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mayo / environment Wednesday October 21, 2009 - 16:53 by Mayo S2S
Today, Wednesday 21st October at 1pm, Shell to Sea stopped illegal work at Glengad, Co Mayo, when a campaigner climbed on the arm of a Volvo digger. Shell were preparing to drill bore holes in a Special Area of Conservation (SAC), and the action was to stop this work from going ahead. Currently Shell have been stopped for 3 hours before their work has reached the SAC. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday October 21, 2009 - 00:32 by Louise Michel
Around 20 people held demonstration of solidarity with Basque trade unionists and political activists after Spanish police raid on Basque trade union LAB and the arrest of ten trade union or political activists. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 19, 2009 - 22:36 by Coordination of Democratic Forces for the Republic (Niger)
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Statement of the opposition gathering of October 17, 2009, by The Coordination of Democratic Forces for the Republic (CFDR) of Niger. Read by Bazoum Mohamed, CFDR spokesperson, Niamey, Niger. Available http://pnds-tarayya.net/news/news.php?id=55 Translated http://www.tomathon.com/mphp/ ... read full story / add a comment 
national / education Saturday October 17, 2009 - 20:27 by Daithi Byrne
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Dublin Ógra Shinn Féin are set to become the most active society in Dublin's universities. Hundreds of new applications to join were made over the last month at freshers events. Ógra Shinn Féin socities were represented in the following unversities; * Trinity College * University College Dublin * Dublin City University * Griffith College * Dublin Institute of Technology ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday October 17, 2009 - 15:43 by mds
Activists ratify Constitution, launch agenda, begin organization anew. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 16, 2009 - 12:32 by Irish Basque Solidarity Committees
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The Irish Basque Solidarity Committees has call for immediate release of Arnaldo Otegi and all other members of Batasuna currently being held by the Spanish government. This follows the arrest last Tuesday evening of the leader of Batasuna along with nine other members of the party. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Friday October 16, 2009 - 11:02 by Bernie Wright
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The 4th annual World GO VEGAN Week is taking place this year from October 25 through 31. This week is a celebration of compassion and a time to take action for animals, the environment and everyone’s well-being. We encourage people to use this week to use this week to educate their community about the vegan lifestyle as a compassionate, sustainable, and healthy way of eating and living. Promoting veganism through outreach events and the media, we know that our annual World GO VEGAN Week is helping make the word "vegan" a household word, universally recognized as meaning love and compassion for all living beings. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday October 15, 2009 - 22:30 by Fiachra Ó Luain
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Fiachra Ó Luain has been seeking answers about how it was possible that 3,000 of his first preference votes could have allocated to Mr. Declan Ganley. On 0.000175% of Ganley's budget he received 6,510 first preferences in the June European Elections. As a resident of Donegal he offers his perspectives on the recent RTE radio show investigating why Donegal voted No. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 15, 2009 - 16:12 by Batasuna
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On the 13th of October 2009 the Spanish National Police arrested 10 members of the Basque pro-independence movement. Among them Arnaldo Otegi, leader and spokesperson of Batasuna during the last peace process in the Basque Country, Rafa Diez, former National Secretary of the Trade Union LAB and Rufino Etxeberria, member of the Negotiation Committee during last peace process. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Wednesday October 14, 2009 - 22:06 by Bernie Wright
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Contact: Sean Gifford (Lush press office): +44 (0)207 434 3948; [email protected] LUSH’S FABULOUS MRS FOX CHALLENGES FOX HUNTING Lush Cosmetics Launches Campaign Against Fox Hunting; in Support of the Association of Hunt Saboteurs Ireland—This week Lush Cosmetics is launching an in-store campaign to highlight that hunting with hounds continues throughout Ireland. Although hunting foxes with hounds has been banned in Scotland since 2002 and England and Wales since 2005, this blood sport remains legal in Ireland. During the week of October 12th the windows of Lush’s four Irish shops will be emblazoned with the words ‘THE HUNTS ARE STILL AT IT’. Customers will be encouraged to sign petitions asking for hunting with hounds to be made a criminal act. Lush’s Irish shops are located in Dublin, Belfast and Cork. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday October 12, 2009 - 12:59 by Richard Walsh
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The appearance of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Stormont is an unwelcome one, a spokesperson for Republican Sinn Féin has said. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Monday October 12, 2009 - 03:33 by CIBCH
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we are promoting a world campaign to boycott Chiquita which supports the Coup d'Etat in Honduras. It is very important to spread the word in these critical moments and to try to help the Resistence to defeat coup participants. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday October 11, 2009 - 21:16 by Saoirse
The Vice President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton addressed the Centenary Biennial National Conference of Ireland’s largest trade union SIPTU on October 9 in Tralee Co Kerry. The subject of his address was the murder of trade union activists by the US-backed regime in Columbia ... read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights Sunday October 11, 2009 - 01:06 by Laura Broxson
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CAFT Ireland - Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade *****PRESS RELEASE***** 3 YEAR PHASE-OUT BAN FOR FUR FARMING IN IRELAND Contact CAFT Ireland spokesperson: Laura Broxson, 086 8729 444. Saturday 10th October marked an historical victory for anti-fur campaigners across Ireland. Green Party members voted in favour for a new programme for government, which will see fur farming banned in Ireland within 3years. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday October 10, 2009 - 17:02 by Mairead Maguire
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Press release averring disappointment with the award of this prize to President Barack Obama ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday October 09, 2009 - 22:50 by vincent / blast furnace radio 1 attached file
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 09, 2009 - 18:51 by Nazanin Afshin-Jam
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Behnoud Shojaee and Akram Mahdavi are scheduled to be executed in Evin prison this Sunday October 11 which falls one day after the International Day Against Execution. Some reports say that they may be executed tomorrow. Another juvenile,Safar Angooti is scheduled to be executed on October 21st. The Supreme Court is also deciding the fate of another minor on death row, Ali Mahin Torabi. This sad news is worrying the families of these youngsters, NGO's and human rights activists internationally. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / animal rights Wednesday October 07, 2009 - 12:58 by Bernie Wright
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A controvercial exhibition starting tomorrow alerted the public to call AFAR when a photo of a live Greyhound wired up to act as a 'live medical device' was publicised. people feared the dog was to be confined to a plinth to display this possible future scenario at Dublins science Gallery for the next two months. We contacted the organisers and have been assured that no live dog will be used. It was just for the photoshot. However we urge people to express their strong opposition to the use of animals as medical devices or for experimentation. The expo facilitates and provides for comments to be displayed during this event. A letter from the organisers follows.We in AFAR are glad that they are not using a dog in this instance. ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Tuesday October 06, 2009 - 22:04 by Godot
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The Union of Students in Ireland will hold a succession of protests on college campuses around the south of Ireland as part of its campaign against the reintroduction of fees. Protests will be held by University College Cork, the Limerick School of Art and Design and the Institutes of Technologies in Carlow, Limerick Tralee and Waterford from October 7 – 14. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday October 06, 2009 - 20:57 by The Yes Men
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October 6, 2009 U.S. screening finder The Yes Men Fix the World 's a Riot. No, Really. We all know the facts. Free-market capitalism is dangerous. It's run by a whole lot of bad, powerful people, and it hurts a whole lot of people who don't deserve to be hurt. So much for the obvious. Now what? ... read full story / add a comment |
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