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international / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday January 29, 2009 21:26 by Miriam   text 36 comments (last - saturday january 31, 2009 20:41)   video 2 video files
Signs are already that the chemical castration of the Irish Unions from long-term immersion in the toxic environment of the Social Partnership has been completed. Reports are that they are preparing to slink away from IBEC and Fianna Fail without so much as a whimper about bailouts and other blingly obvious transfers of enormous wealth from the poor to the rich when the flow should be going in the other direction. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday January 29, 2009 15:19 by Maidhc Ó Cathail   text 25 comments (last - tuesday march 10, 2009 18:54)   video 1 video file
After 60 years of one-sided reporting on Palestine, a major U.S. TV network finally shows the reality of life for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Wednesday January 28, 2009 16:30 by dunk   text 9 comments (last - monday march 02, 2009 15:16)   video 5 video files
In Brazil, more than one hundred thousand people are gathering for the ninth World Social Forum. A crowd of some fifty thousand kicked off the event Tuesday with a march through the Amazon city of Belem. The World Social Forum gathers social movements from around the world under the theme of ‘another world is possible.’ It’s timed to coincide with the gathering of corporate leaders in the Swiss town of Davos.

Listen to the live broadcast, when available from AMARC: http://66.90.104.82:8330/listen.pls

WSF 2009 @ Belém - Pará - Brasil (27 feb - 1 feb, 2009) : http://www.fsm2009amazonia.org.br/

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday January 28, 2009 02:36 by A New Age in Voting   video 1 video file
On Tuesday 27th January, Ógra Shinn Féin joined the NYCI (National Youth Council of Ireland) outside Leinster house to demand that the voting age be lowered to 16. Sinn Féin TD Aengus O’Snodaigh was also in attendance to demonstrate his personal and party support for the initiative.

The ‘New Age to Vote’ campaign launch hopes to spark a debate on this issue among 16 and 17 year olds, with the aim of opening up discussion forums and campaign groups across Ireland that demand the voting age to be lowered, ensuring young people have a voice.
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday January 27, 2009 23:56 by P. Bowman   text 4 comments (last - monday february 02, 2009 13:34)   video 1 video file
Speaker: Francesco Merli - HoV international campaign read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday January 26, 2009 23:58 by SP-USA   video 1 video file
Casualties Mount as the Capitalist Crisis Deepens read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday January 26, 2009 20:55 by TD   text 24 comments (last - monday february 02, 2009 23:28)   video 1 video file
Outraged and revulsed at the wanton butchery in Gaza and wanting to do more than wring our hands in impotent empathy, a number of concerned people and activists two weeks ago formed a flying picket and for the last two Saturday's protested outside Galway stores selling Israeli products (and one pro-Zionist fast food eatery), urging shoppers with conscience to boycott Israeli goods and food stuffs until such time - to mention just a few our concerns - as Israel complies with international and humanitarian law, UN resolutions, Fourth Geneva Convention, withdraws from the Occupied Palestinian Territories and dismantles its illegal West Bank colonies

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international / crime and justice / news report Monday January 26, 2009 13:38 by Miriam   text 29 comments (last - tuesday february 03, 2009 12:54)   video 1 video file
The Disaster Emergency Committee in Britain, which is a group of about 20 of the country's leading charities is making an appeal for urgent aid for the people of Gaza. Britain's broadcasters have for about 40 years aired these appeals free of charge. By convention, the appeal will only be broadcast if all of the broadcasters will agree to do it. The BBC has refused to broadcast it and so too have Sky - on the grounds that it would bring their 'impartiality' into question. The BBC Director General and the corporation's executive committee made the decision late last week . It has caused outrage all over Britain and within the corporation itself where staff and unions are deciding what action they can take to make senior management reverse this decision. Staff have been threatened with the sack for speaking out in public.

