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How are we going to get rid of racism when we have expects and intellectuals paid to find us guilty of racism at all costs? The answer is never, says Prof James Alexander.
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dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Thursday October 23, 2003 - 15:54 by pat c   text 30 comments (last - tuesday october 28, 2003 - 18:51)
Waste campaigners target debt collection company

Members of the Dublin Campaign Against the Bin Tax are today holding a symbolic
picket of a debt collection company which has been employed by Dublin City
Council in an attempt to force non-payers to paying the Bin Tax. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / politics / elections Wednesday October 22, 2003 - 13:14 by sceptical   text 8 comments (last - monday april 30, 2007 - 00:35)
RSF/'C'IRA in denial over their well documented role in Limerick feud ... read full story / add a comment
galway / miscellaneous Tuesday October 21, 2003 - 04:14 by Orla Ni Chomhrai   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 22, 2003 - 11:50)
DFSAA Expresses Concern over CCTV Plans for City Centre, ... read full story / add a comment
galway / environment Friday October 17, 2003 - 18:56 by Shane Foran   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 23, 2003 - 16:06)
Victory for cyclists in Galway as Community Forum rejects the use of roadside cycle tracks in the city. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday October 17, 2003 - 18:20 by WCA   text 31 comments (last - friday october 24, 2003 - 20:40)
FUSPEY - get involved
international / miscellaneous Friday October 17, 2003 - 14:17 by dunk   image 1 image
FUSPEY-fun-sustainable-peaceful-existence
FUSPEY is a direction to work toward, individually and as a network. Creativity is a very powerful tool for change, we are trying to use art to communicate and to challenge (in a non-violent way)
a revolution in perception ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Thursday October 16, 2003 - 15:00 by Jonah   text 6 comments (last - thursday october 23, 2003 - 14:48)
STATEMENT FROM Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin TDs Aengus Ó Snodaigh and Arthur Morgan will today go to Mountjoy prison to visit a number of the anti-bin tax protesters recently jailed for participating in peaceful protests against the unjust charges. Deputies Ó Snodaigh and Morgan will be offering their support and solidarity to all fourteen remaining activists who are in prison and will repeat the call for their immediate release ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Thursday October 16, 2003 - 14:17 by families of Anna Doran and Karen Heffernan.   text 26 comments (last - tuesday october 28, 2003 - 17:19)
Anti Bin Tax Families Reply to Slur.

This statement is issued on behalf of the families of Anna Doran and Karen Heffernan. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Thursday October 16, 2003 - 13:40 by Anti Bin Tax Campaign   text 15 comments (last - saturday october 18, 2003 - 13:52)
Joint Statement - 16th October 2003
· Dublin City Campaign Against the Bin Charges· Dun Laoghaire/ Rathdown Campaign Against Service Charges· South Dublin Campaign Against Refuse Charges· Fingal Anti Bin Tax Campaign

Late Late Show Sidelines Bin Tax Campaigners

This Fridays Late Late Show on the controversial Bin Charges is unfair and undemocratic in format. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / bin tax / household tax / water tax Wednesday October 15, 2003 - 21:33 by Trade unionist   text 50 comments (last - friday october 17, 2003 - 13:48)   image 1 image
In a statement today ictu caused further damage to the anti bin tax movement by restating the position of the GS David Begs on 25 September.
The knife went in further when ictu failed to call for the release of the prisoners and called for the campaign to halt effective action, a tactic that would bring the heroic resistance to the bin tax to an end.

ictu appears to have lost all contact with union members. It is time we took back our unions. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Wednesday October 15, 2003 - 19:21 by Anti Bin Tax Campaign   text 32 comments (last - saturday october 18, 2003 - 16:17)
Anti Bin Tax Campaigns Thank Bin Workers; Call for End to Non-Collection and Jailings ... read full story / add a comment
galway / miscellaneous Wednesday October 15, 2003 - 03:03 by Orla Ni Chomhrai
Latest on Galway Corporations attack on free speech ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Wednesday October 15, 2003 - 01:47 by anne conway   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 15, 2003 - 17:08)
Below is a letter delivered to The General President of SIPTU by Donnycarney residents calling on the union to act decisively against the bin charges.
This letter is the outcome of two large public meetings in Donnycarney and Coolock of residents against the bin charges. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Tuesday October 14, 2003 - 20:29 by Anti Bin Tax   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 14, 2003 - 21:08)
Joint Statement - 14th October 2003
· Dublin City Campaign Against the Bin Charges· Dun Laoghaire/ Rathdown Campaign Against Service Charges· South Dublin Campaign Against Refuse Charges· Fingal Anti Bin Tax Campaign
Pickets To Be Placed on Bin Depots Throughout greater Dublin Area Again Tomorrow (Wednesday) ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Tuesday October 14, 2003 - 10:19 by Barry Finnegan   text 5 comments (last - tuesday october 14, 2003 - 20:36)
The Irish Social Forum next weekend is part of a worldwide citizens' response to the social injustices, environmental degradation and erosion of human and democratic rights which come with the global neoliberalism. Many in the Forum see the EU as promoting the same neo-liberal agenda as the World Economic Forum. During the weekend up to forty citizens groups, organisations and NGOs will be participating in the Irish Social Forum. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday October 13, 2003 - 14:52 by WERRC   text 1 comment (last - monday october 13, 2003 - 18:21)
1) CHANGE: Extending Opportunities to Participate and Progress
2) Evaluation Report of the Lesbian Studies and Queer Culture WERRC Programme
3) A Whole New World: A Feminist model of community and life long learning ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday October 13, 2003 - 10:57 by Davy Carlin
Includes Kathleen O Halloran on 'Poverty in the South of Ireland, Anthony McIntrye on 'his interview with George Monbiot' on his arrival last week in Belfast, Davy Carlin {Myself] on ' West Belfast childhood experiences of the 'wars' it also includes a detailed account at my first seven years since becoming a political activist - the Belfast SWP - and 'my' experiences with the Left in Belfast within those years. Thomas Gore, on Unionism, Republicanism and Sectarianism, Liam O Comain, on armed struggle, Eamon Sweeney on Seperation versus Segregation and much more ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Monday October 13, 2003 - 01:09 by Harry Phelan   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 15, 2003 - 21:47)
Two leading anti-bin charge activists have case struck out by Judge in Drogheda. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday October 11, 2003 - 17:14 by Ailín   text 14 comments (last - friday february 24, 2006 - 17:46)
Republican Sinn Féin were represented at a recent conference in Sardinia organised by CONSEU (Conference of the Stateless Nations of Europe), held in Cagliari and hosted by the Regional Council of Sardinia. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday October 10, 2003 - 19:38 by WCA   text 3 comments (last - monday october 13, 2003 - 19:21)
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