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dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / press release Tuesday June 23, 2015 - 23:39 by 1 of Indymedia
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The Solidarity Times facebook page is reported today that Water charges protestor Stephen Bennett is being sent to prison. Here is their report. The Water charges protester Stephen Bennett will be in jail for one month tomorrow. He was not convicted of anything, instead the courts attempted to impose 'protest ban' bail conditions which he has continued to refuse to accept. All sections of the water charges movements should be demanding Stephens immediate and unconditional release. "To my Friends, Comrades and to the Irish Water movement. I send this message of solidarity from my cell in Cloverhill prison, where I have been since May 20th. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday June 18, 2015 - 09:16 by Progressive film club
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Autumn Sun is a film about the occupy movement in the US set in Oaklands California. Ciutat Morta is a film about police brutality in Spain ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday June 09, 2015 - 23:22 by pbp
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As the country reflects on a new beginning, SPARK are asking you to extend equality to children. Ireland has failed to protect children from the recession and child poverty rates have seen a shocking increase over the last few years. However, the picture is even bleaker for children in one parent families. 23% of our children live in consistent poverty and that is before the draconian cuts to incomes of working lone parents are introduced in July. Join NWCI at the SPARK protest at the Dail Gates, Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2 at 3:30pm on Weds 10th June ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment / event notice Tuesday May 26, 2015 - 23:31 by CRAI
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Combined Residents Against Incineration To the people of Ringsend / Irishtown / Sandymount / Dublin Bay Area and Beyond THIS IS your Chance to Show Your Opposition to This Monstrous Incinerator Family Friendly Protest / Street Meeting Meet @ CLANNA GAEL - Sean Moore Rd Thurs 4th June 2015 @ 5 pm ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Friday May 15, 2015 - 21:37 by squat
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SOS - Save Our Squat Fundraising Weekend -Friday 15th Doors 7pm - Saturday 16th doors - 7pm Live Music - Trad - Folk - Session Live DJs - Hip - Hop - Troop Warm and Delicious Food for All ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Tuesday April 14, 2015 - 00:15 by Solidarity Times
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Garda have attacked an occupation of Fingal council offices by water charges protesters causing injuries like the one pictured. We understand these happened when the Garda smashed a plate glass door in on top of the protesters who were occupying the entrance. According to one of those attacked posting to the Balbriggan page "Garda have attached 3 of us and shattered the fingal county council office doors on top of us picture to follow. If you listen to the video u will hear the glass crashing on top of us" The video is at https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=633082310156899 ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / education / event notice Monday April 13, 2015 - 23:57 by wsm
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Yes it is on! The 10th Dublin Anarchist Bookfair which will take place Saturday 25th of April around Smithfield square. Come along and meet anarchists and hundreds of people curious about anarchism. The 10th DABF will take place on the weekend of April 24-6th in the new locations of the Generator the Cobbloestone and Block T around Smithfield square. Saturday will see us host a day of talks and workshops emerging out of a range of struggles and new movements with book and organisation stalls in the Generator. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Sunday April 12, 2015 - 16:52 by Tadhg
The Irish Latin American Film Festival continues to make available to Irish audiences shorts and documentaries pertaining to the most interesting continent on Pachamama – Latin America. The diverse topics that make up the programme are collated into a Film Festival that will take place in Dublin It will take place on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next. Tá saorcead isteach agus beidh fáilte roimh chách / Free admission and all welcome ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday March 23, 2015 - 23:36 by peoples movement
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Following Enda Kenny’s support for TTIP during his meeting with Obama on St Patrick's Day, and Minister Dara Murphy's spurious assertion in Brussels on Thursday that huge financial gains are possible for Ireland, it is important to demonstrate our opposition to the treaty. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / housing / feature Monday March 23, 2015 - 22:56 by Grangegorman squat
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A massive eviction is underway in Dublin. It is at the complex of occupied houses and former factory spaces in Grangegorman.
Reports indicate that at 7am in the morning a very large number of private security angle grinder their way through one of the metal gates, invaded the area en massed and are erecting barriers (pictured) inside and trying to evict the occupants.
