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national / environment Thursday November 30, 2006 - 18:07 by Woodsman
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The future of forestry in Ireland will be affected by the National Forest Standard being put together by the Irish Forest Certification Initiative (IFCI) steering group that is now at the stage of third and final draft. Big forestry concerns are trying to push through a weak standard so that they can easily get their Forest Stewardship Certification with little regard for social and environmental factors (e.g. pollution of water courses, landslides such as at Derrybrien, native trees and biodiversity, landscape character). Consultation with the public has been limited due to lack of information and advertising of meetings. If a weak standard is accepted, then we can expect more of the same Sitka Spruce plantations raping our natural environment for years to come - and more of Coillte's selling off of state lands in their control to make up for the lack of profitability from Sitka Spruce - and more pollution and landslides. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday November 29, 2006 - 16:50 by A.R.I.S.E
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Barry McColgan "I'm out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world!" Woody Guthrie As we, Ógra Shinn Féin, enter into an intense Broad Anti Imperialist campaign (A.R.I.S.E.), we must be pitching our message and actions to the widest possible audience. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday November 29, 2006 - 08:27 by .
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The We Won’t Pay Campaign has attacked the Government over recent revelations that poorer householders who do not pay water charges will be pursued quicker than wealthy households. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday November 28, 2006 - 17:14 by lyinternational
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Labour Youth will mark November 29th, the United Nations day of solidarity with Palestine by calling for a boycott of all Israeli goods and services as well as support for the educational and cultural boycott of Israel. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 25, 2006 - 17:47 by Jay Dooling
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Loyalist Michael Stone’s attempt to disrupt Stormont’s proceedings demonstrates the critical need for a renewed commitment towards peace by all parties and governments involved in the recent assembly talks. The convicted killer brazenly stormed into the Stormont building where politicians were debating the restoration of the assembly. Stone was armed with a gun, a knife and several makeshift bombs. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / arts and media Friday November 24, 2006 - 22:32 by Conor
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Academic, author and activist Denis O’ Hearn spoke in Galway last night (Thursday) at the launch of his most recent book, ‘Nothing But an Unfinished Song’ ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Friday November 24, 2006 - 22:04 by Martin Hogan
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Why was the proposed M3 routed so close to the historic site of Tara when the government knew it would cause massive delays, controversy, additional costs and lengthy legal actions? Was it in the public interest? ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 24, 2006 - 15:17 by Citizen
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RTE breach their opinion poll guidelines and fail to publish a key poll finding Shell to Sea deplores the selective and biased account in today’s Irish Independent of the RedC opinion poll. There is an inaccurate and disgraceful manipulation of the opinion poll findings. This represents a new low in media misrepresentation of the issues. It appears that RTE has breached its own guidelines on conducting opinion polls. Particular care must be taken when joint polls with other organisations are planned. If for example the costs of a poll are shared with a newspaper, programme makers must be aware that the same constraints of impartiality do not apply to newspapers as apply to RT and that the high-lighting of particular data in the newspapers may reflect on the impartiality of RTE … Programme-makers must be wary of the possibility of data from polling and its interpretation being used in a partisan or propagandist way (RTE Guidelines) ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 24, 2006 - 14:55 by xtic
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RTE breach their opinion poll guidelines and fail to publish a key poll finding ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 23, 2006 - 16:56 by Internationale
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For the months November and December the A.R.I.S.E campaign focusses on Political Policing and Political Prisoners, both Republican and International. At the recent National Congress Ogra passed a motion in support of Native American prisoner Leonard Peltier. We must now honour that motion and as part of the A.R.I.S.E campaign, act to FREE LEONARD! The following is a letter from Leonard: ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday November 21, 2006 - 17:42 by Seán Ó Murchú
Republican POWs held in segregated conditions in Maghaberry have been engaged in an ongoing protest since the 19th June 2006. The British Government and the Prison Service in the Six Counties are well aware of their five demands. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 20, 2006 - 14:17 by xtic
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At Sunday night's Shell to Sea meeting at Glenamoy it was decided to cancel the planned day of solidarity which was to take place on Friday 24 November. The following is the press statement released today by Shell to Sea. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment Monday November 20, 2006 - 03:03 by Tara 3
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The Climate Change Challenge - Conference, Survey and NRA Talk The Climate Change Challenge is a cross-party and inter-NGO initiative, being taken in the wake of the recent EU and UK findings on the economics and climate change, the recent UN conference on climate change, and the release of the Irish Government Estimates in November 2006. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 17, 2006 - 18:31 by National Secretary
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Last friday's events in Rossport were a clear example of the brutality of the state; non-violent protesters were viciously assaulted with fists, boots and batons. It is important to remember however, that these events are part of the same logic that saw five men imprisoned for 92 days last year for refusing to allow Shell to construct a dangerous pipeline through their land. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday November 17, 2006 - 18:12 by turoe
According to news sources, a shipment of MOX fuel will leave the Sellafield Nuclear Facility in the UK, for France. The shipment is due for arrival on Wednesday the 22nd of November. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-capitalism Thursday November 16, 2006 - 18:12 by Rossport Solidarity
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A large crowd of Ogra Shinn Fein activists organised and took part in a direct action at the Statoil service station in Newcastle this lunch-time (Thursday), closing the station for buisness for an hour. The protest was attended by activists from the Socialist Party and Shell to Sea.OSF spokesperson Caitlin Ni Ruanaidh said of the action, "We mounted a picket today to express our solidarity with the beleaguered community in Rossport, and to raise awareness of the theft of our natural resources." ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 16, 2006 - 17:52 by Jo ta ke
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The following statement is an appeal from our Basque comrades Segi who are demanding that we take action in highlighting the ongoing censorship and outlawing of the youth movement, we must mobilise and show solidarity with our oppressed comrades now! ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday November 15, 2006 - 14:22 by National Secretary
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The workers Solidarity Movement held its Autumn 2006 National conference in Seomra Spraoi, a social centre in Dublin. The conference saw around two thirds of the membership attending with greetings sent from our comrades involved in the struggle in Rossport. National Conference opens with questioning the reports given by various office holders, editorial committees etc. A summary of these reports follows - quite a lot of details and indeed areas involving relationships with other groups have been removed, as these were not written for public consumption. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday November 15, 2006 - 00:03 by Jay Dooling
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Washington, DC - Nov 14, 2006 - With less than two weeks before the British and Irish governments’ imposed November 24th deadline, Irish America demands that the United States uses its influence to encourage Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to form a government in Northern Ireland (N. Ireland) under the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA). ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Tuesday November 14, 2006 - 23:30 by Bernie Wright
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A Cork –based Dairy farmer has admitted that animals are routinely beaten by farmers in an Irish Times article written by Agriculture Correspondent Sean Mac Connell on Tuesday last.10-11-06. This revelation of cruelty was made whilst referring to a German made immobiliser system which he uses, he said’ ‘I am a dairy farmer and I treat my animals well. In fact this machine will prevent animals being beaten when they are being trained to be milked’ Mr Hayes said many farmers had responded to the advert, which he placed in the Farmers Journal seeking agents to sell these devices. ... read full story / add a comment |
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