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offsite link Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million Tue Feb 04, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
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The EU is drawing up a plan to overhaul its 1951 Refugee Convention that prevents countries from rejecting asylum seekers at their borders in a belated effort to address Europe's exploding migrant crisis.
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offsite link How Afraid Should we be About the Government?s Plan to Come up With a Legal Definition of ?Islamopho... Tue Feb 04, 2025 15:00 | Sam Bidwell
The prosecution of a man for burning the Qur'an shows how Islamic blasphemy codes are becoming embedded in criminal law. Coming up with a legal definition of 'Islamophobia' will accelerate this process, says Sam Bidwell.
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President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order today withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council and removing all US funding for the Gaza agency UNRWA.
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All the babies that Lucy Letby was convicted of killing actually died of natural causes, often due to poor medical care, and were not murdered, a panel of 14 medical experts has concluded.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 25, 2009 12:57 by TruthWillOut   text 2 comments (last - tuesday march 03, 2009 23:59)   video 2 video files
Amnesty's report on weapons used by both sides in Gaza finds much to condemn.

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE15/012/2009/....html

The group is particularly hard on the U.S., having found numerous remains of American munitions -- including white phosphorus shells from Pine Bluff Arsenal, and a Hellfire missile made in Orlando.

Another weapon which bothers Amnesty is a mysterious munition, filled with cubic particles.

This type of ultra-precise strike capability is supposed to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties.

So we turn once again to Garlasco's comment, from an earlier conflict:

"It is unfortunate that these weapons are being developed specifically for use in densely populated areas which may negate the intended effect." read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday February 25, 2009 09:12 by JusticeForPalestine   text 1 comment (last - friday march 06, 2009 00:45)   video 1 video file
Amnesty's report on weapons used by both sides in Gaza finds much to condemn.

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE15/012/2009/....html

The group is particularly hard on the U.S., having found numerous remains of American munitions -- including white phosphorus shells from Pine Bluff Arsenal, and a Hellfire missile made in Orlando.

Another weapon which bothers Amnesty is a mysterious munition, filled with cubic particles.

This type of ultra-precise strike capability is supposed to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties.

So we turn once again to Garlasco's comment, from an earlier conflict:

"It is unfortunate that these weapons are being developed specifically for use in densely populated areas which may negate the intended effect." read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday February 24, 2009 18:28 by Ciarán   text 10 comments (last - friday march 06, 2009 18:26)   video 1 video file
10 Years Of Revolution
Find out how Venezuela is setting an example for Latin America and the rest of the World read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Tuesday February 24, 2009 17:19 by Tarapixie   text 15 comments (last - saturday march 28, 2009 13:04)   video 7 video files
Tarapixies, Direct Action and tara Solidarity Vigil are staging a series of Protests and Events. Details below... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday February 24, 2009 11:50 by Alan MacSimoin   text 6 comments (last - friday february 27, 2009 00:32)   video 1 video file
The economy's crashing, the dole queues are growing. Yet the bankers, bosses and developers responsible are untouchable - because the politicians supposed to hold them to account had their noses in the same trough. So-called experts bluster to cover their confusion, make tut-tut noises about corruption and greed, then shake their heads and agree, that in the end its the ordinary workers and taxpayers that will have to foot the bill. Because that's just the way it has to be... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday February 22, 2009 14:24 by ISM Gaza Strip   video 1 video file
Israeli Military Shoot Gaza Farmer - 18th February 2009 Israeli forces shot a twenty year-old Palestinian farmer as he worked his land in the village of Al-Faraheen, east of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. International Human Rights Activists were accompanying the group of farmers
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Sunday February 22, 2009 13:23 by Dave Donnellan   text 2 comments (last - sunday february 22, 2009 15:37)   video 1 video file
A protest was called for Saturday 21st February, 2009 to protest against the imposition of a 7% pension levy on all public sector workers. As daily revelations details the level of corruption in the financial sector anger is mounting. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Sunday February 22, 2009 00:46 by Conor. M from the comments (+eds)   text 45 comments (last - saturday march 07, 2009 11:32)   video 8 video files
France24, BBC, RTE all say up to 100,000. Every single Gardai I asked at the march said well over 100,000. The Irish Times has even said up to 120,000! read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Saturday February 21, 2009 12:59 by Alan M.   text 16 comments (last - saturday february 21, 2009 23:48)   video 1 video file
For those of you, like myself who can't make it along to the march today, I'll be posting updates from texters at the march as the day goes by. read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday February 20, 2009 20:36 by robert   text 3 comments (last - monday february 23, 2009 00:05)   video 1 video file
Pat O’Donnell and Maura Harrington addressed a public meeting in Sligo on Thurday evening. They gave an inspiring presentation of a campaign that even after ten years of intense struggle could not be broken.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Friday February 20, 2009 10:12 by Paula Geraghty   text 7 comments (last - saturday february 21, 2009 12:32)   video 1 video file
Thousands of CPSU members, who are on the lowest grades of pay and are mostly women, took part in a lunchtime protest outside the Dail on Wednesday in opposition to the Pension levy. read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / news report Thursday February 19, 2009 20:48 by Feminist Open Forum   text 3 comments (last - sunday february 22, 2009 21:30)   video 1 video file
Useful activist and information video on the consequences of a possible re-run of the Lisbon Treaty, by Susan George author activist and campaigner for the interests of Civil Society. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / news report Thursday February 19, 2009 20:09 by Laura Broxson   text 3 comments (last - friday february 20, 2009 00:30)   video 4 video files
Hi,

