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national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 30, 2006 22:19 by Chris Murray   text 1 comment (last - thursday june 01, 2006 09:35)


The publication of the Arts act 2003, by ex Minister for justice , Equality and Law reform , Mr John O Donoghue TD only received passing comment by corporate media at the time. The Irish Times referred to the Act in Terms of Dilution of the independence of the Arts Council by the new act which for the first time since the foundation of the State allowed a Minister or the Government to set the agenda for artistic expression in the State.
The full act is available at this Link:
http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/acts/2003/a2...3.pdf
or you can google Arts acts 2003.

In sections here printed;

(functions of the Council).

"(Shall) Assist the Minister in the performance of his or her functions under the act and in the implementation of Government policies and objectives in relation to the Arts. When so requested by the Minister" read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations / event notice Tuesday May 30, 2006 21:26 by Coordination de Strasbourg contre la précarité
We invite you to take part in the European Coordination against precariousness on June 9th, 10th and 11th at Strasburg’s universities, to create a resistance network and european-scale common action projects. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday May 30, 2006 15:14 by John Black   text 4 comments (last - sunday february 11, 2007 20:46)
I have sent the following letter to the various leaders involved with the Peace Process in Northern Ireland. I am asking for an explaination, why the people of Ulster are being forced into allowing known terrorists, to help govern the country that they have tried to destroy for thirty years. As yet I have not received a reply from any of them. Is the question to difficult to answer or maybe there isn't one. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday May 30, 2006 14:27 by Kevin Higgins
The next meeting of the Fiction Clinic, led by Susan Millar DuMars, will take place on Saturday, June 10th 2-5pm at 3, Carbry Road, Newcastle, Galway. Parking is available. For further details contact Susan on 087-9428540 or Kevin Higgins on 087-6431748. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / press release Tuesday May 30, 2006 14:06 by Poetry News
Life Lines, a 74-minute poetry CD in aid of Oxfam will be launched in London next week. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday May 30, 2006 13:38 by chris murray   text 5 comments (last - wednesday may 31, 2006 13:01)
"East Timor has fallen , Total Chaos" read full story / add a comment
leitrim / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 30, 2006 13:13 by woman   text 9 comments (last - sunday march 30, 2008 16:46)
Historic movies about ireland seem to always make it big on the big screen but at what costs? Whose authorisation is required ? What about the famine? The mass grave where 5000 poor of the district were buried near my house is also a story to tell! Why can't a fim maker make a movie about the great famine? So that Irish Americans can see what their forefathers lived through before emigrating to the USA. This is a story that needs to be told! From the fact that the people were to starve, food supplies they needed withdrawn from them, workhouses, emigration aboard coffun ships etc. The world needs to know!!! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday May 30, 2006 13:05 by T   text 3 comments (last - wednesday may 31, 2006 15:35)
This is an important but disturbing video from Portland which shows the way the cops film people in the crowd at demonstrations and go out of their way to zoom in on particular features so as to identify people who are just exercising their democratic rights. They also go out of their way to instruct their camera crews to follow and film anyone who is masked up or covering their face in any way. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday May 30, 2006 12:02 by Feirsteach   text 1 comment (last - monday july 17, 2006 12:46)
EVENT CANCELLED

A spokesperson for the organisers says that the Mullingar Summer Camp went ahead, but that the Finglas event is cancelled. The Irish-language youth organisation FEACHTAS is bringing an Irish-language summer camp to Finglas for the first time ever. The week-long pilot summer camp will commence on the 17th of July and end on the Friday, the 21st of July. read full story / add a comment

