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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday August 23, 2007 12:52 by MichaelY   text 1 comment (last - thursday august 23, 2007 18:36)   image 1 image
In an interesting article, The Independent covered the latest disgrace by the British Government concerning the banning of and refusing entry to a Palestinian under 19s football team to the UK.

The IPSC contacted UEFA re:this incident and we have received a non-committal reply saying that the Palestinians are not members of UEFA [while Israel is!!] and, anyway, this was a British Government decision and there is nothing they can do about it. All comments welcome. In the meantime we are awaiting breathlessly the Kevin Myers response to all of this. read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday August 23, 2007 11:35 by Ardeshir Mehrdad and Yassamine Mather   image 1 image
In this article Ardeshir Mehrdad and Yassamine Mather examine the underpinnings of Political Islam, they show how it is fundamentally anti-democratic and how it is hostile to the Enlightenment and the interests of the Working Class. The full text is at the link.

The last three decades have witnessed a relentless growth of Islamic movements, so that, today political Islam is an undeniable reality on the world scene. The events of September 11, 2001 and since have given it further prominence. From the Middle East to North Africa and South Asia, it has, in its various manifestations, become a major player that needs to be analysed both politically and theoretically. The contradictory nature of political Islam means that such analyses must deal with it not only in relation to the interests of capital, but also in relation to the challenge it poses to socialist ideas. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday August 23, 2007 10:38 by indyjourno   text 12 comments (last - sunday august 26, 2007 19:39)   image 1 image
A video has surfaced on YouTube indicating that the police used provocateurs at the summit in Montebello.

Canadian Union of Public Employees or CUPE, has uploaded pictures of the altercation that show the arrested “protesters” have the same footwear as the police.
The video and photos show that the protesters are moving into the police line as a union leader challenges their actions and tries to expose them as police officers. read full story / add a comment
Girlie Wallpaper
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Thursday August 23, 2007 10:05 by Elizabeth   image 2 images
Heritage Week begins August the 25th 2007. The web-address is included here:-

http://www.heritageweek.ie/en/register-event-introducti....aspx

This is the week , when well meaning groups such as the Heritage Council provide
the Irish people with a brief reminder of the importance of heritage to us as a community
and a nation. read full story / add a comment
Front page of The Independent (UK) of Saturday, August 18th, 2007
international / environment / other press Wednesday August 22, 2007 19:13 by XIT   text 5 comments (last - sunday august 26, 2007 10:39)   image 1 image
It's almost unheard of for any mainstream media organisation to give positive or honest coverage of direct action, action camps etc, so on the rare occasion that it does happen, it's worth seeing. Below is a scan of the front page of last The Independent (UK) of last Saturday (18 August, 2007). The cover story is a special report on the Climate Camp at Heathrow. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 22, 2007 12:22 by pat c   text 3 comments (last - wednesday august 29, 2007 14:29)   image 1 image
Heres an English translation of a story which got little attention in the mainstream media, what was published was sketchy and confusing. Kathlyn Stone provided the translations for the statements and wrote the main story. The full story is at the link.

On the 4th of July, U.S. military and Iraqi national guards opened fire with bullets and grenades on the Baghdad home of Abdel-Hussein Saddam. The severely wounded Abdel-Hussein was taken away and his 18-year-old daughter was left alone, injured and bleeding on the floor. Abdel-Hussein’s beaten body turned up at the Yarmouk morgue on July 6. The murder of Abdel-Hussein was the most devastating of four attacks by the U.S. military on the Iraq Freedom Congress in the past 10 months. The IFC is comprised primarily of trade unionists, community leaders, women’s and children’s rights workers who are determined to look after their own. IFC’s goals are to salvage the lives of as many Iraqis as possible, and to end the occupation and sectarian fighting. read full story / add a comment
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galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday August 21, 2007 23:56 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
North Beach Poetry Nights

presents

Perciphone Petticoat

Thursday 23rd August at 9pm

BK's Winebar, Spanish Parade, Galway

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Protect Irish Natural Resources
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday August 21, 2007 22:02 by Shell to Sea   text 3 comments (last - friday august 24, 2007 01:17)   image 4 images
D'iarr Shell chun Sáile orainn theacht ag Ambasáid an Ioruaidh, 34 Sráid Theach Laighin, BAC 2, ar an Déardaoin seo, 23 Lúnasa, ag 1 p.m.

