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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 25, 2010 - 18:49 by S2S
--- Jailing comes as Shell prepare to start destructive borehole drilling --- Maura Harrington was today jailed for non-payment of fines relating to protests against Shell's disastrous Corrib Gas project. She is currently en route to Mountjoy Prison. Mrs Harrington is now the third opponent of Shell in jail, following Pat O'Donnell and Niall Harnett. This is the fifth time Mrs Harrington has been jailed in the last 18 months, and comes as Shell have sent letters to residents of the local area, warning them of the start of drilling works in Sruwaddacon Estuary beginning 'in the coming days'. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Friday June 25, 2010 - 18:09 by Michael O'Callaghan
50 Irish farming, food and environmental organisations and businesses sent a letter yesterday (24 June) to the Irish Agriculture Minister, Brendan Smith, asking him to block the European Commission’s latest move to force the approval of more GM crops for cultivation at EU level. Michael O’Callaghan of the GM-free Ireland Network said failure to do so will make it impossible for the Irish Government to implement its policy to ban field trials and cultivation of GM crops in the Republic, and also weaken the credibility of the Government’s proposed voluntary GM-free label that would provide Irish farmers and food producers with a competitive advantage in the global export markets. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 24, 2010 - 10:44 by Kev
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On Wednesday 23rd June, Irishman Tommy Donnellan took part in a protest outside the meeting of Kimberley Process Conference in the Hotel Dan Panorama in Tel Aviv. The conference is meeting to discuss the global trade in “conflict” or “blood diamonds”, and the protest was organised to highlight the double standard in the Kimberly Process which bans the trade in rough diamonds that fund human rights abuses but facilitates the far more lucrative trade in cut and polished diamonds that also fund such abuses – including Israel’s occupation of Palestine. During the protest, Mr Donnellan was questioned by Israeli police and had his passport and phone numbers taken down. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Thursday June 24, 2010 - 10:24 by Mayo Shell to Sea
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Campaigners hung a banner reading “Energy shouldn't cost the earth” from the roof of Shell offices in Belmullet this morning at 8am. This protest connected the environmental disaster suffered by the fishermen & people of Louisiana with the threat faced by the fishermen and people of Erris. In particular the protest was in solidarity with Pat O'Donnell who has been jailed for his courageous defense of the seas and his livelihood. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 23, 2010 - 16:23 by Ardoyne Republican
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A common sense approach to forthcoming parades must prevail. To that end, G.A.R.C. take this opportunity to call upon Catholic/Nationalist and Republican people from near and far to come and stand shoulder to shoulder with the beleaguered Ardoyne community for the twelfth of July parade. Only together can we stop being treated as second-class citizens at the behest of sectarian bigots. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday June 23, 2010 - 16:21 by LASC 1 attached file
Applicants must be in receipt of state benefit for 52 weeks or longer City Centre Voluntary Groups has a job vacancy in the following position based in LASC, 5 Merrion Row, Dublin 2 ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Wednesday June 23, 2010 - 16:00 by Maryam Namazie
Press Release - For Immediate Publication. Several hundred people joined One Law for All on 20 June at Downing Street to show their opposition to Sharia and religious-based laws in Britain and elsewhere and to demand universal rights and secularism. A new report “Sharia Law in Britain: A Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights” was published on the day to coincide with the rally. Human rights activist Gita Sahgal said of the report: “I think it is highly significant that in Britain there has been silence where there should have been condemnation. There is active support for ‘Sharia laws’ precisely because it is limited to denying women rights in the family. No hands are being cut off, so there can’t be a problem. Unfortunately for us, senior law officers will find that human rights expert bodies often have a similar attitude. They have done little research on the impact of family laws and the denial of justice caused by parallel systems of justice. That is why the findings of this report are so important. It is such dedicated work that changes the thinking of the experts.” ... read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage Wednesday June 23, 2010 - 14:44 by Irish History
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The Viking World. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Wednesday June 23, 2010 - 12:49 by Do The Right Thing
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This exciting new television show puts potential overseas volunteers through various challenges in order to find two people who have what it takes to win the trip of a lifetime: 1 year spent volunteering for different organisations around the world. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday June 23, 2010 - 09:27 by Volunteer
We are delighted to announce SpunOut.ie’s first ever Academy of Activism. This is a practical, free of charge training opportunity that will be offered to twelve lucky young people who want to learn how to make a difference in today’s changing world. The SpunOut.ie team, with the support of the NUIG Huston School of Film & Digital Media (who are hosts to Ireland's first ever Masters level Course in Public Activism) have lined up an exciting jam packed programme for this innovative ‘Academy of Activism’. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 21, 2010 - 11:54 by Kev
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On Saturday 19th June 2010, the Annual General Meeting of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) elected Freda Hughes as its new Chairperson. Ms Hughes, a teacher from Dublin, takes over the role from Dr David Landy, who remains on the National Committee as National Organiser and Vice-Chair. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 21, 2010 - 10:07 by Free Gaza Movement (Ireland)
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PRESS RELEASE, 21/6/10 ISRAEL'S 'EASING' OF GAZA LAND BLOCKADE IS INSUFFICIENT ... read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous Saturday June 19, 2010 - 10:27 by D O D
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The Independent Workers Union promotes left unity. In order to manifest this view, it is our intention to host Cork’s first “Left Unity Table Quiz”. The Official date for this momentous event shall be bonfire night, Wednesday 23rd June 2010, @9pm in 'An Spailpín Fánach Cork. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Friday June 18, 2010 - 12:09 by Maryam Namazie
Press Release: For Immediate Distribution A new report by One Law for All has found Sharia Councils and Muslim Arbitration Tribunals to be in violation of UK law, public policy and human rights. Read the press release about the report here: http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/new-report-sharia-law-in...ghts/ Download the full report here: http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/New-R...n.pdf ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 18, 2010 - 11:10 by RNU PRO
“If Bloody Sunday had been limited to a few troopers and their commander, why was the truth so long stonewalled and the cover-up so doggedly continued? Why did the families of the victims have to wait so long for the truth? Meanwhile the families of many other victims of unjustified shoot-to-kill, plastic bullet, or collusion murders, continue to wait for justice.” ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 15, 2010 - 23:13 by Saoirse
Statement by the President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 15, 2010 - 20:03 by Fintan Lane
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The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) welcomes today's expulsion of an Israeli diplomat by the Irish government and commends Minister Michael Martin for the move, but believes that the ambassador should also be expelled. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 14, 2010 - 23:22 by Fintan Lane
national / miscellaneous Monday June 14, 2010 - 01:19 by Saoirse
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Speaking at the annual Theobald Wolfe Tone commemoration in Bodenstown Co Kildare on Sunday June 13 former Republican POW Stiofán O Dálaigh, Co Tyrone said: ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 14, 2010 - 00:33 by fathi tobail
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The Palestinian Civil Servants Foundation condemns the interrogations of a member of its Board of Directors The Palestinian Civil Servants Foundation condemns and denounces the unlawful action by one of the organs of Hamas security (interior security), without in any legal or any official request from the place of work in the Palestinian Planning Center in Gaza, where as the security apparatus has on the morning of Sunday, 13.6.2010 summoned the trade union activist and activist Jihan El- Sersawy a board member of the Palestinian Civil Servants Foundation and a member of the General Union for government employees to one of its offices in Deir al-Balah and subjected her to interrogation in a humiliating manner disregard to the civil rights or dignity of a Palestinian citizen. ... read full story / add a comment |
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