international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Tuesday May 30, 2006 04:05 by Geof Bard   text 6 comments (last - thursday june 01, 2006 12:26)
American fiddle player Geof Bard, a generalist known to appear at an occasional Irish sessions on the US west coast, occasionally attacks a guitar, and has been blasting Blair on the airwaves with his fiddle and this adaptation of WIJ, a tune which is occasionally, erroneously known in the states as "Killkenny Mountain". Wildly popular with Americans, the tune lends itself well to satire. Use at will. First publication worldwide. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday May 29, 2006 20:49 by Conor J.McGowan   text 3 comments (last - sunday june 04, 2006 22:25)
The latest pamphlet from the ISN concerns the socialist movement in Italy between 1943 and 1948. It is available to download as an adobe PDF from the “pamphlets and articles” section of the ISN site. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday May 29, 2006 19:08 by Dublin Shell to Sea
Dublin Shell to Sea will hold its regular fortnightly meeting on the evening of Tuesday 30th May at 8 p.m., in the EENGO office on Camden Street, above the Bounty Stores. All welcome! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday May 29, 2006 17:08 by nano
Did I hear that word again (communist)? The comment/accusation was directed at the Timorese Prime Minister Alkatiri during an Oz ‘newscast’ – certainly puts an interesting slant on the Timor situation! I was reminded of the emerging independence of the Congo and the short life of its charismatic leader, Patrice Lumumba. The intervention of the CIA and the subsequent assassination of Patrice were entirely ‘coincidental’ events! read full story / add a comment
international / environment / event notice Monday May 29, 2006 10:02 by Caoimhín Ó Maolallaigh
Are We Changing Planet Earth?
Thu 1 Jun, 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm 60mins

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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday May 29, 2006 07:30 by alyn ap gruffydd
Veteran English Radical Film Director Ken Loach`s Film "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" gives a new historical interpretation to the Irish Civil War and Engliah Imperialism. Scottish Scriptwriter Paul Laverty is no less radical, this 8` radio interview treats the political messages in the film and offers a critique of modern day Ireland since it became the neo liberal Celtic Tiger. Music by Dead Can`t Dance and Dick Gaughan read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / press release Monday May 29, 2006 05:15 by Colectivo Incendio
Incendio
New Bi-lingual Anarchist Journal focused on Latin America!

Incendio is...

An endeavor that some of us have taken up to increase communication with anarchists in Latin America, network, learn from their struggles, illuminate opportunities for solidarity actions, provide a forum for Latin American anarchists to share ideas and analysis, break down the language barrier, and make support efforts more possible. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Sunday May 28, 2006 10:44 by Author Required   text 111 comments (last - wednesday october 18, 2006 03:33)
Today's papers carry the story of Martin McGuinness, MI6 spy. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday May 27, 2006 19:00 by Paul Doyle
Irish prisioner Aiden Hulme has been subject to shocking medical neglect since his inprisonment in England and will loose his leg if immidiate action is not taken. Join the protest! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday May 27, 2006 10:55 by JIM DEE Daily Ireland USA correspondent
Have you ever been so impressed by a documentary that you’ve recommended it to others? Retired US army colonel Ann Wright did just that on Monday – and was promptly handcuffed for engaging in “seditious” activity.

Wright’s trouble began when she set out to attend the court martial of a soldier accused in the Abu Ghraib prison abused scandal. The 29-year army veteran arrived at Fort McNair in Washington, DC, only to learn that the court martial was being held at Fort Meade in Maryland.

As she was leaving for Fort Meade, she happened upon some anti-war friends at the Fort McNair’s gate who had some postcards advertising a film called “Yes Sir, No Sir!”, which is about American soldiers’ resistance to the Vietnam War. She’d seen the movie and was very impressed, and she felt others in the military might benefit from catching it during its limited engagement in Washington this week.
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international / crime and justice / other press Saturday May 27, 2006 01:19 by £
Last weekend a story broke in the UK, of how a Home office official had offered a speedy asylum process to a Zimbabwean rape victim (18) in return for sex.

Many Irish people might have missed this, being concentrated as they were on asylum seekers in St. Patrick's cathedral, and since then Mc dowell's legal disaster which puts our children at risk and has blown the lid on the judicial treatment of underage sex and the questionable sentances handed down.

The UK story makes an interesting "compare & contrast". read full story / add a comment
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