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international / anti-capitalism Monday November 17, 2008 - 23:05 by Paul   audio 1 audio file
This is a talk given by Dick Bryan from the University of Sydney at the recent Historical Materialism 2008 conference in London the weekend before last.

Bryan collaborated with Mike Rafferty to co-author the ground-breaking book "Capitalism and Derivatives" in 2006. One of the first books to properly examine the recent explosive developments in high finance from an anti-capitalist perspective, they have blazed a new path in investigating the hyper-evolution of current capitalist financial engineering that is at the root of the current crisis. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday November 14, 2008 - 23:39 by Fr. Raymond Murray   text 1 comment (last - monday november 17, 2008 - 09:35)   image 1 image
The following is the diary of Fr. Raymond Murray, Chaplain of Armagh's Prison and human rights defender of the political prisoners during the Troubles. He is also author of the book "State Violence -Northern Ireland 1969/1997" and numerous reports on torture in Northern Ireland with Fr. Denis Faul, such as "The Hooded Men". He agreed to travell on behalf of Grupo Raíces (Grúpa Fréamhacha) to share his experiences in Northern Ireland with the popular movement in Colombia. He will be speaking at a public conference in Liberty Hall on November 24th, at 19:00 together with Michael Dowling (SIPTU) and a Colombian resident in Ireland who was also there at the conference (check event at http://www.indymedia.ie/article/89819) ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Friday November 14, 2008 - 23:31 by Oscar   text 1 comment (last - thursday november 18, 2010 - 14:13)
This article is an invitation for people that may know the answer to the following questions i have in relation to fee paying schools. I understand that the state pays the wages of teachers in fee paying schools while allowing them to also charge those parents who can afford it - fees.
My understanding is that this is situation is an historical anomaly based on most fee paying schools being protestant at the creation of the state 90 odd years ago. I was wondering in these times of cut backs , is it true that the state continues with this situation..... ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 14, 2008 - 15:57 by Vincent Devine
Rebuttal of ideas expressed by panel members. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday November 12, 2008 - 17:11 by Sean Matthews (PC)
Despite the collaboration between the British Government and the DUP preventing the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to the north the struggle for women's right to choose continues….. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 08, 2008 - 20:01 by Sean   text 7 comments (last - wednesday november 19, 2008 - 18:36)
We urgently need a holistic approach to mental health and well being in Ireland. Recent research findings of the Health Research Board revealed that of the almost 2,500 drug related deaths in the past eight years, prescription tranquillisers such as benzodiazepines were involved in more deaths than any other drug, legal or illegal. ... read full story / add a comment
16 Billion euros between 2007-2008 and the woman cannot say abortion.
national / gender and sexuality Saturday November 08, 2008 - 18:16 by 201   text 7 comments (last - wednesday november 12, 2008 - 08:13)   image 1 image
There are 161 people in this country looking for a new political organisation. Sadly agressive little mobs
have an ability to re-structure and re-group at enormous rates of rapidity. They will not be doing so in time
for the next set of elections:

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/89793

Before she left she destroyed the healthcare system , aided and abetted by centre-right party, The Greens.

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/88159
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/85274
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84946

The Sunday papers will busily eulogise on her contribution to Women's Politics, whilst it is evident
that she has dealt women's health issues a cancerous body blow. She copper-fastened the most
brutal econmic inequality and two-tier approach to women's health since the foundation of the state.

... read full story / add a comment
Mary Warty Harney.
national / gender and sexuality Saturday November 08, 2008 - 11:15 by doing it with élan.   text 25 comments (last - friday december 19, 2008 - 22:40)   image 2 images
Let's be frank about it, Mary Harney's Genital Warts story is a shame crying out for a tongue wagging.

As the most cultured amongst us know this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology was shared by scientists in that trade who have made inroads in the virus research lark. One laureate managed to link up the HPV group of viruses with cervical cancer & before you could say "love me warts and all" most European states decided to vaccinate young wans against only 3 of the near 100 strains of HPV or "genital warts" a virus which indeed doesn't always produce warts...........it being a sly killer and all. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / environment Friday November 07, 2008 - 15:39 by Oedipus at the National Theatre   text 11 comments (last - friday june 19, 2009 - 00:41)   image 2 images
Before the lawyers get busy, let's have a look at what he said yesterday when he announced that the Fioanna Fáil/Geen Party government was setting up a talking shop to give the impression that they care what people think about the project (which will go ahead, it seems, regardless of whatever the "Corrib Gas Community Forum" says or concludes).

