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national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 26, 2005 - 17:26 by obit.
Gerry Fitt born 9th April 1926 died today 26th August 2005. A former leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party SDLP in Northern Ireland he defined himself as a socialist. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / racism & migration related issues Friday August 26, 2005 - 13:12 by Gary Smith
Below is a press release sent out yesterday following the picket. I'll try and put some photos up soon. Thanks to everybody who joined the picket. NO PLATFORM FOR FASCISTS!!!! ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday August 26, 2005 - 12:39 by A. Resident.
Barrett and the Comrades of the Anti-Bin charges campaign helped the people of Blackrock to load rubbish. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday August 26, 2005 - 01:43 by soundmigration
In the world we live in today, words like equality, freedom and democracy are used so frequently and in many differing and often contradicting ways, that the words themselves have been almost entirely stripped of meaning and resonance ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 25, 2005 - 22:49 by Errisvist
Today, for seven back-straining hours, Shell to Sea activists toughed it out with the inclement weather and pneumonia to bear witness to the Five, now in day 58 of their obscene incarceration, garnering rakes of petition signatures, dispensing leaflets and outrage to the good people who flocked to our info table to similiarly bear witness. The day was capped with an hour's picket/blockade of the Statoil Servive Station at the nether end of Bothar Mhor which drew the mild attention of two Gardai and an avalanche of supportive car honks and power salutes. We'll be out again tomorrow and Saturday and and and. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 25, 2005 - 21:23 by Colombia Solidarity Network
Various organisations in Colombia have demanded of the FARC that they explain themselves. Not for the first time they ahve murdered a left wing opponent ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday August 25, 2005 - 16:19 by the long game
Established in 1986, "Combat Poverty is the sole national statutory organisation in Ireland dedicated to advising on ways to prevent and eliminate poverty and social exclusion." They campaign for a fairer distribution of resources and offer a lot of information on poverty in the state. They have just issued a report on rural poverty. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday August 24, 2005 - 18:01 by stir it up.
Argentina found itself one the South American states whose government was criticised by the Vatican by the new Benedict XVI prelature earlier this year for supporting a condom campaign to fight aids. Some Catholics now believe the sex scandal which broke this week is politically motivated. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday August 23, 2005 - 23:57 by Irish Communist
Urgent Solidarity Request: Please read and pass on all text in support & in show of solidarity for communist political prisoners being brutalized in Spanish and French prisons. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Tuesday August 23, 2005 - 20:51 by :-)
Geoffrey Dawson Lane, Baron Lane AFC QC PC (July 17, 1918 – August 22, 2005) a former British Lord Chief Justice of England & Wales who presided over the Birmingham 6 appeal trial has died today at the age of 87. He will be remembered for many reasons. * he followed Lord Widgery. * he had "strong views" on murder, rape and sexual morality. * he played a part in both Birmingham 6 and Guildford 4 trials, which saw 10 people serve lengthy sentances for IRA attacks did they not commit. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday August 23, 2005 - 13:13 by Barry McNally
This article outlines a number of events which Ógra Shinn Féin were involved in recently in the North Antrim area ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday August 23, 2005 - 05:29 by Noise Hacker
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday August 23, 2005 - 03:38 by Elaine
Reconciliation ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 22, 2005 - 23:49 by Margaretta D'arcy
Thanks to A.R. for assistance with compression. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Monday August 22, 2005 - 18:38 by prometheus
All of County Louth measures 82,613 hectares. Fires have burnt at least 134,500 hectares (337,000 acres) of Portuguese forest from July to August, more than in all of 2004, according to forestry service estimates last week. 2,700 firefighters were battling 35 fires on Sunday afternoon. Neighbouring Galicia in Spain wants to be declared a disaster area as well, as of this morning 17 fires were still burning 6 of them considered critical. In august alone 17,000 hectares have been burnt. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday August 22, 2005 - 11:52 by Sean Smyth
We do not forget that many of our people were sacked with three minutes notice over a public address system and with twenty minutes notice by a megaphone; these are decent, hard-working, honourable people who have been treating appallingly ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 21, 2005 - 01:48 by Edward Horgan
Do you know that there are now thousands of US troops and hundreds of tons of munitions passing through Shannon airport every week? You should know. Shannon is now the primary US military transit airport in Europe for the War and occupation of Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday August 20, 2005 - 15:58 by iosaf
People are about to be killed in two provinces of Ecuador to protect the "rights" of an Oil corporation. Ecuador's government (not an exemplary one) has asked for Venezuala's assistance to continue its exports of crude Oil. Venezuala is "loaning" the oil, which is then being "put through the global books" as Ecuadorian, so that they continue to "meet their international obligations". They have been unable to "meet their international obligations" recently because the people of Sucumbios and Orellana provinces have been protesting because they believe their government are failing to "meet their national obligations". ... read full story / add a comment |
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