On, Tues. 17th February, almost 20 members of CAFT Ireland officially launched Ireland's newest expose of Irish fur farms, outside the Dept. of Agriculture - as they are responsible for licensing these death camps. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / feature Thursday February 19, 2009 16:57 by arrimletinrip   text 10 comments (last - saturday july 04, 2009 11:06)   video 3 video files
Amidst the collapse of the Irish economy, the inhabitants of a rural hinterland begin to feel the touch of the dead hand of the housing market.

Set in the notorious ghost estates of post 'celtic tiger' Ireland, Wallets Full of Blood features Dennis Hopper as the voice of Brian (Brains) Ahern.

'Brains' is a developer and a 'big man' in politics. He's also the overseer of a particularly gory property price collapse on 'Fiddler's Green'. He reckons he can clean up as a result of the creeping zombification all around him but his plans take on a zero-sum logic of their own.
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national / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday February 19, 2009 14:47 by Final Nail Party   text 4 comments (last - friday february 27, 2009 22:49)   video 2 video files
In a desperate bid to raise more money for the starving Irish bankers, activists from the Final Nail Party took to the streets this morning to collect money from people on their way to work.

On top of cuts in wages and conditions of employment, a reduction in services such as public transport and education, and various spurious "levies" and increased taxation; this morning's collection was an opportunity for ordinary workers to contribute directly to help the bankers, some of whom will earn less than two million euro this year. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / news report Thursday February 19, 2009 00:35 by Nostradamus   text 21 comments (last - friday february 27, 2009 17:14)   video 1 video file
Father and son, Patrick and Jonathan O'Donnell, Porturlin Shore, Ballina; and Enda Carey, also of Porturlin, appeared before Castlebar Circuit Court to appeal a three-month prison sentence imposed at Belmullet District Court.
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national / animal rights / press release Tuesday February 17, 2009 13:34 by ALiberation   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 17, 2009 15:12)   video 3 video files
All known mink fur factory farms were investigated. Video footage of this was sent to ALiberation anonymously.

Video Footage:
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pYjR-ZG2hs
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTx9mxcMJ7Q
Part 3:
To follow read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday February 17, 2009 11:10 by Andrew   text 16 comments (last - friday february 20, 2009 23:53)   video 1 video file
Did the idea of the so called 'Pensions Levy' come from some of the very ICTU leadership who are supposed to negotiate on behalf of workers. This is one revelation that emerged on Saturday morning at a meeting of over 100 public sector trade unionists and two delegates from the Waterford Glass occupation. We were meeting in the Davenport hotel, Dublin to discuss a collective response to government attacks on workers and in particular the public sector pay cut. Most of those present were on branch committees or even national executives with a couple of branches delegating representatives to the meeting. The gathering could in that context be said to reflect the views of a large number of branches across the unions that organise public sector workers. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / event notice Monday February 16, 2009 20:51 by tarapiXie   video 1 video file


Day of Action for Tara

Tuesday 3rd March 09

Non Violent Direct Action against M3

Peaceful Protest :)

Despite worldwide opposition and EU Legislation, the illegal constuction of the M3 motorway through Tara is still ongoing. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday February 16, 2009 18:11 by anarchaeologist   text 12 comments (last - wednesday march 11, 2009 08:26)   video 8 video files
Up to 600 people yesterday marched behind the ashes of Bob Doyle from the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square to attend a celebration of his life held in Liberty Hall.

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