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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday July 13, 2010 12:42 by TIKKO   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 13, 2010 19:24)
For Immediate Publication.

We call on Progressive Irish Organisations and Individuals to endorse this statement.

On July 1, 2010 the special police branch of the Indian state assassinated in cold blood, Azad, (Cherukuri Rajkumar) the spokesperson of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) having earlier forcefully abducted him and Hem Chandra Pandey, a freelance journalist accompanying him. Both were tortured and executed and their bodies dropped and left in a distant forest. Yet the state and the media at its disposal claim that the two were killed in an “armed encounter”. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday July 08, 2010 18:25 by Kev   image 1 image
The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) today welcomed the move by Irish Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern to block a proposed European Commission data-sharing plan with Israel. If adopted the proposal would have given the green light to EU member states to allow the transfer to and storage of sensitive personal data on European citizens to Israel. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday June 24, 2010 10:44 by Kev   text 1 comment (last - thursday june 24, 2010 12:33)   image 1 image
On Wednesday 23rd June, Irishman Tommy Donnellan took part in a protest outside the meeting of Kimberley Process Conference in the Hotel Dan Panorama in Tel Aviv. The conference is meeting to discuss the global trade in “conflict” or “blood diamonds”, and the protest was organised to highlight the double standard in the Kimberly Process which bans the trade in rough diamonds that fund human rights abuses but facilitates the far more lucrative trade in cut and polished diamonds that also fund such abuses – including Israel’s occupation of Palestine. During the protest, Mr Donnellan was questioned by Israeli police and had his passport and phone numbers taken down. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday June 21, 2010 11:54 by Kev   text 1 comment (last - monday june 21, 2010 14:58)   image 3 images
On Saturday 19th June 2010, the Annual General Meeting of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) elected Freda Hughes as its new Chairperson. Ms Hughes, a teacher from Dublin, takes over the role from Dr David Landy, who remains on the National Committee as National Organiser and Vice-Chair. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday June 06, 2010 19:21 by Freda & Kev
The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) will be hosting a press conference at 3pm tomorrow, Monday 7th June, in the Central Hotel with the five Irish prisoners from the MV Rachel Corrie. The Rachel Corrie was hijacked at sea yesterday by Israeli forces, and all her passengers are due to be deported from Israel tomorrow morning, and the Irish deportees are due to arrive in Dublin airport at 11.20am tomorrow morning. There will be a welcoming committee to meet them and press conference to follow at 3pm in The Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2.

Also today, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign issued a statement refuting various Israeli accusations and propaganda talking points that have been circulating over the past two days.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Tuesday June 01, 2010 16:23 by Tommy McKearney
IWU National Executive condemns arrest of its member Fintan Lane by Israel's armed forces read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday May 26, 2010 12:38 by Kev
(Hearklin, Crete, Tuesday, May 25, 2010) As Israel continues to insist it will stop the seven-ship international Freedom Flotilla, two more ships departed from Greece to Gaza today.

A 2000 ton cargo ship and fifty-person passenger ship owned by the European Campaign Against the Siege of Gaza, and Swedish/Greek Ship to Gaza campaigns left Athens to meet the Freedom Flotilla in international waters. read full story / add a comment
Irish News article on discovery of Bethany graves by Valerie Robinson - 22 May 2010
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday May 24, 2010 10:34 by Derek Leinster   text 7 comments (last - wednesday february 02, 2011 09:37)   image 13 images
A Dublin Cemetery has been discovered as the gravesite of forgotten children from the Bethany Home Dublin. Bethany Home was associated with the Church of Ireland and Church of Ireland missionary society, the Irish Church Missions to Roman Catholics. It operated in Blackhall Place, Dublin, from 1921-34 and in Orwell Road, Rathgar, until it closed in 1972.

The Bethany Home was a combined maternity home, children’s home and place of detention for women convicted of petty theft, prostitution, infanticide and birth concealment.

