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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday April 23, 2007 09:24 by Al Wright
Niamh Uí Bhriain, formerly chairwoman of Youth Defence, wins major libel victory against the Independent. The paper printed an apology for articles written in 1997 which defamed the ro-life leader. It took nine years for the matter to come to court as the Independent opposed a hearing at every turn. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday April 23, 2007 00:51 by Martinez
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel peace laureate and Ann Patterson from Belfast, along with other international delegates, attended the Second Bil’in International Conference on Non-violence in the West Bank last week. Mairead addressed the 500+ participants and on Friday they joined the weekly peaceful protest of Bil'in against the separation wall. Bilin is a village northwest of Ramallah where the Wall will cut through its land causing many villagers to lose a large area of their agricultural land. The people of Bilin have beenn organizing nonviolent resistance to the wall for two years. This is a report made by the International Solidarity Movement & available at: http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/04/21/april-20-b...test/ read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday April 22, 2007 22:04 by Brian Leeson
Dublin Shell to Sea has called for a ‘Day of Action’ on Frday, 27th April, outside of Shell’s Irish headquarters on Leeson Street. Here a few reasons why you should come along and make your voice heard. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday April 22, 2007 21:57 by Catalan Solidarity: Ireland Committee
This year marks the 300th anniversary of the occupation of the Catalan Countries by the Spanish State following the battle of Almansa in 1707. This date cannot be easily forgotten as both the national and social oppression by the Spanish State over the Catalan Countries still continues. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Sunday April 22, 2007 20:46 by Chris Murray
The Latest New Left Curve has been published, included here are some of the
graphics and a link to the editorial position paper. it can be got in Dublin in hard Copy in some of the smaller independent bookshops and is always worth the read. http://www.leftcurve.org/index.html read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday April 22, 2007 19:15 by Niall Harnett
“The State guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate the personal rights of the citizen”. Constitution of Ireland - Bunreacht na h-Eireann, Article 40.3.1. The wide-spread and systematic corruption of Gardaí that has been exposed in this country might lead us to believe that we should be entering a new era of accountability. No, far from it, the opposite is true. That new era began last October 2006 and continues now with the practical ongoing training and conditioning of hundreds of Gardaí at Bellanaboy, to the use of violence over the rule of law. In that context of institutionalised Garda violence, I‘d hope that this article could go some way in empowering you to adopt the policy of: Never cooperating with the Gardaí unless ... 1) You have been informed of a reason why they suspect you of committing an offence, or 2) You are being assaulted by them and/or threatened with fear for your personal safety or your life. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday April 22, 2007 17:42 by TD
Activists from the Galway branch of the IPSC spent seven hours yesterday outside Lynch's castle in Shop st leafleting pedestrians and encouraging them to boycott Israeli Blood Diamonds and Woodie's/Atlantic Homecare DIY stores on account of their unethical selling of Israeli Keder plastic garden products, we've been at it outside Lynch's castle every Saturday for months now, because there's something more to our conscienses than the blind eye and repellent hypocrisy, not so, unfortunately, in the case of the passerby who, focused and full of hate slimed us with a "Sieg Heil" as he passed by. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday April 22, 2007 16:49 by F. Fish
By air and sea it will stretch from Donegal to Galway and beyond. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Sunday April 22, 2007 16:11 by Gino Kenny
Live music with a difference + late nite debauchery, till, well late. Bank holiday Sunday, 6th May, Waterside Pub, Clondalkin.
Doors open 9pm and tickets a mere €8. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday April 22, 2007 14:24 by Chris Murray
Tomorrow sees the IPRED2 vote on intellectual property rights in the EU Parliament. The blurb goes , its about 'commercial' and 'incitement', but EFF are saying that the lines are fuzzy and it involves transnational co-operation on investigations by the big US Conglomerates (Hollywood) http://www.copycrime.eu There is a protest letter and a petition on the site. read full story / add a comment
dublin / gender and sexuality / news report Sunday April 22, 2007 13:59 by activist from ChoiceIreland
Yesterday from 12 noon pro-choice activists picketed the fundamentalist Christian rogue agency on Dorset Street. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday April 22, 2007 10:19 by Ascent
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has issued a statement that the Colombian Armed Forces are complying with the conditions necessary for them to continue receiving US war aid. Ms Rice has just condoned one of the biggest terrorist organisations in the world, after the US, UK and Israeli armies. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Saturday April 21, 2007 19:55 by Annabelle
Shell to Sea demonstration at Presidential visit in Belmullet. read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous / feature Saturday April 21, 2007 15:03 by Bill Poster
Mayo farmer Willie Corduff, who was jailed for three months in 2005 over his opposition to Shell's inland gas refinery at Bellanaboy and high-pressure pipeline through his farm, has been awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. Awarded annually to six grassroots environmental heroes, the $125,000 no-strings-attached prize is the largest of its kind in the world and is often referred to as the Nobel Prize for the environment. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday April 21, 2007 13:19 by Sharon.
A facsimile copy of Seán MacDiarmada's last letter was included in a batch of old Republican material which was handed over to us recently... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Saturday April 21, 2007 08:57 by obit
The President Johnson Center of NASA in Hueston Texas was seen to shooting less than 4 days after suggestible and gullible world viewers had begun to absorb the V Tech Blackburg Massacre. Information on the man who alledgedly broke into the facility without proper ID, being stopped, retina scan, finger-print analysis or voice-print is reported as having taken a hostage who was killed. The man then commit suicide. This is not the worst massacre in US tech facility history & will not usurp the legacy of Columbine. But it is the worse massacre in NASA ground history but not as bad as the legacy of Columbia read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday April 20, 2007 14:47 by Youth Voter
The youth wings of all the state’s main political parties are calling jointly for the government to commit to weekend voting in the interest of guaranteeing and promoting students’ and other young people’s right to vote. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday April 20, 2007 14:15 by TD
Joel Kovel, Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies at Bard College in New York and American Jew, argues that Israel is an incorrigible human rights offender because, by discriminating against Arabs, it is guilty of 'state-sponsored racism'. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Friday April 20, 2007 00:17 by MJ Costello
In a recent Irish Independent article Kevin Myers blamed RTE for "hate mail, death threats, and abusive graffiti on my car, concluding with my home having to be given round-the-clock Garda protection" Kevin says this resulted from Joe Duffy’s Liveline whipping up the “mob” "after (as I admitted within a day and repeat now) was [sic] a very poor article of mine". Major Myarse, as Kev is known affectionately, does not reveal why he was persona non-grata with the “mob”. Was it opposition to poor syntax, bad grammar, or irritation at Kev not letting facts get in the way of his opinions (or of his apology, which took two days to appear, not one)? Not the latter, we can be sure. Otherwise the mob would be scribbling its criticism on Kev's car every day of the week and Kev, like Salman Rushdie, would require permanent ”round-the-clock Garda protection”. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday April 19, 2007 21:13 by blonde haired bar worker
Without the right to bear arms almost a hundred years ago the Irish Republican Brotherhood would have found their strategy for Irish Independence somewhat more challenging. As we know many militia were present in Ireland at the point in our history. As for Ireland the universal right to bear arms which had first been codified in "modern law" as a privilege by the British Bill of Rights in 1689 facilitated insurrection, rebellion, revolution & held the forces of oppression in check throughout the world. The whole world. Not the bit you see in the movies or can send an email to. read full story / add a comment |
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