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galway / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 06, 2012 - 10:40 by GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR   text 4 comments (last - monday august 06, 2012 - 22:45)

GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR
SUMMER 2012 BULLETIN

DUE TO THE RAID ON THE HOME OF GAAW'S PRO AND THE SEIZURE OF HIS COMPUTER, WE ARE WITHOUT THE DATABASE OF 800+ SUPPORTERS, WHO WE REGULARLY EMAIL THE GAAW BULLETIN.
SO WE WOULD APPEAL TO YOU TO PASS ON THIS BULLETIN TO PEOPLE YOU KNOW ARE SYMPATETIC TO THE CAUSE OF PEACE.
IF YOU WISH TO BE INCLUDED ON OUR MAILING LIST, JUST CONTACT US AT [email protected] OR JOIN US ON OUR FACEBOOK GROUP PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/312442090965/
OR BEFRIEND US ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/#!/galway.antiwar

GAAW SUPPORTED PEACE EVENT
PEACE VIGIL SHANNON
SUNDAY 12TH AUGUST. 2-3PM
AT THE ROUNDABOUT BEFORE THE ENTRANCE TO SHANNON AIRPORT

AGENDA

1. NEVER FORGET: IRELAND IS AT WAR
2. THE GARDAÍ AND GAAW
3. THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA:
a) Somalia & The Real Pirates
b) MALI: “Collateral damage of the Libyan crisis”
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national / education Saturday August 04, 2012 - 17:52 by Topsy Crets   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 05, 2012 - 00:45)
Case Study: Secret Socities in Ireland- the Freemasons. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Saturday August 04, 2012 - 14:39 by Chris Gray
The Little People speak out on behalf of the little people.

We Leprechauns, friends of the Irish People,
hereby give notice
of our latest collective decision,
and address ourselves to that social grouping
commonly known as the Irish political class.

Down through the ages we have strained every nerve
on your behalf:
we have always aided you
when you were sorely prest.

The marauding Danes,
robbers of the chalice,
landed long ago;
when Brian Boru and his fighters overcame them,
we guarded the gold they left behind:
in pots, in bags, under rocks, beneath crags,
we kept it safe. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 04, 2012 - 02:28 by GARY WEBB
IF THEY'D BEEN IN a more respectable line of work, Norwin Meneses, Danilo Blandon and ''Freeway Rick'' Ross would have been hailed as geniuses of marketing. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday August 02, 2012 - 17:48 by Paddy Hackett
Generally in the West individuals, in a quailfied way, are free to express their views independently of how subversive those views may be. They are even, in a sense, free to organise themselves against the government. Marxists even become professors in bourgeois universities. Given that capitalist society is defined by Marx as inherently oppressive it appears as an inexplicable contradiction that it should have this free and just character in the West while still retaining its inherently exploitative and oppressive character ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday July 30, 2012 - 17:19 by boroba
Jeff Immelt, the chief executive of General Electric was interviewed by the Financial Times at the weekend . He told the paper that « nuclear power is so expensive compared with other forms of energy that it has become “really hard” to justify « . On the face of it ,Immelt's comments would seem to be at odds with General Electric being one of the world’s largest suppliers of atomic equipment. So what is going on ?

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national / crime and justice Thursday July 26, 2012 - 19:34 by I. Greene
On Monday 18th June 2012, a group representing some of the bereaved Omagh families presented Northern Ireland Secretary of State Owen Patterson with a specially commissioned report claiming that the atrocity could have been prevented by both governments. After the meeting, a spokesperson for the families in a delicately veiled threat called on both governments to respond positively or face a court challenge. The relatives also told the waiting media “we have brought together all available evidence on the case and showed where the authorities on both sides of the border could have prevented the bomb attack on Omagh.” The report was commissioned from a group of London-based-consultants and is said to contain ‘fresh information’ on the Omagh bombing. There are some issues surrounding the report that are questionable and it would be in the public interest to know exactly who financed the commissioning of the report. ... read full story / add a comment
Marian Price Interned Political Prisoner of Conscience
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 25, 2012 - 04:11 by Brian Clarke   image 1 image
We wish to draw your attention to the continued detention of Marian Price, which we feel constitutes an alarming breach of human and civil rights ... read full story / add a comment
Gentle hares...netted, injected, ear tagged,terrorised, hurt and killed for fun.
limerick / animal rights Tuesday July 24, 2012 - 22:00 by Bernie Wright   text 3 comments (last - thursday july 26, 2012 - 21:22)   image 4 images
Regarding Information about a coursing field that causes many hare casualties.

A Coursing supporter rang us today relaying a dispute in the ICC and Limerick Coursing Club as follows.

We received a call today from a disgruntled and annoyed Coursing supporter who was concerned about limerick Race track being used as a coursing venue. He must have ran out of options to resolve this scenario if he rang us.

We already knew that the Irish Coursing Club had decided last month to move the “Irish Cup” hare coursing event from Limerick Racecourse owing to its unsuitability as a coursing venue.
There is however a meeting this week of top coursing people on Thursday, July 26th,at the Horse and Jockey Pub? We are told ‘at which very powerful people within the greyhound industry will be pressing for a reversal of the ICC’s decision to move the “Irish Cup” event from Limerick Racecourse’.

