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Young Derry students make a stand for education. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 08, 2010 - 19:09 by TD
It's cold comfort that yesterday's inhuman budget was the last sting of a vicious, dying government, chilling to realise it was allowed to flourish and pass by the broad mass of the Irish people standing idly by and not engaging in mass protest.? Yesterdays proceedings outside the Dáil were mild, ultra-mild and weak when compared to the mass protests in Greece and France and the fact that the EU/ECB/IMF attacks on our poor, vulnerable, working classes and middle classes, through their willing government catspaws, are far more severe here than the aforementioned countries.? ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday December 08, 2010 - 16:24 by Feudal Castrato
here is a video of Joe Higgins interviewed at budget protest by RT. Contrastingly, Vincent Browne interviews him in a snide manner on TV3 while crawling to protect Topaz sales after a shell to sea banner accidentally creeps into his interviews ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday December 08, 2010 - 10:18 by Plowshares
YOUTUBE (2min22sec) - Irish/Australian Plowshare/Catholic Worker Activist Ciaron O'Reilly does Solidarity Speaks Out Outside Westminster Court While Assange Denied Bail! - Solidarity with Assange and Manning! http://youtu.be/8Tw98tv0sso Hot Tips on organinsing solidarity around the imprisoned Julian Asasnge and Bradley Manning...... ... read full story / add a comment
Changes to the qualifying criteria for the adjacent rate of the student maintenance grant, announced in the Budget for 2011, will lead to students facing up to the prospect of an almost 60% decrease in financial aid. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday December 07, 2010 - 16:54 by WH
Rossport Solidarity Camp and Shell to Sea campaigners were out in numbers on a media-thronged Kildare Street in Dublin this morning in advance of Brian Lenihan’s presentation of the Budget for 2011. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 07, 2010 - 08:29 by Ciaron
Our friends - Bill “Bix” Bichsel, S.J., of Tacoma, Washington; - Susan Crane, of Baltimore MD; - Lynne Greenwald, of Bremerton Washington; - Steve Kelly, S.J., of Oakland , CA.; - Anne Montgomery RSCJ, are going to trial Dec 7th. in Washington state, USA. for a plowshares action on the Trident 1st. Strike Nuclear Weapon system. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 06, 2010 - 23:17 by seedot
As the snow comes down and temperatures stay below freezing, Sinn Fein activists prepare to camp outside the Dail. Tomorrow they'll be joined by various other protests and passed by well paid TDs on their way to do the IMFs bidding. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism Monday December 06, 2010 - 10:28 by Peter Sullivan
A range of political organisations have come together in Cork under the umbrella of the Independent Workers Union to organise a mobilisation and march against the Budget this coming Wednesday. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 05, 2010 - 16:00 by DunloT
In bitter, thick fog resembling the miasma hanging over the economic abyss that is now Ireland, some 300-400 protesters, yesterday, marched from the Cathedral through Eglington St and Shop Street to the Spanish Arch plaza voicing their anger, contempt and sense of betrayal for a government that has spectacularly lost the trust of its people but like a stinging, dying wasp is still hell-bent on forcing through a budget of unprecedented savagery that saddles and cripples the Irish people with the private gambling debts of rogue banks and a millstone "bailout" of usurious, ruinous interest rates from the IMF and EU. ... read full story / add a comment |
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