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national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday January 15, 2011 - 19:11 by Ardoyne Resident
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Since the creation of the Orange State in 1922, the Nationalist and Republican community in the Six Counties has suffered from political and secterian policing. The onset of the peace process promised an end to Unionist control over the RUC and an equal society for all? Elected representatives also promised that a new name and uniform would herald a more civil Police service. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday January 14, 2011 - 12:58 by AIMS IRELAND
Please join AIMS Ireland, The Home Birth Association of Ireland, The Community Midwives Association, Trinity Birth Group, INMO Midwives Section, National Birth Alliance, Clare Birth Choice, The Doula Association of Ireland, and some near 4000 signatories to a petition in challenging the proposed Nurses and Midwives Bill which is set to go before the Dáil on Tuesday January 18th. The above organisations have put forward amendments to sections 24 and 40 in order to make the Bill more inclusive of the professional autonomy of midwives and the right of women to make informed decisions in their maternity care. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Friday January 14, 2011 - 00:57 by RNU PRO
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Republican Network for Unity (RNU) Chairperson/Cathaoirleach, DANNY MCBREARTY has slammed the disturbing increase in RUC/PSNI harassment across the Six Counties as, ‘state terrorism’. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 13, 2011 - 14:03 by Kev
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Irish singer-songwriter Dylan Walshe became the landmark 200th signatory to the “Irish Artists’ Pledge to Boycott Israel”, which commits endorsers to not “avail of any invitation to perform or exhibit in Israel, nor to accept any funding from any institution linked to the government of Israel, until such time as Israel complies with international law and universal principles of human rights”. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Monday January 10, 2011 - 22:53 by RNU PRO
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REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY (RNU) Spokesperson, MARTIN ÓG MEEHAN has denounced a joint RUC/PSNI and British Army raid today in West Belfast as sinister. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Saturday January 08, 2011 - 14:35 by Fred Johnston
A Dublin-based poet and writer has purchased and donated a painting by a major Irish artist to the Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scribhneoirí Chaitlín Maude - to support the end-of-March Forge at Gort literary festival. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday January 05, 2011 - 10:27 by Malachy Steenson
The year 2010 will forever be remembered in the Republic Ireland as the year in which our national sovereignty was ceded to the European Union / IMF and the rights of the Irish people were set aside in the interests of international capitalism and the financial, business and banking elites who have used the economic crisis to tighten their hegemonic control over the world ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday January 03, 2011 - 21:18 by pseudonym
Legislative Analyst and Writer Arthur Stopes, III, of Berkeley, California state, has analysed the legalities of the threat to extradite Julian Assange to the United States, particularly with respect to the limits of federal law, and has reached the following conclusion: "Extradition, in view of the LIMITED jurisdiction of the over-vaunted "Espionage Act", is unwarranted in the extreme." Stopes' letter to Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and WikiLeaks whistleblower Julian Assange reads as follows: ... read full story / add a comment
20th. Anniversary "Message of Love & Solidarity from ANZUS Plowshares"/ B52 Disarmament Griffiss AFB
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 01, 2011 - 16:38 by ANZUS Plowshares
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1) ANZUS PLOWSHARES introduction, action/description 2) ANZUS PLOWSHARES/B52 Disarmament, Statement of Faith 3) Sue & Bill Frankel- Streit Reflections New Year’s Day 2011 4) Ciaron O’Reilly and Moana Cole Reflections New Year’s Day 2011 5) ANZUS Plowshare community member’s links 6) Youtube (15 mins) honouring the Plowshares communities of the last 30 years ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday December 31, 2010 - 19:04 by RNU PRO
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The REPUBLICAN NETWORK FOR UNITY (RNU) Chairperson/Cathaoirleach, DANNY MCBREARTY sends New Year greetings to Irish Political prisoners and their families. Mr. McBrearty expressed; “Solidarity with all Republican Parties and groups who share our common commitment to a re-united Ireland and our common analysis that the Stormont administration is not a transition to our objective but a British imperialist trap to prevent us from achieving it. ... read full story / add a comment
30 Dec 2010 ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 25, 2010 - 01:59 by CRH: Stop Cementing Misery
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The 12 Days of CRHistmas is a series of Monty Python-inspired videos created by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign for its Stop Cementing Misery campaign - http://www.ipsc.ie/crhdivest. The videos are designed to create public awareness in Ireland of CRH’s involvement in building the illegal apartheid wall in Palestine. CRH owns a 25% share in Israeli cement company Mashav, which is building both the wall and illegal settlements. Mashav in turn owns Nesher Cement Enterprises Ltd., which is Israel’s sole supplier of cement. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday December 20, 2010 - 22:56 by AxetoRoot
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The latest IMF report, published last Friday, two days after the gombeens in Leinster House voted to accept the deal, reveals plans to reintroduce third level fees, abolish the current grant scheme for low income students and replace it with a loan scheme to pay for fees and confirms that child benefit will be means tested. None of these specific proposals were contained within the so called Memorandum of Understanding between the IMF and the Dublin government. éirígí has issued a press release copied below - here is a link to the IMF report - details of these latest measures are on page 24 of the report. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2010/cr10366.pdf ... read full story / add a comment
Emergency Motion passed last Monday at South Dublin County Council meeting in support of students of Colaiste Brid and Moyle Park. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday December 20, 2010 - 20:06 by Cllr Gino Kenny
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Gino Kenny, the People Before Profit Councillor for Clondalkin, has challenged Mary Harney’s pattern of appointments to state boards, claiming that she displays a deliberate class bias against working people. ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Monday December 20, 2010 - 10:12 by ARZone - Animal Rights Zone
The international abolitionist animal rights social network is one year old on 21st December 2010 - and now has 1500 active members. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 18, 2010 - 00:06 by RNU PRO
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REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY (RNU) Spokesperson, MARTIN ÓG MEEHAN responded to this week’s Stormont draft budget proposals as; “Draconian cuts dictated by David Cameron’s Tory-led British government”. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday December 16, 2010 - 19:26 by RNU PRO
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REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY Chairperson/Cathaoirleach, DANNY MCBREARTY expresses solidarity with Irish Political Prisoners and their families in the run-up to Christmas. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday December 16, 2010 - 16:32 by Carlos
Finally there is a Juche Study Group in Ireland. If it sounds interesting for you, keep reading. ... read full story / add a comment 
tyrone / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday December 15, 2010 - 14:41 by PRO
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SIPTU supported the Strabane Trades Council in a rally against cuts to the public and community sector. The rally was held at 2pm on Saturday 11th December in the town’s Castle Street, catching the attention of hundreds of busy Christmas shoppers. Ryan McNulty of the local Trades Council chaired the proceeding, with the main speakers on the day being Michael Craig of the Unemployed Union, Brian Campfield of the Derry Trades Council and Kenny McAdams of NIPSA. ... read full story / add a comment |
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