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national / arts and media Sunday February 21, 2010 - 17:42 by Fred Johnston
We must thank the folks at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Galway, for their efforts for the Colette Wittorski reading there on February 18th, and the Clare Three-Leggéd Stool Poets for their terrific work in organising her reading from ‘Northern Lights’ at Glór, Ennis, on February 20th. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media Sunday February 21, 2010 - 01:04 by Paula Geraghty   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 21, 2010 - 18:25)   video 1 video file
To mark the showing of Michaels Moore’s new film Capitalism: A Love Story the People Before Profit Alliance today 20th February 2010 held a street theatre performance of Capitalism: An Irish Love Story outside the Savoy Cinema in O Connell Street which is being shown as part of the Jameson Film Festival. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday February 20, 2010 - 22:34 by Peadar Mac
Republican's from Donegal and Fermanagh erected a memorial to IRA Volunteers who lay in an unmarked grave in Donegal Town since being killed in action during the Battle of Pettigo in June 1922. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 20, 2010 - 18:18 by Madam K   text 15 comments (last - friday february 26, 2010 - 08:50)   video 1 video file
Local Erris fisherman Pat O`Donnell was jailed for seven months on 10 /02/2010 for convictions of breach of the peace and of "obstructing a Garda .

Mary speaks about her husband, a local hero, the devestating effect Shell has had on the local community and the events which see him serving seven months in jail. ... read full story / add a comment
 Five Years of Resistance Commemorated
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 20, 2010 - 13:45 by Iyad Burnat   image 3 images   video 1 video file
February 19th 2010-Today Bil'in commemorated the fifth anniversary of popular demonstrations against the settlements and the Apartheid Wall. Israel's occupation has confiscated over 50% of Bil'in's land. Only last week the construction work to reroute the Wall began, nearly two and a half years after the High Court of Justice ordered the Wall to be moved. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday February 19, 2010 - 22:06 by Klaus Schenck
Incredibly, the European Commission intends to declare oil palm plantations as forests. The obvious trick aims at wiping aside the worldwide opposition to the destruction of rain forests to use the land for oil plantations – according to the motto: no forest is being lost. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday February 19, 2010 - 12:24 by Citizen X   text 15 comments (last - thursday february 25, 2010 - 11:29)   image 1 image
Will someone - anyone - ask the Irish government to get it's story straight on the Passports used by Mossad to kill a Hamas leader in Dubai? And how much did they know, and when, and are they just "going through the motions" with reactions "more smoke than fire" with the Israeli Ambassador? On Wed. February 17 the Irish government says they were fakes, and there were no record of such passports. Then the next day, they said they were fakes - but because the passports were in the hands of Irish citizens. Bear in mind: it is possible to secure a genuine passport through nefarious means - so were they genuine, or actual forgeries? The Dubai police and international experts say they are real - the only thing the Irish side has been consistent on is saying "fake". ... read full story / add a comment
Prof. Abdel Sattar Qassem
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 18, 2010 - 16:47 by TD   text 4 comments (last - thursday february 18, 2010 - 22:32)   image 2 images   video 6 video files
Sorry to report that the PA through its Israeli, US and Jordanian trained Quisling thugs has now reduced armed struggle to an occasional tokenistic spasm in the West Bank and even nonviolent resistance, in the case of Bil'in, a mockery: PA placemen on the Popular Committee now only permit eunuchized, grand old Duke of York type Friday traipses to the nearby Apartheid-Annexation Wall with anything stronger planned such as a protest against Mubarak's Wall of Shame between Gaza and Egypt nipped in the bud, as it were. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 17, 2010 - 22:26 by Paula Geraghty   text 2 comments (last - friday february 19, 2010 - 08:44)   video 1 video file
Shell to Sea, Dublin, held a solidarity picket outside Shell's headquaters in Leeson Street Dublin Tuesday 16th February 2010. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / environment Tuesday February 16, 2010 - 23:11 by Andrew   text 3 comments (last - wednesday february 17, 2010 - 17:15)   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
Over 50 Shell to Sea campaigners gathered at the Shell head quarters in Leeson street Dublin this evening to protest at the jailing of Erris fisherman Pat O'Donnell for resisting Shell's experimental gas pipeline. Pat received a seven month sentence which has the added benefit for Shell of taking his boat off of Broadhaven Bay for the period they need to carry out major underwater construction work and repairs. Pat has twice previously been arrested and held without charge when Shell has needed to carry out work in the bay. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Tuesday February 16, 2010 - 13:04 by Andrew   image 1 image
Over the weekend of February 5th the Workers Solidarity Movement sent delegates to Paris to take place in a European conference of the groups involved in Anarkismo.net. Anarkismo.net is a multi-lingual news and analysis site made up of 31 organisations around the world who agree with the Anarkismo.net editorial statement*. WSM members were involved in founding this project almost five years ago, this was the first formal meeting of some of the groups involved. ... read full story / add a comment
Main Banner of Basque solidarity protestors O'Connell St. Dublin
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 15, 2010 - 12:16 by Vincent   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 16, 2010 - 14:46)   image 5 images
Over 50 people participated yesterday afternoon (Saturday 13th February) in a Basque solidarity rally in O’Connell Street ... read full story / add a comment
Pat O'Donnell knows a thing or two about Thugs & Bullies
mayo / environment Sunday February 14, 2010 - 23:30 by Niall Harnett   text 13 comments (last - saturday january 04, 2014 - 21:42)   image 5 images   video 1 video file   audio 2 audio files
A number of high profile Shell to Sea campaigners including 'the Chief' Pat O'Donnell and Maura Harrington sought to appeal certain criminal convictions in cases heard last week at Castlebar Circuit Court from 9th - 11th February. A few of the appeals were successful but some of the convictions were upheld by the court.