There will be a Shell to Sea Protest at the Norwegian Embassy, 34 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2, on Thursday August 23rd at 1.00 PM
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national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday August 21, 2007 17:27 by Cormac Ryan   text 17 comments (last - monday august 27, 2007 13:03)   image 3 images
éirígí has started the rollout of its campaign for British withdrawal with the first phase - distribution of a new information leaflet - already under way. read full story / add a comment
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galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday August 21, 2007 16:39 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
Kevin Higgins’s debut poetry collection ‘The Boy With No Face’ was Salmon Poetry’s bestselling book of 2005 and has recently been reprinted. To celebrate the rare enough event of a debut poetry collection going to a second printing an invited group of readers will read their favourite poems from ‘The Boy With No Face’ in Galway City Library on Wednesday, September 5th at 6.30pm. The MC for the evening will be John Walsh, organiser of North Beach Poetry Nights. read full story / add a comment
Resist Oppression!
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday August 21, 2007 14:13 by republican socialist   text 10 comments (last - friday august 24, 2007 15:30)   image 1 image
The membership of Dublin IRSP has reacted angrily to the latest persecution by the special branch on a member of the party and his family. Yesterday evening twelve members of the special branch raided his family home and physically assaulted one of his sons who answered the door. Four of his children ranging from 20 years of age to a child of 10 were home at the time watching television when they were confronted by twelve special branch officers wielding machine guns and handguns, they were thrown to the ground and handcuffed, whilst firearms were held to there heads. The children were informed by an individual later identified as Detective Sergeant O’Driscoll (Harcourt Street) that they had a warrant to search the house for firearms.

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Drawing of Lismullin remains from Deevy report
meath / history and heritage / news report Tuesday August 21, 2007 11:59 by TaraWatch   text 4 comments (last - wednesday august 22, 2007 16:00)   image 2 images
An international archaeological expert has issued an independent report which contradicts many NRA findings and recommendations regarding the newly discovered national monument in Lismullin, and calls for full preservation of the "unique" national monument. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Tuesday August 21, 2007 10:18 by Niav   text 92 comments (last - wednesday march 04, 2015 11:59)   image 21 images
Choice Ireland staged a protest outside the Women’s Resource Centre, a rogue pregnancy counselling agency on 50 Upper Dorset Street on Saturday, 18th August 2007. Choice Ireland is a diverse group of Pro-Choice activists campaigning for free, safe and legal abortion services in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 21, 2007 10:13 by Angela   text 4 comments (last - monday september 10, 2007 20:37)   image 1 image
Yet again the Government has shown itself limited by the market push of the EU and the FDA
with regard to choice in health care and diet. The FDA and EU had worked on an operating system,
which cost millons where the net result is the coloured bar on the end of your ceral box which tells
you the RDA of your food. Its the 'buy it bulk and sell it back at profit' school of thought which brought
the ban on St John's Wort and the envisaged ban on Tea Tree Oil. In translation it just means that
in exchange for the profit of the Multi's we get treated like kids with regard to Choice!
The letters are to be directed to:

Commissioner Markos Kyrianou
DG Sanco,
The European Commission
B-1049 Brussels.
Belgium. read full story / add a comment
Tara - The Sacred Center
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday August 21, 2007 06:13 by Susan Sheehan-Repasky   text 9 comments (last - thursday august 23, 2007 01:28)   image 1 image
Shameless Acts Of Hooligans/Thieves read full story / add a comment
Seomra Spraoi Party
dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday August 21, 2007 01:01 by Ciarán   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 21, 2007 16:24)   image 1 image
This Saturday:

Seomra Spraoi (Last of the Summer Wine) Party !!
25th of August 2007

It All Kicks Off at 8:30:

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday August 20, 2007 19:00 by Barra   text 14 comments (last - monday september 10, 2007 20:02)   image 2 images
Ógra Shinn Féin have launched throughout Dublin, its campaign to highlight the vast quantity of housing opportunities left unused in the city whilst tens of thousands of people, with more every year are in need of suitable affordable housing.
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galway / arts and media / event notice Monday August 20, 2007 18:32 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
The September ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, September 27th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Dimitris Lyacos, Rita O’Donoghue & Geraldine Keane.
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Monday August 20, 2007 16:04 by Screening Group   text 4 comments (last - wednesday august 22, 2007 14:02)   image 2 images
Suggested Donation: Waged/Unwaged 2.50 /2.00

Directions:

Coming from Capel St bridge, turn left at the Boar's Head off Capel Street, large grey-blue building on your right, old Melody Maker building. It is across the road from the "Capel Building" and Rhodes restaurant. It is on the Luas track.

time 7:30

If you want to screen a feature/short/documentary/music video..........

e-mail

screeninggroup@hushmail.com

Short films will be screening as well. (Subtitles used when ever possible). read full story / add a comment
The Protection of Minorities- a Democratic Imperative?
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Monday August 20, 2007 15:39 by Anti-Racist   text 2 comments (last - saturday august 25, 2007 20:20)   image 1 image

Last week we all watched as the titular head of the Irish justice Department actively
deported a six year old autistic boy, along with his twin sister and his mother. They
were put on a commercial flight to Lagos, late at night and given enough cash for
an hotel. In the last day a Mexican woman who had sought refuge for 12 months
in a church and had become the voice of economic migrants and illegals in the
US was picked up and deported to Tijuana, leaving behind her, her eight year old
boy Saul.

Elvira Arellano has vowed to continue her fight from the other side of the border.
If we look at the newswire the overwhelming amount of these cases have involved
women and children. No surprises there, they are slower and easier to catch. read full story / add a comment
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