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national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday March 04, 2010 - 16:04 by Madam K
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Solidarity with Pat O`Donnell. Neighbours friends and supporters of jailed fisherman came to the dail to show solidarity with local hero Pat O`Donnell who is now entering his fourth week in jail . Solidarity with Pat O`Donnell. Neighbours and friends of jailed fisherman came to the dail to show solidarity with local hero Pat O`Donnell who is now entering his fourth week in jail for opposing Shells experimental gas pipeline through his fishing grounds in Broadhaven bay Erris Mayo,.Ireland. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbppH0xJHTk I can only post link , the site is preventing me from doing upload. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday March 03, 2010 - 17:09 by éirígí PRO
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éirígí's Louise Minihan succeeded on Monday, March 1, in getting an emergency motion passed by Dublin City Council in support of the protesting Green Isle staff and those currently on hunger strike. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 03, 2010 - 05:30 by Diarmuid Breatnach
Basque parents seek support from the authorities for their sons and daughters abused and tortured by Spanish police. The mothers and fathers of the 34 young people snatched during the massive Spanish police operation against Basque youth last November have transformed their agony into into energetic campaigning. Although they have no connection to one anohter other than their shared anguish, they have joined their voices, going from door to door of the authorities to tell the story of their hardship. Included in the allegations of Spanish police torture of the 34 youth are those of special sexual humiliation and threats against the 14 young women among them. They ask for only one thing: the protection of the authorities so that no more families have to endure what they did. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday March 02, 2010 - 19:30 by Kev
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On the evening of Monday 1st March, members and supporters of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity campaign (IPSC) staged a demonstration in support of a Dublin City Council motion calling on the Dublin City Manager not to sign or renew any contracts with French multi-national Veolia. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / housing Tuesday March 02, 2010 - 10:45 by Paula Geraghty
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Over 30 people came out to protest outside Dublin City Council to keep Cedar House, a service for homeless people in Dublin open, on Monday, March 1st 2010. Find the campaign on FaceBook facebook.com/pages/save-the-homeless-services/290883897234 Contact them at [email protected]. ... read full story / add a comment
National Rally & March for Justice in Support of the TEEU Strike at Green Isle Foods, Naas - 12 noon
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday March 01, 2010 - 22:40 by Paula Geraghty
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Hundreds marched to the Green Isle factory where TEEU members have been on strike and two men have begun a hunger strike. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 27, 2010 - 18:46 by Kev
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Today Saturday 27th February 2010, members and supporters of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign took to the streets of Dublin asking consumers and retailers to boycott Israeli Apartheid products in solidarity with the Palestinian people who continue to suffer incalculable misery at the hands of the Israeli state. The action marked the beginning of international Israel Apartheid Week. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 26, 2010 - 22:03 by Paula Geraghty
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Today, the Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) will held a protest (Friday 26th Feb) at 5pm outside the Dail to demand the government impose sanctions on Israel in response to the outrage where seven falsified Irish passports were used to facilitate the assassins of senior Hamas figure, Mahmoud Al Mabhouh, in Dubai. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 26, 2010 - 02:49 by Paula Geraghty
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A small group of people picketed the US embassy in Ballsbridge in solidarity with Haitians and to call for troops out and end the military occupation of Haiti. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday February 25, 2010 - 19:38 by Contaminated Crow
Reports from down the country from August 2008 to December 2009 show consistent opposition to proposed waste facilities from local residents, including opposition to attempted expansion of existing facilities and co-location of facilities with existing waste facilities. While opposition to landfilling and incineration has continued, it has been joined by opposition to other activities of the waste disposal industry, including waste storage, transfer and recycling facilities and biological waste treatment facilities, including objections to sludge disposal, whether by land spreading, drying or sea disposal. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / arts and media Thursday February 25, 2010 - 16:25 by DCTV
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On the 6th March 2010 DCTV is launching its latest TV series - The Pedal Project, consisting of 3 hours of material filmed in Dublin, London and Amsterdam. A fast paced, visually and musically polished piece looking at cycling culture and how to create cycling friendly cities the series will be simultaneously broadcast on television and released on the internet. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday February 25, 2010 - 09:32 by Dave Donnellan
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A recent interview with Eoin O'Leidhin who was jailed yesterday for non-payment of a fine incurred during a protest in Rossport, Co. Mayo. Eoin is one of a number of local residents who have been targeted by the authorities for expressing their concern over safety aspects of the controversial Shell gas pipeline in Mayo. The decision to lay the high pressure production gas pipeline by Shell close to human dwellings was made without any consultation with local residents and has no planning permission. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Wednesday February 24, 2010 - 19:07 by Niall Harnett
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Eoin O'Leidhin has joined fisherman Pat 'the Chief' O'Donnell at Castlerea prison today. Eoin was convicted of Section 8 of the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994 for 'failure to comply with the directions of Garda' at a protest outside the Shell site Glengad on 30th August 2008. Garda Sean Cunnane, who likes to ham it up as he whinges to the courts, convinced Judge David Anderson that Eoin's behaviour was a crime. The short video below shows the true flavour of the occasion. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / crime and justice Tuesday February 23, 2010 - 19:42 by John of the Ayres Family
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Archbishop Diarmuid Martin met with survivors of abuse to respond to their letter addressed to the Pope. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday February 23, 2010 - 19:09 by Contaminated Crow
Three windfarms, two telemasts, a sewage plant and turfcutting ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 23, 2010 - 13:45 by john throne
California students and workers taking strike and other action in up to 100 locations state wide. Support coming from across the US and world wide. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Tuesday February 23, 2010 - 12:31 by Andrew N Flood
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The week before last Erris fisherman Pat O'Donnell was jailed for seven months for his part in the communities ongoing resistance to Shell's attempt to impose an experimental gas pipeline on them. Across the country local Shell to Sea groups have been holding solidarity protests and other events for Pat. In Dublin this has included two protests and a public meeting in UCD. Meanwhile Shell have been forced to admit a temporary defeat in the face of local opposition and call off the construction they have planned for Glengad this year. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 23, 2010 - 05:33 by TD
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On 3rd March 2002, 22-year-old Palestinian blocklayer and tiler Thaer Hamad from the Ramallah-area village of Silwad, armed with an old WW2 M1 rifle shot 24 Israeli Occupation Forces and their reinforcements at a checkpoint sited in an old British police post on the road between Nablus and Ramallah killing 11 of them in the space of 24 minutes before his weapon blew up on the 25th shot. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / housing Monday February 22, 2010 - 00:28 by Kruk
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The auction of the grounds where Poznan's Rozbrat squat is situated will take place on 26th March at 10 a.m. Since January 2008, when the bailiff came to the squat for the first time, we have managed to keep the squat, through different legal actions and protests. If nobody buys the ground on 26th March, the next auction will take place within the next 2-3 years. That is why this is a critical moment for us. ... read full story / add a comment 
derry / gender and sexuality Sunday February 21, 2010 - 21:33 by Eleanor
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This is the latest action taken by the Derry Womens Collective. The women decided to take another angle on the usual St. Valentines Day stuff by creating a mural for the back of Free Derry Corner. ... read full story / add a comment |
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