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international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday September 24, 2007 - 21:04 by prone
For the geeks who have Second Life accounts, here's you chance to picket in the virtual world... "During the talks to renew IBM’s Italian internal collective agreement, the works council, supported by the majority of IBM Italy employees, asked for a small salary increase. IBM responded by cancelling their "productive results benefit", resulting in a loss of €1000 per year for each employee. For a company that wants to lead in corporate social responsibility, this is unacceptable." ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Monday September 24, 2007 - 16:16 by IT READER
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For those without a subscription, here's the text of the long article in last Saturday's IT about the Corrib Gas dispute. It makes interesting reading, and gives a fairly balanced account of the recent history of Shell's scheme. Sadly, the lie that the project will provide 700 jobs is repeated as if it was a fact. Careful readers will notice that Shell never commit themselves to this (or any) figure, instead using meaningless phrases like "up to 700 jobs in the construction phase", etc. The Shell PR machine now seems to think that if it repeats the notion that the majority of the people in Erris actually support the scheme then it will become accepted. The company's plan, to install a high pressure pipeline and a huge refinery in a area of bogs which is prone to landslides, has never enjoyed local support, but Shell says the people of the local communities have "moved on". The coming months will show how much support Shell has. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday September 23, 2007 - 21:04 by Quang Duc
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The largest protests in twenty years in Burma have seen a reported 10,000 bare foot monks march today as part of a crowd estimated at up to 20,000 people. Some of the monks had greeted Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the pacifist Nobel Peace laureate and house-arrested leader of the Burmese democracy movement at the gates of our prison-home at 54 University Avenue, Bahan 11201 Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) Saturday. In contrast today "the Hindu News" based in neighbouring India reports "A crowd of about 400 people led by monks peacefully gave up their attempt after being turned back at two different approaches, where police had placed barbed wire barricades". But everyone knows where that house-prison is............. .........."The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear." : Aung San Suu Kyi ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Sunday September 23, 2007 - 08:40 by Miriam Cotton
Shawn Pogatchnik of AFP fillets Ahern's testimony for the Inquirer with a minium of fuss. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 22, 2007 - 23:55 by Tech1.0
Craig Murray, the former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan and author ( http://www.murder-in-samarkand.com/ ), has had his blog site shut down at the request of the potential Arsenal chairman, Alisher Usmanov. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday September 22, 2007 - 22:15 by Saoirse
When you become a member of the freeconomy community, not only do you get jobs done for free, you also get to learn new skills, teach fellow freeconomists your skills and in the process meet loads of really great people ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Saturday September 22, 2007 - 14:16 by David Manning & Miriam Cotton
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In any other circumstance an eyewitness would be regarded by journalists as a reliable source of information. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday September 22, 2007 - 05:51 by Miriam Cotton
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In what is being described as another Bloody Sunday, a report from the UK Independent describes the murdering spree which the US based firm of mercenaries, Blackwater, indulged in last weekend. Eyewitnesses described an unprovoked assault on peaceful citizens going about their business. Was this retaliation for a bomb that had gone off elsewhere in the city? Observers are anticipating a Widgery-style explanation and coverup. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Friday September 21, 2007 - 19:22 by ISN updater
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The second issue of the bi-monthly Irish Socialist Network paper, Resistance, has just become available. In full-colour and free(!!), the paper should be in various shops over the next week or so. We'll post details under this posting as copies are placed in retail outlets. In the meantime, if anybody wants to lay their hands on a free hot-off-the-press copy of Resistance no.2, please email us at [email protected] If you want several copies to pass around to your mates or in your locality or workplace, just let us know and we'll send them on, free of charge. As with the previous issue, the articles in Resistance are quite varied, from topical matters to history to socialist theory to book reviews. A good mix! ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Friday September 21, 2007 - 18:13 by SP Online
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The September 2007 issue of The Socialist (#28) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Thursday September 20, 2007 - 19:00 by NIFC
This segments primary focus was on the ongoing effort to save Tara valley from destruction and the upcoming protests planned for Dublin,New York, California and Illinois. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / housing Wednesday September 19, 2007 - 19:39 by biggles
