mental health system for children and young people under 18 years is desperately needed.

In response, the Children’s Rights Alliance and Amnesty International Ireland have brought together 38 NGOs to form the Children’s Mental Health Coalition. The newly formed Coalition is today launching a manifesto and website www.childrensmentalhealth.ie to demand action from the Government. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday December 15, 2009 05:44 by Rose Kelleher   text 3 comments (last - wednesday december 23, 2009 11:53)
The Government in Nepal is set for stormy weather in the coming days as the Maoists declare autonomous states despite protest from the leading party. As the country tries to hammer out a constitution and introduce some long-awaited stability, ordinary citizens are worried about rising tension and continuing strikes. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Monday December 14, 2009 19:16 by Laura Broxson
Hi,

We'll be having anti-fur demonstrations on Saturday 19th December. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Monday December 14, 2009 16:44 by Contaminated Crow
A quarry, a technology park, a mast, a recycling centre and turf cutting read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday December 14, 2009 11:28 by KSI
Gathering on Wednesday 16th outside Turkish Embassy at 1pm. read full story / add a comment
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