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Anti G8 Activities



13th-15th June: Republican Sinn Fein will be holding an Alternative to the G8 Summit, an Anti-Imperialist Forum, in the Conway Mill Belfast, on June 13, 14 and 15. A number of speakers from both a Republican as well as a unionist perspective will be there as well as speakers the academic world. The Forum runs from 6pm to 9pm on Thursday June 13, from 1pm-9pm June 14 and from 10am-6pm June 15 see website for more info: http://www.irish-solidarity.net/db3/

15th June: The BIG march for a fairer world: Civil groups such as the trade unions, ICTU, Amnesty, Friends of the earth, IPSC have organised a response to the G8.
Assemble 12 noon Custom House Square. Rally at Belfast City Hall. Rally ends at 2.00 p.m. following which there will be a number of events in the city focusing on different issues.
More details at this link: http://fairerworldfestival.org/events/

16th June: DubAltG8 walking tours. Meet 2pm Dublin Castle (Dame Street Entrance). Spanish or English. Bring suitable walking shoes. please e-mail dublinalternativeg8@gmail.org or phone 085 2310663 to book. The tours are free of charge

16th June: The SWP is organising a "counter-summit" in Belfast on Sunday 16 June
They are also arranging a bus to the march taking place in Enniskillen on Monday 17 June
For more details phone 0876574100
see website for more details on SWP activities related to the G8

17th June: The Socialist party will be organising a bus for the march in Enniskillen.
more info on the Socialist party's G8 activities and contact info here

17th June: Dublin Alternative G8 Summit 11am until 9pm, Teachers club
Great list of speakers (see poster here: Article/posters )
Afterwards, a night of revolutionary music with David Rovics and Tommy Sands
How to get there

18th June: (Tuesday) Dublin G8 Protest march:
Assemble at Wolfe Tone Monument, Stephens Green @ 1pm
March to American Chamber of Commerce, 6 Wilton Place, Dublin 2



LINKS:

Main Indymedia article on G8 2013 here:
https://www.indymedia.ie/article/103602

Alternative G8 Organisers website:
http://dubaltg8.org/

Facebook page:
https://www.facebook...282700645195038

international / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Saturday August 04, 2012 02:28 by GARY WEBB
IF THEY'D BEEN IN a more respectable line of work, Norwin Meneses, Danilo Blandon and ''Freeway Rick'' Ross would have been hailed as geniuses of marketing. read full story / add a comment
Human Rights - Syria
international / rights and freedoms / news report Friday August 03, 2012 06:58 by Jose Maria Sison   text 12 comments (last - sunday august 12, 2012 12:30)   image 15 images
We, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), condermn in the strongest terms the duplicitous scheme of the US and NATO in instigating, funding and arming the so-called Syrian National Council and Free Syrian Army to seek the violent overthrow of the Assad government in Syria and at the same time pushing a “peace plan” and then a “transitional government” under the auspices of the UN in order to politically outmanuever the Assad government and the anti-imperialist and democratic forces. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights and freedoms / news report Thursday August 02, 2012 12:07 by resting camper   text 12 comments (last - saturday august 04, 2012 17:01)   image 5 images
Day three and things are still looking bad for Shell. Protesters and the Irish bog have the upper hand, with Shell receiving flack and Gardai humbled as crane sent packing. read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / news report Sunday July 29, 2012 19:07 by David Arthur Johnston
Two expert witnesses, Dr. Stephen Hwang of the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and Brooks Hogya, a survivalist and wilderness guide, testified that the prohibition of rudimentary forms of shelter, such as tents, has an adverse effect on the health and well-being of homeless people. Prohibition of quality sleep was, thus, a denial of Section 7 rights since sleep is an essential life-sustaining act. The judge presiding over the case agreed with the opinions of the expert witnesses.

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Supporters of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange gather outside the Ecuador Embassy in central London (Reuters)
international / rights and freedoms / news report Sunday July 29, 2012 12:35 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 01, 2012 00:58)   image 1 image
“Four Corners”, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation current affairs program, this week broadcast what amounted to an exposé of the frame-up of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange on allegations of sexual misconduct in Sweden. Assange remains inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, seeking political asylum from the threat of being removed to Sweden, which would in turn facilitate extradition to the US. read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / news report Wednesday July 25, 2012 05:51 by Anthony Ravlich
A new idea, an ethical approach to human rights, development and globalization to replace neoliberalism, gives people a choice.
The ethical human rights approach is being supported on the social networking sites by the US government, the UN while the NZ government maybe sympathetic. Also promotes inclusion of children's rights in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. read full story / add a comment
Marian Price Interned Political Prisoner of Conscience
international / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 25, 2012 04:11 by Brian Clarke   image 1 image
We wish to draw your attention to the continued detention of Marian Price, which we feel constitutes an alarming breach of human and civil rights read full story / add a comment
LONDON OLYMPICS 2012 FALSE FLAG OPERATION?
international / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Monday July 23, 2012 22:05 by BrianClarkeNUJ   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Many believe that London will be rocked by a false flag operation at the 2012 Olympics. It has been proven by MI-5 Whistle-blowers that we live in the age of false flag terror from British Occupied Ireland to the Euphrates. We need be ready even if the 2012 Olympic Games could come and go without an incident. It is better to be prepared for false flags and be ready just in case something something does happen. read full story / add a comment
Genoa 2001: two of the activists sentenced last week are untraceable
international / rights and freedoms / news report Monday July 23, 2012 05:00 by autonomen   image 1 image
Francesco Puglisi and Vincenzo Vecchi, the two of the’Genoa 10′ to receive the most severe sentences for crimes of “devastation and looting” – 15 and 13 years – are untraceable since Sunday, the same day Genoa’s Supreme Tribunal ordered them to be incarcerated.
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Supporters of Free Marian Price Campaign, Dublin Committee, publicizing their cause to the Campaign Against Household & Water Charges march, 18th July.
national / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Sunday July 22, 2012 22:55 by Diarmuid Breatnach   text 19 comments (last - thursday august 23, 2012 11:28)   image 1 image
Irish Republicans have been on dirty protest in Maghaberry for two years -- the kind of situation that led to ten dying on hunger strikes in 1981. Also, opponents of the normalisation of the British occupation of Ireland are being framed and convicted, locked up without charge or being tried for actions back in the 1980s. Meanwhile, the organised Irish Left is averting its head. In what other country would this happen? read full story / add a comment
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international / rights and freedoms / news report Friday July 20, 2012 12:36 by Psycho Punk.   text 8 comments (last - tuesday august 07, 2012 18:14)   image 2 images
In Moscow a court has begun hearing the case of three feminist punk rockers who sang a protest song in Moscow's main Orthodox church.The trio are charged with hooliganism and could get seven years in prison.