Judge Raymond Groarke concluded that Pat O'Donnell is a thug and a bully, and Maura Harrington is a vigilante.

This article has a look at the reality. ... read full story / add a comment
Black Hearts vigil begins at Shannon
clare / anti-war / imperialism Sunday February 14, 2010 - 21:25 by John Lannon   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 16, 2010 - 20:08)   image 4 images
Valentine’s Day was marked at Shannon Airport by a vigil calling for Love not War. Around 25 people gathered in the sunshine outside the airport entrance, displaying black hearts and calling for an end to the U.S. military use of Shannon. Demonstrators ended the hour long vigil by giving their black heart ‘Valentine Cards’ to the Gardai who stood behind the metal barriers which they had erected to block access to the airport. ... read full story / add a comment
The Chief November 2009...denied a voice at the North West Development Forum
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 14, 2010 - 14:37 by Roowyrm   text 2 comments (last - monday february 15, 2010 - 15:49)   image 2 images
Disgust at the travesty of justice that sent Pat "The Chief" O'Donnell to prison was expressed at the first UK Shell to Sea gathering. ... read full story / add a comment
Shell plans to invade Broadhaven again in 2010
mayo / environment Saturday February 13, 2010 - 22:53 by Shelver   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 14, 2010 - 22:20)   image 3 images
Shell plan massive maritime activity for 2010, in Broadhaven Bay to secure the off-shore pipeline, and in Sruth Fhada Chonn estuary to survey a new route for the onshore Corrib gas pipeline. Submissions on the foreshore application close on Feb 23rd.

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dublin / miscellaneous Friday February 12, 2010 - 14:05 by Rita Fagan
The reason we are writing this letter is to continue this campaign, please don’t let the dismantling of the Community Development Programme
go out of your head, keep fighting back!
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Bishop John Mc Areavey speaking to press in Maynooth
dublin / crime and justice Thursday February 11, 2010 - 19:38 by John of the Ayres Family   text 5 comments (last - wednesday february 17, 2010 - 08:09)   image 6 images
Earlier this week a meeting took place at Maynooth College in the Columba centre, where the Bishops held counsel with Groups representing the Survivors of Roman Catholic Abuse. ... read full story / add a comment
Sitting Rob up
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 11, 2010 - 16:40 by Seán Ryan   text 13 comments (last - wednesday april 07, 2010 - 18:25)   image 5 images
Animal rights activist, Robert Ševcik, walks out of court a free man yet again. For the third waste of time, to be precise.

Sergeant Eamon Lynch of Pearse St Garda station, with the aid of the DPP, brought a prosecution against Mr Ševcik, stemming from a protest and a work of obvious fiction that was composed in November of 2008.

First Waste of Time: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/93510
Second Waste of Time: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/95068

VegaPlanet: http://www.vegaplanet.org/
Aliberation: http://aliberation.vegaplanet.org/
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Lest we forget. Spot any familiar faces?  © Michael Gallagher 2005
national / anti-capitalism Thursday February 11, 2010 - 13:02 by Michael Gallagher   text 12 comments (last - sunday february 14, 2010 - 12:33)   image 3 images
COPY of email:

Todays (Wednesday 9th Feb.) sentences were:

Pat O Donnell (the Chief) sentenced to 3 months and 4 mths consecutive. Don't know the charges. we dont know yet what prison he is being sent to.

Niall from the Camp got 240 hours community service.

Martin McDonnell got 4 months suspended for 2 years with a bond to keep the peace.

Tony King and Kevin Moran each got a fine of €500.

All of these cases were appeals.

Im sure someone from Mayo will update this with more info later, thats all i know.

Caoimhe.

For updates go to: http://shelltosea.com/
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