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The Shell to Sea delegation before meeting the ministers
mayo / environment / news report Monday September 29, 2008 21:16 by FSB!   text 6 comments (last - wednesday october 01, 2008 18:37)   image 7 images
A number of groups from Erris and Co. Mayo went to meet with two government ministers, Éamon Ryan (Natural Resources) and Éamon Ó Cuív (Gaeltacht & Community Affairs) in Ballina today. These groups included Shell to Sea, Pobal Chill Chomáin, and Pobal le Chéile; a number of Erris fishermen accompanied by the parish priest of Kilcommon also met the ministers despite not having been invited. The ministers also met with the Pro- Gas Mayo Group and the Council for the West, organisations that could be candidly described as ‘astroturf’ (i.e. fake grassroots) and stalking horses for Shell. Following these encounters, the ministers met with the TDs for Mayo and county councillors from Erris, to round off what was a cynical PR exercise by an alarmed clueless government. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday September 29, 2008 21:08 by Valentine Julien   text 12 comments (last - thursday october 02, 2008 14:55)   image 3 images
Yes, you find it in the papers all over Europe and today in Belgium in de Morgen .....but is it true?

Declan Ganley is initiator of the No means No campaign in Ireland. Cohn Bendit (green party EU parliament) and his Anti-American friends try with a personnel attack to save the European Union as it is, by asking an EU investigation on the legality of this No campaign. read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday September 29, 2008 14:44 by TD   text 25 comments (last - sunday october 05, 2008 01:04)   image 7 images
Besides highlighting EU hypocrisy in turning the blind eye to Israel's egregious violations of the Agreement, the Euro-Med Agreement, which economically privileges rogue state Israel with access to the EU market ( "Relations between the Parties, as well as all the provisions of the Agreement itself, shall be based on respect for human rights and democratic principles, which guides their internal and international policy and constitutes an essential element of this Agreement.") the other concern of the Free Palestine Campaign at last Saturday's info stall in Shop Street was Zionism's collusion with Nazism and the betrayal of the Jewish people leading up to and during the Holocaust . read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday September 29, 2008 13:59 by Reyning   text 12 comments (last - wednesday october 15, 2008 00:02)   image 7 images
Shell to Sea Kayakers visit the Solitaire in Scotland read full story / add a comment
Gravestones (c) Michael Gallagher
international / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday September 29, 2008 11:31 by Michael Gallagher   image 1 image

Anti War Photography Exhibition Fundraiser
'Images of Resistance -inside and outside of Iraq.

Table Quiz,
Slatterys - Capel Street -Dublin 1.
Beside Luas - Ten minutes from Dart.
Friday - 17th October - 8-11pm...quiz starts 9pm sharp
late bar....prizes....music....raffle....food....craic. €6 pp - max 5 per team.
Can you bring a prize for the raffle?

Images of Resistance
inside and outside of Iraq

A selection of images can be seen @
www.flickr.com/photos/libertypics
www.zoriah.net

All images are copyright of the photographers and may not be used in any way
without written permission.

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Granuaile and  Mad Maguire take charge of preceedings
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday September 28, 2008 20:02 by Elinor   text 1 comment (last - sunday september 28, 2008 21:24)   image 3 images
Pirates Granuaile and Mad Maguire M.C. ed a fabulous array of local talent and general madness last thursday night in the Victoria Hotel in Cork. They also proved superb at evicting a troublesome man known by us to have Nazi involvement ! It was great to see lots of new faces at this fundraiser for shell to sea after the past few weeks of intense activity.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday September 28, 2008 16:01 by Jo ta ke!   image 1 image   video 1 video file
SEGI
Revolutionary Youth Organisation
Euskal Herria

The recent arrests of activists from the left independentist movement in Northern Euskal Herria, demonstrates the war strategy of the French State. The French state is taking its strategy from the Spanish, working hand in hand with the Spanish State in an attempt to end the liberation movement.
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Knute Skinner reading at last years festival
galway / arts and media / press release Saturday September 27, 2008 20:34 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
The second outing of the literary festival, 'The Forge At Gort,' will take place in Gort, Co. Galway, on March 27th and 28th, 2009, organised by The Western Writers' Centre, Ionad Scribhneoiri Chaitlin Maud, Galway. Last year saw the inauguration of the festival, which is based in the concept of the W.B.Yeats' poem which mentions the still extant forge in Gort's main street. The festival included workshops, readings, and a lecture on a Brazilian poet. read full story / add a comment
The only remaing hosptial on Cork's Northside
cork / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Friday September 26, 2008 15:49 by Peter Sullivan   image 2 images
Cork hospitals are under attack with major cuts planned ... Meanwhile Beacon Medical Group's planned 'Co-location' hospital in Cork draws nearer. It would seem like high-time to call in the union and put manners on a few people ... but where is Joe?
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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday September 25, 2008 21:04 by John   text 14 comments (last - monday october 06, 2008 14:20)   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
In a period of mass unemployment in 1920's Germany fascism came to power despite not only the presence of mass Communist and Social Democratic parties but also of significant anti-fascist street fighting. Why did the left fail and what was the attraction of fascism. What about fascist movements today, do they represent a similar threat? Can we even agree a single definition of what fascism is? read full story / add a comment
Behrooz Karimizadeh and Kaveh Abbasian
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday September 25, 2008 15:11 by Mark Fischer   text 1 comment (last - monday october 06, 2008 16:00)   image 2 images
Invitation to attend a Press Conference on Iran
Behrooz Karimizadeh and Kaveh Abbasian

