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mayo / anti-capitalism / news report Saturday December 22, 2007 21:15 by Chekov
This 7 minute documentary follows a couple of protestors who travelled down to Rossport in February 2007 to protest against Shell's construction of an on-shore refinery. This video follows their progress as they take part in an invasion of the site. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / feature Saturday December 22, 2007 19:46 by Shell to Sea
A small group of Shell to Sea activists scaled the heights of the Department of Natural Resources today, to place a banner reading PROTECT IRISH NATURAL RESOURCES on the balcony outside Eamon Ryan's office. Splitting into two small teams, the protesters used advice from GreenPeace to distract the security and gain access to the Minister's top floor office and leave a message for him. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Saturday December 22, 2007 16:36 by TaraTaraTara
Happy Winter Solstice from Tara Defenders at Newgrange. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday December 22, 2007 11:22 by Ciaron O'Reilly
Joe Strummer died on Dec. 22nd. 2002. This how a few people in London celebrated his memory last night. Feel free to post your own memoriam as a comment. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday December 22, 2007 11:03 by C Murray
The area of linguistic rights and access to education from grassroot mobile library services through to prisoner's rights has always been a concern of the International Pen Union. Often the media, expecially in Ireland, would tend to ignore many of the press releases which along with Reporter's Sans Frontieres, IFEX, and other NGO groups have consistently attempted to highlight the dangers to the lives of writers in War regions and to those who advocate basic human rights to dignity and right of access to education. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday December 21, 2007 10:18 by Oisin Mac Giollamoir
An introduction and critique of an often forgoteen tendency in the revolutionary movement. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday December 20, 2007 22:04 by IPSC
Last weekend members of the Ireland-Paleatine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) were on the streets in Dublin, Galway and Limerick to inform shoppers about the likelihood of unwittingly supporting the apartheid regime in Israel if they purchase diamonds without knowing where they were crafted. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday December 20, 2007 15:07 by pat c
Coke is certainly the real thing, once again it is using Rightwing Death-squads to terrorise and murder workers. In the last fortnight, three Coca-Cola workers in Bucaramanga, Colombia have been told that before the end of December they will be killed and buried in a mass grave. The threat demands that their union cease all protest against Coca-Cola. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / feature Thursday December 20, 2007 08:30 by Seán Ryan
A first-hand account of a meeting of the Department of Foreign Affairs Select Committee on Wednesday 19th December to discuss the issue of Extraordinary Rendition (the transport of abducted prisoners for the purpose of torture in another country) through Irish air-space. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Thursday December 20, 2007 02:00 by Over The Edge
Choice of Poetry workshops with Kevin Higgins at Galway Arts Centre in January read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday December 19, 2007 19:28 by gz
A fundraiser gig for Seomra Spraoi social centre read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday December 19, 2007 18:00 by ronanlawlor.org
Grainne Lawlor, cousin of Irish Backpacker, Ronan Lawlor who is missing in Torres Del Paine National Park has issued a statement outlining her distress as promised extra resources do not arrive. Grainne and Ronan's friend Bernard McCabe are participating in the search and rescue every day. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday December 19, 2007 16:03 by Asqar Karimi
Below is an appeal on behalf of imprisoned students. International Solidarity has forced the Iranian Regime to release trade union activists. Send your protest letters/emails to the addresses at the end of this piece. In the last two weeks more than 40 student leaders and activists have been rounded up by the Ministry of Information of the Islamic regime of Iran. We have been informed that at least 43 of the detainees are being held in the notorious Evin Prison, and the whereabouts of the rest is unknown. These students were arrested on or before 7 December 2007 in anticipation of protests on Student Day. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday December 19, 2007 15:00 by funderland on crack
46 of 52 of the individuals who have faced trial this last year for links to ETA have received sentances today totaling 527 years in prison. The trial saw leaders of groups engaged in media support & internalisation of support for the Basque armed struggle independence tradition sit together in the dock in a process described by some as a "macro-trial". In the statement read to the court at sentancing the presiding judge Angela Murillo commented ......"KAS and EKIN are "much more than satellite organizations"; KAS "was ETA's media organization" and "EKIN is not any other thing than KAS in an apparent legal disguise..." read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday December 19, 2007 12:48 by Mariella F
An entirely innocent business man on his way home from work is tazered eight times. Guess what? He's black. These weapons are cleary designed to intimidate ordinary people. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / news report Tuesday December 18, 2007 21:54 by El Libertario, Venezuela
* The collective editors of the Venezuelan journal El Libertario and the Organizacion Nelson Garrido, have issued a call out for filmmakers and video activists from all over the world to present their recent autonomous works concerning active social movements in struggle. This will be held in Caracas, Venezuela, between the 21st and the 28th of January 2008. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday December 18, 2007 16:14 by Fintan Lane
Pat Allen, known to many as "Pat the Picket" (because of his tireless social justice campaigning), is today sitting in Cork Prison following a protest against homelessness in the city. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / press release Tuesday December 18, 2007 15:58 by TaraTaraTara
TARA CD RELEASE read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday December 18, 2007 15:18 by Cian Prendiville
On Saturday January 5th I, Cian Prendiville, will be going for a sponsored swim in the icy-fresh waters of Malahide beach, Dublin. Money raised goes to the Socialist Party and Socialist Youth campaign fund. Through-out Ireland, the SP and SY consistently campaign against low pay, health cuts, privatisation, environmental destruction and war. We fight for a society where people come before profit. Sponsors get emailed photographic proof of my swim. Audience welcome! To sponsor me go to: www.sponsorformsonline.co.uk/cian.asp read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday December 18, 2007 14:47 by pat c
A statement below from the ITF regarding the release of Ebrahim Madadi; however the ITF are concerned regarding the continuing detention of Mahmoud Salehi who is seriously ill. In response to the release yesterday of Ebrahim Madadi, the Vice President of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, David Cockroft, ITF General Secretary said: "This is very good news - Madadi had committed no crime. Let us hope that the Iranian authorities have finally understood that trade union activities are a vital part of any strong society." read full story / add a comment |
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