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LONDON OLYMPICS 2012 FALSE FLAG OPERATION?
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 23, 2012 - 22:05 by BrianClarkeNUJ   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Many believe that London will be rocked by a false flag operation at the 2012 Olympics. It has been proven by MI-5 Whistle-blowers that we live in the age of false flag terror from British Occupied Ireland to the Euphrates. We need be ready even if the 2012 Olympic Games could come and go without an incident. It is better to be prepared for false flags and be ready just in case something something does happen. ... read full story / add a comment
Supporters of Free Marian Price Campaign, Dublin Committee, publicizing their cause to the Campaign Against Household & Water Charges march, 18th July.
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday July 22, 2012 - 22:55 by Diarmuid Breatnach   text 19 comments (last - thursday august 23, 2012 - 11:28)   image 1 image
Irish Republicans have been on dirty protest in Maghaberry for two years -- the kind of situation that led to ten dying on hunger strikes in 1981. Also, opponents of the normalisation of the British occupation of Ireland are being framed and convicted, locked up without charge or being tried for actions back in the 1980s. Meanwhile, the organised Irish Left is averting its head. In what other country would this happen? ... read full story / add a comment
Spooks Ireland
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 20, 2012 - 05:25 by BrianClarkeNUJ   image 1 image
The Magna Carta, the charter of English liberties was imposed on King John in 1215 but it will be dead on its anniversary. It has been shredded in Ireland by the Secret Services and their front man the unelected English autocrat Paterson,who re-introduced the wartime instrument of internment without trial in total disdain of a supposed peace process. ... read full story / add a comment
lorry occupied
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 13, 2012 - 22:32 by Rossport Solidarity Camp   image 3 images
Shell's haulage was repeatedly stopped by protesters from Rossport Solidarity Camp during today’s day of solidarity with the community in Erris under siege from the imposition of the Corrib gas project. There were three actions at different locations along Shell's haulage route between Aughoose and Bangor Erris, which resulted in a significant disruption to the haulage. The actions were also in solidarity with the reclaim the Land action against open cast coal mining in Scotland planned for tomorrow. http://www.indymediascotland.org/node/27202 ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Thursday July 12, 2012 - 17:10 by dizzy5
Q. I consider myself of average intelligence and do not suffer fools gladly but lately I’ve been receiving these mixed signals and I just don’t know what’s wanted from me.

You see I’ve recently finished college and am quite eager to start work, which is supposedly what you and your fellow party members also want but I keep coming up against obstacles which have been put in place by you and your fellow party members.
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national / housing Wednesday July 11, 2012 - 14:37 by lefty   text 7 comments (last - thursday july 12, 2012 - 14:42)   image 1 image
Cutting rent supplement has allowed the FG/Labour government to continue to make large cuts to the social welfare budget whilst claiming not to be touching "basic social welfare rates". The reality is that because it is left to tenants to negotiate with their landlords for a rent reduction, rather than such negotiations being undertaken by the department itself, this is rather like David negotiating with goliath and the tenant inevitably has to pay the not inconsiderable difference out of their already reduced social welfare payment. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 10, 2012 - 04:43 by Anthony Ravlich
A compilation of some comments made on Facebook regarding the proposed ethical approach to human rights, development, globalization to replace neoliberalism which may help give readers a greater understanding of the former approach which emphasizes bottom-up development rather than the extreme top-down control of development of the latter. ... read full story / add a comment
Protesters outside Boylesports office at Westmoreland Street, Dublin
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday July 05, 2012 - 23:11 by End hare coursing sponsorship   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 07, 2012 - 18:33)   image 4 images
Members of several animal protection groups and anti blood sports organisations protested outside the Boylesports outlet at Westmoreland Street in Dublin on Thursday, July 5th. Among the protesters was Independent Dail Deputy Maureen O' Sulivan, who with Deputy Clare Daly plans to move a Private Members Bill to tackle hare coursing.

The demo focused on this bookmaker’s sponsorship of the horrific cruelty of this blood sport. Each year it pours huge amounts of money into the so-called “sport”, which involves the terrorising and savage mauling of captive wild hares in a wire-enclosed field or park.

... read full story / add a comment
London 2012 Without Human Rights
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 04, 2012 - 06:15 by BrianClarkeNUJ   image 1 image
The Government, having reviewed the whole matter with great care and with reference to any future operations, have decided that the techniques...The statement that I have made covers all future circumstances."As foreshadowed in the Prime Minister's statement, directives expressly prohibiting the use of the techniques, whether singly or in combination, were then issued to the security forces by the Government."[3] These are still in force and the use of such methods by UK security forces would not be condoned by the Government. The leading nationalist party of that time, the SDLP took a principled stand and resigned from Stormont, "the sectarian parliament for a sectarian people," as boasted by Unionist leaders. ... read full story / add a comment
Live Hare Coursing: Sponsored by JP McManus
international / animal rights Tuesday July 03, 2012 - 19:11 by Association of Hunt Saboteurs   text 4 comments (last - monday january 29, 2018 - 17:24)   image 6 images
SPONSORSHIP OF LIVE HARE COURSING IN IRELAND

The multi-millionaire JP MC MANUS is sponsor of the annual Irish cup event, usually held in Co Limerick every Year. The Limerick coursing Club have recently lost their usual venue at the Limerick race track for next year and we now have an opportunity to lobby the sponsors. If sponsorship is pulled in this case it will be a serious blow to the Irish coursing club and help to end this blood sport once and for all.

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Jack Kavanagh picketing the SIPTU office in Kilkenny
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday July 02, 2012 - 19:31 by Justice Delayed   image 1 image
Jack Kavanagh of Larchfield, Kilkenny is a man who believes himself to have been unfairly treated by SIPTU. He has a long-running grievance concerning payments he believes he is entitled to from his days as a worker with Kilkenny County Council. ... read full story / add a comment
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