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international / environment Tuesday March 02, 2004 - 17:49 by ANIMAL LIBERATION.be   text 24 comments (last - thursday march 17, 2005 - 09:23)   image 1 image
PEOPLE WHO ARE VIOLENT TO ANIMALS RARELY STOP THERE ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday March 02, 2004 - 16:13 by Gaz   text 4 comments (last - wednesday march 03, 2004 - 15:20)
Despite the Minister for Education Noel Dempsey's repeated mantraof social inclusion and widening access to education, the government has systematically targeted the most disadvantaged sectors of Irish society and reneged n virtually all its election promises by introducing cutback after devastating cutback. Since being re-elected in 2002 there has been a constant erosion of funding for schemes aimed at assisting those from disadvantaged backgrounds. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday March 02, 2004 - 15:41 by Dermo   text 31 comments (last - tuesday march 09, 2004 - 00:28)
An opinion after seeing the Photographs at the National Press exhibition in the Photographic Gallery in Meeting Hall square. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday March 01, 2004 - 13:30 by Anarcho
When the [British] government abandoned its prosecution of the GCHQ whistleblower Katharine Gun, it suggested that Blair had something to hide. The prosecution offered no evidence against Ms Gun, despite her admitting that she leaked information about an American spying operation at the UN in the run-up to the war. She said she acted to try to prevent Britain illegally invading Iraq. Arrested nearly a year ago and charged eight months later under the Official Secrets Act, she is now a free woman. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Saturday February 28, 2004 - 13:36 by Eoin Dubsky   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 29, 2004 - 11:57)
When a publican wants to renew his license to sell intoxicating liquor we are all equally entitled to make an objection, in writing or in person to the District Court. If the same guy wanted to start, say, a salmon farm in a nearby estuary (polluting it), he would have to post notices in the papers to alert the public of his plans, who once again could try to stop him with objections and appeals. If his business involved selling lethal weapons for export to regimes which torture and kill their opponents, guess what, his license application would be dealt with in secret by Mary Harney's functionaries in the Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment. No public scrutiny, not even parliamentary scrutiny. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday February 27, 2004 - 08:19 by Al   text 5 comments (last - monday march 01, 2004 - 16:31)
WORKERS SUSPENDED AS GOVERNMENT WEIGH IN AGAINST STRUGGLE FOR FAIR PAY

As we go to press Government and bosses have made good their threats of disciplinary action against workers fighting for an end to poverty pay in the Civil Service. Seven workers – all from the same department have been suspended for taking part in a work to rule. Four of the seven are shop stewards. This is clearly an attempt to break the union, NIPSA, and the resolve of its members in the CSA. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Thursday February 26, 2004 - 20:43 by Silvia Cattori PY Salingue
Many of you believe that this resolution is crucial in the Palestinian conflict, however you have voted on it without consulting with the Friends of Palestine. It may have been that you were busy in the preparation for Geneva Accords while voting for this resolution. It may be that now you will doubt your vote. The resolution that you have supported violates the basic legitimate Palestinians rights to “terminate the occupation”, and the right of return, which is recognized under international law ... read full story / add a comment
Saint Patrick surveys the Tara Skryne Valley, which the M3 will split
meath / environment Thursday February 26, 2004 - 03:02 by Vincent Salafia   text 5 comments (last - sunday may 16, 2004 - 18:18)   image 2 images
An unprecdented number of historians and archaeologists have signed a public statement, along with the Save Tara / Skryne Valley Group, calling on the Government to review and change the plans for the M3 motorway. It was printed as a letter to the editor in The Irish Times on 23.02.04 and The Irish Independent on 25.02.04. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday February 26, 2004 - 00:41 by Niall Ó Brolcháin   text 4 comments (last - saturday february 28, 2004 - 00:18)
An article on e-voting by Niall Ó Brolcháin of the Galway Greens. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday February 24, 2004 - 00:44 by john throne   text 25 comments (last - tuesday march 02, 2004 - 13:59)
