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dublin / arts and media Wednesday September 28, 2011 - 14:57 by antrophe   text 7 comments (last - monday october 03, 2011 - 14:07)   image 1 image
rabble is a non-profit, newspaper from the city’s underground. It’s collectively and independently run by volunteers. rabble aims to create a space for the passionate telling of truth, muck-raking journalism and well aimed pot-shots at illegitimate authority. We stand within, and with, Dublin as it struggles from below against the ghost of the Celtic Tiger and the state it left us in. We support those who fight with a new world in their hearts and encourage those who create cultures that seed hope in bleak times. Those involved know each other from alternative media and street mobilisations, from raves, gigs and the football terraces, or by just living in the village that is Dublin. We range from people living and raising their families in the city, to community and political activists, to artists, messers and mischief-makers. We Are rabble. ... read full story / add a comment
SIPTU facilitate Belfast Mayor Niall O'Donnghaile visit to Art Ability in June
antrim / health / disability issues Tuesday September 27, 2011 - 12:11 by PRO   image 1 image   video 1 video file
In June of this year Art Ability – a community organisation assisting children and adults with disabilities - based in Agnes Street, Belfast, was given just one week’s notice that it’s funding was to be removed. A SIPTU organised campaign has been running since then to secure funding to protect this vital cross community organisation from closure, and to ensure its client’s needs were addressed. This campaign resulted in the initial securing of limited funding which did not fully protect the organisations future.

However, as a direct result of the SIPTU campaign we are delighted to be in a position to report that interim funding has been secured to enable the organisation to continue to operate. Art Ability will now be in a position to apply for further funding for the autumn quarter, and their doors remain open. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 27, 2011 - 05:12 by IRSCNA   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 27, 2011 - 13:54)
Statement of solidarity and support for Palestinian hunger strikers ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday September 26, 2011 - 22:56 by Iseult OSullivan
Feasta http://www.feasta.org/ on the 22/23 of September and the Smart taxes network http://smarttaxes.org/ held an international conference on exploring Irelands debt crisis and a view on running a parallel currency alongside the Euro http://www.feasta.org/2011/09/17/the-parallel-punt/

The following people spoke or were in the panel at various times throughout the two day conference. I have summarised there main points to form opposing policy views.
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national / housing Sunday September 25, 2011 - 14:27 by PAW
Despite the widespread condemnation of the recent auction which seen some repossessed homes being sold by UK Auctioneers Allsop abetted by Irish accomplices Smart Properties, They have decided to have another round of Auctions.... This time for Hundreds of Repossessed Family Homes. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Friday September 23, 2011 - 13:49 by O.O'C   text 2 comments (last - saturday september 24, 2011 - 19:27)
The People’s Movement welcomes today’s wake up call in this morning’s Irish Times by twenty six Oireachtas members and one MEP warning about the implications of an commitment by the Government to a very significant diminution of the sovereignty of the State, hoping that it can sleep walk the country into it. We agree wholeheartedly with their demand that the issue must be put to the country in a referendum. ... read full story / add a comment
Island Eddy, a peaceful haven now targeted by hare catchers
international / environment Friday September 23, 2011 - 12:34 by Cherishing our Wildlife Heritage   image 2 images
Galway Bay is feted in song and story as one of Ireland's key tourist attractions. How sad then that Island Eddy, located at the eastern inner end of the bay, is a prime target for hare coursing clubs. The Campaign for the Abolition of Cruel Sports (CACS) has just issued this statement: ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues Friday September 23, 2011 - 11:28 by Ernest Everhard
Trinity's Philosophical Society has invited the leader of the racist British National Party, Nick Griffin, the speak in a debate entitled, "This House Believes that Immigration has gone too far."

