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Outside the barricades on Kildare St.
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / photo-essay Sunday December 14, 2014 19:03 by Luke Eastwood   image 15 images
Ireland is waking up... Despite what RTE and others may say, anyone who was there knows that there were over 100,000 people present. Half of Dublin was brought to a standstill as a result of the rally as ordinary citizens spent the day on the streets, along with the hundreds of homeless people in evidence. read full story / add a comment
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cork / animal rights / press release Thursday December 11, 2014 10:48 by Bernie Wright   text 1 comment (last - wednesday january 07, 2015 02:25)   image 1 image
ANIMAL ABUSE aka BLOODSPORTS WILL HAVE SURVIVED 101 YEARS in Millstreet.

The annual Millstreet Hare coursing event set for 3rd/4th Jan 2015 has already caused disgruntled locals to contact ourselves and other direct action Animal rights Groups.

This cruel spectacle actually takes place on a GAA pitch in a local public park. The park in the centre of the town, a favourite with locals, dog walkers, footballers etc however is disrupted for four weeks a year and actually has a rusty dump of an enclosure permanently in place to hold the netted hares for the coursing two day event. All this is allowed in a public park such is the power of the Town Park Committee. The opposition to ending this has prompted people to release the hares on many occasions but sadly they get recaptured and coursed, it fails as too many obstacles stop their escape and they are enclosed behind more wire than can be dismantled, until maybe this year if locals do not give up.

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wexford / animal rights / press release Thursday December 11, 2014 10:30 by Bernie Wright   text 1 comment (last - friday december 12, 2014 15:32)   image 1 image
HUNT RUN AMOK IN OILGATE VILLAGE

PRESS RELEASE.

WEXFORD HUNT RUNS AMOK IN OILGATE VILLAGE.

Last Wednesday at 3pm as kids were being collected from the local National school in Oilgate ,Co Wexford locals were confronted by a dead fox being left outside the school gate and blocked roads and congestion . This melee was caused by the local Ballinagore hunt according to Gardai reports.
Also the local church Parish priest has advised the hunt that they were not allowed trespass on church property but they ignored the rule and rode in anyway.
Locals have told us the hunt blocked up the bottle bank area, parked at houses where school parents were collecting kids and the DEAD FOX left outside the school upset children and parents.

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national / anti-capitalism / other press Friday December 05, 2014 19:33 by irate   image 1 image
I'm reproducing this post here because I think it needs wider circulation. I hope the original poster will forgive my boldness but It is an important message that should get out to the widest possible audience.

Basically, under instruction from the EU, we will be giving private investors the interest on 28 billion of bank debt instead of paying it back to the Irish central bank as is currently the case, all with barely a murmur from the Irish media. Meanwhile the distraction storm rages on over a piddling 280 million which MIGHT be repaid to junior bond holders some of which MAY actually be local credit unions etc who are very beneficial to our economy.

Furthermore If interest rates rise in the future we WILL be crucified by huge wasted interest repayments to greedy vulture capitalists.
Meanwhile the media have us pissing and moaning over a hypothetical 280 million which MIGHT be repaid mainly to the likes of our own credit unions which will be peanuts compared to these other interest payments most likely going to foreign vulture capitalists read full story / add a comment
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cork / bin tax / household tax / water tax / event notice Friday December 05, 2014 19:16 by Eric   image 1 image
You are invited to join us at a meeting / film showing, titled: “If water were a person, it would be an anarchist: An anarchist view on the water charges”, next Tuesday 9th December, 8pm, in the Cork Community Printshop, Oliver Plunkett Street Lower ( behind the Bus Station ) read full story / add a comment
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national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / other press Tuesday December 02, 2014 23:28 by wsm   image 1 image
This article was written by the WSM and appears on their website and is the text for a 4 page PDF leaflet which you are encouraged to print and distribute.

