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national / animal rights Tuesday August 28, 2012 - 18:13 by Bernie Wright
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This month we gladly announce a decline in Greyhound Racing. Straight from the pages of the infamous online forum ‘Greyhound nuts’ an urgent appeal has gone out for entries to fill races. There were calls for help last week from both Curraheen Park and Limerick Track as the respective Racing Offices bid to fill the following weekend’s competitions. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / miscellaneous Monday August 27, 2012 - 13:07 by Volunteer support
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The community in Erris, Co. Mayo is under siege. Here Betty Schult, a local resident, speaks about what life is like under Shell occupation. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Wednesday August 22, 2012 - 21:53 by neo
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This week Shell have recommenced work, eager to get a move on after the whole TBM-in-a-ditch saga. The Tunnel Boring Machine is still in the Bellanaboy refinery and they haven't made an attempt to move it the last 2km to Aughoose yet. Most of the work seems to be laying a track down from the back of Bellanaboy along the proposed route of the pipeline. So of course we at the solidarity camp have been very busy too: ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 22, 2012 - 02:43 by BrianClarkeNUJ
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According to an article by Suzanne Breen of Tuesday, 21 August 2012 the human right's abuse of interned Marian Price continues She writes; " The family of veteran republican Marian Price claim her human rights were violated after a prison officer remained in a treatment room as she underwent intrusive medical procedures. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / consumer issues Monday August 20, 2012 - 21:51 by Clayton Hallmark
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Moore's Law for transistor count is ending, but now there's Moors' Law for oil and it says gasoline -- US national average -- will be $7 in 2017 as oil reaches $120 a barrel. The law is named for Kent Moors, a professor Duquesne U. Specifically, the price of oil and the number of cars in China, which drives it, double every 5 years. These murderous prices change everything in society. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 20, 2012 - 04:48 by BrianClarkeNUJ
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The once oh so proud British government, now reduced to Washington’s servile whore, put on its Gestapo Jackboots and declared that if the Ecuadorean Embassy in London did not hand over WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, British storm troopers would invade the embassy with military force and drag Assange out. Ecuador has stood its ground. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 18, 2012 - 11:14 by Anthony Ravlich
Top academics are rebelling against State capture by being prepared to discuss the ethical approach to human rights, development and globalization to replace neoliberalism as well as the omitted children's rights. The ethical approach emphasizes a bottom-up approach which unleashes human potential while neoliberalism is top-down approach which, in my opinion, crushes human potential. ... read full story / add a comment
wicklow / anti-capitalism Friday August 17, 2012 - 11:02 by Wolfie
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Early on Saturday morning [August 11], activists from the socialist republican party éirígí and the Independent Workers Union [IWU] joined with local anglers in a fish-in protest on the shoreline on Mizen Head in County Wicklow. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 17, 2012 - 10:37 by pat c
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The Anti-WikiLeaks hackers may be CIA agents, a wholly owned CIA subsidiary or just funded by the CIA. But they certainly advance the cause of US Imperrialism. They have now set their sights on RT.com and brought it down foe three hours this morning. RT,com is a vital source of information for activists on many issues from Syria to Iran to the struggles of Julian Assange. Assange presents an interviw show on the RT television station. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 17, 2012 - 09:56 by Poster
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Please watch and share this video report of a solidarity rally in Dublin yesterday with Pussy Riot. Interviewed are the Irish Times foreign affairs journalist Paddy Smyth, legendary feminist Rosita Sweetman, with her balaclavad Holy Mary Mary's, poet Arthur Broomfield along with others. The rally was heckled briefly with a passerby saying that the Pussy Riot women should be locked up and shot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY98sZWxt-w ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 16, 2012 - 11:45 by pat c
