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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday February 04, 2009 - 22:19 by Kevin 1   text 3 comments (last - saturday february 07, 2009 - 03:04)   image 1 image
DEFEND BUS SERVICES: SUPPORT THE BUS WORKERS
Dublin Bus drivers, members of the NBRU, are balloting over the next week for industrial action if the company press ahead with 160 threatened sackings.
And Dublin North West People Before Profit is organising a protest meeting on the cuts plan in Ballymun Thursday 5th February 8pm Axis Centre ... read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday February 04, 2009 - 19:20 by Paula Geraghty   text 7 comments (last - friday february 06, 2009 - 19:37)   image 6 images   video 1 video file
‘The people of Waterford have decided that they’re not serfs.’

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international / animal rights Wednesday February 04, 2009 - 18:14 by John Carmody   text 1 comment (last - friday february 06, 2009 - 00:38)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Today a groundbreaking new documentary revealing the all too visible distress that lab primates face on a daily basis is revealed by Animal Defenders International (ADI). The Save The Primates investigation exposes every aspect of the global primate trade across three continents, including one of Europes largest testing facilities “ Huntingdon Life Sciences in Cambridgeshire. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 03, 2009 - 17:54 by Blacbloc   text 29 comments (last - saturday february 07, 2009 - 01:31)
The extortionate pension levies imposed on public sector workers by Brian Cowen and IBEC this afternoon will further devastate the lives of the low and middle income earners. Nothing further was announced to curb the salaries of the highest paid public and private sector workers - the class of people the government is extending itself to protect above all others. ... read full story / add a comment
Workers occupy factory in Kherson, Ukraine
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 03, 2009 - 09:35 by zaraz.org   image 1 image
Today at 9:30 more than 300 workers occupied the administrative building of Kherson Engineering Plant. The workers demand payment of wages, nationalization of the plant without compensation to its owner and are decisively inclined to occupy the building until complete fulfillment of their demands. During occupation no worker has injured. Factory guards did not resist seriously. The situation is controlled by yesterday elected workers council. The police has not yet appeared near the building.
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cork / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday February 03, 2009 - 00:45 by Teddy
On Saturday the 31st January approximately 80 concerned citizens demonstrated in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their plight for justice. The group convened at Daunt Square at 1pm and commenced a tour of the city's shopping centres before marching for a mile past Turners Cross to Woodies DIY Store near the Kinsale Road Roundabout. The protest called on the people of Cork to join in the campaign to Boycott Israel and in particular for shoppers to be conscience of what they may be supporting in buying Israeli products namely the recent massacre in Gaza and the persistent violations of Human Rights and Humanitarian legal standards. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday February 02, 2009 - 23:12 by C.D. Stelzer
Press accounts published in Ireland over the past decade, however, have linked the company to an influence-peddling scandal that rocked the Irish political establishment during the 1990s. Moreover, the man at the center of the controversy has had past ties to Carlyle Group, an American equity investment firm that is stacked with high-ranking former U.S. government officials with checkered careers. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday February 02, 2009 - 22:29 by Contaminated Crow
Two landfills, an incinerator, pylons, a telemast, a sewage treatment plant, water extraction, a windfarm, two industrial parks and the return of animal health problems at Askeaton ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism Monday February 02, 2009 - 19:43 by David L   text 10 comments (last - wednesday february 04, 2009 - 12:36)   image 14 images
A hundred people assembled on Saturday afternoon, January 31 in Dublin city centre to mourn the dead of Gaza. The demonstrators marched around the central pedestrian zone on O Connell Bridge in a silent protest against the massacre that Israel perpetrated. ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 02, 2009 - 18:56 by TD   text 7 comments (last - wednesday february 25, 2009 - 22:34)   image 5 images   video 1 video file
Last Saturday, members of the Galway Palestine Children's Appeal were "overwhelmed" by the public response to their appeal for humanitarian aid for the children and people of Gaza - expecting one 40ft container to be filled with medical supplies, household goods, non perishable food, clothes and toys, a further two had to be ordered and to ease the pressure, a request was broadcast by the local radio station, Galway Bay FM, for donors to procrastinate their visit to the drop-off point at the Black Box theatre until the delivery of the third container - this morning, at 7AM two of the stuffed containers started their journey of mercy and there is a large stockpile of aid awaiting the arrival of the third.

Including an operating table from Letterkenny Hospital, medical staff in the west donated money and supplies and businesses such as the Galway Radisson Hotel gifted 100 duvets and pillows.

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dublin / animal rights Sunday February 01, 2009 - 12:38 by SHAC Ireland   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 01, 2009 - 22:41)   image 2 images
Friday, 30th January

A wet and windy night saw lots of activists turn out at a Bayer / Schering
Pharma meeting and dinner-dance in the Four Seasons Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday January 30, 2009 - 15:17 by gazasympathiser   text 18 comments (last - thursday february 05, 2009 - 21:45)   video 1 video file
"Israel was born out of Jewish Terrorism" Tzipi Livnis Father was a Terrorist" Astonishing claims in the House of Parliament. SIR Gerald Kaufman, the veteran Labour MP, yesterday compared the actions of Israeli troops in Gaza to the Nazis who forced his family to flee Poland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 29, 2009 - 15:19 by Maidhc Ó Cathail   text 25 comments (last - tuesday march 10, 2009 - 18:54)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
After 60 years of one-sided reporting on Palestine, a major U.S. TV network finally shows the reality of life for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. ... read full story / add a comment
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cork / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 29, 2009 - 01:46 by gota hope   text 4 comments (last - monday february 02, 2009 - 19:34)   image 5 images
It was a very wet and windy saterday, in cork . but despite this people were keen to express there outrage at the carnage being inflicted on a unarmed population in Gaza. ... read full story / add a comment
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