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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

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offsite link Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'

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offsite link British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.

Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.

Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,

offsite link It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.

offsite link [Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
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The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.

The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.

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offsite link The Online Safety Act is a Censor?s Charter Wed Jul 30, 2025 13:00 | Andrew Doyle
We were assured by Conservative and Labour politicians that the Online Safety Act was designed to protect children. In the last few days, its real, more sinister purpose has become, writes Andrew Doyle.
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offsite link Political Censors Have Cynically Hijacked Vital Child Protections Wed Jul 30, 2025 11:00 | Toby Young
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Give Us Some Space: New Initiative to Create Dublin Social Centre

category dublin | miscellaneous | feature author Wednesday December 01, 2004 17:57author by Seomra Spraoi - Seomra Spraoi Report this post to the editors

World premiere of films about social centres

This Friday sees the premiere in Dublin of Six Films About Social Centres – a series of short documentaries about autonomous social centres from Belfast to Barcelona. Ideally, this screening should take place in an autonomous social centre, but Dublin has none. (A parish hall is being borrowed for the evening).

So, in a year or two will someone be able to come to Dublin and make a documentary about an autonomous social centre here? Or will fundraiser gigs, political meetings and workshops always have to take place in Teachers Clubs or the upstairs rooms of pubs? Will Food Not Bombs always be at the mercy of the weather? Will there be somewhere indoors to go after street parties?

The Indymedia centre that operated for a couple of weeks around Mayday this year gave many people a glimpse of the great use to which a disused building can be put. It reminded just how badly Dublin lacks an autonomous space.

The Six Films made by Direct Action Against Apathy, a Belfast-based collective will be screened at 8pm on Friday at the St Nicholas of Myra Parish Hall (Carman's Hall, a street running between Francis St and Thomas St Map), followed by a brief discussion, music, a raffle and a photo exhibition about social centres.

Directactionagainstapathy...numerous reports and photos of spaces.
Giros/Warzone Collective Belfast
The Story of Disco Disco.
One of numerous stories about the Magpie Squat.


The films explore and celebrate the phenomenon of autonomous social centres in Europe, independent of local authority, church, business, trade union or other controlling body. These spaces have provided a focal point for many of the social movements in the West, where public spaces have been eaten away by consumerism, property speculation and the culture of the car.

They celebrate collective cooperation and diversity and have numerous day-to-day uses: community drop-in centre, inexpensive cafe, political meeting space, library, gig venue, arts centre, internet cafe, to name a few.

Usually these social centres begin as squats in derelict buildings and eventually an understanding is reached with the local authorities. Of course, Ireland is unique in Europe in that the authorities are utterly intolerant of squatting. Today in Ireland there is virtually nowhere indoor for people to congregate that isn't a pub or overpriced cafe.

Many questions have to be answered on the long road to establishing a social centre in Dublin, for example should it – as a matter of principle – be a squat rather than a rental, with any eviction attempt fought against in the courts, thereby making more of a public issue of it? This is an issue treated in the films.

But at least a start is being made: Friday's event is an attempt to bring together people who are interested in such a project and hopefully to inspire people through the examples in the documentaries.

The Six Films
by Direct action against apathy and Belfast media collective.

Our Kitchen Squat Café
Belfast’s first squat café November 2003, music, vegetables, & talk about anarchy in a very cold dark & secret place…
8 mins 2004

Aspire
Temporary squatted social centre in Leeds England December 2003. 10 days & 10 nights. Hundreds of people transform abandoned warehouse into kick-ass space for workshops, discussion, parties, and cafes; chop vegetables & huddle together to keep warm.
12 mins 2004

Canmasdeu
‘Rurban’ squatted social centre on the outskirts of Barcelona, bringing ideas, skills & technology from the countryside into the city. Sunshine, community gardening, fancy d.i.y. plumbing, & experiments in communal living. Canmasdeu is the squat your grandmother would love.
28 mins 2004

Three Social Centres in Amsterdam
Does exactly what it says on the tin. A tour of three legalised squats in Amsterdam; the Molli, the Film Academy, & the Binnenpret. Squat actions, children’s theatre & electro-acoustic concerts with musings on the merits & pit-falls of ‘dealing with the man’.
34 mins 2004

A Winter Walk Through Christiania
A quiet stroll through the infamous squatted town in Copenhagen; frozen lakes, wooden cottages & winding paths in the brilliant winter sun followed by a raid from the Danish police.
6 mins 2004

Sumac Centre
Vegan fries, vegan beer, vegans, & home to veggies the probably the best vegan catering outfit on the planet. The Sumac is a co-operatively owned ‘Radical environmental community type social centre’ in Nottingham. Some vegetables were cooked in the making of this film.
18 mins 2004

Binnenpret Amsterdam
Binnenpret Amsterdam

Canmasdeu Barcelona
Canmasdeu Barcelona

Our Kitchen Belfast
Our Kitchen Belfast

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   More Details on Social Centre Films     darren    Wed Dec 01, 2004 04:15 
   "Social Centre" in Dublin for 7 months     Brian Cynic    Wed Dec 01, 2004 11:52 
   not really     conor (wsm personal capacity)    Wed Dec 01, 2004 12:31 
   Invite to Brian Cynic         Wed Dec 01, 2004 13:06 
   as a matter of fact,     Acid    Wed Dec 01, 2004 20:04 
   Italian Social Centres     hs    Wed Dec 01, 2004 23:19 
   I walked into the bar of one of the Social Centres in Bologna one evening thinking     pot    Wed Dec 01, 2004 23:37 
   not yet.     bling blang blong. thoughts rattling inside my head.    Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:25 
   Squats     Aline    Thu Dec 02, 2004 13:43 
 10   Why re-invent the wheel?     Michael    Thu Dec 02, 2004 17:53 
 11   well the sustainable people are nice and everything but     pc    Thu Dec 02, 2004 18:05 
 12   re-invention     L    Thu Dec 02, 2004 18:08 
 13   re: reinvention     padraic    Thu Dec 02, 2004 18:41 
 14   not just lefties     hs    Thu Dec 02, 2004 21:24 
 15   ever since i started scoring my viagra and "e"s off migrant teenagers     grand-da    Fri Dec 03, 2004 01:29 
 16   great gathering (storm cloud refrain)     Corran    Sat Dec 04, 2004 02:56 
 17   further meeting on Thursday     pc    Sat Dec 04, 2004 16:07 
 18   social spaces, guerilla gardening, funny buildings     dunk    Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:43 
 19   good idea!     conor (wsm personal capacity)    Mon Dec 06, 2004 15:34 
 20   gig on the 21st     dmc    Mon Dec 06, 2004 17:29 
 21   meeting report     dunk    Fri Dec 10, 2004 14:42 
 22   UK Indy Feature: Autonomous Spaces in 2004 (in UK and elsewhere)     redjade    Thu Dec 16, 2004 17:56 
 23   CrimethInc. Book 'Recipes for Disaster'     crimethinc    Fri Dec 17, 2004 15:19 
 24   a good night had by all     dunk    Thu Jan 06, 2005 18:05 
 25   Ah the memories     Starstruck    Thu Nov 29, 2007 20:58 
 26   6 years an counting     Soundmigration    Fri Dec 03, 2010 17:09 
 27   10 years ago today!     BArry    Wed Dec 03, 2014 16:05 


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