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national / anti-capitalism Saturday October 28, 2006 - 21:41 by Con Carroll
 3 comments (last - wednesday november 08, 2006 - 18:47)
Non expert on politics or the reality of working class black South Africans ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Thursday October 26, 2006 - 03:08 by Bernie.Wright.
Barry became world famous in the late 1990's as the animal rights prisoner on hunger strike against animal experiments, but this was just one side to his long career in animal activism. Barry was a committed vegan and took part in campaigns against all animal abuse; he was a hunt saboteur for many years; he was an ALF activist who personally rescued many animals from a terrible fate, he was convicted for an attempt to rescue one of the last dolphins to be kept in captivity in the UK.; He was also one of the movements most prolific economic saboteurs causing millions of pounds of damage to animal abusing companies and individuals; He worked and lived at various animal sanctuaries around the country; he did street stalls and produced newsletters and leaflets. In the end he made the ultimate sacrifice for the struggle to end animal cruelty. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Thursday October 26, 2006 - 02:57 by Ear-bashed
"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them." --Joseph Story ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Thursday October 26, 2006 - 00:14 by Robert Petersen
I will present a summary of the computerization of voting in Brazil, but before that, it's necessary to explain some characteristics of the organization of the electoral power so that it can be understood, because some things happened that could lead to misunderstanding. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Wednesday October 25, 2006 - 17:20 by sophia
Bertie Ahern wants to throw out the 'stupid ol' pencils,' and bring in electronic voting. But we would be stupider than the pencils if we fall for this. Decisions by many US states to convert to electronic voting machines have yielded new concerns about whether they are secure and accurate, about paper records as backup proof and -- this year -- about whether the electronic or paper record should be considered the official tally if a candidate demands a recount. And on a Utube video, a computer software expert and whistleblower reveals to a congressional committee how he was asked to design a simple system to rig electronic votiing in Florida. And it wasn't hard to flip a 51/49 vote either way, with no one the wiser. when electronic voting is brought in the door, democracy goes out the window. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 25, 2006 - 17:09 by Dan
8 comments (last - sunday march 16, 2008 - 17:04)
As coalition policy reaches a crisis, may I resurrect an idea? It offers a way out of the current debate whether to "stay the course" (as President George W. Bush has long advocated) or to withdraw troops on a short timetable (as his critics demand). My solution splits the difference, "Stay the course – but change the course." I suggest pulling coalition forces out of the inhabited areas of Iraq and redeploying them to the desert. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday October 25, 2006 - 12:02 by C Murray
4 comments (last - friday april 13, 2007 - 19:50)
The Cabinet decided to disallow Romanian and Bulgarian workers to work in this economy for seven years after the accession of these two states to the EU on January first 2007. At the same time John Reid in Britain has severely restricted the influx of workers from those states to: A small grpoup of skilled people, 20,000 agricultural workers and the self-employed. http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/0,,337484,00.html ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday October 23, 2006 - 19:29 by Waster?
13 comments (last - thursday february 15, 2007 - 19:39)
'Get a job' is always the first criticism labelled at activists- should we go out and join the workforce or not? Are most activists on the dole? If so, why? ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday October 23, 2006 - 01:21 by Paul Kinsella
14 comments (last - thursday october 26, 2006 - 17:35)
Ireland's 40,000 nurses are to step up their campaign for a pay rise by holding a mass rally in Dublin on 22nd November. Let’s go all out to support this mass rally in Dublin on Wednesday, November 22nd, this is going to be huge! ... read full story / add a comment
laois / miscellaneous Saturday October 21, 2006 - 12:53 by Mark C
17 comments (last - friday may 30, 2008 - 19:17)
Last Friday week I spent four hours trying to contact BT Ireland with a very simple query (can they reset my wireless connection so that I don't need a password to connect to the internet?). I spent four hours on the phone to no avail. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Friday October 20, 2006 - 14:12 by Miriam Cotton
8 comments (last - monday october 23, 2006 - 02:03)
On this day of action in county Mayo, this article is submitted to make the case for all objectors to contentious building schemes throughout Ireland to set aside their own campaigns for the time being and join with Shell to Sea in their efforts to have the Corrib gas refinery sited at sea. This issue could hardly be more serious in the precedent that is being set for the government response to public protest over public and commercial planning activities everywhere. It is not exaggerated to say that if current policing and media activities go unchallenged in respect of the Corrib gas project we will be walking with eyes wide open into a police state. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Thursday October 19, 2006 - 17:57 by Movie Fan
Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers" does a most difficult and brave thing and does it brilliantly. It is a movie about a concept. Not just any concept but the shop-worn and often wrong-headed idea of "heroism." The movie performs this task amid the fog of war on Iwo Jima in 1945, when the Associated Press' Joe Rosenthal took the iconic photograph of six American servicemen raising Old Glory on Mount Suribachi. The movie deconstructs that moment, shattering it into a jigsaw puzzle of flashbacks and flash-forwards, to explore how that photograph turned into a major prop of the U.S. government's war bonds campaign and how the government designated the three surviving flag raisers as "heroes." ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 18, 2006 - 23:31 by Michelle Clarke
28 comments (last - thursday june 27, 2013 - 12:55)
There is a very saying. Come progress, come poverty. During the last census in Ireland, it was spoken about in the Joe Duffy Liveline. It outlined the wealth and the illusion of the everlasting Tiger but people doing the census forms told Joe Duffy of the poverty they experienced in many houses on their rounds. Two weeks ago I was walking with my dog on the Canal, off Baggot Street, when a lady in distress sitting on a park bench crying - i stopped spoke to her and listened intently to her story. The lady told me come October 10th at 10.00 p.m. the Sherriff was coming on behalf of the landlord with an order of ejection. It intrigued me that the word 'EVICtion.....is not being used now. I took some particulars off the lady and made no promises. Two days later I met a barrister friend of mine. He asked me how long she lived in her flat. I said 27 years. He replied she has rights under the 1980 Act section 17. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday October 18, 2006 - 17:13 by Joseph Peelo
2 comments (last - saturday november 10, 2007 - 23:32)
Ireland has a company heavily invested in the Caspian sea's oilfields belonging to Turkmenistan. The corrupt and brutal nature of this dictatorship should preclude any ethical company from investing and yet Dragon Oil plc is almost totally dependent for its existence on a Production Sharing Agreement with this repressive regime. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Sunday October 15, 2006 - 17:22 by Shell to Sea Supporter
3 comments (last - thursday october 26, 2006 - 16:58)
Shell gas leaks and sparks ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Friday October 13, 2006 - 00:39 by James Burk
The election was totally clean? Was there fraud in the election? God only knows. And some corrupt ones, also. Specialists warn: the security and the allegiance of the result of the electronic ballot box are not fidiciary. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / arts and media Thursday October 12, 2006 - 17:45 by Terry
1 comment (last - thursday october 12, 2006 - 20:26)
Providence Resources are Sir Anthony O’Reilly’s oil and gas company. He owns the Herald, the Indo, the Star, the Sunday World, and many local rags. He owns 45% of Providence and his son is CEO. They operate in Ireland and Nigeria and have a deal with Exxon-Mobil for exploiting fields off the coast of Clare. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 12, 2006 - 14:25 by C Murray
25 comments (last - saturday april 28, 2007 - 12:56)
The Council Directive known as the Asylum Qualification Directive 2004/83/EC was required to be transposed into Irish Law on the 10th October 2006. It was. It is part of the new 'Immigration ,Residence and Protection Bill' It is an interim measure requiring Transposition into Irish Law , which allows for the subsidiary protection of people regected by definition of refugee status but in danger of suffering serious harm if returned forcibly to their country of origin. According to Press releases from the Department of Justice, the directive for subsidiary protection in the case of failure of application for refugee status, an applicant can apply for protection under the new directive, it is however, not retrospective. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 11, 2006 - 12:57 by Steve Conlon, Kelly Mackey
The United Nations defines the right to marry as a human right – the definition of a human right being one that applies universally and equally to all humans. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday October 11, 2006 - 04:59 by jim travers
19 comments (last - wednesday july 18, 2007 - 19:57)
Have local authorities lost the plot and surcome to the the greed of the building industry by allowing apartments spring up all over the country. When we were told apatments or in lay mans terms FLATS were a thing of the past, why have the authorities allowed the construction of such apartents when the history of Ballymun has show us that in a social context such forms of construction will cause problems in the future. Do local authorities need to look at their proceedures in the allocation of housing to people who want a roof but say to hell with everything else? ... read full story / add a comment |
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