In the face of massive opposition to the water charges, the government have made several clumsy attempts to placate us, while their partners in the media seek to frighten us off the streets. The latest attempt, delivered by Alan Kelly, Minister for the Environment, Community & Local Government in the Dáil on the 19th of November, is the plan to charge us €160 per year for our water and to give ‘eligible households’ a water conservation grant of €100. read full story / add a comment
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cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday December 02, 2014 20:07 by CPOI   image 1 image
Talk addressing Communism and contemporary society. organised by the Communist Party Of Ireland Trade Union Office 55 North Main St. Cork Fri Dec 5th 2014 @ 7pm read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday December 01, 2014 08:03 by Walden Bello   image 1 image
How do we bring fundamental reforms about at a time when organized minorities and disorganized, quiescent majorities appear to be the norm in both the North and the South? read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / feature Saturday November 29, 2014 17:45 by Shane Cassidy   text 13 comments (last - wednesday june 10, 2015 10:35)   image 1 image   video 1 video file   1 attached file
This article examines the Transatlantic Free Trade agreement and it's potential repercussions. In 2010 the US mining and gas company, Renco, managed to successfully avoid having to pay compensation to Peruvian locals who were harmed due to pollution by their companies by successfully using a provision of the Peru-US Trade Agreement[1]. Not satisfied with avoiding having to pay compensation, the company has since demanded $800 million from the Peruvian government as they argue that one of the companies they own, Doe Run, was forced into bankruptcy due to an expensive pollution clean-up which the Peruvian government required Doe Run to conduct [2]. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Friday November 28, 2014 10:49 by FUSION SUNDAYS   image 1 image
Dublin's Only World Christmas Market read full story / add a comment
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dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / event notice Monday November 24, 2014 22:13 by Right2Water   image 1 image
LOCAL ASSEMBLY
25 November at 20:00 in UTC
Mill Theatre Dundrum in Dundrum, Dublin
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Jack Fitzsimons
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Sunday November 23, 2014 01:40 by Campaign for the Abolition of Cruel Sports   text 3 comments (last - friday november 28, 2014 21:57)   image 6 images
The recent death of ex-senator and architect, Jack Fitzsimons of Kells, County Meath, has been keenly felt by his family and by the many people who knew him in his former professions. Readers of his best-selling book, Bungalow Bliss, will remember him too for his professional and easy to follow advice on affordable house designs.

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cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday November 17, 2014 19:47 by KM   text 2 comments (last - thursday january 29, 2015 07:51)   image 1 image
"Odessa & Donbass. Tragedy of Ukraine" Photo Exhibition

Opening reception 20.11.14 6pm.
Witness conferencing by Julia S 22nd of November 2014 at 1pm.

Camden Palace Hotel Camden Quay Cork read full story / add a comment
Courtsey of WSM
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / opinion/analysis Monday November 17, 2014 11:37 by anon   text 8 comments (last - wednesday november 19, 2014 23:12)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
It is clear that the governments is seeking to split the anti-water charges campaign by modifying the water charges and publicly attacking any violence surrounding the protests. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday November 16, 2014 22:43 by WISE Up Wales   text 6 comments (last - monday december 08, 2014 13:19)   image 3 images   video 2 video files
Policing for the G20 summit in Brisbane this past weekend was of overkill proportions. There was very little in the way of serious resistance, the Guardian reported that cops (6,000) outnumbered protesters and only 14 arrests were made. One of these was Irish-Australian Manning and Assange solidarity and anti-war activist Ciaron O'Reilly, who has been held in custody all weekend and will be brought before Brisbane Magistrates on Monday morning. read full story / add a comment
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international / bin tax / household tax / water tax / other press Sunday November 16, 2014 01:15 by T   image 1 image
This is a repost of an important article on the Irish Left Review website and goes into detail on the connection between the Water Charges and the upcoming Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) which is currently being concluded in secret by the EU and US.

*** The water charges can and must be defeated by resistance and non-payment but water, as a human right, must also be secured as a publicly owned and controlled resource universally available. Remember, we had to fight water charges in the 1980’s and again in the 1990’s so let’s make this win a permanent one. read full story / add a comment
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cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Friday November 14, 2014 22:33 by ipsc   image 1 image
Saturday 15th November | 14.00 | Free and Unticketed | Crawford Art Gallery

This programme of short artist’s film works looks at Palestine from various perspectives – external, embedded and provocative. Each of the filmmakers go beyond mainstream media representations of Palestine to interrogate the emotional and political landscape through uncanny juxtaposition of image and text. This screening will be followed by a panel discussion about film media and the current situation in Palestine including Laurence Davis (Dept of Government UCC), Rola Abu Zeid O’Neill (Dept of Sociology UCC), Harry Browne (School of Media DIT). Curated and chaired by artist/filmmaker Aoife Desmond. read full story / add a comment
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national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / event notice Wednesday November 12, 2014 22:05 by no to Irish Water   text 26 comments (last - wednesday december 17, 2014 06:51)   image 15 images   video 2 video files   1 attached file
The next major Right2Water event is a National Assembly outside the Dail on International Human Rights Day.
This will take place on Wednesday, 10th December 2014 at 1pm.

We will reaffirm our demand that water is recognised as a human right and that the Irish government abolish domestic water charges. Please spread the word..

EVENT: National Assembly
LOCATION: Dail Eireann, Leinster House, Merrion Street, Dublin 2
UPDATE: Merrion Street blocked off by Garda. Go around to Kildare St.
TIME: 1pm

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The Internationalist No. 38
international / arts and media / press release Thursday November 06, 2014 23:06 by Internationalist Group   image 1 image
Get the journal of revolutionary Marxism -- contact an Internationalist supporter or send US$0.50 to Mundial Publications, Box 3321 Church Street Station, New York, NY 10008 USA. Five issue/one year subscription $10. read full story / add a comment
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