IBehrooz Karimizadeh, one of the prominent leaders of the student movement in Iran, who has recently been released after enduring over four months of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Iranian security forces; Kaveh Abbasian, the spokesperson for the Freedom and Equality Seeking Students in Iran, who was subjected to months of persecution, are holding a public Press Conference in London. During this Press Conference they will elaborate on the latest political situation in Iran and will answer questions put to them.
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national / environment / news report Wednesday September 24, 2008 18:29 by westside   text 6 comments (last - wednesday october 01, 2008 15:42)   image 4 images
Whilst the solitaire is in for repairs, we'd thought we'd remind the government that activists haven't taken their eye off the ball. We also thought we would dedicate this action to Maura. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday September 24, 2008 15:35 by posted by F Espinoza   image 2 images
To all committees and friends of the Cuban Five

To all friends of the Cuban Revolution

To all honest and noble people of the world

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derry / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday September 24, 2008 11:45 by MAOR   text 4 comments (last - wednesday september 24, 2008 12:59)   image 15 images
Activists from Derry on Saturday traveled to Glengad in a gesture of solidarity with activists there. read full story / add a comment
sermon on Shell
mayo / environment / other press Tuesday September 23, 2008 18:53 by crasher   text 3 comments (last - monday october 06, 2008 12:39)   image 1 image
I've always fancied a brief chat with an official in an out of the way registry office, while some think it needs an Elvis impersonator in a church in a Las Vegas. Others like hotels, marquees, beaches in the Maldives, even on the wings of a plane- but I don't think anyone can beat closing a petrol station with your wedding vows.

They even used D-Locks on the pumps instead of rings!

Check out more pictues and details of the ceremony here : http://chriskasza.blogspot.com/2008/09/week-25-best-not....html read full story / add a comment
Global Eco Forum (S22-O17)
international / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 23, 2008 17:14 by dunk   image 3 images   video 3 video files   audio 3 audio files
While many view these days with dread; the outset of climate crisis, political corruption and corporate manipulation blocking healthy change, lack of hope that things can change.

Others are starting to see something profound emerging; a re-awakening, an eruption of activity, new and intelligent ways of human interaction. Ecologist Paul Hawken sees this phenoman as "the immune system of humanity finally kicking in" and calls it Blessed Unrest.

As another bubble in all this, yesterday saw the first of 25 days of the first "Global Eco Forum"... read full story / add a comment
Mairead Maguire after being gassed and shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet by Israeli Occupation Forces in Bil'in, April 20th, 2007.
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday September 23, 2008 14:45 by TD   text 4 comments (last - friday october 10, 2008 00:33)   image 2 images
(LARNACA, 22 September 2008) - The Free Gaza Movement announced today that an international delegation of doctors, parliamentarians, and human rights workers will sail to Gaza aboard the SS Hope on Wednesday, September 24th. A press conference will be held on Wednesday at Larnaca Port prior to the ship's departure.

The passengers on board include:
- 5 physicians from 4 countrieS
- human rights lawyers and monitors
- Jamal Zahalka, a member of the Israeli Knesset
- Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council
- Mairead Maguire, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work in Belfast

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dublin / animal rights / press release Monday September 22, 2008 20:46 by Laura Broxson   text 24 comments (last - sunday november 02, 2008 17:40)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
***Press Release***

Misrepresenting Animal Rights: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).


Although Irish organisations and individuals have sought to care for nonhuman animals for many years, animal rights advocacy ~informed by rights-based theory~ is a very recent development in Ireland. Grassroots animal rights advocates in Ireland intend to defend animal rights from the threat of neo-welfarism. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday September 21, 2008 22:54 by Sean Matthews   image 1 image
Despite its retention of a heavy arsenal of lethal weapons including Tasers, repressive legislation including ‘dip-lock courts’, and the building of new M15 headquarters at Hollywood, Hugh Orde, current Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland often refers to the force as the ‘most democratic, accountable police service in the world’.

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derry / anti-capitalism / event notice Sunday September 21, 2008 17:20 by Anti State   image 1 image
Anti State are proud to announce a Punk rock benefit night in support of the Shell To Sea campaign.

Thanks to everyone involved for playing apart in arranging the event and to the other bands for showing their support. read full story / add a comment
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