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national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday June 02, 2016 23:22 by 1 of Indymedia   image 1 image
Eddie Hobbs has repeatedly in the last few years brought up the fact that we don't own our own natural resources and that they have been given away. Unfortunately he hasn't got much traction with the establishment simply because they don't want to listen. This hasn't stopped him and yesterday in the Irish Examiner he has again written about the great ripoff in the context of the recent release of the film-documentary, The Atlantic produced by the same producer of The Pipe. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / event notice Thursday June 02, 2016 22:59 by Dublin Says No   image 1 image
Dublin Says No...We are the ordinary people of Ireland. We have taken it upon ourselves to march weekly in unity with many other communities.. All welcome.

Sat June 18th - Meeting Points Connolly Station (Dublin North) and Heuston Station (Dublin South) at 1pm
March to the GPO.

"We Shall Rise Again" -James Connolly 1916. We need to do it again in 2016 read full story / add a comment
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international / politics / elections / news report Wednesday June 01, 2016 13:29 by Alex de Jong   image 5 images
Rodrigo Duterte’s authoritarian neoliberalism isn’t the answer to poverty and political abuse in the Philippines. read full story / add a comment
Wolfe Tone commemoration, Sunday 26th June 2016.
international / history and heritage / event notice Sunday May 29, 2016 21:20 by Sharon.   image 1 image
This annual RSF-organised commemoration will be held as stated, on Sunday 26th June 2016, at 2.30pm, in Sallins, County Kildare. read full story / add a comment
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national / eu / news report Saturday May 28, 2016 22:56 by 1 of Indymedia   image 2 images   1 attached file
The regular news digest of the People’s Movement, No. 147 is out now. It can be freely downloaded from the People's movement website and this issue has articles covering TTIP and a trade union view on Brexit. Recently Greenpeace published details of secret negotiations between the EU-US which were leaked and they indicated that EU officials had completely sold out to the US on all their corporate agenda demands. The TTIP agreement is by far and away the most undemocratic agreement ever devised and will shred protections of all kinds and oblierate the sovereignty every state that has this imposed on them. However the mainstream rightwing corporate media is not covering what is in TTIP and simply make false statements that it will bring jobs and growth, where the core issues are central to what it means to how society right across both the EU and US is run. Naturally our own mainstream political parties of FG and FF are completely for this corporate power grab of an agreement. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday May 27, 2016 00:05 by Stop TTIP   image 2 images
The idea of this meeting is to inform people of the secretly negotiated TTIP agreement between the USA and Europe. It is open to all.

We hope to be able to help launch an automonous local Anti TTIP group that can work with unions, political groupings and others to defeat TTIP, by being separate from but co-operative with others. This model has worked with the Water Charges Movement in the area and we hope it can be as strong on TTIP. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / history and heritage / event notice Thursday May 26, 2016 00:17 by pfc   image 1 image
Three days - six films - with love from Cuba. Opening with one of the saddest episodes in Cuban history - the exodus, in the early sixties, of thousands of children to the United States. Two beautiful shorts and a look at the life of one of Cuba's most loved actresses. The last day of the festival features one irreverent and one sensual comedy. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / event notice Monday May 23, 2016 23:16 by pbp   image 1 image
Demonstate 5pm - Dail Eireann, Kildare Street, Weds 25 May

Support Dail Motion To Finish Off Water Charges

There is a demonstration against water charges on Wednesday 25th May at 5pm at the Dail whilst the Right2Water TDs have tabled a motion to scrap Irish Water and water charges.

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dublin / housing / event notice Monday May 23, 2016 22:55 by NHHC   image 2 images
There are now at least 1,880 children living in emergency accommodation, rents are escalating beyond affordable levels, there are ‘economic’ evictions, mortgage arrears, repossessions, 100,000 households on the housing waiting lists, substandard accommodation and the growing numbers of those unable to buy a home.

* House the homeless * Address rising rents * Build social & affordable housing read full story / add a comment
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dublin / housing / news report Monday May 16, 2016 22:26 by SPARK   image 1 image
Dublin Tenants Association are launching a campaign for rent controls and security of tenure, to coincide with their submission to the Oireachtas housing committee.

