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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday August 24, 2008 16:34 by TD
Despite all odds, with scrambled radio and jammed phones courtesy of dirty tricks, a seasick passenger, in rough waves with a storm brewing, the small boats, the SS Free Gaza and the SS Liberty, successfully landed in Gaza early yesterday evening, breaking the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.They left Cyprus on Thursday morning, sailing over 350 kilometers through choppy seas. They made the journey despite threats that the Israeli government would use force to stop them. They continued sailing although they lost almost all communications and navigation systems due to outside jamming by some unknown party. They arrived in Gaza to the cheers and joyful tears of hundreds of Palestinians who came out to the beaches to welcome them. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Saturday August 23, 2008 19:57 by Kevin Pina
According to a report delivered to the U.N. General Assembly on January 10, 2008 by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), there were no reported instances of persons disappeared in Haiti during the year 2007. The WGEID is part of the U.N. High Commission on Human Rights and as such is in the loop to receive regular human rights reports filed by the U.N. mission in Haiti. More than five months after Mr. Pierre-Antoine’s disappearance and public acknowledgement of the case by U.N. authorities in Haiti, the WGEID completely omitted any reference to it in their report to the General Assembly. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / feature Saturday August 23, 2008 16:59 by Tel
That the production wing of global energy corporation, Shell, has a presence in the west of Ireland is now well known. Shell have been joined by another of their kind; Exxon Mobil, sometimes known as Esso. It's a company which, like Shell, has left a long dark oil slick like trail of controversy and notoriety across the globe. Exxon Mobil are in alliance with Sir Anthony O’Reilly, Ireland’s most influential businessman read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Saturday August 23, 2008 12:45 by EYFA
The participants of the 20th Ecotopia international environmentalist gathering at Sarikum nature reserve, Sinop, on the Turkish Black Sea coast, are awaiting and preparing for forceful eviction of their campsite by the Jandarma (Turkish Police), which are already present with undercover agents and several cars. The 70 participants from over 30 countries will peacefully resist this unjustified raid. The offical reason for the announced eviction was the announcement of the intention to take part in the weekly permitted press conference of the local anti-nuclear initiative SİNYAD (Sinop Nükleersiz Kent ve Yaşam Derneği read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / event notice Friday August 22, 2008 16:20 by NEAR 90fm
On September 4th 2008 NEAR 90 fm will officially become the first Community radio Station in Ireland to broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / feature Friday August 22, 2008 10:21 by Rudiger
This morning at 10am, 15 Shell to Sea activists entered the water at Glengad Beach to stop Shell pipeline excavation work. Dinghies, surfers and swimmers surrounded the machine and stopped the work by their presence in the water. 3 members of the Garda water unit then began picking people out of the boats and the water and bringing the protestors into the Shell compound where other Gardaí conveyed them then to Belmullet Garda station. Gardaí were questioned by activists, asked to identify themselves and give reasons why they were pulling people from the water. Gardaí were questioned as to what authority they had to give directions or use force against protesters in the water. They refused to account for themselves. “Public Order Act” shouted one very aggressive Garda. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Thursday August 21, 2008 16:08 by BR
A number of protesters have been arrested in Mayo resisting Shell contractors who have been trying to install pipeline infrastructure on Glengad beach. Five people were reportedly arrested this morning and another three this afternoon. It is unclear whether all those arrested have been charged under the Public Order Act or have simply been detained. Shell has been working on the beach, which is a Special Area of Conservation, under a foreshore licence granted by Minister Mary Coughlan and permissions from Minister Eamon Ryan, even though they have yet to receive planning permission for the onshore section of their proposed pipeline. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 20, 2008 18:27 by Y
Here is some good background from activists and writers on the left about the current situation in Georgia. Mark Almond is especially interesting as he is very knowledgeable on Georgian democracy. These speeches are from an SWP meeting held in Central London recently under the banner of the Stop the War Coalition. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Wednesday August 20, 2008 15:28 by evil gerald
