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international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday September 03, 2005 - 19:51 by author
On 11 August 2005, Turkish conscientious objector Mehmet Tarhan was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment, on two charges of "insubordination in front of his unit". Today, on the 3rd of September, a demonstration against militarism took place in İstanbul around Taksim square. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday September 03, 2005 - 19:46 by Al
The PIRA is to begin dismantling its weapons arsenal within days. Full decommissioning and surrender should be completed in weeks, sources close to the British and Irish governments said yesterday. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday September 03, 2005 - 16:47 by Tara SOS
"Tús maith, leath na h-oibre," said Pat heading off with his leaflets to the Electric Picnic from Dublin Castle. And he is right. With the digging in the Tara Gabhra Valley in progress, time is running out to make it public knowledge that the current M3 route is a massive squandering of public money as it detours off like a rampaging tornado towards Tara before resuming its 'natural' directness from Navan to Kells that is normally a feature of motorways. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday September 03, 2005 - 13:18 by Susan
Turi Vaccoro has maintained a hunger strike in custody since August 10th He appeared in court Sept 1st. charged with several million disarmament of nuclear capable F16's. Nuclear bombs are kept on the base where he acted on the 60th. anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Turi from Italy has lived in the Netherlands for many years, he bought his hammer in Assissi. ... read full story / add a comment
louth / anti-capitalism Friday September 02, 2005 - 22:18 by Eve
Approx 15-20 people picketed a Statoil garage in Dundalk this Friday evening from 5-7pm in the second in a series of Friday evening pickets organised by Shell to Sea Dundalk . ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Friday September 02, 2005 - 20:25 by A
IAN Blair, Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, admitted on July 22nd, 2005 that Britain is implementing a shoot-to-kill policy in relation to what he termed 'the fight against terrorism'. However, Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian murdered on a London tube by British police (SAS?) on Friday, July 21st, 2005, had no connection with the bombings in London on either that day or two weeks previously. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 02, 2005 - 15:40 by Justin Morahan
International Solidarity Movement report on ongoing siege with use of gas and rubber bullets to pre-empt non-violent protest at land grab. E-mail received 12.05 pm ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday September 02, 2005 - 13:17 by Hugo Chavez
Richard and The comrades helped the residents of Blackrock to load their own rubbish. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday September 02, 2005 - 07:25 by Miriam Cotton
Media Lens have produced an excellent summary of the truth behind the G8 climate discussions and the way in which they are being used to represent the British Prime Minister and American President as new, improved and kinder versions of themselves: http://www.medialens.org/alerts/index.php ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday September 02, 2005 - 01:44 by hrm
Martyrdom has always been a foundation of the Shia Muslim faith. But yesterday's tragedy gave it new meaning: possibly as many as 1,000 men, women and children were killed when they fell from a bridge over the Tigris river in Baghdad, apparently fearful that a suicide bomber had been let loose among them. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Thursday September 01, 2005 - 19:15 by libertarian
Anarchists clash with police during "No Border action" in Vena, Greece. ... read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Thursday September 01, 2005 - 12:51 by John McDermott
Enclosed is the full unexpurgated text of my(censored) letter published in the Irish Independent, Aug 30th,and Mr Aherns reply to my accusations in todays paper. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 01, 2005 - 11:43 by Allen
THE former Mayor of Sligo, Councillor Declan Bree, could face expulsion from the Labour Party when a simmering internal row comes to a head with the hearing of a formal complaint against him by a Special Committee in September ... read full story / add a comment
Institute of European Affairs to host discussion on "The Future of EU Armaments Cooperation" ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 01, 2005 - 10:31 by shane ocurry
Organised by the The Irish World newspaper and the Pat Finucane Centre for Human Rights, the Public Meeting, entitled "End Impunity", raises the thorny issue of state actors taking responsibility for killings at The Chamber, City Hall, London, on Monday, September 5 at 7pm. Also addressing the event will be University of Ulster legal academic Angela Hegarty and Phil Shiner, public interest ;lawyer. The event will focus on the case of Peter McBride, the Belfast teenager murdered by Scots Guardsmen Wright and Fisher, who were allowed to continue service in the British Army, in spite of their murder convictions. ... read full story / add a comment |
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