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international / crime and justice Friday February 23, 2007 - 15:25 by love croker   text 3 comments (last - monday february 26, 2007 - 03:03)   image 2 images
Jesús Mari Zabala Mugira is reported as having begun a hunger strike on the 16th of February. His protest which seems without indications to the contrary to be his own decision has been reported quite speedily by the Basque "political prisoner support network" who yesterday sent out the word to various media organisations only 7 days after he began what is still technically an extended fast. Zabala is about to finish serving a sentence in Saint Martin de Re prison in France (on the 8th of March) whereupon he will most likely be extradited to Spain to face other charges. His hunger strike is aimed at evading that transfer. He was detained in the French Basque in 2000 as part of an operation against the logistic structure of the terrorist organisation. ... read full story / add a comment
Ray Rogers
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 23, 2007 - 13:16 by Boycott Killer Coke   text 2 comments (last - friday march 02, 2007 - 21:28)   image 1 image
As the third referendum in Trinity college on the sale of Coca Cola products reaches its climax - union activists Ray Rodgers is coming to Dublin and will speak in the Davis Theatre in TCD Arts Block on Monday at 7pm.

Students in Trinity have already voted twice in support of Colombian Coca Cola workers who have faced torture, intimidation, threats, kindnappings and murder for been members of a trade union. The campaign to support human rights and the Colombia workers is receiving an excellent response in Trinity and the visit of Ray Rogers is set to bolster the campaign. ... read full story / add a comment
Roestown aerial - ready for destruction
national / environment Friday February 23, 2007 - 09:22 by M. Ni Bhrolchain   text 38 comments (last - monday april 09, 2007 - 09:28)   image 79 images
A series of photographs of the activity in the Gabhra Valley over the last 6 weeks. The wonderful sites that are being exposed and explored are being prepared for the destruction. Bodies and artefacts are removed from huge sites that are so large that they now back one on the other.
Protests take place each Friday at 3pm on the N3 just after the entrance to Tara on the way to Navan in the Gabhra Valley where it meets the Hill of Tara.
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Weird object in the woods. What the fk is it?
mayo / environment Thursday February 22, 2007 - 22:36 by John   text 5 comments (last - friday february 23, 2007 - 21:01)   image 4 images
Just a few photos taken inside the refinery site that may be of interest. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday February 22, 2007 - 13:47 by zaza   text 5 comments (last - friday february 23, 2007 - 19:17)   image 6 images
More than 100 000 Protestors demonstrate against the expansion of a U.S. military base in Vicenza, northern Italy, February 17,2007. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Wednesday February 21, 2007 - 22:36 by cork amy S2S   text 3 comments (last - saturday february 24, 2007 - 15:58)
today was last for objections to shell ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 21, 2007 - 12:07 by Solidarity   text 4 comments (last - saturday february 24, 2007 - 13:02)
In December 2005, Catholic Workers and friends carried out a nonviolent citizen's inspection of the secretive U.S. N.S.A/C.I.A. warfighting Pine Gap Base www.pinegap6.org The base is located in the isolated centre of the Australian continent, near Alice Springs. The Australian Defence Minister decided to charge four of the activists with the draconian (never used before) Defence Special Undertakings Act, carrying a maximum seven year sentence. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Tuesday February 20, 2007 - 23:56 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain   text 3 comments (last - friday february 23, 2007 - 12:11)   image 2 images
PRESS RELEASE – TARA DAY AT MAYNOOTH COLLEGE
(Sent on behalf of and at the request of the organisers)
The Young Green Party are hosting a "Tara Day" at NUI Maynooth on
Wednesday 28th. February. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Tuesday February 20, 2007 - 14:18 by Labour Youth   text 12 comments (last - thursday february 22, 2007 - 19:43)   image 4 images
Footage from the mass tresspass into the Shell compound ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / history and heritage Tuesday February 20, 2007 - 11:34 by william   text 37 comments (last - tuesday february 27, 2007 - 10:08)   image 1 image

Northern Ireland Minister Peter Hain has announced details of a joint ceremony before Ireland's crunch game against England in Croke Park on the 24th February.

