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national / politics / elections Monday November 03, 2003 - 15:20 by SP   text 42 comments (last - monday november 10, 2003 - 15:40)
Jim Barbour challenges political parties to refuse to use private mail companies during postal strike ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Sunday November 02, 2003 - 17:51 by Pitstop Ploughshares   text 3 comments (last - monday november 03, 2003 - 10:14)   image 1 image
On Monday, November 3rd, the five Catholic Workers, otherwise known as the 'Pitstop Ploughshares', are back in the Dublin Circuit Court for a pre-trial hearing. The five - Karen Fallon, Nuin Dunlop, Deirdre Clancy, Ciaron O'Reilly and Damien Moran - disarmed a US naval plane at Shannon Airport last February and are facing up to ten years in prison on charges of causing approximately 2.5 million Euros worth of damage to the plane. The five claim that they acted on the Hebrew Scriptural imperative to 'beat swords into ploughshares.' ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday October 30, 2003 - 17:54 by Johno   text 45 comments (last - saturday november 08, 2003 - 00:52)
The Labour Party has proposed increasing the Dail's sitting days by 50 per cent in what it says are the most fundamental set of reforms of the parliament ever proposed. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Wednesday October 29, 2003 - 19:39 by Stephen Lewis   text 9 comments (last - friday october 31, 2003 - 18:12)
Irish Socialist Network call on SIPTU members to vote for Des Derwin. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday October 28, 2003 - 17:43 by Richard Waghorne, Chair   text 58 comments (last - thursday november 20, 2003 - 02:11)   image 2 images
The Campaign to Re-introduce Coca-Cola products confirms that a referendum will be held seeking to overturn the recent decision that bans Coca-Cola products from Student Union outlets and prevents University College Dublin Students’ Union (UCDSU) from entering into sponsorship arrangements with Coca-Cola. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday October 27, 2003 - 07:10 by Fintan Lane   text 53 comments (last - monday november 17, 2003 - 16:38)
PRESS RELEASE 27/10/03

Anti-war blockade planned for Shannon Airport ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday October 26, 2003 - 23:19 by Adam   text 10 comments (last - monday november 03, 2003 - 13:30)
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Saturday October 25, 2003 - 21:59 by South Dublin Anti-Bin Tax Campaign press release   text 17 comments (last - friday october 31, 2003 - 03:20)
Friday 24 October 2003
Today in an area of Tallaght, South Dublin County Council carried out a major provocation in an attempt to intimidate thousands of householders to give up their campaign against the Councils bin tax. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday October 23, 2003 - 17:16 by Jayyous Women's Charitable Society/Global Women's Strike/ISM
'WOMEN MARCH AGAINST THE WALL
'Mothers demand right to feed their children'

We send love and solidarity for your March that expresses women's absolute opposition to the Wall's ghettoisation of Palestinian society, the theft of
its land, and the genocide of its people. You act for women all over the world who face unending violence, as well as for all - Muslim, Jewish, Christian, atheist . . . - who oppose the particular form of apartheid you confront daily. ... read full story / add a comment
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
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