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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday December 03, 2009 15:20 by Feudal castrato
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Today is the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster . At the Union Carbide pesticide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh on December 3, 1984. Around 12 AM, methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other toxins were released, resulting in the exposure of over 500,000 people. Estimates vary on the death toll - the official immediate death toll was 2,259, which rose greatly over time. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 22:39 by Paula Geraghty
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Listen and see why some of the people came from around the country to take part in yesterday's protest read full story / add a comment
kildare / education / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 17:26 by Donal Ó Fallúin - WSM/FEE NUIM
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national / consumer issues / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 12:40 by cirrius
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People who used to get the Christmas payment include those on the blind pension, Invalidity pension, widows allowance, long term unemployed people, people on carer's allowance, state pension, and the families of those in prison. Contrast their treatment with the pensions paid every week to former government ministers like Ray Burke and Bertie Ahern, or the billions ploughed into the budgets of banks and developers. This year, the Fianna Fáil/Green Party coalition, backed by various Independents, has axed the Christmas payment to pensioners and those on the dole. Yesterday Sinn Féin held a protest outside Leinster Houses demanding that the payment be restored. Aengus Ó Snodaigh said: “Economic recovery will not be achieved by driving people into poverty. The recession will deepen if the government persists in taking money from those who spend it on everyday necessities. If these cuts are not resisted we face a prolonged recession with more and more people living in poverty.” read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 09:37 by Paula Geraghty
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Symphysiotomy: The story of a cruel childbirth operation. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / news report Tuesday December 01, 2009 19:40 by ARAN
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This Sunday join compassionate people from across Ireland and beyond to gather in Dublin for a peaceful march and rally to call for stronger laws in the upcoming animal welfare bill due to be released in 2010 – the rally also aims to highlight the problem of animal abuse in Ireland to the nation and call for tougher penalties for those who abuse animals and who currently get away with a mere a slap on the wrist. The march also aims to establish rights for animals and to remove from society that animals are nothing more than commodities. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday November 30, 2009 14:57 by Medusa
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Taping Placards to the Main door at the Galway Cathedral high lighting churches abuse of children read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Monday November 30, 2009 12:24 by dunk
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“The day the political landscape changed forever“, was how Fritjof Capra referred to events of N30, Tuesday 30th of November 1999, in his book The Hidden Connections. He was referring to the day when 1000´s of global justice activists came together and succeeded in shutting down the first WTO (World Trade Organisation) talks in the US using (mostly) non violent direct actions (NVDA) in the north western US city of Seattle. This was the event which brought the “globalisation” debate to the mainstream. It has been misleadingly described as anti-globalisation, what it should be accurately described as is anti corporate globalisation. 10 years on and again there is rubber bullets, tear gas and flames in the streets. This time in Geneva, as people from all over the world converge in the lead up to COP15, the climate change talks in Copenhagen... amongst others, the Social and Climate justice caravan. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Sunday November 29, 2009 23:48 by Kev S & Freda H
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The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign took part in this year’s International Week of Solidarity called by the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (http://www.stopthewall.org). An international call to activists was put out to launch a week of global mobilisation against the walls of apartheid in Palestine from November 9th to 16th 2009. The IPSC used this opportunity to highlight the necessity of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, with specific reference to the ongoing role of Irish construction company CRH (formerly Cement Roadstone Holdings) in the building of the Apartheid Wall and illegal colonial settlements in the West Bank. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Sunday November 29, 2009 23:24 by Paula Geraghty
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Hear Public Sector workers give their side of the story from the picket lines last Tuesday 24th November 2009 read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday November 29, 2009 10:49 by TD
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Last Friday, same as on all the preceding Fridays the past five years, Bil'in villagers marched to the nearby Apartheid Wall to protest against the theft of over 60% of their land to facilitate the construction of a monstrous affront to international and humanitarian law and the illegal Israeli colonies skulking behind it. Last Friday, same as on all the preceding Fridays for the past five years, the peaceful protestors were assaulted, this time, with unremitting blizzards of tear gas and percussion "sound" bombs with dozens of the marchers severly distressed from tear gas inhalation - thanking the good lord for small mercies, as it were, there were no high velocity tear gas projectiles used, "rockets" of the lethal kind that was fired point blank into the chest of Bassem Abu-Rahma last April 17th smashing three of his ribs one of which punctuted his heart thus killing, murdering him. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Saturday November 28, 2009 01:06 by Mark C
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This is part one of a two part report, based on the Report by The Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin. Part One deals with the generalities of the report – a damning indictment of the church in general for its handling of the reporting of clerical child sexual abuse, its cover up, and the comlicity (or otherwise) of the Gardaí. Part Two will look at the abuse, abuse, and more abuse handed out by individuals. Prepare yourself for some pretty sickening reading. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday November 25, 2009 13:57 by DSF
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Sinn Féin workers in Leinster House took a principled decision not to pass the picket lines during yesterday's industrial action. read full story / add a comment
kildare / education / news report Tuesday November 24, 2009 21:10 by Donal Fallon- Free Education for Everyone NUI Maynooth
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Solidarity pickets placed on both North and South campuses of NUI Maynooth. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / feature Tuesday November 24, 2009 17:25 by N.G.A.
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The view of the National Graves Association on the wearing of the poppy. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday November 23, 2009 23:05 by TD
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Following the temporary withdrawal of the International Solidarity Movement from Hebron due to that organisations difficulty in finding a suitable base there, a number of internationals from the village of Bil'in journeyed down there last week to take up the slack with night patrols, checkpoint monitoring and especially the safeguarding of Palestinian children to and from school from stone throwing, spitting Israeli "settler children and adults. Four in number, we found accomodation in the homes of the Al-Awawi and Egnabi families,previously fire bombed by the colonising "settlers" and illegally evicted but both families still overflowing with the milk of human kindness despite their travails. read full story / add a comment
tipperary / animal rights / event notice Thursday November 19, 2009 19:21 by John Carmody
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ARAN will be protesting the annual hare coursing finals in 2010 - Please join the protest against this barbaric 'sport' When: Wednesday, February 3rd 201 @ 12 noon sharp to 3p.m Where: Powerstown Park, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary (Front Entrance) Contact: John Carmody, Stephan Wymore 087-2391646 read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday November 15, 2009 00:45 by TD
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Symbol of the resistance and intifada and leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades the formidable but affable and thoughtful Zakaria Zubeidi readily agreed to be interviewed on the 12th November at Jenin's Freedom Theatre. Not for him the hypocrisy of paying lip service to the PA Quisling regime in Ramallah but forthright condemnation and contempt: In June 2004, he kidnapped the corrupt Israeli collaborator, then PA governor of Jenin, Haidar Irshard to "beat the shit out of him." . He also burnt down the local office of the Palestinian Legislative Council. Alleged by the Israelis to be the chief strategist of suicide bombing he was ruthlessly hunted for extermination - in one botched attempt, in 2004, an Israeli death squad killed five other brigade members, including a 14-year old boy, in a jeep carrying him, in another, nine Palestinians were killed in Jenin including four civililians on a IOF murder expedition. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Saturday November 14, 2009 20:08 by Paula Geraghty
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As workers fight Fianna fail and the Green partyy's neoliberal attacks, now is a good time to learn from the fightback against Thatcherism in the 1980s with this video of Arthur Scargill discussing the Miners Strike. http://www.vimeo.com/7589961 read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday November 12, 2009 21:25 by Paula Geraghty
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5,000 frontline public service staff took to the streets to vent their anger at further attacks on their pay and conditions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNLfk7qKLg read full story / add a comment |
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