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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday November 16, 2007 12:09 by Reductio Ad Absurdum
Tony Blair had self-nominated David Miliband to take up the cudgels of office in the wake of his departure from office, but apart from creating a few little ripples the whole idea was a non-starter for Blair and for Miliband. He got placed, instead in Britain's Foreign Office and last night he began to use his office to 'make speeches' , which are both unbelievably crass and inopportune. They involve beligerence against an already pissed off Putin and a diplomatic word to 'Keep our promises to Turkey', meanwhile in Turkey, a political party with connections to the PKK is being banned. We all know what that means in Ireland.. Reductio ad Absurdum.:Reduce debate, achieve political consensus and sell off assets to benefit the wealthy. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Friday November 16, 2007 11:52 by National Secretary
The Workers Solidarity Movement held its Autumn 2007 National Conference in Dublin on the 3rd/4th November. National conferences take place every six months and are the prime decision making body on positions and priorities for the organisation. All WSM members can attend, vote and submit motions and amendments either as individuals or as groups. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / event notice Friday November 16, 2007 09:55 by ssbbbbbb
We call on everybody to join the demonstration in Berlin on the 8th of December - almost one year after the “final battle“ in Copenhagen - in order to destroy together the winter lethargy of investors, yuppies and cityplanners and to show clearly and unequivocally our rage against the current situation …. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday November 15, 2007 23:34 by Anti-Fascist
While on his way there, the comrade, only 16 years of age, together with some friends, spotted a guy sporting nazi paraphernalia on the underground. When confronted, he pulled out a knife, stabbed Carlos, the comrade, in the heart, and another antifascist militant in the lung, while trying to run out of the tube station. Carlos died, the other guy has been badly hurt, but doctors say he will live. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Thursday November 15, 2007 21:11 by DSF
Published: 13 November, 2007 The Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Natural Resources and the Environment, Martin Ferris TD, has voiced his regret over the decision by the Environmental Protection Agency to grant a license to the Corrib Consortium to proceed with the planned gas refinery at Bellanaboy, County Mayo. Deputy raised the issue in the Dáil this afternoon in an effort to have the issue debated, particularly in the light of the Green Party's previous opposition to the sitting of a refinery at that location. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday November 15, 2007 09:41 by TD
Last night, activists from Global Women's Strike, Shell to Sea, Food Not Bombs, Galway Alliance Against War, Workers Solidarity, SWP, SP, Labour Youth, IPSC and Iranian students from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Malaysian medical students from UCHG and the college Human Rights Society resisted the progaganda visit, of the US Ambassador to Ireland; Thomas C Foley, to Galway University. As was the case last year with the 4th October visitation of the Israeli Ambassador to Ireland; Zion Evrony to the college, http://www.indymedia.ie/article/78807 this visit was facilitated by the student Law Society. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Wednesday November 14, 2007 23:41 by D. Freeman
As the grey misty rain fell throughout the day – you truly knew it was winter. The fact that over 300 bus workers were gathered in this dog of an afternoon outside Dublin Bus HQ would indicate that we all have entered the season of discontent. read full story / add a comment
mayo / crime and justice / news report Wednesday November 14, 2007 22:22 by Rudiger
An account of the Shell to Sea cases in belmullet today, where 13 people appeared before the court relating to Shell to Sea protests. read full story / add a comment
mayo / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 14, 2007 20:26 by Sopranos Fan
People in Erris and around the world are puzzled by the resemblance of the new Garda Superintendent in Belmullet with "Johnny Sack" Sacramoni from the Sopranos Television programme. http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/cast/character/johnny_sack....shtml http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&tas...id=38 Locals have speculated that the two may be related, or even whether the actor Vince Curatola has been hired by Mayo Gardaí to portray a heavy-handed police officer. Recent gangster tactics seen in Erris may indicate that the actor has taken his role too far. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday November 14, 2007 17:32 by Grassroots Dissent
On Monday 12th November the World Bank met in the Grand Hotel Malahide. As happens all across the globe wherever the World Bank meet activists came together to send the message that the Bank is horrific, directly responsible for death and devastation, and we reject the World Bank as an institution with no legitimacy. Break the World Bank! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday November 14, 2007 15:53 by Arise