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The British are threatening to lift the Diplomatic status of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to facilitate the arrest of Julian Assange. The law the UK has informed Ecuador it could use in the case is the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987. It allows the UK to revoke the diplomatic status of an embassy on UK soil, which in this case would potentially allow police to enter the building to arrest Mr Assange for breaching the terms of his bail. This law was intended to deal with terrorist situations - not where someone was seeking refuge. A BBC correspondent said he could not recall a precedent in which the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 had been used in this way. And former government lawyer Carl Gardner told BBC Radio 4's Today programme legal advisers would be "urging the most extreme caution". Live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupynewsnetwork ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 16, 2012 - 05:27 by BrianClarkeNUJ
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"The only people worthy of freedom are those who are prepared to go out and fight for it every day, and die if necessary." Maire Drumm, assassinated by British sponsored loyalists while in Belfast's Mater Hospital. ... read full story / add a comment
down / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 07, 2012 - 17:13 by Gerry Rice
Hello everybody, I have just uploaded my updated website www.gerryrice.com If you have seen my older version and still have it on your computer, right-click on, especially, the HomePage at least, and in the drop-down menu left-click on the "Reload" link or the "Refresh" link to load the updated site. This is the price a whistleblower has to pay for his trouble in Northern Ireland - 35 years and counting.... You will know that you have accessed my website update when you see the following first line at the top of my HomePage and under the title Prologue: Voltair said, "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." Please let me know what you think :-) Gerry. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 06, 2012 - 16:00 by Racist Arsehole
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IDF soldiers prevent attack on "Israeli regime" by "freedom fighters" who attacked and killed Egyptian soldiers ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous Saturday August 04, 2012 - 13:45 by resting camper
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An account of Friday's events on the day the tunnel boring machine was moved. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Friday August 03, 2012 - 14:28 by RSC
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This morning at about 4am hundreds of Gardaí and Shell private security (IRMS) mobilised to Glenamoy crossroads where sections of Shell's tunnel boring machine has been stuck on a jack-knifed lorry for the last number of days. Since then convoys of lorrys have been hauling stone from a stock pile inside the refinery to the site, dumping it into the field below the cab of the jack- knifed lorry. It is thought that they need better foundations than the bog road and fields in order to use a crane big enough to lift the weight of the lorry and the TBM and want to extend the road for the cab. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 03, 2012 - 06:58 by Jose Maria Sison
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We, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), condermn in the strongest terms the duplicitous scheme of the US and NATO in instigating, funding and arming the so-called Syrian National Council and Free Syrian Army to seek the violent overthrow of the Assad government in Syria and at the same time pushing a “peace plan” and then a “transitional government” under the auspices of the UN in order to politically outmanuever the Assad government and the anti-imperialist and democratic forces. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 02, 2012 - 12:07 by resting camper
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Day three and things are still looking bad for Shell. Protesters and the Irish bog have the upper hand, with Shell receiving flack and Gardai humbled as crane sent packing. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 01, 2012 - 19:41 by pat c
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Syrian rebels have murdered prisoners. While the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch have condemned it. So far the US haven't mentioned it. Human Rights Watch has told the BBC the act was potentially a war crime. “What it looks like is execution of detainees and if that is the case, that would be a war crime”: Clive Baldwin, Senior legal adviser for Human Rights Watch. HRW, he added, had been seeing evidence of abuses such as torture and executions by rebel elements "for some time". The head of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which documents violence by all sides in the conflict, condemned the killings by the rebels as "criminal". The UN mission in Syria reports that the rebels in Aleppo are now armed with some heavy weapons including tanks and says that helicopters, heavy machine guns and artillery are also being used in the fighting. "We are calling on all parties to exercise utmost restraint... to distinguish between civilians and [combatants] in this conflict," said spokeswoman Sausan Ghosheh. ... read full story / add a comment 
kilkenny / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday August 01, 2012 - 18:41 by Kevin Doyle
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The workers at the Amber Women’s Refuge in Kilkenny began picketing their place of work this week to highlight the impact of the austerity cuts on the service they provide. This interview was conducted earlier in the week with Claire O’Neill of the Amber Women’s Refuge Centre. ... read full story / add a comment |
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