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Led by Donkeys, the group behind anti-Brexit and assorted other Left-wing stunts, was set up by four Greenpeace activists who have a lot of curious links to the Blob, says Charlotte Gill.
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offaly / education Monday August 17, 2009 - 18:32 by Bob Wilson   text 7 comments (last - wednesday august 19, 2009 - 18:15)   image 5 images
Climate Camp is up and running at Shannonbridge, Co.Offaly - started Saturday 15th August and goes on til Sunday 23rd August.
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Monday August 17, 2009 - 11:22 by Joe Mooney   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 18, 2009 - 12:25)
Supporters of striking Dublin dockers picket Deutsche Bank, linked to dispute. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Saturday August 15, 2009 - 15:11 by Contaminated Crow
Ex-workers to protest at Corrib, four masts, two quarries, an incinerator, a power station, an ESB sub-station, powerlines and a pulp mill ... read full story / add a comment
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dublin / animal rights Friday August 14, 2009 - 23:30 by ARAN   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 01, 2009 - 00:38)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Animal Rights Action Network staged a highly visual and lively demonstration outside the offices of Department of Environment in Dublin to call on Green Party minister, John Gormley not to renew hare coursing license for the upcoming season and to ban the bloodsport outright.
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dublin / animal rights Friday August 14, 2009 - 15:11 by Thomas Janak   audio 1 audio file
ARAN, the animal rights action network, staged an anti hare coursing protest on Thursday, August 13th 2009. Thomas Janak from WILD TIME joined the event.

The footage features interviews with supporters icluding artist Tracey O' Neill, Model Susan Macabe and Helena Le-Mahieu from ASH. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Thursday August 13, 2009 - 23:20 by Angel   text 15 comments (last - sunday august 23, 2009 - 00:16)   image 1 image
Niall Harnett will appear at the High Court at Cloverhill in Dublin, Monday 17th August at 11.00am, in order to appeal the extremely restrictive bail terms which were applied to him at Belmullet Court on Thursday, 30th July. Niall is currently serving two consecutive four month jail terms at Castlerea Prison for his part in legitimate acts of civil disobedience and protest against the Corrib Gas Project.
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galway / eu Thursday August 13, 2009 - 21:10 by TD   text 1 comment (last - friday august 14, 2009 - 12:46)   image 5 images
Yesterday morning, in a pantomine the wrong side of Christmas that elicited mirth, bemusement, alarm and some head scratching from passersby but which outraged an IFPAL activist watching over his charge, two Galway City Council workmen, shovel in hand, boarded a stage prop in the shape of an old pontoon in Claddagh Quay and as if the water were a potato drill, dug and shovelled their way out to the raft; MV IFPAL 2 - proudly displaying two large placards urging voters of conscience to Vote No in the Lisbon referendum. Resisting advice, shouted from the quayside, to give up their 'aul sins, behave in decent fashion and leave our raft be, a stickler for duty, one of Galway City Councils' Quaystone Cops, instead ... ... read full story / add a comment
PANEL: Iñaki de Juana, Arturo Beñat Villanueva, Julen Arzuaga, Danny Morrison and Colleen Gildernew
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday August 12, 2009 - 01:08 by Emma Clancy   text 2 comments (last - friday august 14, 2009 - 14:25)   image 2 images
The Don't Extradite the Basques Campaign held a very successful conference on political persecution in the Basque Country on Saturday August 8 in An Chultúrlann in west Belfast as part of the annual Féile an Phobail (Festival of the People). Julen Arzuaga, a lawyer from Behatokia, the Basque Observatory of Human Rights, travelled from the Basque Country to speak at the conference, which also heard from Iñaki de Juana and Arturo Beñat Villanueva, two Belfast-based Basque activists who are fighting extradition charges by the Spanish government. Colleen Gildernew from Kevin Winters Solicitors, the firm representing both men, outlined the legal efforts to defeat the extradition charges.

Introducing the conference, veteran republican activist Danny Morrison
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international / crime and justice Tuesday August 11, 2009 - 12:51 by Niamh Rooney   text 3 comments (last - thursday august 13, 2009 - 12:43)
Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested and charged with breach of the terms of house arrest in May 2009, just days before her current term of house arrest was due to end. The lengthy trial has now ended and the Nobel Peace Prize winner has been found guilty and sentenced to three years jail and hard labour. However, in a move surely aimed at avoiding international sanctions, Home Affairs minister General Maung Oo said outside the court that military ruler Than Shwe had signed a special order suspending the sentence and ordered that Suu Kyi should spend 18 months under house arrest. ... read full story / add a comment
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