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dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday November 20, 2008 17:11 by Conor Farrell
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Prairie Dawgs play in Krugers, Howth Village on Saturday 22nd November. Free Admission. All donations and proceeds go to Focus Ireland homeless agency. Dont Miss this Exciting Opportunity to see this acclaimed live 9 piece Bluegrass/Country Band!!! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Thursday November 20, 2008 13:51 by Niamh Nic Carthaigh
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Hundreds of thousands of people are on the run, fleeing a war that rages in eastern Congo, in the provinces of North and South Kivu. They are frightened. Many are sick or wounded. Others have been harassed or raped, or have had everything they own stolen. The people of the Kivus are in a critical condition. The destiny of everyone in this region is shaped by the war. The story of their struggle to survive needs to be told. Today, November 20, humanitarian medical aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is launching an international multimedia campaign, entitled Condition: Critical – Voices from the war in eastern Congo. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / press release Saturday November 15, 2008 13:00 by Ploughshares
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Hammers employed in the Pitstop Ploughshares disarmament of a U.S. Navy War Plane in Feb 03 at Shannon Airport www.peaceontrial.com go on display at Project Gallery, Temple Bar/Dublin, from Nov 15-Dec 19. The exhibit by Dublin artist Seamus Nolan is part of a broader exhibition by the Goethe Institute "If you Could Change the Wolrd at Last 1968-2008" read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / event notice Friday November 14, 2008 22:38 by Sharon McDonagh
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Invitation Olive Planting Program - February 2009 A program for Civil International Solidarity with Palestinians Invitation to the Olive Planting Program 7th - 16th February, 2009 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday November 13, 2008 21:19 by a-films
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More than a year after their homes were destroyed during the battle between the Lebanese army and the militant islamist group Fatah al-Islam, the majority of the refugees from Nahr al-Bared in North Lebanon find themselves in a difficult situation. Not able to return to their homes, stuck in pre-fabricated housing units and often unemployed, many of them feel frustrated and hopeless, only sometimes seeing a glimmer of hope. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday November 13, 2008 17:07 by TD
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What next for the Campaign, now that the new Corrib Gas Forum set up by Eamon Ryan and Éamon Ó Cuiv will not “revisit existing consents and permissions given to the project”? What next, when "Governments around the world are waking up to the reality that natural resources are soveriegn assets and that it is entirely within the rights of the state to readjust taxation and royalty deals in times of windfall revenues or supply concerns" (Michael McCaughan, The Price of our Souls, Gas, Shell and ireland) read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / feature Tuesday November 11, 2008 21:52 by Seomra Spraoi
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Seomra Spraoi opens new autonomous social centre. Seomra Spraoi is back. After 10 long Seomra-less months a new home has been found, and work is underway to transform the space into a fully functioning social centre. A lot has changed since being forced from our last space. We've been pretty busy too. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Tuesday November 11, 2008 08:24 by remember Ken Saro-Wiwa
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Thirteen years ago today, on November 10th 1995, nine men from Ogoni land were hanged at Port Harcourt prison Nigeria. They had been tried in a military court by the Nigerian dictatorship. One of the men, the famous human rights campaigner Ken Saro Wiwa had been a particular thorn in the side of the Shell oil company, which found itself unable to operate in parts of the Niger Delta because of the work organisating people to peacefully resist against their destructive activities. In stark proof of who controlled Nigeria at the time, his family had been told by Shell executives that he would be spared if he would help the company. Saro Wiwa preferred to die with honour. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Friday November 07, 2008 12:51 by Allen Meagher
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Changing Ireland’ has become the greenest magazine in Ireland. While we're celebrating, we are shocked to find ourselves leading the way. “‘Changing Ireland’ finds is now ahead of a range of popular commercial magazines that weigh down the shop-shelves with paper from virgin forests and inks derived from heavy chemicals. We should be following their lead into a greener world, not showing them the way,” said editor Allen Meagher. ‘Changing Ireland’, Issue 27, is the publication’s first ‘green issue’. The new edition is now on the web: www.changingireland.ie and the paper version is due out from Monday, Nov. 10th and it is available in Eason’s or directly by contacting ‘Changing Ireland’. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday November 06, 2008 19:35 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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"Democracy is Coming to the U.S.A." clip -Leonard Cohen http://noolmusic.com/yahoo_videos/leonard_cohen_-_democ...y.php I've been in Glasgow the past few daze catching to my godson Seanoidh and his parents Brian and Babs. I met B & B when I accompanied my friend Richard, who had just been deported from Genoa as he was trying to make his way to the G8 2001 demonstration, down to the Italian embassy in London to register our protest at the killing of Carlos, read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / news report Thursday November 06, 2008 15:56 by Hilary
