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international / environment / other press Monday December 18, 2006 23:48 by S.Cat
Everyone remembers the appalling events surrounding the murder of anti-Shell activists including Ken Saro Wiwa in Nigeria in 1995. But the hot summer of ''95 was also the year of the Greenpeace campaign against Shell UK to stop the company from dumping the Brent Spar platform at sea. Talking to Shell people, you find that they still feel that they were right, and the British environmental group was misguided when it campaigned to have the disused rig dismantled on shore. But nevertheless, the debate was certainly won by Greenpeace, with Shell eventually giving in after a large scale campaign of direct action, blockades, occupations and pickets. The fact that Russian environmentalists have got in touch with the lawyers who represented Greenpeace, as outlined in the Guardian story below, must be causing disquiet in the Shell boardroom. They can only hope that Russian internal politics might mean a way out for them, or else their shareholders will have more to worry about in 2007. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday December 18, 2006 20:55 by Seán Ryan
Organisation formed to combat the use of fluoride. read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Monday December 18, 2006 19:25 by redjade
When: Thursday 21St December 2006 Where: State Apartments, Dublin Castle, Dublin 2 Time: 11 A.M. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday December 18, 2006 19:06 by Anamia
Shell to Sea has, from the very start, been about more than the fact that a community in a remote area of Ireland were being used as guinea pigs in a vast experiment to see if natural gas could be processed on shore. What was at stake was whether the state would support the needs of big business against its own people. The central question of the campaign has always been whether communities are expendable, not in the interests of the nation, but in the interests of the shareholders. How far, the campaign asked, is a European government willing to go to support the desires of a multi-national, when these run counter to the demands of its own citizens? Could the Left in Ireland use the energy of the state's unquestioning support for Shell to expose and undermine the state's apparatus of control? read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / news report Sunday December 17, 2006 20:48 by Conamara
Shell to sea protest Spideal Connemara read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Saturday December 16, 2006 14:32 by Prometheo
The videoclip is now available in english version and in wmv format. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday December 16, 2006 01:31 by LM
Having successfully seen off the challenges to the web sites and John Gill, the VLPS is moving forward with greater vigour and determination than ever. Action plans have been made and 2007 will be the year that the people of ireland wiil take back control of their country from the priviledged and over arrogant legal profession. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday December 15, 2006 22:03 by o0o
Our numbers swelled by the near end of the NUI Galway Xmas exams, Galway, Shell to Sea picketed the Statoil Service Station, Newcastle Rd for 90 minutes this evening.. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Friday December 15, 2006 21:51 by Terry
Garda Review is the magazine of the Garda Representative Association. The November issue gives extensive coverage to the Ballinaboy protests. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday December 15, 2006 18:06 by Saoirse
Ógra Shinn Féin have organised the national day of action on Saturday 16 December to call for the immediate release of all IRA prisoners, and to highlight the plight of political prisoners the world over who are incarcerated for their role in Anti Imperialist struggle. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Friday December 15, 2006 15:22 by Shell to Sea
As the pressure from the State and Shell increases on the locals of North West Mayo,and the corporate media are acting as their lapdogs publishing lies and sleaze,Activists continue to spread the truth about the proposed Corrib Gas Project read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday December 15, 2006 11:43 by Irish Basque Commitee
Inaki de Juana, Basque political prisoner, has been on hunger strike for the last 39 days asking for his release and the end of all harasment against the 700 Basque political prisoners. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / press release Friday December 15, 2006 11:20 by Alliance for Natural Health
Jim Wright operated a small business selling natural products. He was raided in 2003, then he was raided in 2005 by The MHRA- yes, the Medicines and amp;Healthcare products Regulatory Authority. The stock was removed from his shop, the stock comprised natural products . the story is at link: http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHwebsite...3.pdf read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday December 14, 2006 23:01 by Saoirse
Sinn Féin held a protest outside Leinster house today demanding the release of IRA prisoners. The protest was made up of Sinn Féin and Ógra Shinn Féin activists. Some of Sinn Féin's TD's where also present showing their support for the campaign. 8 years following the GFA and 1 year following the IRA's decision to call an end to its armed campaign, there is no reason why IRA prisoners should still be in jail. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 14, 2006 22:14 by Anti-racist
After hearing that John Ward was savagely beaten, blasted with a shotgun and then executed with a second close-range blast when he was crawling away and no doubt aware of Nally's complaint that John was "like a badger" - he could'nt kill him with the spar of wood, the jury's "care and consideration" was evidenced in their verdict. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 14, 2006 19:59 by TJD
A month after the Israeli human rights group Yesh Gvul, filed a petition against what the organization said was the failure to rule on a petition filed five years earlier, today, the justices involved, obscenely ruled that the Israel Defense Forces policy of targeted killings of militants does not categorically violate international law, and the legality of each targeted killing must be evaluated on an individual basis. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / feature Thursday December 14, 2006 14:36 by Libertarian Socialist
Anthony Campbell, a 20-year-old apprentice plumber who lived in block F of the flats, at St Michan's House flats complex, near the Four Courts in Dublin was gunned down as he went about his work in a house at Scribblestown Park, Finglas, north Dublin yesterday morning. As he left for work yesterday, he would have had no idea that he was about to become the latest victim of a violent feud in the criminal underworld he would only have read about in newspapers. Such was the swift, indiscriminate and chilling nature of the attack that he probably never realised why he was being killed. The cruel twist of circumstance that led to his death saw him shot in the house of a relative of a major crime boss because he would have been a witness to the killing of that criminal. Gardaí said he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality / news report Thursday December 14, 2006 13:51 by Labour Youth
History is been made to day with a Labour Party Bill which is proposing full equality for same sex couples. Today the Bill which has been launched by the Labour Party will pass its first stage in the Dáil - this will be the first bill ever published in Ireland removing all discrimination from same sex couples. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday December 13, 2006 23:37 by StripeyCat
Over the Christmas, on some channel at some time of the day or night, it is pretty inevitable that Billy Wilder's excellent film, Some Like It Hot, will be shown. In the movie, when Tony Curtis wants to impress Marilyn Monroe about how financially secure he is, he picks up a sea shell and holds it up, to indicate that his investments are secure and, to say the least, high-yield. Recently however, a slew of financial and economic pundits have been sounding warnings about the company's future. Problems with the Sakhalin 2 project in Russia, the Bolivian re-nationalisation, and the worsening security situation in Nigeria, are making investors wonder whether there is a deep problem with the way Shell do things. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 13, 2006 22:48 by Catalan Solidarity Ireland Committee
A Basque solidarity rally was hold in Dublin last Sunday.It lasted about 1.5 hours, near Stephen's Green end of Grafton St, Sunday 10th. read full story / add a comment |
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