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mayo / environment Tuesday May 17, 2011 - 23:31 by KatyB   image 3 images   video 1 video file
In response to Shell's AGM today in The Hague and London, the Shell to Sea campaign have shut down the Belmullet Shell office in protest against the on-going controversial Corrib Gas project which has no local consent or benefit to the people of Ireland. Shell will attempt to begin construction on the high pressure raw gas pipeline shortly despite a legal challenge by An Taisce and two local residents.

This protest is also to highlight the fact that every hour Shell accumulates another £1.6 million pounds sterling ( 1.83 million Euro) by destroying communities across the globe, from the Niger Delta to the Canadian Tar Sands. Shell's appalling record of human rights abuses, oil spills, gas flaring and accidents forces people to protect their communities and their environment.

We call on all shareholders to disinvest.

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 17, 2011 - 16:18 by Trade Union TV   text 2 comments (last - tuesday may 17, 2011 - 21:31)   video 1 video file
Watch the video report from the protest held at the Tallaght offices of SDCC Monday 16th, 2011. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 13, 2011 - 19:04 by John Cornford   text 1 comment (last - friday may 13, 2011 - 19:27)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Imprisoned Iranian film-makers Mohammad Rasoulof and Jafar Panahi have both found success in Cannes.

Mohammad Rasoulof's latest film Good Bye (Bé Omid É Didar) has found a world wide distributor.

Jafar Panahi will be awarded the Carrosse d'Or in absentia. The Carrosse d'Or (or Golden Coach), awarded by the Société des Réalisateurs de Films (SRF), rewards film-makers' courage and independence of thought. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism Wednesday May 11, 2011 - 09:56 by Kevin Doyle   text 4 comments (last - sunday may 15, 2011 - 03:03)   image 2 images
Yesterday/ In Castle Street/ I saw two goblins at my feet/ I saw a horse without a head/ Carrying the dead/ To the graveyard/ Near Turner's Cross/ I am the madwoman of Cork/ No one talks to me (From The Mad Woman Of Cork) ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 10, 2011 - 13:29 by Justin Morahan   text 4 comments (last - monday may 16, 2011 - 13:08)
Lesbians and gays are already living in fear and terror in Uganda. Tomorrow, Uganda is about to legislate them almost out of existence. Unless we stop it. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / animal rights Tuesday May 10, 2011 - 09:13 by Bernie Wright   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 10, 2011 - 10:43)   image 1 image
Animal rights group appeal to Irish filmgoers to boycott Water for Elephants due to Cruelty.
A Video released today by Animal Defenders International shows the elephant that appears alongside Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson in the new film Water for Elephants, being beaten and electric shocked during training.
We in AFAR are now urging the General Public to boycott this film in IRELAND.

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mayo / environment Saturday May 07, 2011 - 19:01 by Party against the pipe   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 12, 2011 - 21:34)   image 4 images
Come & join us in celebrating over a decade of resistance to Shell's Corrib gas project...it's gonna be a good party!

June Bank Holiday weekend 4-6th, Aughoose, Co.Mayo

Bands, music, circus, dance, comedy, performance, crafts, kid's activities. Free camping area.
Transport is being organised from most cities in Ireland, see website for details partyagainstthepipe.wordpress.com

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national / history and heritage Saturday May 07, 2011 - 11:58 by Bernardo   text 5 comments (last - wednesday may 11, 2011 - 19:17)   image 4 images
Today, members and supporters of Anti - Fascist action remodeled posters that were put around Dublin city centre, by a tiny far-right Autonomous Nationalist group, to mark the 30th anniversary of Bobby Sands' death. ... read full story / add a comment
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cork / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday May 05, 2011 - 13:54 by Ray   text 3 comments (last - thursday may 05, 2011 - 14:04)   image 18 images
This Sunday, the international celebration of the working class was marked in Cork with the now-traditional May Day march organised by the Independent Workers Union. Cork WSM also marked the occasion by hosting a pair of talks after the march on May Day-related topics at Solidarity Books on Douglas Street. As a finale to the day's festivities, a fundraising cabaret was held for the union and the bookshop that night at the Spailpín Fánach on South Main Street.
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 04, 2011 - 18:53 by Kev   text 2 comments (last - wednesday may 04, 2011 - 22:20)   image 6 images   video 2 video files
On the morning of Wednesday 4th May 2011, over 50 human rights activists supporting the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign formed a ‘human wall’ outside the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Irish multinational CRH, while concerned shareholders inside asked serious questions about the role of the cement company in the building of Israel’s illegal Separation Wall and illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Wednesday May 04, 2011 - 14:49 by Shell to Sea   text 4 comments (last - wednesday may 04, 2011 - 20:08)   image 8 images   video 1 video file
Yesterday 4 campaigners were arrested as work was stopped at Shell's compound in Aughoose for over 7 hours. In a damning sequence of events, Gardaí continue to use inappropriate and unsafe methods to police the protests. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 29, 2011 - 19:18 by Ciaron   text 1 comment (last - friday april 29, 2011 - 21:44)
Link to Guardian photo of the Palace protest
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/28/bahraini-linke...dding

