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he had 2 names but really only one job - & now Argentina will process him for it.
international / crime and justice / news report Wednesday December 20, 2006 16:59 by iosaf   text 1 comment (last - friday december 22, 2006 16:25)   image 1 image
9 states globally have enacted laws which allow their courts put to trial those accused of genocide. Accordingly June 2003 Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón jailed Ricardo Miguel Cavallo, (also known as Miguel Angel Cavallo), a former Argentine naval officer, extradited from Mexico to Spain pending his trial on charges of genocide and terrorism relating to the years of Argentina's military dictatorship (1976 to 1983) in which over 9,000 Argentinians and as many as 30,000 disappeared.
Today the Spanish courts ruled that Cavallo may better tried in Argentina. As a result, as of this morning the Argentinian state has 40 days to get their extradition process & papers in order. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday December 20, 2006 15:20 by Porco dio   text 4 comments (last - saturday december 23, 2006 16:59)   image 3 images
This is the Porco Dio crimbo party and is also a Seomra Spraoi benefit gig .
Porco has been running for over 7 months now providing a highly diverse collection of bands , artists and dj's playing punk ,hip hop , electronic to country with everything in between a sort of schtizo-mix .
Most gigs have been benefits for a large selection of groups from Indymedia to Terrance Wheelock campaign to Residences against Racisim and varous other campaigns . So get your ass down and party for a good cause , good music and a good excuse to get out off your house - End communique ! read full story / add a comment
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international / housing / event notice Wednesday December 20, 2006 10:03 by nn   image 2 images
Today, we made a banner drop to show our solidarity with Undomshuset and with the people that were arrested while defending it in the previous days. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 20, 2006 02:10 by Saoirse   text 9 comments (last - thursday march 15, 2007 02:25)   image 15 images
Ógra Shinn Féin mobilised across Ireland on Saturday 16 December demanding the release of IRA prisoners in Ireland and anti Imperialist prisoners across the world.

There were protests, solidarity collections, candlelit vigils, banners made and thousands of leaflets distributed to a very supportive public.

There was also a public meeting held in the English midlands by Socialist Labour Party highlighting the campaign.

The message went out loud and clear from the day of action - A.R.I.S.E and free the prisoners!

For the remainder of the month of December there will be further actions in solidarity with the prisoners.
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national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 20, 2006 01:56 by deselby   text 12 comments (last - thursday june 28, 2007 20:12)   image 2 images
In light of the Moriarty Tribunal report into payments made to Charles J. Haughey, it seems as good a time as any to reflect on the career and influence of one of the most controversial politicians - some would say the most controversial politian - that Ireland has ever seen. We now have a clearer, almost forensic, understanding of what Haughey gained from public office, but what about the balance to that? What did he give to the Irish people? What did he leave behind? What is his true legacy? read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday December 19, 2006 13:55 by S.Cat   image 1 image
Yet another story of nationalisation in the oil and gas industry. There may also be some interest in the fact that the attempts to raise consciousness of the potential pitfalls of getting involved in projects like Corrib don't rate a mention. read full story / add a comment
Summer 1995 -Greenpeace activists occupy Brent Spar platform
international / environment / other press Monday December 18, 2006 23:48 by S.Cat   image 1 image
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   text 7 comments (last - saturday october 20, 2007 06:59)   image 1 image
Organisation formed to combat the use of fluoride. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / eu / event notice Monday December 18, 2006 19:25 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - thursday december 21, 2006 12:56)   image 1 image
When: Thursday 21St December 2006
Where: State Apartments, Dublin Castle, Dublin 2
Time: 11 A.M.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday December 18, 2006 19:06 by Anamia   text 17 comments (last - friday january 05, 2007 14:44)   image 2 images
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   text 5 comments (last - monday december 18, 2006 10:58)   image 7 images
Shell to sea protest Spideal Connemara read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media / other press Saturday December 16, 2006 14:32 by Prometheo   image 1 image
The videoclip is now available in english version and in wmv format. read full story / add a comment
John Gill briefing International lawyer Mr Rolyn Seeboruth
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday December 16, 2006 01:31 by LM   text 21 comments (last - saturday november 02, 2013 16:52)   image 2 images
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
from L to R : Richard, Liam, Danny & Tanya
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday December 15, 2006 22:03 by o0o   image 3 images
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
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Friday December 15, 2006 21:51 by Terry   text 33 comments (last - sunday july 12, 2009 20:39)   image 15 images
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
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday December 15, 2006 18:06 by Saoirse   text 1 comment (last - friday december 15, 2006 19:26)   image 1 image
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.
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dublin / environment / event notice Friday December 15, 2006 15:22 by Shell to Sea   image 2 images
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

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday December 15, 2006 11:43 by Irish Basque Commitee   text 2 comments (last - friday december 15, 2006 18:43)   image 1 image
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
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international / anti-capitalism / press release Friday December 15, 2006 11:20 by Alliance for Natural Health   text 57 comments (last - thursday july 05, 2007 23:28)   image 1 image
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
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday December 14, 2006 23:01 by Saoirse   text 21 comments (last - monday january 01, 2007 03:52)   image 5 images
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.
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