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Anyone going down to RTE news today will see how they've put a little "interactive" twist on the news that a flight from Lisbon almost crashed in Santry. A thumbnail picture accompanies the story http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0919/air.html of the hotel which is reported as being a 16 storey building at Santry Cross at night with the caption "you be the judge". Then you get to see another picture of the building during the day. Cool. You be the judge. Relax now. You are presently at the controls of a DC 9-83 passenger jet with 4 other crew members and 112 passengers slowing down on your cruise speed of (504 mph, 811 km/h) beginning a standard descent of no more than 2% declination. Feel good? Confident? Skittish? Not worrying about the 72,600 kg weight you could wallop? Now do those lights which look like an airstrip on the big hotel just in front of hte airstrip confuse you?? ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday September 19, 2007 - 17:40 by Miriam Cotton
24 comments (last - wednesday september 26, 2007 - 14:19)
The Youtube video link below shows a student being arrested and tazered for asking John Kerry, among other things, why he conceded the presidential election when he allegedly would have known it was rigged. The student was doing nothing other than asking questions which Kerry did not want to answer. He was not violent in any way, nevertheless he was bundled off by security men in front of a large audience not one of whom responded to his cries for help - despite having been clapped by a number of them just moments earlier. He was handcuffed and then tazered while completely defenceless. The only apparent attempt to help him on the video is the sound of a lone woman screaming at the police to stop what they were doing. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday September 19, 2007 - 07:38 by Gwen
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Nuon Chea(82), "brother number two", has been arrested at his home in Cambodia. He was second in command to Pol Pot, one of the greatest Communinst killers since Stalin and Mao. The Khmer Rouge regime were responsible for the imprisonment, torture and murder of an estimated 1.5 million of their own people. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Tuesday September 18, 2007 - 21:53 by gerbil afterburner
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An object thought to be a meteorite landed Saturday last at 16º24'12"S, 69º2'59"W just on the Peruvian border with Bolivia. It left a crater 6 meters (19 feet) deep and 30 meters (98 feet) wide. Since then both locals and police who were sent to investigate claims of a mystery sickness have been hospitalised. All indications are of radiation poisoning. & the appropriate authorities of scientists have taken samples and closed the area. Very rational & "move along there - nothing to see" stuff, most people will agree. But the global media heard of it. & now the Peruvian health ministry has made a statement on the general lines that the Andean state is not being invaded by cosmic inter-plantery bugs or viruses. So I thought I'd let you know. ... read full story / add a comment ![Joesph Beuy's Blackboards. [Tate Collection]](../cache/imagecache/local/attachments/sep2007/100_75_1_1_5_0_0_0_0_0_t03594_9.jpg "Joesph Beuy's Blackboards. [Tate Collection]")
national / arts and media Tuesday September 18, 2007 - 19:28 by C Murray
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The ' Knowledge Economy' is something that many of us cannot get our heads round, but it goes hand in hand with the idea of the Meritocracy and Computer Dependence so beloved of the people who cannot be arsed getting out of bed and doing a day's work. It is high dependence stuff and means in real terms, preparing kids for tech lives and ignoring humanistic education. OECD is criticising our Government for under-investment in our kids futures (again), with one of the lowest spends in the EU on our kid's futures. Personally I think it is lazy complacency that allows Ministers to underspend on National and State Schools. We don't invest in future jobs for the kids. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 18, 2007 - 19:01 by Fu manchu
Yesterday a student of general "leftiness" tried to squeeze a ranting bit of information & polemic into a question being put to US senator John Kerry during a student debate in Florida University. Nothing he said was particularly revolutionary despite his obvious passion. He affirmed the belief that Greg Pallast is a good bloke, Kerry had really won the 2004 election, GW Bush gets blowjobs, 911 is upsetting and then just as the good senator had asked him to get to the point and ask the question, the young man uttered the word "impeachment" & then got carried to the back of the room and tasered by the university security guards.the website of Taser international offers a t-shirt with the slogan "so...... you weren't doing anything - let's go to the video!". That's exactly where we going dear readers. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday September 18, 2007 - 18:58 by IT. Story
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A shortlist of three possible pipeline routes will be on display in Belmullet tomorrow. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday September 18, 2007 - 17:24 by pat c
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Some interesting developments in Nepal. The Maoist ministers have resigned from the Cabinet. It looks as if the Maoists have decided on mass protests rather than resuming armed struggle at this stage. The CPN (Maoist) has decided to quit the government as eight-party leaders failed to forge consensus on its demands. Maoist ministers submitted their resignation letters to Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala as soon as the meeting of top leaders of four major ruling allies ended in a deadlock. The leaders had been engaged in hectic parleys from early morning today. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday September 18, 2007 - 03:11 by Spirit of Roestown
Activists rush the destruction site and stop work occupying,over 10 machines. ... read full story / add a comment |
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