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The billionaire Issa brothers have provoked fury with their plans to build Britain's biggest Muslim cemetery, a colossal 45-acre site in Lancashire.
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Labour has given the green light for "activist" councils to rename streets tied to slavery and the Empire, quietly scrapping plans to let residents veto the changes.
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dublin / arts and media / news report Tuesday July 13, 2010 23:32 by Michael Gallagher   text 11 comments (last - thursday july 22, 2010 22:37)   video 1 video file
A documentary film four years in the making, The Pipe tells the story of the people of Rossport in the West of Ireland and the efforts of the Shell oil company to lay a pipeline through their community. The discovery of gas off this remote coastal village has led to the most dramatic clash of cultures in modern Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / feature Friday July 09, 2010 10:34 by eeekkk   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 08, 2010 15:49)   video 1 video file
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday July 03, 2010 17:49 by TD   video 2 video files
The weekly Friday protests in Nabi Saleh against the theft of village land for the construction of the illegal Israeli "settler" colony of Halamish have the reputation as the most violent in the West Bank and yesterday's confirmed this hitherto perception: Once the peaceful demonstrators reached the line of army jeeps and soldiers blocking their passage, some were manhandled to the ground and coordinator of the protests; Bassem Tamimi received rough handling, later Jonathan Shapiro an Israeli with live conscience and strong for Palestine was violently arrested. read full story / add a comment
derry / arts and media / opinion/analysis Saturday July 03, 2010 10:17 by John O'Leary in the grave   text 3 comments (last - sunday july 04, 2010 11:33)   video 1 video file
Thomas Kinsella's Butcher's Dozen was written after the publication of the British Government's Widgery Tribunal Report in 1972. Here he is reading the poem and talking about it. The text of the poem is available here:

BUTCHER'S DOZEN:
A LESSON FOR THE OCTAVE OF WIDGERY
by Thomas Kinsella
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/bsunday/kinsella.htm

Also, here is Seamus Deane's poem [click poem to read it or download], taken from his collection, Gradual Wars (IUP, 1972).
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday June 30, 2010 08:29 by Socialist Party   text 3 comments (last - friday july 02, 2010 16:06)   video 4 video files
Hundreds took part in the Irish demonstration against EU/IMF cuts last Saturday. Speakers included Joe Higgins MEP, Cllr Cieran Perry, Malachy Steenson Workers Party, Cllr Richard Boyd Barrett People Before Profit Alliance, Cllr Louise Minihan Éirigí, Gregor Kerr, WSM, James O'Toole Right To Work Campaign and Shell to Sea. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday June 27, 2010 22:07 by Trade Union TV   video 1 video file
Hundreds forced IBEC in a humiliating walk of shame from the street upto the doors of the Mansion House for their €1300 a table banquet. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday June 27, 2010 18:16 by Paula Geraghty   video 1 video file
Just uploaded- video from Irish Anti-War Movement protest on June 3rd which marched to the Israeli Embassy. People voted to stay overnight and succesfully stopped the Israeli Embassy from functioning the next day.

There is a live satellite link with Denis Halliday on the Rachel Corrie which was 200 miles away from Gaza at the time. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday June 26, 2010 22:23 by TD   text 4 comments (last - wednesday june 30, 2010 11:42)   video 10 video files
Yesterday, yet again, protestors in Nabi Salah were subjected to merciless Israeli violence with one youth injured and ambulanced away for treatment. This time, however, the perpetrators were repeatedly challenged by a brave, brave woman: Huwaida Arraf, who blocked with her body two Israeli Occupation Forces soldiers from firing killer, high velocity tear gas projectiles at some stone throwing youth. With telling truth she informed them that the the demonstration was over and their continued presence was designed to provoke and intimidate and for them to go home - her pleas were in vain as the IOF made continuous terrorising forays on foot and jeep into the village until late into the evening. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday June 26, 2010 20:41 by éirígí PRO   text 48 comments (last - saturday march 26, 2011 21:22)   video 1 video file
Protest against a state visit by the British head of state, Elizabeth Windsor - Dublin City Hall, 7pm, Monday July 5th, 2010 read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Friday June 25, 2010 10:04 by JB   text 3 comments (last - saturday june 26, 2010 23:54)   video 1 video file
Hundreds of people took part in a protest June 23 2010 at the Mansion house in Dublin where the Taoiseach Brian Cowen was going to 1,300 euro dinner with the organisation of local capitalist class that hands him his orders. As various bosses and Cowen went into the venue protected by ranks of Gardai, with the riot squad on standby outside the back entrance of Anglo Irish Bank and mounted police across the road, they were jeered by the crowd with shouts of 'thieves', 'robbers' and 'scum.' read full story / add a comment
cork / arts and media / event notice Tuesday June 22, 2010 23:59 by Eric   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 02, 2011 10:59)   video 1 video file
Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas.

