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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday April 22, 2008 19:56 by Eugene Mc Cartan
Annual James Connolly Memorial Lecture. Saturday 10th May, Guest Speaker: Carolus Wimmer Vice-president Latin Americian Parliament International Secretary Communist Party of Venezuela. Venue Teachers Club, Parnell Square West. 2-00pm. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday April 22, 2008 13:48 by David L
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A pro-Israel pressure group is orchestrating a secret, long-term campaign to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / press release Tuesday April 22, 2008 11:12 by Michael O'Callaghan
European farming organisations, consumer cooperatives, and Non Governmental Organisations representing 50 million citizens from all 27 EU member states said today that relaxing EU laws on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) would not solve the problem of animal feed cost increases which have hit the continent’s livestock and dairy industries. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday April 22, 2008 11:07 by Stuart
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Ireland has not yet implemented the EU Directive on data retention, a set of measures full of controversy and conflicting interests. The latest draft towards an Irish implementation expands Garda powers to request data on subjects charged with offences attracting a MAXIMUM sentence of 6 months, as opposed to the previous draft in which a MINIMUM sentence of 5 years. Such a broad power would include activists charged with public order offences (obstruction, refusing to move on, placarding), permitting access to the time, number and duration of phone calls and lists of websites visited and IP addresses of data packets sent. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday April 21, 2008 22:59 by Philip Ikurusi
Henry Okah and Edward Atatah are undergoing trial in secret and this is a call for a fair and open trial. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday April 21, 2008 20:29 by Kieran O'Sullivan
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On Tuesday April 29th at 8pm the IAWM will host a meeting about Ireland and the arms trade. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Monday April 21, 2008 15:33 by O. O'C.
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The National Platform EU Research & Information Centre has a series of guides and explanations to the Treaty of Lisbon now online and updated regularly (checked by authorities in legal and Constitutional law.) These are freely available for open distribution and use. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Monday April 21, 2008 13:09 by Sarah Lundberg
With Belfast Poet Gerard McKeown and Roscommon poet Kieran Furey. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Monday April 21, 2008 13:02 by Sarah Lundberg
Last Wednesday Series Reading and Open Mic - featuring Seven Towers Writers - Oray Ryan, Noel O Briain, Doog Wood and Steve Conway as well as regular readers and all new voices welcome. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / press release Monday April 21, 2008 12:50 by PBA
The Combined Residents Against the Incinerator (CRAI) is currently making presentations to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Oral Hearing on the proposed mass-burn incinerator, planned to be built by Dublin City Council on the Poolbeg Peninsula in Dublin City. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / news report Monday April 21, 2008 12:40 by Laura Broxson
Say 'No' to Fur! read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday April 21, 2008 11:56 by Cosantori Siochana, Amnesty International and the Peace Soci
1 comment (last - monday april 21, 2008 20:52)
"Shannon as a Stopover for War and Human Rights Abuse - Not in My Backyard!" - A talk by Ciaron O'Reilly, non-violent anti-war and human rights activist, followed by discussion, on Thursday, 24 April at 8pm in Room C1060, University of Limerick. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / other press Sunday April 20, 2008 21:37 by Laura Broxson
BAN ANIMAL CIRCUSES NOW! read full story / add a comment
kilkenny / animal rights / event notice Sunday April 20, 2008 20:09 by Laura Broxson
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BAN HORSE RACING! read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday April 20, 2008 19:25 by redjade
it looks like the usual ineffectual NGOish EU nonsense - but someone should go and see whats up... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Sunday April 20, 2008 18:16 by Nikita
There will be an open discussion meeting on "Revolution" at 6pm in Connolly books on Monday the 21st of April. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / event notice Sunday April 20, 2008 12:40 by PaddyK2
NUIG is to host a seminar on global warming and the human spirit. Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, will speak at NUI, Galway on Wednesday 23 April. The evening will begin with a presentation summarising the latest climate science and renewable energy solutions by Dr John Stanley, Director of the Ecological Buddhism project. The project was established as an educational resource for the international Buddhist community to address issues surrounding global warming. Dr Stanley is a former research group leader at the UK Health Protection Agency and member of the New York Academy of Sciences. read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday April 20, 2008 11:50 by John Lannon
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"Shannon as a Stopover for War and Human Rights Abuse - Not in My Backyard!" - A talk by Ciaron O'Reilly, non-violent anti-war and human rights activist, followed by discussion, on Thursday, 24 April at 8pm in Room C1060, University of Limerick. read full story / add a comment
sligo / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday April 20, 2008 04:13 by Wise Woman
The fourth Wise Woman Weekend takes place at St Angela's College on Lough Gill, Co Sligo June 6th to June 8th, 2008. This is a weekend of learning, discovery, celebration and fun for women of all ages. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday April 20, 2008 03:39 by Sheikh Prof. Shaheed Satardien
5 comments (last - friday may 02, 2008 18:24)
It is self-evident, both in historical and contemporary times that human beings sometimes resort to violence as a solution to a problem, perceived or otherwise. This stretches from the macro to the micro. The violence of international conflict over a border dispute with civilian collateral damage could be regarded as a severely amplified version of a domestic dispute with a bruised woman outcome. read full story / add a comment |
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