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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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A housing officer was sacked for being a Reform UK candidate and reposting a Daily Telegraph cartoon after being told Reform?s policies on immigration and Net Zero were "in direct conflict" with his employer's "values".
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offsite link Trudeau?s Prorogation of Parliament is a Mistake He Must Be Allowed to Make Fri Jan 10, 2025 13:18 | Dr James Allan
Justin Trudeau wants to prorogue Parliament to buy time before the election. Voters will punish him for it, says Prof James Allan, but it's a mistake he must be allowed to make without activist judges getting in the way.
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offsite link The Significance of Jordan Peterson Fri Jan 10, 2025 11:00 | James Alexander
Jordan Peterson should make his mind up about Christianity, critics say. Prof James Alexander disagrees: he's a profound Jungian explorer who wants to help a secularised world see why Christianity still matters.
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday November 25, 2009 11:10 by Irish Basque Solidarity Committees
SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS,
STOP REPRESSION IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues / event notice Wednesday November 25, 2009 10:15 by Residents Against Racism   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 11:29)
This Friday 27th of November in the Teachers Club read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday November 25, 2009 09:03 by Martin O'Sullivan
The motion for debate is: this house believes that globalisation puts profits before people.

Arguing for the motion will be Richard Boyd Barrett of the People Before Profit Alliance, Dr. Colin Coulter, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at NUI Maynooth, and Dr. Andy Storey of the School of Politics and International Relations at UCD. Andy is also chairperson of the peace and justice group Action from Ireland (Afri). read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday November 24, 2009 19:21 by Basque Info   text 2 comments (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 11:06)
In the early hours of today 34 Basque pro-independence political activists were arrested and 92 properties were searched by 650 Spanish policemen. read full story / add a comment
limerick / racism & migration related issues / other press Tuesday November 24, 2009 17:47 by Pat
Enda Kenny is being criticised for taking a soft approach to the deportation controversy caused by Mayor of Limerick, Fine Gael Councillor Kevin Kiely. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday November 24, 2009 16:36 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather reports on action by workers at the Abadan oil refinery in Iran who have not been paid for months. Yassamine also writes about the Coordinating Committee to Form Workers’ Organisations and the Charter of the Fundamental Demands of the Working Class of Iran. Full text at link

The refinery authorities associated with what remains of the state-owned Iran National Oil company say the workers are employed by a contractor and they cannot do anything about their demands. The protest followed a strike by the whole workforce of 450 involved in the development of Bandar Abbas Oil refinery. This was their third walkout in less than three months and the strike is continuing. The Iranian government’s privatisation plans are notoriously corrupt and generally help empower and enrich the Islamic Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards). But in the oil industry it is different from elsewhere. Privatisation has been undertaken with the aim of dividing workers and hampering national negotiations over wages and conditions, in the knowledge that for oil workers deployed in various sectors of the industry, working for so many different contractors, it would be impossible to negotiate common terms and conditions. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday November 24, 2009 16:35 by Kenny G
Thanks to the SpunOut.ie team, myself and a friend found ourselves with a once in a lifetime opportunity. We had won a competition to see Noam Chomsky speak.

The night to see Chomsky came and we were not sure what to expect, having only Chomsky’s Youtube broadcasts as a rough guide. As soon as he begun speaking though, our imaginations started firing. We listened to a man who spoke about what our hearts had told us, but what the world around us had convinced us not to believe. read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / press release Tuesday November 24, 2009 15:12 by maire   text 21 comments (last - wednesday december 23, 2009 00:17)
While we all reel in horror at what has happened to the inhabitants in Cork City because of flooding' why on earth has it taken 8 years and hundreds of thousands of euros for the inhabitants of the harbour of Cork to get someone in planning to recognise that building a toxic or municipal plant on a flooding site on a crumbling coastline at a time of climate change is lunacy.