In today's Evening Herald, columnist Dan White plumbs new depths of idiocy. In a bizarre link, he tries to make out that the conflict in Georgia and South Ossetia should encourage the Irish government to help Shell bring the gas from the Corrib field onshore. What does he think they have been doing? Does the 11 million euro spent on Garda overtime not indicate (even to the slow witted Dan White) that maybe the government is already on Shell's side? read the full column here: http://www.herald.ie/opinion/columnists/dan-white/the-r....html read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday August 20, 2008 14:48 by Rudiger
Yesterday at 1pm, 3 kayakers paddled out from close by to Killybegs Harbour to deliver a letter from Shell to Sea to Captain Van Der Plicht on the Solitaire, the biggest pipe laying ship in the world. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 20, 2008 13:46 by TD
Barak Ravid is reporting in today's edition of Haaretz newspaper that Israel would, according to PM Ehud Olmert, "unleash more massive firepower" and to "hit back harder than before," if Lebanon were to become a "terrorist state" under the domination of Hezbollah. Israel "did not use all means to respond then, but if Lebanon becomes a Hezbollah state, then we won't have any restrictions in this regard ... gone are the days when wars are fought on remote and hidden battlefields while life in the cities carries on as usual," he said. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / event notice Wednesday August 20, 2008 12:57 by kw
Actions against Shell continuing while the pipeline laying ship The Solitaire is off the coast. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday August 20, 2008 12:37 by anti-fascist
You have to hand it to those tireless activists over at British National Party HQ in the land of the brave and the home of the free (England, for the unitiated in imperialist propaganda). The intrepid campaigners for racial purity have been so busy churning out their ‘information’ on “immigration invasion” that they simply haven’t had the time to verify the appropriateness of some of the images they’ve been using on their website. In an August 4 article entitled Spot the Difference: Zimbabwe or the EU?, far-right readers are confronted with a prominent image of a No to Lisbon leaflet (carried here for those who don't wish to boost the ratings of Britain's super xenophobes) recently published by none other than an Irish socialist-republican party, éirígí. read full story / add a comment
wicklow / miscellaneous / feature Wednesday August 20, 2008 07:59 by Flood Victim
Wicklow County Council has no flood plan and it's Fire Service is not allowed respond to flooding. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / other press Tuesday August 19, 2008 13:14 by Mayo News Reader
According to Sunday's Daily Mail, Shell misled the experts who were tasked with assessing the company's planning application for the proposed onshore pipeline route. Julie Fossitt, Senior Ecologist with the National Parks and Wildlife Services and author of the standard reference work "A Guide to Habitats in Ireland" asserted in a memo released under Freedom of Information legislation, that '‘key information was withheld from specialists whose opinions were included in the planning documents" and that ‘the project ecologists did not have access to key sections of the proposed pipeline route’. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday August 19, 2008 10:35 by pat c
Peter Tatchell writes on how the Iranian Regime is stepping up its war against the working class: trade union activists have been jailed and flogged. This is part of the Regimes wider assault on all dissidents: In Baluchistan alone700 nationalist and human rights campaigners are on death row. Full article at link. Among those recently jailed were two workers' rights campaigners, Sousan Razani and Shiva Kheirabadi. They have been sentenced to 15 lashes and four months in prison for the "crime" (under Iran's Islamic law) of participating in a May Day celebration in the city of Sanandaj earlier this year. The verdicts were issued by the criminal court of Sanandaj – branch 101. read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday August 18, 2008 18:19 by redjade
Maybe in the future the only consistant revenue to keep Shannon Airport alive will be from the killing? read full story / add a comment
Conscience their lodestar, Israeli violence their sword of Damocles,the Boats of Mercy sail for Gaza
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday August 18, 2008 17:39 by TD
More the decks of a Noah's ark than a cobblestoned trading emporium, Free Palestine Campaign activists took to rain deluged Shop Street last Saturday in solidarity with the brave women and men who presently will be sailing from Cyprus in two boats to break the medieval siege of Gaza and on what Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire, calls a "pilgrimage of justice and peace." read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday August 18, 2008 10:59 by events@LASC.ie
This lively and participative course provides an overview of the causes and consequences of lack of development in Latin America. Rooted firmly in the experience of the people of the region, the course will cover historical, social, economic, political and cultural perspectives. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / event notice Sunday August 17, 2008 20:36 by M. Ni Bhrolchain
Feis Teamhra, a turn at Tara Poets and musicians will perform at "Feis Teamhra, a turn at Tara" on the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath on Sunday 24th. August at 3.30pm. read full story / add a comment |
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