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They're Back ....and This thime they mean War
international / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday April 17, 2007 13:06 by Mark   text 13 comments (last - wednesday may 09, 2007 12:56)   image 4 images
From 6-8 June 2007, the G8 Summit – the meeting of the heads of state and government of the USA, Canada, Japan, Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Russia – will take place in Heiligendamm in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on Germany’s Baltic Sea. The Summit location is the Kempinski Grand Hotel. As there seems to have been a remarkable absense of discusion, debate and practical organising surrounding this years G8 blockade mobilisations in germany this june, ive attempted to collate some info that may be useful for readers.

It is by no means comprehensive and apols of not having mastered HTML but hope it is of some assistance

One thing is certain. This year is going to be big. Even though the traditional date have been moved forward a month to try to disrupt our 'disruptions', the unprecedented call, planning and actions will have an impact far greater than recent G8 manifestation. This will be part of making capitalism history. Check out the links below for more info. read full story / add a comment
Worst Minister for health ever
national / consumer issues / news report Tuesday April 17, 2007 10:06 by J Aubrey   text 79 comments (last - wednesday october 03, 2007 15:59)   image 2 images
This is the update:-

*INO and Psychiatric nurses will continue to highlight inequity in the
health system. They will use their votes in the General election.

*Impact are planning a clerical workers strike which the health unions will
support.

*The consultants are refusing to re-negogtiate salaries and this is being
buried by the gutterpress behind the nurses strike.

*The junior doctors of Ireland are the only ones in the EU who have to
a 60-70 hour week. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Monday April 16, 2007 20:11 by Zachary Litwiller   text 38 comments (last - sunday august 23, 2009 00:46)   image 3 images
This morning in Blacksburg, Va. tragedy struck Virginia Tech College Campus when shooter entered the campus and shot first in a dormitory and then in a classroom building. This is the worst campus shooting to have ever occurred in U.S. history. read full story / add a comment
louth / miscellaneous / event notice Monday April 16, 2007 18:21 by Sean Crudden   text 4 comments (last - saturday april 28, 2007 20:04)   image 13 images
The forum is to use open space technology in a full-day session on Saturday 28 April 2007 in The Fairways Hotel, Dundalk. The idea is to review the progress of the forum over the last few years and to plot the way ahead. Not only stakeholders who may already have a connection with the forum are invited to attend the open space day but also anyone who is interested in or curious about the forum's function and who may have ideas or opinions which might help to advance the work of the forum. read full story / add a comment
John Liddy Galway Launch
galway / arts and media / event notice Monday April 16, 2007 15:36 by Fred Johnston - Manager   image 1 image
A new collection of poetry comprising old and new work set to be launched at The Meyrick Hotel, Galway, by John Liddy read full story / add a comment
Omagh
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday April 16, 2007 13:39 by Anti-Fascist   text 8 comments (last - thursday june 07, 2007 18:00)   image 3 images
Ógra Shinn Féin organised a number of actions at the weekend to highlight the fascist decision by the Spanish Government to outlaw Basque Youth Movement SEGI and to subsequently jail their entire National Leadership for prison sentances up to 6 years.

There was a protest in Omagh and Dublin where a leaflet drop and petition signing also happened.

There was also leaflet drops in Strabane and Castlederg. read full story / add a comment
Justice for the Forgotten criticise Jim Cusack of the Sunday Independent (click to read or see link in text)
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday April 16, 2007 00:46 by Harry Wells   text 24 comments (last - thursday may 19, 2011 21:05)   image 7 images
Sunday Independent journalist Jim Cusack’s one-man campaign to deny British involvement in the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings is criticised in today’s Sunday Independent (April 15 2007) by Justice for the Forgotten, which speaks for the families of those who died.

No doubt collusion in 1974 bombings
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=...15510

Justice for the Forgotten secretary, Margaret Unwin, points out that ”This journalist has refused consistently over the years to accept any version of the event other than that relayed to him many years ago by the Ulster Volunteer Force.” Cusack ignored the main findings of the limited terms of reference of the McEntee Enquiry, concerning the inadequacy of the Garda investigation, in order to proclaim, irrelevantly and incorrectly, British innocence of collusion. read full story / add a comment
More scenes like this if onshore refinering is planned
national / environment / other press Sunday April 15, 2007 22:50 by Tribune reader   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 17, 2007 20:02)   image 1 image
Lots of people have been concerned that the Bellanaboy Refinery Site is as big as it is.

400 acres for an installation that the world's frendliest company tell us will only occupy about 20.

So what's the story?

Others tell us that the government can't get involved in the oil and gas business (as the Norwegians did) because just isn't enough oil and gas out there.

But what's this in todays business section of the Sunday Tribune? read full story / add a comment
Marek Jurek
international / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Sunday April 15, 2007 18:46 by C Murray   text 10 comments (last - friday june 29, 2007 20:02)   image 3 images
The LPR in Poland had attempted at the end of 2006 to force through
an amendment to the article 38 of the Polish Constitution which would
have transcended the already legislated for abortion rights of Polish
women. The amendment was to have read ' to protect human life from
the moment of Conception'. The campaigners launched a global
letter of protest which went through many women's groups and a
political campaign to raise awareness of the issues surrounding
women's reproductive rights.