The hearing, expected to set a trial start date, is being held behind closed doors while supporters and opponents of Pussy Riot demonstrate outside.The women were arrested in February after performing in Christ the Saviour Cathedral.

They have now spent 5 months in prison, and have been refused bail. Other band members who took part in the incident were not arrested. read full story / add a comment
Spooks Ireland
international / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Friday July 20, 2012 05:25 by BrianClarkeNUJ   image 1 image
The Magna Carta, the charter of English liberties was imposed on King John in 1215 but it will be dead on its anniversary. It has been shredded in Ireland by the Secret Services and their front man the unelected English autocrat Paterson,who re-introduced the wartime instrument of internment without trial in total disdain of a supposed peace process. read full story / add a comment
lorry occupied
mayo / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Friday July 13, 2012 22:32 by Rossport Solidarity Camp   image 3 images
Shell's haulage was repeatedly stopped by protesters from Rossport Solidarity Camp during today’s day of solidarity with the community in Erris under siege from the imposition of the Corrib gas project. There were three actions at different locations along Shell's haulage route between Aughoose and Bangor Erris, which resulted in a significant disruption to the haulage. The actions were also in solidarity with the reclaim the Land action against open cast coal mining in Scotland planned for tomorrow. http://www.indymediascotland.org/node/27202 read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 10, 2012 04:43 by Anthony Ravlich
A compilation of some comments made on Facebook regarding the proposed ethical approach to human rights, development, globalization to replace neoliberalism which may help give readers a greater understanding of the former approach which emphasizes bottom-up development rather than the extreme top-down control of development of the latter. read full story / add a comment
national / rights and freedoms / press release Saturday July 07, 2012 15:28 by Eugene Mc Cartan   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 07, 2012 20:34)
The Communist Party of Ireland expresses its solidarity with TDs who operate under the banner of the United Left Alliance and to all members and supporters of the ULA at this time. read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / press release Thursday July 05, 2012 15:13 by WikiLeaks   text 41 comments (last - thursday july 12, 2012 14:45)   image 2 images   video 2 video files
Today, Thursday 5 July 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing the Syria Files – more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012.

This extraordinary data set derives from 680 Syria-related entities or domain names, including those of the Ministries of Presidential Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Information, Transport and Culture.

Over the next two months, ground-breaking stories derived from the files will appear in WikiLeaks (global), Al Akhbar (Lebanon), Al Masry Al Youm (Egypt), ARD (Germany), Associated Press (US), L’Espresso (Italy), Owni (France) and Publico.es (Spain). Other publications will announce themselves closer to their publishing date read full story / add a comment
London 2012 Without Human Rights
international / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 04, 2012 06:15 by BrianClarkeNUJ   image 1 image
The Government, having reviewed the whole matter with great care and with reference to any future operations, have decided that the techniques...The statement that I have made covers all future circumstances."As foreshadowed in the Prime Minister's statement, directives expressly prohibiting the use of the techniques, whether singly or in combination, were then issued to the security forces by the Government."[3] These are still in force and the use of such methods by UK security forces would not be condoned by the Government. The leading nationalist party of that time, the SDLP took a principled stand and resigned from Stormont, "the sectarian parliament for a sectarian people," as boasted by Unionist leaders. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Sunday July 01, 2012 17:52 by W. Finnerty   text 164 comments (last - saturday june 15, 2013 07:45)
Letter to Dr Anne Jeffers read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Friday June 29, 2012 12:08 by Indyjourno
Sark is a tiny island, with a population of around 600 people of the coast off the coast of Normandy which operated a feudal system of government until 2008 when it was forced to comply with the EU convention of human rights. It is held as a fief on behalf of the Queen of England and while it is a part of Britain it is not part of the UK and sets its own tax rates which is set at an extremely low rate. read full story / add a comment
Shell's begging bowl retrieved
mayo / rights and freedoms / news report Thursday June 28, 2012 19:28 by Crabby   text 3 comments (last - saturday june 30, 2012 17:19)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Erris Inshore Fishermen's Association (EIFA) gets a dose of the crabs from Shell and were left scratching on Monday last!: Three years too late, EIFA 'fishermen', whose shillings from Shell have run out were back again on Monday on another begging spree. During this begging exercise by EIFA Shell's begging bowl ended up in the depths of the ocean off Ballyglass Pier and deep sea divers were successful in locating the bowl at co-ordinates 54-15-21 N, 09-53-49 W.

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