The Pentagon is saying in the report printed below that world capitalism is going to be thrown into severe crisis by the developing environmental catastrophe. For all activists, and for the working class in general, this is the most important report to be made available to us in decades. We all have a duty to read and study it and to draw the political and organizational conclusions from it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 23, 2004 - 14:53 by Dave McCarthy   text 14 comments (last - saturday february 12, 2005 - 00:53)
While working on material concerning racism in the media, I found that nowhere on the internet could I get a copy of Mary Ellen Synon's infamous article she wrote in 1996 concerning Travellers. This article achieved a new low in standards of journalism in Ireland. Four years later, the same writer managed to offend all but Kevin Myers when she wrote about the athletes in the Special Olympics. I have scanned the 1996 article into our own web site for reference. Below is the text. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday February 23, 2004 - 14:23 by Idiot   text 3 comments (last - wednesday february 25, 2004 - 13:12)
This peice relates to the developmental process of two different Middle Eastern states, the Lebanon and Iraq. It stresses the benefits of the civil war in the Lebanon and asks if a civil war is the only way for Iraq to function as a nation. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 23, 2004 - 12:58 by WCR   text 33 comments (last - wednesday march 03, 2004 - 22:40)
As the 'peace process' hits yet another brick wall, the rise of racism in the north is viewed by some as the price we will have to pay for 'normalisation', as though the blow-torch of sectarian invective will simply switch its focus on another set of blameworthies, marked out as somehow 'different'. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 22, 2004 - 01:11 by Watchdog   text 21 comments (last - tuesday june 15, 2004 - 02:33)
All fraudulent laws are created, as they were in the time of Mussolini and elsewhere, to be "for our protection".
How many know of Hitler's "concerned" and "wholesome" anti-smoking" policies? ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 21, 2004 - 12:47 by s.fleming   text 6 comments (last - tuesday august 31, 2004 - 04:22)
psychiatry's answer to mental health problems is psychiatric drugs which they believe help to correct the 'patient's' brain chemistry or bio-chemical imbalance. Critical psychiatry seeks a more holistic approach seeing personal/interpersonal, social and environmental contexts as the origins of severe mental distress. Psychiatric drugs with their damaging effects on the individual and the genetic hypothesis that psychiaty operates behind have failed and must be replaced with a new social and holistic model which can truly help people. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 20, 2004 - 15:24 by copywhat?   text 14 comments (last - tuesday february 24, 2004 - 14:37)
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 20, 2004 - 13:14 by Jean Holmes   text 3 comments (last - saturday february 21, 2004 - 13:47)   image 2 images
The Iraqi woman scientist Dr. Huda Ammash resarched about the US use of Depleted Uranium during the US Gulf War 1991 ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Thursday February 19, 2004 - 15:24 by seedot   text 5 comments (last - sunday february 22, 2004 - 10:20)
Bin Collection, Aer Rianta, An Post, CIE, FAS, Bord Failte, ESB - all of these bodies have their futures discussed at the Article 133 meetings. When we want to know what's behind 25% of bus routes being introduced, or the push behind service charges we HAVE to think about these meetings. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Wednesday February 18, 2004 - 14:30 by Owen Deere   text 153 comments (last - friday november 26, 2004 - 10:13)
I've been trying to work out who will be listed as anti-bin tax local election candidates.
I'm not making any comment on whether this is a waste of time, just merely trying to ascertain who is likley to be the candidate in each ward. Below is the list I have compiled. I'm not sure that this is accurate. I'm only going on previous announcements. That's where you come in. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 18, 2004 - 01:30 by reeuq   text 9 comments (last - monday february 23, 2004 - 19:14)
“What is the use of rainbow week” is the title of a tread on the UCD student union message board. Followed by a comment that says “I don't know if the scrawls on the posters were homophobic - sounds like it was people who think it's funny to slag gay people, not necessarily homophobes!” Reading this makes me think of this Le Tigre song Tres bien and the line “because they will try to convince us that we have arrived, that we are already there, that it has happened. Because we need to live in the place where we are truly alive, present, safe and accounted for.” ... read full story / add a comment
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