|
Upcoming Eventsno events match your query! New Eventsno events posted in last week
Blog Feeds
Anti-Empire
Human Rights in IrelandPromoting Human Rights in Ireland
Lockdown Skeptics
Voltaire NetworkVoltaire, international edition
|
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 01, 2006 22:27 by cropbeye
 5 comments (last - sunday november 12, 2006 15:36)
A publication called Centre Focus is a regular newspaper funded by FAS. It uses as an office the Centre for The unemployed North Main st. The building is owned by Cork Council of Trade unions. In a series of tabloid style articles it has raised concerns about sterotyping and attackiing those that are involved in progressive activist work and in particular the greater understanding between different ethnic and religous groups. Many complaints have been made about its editorial style but why is it not being discussed on a wider format.? read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Wednesday November 01, 2006 22:25 by not listened to
33 comments (last - tuesday november 07, 2006 10:26)
The Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey, and Junior Minister John Browne have met a group of 20 Fianna Fáil TD's and Senators at Leinster House over concerns about the plan to end driftnet fishing for salmon. read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / news report Wednesday November 01, 2006 20:10 by Garrett
1 comment (last - thursday november 02, 2006 23:02)
Wednesday, November 01, 2006 Racism drops as integration increases in Ireland- survey suggests A survey commissioned by the Irish government's National Action Plan against Racism has indicated towards a significant drop in the level of racism in Ireland. A representative sample of the population as a whole participated in the survey carried out by IMS Consultants. The results contrasts sharply with the recent results pointing to an increase of 15% in Northern Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Wednesday November 01, 2006 19:33 by Terence
4 comments (last - friday november 03, 2006 14:13)
The rather famous documentary made a few years ago and which has been shown widely is now available online with YouTube. It documents how the growth of suburbia was based on the assumption of an endless supply of cheap oil. That assumption now no longer holds true. read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 01, 2006 15:16 by S. Fabian
7 comments (last - saturday february 10, 2007 20:20)
Authoritative feminist analysis of issues around statutory rape. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Wednesday November 01, 2006 15:00 by Paul Kinsella
Ireland's 40,000 nurses are holding a mass rally in Dublin on Wednesday, November 22nd in support of their pay claim, which includes a 35-hour working week, a Dublin weighting allowance and pay anomalies with social care workers, but also to protest over the continuing chronic overcrowding in A&E and the continuing lack of hospital beds. read full story / add a comment
Pressure group calls for boycott of photography showagainst oil companies sponsoring prestigious art
mayo / environment / other press Wednesday November 01, 2006 14:30 by Shell and the environment
4 comments (last - wednesday november 01, 2006 16:08)
Pressure group calls for boycott of photography show read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday November 01, 2006 12:20 by pat c
Women still face a grim present and future in Afghanistan as the ironheel of Islam stamps firmly on their faces. Women reporting rape run the risk of being imprisoned for having sexual intercourse outside marriage. "Women's rights activists are getting killed, women's NGO workers are getting killed, and that is not going to change unless some drastic action is taken," Full story at the link. pat c read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday November 01, 2006 12:04 by Frebyrd Freeman
5 comments (last - saturday june 23, 2007 11:59)
People caring for family members who are mentally ill feel socially isolated and need more support, a new report states. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday November 01, 2006 11:00 by A
Professor Javaid Rehman, an acknowledged international expert in the field of religion and human rights law, will give a lecture in on Wednesday 15 November as part of the DIT Socio-Legal Speaker Series. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday November 01, 2006 00:46 by Maggie
4 comments (last - thursday november 02, 2006 14:49)
In a Counterpunch article by William S. Lind; Director for the Center for Cultural Conservatism for the Free Congress Foundation it is suggested that an attack on Iran is envisaged before Xmas: read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday November 01, 2006 00:27 by Martin Hogan
1 comment (last - tuesday november 14, 2006 02:11)
Rossport 5 Talk by Micheál Ó Seighin in UCC read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday November 01, 2006 00:18 by Martin Hogan
4 comments (last - monday november 06, 2006 15:37)
Rossport 5 Talk by Micheál Ó Seighin in UCD read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / other press Tuesday October 31, 2006 23:07 by supporter
11 comments (last - saturday november 04, 2006 12:13)
There has been some articles in the village magazine latley which cover the shell to sea campgain. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday October 31, 2006 22:42 by Anti-War Ireland
1 comment (last - wednesday november 01, 2006 11:36)
The following is a link to a Democracy Now interview, conducted by Amy Goodman, with former US Abu-Ghraib interrogator Tony Lagouranis, who is currently speaking at Anti-War Ireland events around Ireland. He spoke at the protest in Shannon last Saturday and called for the expulsion of the US war machine from that airport. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/15/1632233 read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday October 31, 2006 19:16 by Lefty Type
Boycott Killer Coke will be leafleting before the Coca-Cola International rules series this Sunday November 5th. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday October 31, 2006 18:24 by Cillian Gillespie
1 comment (last - tuesday october 31, 2006 18:29)
Cypriot government intends to hand over Kurds who won struggle for refugee rights, into the hands of their Syrian torturers. read full story / add a comment
sligo / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday October 31, 2006 12:43 by J. Dunne
Mr Sean Harrington of the Shell to Sea Campaign and a resident of Bellanaboy, Co Mayo, will be the main speaker at a Public Meeting which will take place in the City Hotel, Quay Street, Sligo, on this Friday evening the 3rd November commencing at 8.00.p.m. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday October 31, 2006 11:04 by denise
Vertex Aerospace LLC, formerly Raytheon Aerospace LLC, was acquired by Veritas Capital, a private equity investment firm, in 2001. The company changed its name from Raytheon Aerospace LLC in June 2003, but Raytheon Company (its former parent) retains about a quarter of the company. Vertex Aerospace LLC has its headquarters in Madison, Miss. The company is considered one of the leaders in aviation and aerospace technical services, and its 6,300 employees operate in 42 states and 32 countries. About 95 percent of its sales are for the U.S. government, and its annual 2001 sales totaled about $500 million. From 1997 to 2002, Vertex Aerospace (then Raytheon Aerospace) received around $2.1 billion in U.S. government contracts. Former parent Raytheon, which maintains an interest in Vertex Aerospace, had more than 5,300 contracts with the U.S. government from 1990 through 2002 worth nearly $58.5 billion. List of principlals shows many US government ties and conflicts of interest. read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday October 31, 2006 09:49 by Stephen Spillane
On Tuesday 24th of October University College Cork's International Relations Society (IRSOC) had an information stand in Arás Na Mac Leinn to coincide with UN day. Members of the society throughout the day operated the stand and they had many materials with information on the UN. read full story / add a comment |
|
|