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dublin / miscellaneous / press release Friday March 20, 2015 - 00:24 by Finch Lawless
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In the heart of Dublin, a new collective has occupied an old building to create a new radical, autonomous social centre and infoshop for our city. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / event notice Saturday March 07, 2015 - 12:01 by No to Water Charges
A series of demonstrations is planned today in support of the Jailed water charges protestors. There will be a rally at the Montrose (near RTE) at lunchtime and a motorcade will proceed to Mountjoy prison via the GPO and then a candle light vigil is expected to take place outside the prison. In Dun Laoghaire at 3pm today a protest calling for the charges to be scrapped will be staged ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Monday February 23, 2015 - 23:32 by pfc 1 attached file
On Saturday 28 February the Progressive Film Club presents two film showings where admission is Free! They are in The New Theatre, 43 East Essex street, (in Temple Bar) Dublin 2 They are London is Burning at 2:30pm and The Apples of Golan at 3:30pm. The Progressive Film Club are a voluntary organisation dedicated to showing progressive films from all over the world. Struggles for people’s rights, for the rights of workers, of immigrants, of women, for national liberation and for social justice are some of the themes of the outstanding films we have selected. Showings—usually one all-day show per month—are at the New Theatre in East Essex Street. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday February 11, 2015 - 12:56 by No Water Tax Activist
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An anti-water charges meeting in Ard Mor tonight in West Tallaght has called this protest for Thursday in response to the arrests of anti-water charges protesters and other communities have taken up the call. Join us at the Department of Justice and Equality, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2 at 18.30. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / eu / event notice Tuesday February 10, 2015 - 23:00 by People's Movement
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A debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership With Constantin Gurdjiev, Economist and Frank Keoghan, General President, TEEU. Hosted by Joan Collins TD ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / press release Monday February 09, 2015 - 20:31 by sp
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Speaking of this mornings events Joe Higgins TD who has been in the process of visiting the various Garda stations where the public representatives are being held said: “The arrests of AAA TD Paul Murphy, councillors Kieran Mahon and Mick Murphy and a fourth person who remains to be identified to us as we go to press is a cheap attempt to denigrate and weaken water charges movement as we approach make or break time – bills coming out and need for mass non-payment. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / event notice Monday February 02, 2015 - 20:00 by Comhlámh
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Join us for a film screening and panel discussion where we’ll draw on the experience of one community’s struggle against water privatisation in the Global South (El Alto, Bolivia) and relate it to the Irish movement against water charges From El Alto to Edenmore .... Twisted Pepper -Weds 4th Feb @ 7pm. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Friday January 16, 2015 - 19:03 by June Kelly
Picolas Pitsos is an Executive member of Le Mouvement de la Paix, France's major peace movement with over 150 local groups, and one of the largest peace movements in Europe. He has been invited to Dublin by the Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA) and Irish CND to speak at a public meeting on Wednesday 21st January 2015 at 7.30pm in Connolly Books, 43 East Essex Street, Dublin 2. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday November 01, 2014 - 01:49 by T
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will drive renewal in Europe by supporting renewed growth rates of 1.5% with a boost in economic activity worth €800M! That’s one narrative, the other is that TTIP will undermine our democracy while driving environmental and food safety standards downwards and undermine progress for climate justice. Is it possible that it will do both? This process has the potential to be a major game-changer for the coming decades, who will benefit, will there be losers and how will all this impact on us in both the Global North and Global South? Come and join the discussion at the Comhlámh at the #firstweddebates ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment / event notice Saturday October 18, 2014 - 16:29 by SparkyD
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The Progressive Film Club will be hosting a free screening of 'The Wisdom to Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism and Community' on Saturday 25th October at the New Theatre, 43 East Essex Street, Dublin 2. The club's 'Green Day' programme begins at 3pm, with a short, 'The Last Ice Merchant', followed by the main feature at 3.30pm. ... read full story / add a comment |
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