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galway / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday April 04, 2006 - 14:00 by Noel Browne Labour Youth branch   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 04, 2006 - 14:02)   image 1 image
Labour Councilor Billy Cameron submitted a motion to Galway City Council
calling for solidarity with Coca-Cola workers in Colombia. Last night (Monday April 3rd)
the motion was passed unanimously. The motion was drawn up in conjunction with the Noel Browne Labour Youth branch. This is another step forward for the boycott coke campaign.
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mayo / environment Tuesday April 04, 2006 - 09:58 by Michael and Bob   image 4 images
Monday morning saw a frustrating start to the business year for Shell as their subcontractors Roadbridge attempted to access the proposed gas refinery site at Bellanaboy in Erris, Co. Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Tuesday April 04, 2006 - 01:14 by Michael and Bob   text 8 comments (last - saturday april 15, 2006 - 16:05)   image 4 images
This morning saw a frustrating start to the business year for Shell as their subcontractors Roadbridge attempted to access the proposed gas refinery site at Bellanaboy in Erris, Co. Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
Ógra Shinn Féin activists proudly hold Hungerstrike placards
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 03, 2006 - 23:41 by Ógra B   text 14 comments (last - wednesday april 05, 2006 - 17:03)   image 2 images
On Wednesday 29th March Ógra held a demonstration on the Falls Road in Belfast to commemorate the 1981 Hungerstrikers. The event coincided with the departure of young people from all the nearby schools thus sparking interest in all those walking by who availed of the information leaflets handed out.

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national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 03, 2006 - 23:03 by FG   text 2 comments (last - thursday april 06, 2006 - 12:48)   image 1 image
The Labour Party Conference on Saturday, and Pat Rabbitte’s statements, confirmed the need for a new independent party of working people as advocated by the Campaign for an Independent Left
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leitrim / politics / elections Monday April 03, 2006 - 22:07 by Ray   text 17 comments (last - tuesday july 03, 2007 - 15:06)
The Labour Party has been accused by one of its own local councillors of having no regard for the members of the party in the North Leitrim. Sligo councillor, Declan Bree, has issued a scathing statement against his party leadership, following the surprise decision by its North Leitrim representative to resign. ... read full story / add a comment
you've run out crew , mr Chirac
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 03, 2006 - 15:25 by ipsiphi   text 21 comments (last - monday may 07, 2007 - 22:34)   image 6 images
As of 17 minutes the left in France has started her attack with an occupation of Trade Union offices.
This is no game, no mock theatre of young malcontents venting traditional fury. This is the real thing.

Tomorrow France mobilises to join the vanaguard, not only against the latest attempt to impose anglo-saxon capitalist labour market adjustments on their rights, but also to break the hegemony of the now failed Chirac regime.

57% of the French polled by Le Monde want the law scrapped.
71% of the French polled by Le Monde believe Chirac has further radicalised discontent by his televised appearances in support of his dauphin Dominque de Villepin. We have all come very far in our local and trans-national struggles, and now it is time to reflect on one thing we have learnt :-
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national / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 03, 2006 - 14:29 by Labour   text 4 comments (last - tuesday april 04, 2006 - 11:28)
A leading member of the British Labour Party and supporter of the war in Iraq addressed the Irish Labour Party conference on Saturday. That is despite the opposition of some members of the Irish organisation.

Peter Watt, General Secretary, the Labour Party spoke on Saturday night at the conference in DCU during the warm up to Pat Rabbitte's speech. How does this tie in with Labour's contribution to the anti war movement in Ireland? see http://www.labour.ie/youth/news/index/20060321162846.html

see Daily Ireland link http://dailyireland.televisual.co.uk/home.tvt?_ticket=4...opp=1
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 03, 2006 - 12:51 by Miriam Cotton   text 2 comments (last - monday april 03, 2006 - 18:26)
On Saturday, the Disability Election Pledge Alliance secured a significant boost to its campaign against the Disability Act 2005 at the AGM of Inclusion Ireland (formerly the National Association for the Mentally Handicapped in Ireland/NAMHI). The resolution was proposed by the Limerick Association of Parents & Friends and seconded by the Asperger Syndrome Association of West Cork. A number of speakers addressed the conference in support of the motion which was resoundingly passed by the hundreds of delegates present.
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dublin / politics / elections Monday April 03, 2006 - 11:28 by Rocky Byrne   text 7 comments (last - tuesday april 04, 2006 - 11:41)
Rabbitte signal his intent to take on the unions

"Labour supports social partnership. Change in the workplace and the modernisation of our public services should be negotiated, but no interest group has the right to veto changes which are necessary for the public good. When 130,000 young people can’t get a driving test, Labour will not shrug its shoulders and walk away. The rights of those young people and the imperative of road safety overrides any other consideration"
Pat Rabbite ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday April 02, 2006 - 23:40 by Marcia Hassis
A first person account by a young Iraqi man of how he was tortured in the Ministry Of The Interior after being jailed for crimes he didn't commit. ... read full story / add a comment
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derry / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 01, 2006 - 14:22 by buenaventura durruti   text 12 comments (last - monday april 10, 2006 - 15:08)   image 7 images
Pictures of action in solidarity with day of events throughout Catalunya ... read full story / add a comment
Cosantóirí Síochána, Aron Baker, Niall Harnett & Conor Cregan defending the peace …
clare / anti-war / imperialism Thursday March 30, 2006 - 20:53 by Niall Harnett   text 21 comments (last - wednesday april 05, 2006 - 00:44)   image 32 images
This ‘better late than never’ photo report comes after the recent instructions from the DPP (Director of Public Prosecutions) to Shannon Gardaí directing the withdrawal of all charges against Conor Cregan, Niall Harnett, Mags Liddy and St John Ó’Donnabháin. See http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74769 . Ok, so this report is 6 months late, but it was felt at the time, wisely or unwisely, that early statements or photos of the episode might have jeopardised our cases.