Lat Thursday 10 a.m., on the eve of the Royal Wedding, Giuseppe Conlon House received a call out from Peter Tatchell to head down to Buckhigham Palace to support Bahrain exiles & human rights activists in their protest against the Royal wedding invite to Saudi invaders of Bahrain. We were able to scramble 5 Giuseppe Conlon House volunteers (2x Australian CW's, a Czech athiest, Scottish Marxist and a Polish cemeraman!) and got in there for kick off at 2pm...not a bad rapid response time! ... read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 29, 2011 - 14:46 by Kev   text 24 comments (last - thursday may 12, 2011 - 15:05)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
On 26th April two Open Letters were published concerning Riverdance's planned tour of Israel in September 2011. The first is from Irish artist Robert Ballagh who was the set designer for Riverdance, and the second is from Raymond Deane, Cultural Boycott Officer of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign. ... read full story / add a comment
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louth / history and heritage Friday April 29, 2011 - 02:47 by Ciaran C   image 2 images
Tonight, Thursday the Dundalk 2016 committee held a moving and extensive Easter commemoration within the wing of Dundalk prison.
The last time such an event was held within the walls was in 1928 when republican POWs and internerees were still being held captive before the Gaols final closure in 1931. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / sci-tech Thursday April 28, 2011 - 20:11 by Jenna Tailya   text 2 comments (last - wednesday may 04, 2011 - 17:58)
Tesco Metro, on Belfast’s Royal Avenue, had its labelling improved by anti-GM protestors on Saturday morning (23rd April). The additional labels warned consumers about the potential Genetically Modified content of meat and dairy products in store.
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mayo / environment Wednesday April 27, 2011 - 20:05 by Rossport Solidarity Camp   text 2 comments (last - friday april 29, 2011 - 09:55)
Come up to the Rossport Solidarity Camp Summer Gathering for the May Bank Holiday weekend to see for yourself what's at stake and learn more about the campaign.

The injustice faced by the community here is symbolic of the corruption and problems faced by people all over Ireland.
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dublin / crime and justice Tuesday April 26, 2011 - 01:43 by Dave Donnellan   text 7 comments (last - friday april 29, 2011 - 13:29)   video 1 video file
Afri, along with other global justice NGOs, has long highlighted issues surrounding 'Third World' (Global South) debt and IMF/World Bank structural adjustment - including the erosion of sovereignty in the Global South and the devastating socio-economic consequences. Those issues have come home now to Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 25, 2011 - 06:05 by Frank Cordaro   text 12 comments (last - sunday may 08, 2011 - 08:44)
Flickr Slide Show of 2011 Good Fri. Stations of the Cross in London England
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frank_cordaro_and_the_dm_c...9611/

Flickr Slide Show of 3 Catholic Workers Arrested at 10 Downing St - 2011 Good Fri.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frank_cordaro_and_the_dm_c...2886/
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mayo / environment Saturday April 23, 2011 - 15:28 by Shell to Sea   text 7 comments (last - monday may 02, 2011 - 13:05)   image 9 images
The annual Good Friday walk went ahead yesterday despite the heavy rain. About 83 people walked the length of Shell's 9km proposed raw gas pipeline. The walk is a symbolic act to push Shell out of this beautiful area. ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Friday April 22, 2011 - 21:34 by Prisons Reviewer   text 14 comments (last - saturday june 04, 2011 - 15:20)   1 attached file
A Donegal man Daniel Doherty of Moville was incarcerated at Castlerea Prison for over 60 days. The reason for this incarceration was that he would not withdraw allegations he has made against the State in a case that is listed in the Supreme Court to be heard. ... read full story / add a comment
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