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national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 29, 2010 - 16:54 by Freda H
Today, Thursday 29th July 2010, at 1pm, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) delivered a petition to Dunnes Stores signed by 6,000 shoppers across Ireland. The petition demands that Dunnes Stores stop stocking Israeli products, until Israel respects Palestinian rights and international law. Present at the handing-in were Brendan Archbold, the trade union official at the centre of the 1980s Dunnes strike when workers refused to handle South African goods, Freda Hughes IPSC National Chairperson, Aengus O'Snodaigh of Sinn Fein along with supporters of the campaign and members of both the Palestinian and South African communities in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
derry / anti-capitalism Wednesday July 28, 2010 - 20:17 by Eleanor
On Monday 26th July 2010, an event organised by the Free Derry Collective was held to mark the centenary of James Connolly's return to Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Wednesday July 28, 2010 - 16:53 by iosaf mac diarmada
Today the Catalan parliament became the 2nd of the Spanish state's regional legislatures to prohibit bull fighting following the decision by the Canary islands. The Canary decision was more palatable for afficionados of bullfighting because they had never had a tradition of the ritual which leaves neither side indifferent. The decision by the Catalan parliament to become the first Iberian mainland regional government to prohibit bullfights (noting that the tradition is practised in Portugal as well) has of course been and was going to be linked to Catalonia's resentment of the insistence of the Spanish state to homogenise identity and culture to the detriment of its own plurality. ... read full story / add a comment
donegal / miscellaneous Tuesday July 27, 2010 - 22:37 by Séamus Mac Lochlainn
A public meeting was held in Donegal Town on Saturday 24th July 2010 in the Central Hotel. It was organised by the North West Solidarity Network, a group of local activists who work together to develop events and initatives aimed at awareness raising and practical solidarity. The meeting was organised to address the issue of the Free Gaza flotilla and to look at possible ways forward for local actions. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 27, 2010 - 00:28 by KSI
Kurdish spokesman's lawyer condemns arrest as political in nature. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment Monday July 26, 2010 - 18:30 by Cat
Around 150 people came to Mayo's first street feast last weekend in Kilcommon Parish. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday July 26, 2010 - 17:04 by getouttamyhead
Brave farming couple Michael & Claire Hussey of Ballydooley, Dunamon, Co. Roscommon, had to remain silent through two hearing of their case as barristers argued the merits of a zoning issue against An Bord Pleanala, the Irish planning authority which overrulled the decision of Roscommon Co. Council prohibiting a Tetra-bearing mast less than 30 metres from their farmhouse. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday July 24, 2010 - 17:56 by Madam K
A lovely walk along the beautiful bay is enough to unnerve those recruited to steal our natural resourses. ... read full story / add a comment |
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