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international / housing Wednesday February 13, 2013 - 17:40 by littleink
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Blockades of forced eviction of family of five in Berlin successful. Attempt 3 from the bailiffs, polices and legal system tomorrow. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 07, 2013 - 23:49 by T
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The government inter-departmental committee setup to establish the facts into State involvement of the Magdalen Laundries was published on Tues 5th Feb in an attempt to deal with the issue for once and for all. What the findings show is that there was significant involvement and the laundries seem to have been used by a variety of state institutions for dealing for young women in terms of the justice system and social services that the state was unable or unwilling to deal with and the interface with reformatories and industrial schools. In the aftermath the government has only offered a partial apology to the victims and they feel this is not good enough ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 07, 2013 - 11:19 by scott huminski
Catholic torture of a political activist now before U.S. high court. Huminski v. Mercy Gilbert Mecical Center. Court papers reveal an unholy alliance between Sheriff Joseph Arpaio, Federal Judge Frederick Martone (both life-long Catholics) and a Catholic Church hospital network, Dignity Health, and their efforts to silence a critic of the racist sheriff with an attempted murder and torture at a Catholic hospital, Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, Gilbert, Arizona. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday February 06, 2013 - 19:32 by BrianClarke
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State 'can't afford' disability costs - Irish Times ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Tuesday February 05, 2013 - 16:28 by S2S
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After 30 meters the Tunnel Boring Machine got bored ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Monday February 04, 2013 - 11:13 by Volunteer
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VIDEO VERSION: http://youtu.be/3gQkDTYbmG8 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu has recently recorded a special video message of support for Afri - action from Ireland - the justice and peace group of which he is patron. In his 4 minute message the acclaimed campaigner and spiritual leader celebrates Afri's 37 years of activism and says 'independent voices like Afri's are more essential than ever in our world today'. He also refers to the importance of Afri's approach of linking the global with the local including their anti-apartheid campaigns as well as solidarity work with Philippines, East Timor, Latin America, the Niger Delta and the people of Rossport in Co. Mayo and what he calls their 'admirable struggle against Shell'. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday February 04, 2013 - 11:03 by Report
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clare / anti-war / imperialism Sunday February 03, 2013 - 23:47 by Galway Alliance Against War
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Rtd Commandant Edward Horgan has just been in contact. After a vigil today at Shannon, which was specially to mark the 10th anniversary of the peaceful act of sabotage on a US warplane by the catholic ploughshares people, there was evidence of a lot of Irish military activity at the airport. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-capitalism Sunday February 03, 2013 - 14:15 by GPR
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On Feb 1st, St. Bridget's Day and Human Rights Day, Galway Pussy Riot in solidarity with the three Pussy Rioters two who were sent to a Russian labor camp gave a 20 minute riotous and righteous rant outside AIB bank in Galway calling for the tearing down of the false gods of capitalism, the freemarket, greed, their minions in the Irish Government and the Troika. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Saturday February 02, 2013 - 19:51 by S2S
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Today, Shell to Sea held a morning protest outside Bellanaboy refinery to highlight Shell's announcement of profits of €19.6 billion for 2012. Brandishing signs including “Shell Destroys Communities & Environment” and “Harmful to Local Community”, members of the community blocked trucks drawing material to Shell tunneling compound at Aughoose. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Friday February 01, 2013 - 10:47 by Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL)
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APL dares Philippine President Aquino to penalize US Navy for Tubbataha damage ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Thursday January 31, 2013 - 18:28 by Emilio José Lemos de Lima
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In this process truly poetic rather than scientific, in which consortia of species succeed in building an environment increasingly rich and varied, every plant, every animal, every micro-organism has its contributory role, being the man for the first time in history, leaving his sad protagonist role of stingy tormentor of nature and life and move creatively to assume the coordination of the construction process. Throughout the process disappears the necessity of introducing the classic Fordist agriculture inputs: the live system produces himself the nutrients needed, regardless of chemical fertilizer, all seeds and seedlings can now be obtained locally, are not required the pesticides, pests are controlled by the multiplicity of species that evolve together, there is no monoculture, there is work, activity, harvesting, planting and management throughout the year. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday January 29, 2013 - 23:10 by T