Concerned students and organisations are organising to oppose the BNP leader. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Thursday September 22, 2011 - 23:21 by O.O'C
Twenty-six members of the Oireachtas and one MEP, have joined in an initiative with the People’s Movement (which campaigned against the Lisbon Treaty in the two referenda) to demand that the Irish electorate have the determining say by way of referendum on the proposals to establish a permanent eurozone fund by Treaty amendments that will be binding on Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday September 22, 2011 - 14:35 by Teresa Treacy Support Group.
News Release.
Issued by the Teresa Treacy Support Group.
Thursday 22nd September 2011.
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national / housing Wednesday September 21, 2011 - 17:43 by Protest Allsop Auction   text 2 comments (last - thursday september 22, 2011 - 12:42)
Smart Properties in association with Allsop auctioneers are moving to sell off the repossessed homes of Irish families this week, one can only make comparisons to the days of the English landlords turfing Irish people off their land and out of their homes for inability to pay rent that was collected by the Landlords Irish lackies. ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing Wednesday September 21, 2011 - 14:01 by PAW   1 attached file
We, the members of the People's Association Watchdog, are a group of informed, concerned citizens who are engaging ourselves to address current issues and intend to offer solutions based on our experience of speaking to people in crisis.
We call on the Minister for Finance and the current Government elected by the citizens of Ireland to take immediate steps to correct the deteriorating mortgage arrears/negative equity issue plaguing the state currently.
... read full story / add a comment
Fred Johnston
galway / arts and media Tuesday September 20, 2011 - 12:52 by Wester Writers' Centre, Galway   image 1 image
Two innovative Creative Writing courses kick off at the Western Writers' Centre, Galway, from the 4th October: 10am - 12 noon (10 weeks - €114/€95) and 1.05pm-1.55pm (8 weeks - €80/€60), tutored by writer and critic Fred Johnston. Details at 091.564822 ext 312 or [email protected] Courses designed for beginners and enthusiasts who may not have spare time in the evenings. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday September 19, 2011 - 15:58 by Support Network, Buenos Aires
We never forget our imprisoned comrades. We don’t mystify our respect for them but neither are we indifferent to their everyday experience. Solidarity is not, as has been demonstrated on several occasions, just a beautiful word or a slogan, but a practice inseparable from our struggle. This can be expressed in many diverse ways, and there are moments when an idea takes shape with forcefulness and continuity. Given the delicate situation (in court and in prison) that faces our comrades Juan Aliste Vega, Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda, and Freddy Fuentevilla Saa, who are currently held captive in prisons of the Chilean state, several individuals from Buenos Aires have decided to form a new support network in order to provide updates and disseminate information about their situation, as well as hopefully assisting in their return to the streets. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Sunday September 18, 2011 - 17:55 by Noel Kelly
Visual Artists Ireland, the All-Ireland representative body for professional visual artists, today announced preliminary findings of their recent survey The Social, Economic & Fiscal Status of the Visual Artist in Ireland 2011. Based on the survey undertaken in December 2008, the 2011 survey has found that the income of professional visual artists in Ireland has collapsed. Of the 292 artists surveyed, 82.25% earn less than €10,000 from their creative practice. This is a sharp decrease when compared to 67% in 2008. The number of artists relying on finding alternative sources of income has increased, but the overall income figures remain low. 55% of professional visual artists earn less than €10,000 from their total income (creative and non-creative). This is a sharp decrease from 33% in the 2008 survey. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday September 18, 2011 - 04:01 by Scrap VFA! Movement   image 1 image
With pride as a people, we commemorate a historic national event this coming September 16, the rejection of the US military bases twenty years ago ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-war / imperialism Friday September 16, 2011 - 17:59 by RNU PRO   image 1 image
REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY (RNU) Spokesperson, MARTIN Óg MEEHAN has slammed a forthcoming British Army Event planned for Belfast. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / animal rights Friday September 16, 2011 - 10:42 by Bernie Wright   text 3 comments (last - saturday september 17, 2011 - 14:17)   image 2 images
The AFAR group has been contacted by various people expressing their disgust at the prospect of an animal abusing event in Galway. Are Donkey derbys not a relic of bygone days?
This is the front page of the CURRENT Galway Independent. As part of a forthcoming "comedy" festival, radio presenter (Hector OhEochagáin) is publicising a Donkey Derby.
AFAR is totally opposed to cruel spectacles especially in light of the increasing number of horse and equine cases that have come to light.animal violations are increasing at an alarming rate as any one will confirm who is involved in animal protection.
This farce of bygone days shows lact of iniative and forethought and blatent disregard for sentient gentle animals.
... read full story / add a comment
antrim / history and heritage Thursday September 15, 2011 - 19:43 by anti-fascist
7 members of National Clarion Cycling Club are visiting memorials to the Int Brigaders in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, Wales and onto London to mark the 75th Ann of the Spanish Civil War. ... read full story / add a comment
SEAN CRONIN - former IRA Chief of Staff, Irish Times US Correspondent - ashes scattered Kerry, Sat 17 September 2011
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 15, 2011 - 18:27 by Richard Behal   text 3 comments (last - monday september 19, 2011 - 07:56)   image 1 image
Following his death in New York in march 2011, Sean Cronin's ashes are to be scattered in his native BALLINSKELLIGS on Saturday 17th September - following Mass at 11am in local DUNGEAGAN church.

Reception afterwards, 2pm in nearby WATERVILLE Lake Hotel

As well as serving in the southern Irish state Defence Forces, and as IRA Chief of Staff in the 1950s, Cronin was also Irish Times US Correspondent from the1960 until his retirement, initially under the great Irish Times (and its last Protestant) Editor, Douglas Gageby ... read full story / add a comment
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