The significance of the game is not lost on GAA followers and republicans who remember the infamous shooting of 14 players and supporters by the British Army on the 21st November 1921.
However according to GAA spokesman Ulick Magee a plan being devised by the GAA and the Northern Ireland office, will attempt to draw a line under the incident.

"We've spoken to the British government and they understand the significance of the event back in 1921. Back then 14 people were killed by British forces so in the spirit of the peace process and friendship we're proposing that we shoot 14 of their lot before the match. Then maybe have fireworks afterwards or something." Said Mr Magee.
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rust!
mayo / environment Monday February 19, 2007 - 15:36 by Innealtóir   text 27 comments (last - sunday october 16, 2011 - 10:39)   image 22 images
This is how the pipeline has coped with a few months of Mayo rain ... read full story / add a comment
8.45am outside the refinery gates
mayo / environment Monday February 19, 2007 - 14:31 by William Hederman   text 5 comments (last - monday february 19, 2007 - 15:38)   image 15 images
Photographs from Friday 16th February 2007 at the site of the proposed Shell gas refinery at Bellanaboy, Co Mayo. ... read full story / add a comment
GPO Protest
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 19, 2007 - 01:46 by KJ   text 19 comments (last - thursday march 01, 2007 - 23:31)   image 14 images
On Saturday the 17th February, members of the Irish Basque Committees organised two events in Dublin highlighting the plight of Basque hunger striker Iñaki De Juana Chaos. Iñaki should have been freed on October 25, 2004 but was instead sentenced to an extra 12 years and 7 months in prison for writing two newspaper articles. He has now suffered 103 consecutive days without accepting food. Although his sentence has since been reduced, he is determined to maintain his fast until he receives justice and is freed.
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 17, 2007 - 18:48 by Tom O' Hawk   text 11 comments (last - thursday february 22, 2007 - 13:04)   image 12 images
And the spirit that animates us was evidenced yesterday in the 500 or so people - the majority as far afield as Cork - who showed to bear witness in magnificent measure to the unrelenting struggle of the people of Rossport against a government who has joined forces with a ruthless predatory corporate power in the steamrollering and criminalising of legitimate dissent ... read full story / add a comment
Crossing the bog
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 17, 2007 - 15:29 by w.   text 4 comments (last - saturday february 17, 2007 - 15:47)   image 9 images
Work at the controversial Bellanaboy refinery site was halted on Friday the 16th February for the first time since October 3rd 2006 by a breakaway march of roughly 150 militant protestors. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Friday February 16, 2007 - 19:28 by Edinburgh Resident   text 6 comments (last - monday february 19, 2007 - 15:46)   image 2 images
Activists in Edinburgh shut down eight shell petrol stations around the city centre as a soldarity action for the Shell to Sea campaign in Rossport. ... read full story / add a comment
Crossing the Rubicon
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 16, 2007 - 17:15 by TD   text 24 comments (last - wednesday april 11, 2007 - 17:26)   image 66 images
Despite some radio reports and perhaps other media ... ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Friday February 16, 2007 - 10:26 by Sean Mallory   image 1 image
The campaign against Shell’s attempts to force a high-powered gas pipeline through the Rossport area of Co. Mayo continues (see http://www.corribsos.com for details of the Shell to Sea campaign or http://www.indymedia.ie for news reports). The Rossport Solidarity Camp was established in the summer of 2005 and since then has provided an important focus for campaigners travelling to Mayo to support the local struggle. Here we speak to Sean Mallory, a WSM member who has spent a considerable amount of time at the camp, about his experiences. Please note that the views expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Camp. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 16, 2007 - 07:55 by Joe   text 43 comments (last - tuesday february 20, 2007 - 12:27)   audio 1 audio file
The march in Bellinaboy is now taking place. Its reported by SMS that 300 are taking part and that the march is being tightly stewarded ... read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday February 16, 2007 - 00:41 by Topper   text 3 comments (last - monday february 19, 2007 - 12:07)   image 1 image
Trade unionists in Colombia have been threatened with execution by right-wing paramilitaries because of their role in the Coca Cola boycott campaign. ... read full story / add a comment
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