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cork / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday September 03, 2008 21:46 by EDA Cork
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere even though Haiti was the second country to get independence (the first black republic) with the USA being the first. Since then Haiti has never really progressed compared to the countries surrounding her. Haiti shares an island with the Dominican Republic and the difference between the two countries is extraordinary. Haiti has 300,000 street children. Over 42% of the Haitien population is under the age of 14 and the country has an unemployed rate of over 70%. The life expectancy of men and women is in now in their late forties. The average salary would be around 2 US dollars a day and now a large sack of rice is around 40 US dollars this having increased from 27 US dollars only since the beginning of 2007. read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-capitalism / press release Wednesday September 03, 2008 19:52 by RSF
The Minister has made a career out of stating the obvious but this time he has surpassed himself. While he accepts that the increased fuel bills are causing concern, the Minister then states that his colleague Mary Hanafin is monitoring the impact on pensioners. In fact there is no need to monitor anything – the price rises in both gas and electricity and in the basic cost of a bag of coal are breath-taking and will force many pensioners to go without adequate warmth this winter. A bag of coal is now eighteen euro. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday September 03, 2008 18:36 by Ciaron O'Reily
The "Hammered by the Irish" gig at the Lower Deck previously publicised for (at "Electric Picnic" & elsewhere) for 7.30 pm Thursday S18 has been moved to 7.30pm Thursday Oct. 9th. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday September 03, 2008 18:32 by Dexter
The Connolly Youth Movement's "Working Class School of Politics" is launching another course starting this coming Monday 8th of September at 6pm in Connolly Bookshop, East Essex Street, Temple Bar. Classes taking place every two weeks. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday September 03, 2008 10:35 by Red Banner
Issue 33 of Red Banner is available now at €2 / £1.50 from bookshops or from the address above read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday September 02, 2008 22:40 by Fachtna Ahoy.
Manchester Pc Daniel Gaffney was jailed today for 12 weeks for assaulting of 12 year old boy in custody. The kid (who can't be named for "protective" reasons) had been arrested at a children's home where he alledgedly had been drinking vodka. PC Gaffney was bringing him to be strip-searched when feeling "intimidated" he hit the boy so hard that a custody sergeant thought his nose was broken. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday September 02, 2008 22:00 by Shop Steward
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Grassroots Shop Stewards and Union Activists Conference on: Re-Building Trade Union Activism Saturday 20th September Venue: UNITE Hall, Middle Abbey St, Dublin 1. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / event notice Tuesday September 02, 2008 19:29 by ALiberation
Please see for story: (http://www.indymedia.ie/article/88886) When : 3rd of Sept 2008. Time : 1pm Where : Japanese Embassy Nutley Building Merrion Square Nutley Lane Dublin 4 Phone: 086 3203643, Ed Email: [email protected] read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday September 02, 2008 17:09 by Children in Crossfire
axis, Ballymun presents 'CATALPA' axis, Ballymun presents 'CATALPA' In aid of Children in Crossfire Thursday, 18th September written and performed by Donal O'Kelly read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday September 02, 2008 00:54 by Students
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More than 50 students stormed the gates of the Department of Education in Dublin this afternoon, in protest against any reintroduction of third level fees. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / event notice Monday September 01, 2008 22:58 by John
The Belfast Branch of the Workers Solidarity Movement and Anarchist Black Cross will be holding an emergency picket outside Belfast City Hall at 5.30 tomorrow (2nd September) in support of anarchist prisoner Amadeu who has been on hungerstrike for more than 70 days. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Monday September 01, 2008 22:57 by O. O'C.
The Oireachtas voted the Commission over €5 million to enable it do its job of informing citizens what the Lisbon referendum was about. Rarely can public money have been spent to such ill effect. The Commission spent €2.7 on media advertising. It paid An Post €1 million to deliver 2.2 million information handbooks to households. In the circumstances it was a democratic miracle that the majority of Irish voters rejected the proposal to amend the Irish Constitution. If the Commission had done the job it was statutorily required to do, the No-side majority would almost certainly have been much larger, for people would have learned of the constitutional revolution which Lisbon proposed, instead of being kept in ignorance of it. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday September 01, 2008 14:31 by Breandán
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Sat. Aug 30, 2008. Saint Paul, Minnesota Police Department raided a home at 951 Iglehart Avenue at gunpoint. The lawyers and journalists who were in target of the raid include a contributing photojournalist with "Democracy Now", whose host Amy Goodman appears in a video clip jumping a fence to question police officers. This is part of a series of police actions on the eve of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. After several hours, all those detained were released. No arrests. No property was seized as result of the search warrant. The clip ends with an interview with homeowner Mike Whalen. At the start of the clip, a neighbor shouts to the media and onlookers that they could all come into her backyard to see the detained people held in the adjacent backyard. Some video footage of the police raid here http://the-uptake.groups.theuptake.org/en/videogalleryView/id/647/ read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday September 01, 2008 14:21 by d
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Protest Wednesday 3rd Sept 9.30 am outside the High Court, Belfast. Bring placards and banners read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Monday September 01, 2008 14:14 by solidarity
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The newspaper of the Basque independence & armed struggle tradition "Gara" has carried an interview with Amadeu's mother & his lawyer on the weekend which they reflected on the release of the leader of Batasuna Arnaldo Otegi, & his call for dialogue and prisoner support. A translation to English of that Gara interview is included in this news piece on the ongoing campaigns. Street activity, stencils, graffitis etc., are increasingly visible. International anarcho-solidarity has seen embassies and consuls picketed in South America & even Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday August 31, 2008 22:25 by RogY
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday August 31, 2008 21:23 by James
Some things in life are pretty obvious. One is that you don’t attack a heavily armed gang that outnumbers you 30 to 1. So what was Georgian leadership thinking when it ordered an attack on South Ossetia? There can be no question that they thought they would be able to defeat Russia. There are, after all, limits to human idiocy. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday August 31, 2008 20:51 by Laura Broxson
HELP US GET FUR OUT OF IRELAND! read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / press release Sunday August 31, 2008 18:29 by Niall Harnett
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Text of press release issued this afternoon by Shell to Sea regarding the presence of the Irish Naval Service's warship the LÉ ORLA in Broadhaven Bay, Co. Mayo, as an auxiliary to the Gardaí and Shell Security. Please read main body text for details. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Sunday August 31, 2008 13:23 by Contaminated Crow
This week: five dumps and three quarries read full story / add a comment |
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