The home and the religious ethos that sustained and ran it was part of what James Smith of Boston College in his book, ‘Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment’ (2007), termed an Irish ‘containment culture’ that focused on single women and effectively criminalised childbirth out of wedlock. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / press release Friday May 21, 2010 13:25 by Jack Lane   text 17 comments (last - friday march 11, 2011 21:25)
RTÉ’s discredited 2007 documentary on the 1921 execution of two Protestant farmers in Coolacrease, Co. Offaly, features in a UCD summer course in Irish history starting Tuesday June 8 2010, 11am – 1.30pm, in Room Q005 of the Quinn School of Business in UCD.
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galway / arts and media / press release Friday May 21, 2010 08:31 by heikehv
Find out what's happening in Galway around Africa Day 2010 - Soccerfest, Film Festival, Music and much more! read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media / press release Friday May 07, 2010 14:32 by Kev   image 1 image
New York, NY, May 5, 2010 – More than 50 organizations and artists from eight countries have written to legendary political singer and poet Gil Scott-Heron to thank him for his decision to drop Israel from his current tour. The letter, facilitated by Adalah-NY, highlighted the parallels between the South African Apartheid that Scott-Heron crusaded against decades ago and the Israeli system that currently subjugates Palestinians. read full story / add a comment
kildare / miscellaneous / press release Friday April 16, 2010 13:11 by Republican Sinn Féin Kildare
The invitation extended to the Queen of England to visit the Punchestown racing festival is part of a campaign of “creeping Anglicisation” with the purpose of normalising British rule in Ireland, Kildare Republican Sinn Féin said in a statement. The statement also said that Republican Sinn Féin would “actively oppose” a visit to any part of Ireland by the head of the British state. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday April 14, 2010 16:47 by Community of Kilcommon   text 4 comments (last - friday april 16, 2010 09:55)   image 2 images
---Corrib project has been imposed through 'harassment' of the local community---

409 letters have been delivered from members of the community of Kilcommon to Shell's Belmullet offices today Monday. The letter outlines their refusal to meet with representatives of the company while Pat O'Donnell remains in jail and the imposition of the Corrib gas project continues without community consent. The letters detail a large number of grievances that the local community have with the imposition of the project, and state that people are refusing to meet with Shell while what “effectively amounts to ongoing and escalating physical and psychological harassement” continues in the area.

The letters dismiss as hollow Shell's proposed 'consultation', in the context of the fact that the current and previous Managing Directors of the company have publicly stated that the project will not be changed in any way in response to community concerns. read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / press release Monday April 05, 2010 04:20 by Ann Keilthy
Each page in this new website has one topic plus a selection of questions you might ask answered. Not too much information at a time, and ideal for those starting out. Launched in Ireland to mark Brain Awareness Week in March, this website, www.parkinsonsdecisionaid.eu.com, informs and encourages you to discuss the contents with your doctor - patient education and empowerment. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Wednesday March 31, 2010 17:19 by Kerry Public Service Worker   2 attached files
The Kerry Public Service Workers’ Alliance has rejected the government proposals emanating from the Croke Park talks as a recipe for the destruction of public services. read full story / add a comment
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cork / arts and media / press release Wednesday March 31, 2010 13:37 by anarkitty   image 1 image
Local Cork bands The Altered Hours and Mashed Chicken and DJ Dr. Fiasco will play a fundraiser for Solidarity Books in Cruiscin Lan on Thursday 1st April starting at 8pm. Cork WSM, who have organized the event, anticipate a good turnout. Since opening its doors in December 2009, Solidarity Books, a non-profit radical book shop and meeting space, has become a hub for the local Douglas Street Community. This was most clearly seen in the recent hugely successful Douglas Street celebration of International Women’s Day. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday March 29, 2010 13:59 by Freda H & Kev   image 1 image
On the evening of Tuesday 30th March the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) in Dublin will commemorate Palestinian Land Day by holding a solidarity vigil outside the GPO on O'Connell Street from 5 - 7pm. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Friday March 12, 2010 14:17 by Republican Network for Unity (PRO)   text 4 comments (last - monday march 29, 2010 16:35)
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international / arts and media / press release Thursday March 11, 2010 08:53 by Kris Ameringer   image 3 images   1 attached file
The deadline for the international children's poetry competition, Kids Express, is coming up on 15 April 2010. Make sure to enter now and join us in July for a fun packed family night of entertainment! read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / press release Monday March 08, 2010 17:00 by Republican Network for Unity   text 7 comments (last - monday may 17, 2010 02:01)
“Are we seeing a test case, to be followed by others in which respected Republicans, who speak out against Stormont, are then threatened with decades old charges? Are the new supergrass laws and wing at Maghaberry part of this strategy? Are the new partnerships and constabulary boards making the constabulary accountable or Sinn Fein accomplices after the fact?” read full story / add a comment
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