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national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 10, 2006 - 20:54 by D_D   text 3 comments (last - tuesday april 11, 2006 - 21:38)
Congress highlights ‘falling wages in a booming economy’ (ICTU press release)
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 10, 2006 - 20:09 by Cia Out Of Ireland   text 11 comments (last - thursday april 13, 2006 - 11:57)   image 7 images
There are 3 main ways to get to Baldonnel Warport on the day, chose one, have fun, stay safe! ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 10, 2006 - 19:35 by Jepu   text 1 comment (last - sunday april 16, 2006 - 19:47)   image 4 images
April 7th, 6,000 riot police and 700 hired thugs attacked the
Autonomous Peace Village of Daechuri. They succeeded in destroying the irrigation system, making farming a near impossibility. 40 protesters were arrested, 30 were injured, 5 of those seriously. ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism Monday April 10, 2006 - 18:41 by stencilist   text 5 comments (last - tuesday april 11, 2006 - 00:33)   image 5 images
The Dublin City Council are enforcing an illegal poster ban which silences all small non-profit, non-corporate groups - political or otherwise. ... read full story / add a comment
Gerry Adams, Cllr Felix Gallagher & Cllr Dessie Ellis
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 10, 2006 - 15:14 by Frank   text 6 comments (last - wednesday april 12, 2006 - 15:15)   image 2 images
Sinn Fein staged a protest on Saturday 8 April at the Airport Roundabout against the Privatisation of Aer Lingus. The protest was attended by Gerry Adams MP, Bairbre De Brun MEP as well as Cllr Dessie Ellis and Cllr Felix Gallagher. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Monday April 10, 2006 - 13:27 by Kevin Wingfield   text 5 comments (last - tuesday april 11, 2006 - 13:26)
The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has claimed that ‘the proclamation of the Republic on Easter Monday was a cry of radical idealism that shook the world in 1916 and still challenges us today’.
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national / animal rights Monday April 10, 2006 - 00:44 by Stephan Wymore   image 3 images
Dear ARAN Friend!

Good news from Scotland. Just recently the Minister for Environment and Rural Development, Ross Finnie, confirmed his intention to introduce a ban on the use of wild animals in traveling circuses in secondary legislation following the implementation of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Bill. This follows a successful campaign by the Born Free Foundation, Advocates for Animals and other animal welfare organizations to ensure that the complex needs of wild animals are not overlooked in national legislation. This is extremely encouraging news as days before that announcement we heard about similar plans from the UK government to ban ‘wild’ or ‘certain’ animals in circuses in the UK.

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Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, 5th president of Ireland who said "thundering bollocks and fucking disgrace'
international / history and heritage Sunday April 09, 2006 - 17:21 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 18 comments (last - sunday april 16, 2006 - 15:14)   image 12 images
It has been long observed that people for some reason on their non-banking days readily absorb shite about Dangerous Places, Famous People, Sensible Saving Options, Holidays, Interesting facts, Sport results, Media, gardening and health as well looking ahead at “democratic evolution” and looking back at "how history was made".

This week's edition is very short. In fact I almost didn't write one, and like the "house arrest" edition that never transpired, the Judas edition almost escaped the open publishing network.

But you're not getting off that easily.
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The noted street busker Kieran Davies & acolytes in Williamsgate Street.
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 08, 2006 - 22:43 by Tommy Donnellan   text 2 comments (last - sunday april 09, 2006 - 14:49)   image 8 images
Today, in strength, Galway's Amnesty International activists took to William Street to protest over the obscenity that every year throughout the world, more than half a million people are killed
by armed violence – that’s one person every minute and to let the Irish government and UN know that there is a solution; a legally binding, rigorously enforced, international Arms Trade Treaty that will seriously kybosh the flow of arms to countries that use them to ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Saturday April 08, 2006 - 22:39 by Damien Moran   text 1 comment (last - sunday april 09, 2006 - 23:21)
national / environment Saturday April 08, 2006 - 22:24 by Revolt Video   text 1 comment (last - monday april 10, 2006 - 14:07)
Some videos from yesterdays events at the Four Courts and the subsequent action at Statoil's offices at the IFSC.

Video from Four Courts: ' 5 Go Free at the Four Courts' http://obin.org/video/wawa/07-04-06-rosport5.mpg (11 mins)

Video Trailer From Statoil Action: 'Dangerous Pipe' http://obin.org/video/wawa/07-04-06-statoilpipe.mpg (2 mins)

Flmed and produced by Revolt Video Collective, a video activist collective.
Our goals include...
Physical and Virtual Distribution of Irish Activist Video.
Workshops and Skill Sharing.
Ambitious video projects chosen via consenus and tackled collectively.