In the Irish Independent today, the Minister is quoted as saying the following:
"Mr Ryan said it would give the State greater energy security, help bring down gas prices and bring in €1.7bn in corporation taxes over the project's estimated 15-20 year lifespan."

... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday November 06, 2008 - 19:35 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 8 comments (last - monday november 17, 2008 - 10:10)   video 1 video file
"Democracy is Coming to the U.S.A."
clip -Leonard Cohen
http://noolmusic.com/yahoo_videos/leonard_cohen_-_democ...y.php

I've been in Glasgow the past few daze catching to my godson Seanoidh and his parents Brian and Babs. I met B & B when I accompanied my friend Richard, who had just been deported from Genoa as he was trying to make his way to the G8 2001 demonstration, down to the Italian embassy in London to register our protest at the killing of Carlos,
... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Thursday November 06, 2008 - 17:56 by john throne
"There is no one who represents the black inner city, who is rooted in the black community. It's the whole black Brahmin thing.: Vote for us because we're better than you." ... read full story / add a comment
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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday November 06, 2008 - 14:29 by Sean Matthews (Personal Capacity)   image 1 image
Text of talk from Belfast WSM educational ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday November 05, 2008 - 22:07 by Bonnan buí   text 10 comments (last - sunday november 09, 2008 - 14:07)

Sinn Fein defend the Free State ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / arts and media Thursday October 30, 2008 - 20:31 by Vincent Devine   text 3 comments (last - saturday november 01, 2008 - 04:07)
Colin Fry will be appearing in the University of Limerick Concert Hall on the 3rd and 4th of November. Tickets are currently on sale for €35. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday October 30, 2008 - 19:44 by Grattan Healy
A recent BBC TV programme called: "High Anxieties: The Mathematics of Chaos" documented how mathematics has come to better understand the instability in complex system, such as our economy and our climate. Our attempts to predict and control such unstable systems are unsuccessful, as illustrated by the ongoing finance and market crisis. We face much the same sort of unpredictable development with the climate, and for the same reason, a sudden, potentially irreversible, change cannot be ruled out. The unstable and unsustainable economy is now driving climate instability. Our first task is to stabilize our economy, change its purposes, move to sustainability and try to avert the worst effects of climate change. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday October 29, 2008 - 16:41 by John mcoy
In a recent press release on their website Mr Wills of the Union speaks about the
“damning indictment of the attitude these contractors have towards their workers and employment standards generally, as laid down by the law”. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 29, 2008 - 14:02 by Jim   text 21 comments (last - friday november 21, 2008 - 19:19)   image 1 image   video 5 video files
A juvenile anti-war left in the US and Europe are hopeful that Obama, a left-leaning liberal Senator, will be an abrupt and positive change from the "worst President ever" George W. Bush.
the story goes that the Bush policies of maintaining American economic and military dominance invited the 9/11 attacks and that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq which have led to the deaths of thousands of American soldiers and tens of thousands of civilians have become an endless quagmire, while the social divide between rich and poor has never been greater as the US economy is in free fall.
The accepted "wisdom" is the Obama will turn American and the world around.
But is this true?
Absolutely not. Obama is in fact Bush 2. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous Wednesday October 29, 2008 - 12:12 by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.   text 1 comment (last - monday march 16, 2009 - 17:48)   image 1 image
With the occasion of the launching of the Bloom Alliance through a conference with national and international activists on the issue of how to build a Global Justice movement in Ireland (November 7th & 8th, http://www.indymedia.ie/article/89493 ) we want to share some thoughts on the intention behind the conference and the gap we are intending to fill with it. ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Tuesday October 28, 2008 - 18:38 by An Experienced Activist/Strategist   text 10 comments (last - friday december 12, 2008 - 20:37)
Ok, as a "foreign" activist who has had the pleasure of meeting NARA I feel that I should clarify a few things for the readers here and the NARA actvists themselves relating to this thread here:

https://indymedia.ie/article/89205 ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Tuesday October 28, 2008 - 13:51 by Derek Breen   text 9 comments (last - friday january 30, 2009 - 00:31)
The Greens hold the balance. Time to get organising and contacting your local Green representative to leave the Government...

... read full story / add a comment
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