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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Tuesday May 26, 2009 22:39 by hatboy
Shell to Sea Galway pulled off a great publicity stunt last Saturday on the first night of the Galway ocean races of which Topaz is a main sponsor. The aim was to inform people that Topaz is Shell and encourage people to boycott Topaz. They arranged for a Kila member to wear a Shell to Sea t-shirt while playing on the Topaz mainstage, handed out fliers in the crowd and had several anti-shell/anti-topaz banners in the area. One banner which read 'Let's Do It Galway, Send Shell to Hell, Corribsos.com' was unfurled at the foot of the stage while Kila was playing, and when security attempted to take the banner from Shell to Sea and Climate Camp activists in the crowd, a Kila member came down from the stage, retrieved the banner from the security guard, and put it up on stage for everyone to see! read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday May 26, 2009 17:15 by Sean Matthews-personal capacity
In April, twenty six traffic attendants were sacked for resorting to a half-day un-official strike, after management ignored their grievances over working conditions. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday May 26, 2009 07:55 by TD
Today, in a Manhattan Federal District Court in New York, Royal Dutch Shell with a long history of colluding with the Nigerian government to ruthlessly crush popular opposition to its ecological destruction and exploitation of the river Niger delta has to answer charges of complicity in human rights abuses, including the judicial murder of internationally renowned poet, writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his Ogoni tribesmen on November 10th 1995 - other charges include torture, arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday May 25, 2009 22:21 by Grainne Quinn
Upcoming launch for Pathways To Palestine, affiliated with MAP [Medical Aid Palestine ] this Wednesday. The 4000 mile cycle aims to raise money for humanitarian aid and awareness of the plight of ordinary civilians in Gaza. 4 Students. 4000 miles. 14 countries. 40 days. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / press release Monday May 25, 2009 15:56 by Michael Murphy
10,000 leaflets to be delivered in Cork attacking the Green party sellout read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Monday May 25, 2009 12:38 by Paul Dunphy
Oxfam Ireland needs 10 million of your unwanted goods! Give goods a second life read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / press release Monday May 25, 2009 11:27 by Irish Socialist Network
The shabby treatment of people living in the Ballymun flats shows what's wrong with town planning and local government in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / opinion/analysis Monday May 25, 2009 10:48 by Bernie Wright
The animal liberation movement has the mammoth task of exploding the myths behind so-called "humanely produced" animal products, such as cage-free and free-range eggs or meat that is "certified humane." We try to expose the truth behind the marketing of food products that supposedly cause less harm to the animals used to produce them--foods that are meant to assuage the guilt of people who are concerned about animals (sort of) but who stop short of not eating them. Of course this eases their consciences about causing suffering to animals. It is a half measure. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / news report Sunday May 24, 2009 22:56 by Cathar
Tibor Revesz an employee (until recently at least) is sought by Bolivian Authorities read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Sunday May 24, 2009 21:50 by Contaminated Crow
A quiet week: a landfill, a telemast, a windfarm read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday May 24, 2009 13:13 by TD
Last Friday, after meeting with the local Muslim community, human rights activist, Caoimhe Butterly, gave a harrowing eye witness account of the horror and butchery that was visited on the defenceless people of Gaza by Israel in its recent attack at a public meeting in Galway. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday May 24, 2009 12:53 by Paula Geraghty
For those who missed the account of the US military by Sargeant Mathis Chiroux at the Irish Anti-War Movement AGM here's your chance to catch it again. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Sunday May 24, 2009 12:39 by Joe Higgins
There is fear and loathing in the vegetable patch. The greens are nervous and restive. Inclement environmental conditions have sapped their once bright emerald hue leaving them looking pale and sickly. But worse is to come. Rumours abound of an army of ravenous caterpillars waiting to crawl all over them and expected to do so on June 5th. The greens know the consequences. Their once succulent leaves shredded, what beckons is a humiliating journey to the compost heap. Greens, however, have strong survival instincts and so they are desperately trying to stave off the evil day. ‘I’m off to Tralee,’ Twittered Senator Dan Boyle, ‘ to say something controversial.’ That something was a call for the renegotiation of their Programme for Government with Fianna Fail. read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / news report Saturday May 23, 2009 16:37 by Michael Gallagher
national / politics / elections / feature Saturday May 23, 2009 15:46 by Joe Higgins.eu
This Sunday (24th May), the Socialist Party candidate in the Dublin Euro Election Campaign, Joe Higgins, will be doing a live online video Q&A session, to give people throughout Dublin the chance to directly ask him questions. Starting at 5pm, he will be answering questions as they come in, live on video through his website . To watch the video, or ask a question people simply have to log on at 5pm. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Friday May 22, 2009 14:46 by remember Ken Saro-Wiwa
An International Week of Action against Shell, calling for an end to gas flaring in the Niger Delta, got off to a firey start on Tuesday as Activists from ShellGuilty took their campaign to the company's London AGM with a spectacular fire-juggling performance. You can see photos and read about the action here: http://www.remembersarowiwa.com/shellagm2009.htm read full story / add a comment
clare / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Thursday May 21, 2009 22:51 by John Lannon
A case brought by the state against human rights activist Edward Horgan as a result of his requests to have a suspected CIA rendition plane searched at Shannon was dismissed in Ennis yesterday (20th May). Judge Mangan, presiding over Shannon District Court, dismissed the case on the basis of legal arguments made by Mr Horgan’s defence council. read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / press release Thursday May 21, 2009 22:48 by Joe Higgins.eu
Dublin Euro Election Candidate, Joe Higgins has signed a pledge from the European Federation of Public Service Unions on defending public services and public sector workers. Joe stands fully in defence of workers rights and public services. Workers and our services should not be made pay for the crisis caused by neoliberal governments, big business and the rich. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday May 21, 2009 19:56 by Eugene Mc Cartan
The publication of the long awaited “The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Report” into abuse suffered by children and young people at the hands of religious orders while detained in residential institutions has exposed as never before the deep class hatred of working people and the rural poor that permeated the state, government and its agencies as well as the Catholic Church itself. This whole horrible feature of Irish society cannot be understood if its class nature is not recoginsed. read full story / add a comment
national / education / feature Thursday May 21, 2009 15:17 by Mark C
“I am totally depressed as I believe a huge amount of work has been totally undone … support structures to assist the most vulnerable have been undermined, which will mean that discipline and pastoral care structures will be affected” Principal, boys' secondary school, Leinster The Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland (ASTI) has published a report into the effects that the cuts to education, announced in Budget 2008 (and reaffirmed with the April Budget of this year), will have. Most of these cuts will not become noticeable until the new school year, when it may be too late to have them reversed. read full story / add a comment |
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