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dublin / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday November 06, 2007 19:47 by CCFE
Many in the educational community are concerned about the effects of supermarket voucher schemes in primary schools, junk food vending machines in PPP secondary schools and an increasing dependency on corporate funding in Higher Education. This conference will highlight the dangers for education in following a commercial agenda and explore positive responses from educators, parents and students to this trend. “Education: Whose Business is it Anyway?” is supported by the School of Education TCD, Campaign for Commercial-Free Education, INTO, ASTI, IFUT, IPPN, Irish Heart Foundation, USI and SIPTU Education Branch. It will feature speakers from all areas of Irish education with the keynote address being given by Prof Alex Molnar of Arizona State University. Dr. Molnar is the leading U.S. expert on the commercialism of public education and author of School Commercialism: From Democratic Ideal to Market Commodity. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Tuesday November 06, 2007 19:14 by Gino Kenny
MASTACTION CLONDALKIN and residents will be staging a protest outside Ronanstown Garda station this Thursday night at 7pm. This protest is to highlight the continued silence from the Dept of Health on there refusal to conduct an investigation in the North Clondalkin area on the health effects of mobile phone masts and electrical pylons in the locality. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 06, 2007 13:32 by solidarity seeker
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GMB have had the best response ever to their ballot on the classroom assistants dispute. This may seem to be a possitive thing. However some important questions need to be answered and if anyone from the GMB read this I would love to hear their replies. 1) How many classroom assistants do you represent? 2) Why were ballot papers sent to cleaners, and caretakers? read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday November 06, 2007 12:44 by Phil Og
On the 21st November 1920 events outside of the G.A.A brought politics into the heart of the Association. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday November 06, 2007 11:29 by Eoghan Ryan
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IWU Table Quiz, all welcome read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 06, 2007 08:56 by Watcher
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With Iraq in ruins and the oil resources secured, the neo-cons that run the west have now turned their malign attention to Iran. All media is now saturated with propaganda putting Iran in the role of aggressor and a threat to world peace.Others day and daily place stories in the media portraying the internal position as one of oppression and brutality in which the Iranian people are supposedly yearning to be liberated by the west. Nothing could be further from the truth. Iranians want noting to do with western style "democracy" Medialens has collated a number of examples of how the media is being manipulated by the neo-cons as they whip up support for an attack on Iran We should take great care of what and who we give credance to in this very dangerous game in which Iran and it's perople are targeted and placed in deadly danger. read full story / add a comment |
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