To get involved please send an email to: revoltvideo@hushmail.com

Related links:
Rossport Solidarity Camp: http://www.struggle.ws/rsc/
http://www.shelltosea.com

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national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 08, 2006 - 21:01 by Gaz B -(A)-   text 10 comments (last - monday april 10, 2006 - 15:37)
A press release issued by UCD Alliance for Choice on Friday hasbeen repeatedly deleted by UCDSUs editorial group. Like indymedia, UCDSUs news wire uses the oscailt program. Unlike Indymedia however despite stating that :

"A record of all editorial actions, which editor performed the action and the reason for it are sent the editorial email list which anybody can join. So if you want to keep an eye on the evil censorships of the UCD SU-cabal, you know what to do. Subscribing to this list means you will see all articles and comments which have been hidden and the reason why they were hidden. After subscribing, you can then go through the archives of the list to see all past editorial actions"

UCDSU operates no such system. There is no open, transparent accountable editorial list. The previous UCDSU administration has used an editorial e-mail list. The current SU president is a member of Ogra Fianna Fail. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday April 08, 2006 - 04:51 by Ploughshares   text 8 comments (last - wednesday april 26, 2006 - 07:44)
Frank Cordaro addressed an anti-war meeting last Summer in Dublin. Frank is presently serving a 6 month sentence for trespass at Offcut Air Force Base, Omaha Nebraska, USA. Offcut is the HQ of the U.S. Air Force Base. Although a Federal prisoner of the U.S. federaL Government, he is thus far doing his time in county jails given the crowded nature of U.S. Prisons (2 1/2 MILLION INSIDE AT LAST COUNT). ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 07, 2006 - 20:20 by Shell to Sea   text 3 comments (last - sunday april 09, 2006 - 14:49)   image 5 images
A large group of Shell to Sea activists attempted to return a section of the Corrib Gas pipeline to the Statoil Office at the IFSC today, as part of a campaign to draw public attention to Statoil's role in supporting Shell in their continuing attempts to install a dangerous experimental raw-gas pipeline in North Mayo.

The Gardaí, supported by a large number of private secirity guards, prevented the pipeline being brought into the office, and many office workers from the surrounding businesses came out to watch the stand off.

Normally activists are not able to even leaflet in the IFSC, since it is private property, but today leaflets were handed out, stickers were put up, and the security guards were powerless to interfere with the protest. For a lot of the workers in the financial services district, the protest provided a colourful distraction from the demands of their office jobs.

No one from Statoil was prepared to meet with the protesters or take delivery of the pipeline however, although one Statoil Executive did come to the phone, to say that the building security guards would not let any of the protesters enter, and he wasn't interested in leaving the building, since didn't feel there was anything to be gained by speaking to people in group situations, because he'd had bad experiences before.

He went on to say that the Irish people should be satisfied with the deal that their government had got for them, where they receive 25% tax, although he conceded that since the billions of euros spent in exploration can be written off, it will be many years before a cent of tax is paid, if ever.

Shell to Sea plan further protests on Norwegian Constitution Day, May 17th.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 07, 2006 - 19:06 by Shell to Sea   text 23 comments (last - friday april 14, 2006 - 14:20)   image 30 images
Micheál Ó Seighin, Willie Corduff, Brendan Philbin, and Philip and Vincent McGrath were brought before the courts again today to receive the final judgement from Justice Joseph Finnegan, the President of the High Court.

The five were imprisoned last year for three months, for refusing to obey his order to cease protesting against the scheme by Shell and Statoil to install a dangerous, experimental, raw-gas pipeline through their village.

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dublin / miscellaneous Friday April 07, 2006 - 17:33 by Garry Toner   text 16 comments (last - sunday september 23, 2007 - 20:27)
Garry Toner, an Equality Studies student here in UCD is trying to organise an awareness campaign at a national level in relation to the rights of people with disabilities after an incident that occurred last weekend.
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Lots of interest in the boycott coke campaign
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Friday April 07, 2006 - 14:22 by Boycott Killer Coke   image 4 images
A very successful protest took place outside the Leinster Regional Final of Blast Beat which took place in the Issacc Butt last Saturday. Hundreds of school students took part in the event which was sponsored by Coca Cola. However the boycott killer coke campaign ensured that this sponsorship by Coke backfired with the company getting negative publicity about their appalling human rights abuses in Colombia where several coke workers have been assasinated because they were union members and activists. ... read full story / add a comment
Rev. Dr. Ian Paisley of the popular doomsday cult given short notice on his pension.
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday April 06, 2006 - 21:38 by iosaf   text 5 comments (last - thursday april 05, 2007 - 20:36)   image 2 images
Oh well we should have seen it coming. It seems that if the there isn't a "return to institutions" in the north by the 24th of November 2006, ( those institutions agreed under the "peace process" of 1998 blaa blaa) [and not to be confused with the institutions which met in the same building {Stormont} from 1921 - 1972 ]
the people who don't do anything there, other than steal each other's shredded office waste, will GO WITHOUT THEIR PAY!
not a penny of a pound nor centimo of a Euro, nor a shilling more will be paid them.
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dublin / environment Thursday April 06, 2006 - 20:33 by watcher   text 2 comments (last - friday april 07, 2006 - 11:10)
Humanity is entering a change of historic magnitude without precedence as oil begins to run out, peak oil expert Colin Campbell told a full round room in Dublin’s Mansion House last night. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday April 06, 2006 - 13:46 by Fintan Lane   text 18 comments (last - sunday april 09, 2006 - 13:14)   image 1 image
I attended the Cosantoiri. Siochana-organised meeting last Saturday. It ran from about 2pm to 5.30pm and, while initially intended, I believe, to widen involvement in CS, it was transformed for various reasons into a 'coordinating meeting' for diverse anti-war activists and groups. This transformation occurred largely as a consequence of discussion on a thread on indymedia.ie following the recent Dublin anti-war march.

So, my observations…
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