The Vote happened and the LPR lost.
Marek Jurek has been forced to resign.
During the almost five month campaign which saw deep division in
the Polish Parliament, the Alicia Tysiac case was heard in Strasbourg, The ECHR
ruled that the Polish State had failed in their legal obligation to provide the
mother of three with a legal abortion on medical grounds, despite three
doctors advising that she would lose her sight if she was to proceed with
her pregnancy.
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Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings ...
galway / politics / elections / news report Sunday April 15, 2007 16:50 by TD   text 4 comments (last - friday april 20, 2007 10:05)   image 6 images
"The Palestinian intifada is a war of colonial liberation. We Israelis enthusiastically chose to become a colonialist society, ignoring international treaties, expropriating lands, transferring settlers from Israel to the occupied territories, engaging in theft and finding justicication for all these activities ... we established an apartheid regime." (Michael Ben-Yair, Israeli Attorney General 1993-36).

Yesterday, for six hours, activists from the Galway branch of the IPSC manned an information stall outside Lynch's castle in Shop Street, gathering signatures for an Israeli Blood Diamonds petition and ... read full story / add a comment
full state honour burial for a nazi
international / miscellaneous / news report Sunday April 15, 2007 14:09 by german communist   text 9 comments (last - monday april 16, 2007 14:08)   image 2 images
The black forest city of Freiburg, in Germany's southwest, yesterday held a burial with full state honors for the former Nazi navy judge Hans Filbinger. read full story / add a comment
OMNI Air new US Troop Carrier at Shannon
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday April 15, 2007 10:23 by Edward Horgan   text 38 comments (last - sunday april 29, 2007 18:10)   image 1 image
Pat Flynn reported in the Irish Times April 13 that OMNI Air International OMI, is to bring 100 flignts of US troops through Shannon each month on their way to Iraq and Afghanistan, from May 2007. Well, they have arrived early.
Do we ignore this further abuse of Irish neutrality, and Ireland's further complicity in the deaths of innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan? If we stay silent and do nothing we are all complicit in killing of innocent people. read full story / add a comment
Get used to it!!
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday April 15, 2007 03:41 by Seán Ryan   text 38 comments (last - sunday april 29, 2007 03:32)   image 1 image
When water is finally privatised we will thank our masters for it read full story / add a comment
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mayo / anti-capitalism / feature Saturday April 14, 2007 20:38 by Dublin Shell to Sea   text 19 comments (last - tuesday april 17, 2007 10:54)   image 1 image
Six people were arrested this afternoon on the site of Shell’s controversial refinery in Ballinaboy, Co Mayo. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday April 14, 2007 20:17 by IFC POW Dept.   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 18, 2007 01:14)   image 1 image
Three Irish Republican POWs are on punishment blocks, and more are
likely to follow in the coming week, for their refusal to remove their
Easter lilies and for their refusal to co-operate with the punishment
system at Maghaberry jail.
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mayo / environment / news report Saturday April 14, 2007 17:28 by Eve   text 2 comments (last - friday may 11, 2007 18:11)   image 1 image
Work at Shell's proposed refinery site at Bellanaboy was interupted for the second day running today with 30 protesters engaging in a trespass of the site. Fifteen campaigners managed to get into the inner compound stopping work for some time. Six people were arrested. read full story / add a comment
Women march to the inner compound through the site.
mayo / environment / news report Saturday April 14, 2007 15:48 by Eve   text 8 comments (last - friday april 20, 2007 20:23)   image 12 images
Fourteen women from Erris, Cork, Dublin and the Solidarity Camp gained access to Shell proposed refinery site at Bellanaboy yesterday morning, Friday the 13th April. read full story / add a comment
Sean Crudden
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday April 14, 2007 14:24 by Sean Crudden   image 1 image
What is wrong in the health services? Is it a question of money and working hours? Perhaps it is the quality of the work professionals are expected to implement? Is a more research orientated outlook important for all nurses and doctors? Is it any longer possible to have blind faith in the administrators or, even, in the stock nostrums of medicine? read full story / add a comment
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Saturday April 14, 2007 05:06 by Cormac Ryan PRO éirígí   image 1 image
Nurses action is a result of the Government's neglect of public health system. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / news report Friday April 13, 2007 23:30 by Shell to Sea   text 22 comments (last - saturday april 28, 2007 22:08)   image 19 images
Today in Mayo activists from Shell to Sea disrupted the peat haulage process which has been going on since the beginning of April. In what was seen as a reconnaissance, a small group of protesters arranged to have a close look at the situation, and see if they could lock themselves on to the Iggy Madden haulage trucks as they passed.

Heavy-handed Garda tactics meant that none of the attempts were successful, although some were close enough to make those involved confident that the process of stripping the peat can be stopped by peaceful direct action protest methods.
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