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national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Tuesday November 24, 2009 13:19 by PRO Workers Solidarity Movement
Anarchist organisation Workers Solidarity Movement has congratulated public sector workers who took part in today’s 24-hour work stoppage and called for further stoppages “in order to force a change of direction from the government”. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / other press Tuesday November 24, 2009 10:42 by Dave Lordan   text 3 comments (last - thursday december 17, 2009 17:55)
Seeking to diversify in an era of ever tightening margins in the book trade the esteemed publisher Faber and Faber is moving into the lucrative, and unregulated, area of creative writing classes. read full story / add a comment
galway / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday November 23, 2009 23:12 by conor burke
public meeting discussing the next steps to defeating the government cuts and attacks on ordinary working people ,after the public sector day of strike action this tuesday(24th) read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Monday November 23, 2009 16:39 by Contaminated Crow
Five masts, a mushroom plant, a waste facility and golf club dunes read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Monday November 23, 2009 15:51 by Food Fight!
Food Fight! Present:
Film Screening:

Soylent Green (USA 1973 English Language 97mins)
It's the year 2022... People are still the same. They'll do anything to get what they need. And they need SOYLENT GREEN.

In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff.

A tale of Earth in despair in 2022. Natural food like fruits, vegetables, and meat among others are now extinct. Earth is overpopulated and New York City has 40 million starving, poverty stricken people. The only way they survive is with water rations and eating a mysterious food called Soylent. A detective investigates the murder of the president of the Soylent company. The truth he uncovers is more disturbing than the Earth in turmoil when he learns the secret ingredient of Soylent Green. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday November 23, 2009 15:03 by centre for public-cultures
Invitation-All Welcome:
‘Baby, it’s cold outside’: the Humanities and the Post- Credit Crunch Economy.
As part of its on-going commitment to the project of ‘Enabling Dissent: the Creation of a Civil Society’, The Centre for Public Culture Studies, IADT, is hosting a special event on the 2nd of December 2009. Date: Wednesday, the 2nd of December, 6.30 to 8.30 pm, in a019, Atrium, at IADT. To book a place: email [email protected]. To email questions for the panel: email [email protected]
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday November 23, 2009 13:08 by David L   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 15:35)
Thur 26th Nov - IPSC Dublin Discussion Evening: NGOs and the De-politicisation of the Palestinian Struggle

7.30pm, Upstairs in Connolly Books, 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

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national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday November 23, 2009 11:23 by Alan MacSimóin   text 6 comments (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 17:40)
Working people hit the streets in huge numbers on November 6th. The protests showed, once again, that there is a willingness to resist the government’s attacks on living standards. Most observers put the total number who walked out of work to take part in the eight protests at around 100,000. read full story / add a comment
wicklow / arts and media / event notice Monday November 23, 2009 10:59 by Wayne Flanagan Tobin   text 1 comment (last - monday november 23, 2009 14:12)
Public Meeting called over fears arts funding may be cut. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Sunday November 22, 2009 19:58 by Bazooka Joe   text 4 comments (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 13:29)
Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents of prominent American and British climate researchers hacked from a computer server at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday November 22, 2009 16:10 by Solidarity   text 5 comments (last - friday june 18, 2010 23:12)
On November 16, 1989, an elite unit of the Salvadoran military entered the gates of the Jesuit-run Central American University in San Salvador. When they left, six Jesuit priests lay dead, along with their housekeeper and her teenage daughter.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday November 22, 2009 14:46 by Andrew
A Bolivian state TV broadcast of mobile phone video that appears to show Flores, Dwyer, Arpad etc discussing a missed opportunity to blow up Morala's and his cabanet on Lake Titicaca
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT-ErWIpDC4

A pretty detailed summary of events at http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6178 includes what appears to be this transcript from the video "Shit, if only I had known in time about the government session in Titicaca the other day. I would have sent one of these guys (an image of his comrades Dwyer and Arpak, along with Tadic next to a column, appears) in scuba gear to blow up the boat. Every single last one, every single last one of them was there; not one was missing," Rózsa says with the boastfulness of a leader. "
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