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China has cancelled Christmas in Hong Kong this year. Officials have ordered that the usual celebrations be 'toned down'. It's part of a creeping intolerance that leaves churches fearing for the future, says John MacNab.
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Shoppers sign the petition to the Retail jewellers of Ireland
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday December 15, 2007 19:35 by Limerick IPSC   text 6 comments (last - friday june 06, 2008 16:59)   image 15 images
Mingling in the crisp chill air with the feint strains of a carol group down the street, chanting human rights volunteers in Limerick city centre alerted Christmas shoppers to the continuing clandestine trade in Israeli diamonds. read full story / add a comment
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national / animal rights / news report Saturday December 15, 2007 11:45 by Stephan Wymore   text 3 comments (last - sunday december 16, 2007 08:47)   image 6 images
Today a joint ‘Rabbit’ from the Animal Rights Action Network turned up outside of Brown Thomas’s flagship store on Grafton Street to celebrate the long awaited campaign victory of the up market department store going fur free from February 2008. Joined by other ARAN members the giant ‘rabbit’ uncorked a bottle of champagne to crowds of onlookers whilst cheering ‘Brown Thomas Now Fur Free’ another member also held a sign saying the same! Luckily the campaign event on Dublin’s busiest shopping street was being covered by Ireland’s top media outlets. read full story / add a comment
Bilal Hussein
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday December 15, 2007 11:35 by Michael Gallagher   text 6 comments (last - thursday april 10, 2008 08:12)   image 1 image
I was a bit taken aback to find that their is no coverage of this case on indymedia. Well here are the basics with some links, make of it what you will.

Bilal Hussein was employed by Associated Press to photograph events in Iraq. With no previous experience of photography, he went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for his efforts.

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Earthlings
international / animal rights / other press Friday December 14, 2007 23:33 by wageslave   text 2 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 12:49)   image 1 image
Pause for a while to contemplate our one sided abusive relationship with all the other inhabitants of this large spinning rock that we all live on. The other "Earthlings" read full story / add a comment
Tent at the front line of Rath Lugh
national / history and heritage / news report Friday December 14, 2007 13:44 by Madam K   text 8 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 22:59)   image 11 images
The NRA communications officer threatened the individual/s responsible for entering site to gather images with criminal damage and trespass while at the same time refusing media access .The soutterains were bulldozed that very afternoon.

Now Rath Lugh under threat.

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international / eu / news report Friday December 14, 2007 08:11 by éirígí   text 37 comments (last - sunday may 11, 2008 09:24)   image 2 images
éirígí say NO to Lisbon Treaty

While European Union heads of state were gathering in Lisbon today, to sign away the sovereignty of their respective states, the removal vans were arriving in Dublin to cart off the last vestiges of the Twenty Six County state’s independence.

In a bold visual display éirigí launched its ‘NO TO LISBON’ campaign outside Leinster House today. The centrepiece of the launch was a mock-up ‘EU NO_TO_LISBON Removals’ van sporting the slogan ‘Experts in the Removal of Independence, Democracy & Neutrality’. The vehicle pulled up outside Leinster House to highlight the fact that ratification of the Lisbon Treaty will mean the end of the already limited form of national democracy within all EU states. read full story / add a comment
Jamie Leigh Jones
international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday December 13, 2007 19:12 by Joe   text 1 comment (last - friday december 14, 2007 19:27)   image 1 image
Jamie Leigh Jones claims she was raped by co-workers while working for a Halliburton subsidiary at Camp Hope, Baghdad, in 2005. After being drugged and gang-raped, she claims she was imprisoned in a shipping container without food or water and threathened with dismissal if she reported the incident. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday December 13, 2007 18:41 by Joe   text 11 comments (last - sunday december 16, 2007 18:06)   image 1 image
The Israeli Amry Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi called for international pressure on Iran. He said the Israeli Army "recognized the need to prepare in the event that global efforts fail", in other words, they are prepared to start a war all on their own, if nobody else is. read full story / add a comment
the wyrd sisters
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday December 13, 2007 16:13 by sister licentia   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 13, 2007 16:19)   image 7 images
last week saw three members of controversial order, the sisters of perpetual indulgence, making a very public show of support for the shell 2 sea campaign read full story / add a comment
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galway / bin tax / household tax / water tax / event notice Wednesday December 12, 2007 22:19 by Galway IPSC   text 2 comments (last - wednesday february 15, 2012 10:23)   image 1 image
The Galway branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign will have an Israeli diamond information stall in front of Lynch's castle, Shop Street from 11 AM on Saturday. read full story / add a comment
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national / eu / news report Wednesday December 12, 2007 22:08 by VeChDi   text 5 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 15:02)   image 1 image
Sinn Féin held a major event in Dublin last Sunday to sketch out the beginning of a new way forward for the party, particularly in the 26 counties.

The day-long conference, entitled 'Engaging Modern Ireland', was designed to re-start SinnFéin's electoral activities after the disappointing general election result last May.

