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mayo / environment Tuesday August 12, 2008 - 20:05 by stop shell   text 7 comments (last - wednesday august 20, 2008 - 13:49)   image 1 image
During the next 2 weeks, the Solitaire (the biggest pipe laying ship in the world) is set to begin illegally constructing the offshore section of the pipeline. It is believed that the Solitaire is on a pretty tight schedule & booked up for the next 2 years, so ANY disruption provides us with a real opportunity to delay the project significantly. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday August 12, 2008 - 14:45 by The Contaminated Crow
Short reports on five environmental controversies based on reports in the local papers. ... read full story / add a comment
longford / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 12, 2008 - 09:13 by Margaret O'Regan   text 12 comments (last - wednesday august 13, 2008 - 21:31)
A black woman was handcuffed and arrested at Longford Railway Station yesterday evening at about 6 pm for not paying her fare on a bus or train. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Monday August 11, 2008 - 15:37 by Andrew   image 2 images
The 34th G8 summit took place in Japan July 7th to 9th 2008. Andrew Flood interviewed Diane K. a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the (US) Northeast Federation of Anarchist-Communists (NEFAC) who traveled to Japan from New York to take part in the summit protests and counter summit. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday August 11, 2008 - 13:15 by Anarchist Prisoner Support   text 4 comments (last - saturday august 16, 2008 - 14:15)
Amadeu Casellas is a well known anarchist prisoner. Amadeu spent already 25 years in jail, in fact he's the most veteran prisoner in Catalonia. He joined many collective protests, hunger strikes, rebellions, etc and suffered many tortures and reprisals as a direct consequence of his permanent confrontational attitude towards the system. Now Amadeu thinks that it's time to be released, but the prison authorities don't want to release him, so he decided to take a step forward again and started an indefinite hunger strike. Amadeu said that the only options are freedom or death. He's already at the sickbay of Quatre Camins prison and his health is going worse everyday.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 09, 2008 - 11:07 by Michael Gallagher   text 1 comment (last - saturday august 09, 2008 - 15:20)   image 3 images
I was on my way to the printers (to get photos printed for anti war exhibition) yesterday (Fri. Aug.8th) and came across this protest/vigil that was organised by the 'Burma Action Ireland' group.
I was surprised to see this, as I had heard or read nothing about it, I was even more surprised, given the important significance of the date, 8-8-88, that it wasn't advertised in the events section on indymedia.

I have my own ideas why this was, but would any of you care to comment?

While I am here, I will post some of the text from the press release. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Friday August 08, 2008 - 21:57 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - saturday august 09, 2008 - 11:33)
Kobra Najjar, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery has lost her final appeal for amnesty. Iranian women’s rights activists working on her case saythat Kobra has exhausted all domestic legal remedies and that her execution by stoning could happen any time. Kobra is a victim of domestic violence who was forced into prostitution by her abusive husband in order to support his heroin addiction. He was murdered by one of Kobra’s “clients” who sympathized with her plight. Kobra has already served 8 years in prison as an accessory to her husband’s murder. The man who murdered her husband also served 8 years in prison and was free after paying blood money and undergoing 100 lashes, while Kobra faces imminent stoning to death for adultery - the prostitution her husband forced upon her. Yet another example of Iranian justice. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / animal rights Friday August 08, 2008 - 13:44 by vegan agenda   text 28 comments (last - saturday september 20, 2008 - 01:00)   image 5 images   video 2 video files
Animal Rights groups were tipped off that the Hunting Association of Ireland was going to be hosting a breakfast seminar this morning to unite groups and companies which have been the subject of protest for their treatment of animals.

The main speaker at the event was Lt. Col. Dennis Foster (US Army, ret'd) who was described as an ''expert on animal rights terrorists" .
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday August 07, 2008 - 23:03 by Candle in the Wind
In Italy in 2007 there were twice as many workplace deaths and 8 times as many road deaths as murders.
But the government is focusing all its energy on combating crime
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never one around when you want one... Gardaí at the Bellanaboy Shell site
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 07, 2008 - 18:01 by nuachtan   text 17 comments (last - friday october 15, 2010 - 21:42)   image 3 images
It's been reported that the gardaí have spent 11,000,000 euro on policing the protests against the Shell scheme to install a production pipeline and refinery in Kilcommon County Mayo.

The amount is more than half of what is being spent on fighting organised crime (€20M) and the Irish Independent newspaper reports that Garda sources are concerned that policing the protests is draining overtime budgets.

