interview with Ciaron O'Reilly of the Catholic Worker and Pitstop Ploughshare action at Shannon Airport in February 2003.

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This weekend, Ireland is the site of much parading and rhetoric about independence, sovereignty and freedom, as many commemorate the blood sacrifice of hundreds of men and women who participated in the "1916 Rising".

Currently, Ireland facilitates the passage of 900 US troops per day on their way to an imperial war in Iraq, and back again (sometimes in bodybags, often wounded). CIA flights through Shannon and Baldonnell airports have been documented by consciencious citizens.

The Irish police harrasse and intimidate such citizens, and leave all planes (through a civilian airport in the case of Shannon), untouched or actively guard them.

A majority of the people of Ireland oppose the Coalition occupation of Iraq, but the Irish government they elect, prefers to sign away Ireland's supposed sovereignty, to Empire.

Is there any government that cannot be bought? any principle that is not for sale?
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Can the use of ethanol in motorcars substitute for fossil fuels? ... read full story / add a comment

Last week was the anniversary of the assassination of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4th, 1968. Dr. King's philosophy was one of non-violence, and this article looks at the alternative views of Malcolm X which are not aired quite so frequently. ... read full story / add a comment

So Today I see that new terrorism laws have come into place in England. Which states one can no longer Glorify terrorism. ... read full story / add a comment

Available in four parts as a pretty high quality download here (for the first time I think):
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

The film had a complicated gestation but heavily involved the majority of the original Indymedia Ireland gang. We came back from working with Indymedia Italy in Genoa all fired up and determined to start an Indymedia in Ireland. Almost five years ago that was now.

The Protests against the G8 in July 2001 in Genoa Italy were the biggest and most significant protests in Western Europe since the Poll Tax riots in the UK. Italian Prime Minister Sylvio Berlusconi, wanting to impress his new best mate George W. Bush, orchestrated a brutal Media/Police preemptive strike on the Anti-Capitalist Movements' biggest First World mobilisation to date. When the weekend of protests ended Carlo Guiliani was dead and a school full of sleeping activists had been attacked in what is popularly referred to as the 'Chilean Night'.

The film traces the events of the three days of protests in detail and poses the question - Was it all a setup? If Seattle was 'Star Wars' then this is 'The Empire Strikes Back'. It is made from a combination of footage of the Genoa protests against the G8 shot by 10 members of IMC Ireland, material from the Italy IMC Archives and material from various other sources. This compelling footage combined with on the spot interviews and reenacted voiceover commentary and analysis from various websites which were active during the protests provides a in-depth blow by blow retelling of the story of the three days of the Genoa protests against the G8.

The film will be available on DVD in the run-up to the fifth anniversary of the Genoa protests. Watch this space for details. ... read full story / add a comment

An experimental short film about auto- surveillance
Div-X format
Available for download at this page: https://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/345.shtml ... read full story / add a comment

The victory of the movement against the CPE in France raises exciting possibilities for the European left ... read full story / add a comment

Or else bring a bodyguard. ... read full story / add a comment

An experimental short based around a recreated snippet of dialogue from the Guantanamo Bay Tribunals. Found on 'Kafka in Gitmo' thread on http://www.moonofalabama.org/. It's here: http://www.moonofalabama.org/2006/03/kafka_in_gitmo.html

Visuals include a photo of a guy in Fallujah being retina scanned by a US soldier, cctv footage of accidents in a tunnel in Moscow, footage from a US helicopter in Iraq wiping out some farmers and excerpts from a sniper eye view in the game 'State of Emergency'.

It's downloadable as a DivX file from here: https://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/327.shtml ... read full story / add a comment

Our Streets > Their Disposable Worlds.

Mixes a dystopian sci-fi narrative with a journalistic account of US military use of their own videogame technology as a combination of recriutment tool, virtual weapons testing site and information gathering mechanism.

Div-X file available here
https://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/326.shtml

Noisehacker uploaded the grafitti overlays used in the video to indymedia.ie

The Halo footage was found in the trash of a public computer in Belfast ... read full story / add a comment

With many having been ‘burned’ by the coverage of earlier revolutions in ex-Soviet satellite states, the recent mainstream media (MSM) coverage of the Belarusian election and the situation in the country appeared to be, to put it lightly, more than a little simplistic and one-sided.... ... read full story / add a comment

A discussion of the God-like properties of Mathematics.

Chapter 3 of Book II ... read full story / add a comment

Why does Irishantiwar.org still have the Iraq Body Count on their home page? And why is it so hard to contact them by email? ... read full story / add a comment

Amanda's excellent contribution shows the ultra-left up for what they really are-utterly incompetent and incapable of leading a Trade union in the 21st Century. ... read full story / add a comment

The creation of a Critical infrastructure body charged with fast-track planning applications was held up by Michael Mc Dowell TD and Minister for Justice for many months.
The idea vaunted by Martin Cullen TD at Environment had the breaks put on due to the nimby Mc Dowell who definitely did not want Poolbeg in his back yard, interfering with his constituencey majority.
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This Film Is A Mash-Up
All Contents Sourced Online In One 3 Hour Sitting

It lays out why the future of filmaking will be led by the 'mob' rather than the 'auteur'.
Thanks to Michael R. and Roger C. for feedback as it was being made.

It's here as a pretty high quality div-x: https://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/314.shtml

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An open Letter Re: Memorial to the China War at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Dublin ... read full story / add a comment

The Gardai are placing a lot of emphasis on speed, as if speed was the complete cause of our road fatalities. The Germans are showing us that speed is not the only problem associated with road fatalities.The problem we now have is that the Gardai are alienating themselves from law abiding people because they are being forced to penalise people because of regulations that the Gardai themselves cannot uphold. The vast majority of our people want to abide by the law but are being forced into direct conflict with the gardai because our road regulation have not been thought out properly. Help the Gardai fight crime.......would you be prepared to telephone if you were suddenly presented in the post with a speed fine for a road that could handle a Jumbo 747? ... read full story / add a comment

NIPSA’s right wing is attempting to re write history and is deliberately distorting the facts of the Civil Service pay dispute. This can only have the effect of compounding any negative outcome of the dispute with disorientation and demoralisation of NIPSA members. TFC is fighting against this by initiating an open and honest discussion about all aspects of the dispute. In this way a stronger united union can be built. This is intended as a contribution to a wider discussion amongst TFC activist and NIPSA members. ... read full story / add a comment

An examination of time, higher-dimensional space and entropy. Offers brand new theories as to what causes Time' s arrow.

Chapter 2 of book II ... read full story / add a comment