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national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 13, 2006 - 20:50 by Masters Voice
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As activists we all need to be aware of how the far the state may wish to go in their pursuit of 'Justice' Maybe we need to look further into our rights as citizens and our right to freely communicate with each other.. Is Big Brother watching.. who Knows.. They aint gonna tell us! Clarification on phone records access sought The Data Protection Commissioner has said the law should be clarified to ensure that gardaí can only access individual phone records when they are investigating serious crime. Speaking at the launch of his office's annual report, Commissioner Billy Hawkes said amendments to legislation brought in last year allow gardaí investigating all crimes to access telephone records. However, he said this should be confined to investigations into serious crime only, and welcomed an EU directive which would require the Government to change the law accordingly. Mr Hawkes also called for a checklist to be created which gardaí would have to work through before being given access to telephone records. He said an investigation by his office had found that hundreds of individual call records were being accessed by gardaí each month. continues: http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0411/dataprotection.html ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 13, 2006 - 15:12 by ARI
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The Active Retirement Ireland (ARI) agm yesterday in Dublin Castle saw hundreds of angry older people letting a FF Minister know what they think of the private sectors control of the nursing home sector. Is it not time that opposition political parties started to make this a serious issue? According to the ARI the state is obliged by law to provide public nursing home places, however that is not the reality on the ground. When you are old and need to go to a nursing home, an expensive private bed is your only option. The ARI organsiation seems to be the only one making this argument? See Daily Ireland article http://dailyireland.televisual.co.uk/home.tvt?_scope=Da...opp=1 ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 13, 2006 - 09:00 by anon
Here's a story about a Irish couple detained for a week on the back of a disgruntled employers claims In January 2002, Murray and Gould asked Northrop Grumman if they could change jobs because the school owner did not pay them and demanded they clean his home. After they complained, the school owner called Northrop Grumman and said the pair had never worked for him and Murray was getting his pilot's license so he could open a business in Yemen, the appeals court said. They were deemed to no longer have legal residency status under the work program. The school owner also claimed that the couple opposed U.S. policy and believed that as long as the United States supports Israel terrorism will only worsen, the court said. Northrop Grumman notified the Department of State and U.S. immigration authorities of the claims. Days later, the government took the couple into custody and began deportation proceedings. http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny...wyork ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Wednesday April 12, 2006 - 23:28 by Me
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Expiry date: April 16th Place: O'Connell Street and environs ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 12, 2006 - 16:48 by pat c
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Such is the logic of Blairs Britain: an anti war protester went to the Cenotaph and read out the names of British soldiers killed in Iraq. For this he was arrested, charged with holding an illegal demonstration and now has been convicted and fined. Theres an extract below and you can read the full story at the link. pat ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 12, 2006 - 14:37 by Geoff Dolan
Judge strips her of parental rights due to Church of membershipSub-genius ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / politics / elections Tuesday April 11, 2006 - 21:59 by Pat
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Internal fighting within the Labour Party in the Sligo-North Leitrim constituency has deepened with the decision of the all the members (23) of the North Leitrim branch not to renew their membership of the party. Former Sligo-Leitrim TD Declan Bree, who comes from the left of the party, has been in sharp conflict with the party leadership. Bree said he regretted the resignation of former county council candidate Gabriel McSharry. Sources in Sligo say Bree is coming under strong pressure from supporters to leave Labour and stand as an independent socialist. Also Bree and several of his supporters did not attend Labour’s annual conference last weekend. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday April 11, 2006 - 16:19 by Irish Socialist Network
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national / miscellaneous Tuesday April 11, 2006 - 16:11 by shane ocurry
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Full wording and story at blackshamrock.org follow link ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage Tuesday April 11, 2006 - 00:22 by R. Isible
Counterpunch Apr 10 2006 carries _An open letter to the Primate of all Ireland on the Memorial to the China War at St. Patrick's Cathedral_ in which Ronan Sheehan of the Irish Writers Co-Op meditates on the bloody involvement of the Royal Irish Regiment in the Opium Wars in China. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 11, 2006 - 00:15 by SP Member