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limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday December 12, 2007 21:43 by Limerick IPSC   image 1 image
The Limerick branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign will have an Israeli diamond information stall at the corner of O'Connell Street and Thomas Street from 2:00 PM on Saturday afternoon.
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Protesters in front of Shell truck at Bellanaboy Bridge
mayo / environment / other press Wednesday December 12, 2007 20:04 by Larry   text 3 comments (last - thursday december 13, 2007 18:32)   image 1 image
As these articles show, they have no clear plan for a pipeline route, and to say they lack community consent would be something of an understatement, to put it mildly.
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Darabi Arrives To Official Welcome In Tehran.
international / crime and justice / news report Wednesday December 12, 2007 16:44 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - friday september 17, 2010 22:17)   image 1 image
Kazem Darabi who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a German court was released on Monday 10 December after serving 15 years in jail. He had been convicted of involvement in the murder of three leaders of Iranian Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), Sadegh Sharafkandi, Fattah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan and their translator Nouri Dehkord in Berlin. They were dining in the Mykonos restaurant and were in Berlin for a convention of the Socialist International.
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The ongoing crisis in Gaza
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday December 12, 2007 14:28 by IPSC   image 1 image
The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign will be holding a lunchtime protest on Thursday 13th December at the EU Headquarters in Dublin.

What: Protest rally
When: 1pm, Thursday 13th December
Where: EU Offices Building, 43 Molesworth St, Dublin (near the Dail building).

Why: In a nutshell, the 13th is the day the EU are signing into effect the 'Lisbon Reform Treaty'. The IPSC is using this opportunity to highlight the EU's role (via the International Quartet) in imposing an aid embargo on Gaza, as well as the general eclipsing of the Gazan crisis by the frenzy surrounding the Annapolis conference. A fuller explanation follows below... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 12, 2007 12:17 by World Weary   text 34 comments (last - wednesday december 19, 2007 20:38)   image 1 image
If Katy French had grown up in Finglas or Ballyfermot or Clondakin or Lucan or someother place that the politicians in the Dail and establishment who live in leafy afluent parts of South Dublin do not know exist and was working in a supermarket when she died from using cocaine her death would have been mentioned in a tiny paragraph in the newspapers and would not resurface until months later the coroner would rule the fatalily was the result of death through misadventure. If Katy French had not died this past week the deaths and hospitalisation of a number of young men in Waterford and in the Midlands from drug use would hardly have earned a mention in the mainstream broadsheets.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday December 11, 2007 18:51 by Jo ta ke!   text 6 comments (last - wednesday december 19, 2007 19:30)   image 1 image
Ógra Shinn Féin recently launched a film at a Basque/Irish Night in Conway Mill Belfast. The film explores the cultural, social and political realities in the Basque country and looks at the current struggle for independence. It is presented by Ógra Shinn Féin activists who travelled to the Basque Country in September to stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity with the Basque people and youth movement Segi.

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Gardai at Tara
national / history and heritage / news report Tuesday December 11, 2007 13:47 by TaraWatch   text 7 comments (last - saturday january 05, 2008 01:59)   image 1 image
An Oral Parliamentary Question, regarding Garda 'Operation Bedrock' - which now appears to be an ongoing investigation into Tara campaigners, has been submitted to the Minister for Justice, Brian Lenihan. If the Minister chooses to answer, it will take place on Thursday afternoon. If not, a written answer will come early next week. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday December 11, 2007 11:25 by Organised Ideas   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 11, 2007 11:28)   image 2 images
Armed Ambitons // Organised Ideas was started a few years ago when the first communique was released to the unknown audiences in the form of Organised Ideas , a Diy gig Promotions that has put on many gigs , some of them benefits for such things as Shell 2 Sea , Indymedia and The Brains Collective . Since then Organised Ideas has merged with Gz Collective to become apart of The Porco Dio collective as well as still working on its own . The other side of the project is Armed Ambitions which is an independent record label and publisher . Armed Ambitions is currently working with a few different bands from varied genres . The whole project takes its inspiration from the glam rock of David yes David bowie and the DIY ethos of crass in a world wind of mind blowing proportions . read full story / add a comment
I wonder do they ever play presidential sashes in the bedroom?
international / politics / elections / other press Monday December 10, 2007 22:34 by señora donzella morales chavez   text 2 comments (last - wednesday july 01, 2009 09:49)   image 1 image
Something quite extraordinary has happened in Argentina. & to appreciate it, all you really have to do is wonder how many spouses see each other serve in the highest office of their land. Hilary obviously pops to mind, but the you get the absolutely extraordinary nature of the new Argentinian presidency - for not only is it legitimatised by one of the highest electoral margins in democratic history - there was no need for two terms of a Bush type (or to be completely up-to-oligarchy style) the son or daughter of a rival.

Yep - admit it you political experts & know-alls are hard put to remember any other state where a president has served his constitutional limitations then handed the sash & baton to his wife. Or indeed the other way round. read full story / add a comment
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