They are asking people to submit photos (anonymous) of themselves with a short sign telling people about their stories from the private rental sector. See attached example. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday May 16, 2016 15:00 by Anti-fracker   text 2 comments (last - monday may 16, 2016 21:57)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
Woodburn Forest near Carrickfergus in County Antrim has become the site of the first operational fracking rig on the island of Ireland. On Monday 16 May InfraStrata PLC began to drill, seeking to confirm a viable oil find which will pave the way for large scale extraction. Community campaigners continue to resist and all support is welcome on the site to stop the drilling while one local mounts a legal challenge. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday May 14, 2016 19:24 by Jake Arden   image 5 images
100 years ago, if a Dublin Castle tout had entered the Connolly Books building on Essex Street, Temple Bar, he would have been quids in. Sitting hugger mugger around a huge table in the centre of the room are more than 20 of the most subversive characters in Ireland, spouting socialist verse and preaching revolution and rebellion. They include communists, trotskyists, anarchists, republicans, trade unionists, anti-austerity activists, pacifists, militant feminists, internationalists, environmentalists, ex political prisoners, independent TDs, writers, poets, singers, artists, and actors. They have banded together in one bold adventure: to read, over a series of lunchtimes, the entire, epic, 24-hour Non Stop Connolly Show. read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Wednesday May 11, 2016 22:28 by cd   text 3 comments (last - thursday june 02, 2016 22:47)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
A cross party group of TDs have expressed concern at the jailing of two political activists, Sean Doyle and Eamonn McGrath. Both men have been remanded in custody until the 21st of May and 24th of June respectively for taking part in a peaceful protest in Kilcoole. Sean was arrested after being assaulted by an individual in front of Gardai while his attacker went unpunished. The same attacker then viciously pushed a woman to the ground. The Gardaí present saw fit to arrest the protesters for trespass while they gently escorted the assailant away. No charges have been brought against this man. The continuation of the political policing of the Irish Water protests exposes the Garda, yet again, as a force used to protect the status quo at the expense of ordinary people. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / racism & migration related issues / event notice Monday May 09, 2016 14:05 by pbp   text 5 comments (last - sunday may 15, 2016 22:43)   image 1 image
Stop Racism in its tracks. United Against Racism are holding a protest
demonstration at the garage entrance to Nutgrove Shopping Centre to show
solidarity with the three young Afghani people who were subjected to a racist attack on Nutgrove Way
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday May 08, 2016 11:38 by Jake Arden   image 2 images   video 1 video file
In Dublin’s Temple Bar, within gunshot of the General Post Office, a diverse band of Irish citizen actors are planning to strike a blow against war and imperialism and for Irish freedom. This is not a costumed re-enactment of the 1916 Easter Rising but an act of contemporary revolutionary theatre, where the audience for the epic 1970s play the Non Stop Connolly Show, by Margaretta D’Arcy and John Arden, become the cast. Each lunchtime between 27 April and 12 May, volunteers muster at Connolly Books to take reading parts in the play which covers the life, struggles and death of James Connolly. Not only has the fourth wall been broken down, but the spirit of text has spurred solidarity action by the players in support of Maura Harrington, jailed in Mountjoy on Friday for her opposition to Shell’s rape of the the West of Ireland countryside. read full story / add a comment
Ireland's resource giveaway.
national / economics and finance / press release Saturday May 07, 2016 19:38 by Shell to Sea   text 3 comments (last - wednesday may 18, 2016 13:39)   image 1 image
Shell to Sea campaigner Maura Harrington was arrested in Belmullet on Friday afternoon and jailed for 10 days in Mountjoy prison for the non-payment of a court fine of E300.
It is thought that the jailing relates to a 2012 protest attempting to block construction of the disputed development. read full story / add a comment
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international / politics / elections / news report Saturday May 07, 2016 08:31 by Party of the Laboring Masses (PLM)   image 5 images
Like it or not, Rodrigo Duterte has been leading the presidential polls in successive surveys. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / housing / event notice Friday May 06, 2016 23:53 by D7HousingAction   image 2 images
As part of the 'Housing Land Initiative' Dublin City Council is threatening to hand land across Dublin - in O'Devaney Garden, St. Michael's Estate and Oscar Traynor Road -over to private developers.
We Want to Stop This.

Help us protest public land and housing across our city.
Protest - Dublin City Hall on Monday May 9th 5pm read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Friday May 06, 2016 22:29 by ipsc   image 1 image
To mark Nakba Day 2016 the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign is honoured to present a speaking tour with Lubna Shomali and Nidal Al-Azzah from BADIL, Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights.

They will tour Ireland from Monday 9th to Saturday 14th May. read full story / add a comment
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limerick / housing / news report Friday May 06, 2016 21:09 by aetf   image 6 images
Today in Limerick Court, the Irish state on behalf of capitalism and property in favour of its own citizens
and the original ideals of the 1916 proclamation, was planning to use the resource of the state to
carry out 170 home evications throwing potentially hundreds more citizens onto the streets. read full story / add a comment
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