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international / miscellaneous Thursday July 26, 2012 - 14:58 by Crazy cat
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Here are two very interesting videos with a view of what is happening in Syria and elsewhere in the region at the moment ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 25, 2012 - 05:51 by Anthony Ravlich
A new idea, an ethical approach to human rights, development and globalization to replace neoliberalism, gives people a choice. The ethical human rights approach is being supported on the social networking sites by the US government, the UN while the NZ government maybe sympathetic. Also promotes inclusion of children's rights in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 23, 2012 - 05:00 by autonomen
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Francesco Puglisi and Vincenzo Vecchi, the two of the’Genoa 10′ to receive the most severe sentences for crimes of “devastation and looting” – 15 and 13 years – are untraceable since Sunday, the same day Genoa’s Supreme Tribunal ordered them to be incarcerated. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 20, 2012 - 12:36 by Psycho Punk.
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In Moscow a court has begun hearing the case of three feminist punk rockers who sang a protest song in Moscow's main Orthodox church.The trio are charged with hooliganism and could get seven years in prison. The hearing, expected to set a trial start date, is being held behind closed doors while supporters and opponents of Pussy Riot demonstrate outside.The women were arrested in February after performing in Christ the Saviour Cathedral. They have now spent 5 months in prison, and have been refused bail. Other band members who took part in the incident were not arrested. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday July 16, 2012 - 16:13 by Paul Gavan
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SIPTU members have welcomed the decision of the Department of Social Protection to partially restore material and training funding to Community Employment (CE) schemes. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism Sunday July 15, 2012 - 23:42 by Revolt Video
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Revolt video goes to see the Occupy Dame Street camp just before it was evicted. Marua Harrington is interviewed and afterwards we visted those locked on outside anglo.
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international / miscellaneous Sunday July 15, 2012 - 19:30 by italy calling
The Italian High Court confirmed on Friday 13th July the sentences for the 10 activists on trial for crimes of “devastation and looting” during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001. While some of the sentences have been slightly reduced, all 10 activists have been declared guilty of devastation and looting crimes against private property (for a little historical insight on this charge have a look at my previous article). ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Saturday July 14, 2012 - 12:36 by Parmy
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The Anonymous collective have launched a WikiLeaks-like site called Par:AnoIA (Potentially Alarming Research: Anonymous Intelligence Agency). They won't gather the data themselves but will take submissions. The project was created as a response to a year of Anonymous releases where the announcement of document dumps generated plenty of media, but the documents’ content got little coverage. “The reason no one cares about these leaks, as a general rule of thumb, is that they can’t do anything with [them],” said a Paranoia anon volunteering on document processing for the project in an online chat with Wired. “Basically, [we're] making it accessible to anyone that wants to do something with it, in a proper usable format.” ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Sunday July 08, 2012 - 22:00 by Italy Calling
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After a 9-hour debate, the Italian Supreme Court has issued its final sentence against the 25 defendants – policemen and heads of security forces – responsible for the violence against the activists sleeping in the Diaz school during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001. Result: most of the charges have been declared time-barred, leading to impunity for all the people involved. In the meantime, 10 activists are facing a total of 100 years of jail between themselves for crimes of “devastation and looting”. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment Sunday July 08, 2012 - 21:30 by CDC
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“The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses” – Hanna Rion Since the beginning of February 2012 the CDC along with residents from Tom Kelly Flats, set out to create a community garden for the area. Although at the time, we were entering into the unknown scene of gardening and were operating on an experimental and trial and error basis, we’re happy to announce that the initiative was a great success. Today (8/7/12) the CDC along with residents in Tom Kelly Flats began the first harvest of the community garden. Our first main crop to be harvested was our organic potatoes, we then harvested some of our organic vegetables as well. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Friday July 06, 2012 - 21:42 by Italy Calling
