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national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday February 03, 2007 17:24 by Liberates
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Today marks the fourth anniversary of the Pitstop Ploughshares action at Shannon Airport in which a US navy plane was decommissioned with the aid of tools and symbols of peace. This five-part article by Harry Browne charts the journey of the action from inception to acquittal, and in turn, paints a portrait of each of the five activists who sacrificed so much, that others might not suffer. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday February 03, 2007 16:06 by pat c
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Conscription never went away you know. It just became Economic Conscription. It is Working Class kids who will die in the war for oil. Sixteen-year-old Cara is particularly keen. "They told us about the pay, and it's way better than all my cousins are getting," she says. Don't forget : James Connolly first came to Ireland in the uniform of a British Soldier, he was an Economic Conscript. pat c Britain's child army Stricken by Iraq and low morale, the British army is on a desperate recruitment drive. Its new targets? Poorly educated teenagers and young schoolchildren On a winter day, 38 schoolchildren gather at Fulwood Barracks in Preston. They are aged between 14 and 16 they have been bussed over from a poorly performing comprehensive in a deprived area. The teachers who have come along with them seem apprehensive. Many of these kids can be unruly; others are quiet but don't perform well in class. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Saturday February 03, 2007 15:41 by jay
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We the undersigned note call on the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and the Department of Transport to invest in facilities to encourage the pursuit of cycling in Ireland. It is now 20 years since Stephen Roche won the Tour de France and in that time car dependency has been encouraged at the expense of cycling. More teenagers drive to school than cycle. To encourage cycling in Ireland, we call for more cycle lanes, cycle tracks to encourage cycling at all ages and a national velodrome with a cycling academy to find a new generation of world class cyclists in Ireland. We need your support! read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality / news report Saturday February 03, 2007 13:41 by Julia Doherty
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Recent legislative proposals to have the age of consent lowered from 17 to 16 have been met by opposition from the Catholic bishops. A committee on child protection in the Dail put forward the suggestion, an effort to resolve the controversy caused by the laws on statutory rape that were introduced in the summer. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday February 03, 2007 01:19 by Con Connor
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How can we stop our corrupt governance from destroying our unique heritage that is the Gaelic Celtic Royal City of Tara? Nice letters to the corrupt media? Answering Pat Kenny's questions - do you live on Tara? By asking Meath Co Co to stop the NRA? By telling everyone that the forced double troll road will not fix the designed transport problem? Protests? Listening to unqualified sham lawyers? Signing petitions? I dont think so - the corrupt governance of this country is steered by the most devious of them all - bad bertie and he only listens to bad bad bush. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday February 02, 2007 19:35 by Sean Crudden
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When Louis XIV made the statement "L’etat c’est moi" (I am the state) he diminished himself because whatever way you think about it the state is a smaller and less important thing than any one of its individual citizens. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Friday February 02, 2007 19:17 by Terence
It has been revealed in a report in today's Guardian newspaper that Scientists have been recently offered bribes of $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today. read full story / add a comment
limerick / miscellaneous / press release Friday February 02, 2007 17:15 by Limerick Socialist Youth
• Minister for Education finally promises to fund upgrade of Ardscoil Ris • Keep up the pressure to make sure the promised Ardscoil Ris building is financed • Upgrade all Limerick schools to accommodate the growing need for places • Provide new school places for the new housing developments read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday February 01, 2007 17:20 by VLPS
VLP upcoming Meetings read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday February 01, 2007 15:54 by Global Women's Strike
On Monday 5th February Lt. Ehren Watada the 1st commissioned officer of the US Army to refuse to go to Iraq faces military court martial. His mother, Carolyn Ho, has appealed for international support. We invite everyone who can make it to join us at our events or take action wherever you are. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Thursday February 01, 2007 15:05 by Fred Johnston - Manager
A new online literary magazine aimed at "creating a space for fiction and poetry to examine a common social or cultural theme . . ." read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday February 01, 2007 12:23 by Ireland plc
Mrs Thatcher once said 'there was no such thing as society or community', and she dedicated her years in power to destroying many working class communities, through privatisation and closure of industries, and the depletion of council public housing stock by promoting private property ownership. In Thatchers tiny insulated world of isolated inward looking, nuclear family units, living in detached or semi detached private properties, whose only opportunity for socialising is through the workplace, and only allegiance is to their isolated families, and making money. Hence the abundance of programmes on tv promoting buying houses, selling us the capitalist dream. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday February 01, 2007 05:30 by Nom de guerre
The Dublin Branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign will mount a public information demonstration/stall outside the Grafton Group's Atlantic Homecare outlet in Sandyford on Saturday 3rd February. read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday February 01, 2007 05:19 by Mary G.
The Limerick Branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign will mount a public information demonstration/stall outside the Grafton Group's Atlantic Homecare outlet on Childers Road in Limerick on Saturday 3rd February. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / event notice Wednesday January 31, 2007 20:53 by m.c.
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This is the next stop of the Book Tour around Ireland. Special guest Michael D. Higgins will launch OUR STORY THE ROSSPORT FIVE. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday January 31, 2007 19:00 by Ciarán
A special function featuring a video presentation and music from the world famous protest singer David Rovics (all the way from the US) with Ireland's own Terry 'Cruncher' O'Neill & Barry Kerr read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday January 31, 2007 15:51 by pat c
What other uses will be found for "Anti-Terrorist" surveilance equipment? A thought-provoking article here. Full text at the url at the end of the page. pat c read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday January 31, 2007 12:03 by Rimbaud
A lawyer for a gay Muslim from Lebanon says a new German law should be used to grant the man asylum in Germany. The case prompts debate about how homosexuality is treated in Muslim nations and in Europe. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / press release Wednesday January 31, 2007 01:25 by Bernie Wright
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Animal rights group call on Environment minister to discontinue Stag- hunt licensing, Demonstration Wednesday 31st January, Time 12.45-2pm. Department of Environment Custom House Dublin.1. The AOHS are issuing a renewed call for the Ward Union’s hunting license to be revoked by the Minister Dick Roche. ‘ In the aftermath of this weeks serious safety risk to children, the terror and ultimate death of a hunted stag , the property damage and disruption of a small village due to stag hunting, we want stag hunting ended permanently now.’ Minister Roche is responsible for issuing the permit to the Ward Union to hunt stag, which really is an exemption to the Wildlife Act, granted to Ireland’s one and only Carted Stag Hunt Club read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday January 30, 2007 22:14 by Socialist Youth
Serving soldiers join mass demonstrations Anti-war activists dubbed this a "peace surge" against Bush's escalation of the war. The largest of the demonstrations was in Washington, D.C., where "a raucous and colorful multitude of protesters…danced, sang, chanted and shouted their opposition" in front of the Capitol (‘Washington Post’, 1/28/07). While most estimates put the crowd in D.C. at 100-150,000, organizers for United for Peace and Justice claimed up to 500,000 attended. read full story / add a comment |
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