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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday March 21, 2013 20:26 by Jim L
The lecture entitled 'Solidarity and the Responsibility to Protect' will be chaired by RT's Bryan Dobson, and will explore the issues faced by human rights defenders and activists trying to make their independent voices heard among the competing agendas of state, media and corporate or political interests. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday October 21, 2008 23:30 by Marxism 2008 team
2008 has seen a crisis of capitalism not seen since the 1930’s. The workings of the market, once universally worshipped, have imploded and are wrecking people’s lives across the globe. Alongside this, the so called “war on terror” pursued by the same market fundamentalists, has brought death and havoc in Iraq and now, in Afghanistan, it threatens to spill over to new and deadlier frontiers. Never has it been so important to develop alternatives to the madness of the system. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / press release Wednesday February 21, 2007 21:57 by Global Women's Strike
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The Global Women’s Strike and Payday, a network of men, campaign together to win economic and social recognition for unwaged caring work and to demand the return of military budgets to the community, starting with women the first carers everywhere. We demand a world which invests in caring not killing. (Demands below) Since March 2006, the organizations which co-ordinate the Strike and Payday in different countries have: *Organized against the war in Iraq and the “war on terror”, including fighting for the right to protest in front of the UK parliament *Worked with the mothers and other relatives of US and UK soldiers who refused to go to war, especially Lt Ehren Watada´s mother Carolyn Ho *Supported Israeli and other conscripts, gay and straight, who refused to join the military, especially Mehmet Tarhan in Turkey *Campaigned against prison for life for UK refusers *Demonstrated to stop US war planes and torture flights refueling at Irish airports... read full story / add a comment
mayo / consumer issues / press release Thursday April 07, 2005 17:11 by Keith Martin
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See link below for details of Cllr Martin's lobbying for the discounts. which were reported earlier on Indymedia.ie read full story / add a comment
mayo / consumer issues / press release Saturday October 02, 2004 02:14 by Cllr Keith Martin
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Independent Westport Town Councillor Keith Martin has called on Westport Leisure Centre, which is owned by the local authority, to provide a discount to the unwaged and to provide a lift for the disabled into the swimming pool. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Monday January 05, 2004 17:40 by Global Women's Strike Ireland
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*US military Out of Shannon and Raytheon Out of Derry* The Global Women’s Strike calls on all women to join the women’s anti-war vigil at Shannon, from midnight tonight to noon on Tuesday 6th January – Women’s Christmas in Ireland. In this autonomous women’s action, we join women from Shannon, veterans of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and of the 2003 Shannon peace camp, students, housewives, teachers, office workers . . . We join with women and men in Derry who on Wednesday will vigil all day to demand that Raytheon, giant US arms manufacturer, get out of the city. Now governments and political parties talk about peace and jobs in the North and the South, and the necessity of keeping the US 'friendship' to enable them to import the arms trade to Derry and the US military to Shannon... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Thursday October 23, 2003 17:16 by Jayyous Women's Charitable Society/Global Women's Strike/ISM
'WOMEN MARCH AGAINST THE WALL 'Mothers demand right to feed their children' We send love and solidarity for your March that expresses women's absolute opposition to the Wall's ghettoisation of Palestinian society, the theft of its land, and the genocide of its people. You act for women all over the world who face unending violence, as well as for all - Muslim, Jewish, Christian, atheist . . . - who oppose the particular form of apartheid you confront daily. read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum / press release Friday October 10, 2003 15:02 by Irish Social Forum
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Minutes of a Meeting held on Thursday October 2 2003 @ 7.30pm in the Comhl¨¢mh, Dublin Attendance : John Meehan, Barry Finnegan, Joe Kelly, Willy Cumming, Jean Somers, Pat Clafferty, Paul Kinsella, Paul Cummins, P¨®l Ó Gr¨¢daigh, Deirdre de B¨²rca, Liz Curry, Orla Walsh, Brendan Young, Cian O¡¯Callaghan, Mark Grehan, Mark O¡¯Connor, Clare Lee, Niav Keating, Paul Butler, Joe Campbell. Apologies : Mary Kinane, Rory Hearne, Christian Volkmann. Nomination of Chair and Minute-Taker : Chair : Barry Finnegan, Minutes : John Meehan Congo Social Forum read full story / add a comment |
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