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galway / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday March 12, 2010 11:45 by donkylemore   text 43 comments (last - monday may 17, 2010 00:10)   video 7 video files
The UN mandate 424 demands that Israel return to it's pre '67 borders.
She has refused to do so in 40 years.
Israel 's hegemony in the region is manifest in her military and social expansionist policies .
She ignores the rest of the world , perpetrates whatever atrocities she chooses with impunity. When criticized by the Goldstein report she attacked Goldstein , then attacken the UN for having the timerity to criticize her invasion of Lebanon and killing of over 1400 civilians.
There is one bizarre and paradoxical for a recalibrating the balance of power in the Middle East.... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Friday March 12, 2010 01:10 by Paula Geraghty   text 2 comments (last - monday april 26, 2010 22:42)   video 1 video file
Video of taxi drivers outside the Taxi regulator's office at the end of the occupation. A number of taxi drivers are interviewed including the 71 year old who describes how he was assaulted. Filmed tuesday 9th March. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday March 10, 2010 22:47 by a non-racist individual   text 25 comments (last - tuesday november 23, 2010 17:48)   video 6 video files
A Youtube video series shows the full horror of life under Israeli occupation read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday March 10, 2010 19:31 by Unite the Union   video 1 video file
Unite bank workers from across the sector came out to support 750 colleagues being threatened with compulsory redundancy at lunchtime today. Watch a video report from Trade Union TV from the Dáil. read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday March 10, 2010 08:36 by margaretta d'arcy   text 5 comments (last - wednesday march 10, 2010 23:13)   video 1 video file
The Women’s Peace camp Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th of March, at Shannon airport, as part of the International Women’s Day celebrations, was certainly worth while. Women and some men came from afar. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday March 08, 2010 10:57 by Paula Geraghty   video 1 video file
Phil Keane from Women's group of St Michael's Estate talks about International Women's Day on how and why it is celebrated by the women of St Michael's Estate. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday March 06, 2010 18:26 by Freda Hughes   text 19 comments (last - monday april 12, 2010 16:35)   video 1 video file
The School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London organised a conference on the Left in Palestine through it's Palestine Society from February 27th-28th. As far as I know this is the first conference covering this specific area of the Palestinian question and, thus, it had the potential to open up much needed debate on the subject. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / news report Saturday March 06, 2010 02:41 by Dave Donnellan   video 1 video file
Pat 'The Chief' O'Donnell, a local fisherman and campaigner against the Corrib gas pipeline was jailed for 7 months on Feb 10th. read full story / add a comment
dublin / housing / news report Tuesday March 02, 2010 10:45 by Paula Geraghty   text 6 comments (last - tuesday april 05, 2011 10:50)   video 2 video files
Over 30 people came out to protest outside Dublin City Council to keep Cedar House, a service for homeless people in Dublin open, on Monday, March 1st 2010.

Find the campaign on FaceBook
facebook.com/pages/save-the-homeless-services/290883897234
Contact them at [email protected]. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday March 01, 2010 22:40 by Paula Geraghty   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 02, 2010 15:25)   video 1 video file
Hundreds marched to the Green Isle factory where TEEU members have been on strike and two men have begun a hunger strike. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday February 27, 2010 18:46 by Kev   video 1 video file
Today Saturday 27th February 2010, members and supporters of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign took to the streets of Dublin asking consumers and retailers to boycott Israeli Apartheid products in solidarity with the Palestinian people who continue to suffer incalculable misery at the hands of the Israeli state. The action marked the beginning of international Israel Apartheid Week. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday February 26, 2010 22:03 by Paula Geraghty   video 1 video file
Today, the Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) will held a protest (Friday 26th Feb) at 5pm outside the Dail to demand the government impose sanctions on Israel in response to the outrage where seven falsified Irish passports were used to facilitate the assassins of senior Hamas figure, Mahmoud Al Mabhouh, in Dubai. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday February 26, 2010 02:49 by Paula Geraghty   text 3 comments (last - tuesday march 02, 2010 12:18)   video 1 video file
A small group of people picketed the US embassy in Ballsbridge in solidarity with Haitians and to call for troops out and end the military occupation of Haiti. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / news report Thursday February 25, 2010 16:25 by DCTV   text 10 comments (last - monday march 08, 2010 21:29)   video 1 video file

On the 6th March 2010 DCTV is launching its latest TV series - The Pedal Project, consisting of 3 hours of material filmed in Dublin, London and Amsterdam. A fast paced, visually and musically polished piece looking at cycling culture and how to create cycling friendly cities the series will be simultaneously broadcast on television and released on the internet. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Thursday February 25, 2010 09:32 by Dave Donnellan   text 2 comments (last - sunday february 28, 2010 00:46)   video 1 video file
A recent interview with Eoin O'Leidhin who was jailed yesterday for non-payment of a fine incurred during a protest in Rossport, Co. Mayo. Eoin is one of a number of local residents who have been targeted by the authorities for expressing their concern over safety aspects of the controversial Shell gas pipeline in Mayo. The decision to lay the high pressure production gas pipeline by Shell close to human dwellings was made without any consultation with local residents and has no planning permission. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday February 24, 2010 19:07 by Niall Harnett   text 10 comments (last - tuesday march 09, 2010 13:18)   video 1 video file
Eoin O'Leidhin has joined fisherman Pat 'the Chief' O'Donnell at Castlerea prison today. Eoin was convicted of Section 8 of the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994 for 'failure to comply with the directions of Garda' at a protest outside the Shell site Glengad on 30th August 2008.

Garda Sean Cunnane, who likes to ham it up as he whinges to the courts, convinced Judge David Anderson that Eoin's behaviour was a crime.

The short video below shows the true flavour of the occasion. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday February 23, 2010 12:31 by Andrew N Flood   text 8 comments (last - monday march 01, 2010 22:32)   video 1 video file
The week before last Erris fisherman Pat O'Donnell was jailed for seven months for his part in the communities ongoing resistance to Shell's attempt to impose an experimental gas pipeline on them. Across the country local Shell to Sea groups have been holding solidarity protests and other events for Pat. In Dublin this has included two protests and a public meeting in UCD. Meanwhile Shell have been forced to admit a temporary defeat in the face of local opposition and call off the construction they have planned for Glengad this year. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday February 23, 2010 11:36 by Fintan Lane   text 35 comments (last - tuesday april 06, 2010 17:14)   video 6 video files
Following revelations that the address of a Dublin house owned by a brother of former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds was used by the assassins who killed a Palestinian official in Dubai, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) is calling on the Irish government and the European Union to take a more forthright position on the murder by Israel of its political opponents. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday February 23, 2010 05:33 by TD   text 5 comments (last - friday february 26, 2010 08:26)   video 1 video file
On 3rd March 2002, 22-year-old Palestinian blocklayer and tiler Thaer Hamad from the Ramallah-area village of Silwad, armed with an old WW2 M1 rifle shot 24 Israeli Occupation Forces and their reinforcements at a checkpoint sited in an old British police post on the road between Nablus and Ramallah killing 11 of them in the space of 24 minutes before his weapon blew up on the 25th shot. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Monday February 22, 2010 13:12 by Volunteer Team   video 3 video files
"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume." - Chomsky

Interview with Prof. Noam Chomsky January 2010

Venue: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Video interviews online at http://www.spunout.ie/action/Be-inspired/SpunOut.ie-cha...omsky

Transcript below read full story / add a comment
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