Article 26 of the Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to education yet since 1979, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has systematically sought to deprive its largest religious minority, the Bahá'í Faith, of the right to a full education. The situation in Iran represents perhaps the only case where the right to education is being intentionally denied to an entire group of people. This denial of education is based entirely on religious discrimination. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Wednesday November 14, 2007 09:06 by John
Workers employed by the United Bus Company of Tehran (Sharekat-e Vahed) were arrested and detained in Evin prison in an attempt to prevent a strike. The workers are demanding a pay rise, collective bargaining, recognition of their union and the release of their union’s president. 12 leading members of the Union of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company were arrested following their fight for better pay and working conditions. After their arrest, 3,000 bus workers staged a walkout in protest. Police responded by making further arrests. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday November 14, 2007 00:09 by Over The Edge
The Friday Lunchtime Reading Series in Galway City Museum Poetry in the Right Place presents Kevin Higgins introduced by Mags Treanor on Friday November 16th at 1 pm. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / feature Tuesday November 13, 2007 23:50 by Tadhg McGrath
A large crowd braved the cold evening weather to attend the first Irish screening of the documentary on the trial of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Eight - "Don't Let Shell Kill Again" , which was appropriately projected onto the outside wall of the Shell headquarters building at 52 Lower Leeson Street in Dublin, on the 12th anniversary of the executions. Sister Majella McCarron, in what will probably be her last public appearance, made a short speech to provide a context for the film, remembering Saro-Wiwa and the others who were executed at the behest of Shell, after a series of events which shocked the world in 1995. Sister Majella gave us an insight into the situation in Ogoniland today, and Senator David Norris read an excerpt from Saro-Wiwa's speech at his sentencing hearing in Port Harcourt, when he and his co-defendants heard that the special military tribunal had decreed that they were to be hanged. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday November 13, 2007 22:00 by Screening group
Venue: Seomra Spraoi 4, Mary's Abbey D1 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 (blue door) 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.......... screeninggroup@hushmail.com read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / press release Tuesday November 13, 2007 21:16 by RBR
The Autumn 2007 issue of Red & Black Revolution is back from the printers and can be bought from any WSM member for €1. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday November 13, 2007 20:09 by Democracy and Policing
How accountable are the gardaí to the Irish people read full story / add a comment
offaly / arts and media / press release Tuesday November 13, 2007 17:57 by John Molloy
Bass-baritone John Molloy returns to his native Birr following a successful year touring Egypt, China, UK and Switzerland and here in Ireland with the RTE Concert Orchestra and National Symphony Orchestra. He recently completed an Irish tour in the title role of Opera Theatre Company’s The Marriage of Figaro. John is joined by Lynda O’Connor, one of Ireland’s finest virtuosic violinists and Camerata Ireland Musician of the Year. Accompanied by acclaimed pianist Mairéad Hurley, the programme includes the haunting Méditation from Massenet’s Thaïs, Monti’s riveting Czardas, Arias by Verdi and the popular show-tunes of Alan Jay Lerner. The songs of James Lynam Molloy will also feature to mark the forthcoming anniversary of the Offaly born Composers death. read full story / add a comment
antrim / racism & migration related issues / event notice Tuesday November 13, 2007 15:24 by Rachael Wilson
Belfast Exposed’s latest exhibition, Border Country by Melanie Friend opens this Thursday evening in the gallery in Donegall Street. Melanie Friend spent four years documenting the physical structures of UK Immigrant Removal Centres (IRC), while recording the voices of detainees. She will make a short presentation about her work at the opening on Thursday evening: "By August 2003 I had negotiated access with the Home Office and the Governor of Dover… over three years I interviewed nine detainees… however transfers from and to IRCs across the country can happen suddenly as can removals….." read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Tuesday November 13, 2007 15:06 by Dorothy Gale
Delaram Ali, a Womens rights activist has been sentenced to be flogged and to serve 34 months in prison. Her "crime: demonstrating for womens Rights. Delaram Ali has been told to present herself to court in order to start serving a prison sentence which has not formally been conveyed to her. She has been told that if she does not attend court by 10 November, she will be arrested. There is also a risk that she will be flogged. If she is detained, Amnesty International would consider her to be a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful exercise of her right to freedom of expression and association for her activities promoting women’s rights in Iran. The Head of the Judiciary has the power to suspend Delaram Ali’s sentence and to order a reinvestigation of the case. read full story / add a comment |
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