This is just a brief summary of events, for more detailed versions see ‘comments’ for individual accounts of what happened. Some information and photos here taken from Airport CCTV footage and Airport Police and Garda statements requested by defendants under ‘Gary Doyle’ order of disclosure of evidence.

Special thanks to Owen Rice for his legal advice and support.

Cosantóirí Síochána, Peace Network meeting this Sat 1st April, 2pm, the Teachers Club, Parnell Sq, Dublin. Phone 086 3454322. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday March 30, 2006 - 05:26 by Ploughshares   text 10 comments (last - friday april 07, 2006 - 01:24)
Phil Pritchard & Toby Olditch had their appeal turned down in the House of Lords. Appeal matters arose out of their initial pre-trial hearing. Phil & Toby, who attended the trial of the Pit Stop Ploughshares last March in Dublin, acted to stop U.S. B-52 bombardment of Iraq from RAF Fairford. B52's dropped napalm, cluster bombs & fuel air explosives over Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Wednesday March 29, 2006 - 15:30 by Kathy Sinnott   text 31 comments (last - monday april 10, 2006 - 01:45)   image 3 images
“Every minute from now on is never your own, girl” . With these words the midwife plonked my friend’s new born son on her stomach. My friend was 18. She had arrived at the delivery room alone, laboured for hours and she was exhausted. Though she was an independent type or at least tried to be, it was all too much for her. She had wanted the nurse to say “Congratulations you have a beautiful son, you did a great job”. Instead, all romance dispelled, she lifted her head, stared down her nose, past her chin at the splotchy purple being , sighed deeply and kind of squared her shoulders to the future.
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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday March 29, 2006 - 13:26 by non-payer   text 8 comments (last - monday april 03, 2006 - 19:30)
1pm Saturday 1st April outside Belfast City Hall ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 29, 2006 - 13:16 by Garrett Mullan   text 5 comments (last - sunday april 02, 2006 - 18:58)
This week the NCCRI (National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism) launched a handbook on Seeking Advice and Redress Against Racism in Ireland. However there are wild discrepancies in recording of racism in Ireland as compared to Britain. Show Racism the Red Card has a report form on its website and is hoping to gather research to illustrate the true extent of racism in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 29, 2006 - 12:43 by Garrett Mullan
As the Setanta Cup completes the group stages, some managers speak their mind about this cross border competition.

Northern Ireland manager Lawrie Sanchez said: "Football has the power to build bridges, promote respect and bring communities together. We believe supporters are the lifeblood of the game and that sectarianism and racism should have no place in football or society. The Setanta cup is going some way to building bridges" ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 29, 2006 - 00:48 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
The Liberal-Conservative Danish government refuses to give the Socialist People’s Party access to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ registers of correspondence concerning the controversial cartoons of the Prophet, which provoked demonstrations and attacks on Danish embassies in the Middle East in January.

The chairman of the Socialist People’s Party, Villy Søvndal, accuses the government of "deliberately trying to keep secret things they don’t want people to know about” - particularly further documentation for the fact that Muslim organisations and ambassadors warned the government in advance that things could turn nasty if it did not engage in diplomatic initiatives to distance itself from the cartoons.

The government will now have to explain its stance in the Foreign Policy Committee.

Please read my translation of a recent article from the website of the Danish daily paper, Politiken. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / public consultation / irish social forum Tuesday March 28, 2006 - 23:42 by Barry Finnegan   image 2 images
It is being organised by the people who did the work to put on the 1st and 2nd Irish Social Forums in 2003 and 2004 and it’s called the Dublin Social Forum (DSF). If you’re into saving the environment, establishing gender equality, getting the debt dropped, facing down racism, dismantling/smashing capitalism, rebuilding our communities, ending war ... then I think you should come. In other words for those who oppose the violent racist sexist war-waging community-destroying public-service-selling ecocide of a neoliberalist capitalist system and its processes of globalisation, there must be some way that we can meet each other publicly, and this forum is one way to meet.

[Scroll to the end for this months DSF title, venue, details, egroup, etc.]

WHY SHOULD ONE GO?

I firmly believe that politically and environmentally there is too much at stake for us not to engage each other, I firmly believe that one way to do this is through active participation in an open political forum and that in this forum we can create an atmosphere where we can learn what opposing neoliberalism means to others like us but not necessarily the same as us, in this forum we can learn from each other so as to better understand the world around us, and to build trust and action to co-ordinate and strengthen our various struggles for the betterment of all.

Part of the demand for such a monthly antineoliberalist forum springs from the observation that sectors of the antineoliberalist movements, be they trade union, development, hard-left, environmentalist, libertarian, gender, human rights, community, etc, tend to meet just themselves at their own meetings, protests and conferences, and that one of the things we need collectively, is a challenging open space, a forum to learn from each other, to try to convince each other to support each others perspectives and campaigns, to build alliances for specific campaigns and issues, and to perhaps learn to work together better for the collective benefit of all our struggles ... or indeed to clarify the issues on which we disagree. ... read full story / add a comment
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