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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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offsite link US to Stop UNRWA Funding and Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council Tue Feb 04, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
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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national / anti-capitalism / other press Friday November 26, 2010 15:37 by Anti EU/IMF Asset Stripping Citizen   text 14 comments (last - monday december 06, 2010 06:30)   video 1 video file
WATCH: only 2.36 minutes: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7806291/

After watching the humorous, but accurate little video, check out the nasty figures provided in this New York Times article:

"Will Ireland Default? Ask Belgium", By SIMON JOHNSON:
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/will-irela...gium/

Extract: "But look at loans outstanding relative to the size of their domestic economies (using the data from the Bank for International Settlements on what it calls “ultimate risk basis”).

German banks are owed $139 billion, which is 4.2 percent of German G.D.P. British banks are owed $131 billion, or about 5 percent of Great Britain’s G.D.P. French banks are owed $43.5 billion, which is approaching 2 percent of French G.D.P." read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday November 25, 2010 22:18 by Arise Ireland   text 5 comments (last - thursday december 02, 2010 08:12)   video 3 video files
Why are these filthy scum not in prison? says his poster.

Where are the Irish people?

Well where are they, the country has lost its sovereignty, is being robbed blind and has the IMF forcing massive massive cuts, but where is the anger, where is the people fighting back??? read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Tuesday November 23, 2010 11:13 by Deirdre O'Reilly   text 2 comments (last - tuesday november 23, 2010 15:40)   video 1 video file
Gala Preview of the award-winning Irish documentary about the controversial Corrib Gas Pipe project, THE PIPE, will take place at Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace St., Temple Bar, Dublin 2 on Thursday, December 2nd at 18.00. THE PIPE will be released nationwide on Friday December 3rd

There will also be two further discussions – The Pipe: Rossport and the Corrib Gas Project and The Pipe: Politics and Film – on Dec 4th at 13.30 and 11th at 13.30 respectively, at the IFI. Please visit www.ifi.ie for more details.

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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday November 23, 2010 06:55 by Hilary Quinn   text 17 comments (last - wednesday december 01, 2010 03:09)   video 1 video file
A vigil was organised to meet next to our national monument on Grand Parade, with a few hours notice, in honour of the loss of Irish sovereignty. As numbers grew, so did the need to march on the streets, the anger was palpable at yesterdays announcement that the IMF would now be loaning Ireland, under Brian Cowen's leadership, up to €90bn. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Monday November 22, 2010 22:22 by Rise Like Lions   text 4 comments (last - wednesday november 24, 2010 14:48)   video 2 video files
Collecting stories and reports of Direct Action around the country. read full story / add a comment
louth / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday November 22, 2010 15:39 by Kev   video 1 video file
Part of the International Week Against the Apartheid Wall:

Inshallah, a feature length documentary chronicling life in Gaza under siege is proud to announce its series of special preview screenings in Galway, Derry, Belfast, Dublin and Dundalk. Plus Q&A With Director and Link Up To Gaza.

DUNDALK - SPIRIT STORE @ 7pm Tuesday 23rd November - Cost of entry €7 / €5 concession (tickets to be bought on the door)
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday November 22, 2010 10:28 by Star Truck   text 16 comments (last - monday january 16, 2012 11:55)   video 4 video files
Protest against bank bailout. Government Buildings, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. 1PM. November 22nd.

Protest against this economic treason has been stamped out by Garda violence. Last night a government car ran over a protester. Protest against the government running over the people. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday November 22, 2010 00:20 by Sparky   text 8 comments (last - saturday november 27, 2010 01:57)   video 1 video file
Ógra activist Injured by State car at IMF protest read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday November 21, 2010 23:03 by Paul McAndrew   text 6 comments (last - tuesday november 23, 2010 10:40)   video 2 video files
From Kate Ni Shuilleabhain:

"A vigil at the selling of Ireland's Sovereignty 6pm National Monument
Grand Parade tomorrow. Please invite as many as possible read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday November 19, 2010 00:36 by TD   text 6 comments (last - saturday november 20, 2010 15:51)   video 2 video files
Today, in Galway, the Union of Students in Ireland intensified its ongoing campaign against threatened registration fee hikes and cuts to the student grant in the forthcoming budget with a march of some 2,000 students from NUIG - another is planned for Cork in early December - to Galway city centre via University Road, Eglington Street and Shop Street to the Spanish Arch plaza, where the demonstrators were addressed by several key speakers. including USI President, Gary Redmond, NUIG SU President Peter Mannion and GMIT SU President, Colin Canny. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / event notice Wednesday November 17, 2010 16:20 by Joe Higgins MEP   text 1 comment (last - thursday november 18, 2010 17:16)   video 2 video files
In response to tomorrow's (Thursday) talks between the Irish government and the EU / IMF, the Socialist Party is calling for a protest outside the Department of Finance where the talks are to take place. Show your opposition to the austerity measures of the Irish government and the EU / IMF. Join the protest at 10.30am at the Department of Finance. read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / feature Monday November 15, 2010 23:00 by TD   text 17 comments (last - monday november 29, 2010 11:45)   video 1 video file
"An injury to one is the concern of all", according to Free Education for Everyone spokesperson.
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dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday November 14, 2010 21:10 by Kruk   video 1 video file
Bold Native is a fiction feature film. Charlie Cranehill, an animal liberator wanted by the United States government for domestic terrorism, emerges from the underground to coordinate a nationwide action as his estranged CEO father tries to find him before the FBI does. The film simultaneously follows a young woman who works for an animal welfare organization fighting within the system to establish more humane treatment of farmed animals. From abolitionists to welfarists, Bold Native takes on the issue of modern animal use and exploitation from several angles within the context of a road movie adventure story. read full story / add a comment
wicklow / animal rights / event notice Sunday November 14, 2010 20:51 by Kruk   video 1 video file
Bold Native is a fiction feature film. Charlie Cranehill, an animal liberator wanted by the United States government for domestic terrorism, emerges from the underground to coordinate a nationwide action as his estranged CEO father tries to find him before the FBI does. The film simultaneously follows a young woman who works for an animal welfare organization fighting within the system to establish more humane treatment of farmed animals. From abolitionists to welfarists, Bold Native takes on the issue of modern animal use and exploitation from several angles within the context of a road movie adventure story. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday November 14, 2010 02:47 by children_of_lir   text 21 comments (last - tuesday november 23, 2010 00:05)   video 1 video file
A Government with no money, has nothing to do. We already know that this malfeasant Government doesn't give bugger all about the people.
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international / education / news report Thursday November 11, 2010 11:29 by Londons burning   text 7 comments (last - monday august 08, 2011 02:27)   video 6 video files
Britain's seeing its biggest protest yet against the deep cuts the country faces to tackle its massive debts. Yesterday in London over 50,000 students protested against a planned hike in tuition fees which could see them treble to 9-thousand pounds a year. Later things got far more confrontational; students confronted police, entered conservative party HQ, smashed windows, occupied roof, lit fires in streets... Student fees protestors claim: 'This is just the beginning' read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday November 11, 2010 00:02 by RNU PRO   video 1 video file
REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY Spokesperson, MARTIN Óg MEEHAN has slammed the felon-setting of a West Belfast Republican. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / news report Wednesday November 10, 2010 13:12 by Dave Donnellan   video 1 video file
At the recent Afri Hedge School Clare O'Grady Walshe argued strongly that if we give away our food sovereignty and our right to grow our own seeds as happened in Iraq it will prove disastrous for the world food system. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday November 10, 2010 03:24 by JWhite- FEE NUIM   text 3 comments (last - wednesday november 10, 2010 17:05)   video 1 video file
"RTE Six One news has finally aired footage of Gardai beating student at the recent national protest, six days after it occurred." read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday November 08, 2010 22:09 by Kev   text 2 comments (last - wednesday november 10, 2010 20:19)   video 1 video file
Part of the International Week Against the Apartheid Wall:

Inshallah, a feature length documentary chronicling life in Gaza under siege is proud to announce its series of special preview screenings in Galway, Derry, Belfast and Dublin. Plus Q&A With Director and Link Up To Gaza.

DUBLIN - FILMBASE, TEMPLE BAR @ 8pm Thursday 18th November read full story / add a comment
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