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dublin / animal rights Sunday March 04, 2007 - 23:14 by Stephan Wymore   text 1 comment (last - sunday may 27, 2007 - 17:41)   image 1 image
Today members of Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) held a hugely eye catching event outside of Brown Thomas on Grafton Street in Dublin to held push the campaign. With two activists posing ‘dead’ inside coffins whilst clutching signs reading “Brown Thomas – Fur Is Dead” other members of ARAN also held posters reading “Your Fur Had A Face” and others held our synonymous animal rights banner “Speak Out For Animal Rights” this banner continues to appear at various ARAN events around the country.
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dublin / anti-capitalism Sunday March 04, 2007 - 15:08 by Joe   text 31 comments (last - friday december 12, 2008 - 22:37)   audio 5 audio files
At the second Anarchist bookfair, Saturday 3rd March, speakers from Workers Solidarity Movement, Irish Socialist Network and Eirigi discussed the question 'What Sort of Ireland Do We Want?'. These are the audio files of this debate.

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dublin / anti-capitalism Sunday March 04, 2007 - 13:10 by J.Carax - pers caps.   text 7 comments (last - monday march 05, 2007 - 11:41)   image 20 images
Short and Report and Pictures. ... read full story / add a comment
Gerry Adams at the RDS
national / politics / elections Sunday March 04, 2007 - 00:26 by Ard fheis visitor   text 6 comments (last - sunday march 04, 2007 - 15:10)   image 2 images
In a stirring and far ranging speech to the Sinn Féin Ard fheis at the RDS on Saturday evening, Gerry Adams called for a restoration of the Stormont Assembly, saying that the lesson of recent history in the North is clear: The British direct rule ministers need to be sent home.

In the 26 counties he called for changes in the health, housing, education, drugs policies and also called for rural regeneration.

Across the island, he said, there is still a growing inequality between the richest and the poorest, in health, education and in job and career opportunity.

There is still, he reminded the audience, partition and foreign occupation. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday March 03, 2007 - 21:32 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 8 comments (last - wednesday january 16, 2008 - 19:48)
Article 12 of the UN International Covenant on Economics, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) provides the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standards of mental health. This right is the central human dignity of the person. Principles for the protection of persons with mental health - the MI principles were adopted by the UN in 1991 and provide standards in relation to informed consent of treatment. Protection of confidentiality standards - the rights of people in mental health facilities and the provision of resources. This principle is the right of everyone without of exception to the best available mental health care.

I ask the question tonight - with our economy alledgedly booming - why is our suicide crisis representative of such a shambles particularly in area of mental health care? ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Saturday March 03, 2007 - 20:48 by pat c   text 4 comments (last - monday march 05, 2007 - 10:15)
Houzan Mahmoud, Representative of the Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq has been threatened by Islamic Fundamentalists. On February 26, 2007, Houzan received an e-mail signed by Ansar al-Islam, the notoriously brutal jihadist group based in Kurdistan/Iraq.

The death threat, delivered via e-mail, read:

"With the permission of Great God, we will kill you either in Iraq or in London by the middle of March, because you are campaigning against Islam. You should be sent to God for punishment." ... read full story / add a comment
Leafleting!
dublin / consumer issues Saturday March 03, 2007 - 20:10 by Johnny H   text 5 comments (last - monday march 05, 2007 - 12:12)   image 10 images
On Saturday the 3rd of March, IPSC Activists and members of the Palestinian community joined together to picket the Atlantic Homecare store in Sandyford as part of our continued campaign to pressure Atlantic Homecare to remove Israeli "Keter" products from their stores. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Saturday March 03, 2007 - 19:40 by Lech
PSNI Poles have much police experience. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Friday March 02, 2007 - 10:23 by NCA   text 5 comments (last - wednesday october 31, 2007 - 20:55)
To people living in the North Inner City, the recent revelations at the Dublin City coroner’s court at the inquest into the death of young Terence Wheelock will not come as a surprise. Terence went into a coma from which he never recovered, after sustaining injuries in Store Street Garda station. One witness to his arrest said the Gardai ‘whacked Terence’s head off the side of the van and twisted his broken arm behind his back’. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism Friday March 02, 2007 - 01:01 by ungdomshuset information   text 19 comments (last - wednesday march 07, 2007 - 02:00)   image 14 images
After a long political and legal battle the basis-democratic, alternative political and cultural centre 'Ungdomshuset' was forcefully evicted by riot police and airborne anti-terror squads this morning. Ensuing demonstrations have seen large-scale confrontations between protestors and heavy-handed police, here is the full story from Copenhagen.

VIDEO: police car crashes into protester
http://politiken.dk/poltv/?ExtID=1349 ... read full story / add a comment
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