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Last Thurs 24th Jan 2013, the Irish and British governments agreed on a memorandum of understanding for energy trading between Ireland and the UK. This will pave the way for the export of Wind Energy to the UK. This would likely make use of the electric interconnector completed last year between the UK and Ireland although it may need additional cables. The wind resource in Ireland is probably greater than what the Irish electrical grid can cope with and hence the idea is that the surplus wind energy can be exported to the UK which has a far larger electrical demand than here and could probably take every watt exported. Unfortunately it seems that there is a bit more to this though the official green good news because apparently there are plans by a number of companies to erect up to 2,300 wind turbines in the Midlands of Ireland. Is blighting our landscape for the UK the way to solve the energy problem? ... read full story / add a comment 
international / racism & migration related issues Monday January 28, 2013 - 11:50 by chouchaprotestsolidarity
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About 100 rejected asylum seekers from the refugee camp in Choucha are currently protesting in the Tunisian capital. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 24, 2013 - 15:00 by BrianClarke
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Dolours Price has been found dead at her home in Dublin. The 62-year-old mother-of-two was found at her home in Malahide last night, sources said. Her death is not being treated as suspicious. A postmortem is due to take place on her body at the Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown later today. Ms Price and her 58-year-old sister Marian, who has been politcally interned in British Occupied Ireland since 2011 were on hunger strike for over 200 days,being force-fed by the British for 167 of them ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 23, 2013 - 13:27 by Anti-fascist
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As fascism and racist attacks continue to grow in Greece and with the rising popularity of Golden Dawn, the physical presence of organised fascists on the streets of Greece has increased. Greek anti-fascists are ramping up their presence on the streets of Athens and other cities and are confronting the threat of Golden Dawn while defending minorities groups. Over 100 people turned out at the Greek embassy in Dublin to support Greek anti-fascists, while solidarity demonstrations also took place in Cork and Derry. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 21, 2013 - 10:43 by Solidarity
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This past Saturday marked 7 months since Julian Assange entered the Ecuadoran embassy in London http://tinyurl.com/b5wv2s6 seeking asylum from U.S. persecution. The embassy remains surrounded 24/7 by British police. Anti-war & human rights activists maintain a daily vigil 2pm-5pm. Yesterday photo http://tinyurl.com/ad4jgj2 ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday January 20, 2013 - 22:49 by Tom Cooper
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Harris announced on 13 January that he, like the Sunday Independent paper edited by Anne (formerly Mrs) Harris, has been ‘silent’ on loyalist flag riots in the North of Ireland. The riots started out as an attack on the moderate unionist Alliance Party. Alliance brokered a compromise on Belfast City Council that permitted flying the Union Jack flag on 18 ‘designated’ days per year. The SDLP and Sinn Fein plan had been for either a shared no-flag space in the council or for parity of esteem by flying the Irish Tricolour with the Union Jack. Unionists don't do compromise. The DUP and UUP, egged on by the unionist Newsletter, put out 40,000 leaflets attacking Alliance MP Naomi Long and her party generally. Long took DUP leader Peter Robinson’s seat at the last British general election. A sore point. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 18, 2013 - 03:48 by BrianClarke
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Miscarriage of Justice victim Gerry Conlon depicted in the film with this article, has spoken out in support of Marian Price. Marian has been politically interned without trial since May 2011, after the then Viceroyal for British Occupied Ireland, Owen Paterson, revoked a non existing prison release licence, after a Royal pardon was either mislaid or shredded by the British. ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday January 11, 2013 - 22:56 by T
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The government has published The Water Services Bill 2013 that gives it power to impose a Water Tax from Jan 1st 2014. The Bill has yet to go through the Dail for possible minor amendments. The Bill will handle our public water resources and infrastructure over to a private company that will be able to extract what essentially amounts to a form of rent for providing a basic need like water. The tax will cost at least €500+ a year although naturally the government has played down this figure. Initially the government will take the tax as revenue for themselves but eventually this gift will be handed over to private companies. ... read full story / add a comment |
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