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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

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dublin / arts and media / news report Sunday February 21, 2010 01:04 by Paula Geraghty   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 21, 2010 18:25)   video 1 video file
To mark the showing of Michaels Moore’s new film Capitalism: A Love Story the People Before Profit Alliance today 20th February 2010 held a street theatre performance of Capitalism: An Irish Love Story outside the Savoy Cinema in O Connell Street which is being shown as part of the Jameson Film Festival. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday February 20, 2010 18:18 by Madam K   text 15 comments (last - friday february 26, 2010 08:50)   video 1 video file
Local Erris fisherman Pat O`Donnell was jailed for seven months on 10 /02/2010 for convictions of breach of the peace and of "obstructing a Garda .

Mary speaks about her husband, a local hero, the devestating effect Shell has had on the local community and the events which see him serving seven months in jail. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday February 20, 2010 13:45 by Iyad Burnat   video 1 video file
February 19th 2010-Today Bil'in commemorated the fifth anniversary of popular demonstrations against the settlements and the Apartheid Wall. Israel's occupation has confiscated over 50% of Bil'in's land. Only last week the construction work to reroute the Wall began, nearly two and a half years after the High Court of Justice ordered the Wall to be moved. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-capitalism / event notice Friday February 19, 2010 19:57 by Paddy M   video 1 video file
Capitalism in crisis
Why we need a socialist alternative

Lessons of Michael Moore's film Capitalism - A Love Story
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday February 18, 2010 16:47 by TD   text 4 comments (last - thursday february 18, 2010 22:32)   video 6 video files
Sorry to report that the PA through its Israeli, US and Jordanian trained Quisling thugs has now reduced armed struggle to an occasional tokenistic spasm in the West Bank and even nonviolent resistance, in the case of Bil'in, a mockery: PA placemen on the Popular Committee now only permit eunuchized, grand old Duke of York type Friday traipses to the nearby Apartheid-Annexation Wall with anything stronger planned such as a protest against Mubarak's Wall of Shame between Gaza and Egypt nipped in the bud, as it were. read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality / event notice Thursday February 18, 2010 09:37 by Jim Monaghan   text 3 comments (last - wednesday april 10, 2013 12:49)   video 1 video file
Tonights Prime Time on RTE has a program on this most peculiar operation done instead of Caesarian sections in many hospitals read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday February 17, 2010 22:26 by Paula Geraghty   text 2 comments (last - friday february 19, 2010 08:44)   video 1 video file
Shell to Sea, Dublin, held a solidarity picket outside Shell's headquaters in Leeson Street Dublin Tuesday 16th February 2010. read full story / add a comment
kildare / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Tuesday February 16, 2010 20:11 by B   text 6 comments (last - saturday february 20, 2010 15:07)   video 1 video file
TEEU says hunger strike at Green Isle Foods will last until dispute ends read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday February 15, 2010 18:05 by Kev   video 1 video file
To kick off Israel Apartheid Week, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign is asking shoppers not to buy Israeli goods in solidarity with the people of Gaza who are still being starved by the Israeli government.
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday February 15, 2010 17:55 by Kev   video 1 video file
To kick off Israeli Apartheid Week the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign is asking shoppers not to buy Israeli goods in solidarity with the people of Palestine who are still being starved by the Israeli government. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Sunday February 14, 2010 23:30 by Niall Harnett   text 13 comments (last - saturday january 04, 2014 21:42)   video 1 video file
A number of high profile Shell to Sea campaigners including 'the Chief' Pat O'Donnell and Maura Harrington sought to appeal certain criminal convictions in cases heard last week at Castlebar Circuit Court from 9th - 11th February. A few of the appeals were successful but some of the convictions were upheld by the court.

Judge Raymond Groarke concluded that Pat O'Donnell is a thug and a bully, and Maura Harrington is a vigilante.

This article has a look at the reality. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / event notice Sunday February 14, 2010 10:17 by Eamonn Quinn   video 1 video file
Louth Contemporary Music Society’s first concert for 2010 features a performance by the great American pianist Uri Caine in St.Peter’s Church of Ireland Drogheda on 5 March 2010 at 8pm.

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national / environment / opinion/analysis Saturday February 06, 2010 06:48 by carbonman   text 104 comments (last - tuesday april 27, 2010 19:45)   video 5 video files
How the Irish Taxpayer is being misled into the necessity of a carbon tax by an agenda of false and exaggerated science by influential scientists and environmental catastrophists. read full story / add a comment
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