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After being left derelict and neglected for 6 years, during which the only intervention by the local authorities has been the building of a wall around the old changing rooms which turned them into a dangerous sewer, Pisa’s sports centre Polisportiva della Fontina has come back to life, and being put to use by hundreds of people of all ages who want a space to hang out and practice sports freely. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday July 06, 2012 - 11:53 by GAAW PRO
RTE’s website has two interesting news reports today: 1) Eamon Gilmore is off to a socalled “Friends of Syria” meeting in Paris, the aim of which is to support the overthrow of the Assad regime. It is all reminiscent of the moves to topple Ghadaffi in Libya a year ago. 2) The other news report informs us of the widespread human rights abuses now being carried out in “free” Libya. Up until now the western media has done its utmost to hide the chaos and bloodshed that has occurred since the overthrow of Ghadaffi, but eventually some of the truth had to come out. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Monday July 02, 2012 - 18:47 by C
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Today, 2nd of July, thousands of dead Lugworms were found in the sands around Sruwaddacon estuary. ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / bin tax / household tax / water tax Sunday July 01, 2012 - 11:37 by Maggie Goggin PRO/Media
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The St Lukes Branch (Cork) is one of a number of local campaign groups in the city that holds regular meetings and is active in the fight againt the Household Tax. Come along and join us! ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 28, 2012 - 19:28 by Crabby
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Erris Inshore Fishermen's Association (EIFA) gets a dose of the crabs from Shell and were left scratching on Monday last!: Three years too late, EIFA 'fishermen', whose shillings from Shell have run out were back again on Monday on another begging spree. During this begging exercise by EIFA Shell's begging bowl ended up in the depths of the ocean off Ballyglass Pier and deep sea divers were successful in locating the bowl at co-ordinates 54-15-21 N, 09-53-49 W. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday June 26, 2012 - 20:58 by italy calling
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I’m not usually one for signing petitions, but a recent initiative has started up which I feel very strongly about. While the top table directly involved in organising and carrying out the butchery of the G8 in Genoa 11 years ago have happily got away with it, 10 activists are risking a total of about 100 years in jail for crimes of “devastation and looting”. As the official site of the campaign “10 x 100″ likes to point out, the crime of “devastation and looting” was first introduced in 1930, that is, while Italy was still under a Fascist regime. Funny how it’s still there. It was first applied to modern Italy as a repressive measure against football fans, but, interestingly, it has been more recently used against migrants revolting in detention centres and activist protests. Here’s the official call out: ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 25, 2012 - 19:34 by Rossport Solidarity Camp
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Today the AGM of Mayo Co. council was disrupted by a high pitched grinding noise; a recording of the sounds that came from Shell's compound in Aghoose during the June bank holiday weekend. Local residents aimed to demonstrate how they were ignored when they tried to complain about this disturbance which lasted for four days, and were told the council offices were closed on the bank holiday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday June 25, 2012 - 18:24 by S Shriver
Nonviolent, nonanimal diet prevents animal agony, human disease, energy waste, environmental desecration and deforestation. This article concentrates on superior brain function. It was the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, a vegetarian, who first said "Love Animals Don't Eat Them" ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 25, 2012 - 09:58 by Tom Cooper
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RTE has upheld a complaint against Eoghan Harris and Gerry Gregg's short television documentary An Tost Fada ('The Long Silence') on two counts (Sunday Times, 24 June 2012 - see article below and letters back and forth to RTE). The complaint, RTE’s response and reply to RTE are attached here as separate PDF files - right-click and save them to read. At least one programme mistake resulted from suppression of information. Other very serious errors in the programme were not addressed by RTE. I have asked RTE to address them and to make a balancing programme. I have also asked RTE to bring back its abandoned policy of using a historical adviser on such programmes. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Wednesday June 20, 2012 - 11:57 by Ban Fracking
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Last week while covering the football in Poland, Pat Kenny's show on RTE radio 1, decided to interview Irish fracker, Oisin Fanning, chairman of San Leon, a company fracking for shale gas in Poland. People contacted the show and demanded the topic recieve balanced coverage and not just a pro-industry rant - eventually RTE agreed to allow Ewa Sufin of the Polish Green Party on air. The usual industry spin and lies being repeated on RTE by Oisin Fanning were exposed by what Ewa Sufin had to say about fracking in her native Poland and why an EU wide ban must be put in place on this industry. Below is a transcript of what Ewa Sufin said - you can listen to Oisin Fanning's interview via the RTE link below - iv starts at 1hr.27m ... read full story / add a comment |
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