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national / anti-capitalism / feature Monday January 26, 2009 11:01 by James O'Brien   text 4 comments (last - sunday february 01, 2009 14:32)   video 1 video file
The Irish government has called in as financial adviser Henrietta Baldock of the remarkable loss making machine that is Merrill Lynch read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Sunday January 25, 2009 11:12 by The Green Spirit   text 37 comments (last - friday february 13, 2009 17:05)   video 3 video files
Tara Imbolc Celebration for all. Assemble in the Tara Car Park 4.30pm Sunday 1st Feb read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday January 24, 2009 21:58 by Boycott Israel   text 5 comments (last - sunday january 25, 2009 16:42)   video 1 video file
The BBC Refuses To Broadcast An Appeal For Aid read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / feature Friday January 23, 2009 23:37 by anarchaeologist   text 35 comments (last - wednesday april 01, 2009 22:48)   video 4 video files
The death has occurred of Bob Doyle, the last surviving Irish soldier of the XV International Brigade of the Spanish Republican Army.
The death has occurred in London of Bob Doyle, the last surviving Irish soldier of the XV International Brigade. Bob, whose health had been failing for some time had survived a recent double heart attack, before passing peacefully last night surrounded by his family. He was a few weeks short of his 93rd birthday.

Bob's career as an political activist has been recorded in his book Brigadista, which recounted his early life in Dublin as a Republican volunteer and later as a member of the Republican Congress, prior to his abortive first attempt to fight against Franco in July 1937, which saw him stow away on a ship to Valencia.

On his return to London (which he was to make his home for the remainder of his life) Bob contacted the CP and arrived in Spain by the more usual route, walking over the Pyrenees in a group o read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / feature Friday January 23, 2009 22:18 by Harry Wells   text 19 comments (last - wednesday february 18, 2009 16:36)   video 1 video file
The recent attacks on Gaza by the Israeli state have brought strange bedfellows out of the Irish woodwork. Almost to a man, and woman, those who were vitriolic in opposition to the Irish Peace Process have been four-square behind the slaughter in Gaza.

Eoghan Harris, Kevin Myers, Tom Carew, Ruth Dudley Edwards, please take a bow.

A short report on the role they played in support of the IDF – Israeli Defence Forces – is in order. Here is what they said and how it relates to their Irish politics. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / feature Friday January 23, 2009 18:55 by S2S   text 11 comments (last - wednesday february 04, 2009 14:18)   video 1 video file
Yesterday (January 22nd), Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin stated that it is "extraordinary" that gas from the Corrib field has not yet been brought onshore. Shell to Sea feels that what is really "extraordinary" is that the Government is still trying to force this experimental project through given the local community concerns regarding their health, safety and local environment. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Friday January 23, 2009 09:52 by redjade   text 11 comments (last - sunday february 01, 2009 02:14)   video 4 video files
Change We Can Believe In.
(or not) read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday January 22, 2009 22:24 by Democratic Programme   text 9 comments (last - monday january 26, 2009 05:00)   video 4 video files
Sinn Féin Gerry Adams delivers a keynote address at the Mansion House Dublin, 90 years to the day when Sinn Féin TD's established the First Dáil Éireann in open defiance of British tyranny and laid out a progressive egalitarian document, the democratic programme, which stands as a cornerstone of republican beliefs. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Thursday January 22, 2009 20:00 by Footage: Al J / Edit: C&C Group   text 11 comments (last - wednesday january 28, 2009 17:52)   video 2 video files
This video is made up of a list of the signatories of an open letter compiled to support the demand that the Israeli ambassador to Ireland be expelled until such time as 'until such time as there is a complete end to Israel's war on Gaza and its continued slaughter of the Palestinian people.' The list is combined with creative commons footage from Gaza , released onto the web by Al Jazeera. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / feature Thursday January 22, 2009 18:18 by Edward Horgan   text 17 comments (last - sunday april 26, 2009 20:49)   video 5 video files
The Irish Peace and Neutrality Alliance has called on the newly inaugurated 44th President of the United States to respect international law with regard to Irish neutrality by taking steps to terminate the transit through Shannon airport of US troops, military material and CIA associated aircraft engaged in extraordinary rendition with immediate effect.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday January 22, 2009 17:13 by redjade   text 17 comments (last - monday january 26, 2009 12:22)   video 5 video files
national / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday January 22, 2009 13:40 by Dunk   text 4 comments (last - monday january 26, 2009 19:26)   video 2 video files
Dear Pat, (Wednesday 21 January, 2009)

Strange times indeed!

Yesterday Martin Luther King’s dream was realised with Barack Obama becoming the first black president of the united States. Today sees Ireland celebrating, after much movement building based on Hope and Bold-ness of vision, the 90th anniversary since the first meeting of Dail Éireann.

But strangest of all is that we are living in times of such climate catastrophe, which threatens our collective existence regardless of nation and race, and in Ireland this fact is neither sufficiently recognised, nor is sufficient assistance given to those with visions for sustainable change. read full story / add a comment
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