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dublin / gender and sexuality / news report Monday June 21, 2010 05:26 by Dave Donnellan   video 1 video file
Bishop Christopher Senyonjo has been described as the Ugandan bishop Tutu. He is currently on a visit to Ireland speaking against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill currently making its way through the Ugandan parliament. The bill prescribes the death penalty for consensual sexual acts between LGBT people. The bill is partly the outcome of the activities of American pentacostalists working in the country. Christopher has been ostracised by his fellow bishops in Uganda for his stance. Below is a rush transcript of the interview. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday June 18, 2010 02:53 by Diarmuid Breatnach   text 21 comments (last - monday july 05, 2010 04:03)   video 1 video file
Why didn't the weekly protests build up to a "Mass Protest" as one organisation called for? The Right to Work Campaign, the Anti-Capitalist Bloc -- what were they about? This analysis from a political activist and witness not aligned to any of the political groups looks at the context and the way in which the protests were organised, how the organisations interracted with each other and what, in his opinion, is needed to resist the attacks of capital here in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / feature Thursday June 17, 2010 22:49 by Joe Higgins MEP   text 11 comments (last - wednesday june 30, 2010 23:31)   video 1 video file
Attacks on working people are mounting right across Europe. The so-called PIGS (Portugal, Ireland & Italy, Greece, Spain) countries have been to the forefront of these attacks. In Ireland, we have seen €7 billion of cutbacks, seriously damaging public services, including health and education. In Greece, there has been a 10% cut in wages and spending in the public sector, together with an increased retirement age, VAT increases and the freezing of pensions. Portugal has a plan to cut its deficit by €11bn over four years through a crisis tax on wages and cutbacks in public services. The Spanish Parliament has passed cutbacks worth €15bn on top of €50bn already agreed. Italy is due to implement "emergency-cutbacks" of €24 bn.
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wicklow / environment / event notice Wednesday June 16, 2010 20:41 by Christine McDonald   video 1 video file
On Saturday, 26th of June, people all over the world will unite together on beaches to oppose near and off-shore drilling. It is an urgent statement to 'big oil' that people want change, clean energy and the oil companies must be held accountable. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday June 16, 2010 17:52 by dunk   text 23 comments (last - monday june 27, 2011 18:39)   video 9 video files
'The conclusions of this report (The Saville Report) are absolutely clear. There is no doubt, there is nothing equivocal, there are no ambiguities. What happened on Bloody Sunday was both unjustified and unjustifiable. It was wrong. On behalf of our country I am deeply sorry"

British prime minister David Cameron, Tuesday 15th June 2010 (38 years after the events of Bloody Sunday)

On the 30th of January 1972 in Derry, Ireland 26 civil rights demonstrators and bystanders were shot by the British Army Parachute Regiment without warning or provocation. 13 died on the spot and another was mortally wounded. All were unarmed and most were teenagers. No one has ever been brought to justice.

Kevin McElhinney, Gerald Donaghy, John Duddy, Bernard McGuigan, Michael McDaid, William Nash, James Wray, Michael Kelly, John Johnston, John Young, William McKinney, Gerard McKinney, Hugh Gilmore, Patrick Doherty read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday June 15, 2010 12:53 by TD   text 3 comments (last - tuesday june 15, 2010 15:25)   video 5 video files
Palestinian, Lubna Masarwa was the Free Gaza Movement representative aboard the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara which was carrying a cargo of humanitarian and construction aid - as well as letters from Turkish children to Gazan children - to illegally besieged Gaza when it was murderously attacked in international waters on May 31st, 2010. Lubna witnessed the many crimes of the Israeli military aboard that night and in a Electronic Intifada article and a video interview yesterday, she spoke out: read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday June 15, 2010 10:12 by Paula Geraghty   video 1 video file
Locals from Coolock, Crumlin and Sean McDermott Street continue their campaign to defend local pool services. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Monday June 14, 2010 03:04 by Dave Donnellan   text 1 comment (last - thursday june 24, 2010 17:02)   video 1 video file
The walk leaders for this year's Famine Walk Justin Kilcullen of Trócaire, Felicity Lawrence, writer and journalist for the Guardian, and Jo Newton of the Irish Seed Savers Association opened the event with short reflections on the walk theme: Hunger in a World of Plenty: Sowing Seeds of Hope. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday June 10, 2010 10:32 by TD   text 6 comments (last - tuesday june 15, 2010 12:09)   video 7 video files
Not sated with the wanton butchery of nine human rights activists aboard the Mavi Marmara and the brutalisation of Huwaida Arraf aboard Challenger 1 - another Gaza flotilla ship bound for Gaza - the Israeli army came back for second helpings last Friday in Bil'in, this time, thankfully, with murder not in mind, just with appetite for wanton arrests, child kidnapping and terrorization. Huwaida Arraf, one of the leading lights from the Free Gaza Movement was again on their target list and she was arbitrarily arrested along with villager; Ashraf Abu Rahmah and an Israeli Anarchist Against the Wall at the peaceful demonstration against the nearby Aparheid- Annexation Wall in Bil'in that morning. read full story / add a comment
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