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The United States of America took a giant step in the last week in the field of civil rights and human development when a man with Offaly ancestry was chosen to lead the nation. While there is no legal bar against people from Offaly or their descendants holding high office in the U.S., many were surprised that voters were able to overcome the widespread prejudice against the county. Men from Offaly (known as BIFFO's) have often encountered a "glass ceiling" whereby they would be trusted with a glass, but not a pint. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday November 05, 2008 21:20 by sher
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Many workers for the food and clothing retailer Dunnes Stores are worried by rumours that the company is about to be sold to US giant Walmart. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday November 03, 2008 10:24 by Jim
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In a speech in July, Barack Obama stated that he wants to "re-deploy" American troops in Iraq "carefully" with their safety in mind and "responsibly" leaving behind a "sovereign" Iraqi government that can "take responsibility for its own future." In doublespeak that means Barack Obama is as committed as George W. Bush was to the imperialist American project in the Middle East - toppling anti-American elites and replacing them with pro-American elites to administer the American agenda. Obama is a wolf in sheeps clothing. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday November 02, 2008 16:32 by Youth 4 Truth
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Thousands of people turned out to the Sinn Fein rally/march today (Sun 2 Nov) which opposed the 'home coming' parade by the notorious RIR regiment of the British Army. There was a large Ógra Shinn Féin presence on the day, with young republicans travelling from across Ireland. The rally/march was calling for an end to the ongoing illegal occupations in Ireland, Iraq, and Afghanistan and also to demand the truth for the hundreds of families who have been bereaved through the official British state policy of collusion and state murder. The UDR/RIR themselves where part and parcel of the murder machine. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Friday October 31, 2008 11:39 by Andrew
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Eight minutes of video fro Wednesday nights demonstration. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 29, 2008 14:02 by Jim
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A juvenile anti-war left in the US and Europe are hopeful that Obama, a left-leaning liberal Senator, will be an abrupt and positive change from the "worst President ever" George W. Bush. the story goes that the Bush policies of maintaining American economic and military dominance invited the 9/11 attacks and that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq which have led to the deaths of thousands of American soldiers and tens of thousands of civilians have become an endless quagmire, while the social divide between rich and poor has never been greater as the US economy is in free fall. The accepted "wisdom" is the Obama will turn American and the world around. But is this true? Absolutely not. Obama is in fact Bush 2. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / press release Monday October 27, 2008 17:52 by Maire
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The Irish Republican Youth Movement, Ógra Shinn Féin, are set to join the march and rally in Belfast this weekend in opposition to the British MOD’s parade for the notorious UDR/RIR regiment of the British Army. Demonstrators from across Ireland will join in solidarity with the relatives of victims of British State Murder and Collusion at Bank Square, 10.45am this Sunday 2 November. There will be a number of speakers including Mark Thompson of Relatives For Justice and Martina Anderson for Sinn Féin, before marching to Royal Avenue for a dignified and peaceful protest. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday October 24, 2008 21:17 by Paula Geraghty
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After 15,000 pensioners protest the budget cutbacks similar numbers of students demonstrate from Parnell Square to the Dáil. Gardaí blocked off Kildare Street in fear of student radicalism and occupation after the previous events in UCD, with horses and wagons. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday October 22, 2008 18:43 by NMI
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Between ten and twelve thousand people turned out in bright sunshine today to demonstrate against the Green Party/Fainna Fáil plan to impose fees for third level education. FF Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe called for consideration of re-imposition of fees earlier this year, and "registration fees" were massively increased in the recent budget. He has signalled that he intends to introduce legislation on third level fees in the new year. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / feature Friday October 17, 2008 19:54 by George Stapleton
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This is the second of a series of articles covering the financial and money markets from a critical perspective. In
'Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction', Paul Bowman examined the derivatives market and promised that the succeeding article would cover the 'story of the historical development of successive regimes of global financial orders' and would explain the role of the Eurodollars market 'in undermining the Keynesian Bretton Woods system'.
In the interests of space and relevance, I will only tell the story of the historical development of the regime of global financial order under US hegemony. I will begin by examining how the centre of capital accumulation shifted from Europe to the US in the first half of the twentieth century, and how following World War II the global financial order became centred around the US through the Bretton Woods system. I will then look at how the Bretton Woods System was undermined, concentrating as much on the role of workers’ militancy as on the role of the Eurodollars market. After considering the response to the crisis of Bretton Woods, I'll look at the Clinton boom bringing us up to the current situation of the US’s current heavy dependence on foreign borrowing. read full story / add a comment |
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