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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 13, 2009 - 15:41 by SIPTU
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SIPTU is organising an Open Day for hotel workers in the ALSAA complex at Dublin airport on Wednesday, February 18th. It will be held from 1pm to 7pm and is aimed at making them more aware of their rights. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday February 12, 2009 - 16:39 by Eugene Mc Cartan
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The economic and financial crisis facing our country is growing and deepening daily and exposing as never before the myths of capitalism. The Irish Government and the political establishment is overseeing the rip-off of €7,000,000,000 from the National Pension Fund to support speculative bankers and developers with its decision to bail out Anglo Irish Bank and the Bank of Ireland yesterday with public money ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday February 11, 2009 - 14:56 by éirígí PRO
éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson has called for workers at the Waterford Crystal site to start producing on their own terms as the only way to safeguard their jobs. While the occupation of the site continues, the best bid received for the company so far, from a group called Clarion, would mean the loss of 400 jobs. A US company that has also joined the bidding wants to keep only the Waterford Crystal name and lay off all the workers. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Wednesday February 11, 2009 - 10:18 by ALiberation
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Before Christmas of 2007, the Flairline Fashions Group gave a verbal guarantee that they would become fur free by 2008 and would send confirmation in writing to ALiberation. Since then they have continued to sell animal fur. ALiberation are now unsuspending their campaign to persuade the Flairline Fashions Group to become Fur Free. This Saturday an event will be held outside of Pamela Scott on Grafton Street, Dublin to urge the Flairline Fashions Group to stop selling animal fur. This will coincide with the “Worldwide Information Days Against Fur” weekend. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 09, 2009 - 16:09 by Chair
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Calling all friends of human rights and lovers of freedom! ... read full story / add a comment
cork / environment Sunday February 08, 2009 - 22:56 by Cork Foodweb
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Cork is biting back at the recession with a new web-started community which aims to get us outside working together to grow our own food. Cork Food Web imagines a network of community gardens, allotments, urban and rural farms and food parks all over Cork city and county run autonomously by local communities and linked by the shared need to feed ourselves and mind our environment. The website is a ‘social networking site’ so allows users to create their own profile, get to know each other and form groups. In just a few months of existence membership has grown to 154, with members from the city and all across Cork county forming online interest groups, exchanging information and skills and creating events together. ... read full story / add a comment
The government’s cutbacks in education will have a drastic effect on Primary schools in Tralee. People Before Profit support local demands for their reversal. Scoil Eoin, which will have over 600 students next year, will lose one teacher as a direct result of the increase in class sizes and will face cutbacks in language support staff which will have a severe impact on students for whom English is not their first language. In addition three quarters of its students are studying in prefabs and in a building dating back to 1858! They are still waiting for a new school. ... read full story / add a comment |
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