The Alma-Ata City authorities are determined to destroy the homes of settlers who have built poor but dignified living quarters on the outskirts of the city. Many of those who live in Shanyrak were driven out of their last homes by the collapse of industry in Kazakhstan, in the early and mid-nineties. With nowhere else to live, they moved to Shanyrak, and used old and second hand building materials to build modest homes in formerly uninhabited regions of the city. Now the Alma-Ata City authorities want the land, to build ‘entertainment complexes’ and elite flats for Kazakhstan’s ‘new rich’. ... read full story / add a comment
Inquest jury has ruled that peace activist, Tom Hurndall, was 'intentionally killed' by the Israelis
donegal / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 10, 2006 - 22:27 by Danny Kaplan
A jury has ruled that a British activist shot while acting as a human shield in the Gaza Strip was "intentionally killed". ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday April 10, 2006 - 18:52 by RSF
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Irish Republican Information Service (no 61) Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland Phone: +353-1-872 9747; FAX: +353-1-872 9757; e-mail: [email protected] Date: 10 Aibreán / April 2006 Internet resources maintained by SAOIRSE-Irish Freedom http://saoirse.info ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Monday April 10, 2006 - 16:36 by Dan
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Exit polls indicate the impending fall of Belusconi in the Italian General election ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday April 10, 2006 - 11:00 by Dan
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Seymour Hersch reveals a major US air attack, including nuclear weaponry, is being planned for Iran.
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 10, 2006 - 02:08 by Margaret Evans
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One of the world's best known investigative reporters, Seymour Hersch, is revealing in the next issue of The New Yorker magazine that Bush & co are actively planning a major air attack on Iran and that; one of the military’s initial option plans, as presented to the White House by the Pentagon this winter, calls for the use of a bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as the B61-11, against underground nuclear sites. One target is Iran’s main centrifuge plant, at Natanz, nearly two hundred miles south of Tehran. BELOW ARE FURTHER EXTRACTS FROM THIS DISTURBING AND LENGHTY REPORT, READ THE FULL McCOY AT "RELATED LINK". ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 10, 2006 - 01:53 by Tadhg McGrath
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A sad day for Irish journalism, and also very bad news for the many talented and dedicated staff who worked there. This article is from the Sunday Times Ireland Edition, and I haven't seen or heard this news anywhere else. Even the CPI's own website doesn't have it. Therefore it's possible that this is nonsense. However the CPI has been under attack since its launch, so I wouldn't be surprised if they have finally decided to give in to the enormous pressure they have been under. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Monday April 10, 2006 - 01:33 by mms
Hello from Guatemala. I am forwarding the article written by Sandra, she contacted me recently during my stay in Guatemala. If any of you took part of the presentation of the book "Fumigation: the human and environmental costs of chemical warfare in Colombia" last October in Trinity the following article will make sense. I have seen the mentioned plantations in San Marcos and i believe that the the propossal fumigations here is going to finish with the farmers livelihoods and other plantations. I have been following close the case of the Mining company and there is a great video for anybody in Ireland interested to watch about the consultation propossed by the Indigenous people about the mining. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 10, 2006 - 01:23 by Shell to Sea
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I thought this article in the Sunday Times was worth a look. It seems that Christy Loftus, Shell's new hired help in Mayo, is saying that they are going to have to find a new pipeline route. He's getting €58K pper year for stating the obvious there, but he also seems to believe that there actually is a route they can find where the community will accept the danger posed by an experimental high pressure raw-gas pipeline. It looks as though Shell are also paying him to learn Irish, so some good will come of this scheme... Further on in the article, Maura Harrington wonders about the possibility of someone giving birth at the Rossport Solidarity Camp. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday April 09, 2006 - 18:24 by Ben Murphy
Tomorrow, the high-profile inquest into the death of Tom Hurndall, the 22 year old British student shot in the head as he shepherded Palestinian children to safety, opens. Beneath the gaze of the world's media, his mother , Jocelyn, will tell coroner Andrew Reid, at St Pancras Coroners' Court, London, how the Israeli authorities tampered with evidence, suppressed investigations and attempted to cover up the shooting. ... read full story / add a comment |
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