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international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday May 06, 2009 - 14:09 by KHC
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Workers and freedom loving people! This is a follow up statement to the May Day Organizing Committee’s first report on the violent attack by police and intelligence forces at the May Day rally in Laleh Park, Tehran, May 1st, 2009, during which more than 150 workers and their families as well as activists of women’s and students’ movements were arrested. The updates for public information and appropriate actions, as of today, are as follows: ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / animal rights Wednesday May 06, 2009 - 13:38 by Bernie Wright
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The Alliance for Animal Rights (AFAR) is horrified that a CONVICTED serial animal abuser in County Limerick is apparently running for a Council seat in the Adare area elections. Richard Smith,(48) a dairy farmer and also owner of Company Richie Tryes on the Kilmallock Road* is hoping people will vote him in as a Councillor in Adare. He has repeatedly abused animals, this being his possible third conviction for abuse to animals on his farm. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Wednesday May 06, 2009 - 06:53 by MAOR
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Donegal and Derry based lobby group MAOR have urged the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Eamon Ryan TD not to grant Frontier Exploration Licences for oil and gas exploration off the West Coast of Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday May 05, 2009 - 21:41 by Sean Matthews
A former Visteon worker will be speaking this Saturday 9th May in An Culturlann, in a public meeting organised by the Workers Solidarity Movement. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday May 05, 2009 - 16:01 by Adherents to the sixth declaration of the Lacandon jungle
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8 other campaign activists have been unjustly and illegally imprisoned, tortured, badly treated, stigmatized by the media, and are now awaiting possible incarceration for false accusations. ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / miscellaneous Sunday May 03, 2009 - 14:33 by Bazra B
Kildare Sinn Féin's local election candidate for Newbridge, Sean Downey,Highlights Lack of Facilities for Young People ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday May 03, 2009 - 12:58 by Aaron Rhodes
Delara Darabi, who was charged at the age of 17 with murder, was executed today in Rasht. Darabi was 22 years old. Authorities did not inform her lawyer, Abdolsamad Khorramshahi, that her execution was being carried out. According to Iranian law, lawyers must be given 48 hours notice of impending executions. “The execution of Delara Darabi is an affront to human rights values and is in bold violation of Iran’s obligations with respect to international rights standards and covenants,” said Aaron Rhodes, a spokesperson for the Campaign. “What is more, her rights were trampled in an unfair trial.” ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 01, 2009 - 11:13 by Jean-Marc Jacobs
The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) on 1 May 2009 accepted the 2008 Tipperary International Peace Award in recognition of its successful five-year campaign to outlaw cluster bombs. ... read full story / add a comment
fermanagh / miscellaneous Thursday April 30, 2009 - 18:21 by Richard Walsh
Residents in the Roslea area of County Fermanagh received a questionnaire on Thursday morning, 30th April, asking for recipients to inform on who they have seen using a public telephone box in the village from the 2nd through to the 12th April. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday April 30, 2009 - 16:11 by Susan Quirke
Live Register figures for under 25s up 100%, tensions growing* “It’s time to harness the potential of our younger generation when it comes to tackling the current range of economic and social problems. Instead young people are being consigned to unemployment and emigration, leading to rising tensions” according to the SpunOut.ie National Youth Organisation. ... read full story / add a comment
donegal / environment Thursday April 30, 2009 - 12:47 by Buncrana Shell to Sea Meeting
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Buncrana Shell to Sea Public Meeting in Plaza Buncrana at 7 PM on Thursday 30 April 2009 Further Info [email protected] ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 30, 2009 - 08:06 by Basque Pro-Independence Left
Basque Pro Independence Left strongly denounce the extradition request made by Spanish authorities for Arturo Villanueva ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Wednesday April 29, 2009 - 11:00 by Irish Socialist Network
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Finglas / Ballymun election candidate John O’Neill urged people not to be taken in by gimmicks from the Fianna Fáil-led government: If politicians really had to share the pain of the recession, they might not be so keen to put the boot into working-class people. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-capitalism Wednesday April 29, 2009 - 04:56 by RM
Limerick Tuesday 28th April - Party President Ruairi O’Bradaigh who forecast a massive swing against Fianna Fail to candidates who are honest with the electorate launched the local election campaign for Republican Sinn Fein in the Mid-West in Limerick today.
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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 24, 2009 - 15:51 by Dublin Basque
The Belfast Basque Solidarity Committee has stated that the arrest of Arturo Villanueva, a member of the Basque community from Nafarroa province , living in Belfast, is yet more evidence of the Spanish authorities' attack on Basque civil society and expressed their solidarity with him. Martin Schein, UN Rapporteur on Human Rights. criticises Spanish state use of anti-terrorist legislation to convict people whose actions "have noting to do with terrorism". ... read full story / add a comment
cavan / miscellaneous Thursday April 23, 2009 - 17:15 by Brian Reynolds
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New Group Meeting ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Thursday April 23, 2009 - 10:21 by Patrick Maphoso Campaign
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An Independent candidate in the local elections is calling on the political parties to change an election rule that he says creates ‘voter suppression’. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday April 22, 2009 - 19:43 by Malachy Steenson
Malachy Steenson, the Workers Party candidate in Dublin Central said it was unbelievable that "at a time of a mounting drugs crisis that the Drugs Ministry has been dropped". ... read full story / add a comment
derry / miscellaneous Tuesday April 21, 2009 - 15:17 by Richard Walsh
The fact that a travel agent in Derry City is advertising an event which glorifies the British Crown Forces has been condemned by a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin. ... read full story / add a comment
longford / politics / elections Monday April 20, 2009 - 22:17 by Saoirse
At a recent convention Sean Lynch was selected by Republican Sinn Féin to contest the forthcoming local elections. He will be a candidate for Longford Co Council in the Drumlish area ... read full story / add a comment |
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