In May this year the Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission recommended that there should be a general review of the way public protests are policed, in the light of more than 70 complaints received about the Corrib protests. GSOC wrote to Minister for Justice proposing that it carry out an examination of management of crowd protests and civil disobedience. However, the minister turned down the proposal, as he “did not feel that it was appropriate at that time”.
http://www.corribsos.com/index.php?id=1774 ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / animal rights Wednesday August 06, 2008 - 22:55 by NARA   text 2 comments (last - thursday august 21, 2008 - 20:48)   image 5 images
For the past few weeks we've been having regular demonstrations outside Novartis in Dublin (Regus House, Harcourt Road, Dublin 2). ... read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday August 05, 2008 - 22:40 by Cork Warship Watch   text 5 comments (last - thursday august 07, 2008 - 23:09)   image 1 image
A Royal Navy ship, HMS Enterprise is due in the port of Cork tomorrow morning (Wednesday) where she will tie up at the city's North Custom House Quay.

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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 05, 2008 - 19:03 by TD   text 39 comments (last - wednesday august 27, 2008 - 14:38)   image 6 images
Stephen Lendman in a Znet article http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18348 succinctly puts the moral imperatives behind the Free Gaza Movement's brave sailings to the Israeli besieged Gaza Strip: "After Hamas' January 25, 2006 electoral victory, Israel targeted Gaza oppressively. All outside aid was cut off. Sanctions and an economic embargo were imposed, and the democratically elected government was falsely called a terrorist organization and isolated. Stepped up repression followed along with repeated IDF incursions, attacks, killings, targeted assassinations, arrests, destruction of property and more in a pattern all too familiar to Palestinians for over six decades. Gazans are imprisoned in their own land and have been traumatized for months. In June 2007, things got worse after Israel placed the Territory under siege - described by some as medieval because of its extreme harshness". ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Tuesday August 05, 2008 - 06:20 by Dave Donnellan   text 3 comments (last - wednesday august 06, 2008 - 14:49)   video 1 video file
A potpourrai of events on Grafton Street last Saturday including the fur protest! ... read full story / add a comment
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international / gender and sexuality Friday August 01, 2008 - 19:14 by Paula Geraghty   text 4 comments (last - friday august 01, 2008 - 22:28)   image 22 images   video 1 video file
Last year Pride in Latvia took place hemmed in a closed off park surrounded by Riot Police and hundreds of homophobic protesters.
These images and report follows on the fight for sexual freedom and civil rights one year on in Latvia. ... read full story / add a comment
The St Petersburg String Quartet
louth / arts and media Friday August 01, 2008 - 11:03 by Sean Crudden   image 1 image
A very attractive program of Russian music was presented in the refurbished Marist Church, Dundalk, last night. Tickets were €15. The program and the performance was captivating and exemplary. ... read full story / add a comment
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derry / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 31, 2008 - 17:45 by DAWC   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 05, 2008 - 19:26)   image 2 images
Members of the Derry Anti War Coalition marked the second anniversary of the massacre at Qana in Lebanon with a vigil at the Derry Raytheon plant on Wednesday. ... read full story / add a comment
Shell sells petrol in Ireland through its licensee Topaz energy
national / consumer issues Thursday July 31, 2008 - 15:33 by Gu.com reader   image 1 image
Shell announced second quarter profits of $8,000,000,000 today. The company is currently exploiting Irish Natural gas off the west coast for which it is liable for zero royalties. While tax may be charged at some point in the future on Shell Ireland's profits, the Anglo-Dutch company has shown itself to be skilled in avoiding tax when it can.

Irish gas bills for domestic users are set to raise by 20% in September, with another 20% rise expected in the new year.
The Irish state owns no stake in the Corrib field.
New licences on the same giveaway terms are currently being issued for Irish offshore blocks in the Rockall Basin. http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Natural/Petroleum+Affairs+Divis...d.htm ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday July 29, 2008 - 20:11 by Seán Ryan   text 6 comments (last - wednesday july 30, 2008 - 21:06)
Today, Mary Kelly appealed her conviction of a suspended sentence of 2 years (2 years and 1 year running concurrently) for her decommissioning of a war plane in Shannon Airport. ... read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment Tuesday July 29, 2008 - 15:24 by Rudiger   text 26 comments (last - tuesday june 23, 2009 - 20:54)   image 11 images   video 2 video files
The latest from Glengad beach, were Shell have occupied a section of the beach and fenced it off from the local community ... read full story / add a comment
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