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national / animal rights Wednesday December 28, 2005 - 20:03 by Association of Hunt Saboteurs.   text 2 comments (last - friday february 17, 2006 - 14:29)
Annual hunt meeting draws 500 protestors.

Irish Examiner 27-12-2005

by Ciaran Murphy



THE Association of Hunt Saboteurs and BadgerWatch Ireland yesterday urged the Government to follow Britain's example and introduce legislation to ban all forms of hunting with dogs.

The call came after an anti-bloodsports protest at the annual St Stephen's Day hunt meeting in Tramore, Co Waterford.

Some protest groups have warned that the sabotaging of activities will be stepped up at hunting events during the holiday period. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday December 28, 2005 - 18:07 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha   text 17 comments (last - thursday january 19, 2006 - 14:45)
The headlines above and the report excerpted below appeared on the front page of the Irish Independent today:
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THE Government reacted angrily last night after a leading US academic compared Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to a “shoe-shine boy” for President George Bush.
In a scathing attack on the Government’s foreign policy, the influential anti-war academic Noam Chomsky accused Mr Ahern of “shining the shoes” of the US President by allowing US warplanes to use Shannon airport.
**** ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday December 27, 2005 - 23:41 by Seán MacRuadhán
The Republican Socialist Youth Movement have issused their solidarity towards the Czech Communist Union of Youth. ... read full story / add a comment
redjade's 2006 prediction: Impeachment (but not necessarily removal, resignation, nor pre-mature withdrawal)
international / miscellaneous Tuesday December 27, 2005 - 22:43 by redjade   text 6 comments (last - wednesday january 04, 2006 - 14:21)   image 1 image
international / politics / elections Tuesday December 27, 2005 - 00:56 by joe   text 4 comments (last - thursday december 06, 2007 - 07:53)   image 1 image
With 51.1% of the vote, Evo Morales, coca farmers’ leader and head of the MAS (Movement Towards Socialism) has decisively won the December 18 presidential elections and is set to become Bolivia’s first indigenous president. These elections were yet another sign of the radicalisation and move to the left of the masses of Latin America and represent just the first one of eleven important electoral contests which will take place in different countries across the continent over the next year. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 26, 2005 - 20:11 by An Taisce Fan
An Taisce wants review of pipeline location

by Lorna Siggins, Marine Correspondent


An Taisce has called on Minister for Marine Noel
Dempsey to conduct a review of the proposed location
for Shell's onshore gas terminal in north Mayo in the
light of a recent Government consultancy study of the
controversial onshore pipeline.

This article is published as "fair use" to bring its content to a wider audience than it might otherwise have. Any subsequent user should identify the author and publication from which the article originally came, and it must in no circumstance be reproduced in whole or part for profit. This article is the work of Lorna Siggins, Marine Correspondent of the IRISH TIMES. www.Ireland.com. ... read full story / add a comment
Time Ladies & Gentlemen Please. It waits for no-one
international / sci-tech Monday December 26, 2005 - 18:45 by o as if   text 12 comments (last - friday january 13, 2017 - 12:05)   image 2 images
Time is very special, and no-one really knows who owns it. One thing is clear - we don't. But over the millenia we have seen the state or church whichever was more powerful at that particular time meddle with both calenders and hours.

On the 31st of December 2005, an extra second will be added to the world's clocks meaning the year will last 31536001 seconds rather than the usual 3156000. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 25, 2005 - 06:28 by cleaves
Bush is furious that patriot/s who still hold the values and laws of the USA sacrosanct, leaked the story of illegal bugging and surveillance to the media. The American Fuhrer’s indignation equals that of his historical Nazi counterpart. How dare someone expose the ‘commander and chief’ for the criminal that he really is! ... read full story / add a comment
Uighurs live in Xinjiang Province
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday December 25, 2005 - 02:35 by redjade   text 7 comments (last - wednesday january 25, 2006 - 15:03)   image 4 images
two ethnic Uighurs at the U.S. prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba need a home ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 22, 2005 - 20:30 by R. Isible   text 2 comments (last - monday december 26, 2005 - 07:31)
Ingmar Lee writes a round-up style piece for Counterpunch in which he points out the harsh sentences and scare-mongering publicity directed at eco-activists in the USA and contrasts it with the soft-pedalling of the much more effective Pacifist direct action movement. Ciaron O'Reilly's name appears twice in the list. Tim Hourigan, Mary Kelly, Eoin Dubsky all get a mention too. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday December 22, 2005 - 16:43 by pat c
Whiler there isnt a breakdown on how much harassment takes place on non-union as distinct from unionised airlines i would imagine non-union workers suffer worse. Harassment still occurs though on all airlines. Anyone convicted of sexual harassment should be banned from flying for at least 5 years.

pat c ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 22, 2005 - 05:39 by NOT BORED!
Sixteen years ago, we wrote and published the following satire of the US's Christmas-time invasion of Panama and the rock'n'roll world's support of it. U2's Bono was singled out for derision. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 21, 2005 - 18:46 by 006.5   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 21, 2005 - 18:49)
By Carol D. Leonnig and Dafna Linzer, Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
A federal judge has resigned from the court that oversees government surveillance in intelligence cases in protest of President Bush's secret authorization of a domestic spying program, according to two sources. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 21, 2005 - 04:40 by finch   text 3 comments (last - wednesday december 21, 2005 - 12:23)
Bush confesses his criminality and hopes that his ‘act’ of contrition will save him from the dock. He has finally acknowledged that the invasion (and occupation) of Iraq was/is based on incorrect information (lies). Supporters and citizens who desperately hope that Bush’s admission demonstrates his contrition had their hopes dashed against the hard reality of further sordid deeds – the illegal 'bugging' and monitoring of US citizen’s private communications by the NSA. [Would anyone seriously expect this criminal administration to change character?] Bush’s admission is a political gesture, a strategic manoeuvre in response to increasing international disapproval of the dishonesty of his regime. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 20, 2005 - 19:31 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha   text 8 comments (last - tuesday december 27, 2005 - 19:06)
A well-travelled student at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth was interrogated by agents of the Department of Homeland Security in October because he had ordered a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's book on Communism, The Little Red Book, while researching a paper on totalitarianism.
One of the student's lecturers is considering cancelling a course on terrorism planned for next semester, because it might put his students at risk.
Reported in The Standard-Times on December 17, 2005. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday December 20, 2005 - 16:18 by Red Clydeside   text 13 comments (last - thursday june 02, 2011 - 18:26)
Scotland, America and Denis Donaldson ... read full story / add a comment
derry / housing Tuesday December 20, 2005 - 13:53 by Conor   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 31, 2006 - 18:54)
Campaign against water privatisation, newsletter #1 now available to read.

You can read it here.

http://irishsocialist.net/cawp1.html ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 20, 2005 - 11:53 by Joe Higgins T.D.
The following is a report from Survival International about the forcible eviction of the Guarani/ Kaiowa Indians from their lands at Nanderu Marangatu, Municipality of Antonio João, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 19, 2005 - 19:05 by RSF   text 1 comment (last - monday december 19, 2005 - 19:10)
1. RSF to rally opposition to loyalist march in Dublin
2. British army patrols to be stepped up in Six Occupied Counties
3. Provos fraternise with RUC/PSNI in Derry
4. 'Continuity with the past, forward to the future'
5. Top Provo revealed as British spy
6. McDowell undermined DPP authority, says Flood
7. Family want the truth over 1971 British army Ardoyne murders
8. Nelson inquiry is delayed to 2007
9. Ferries' deal does not address real causes of dispute
10. RSF address open letter to Spanish Ambassador ... read full story / add a comment
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