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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday February 17, 2009 22:09 by Kev   image 1 image
IPSC Fundraiser: Gig for Gaza - feat. Distractors, The Cades, The Mighty Stef & Guests
Date: Thur 26 Feb 2009

Time: 8:00PM

Area: Dublin

Venue: Think Tank (formerly The Hub), Temple Bar

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday February 17, 2009 14:40 by Kev   image 1 image
IPSC Dublin Branch Organising Meeting
Date(s): 19 Feb 2009

Time(s): 7:30PM

Area: Dublin

Venue: Central Hotel, Exchequer St

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mayo / environment / other press Tuesday February 17, 2009 13:45 by Mayo Echo Reader   text 4 comments (last - sunday march 01, 2009 08:56)   image 1 image
The Mayo Echo reports today, that local fisherman using the refrigeration services provided by Bord Iascaigh Mhara at Ballyglass were amazed to find that the bill for electricity had rocketed from around 300 euro per quarter to nearly 6,000. Worried that the BIM service might be withdrawn, they investigated and found that someone had illegally hacked into the electricity supply and run up a huge bill.

And guess who was to blame?
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday February 17, 2009 12:29 by Time To Go!   text 3 comments (last - tuesday february 17, 2009 19:53)   image 1 image
News comes that US Weapons manufactures RAYTHEON look set to shed more jobs. read full story / add a comment
Part of the panel at Saturday's meeting
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday February 17, 2009 11:10 by Andrew   text 16 comments (last - friday february 20, 2009 23:53)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Did the idea of the so called 'Pensions Levy' come from some of the very ICTU leadership who are supposed to negotiate on behalf of workers. This is one revelation that emerged on Saturday morning at a meeting of over 100 public sector trade unionists and two delegates from the Waterford Glass occupation. We were meeting in the Davenport hotel, Dublin to discuss a collective response to government attacks on workers and in particular the public sector pay cut. Most of those present were on branch committees or even national executives with a couple of branches delegating representatives to the meeting. The gathering could in that context be said to reflect the views of a large number of branches across the unions that organise public sector workers. read full story / add a comment
Under threat, pregnant greyhounds
kilkenny / animal rights / press release Tuesday February 17, 2009 10:57 by Bernie Wright   text 1 comment (last - friday february 20, 2009 00:22)   image 1 image
The KILKENNY DOGS will be given to rescues for re-homing, they are saved.

We have just had it confirmed from Jim Ryan , Kilkenny County Council that a decision has been made via his superior Tony Walsh ,Director of services that the seized dogs will be not killed but will be given out to rescues for re-homing. Seven dogs were already returned to the travellers –THE REST ARE SAVED.
We had stressed the dogs did not deserve to die and that some of them were pregnant and that a prompt decision was vital.
We had been preparing for to demonstrate but thankfully people power and all the emails and calls have won the day.
Thank you to all who cared enough to get involved. Thank you to Kilkenny county Council for making the humane decision.
We wish the dogs a full and happy life.
I have offered help to the Council with the logistics of moving or relocating these animals. Phone me if you can be on standby if needed.
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The Doyle family
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday February 16, 2009 18:11 by anarchaeologist   text 12 comments (last - wednesday march 11, 2009 08:26)   image 24 images   video 8 video files
Up to 600 people yesterday marched behind the ashes of Bob Doyle from the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square to attend a celebration of his life held in Liberty Hall.

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Prof. Ilan Pappe
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday February 16, 2009 17:44 by TD   text 20 comments (last - sunday february 22, 2009 22:05)   image 4 images   video 3 video files
"It's a living organism that has a very nasty, evil side to its ideology, but it ends there, it begins there and it ends there and we shouldn't, again, exaggerate our analysis of Zionism beyond the fact that from a Palestine perspective, it is a destructive ideology, it's bad enough, it has nothing else to it and nothing else should be added to this."

"They (EU politicians) don't want to talk about Zionism as colonialism, as racism, they don't want to talk about genocidal policies, ethnic cleansing policies, crimes against humanity, war crimes"

"It is the only prison in the world that children are being born in it that have no chance of getting out of it" read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday February 16, 2009 15:33 by Anne McShane   image 1 image
In this article on the 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolution Torab Saleth looks back on how it developed paying particular attention to its historical roots. The full article may be accessed at the url below.

How did this revolution - which in terms of the degree of mass participation was one of the most important of the 20th century - end up becoming ‘Islamic’? Indeed what was the ‘Islamic revolution’?

One common interpretation has been based on the well worn model of ‘anti-colonial struggles in the countries of the periphery’, popular within the left since the early 1920s. A model, it must be said, which was inadequate even then. By this reasoning, the Islamic revolution becomes an anti-imperialist revolution led by bourgeois nationalist forces. The politics which flow from this differ only in shade - from shameless collaboration to so-called ‘critical’ support. Although such views have long since been discredited, given the current conflict with the USA/Israel it has been rebranded by a number of left currents and has once again become a justification for all sorts of opportunist overtures towards the Iranian regime. Yes, they say, it is a corrupt, clerical-capitalist regime - but look at how the anti-imperialist aspect of the Iranian revolution survives to this day! read full story / add a comment
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dublin / crime and justice / event notice Monday February 16, 2009 13:03 by Seomra_Spraoi_Cinema   text 1 comment (last - monday february 16, 2009 13:07)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Waltz with Bashir documents the struggle of the filmmaker, Ari Folman, to come to terms with the gaps in his memory surrounding the part he played in the first Lebanese war and the 1982 massacre of Palestinian civilians in the West Beirut refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Monday February 16, 2009 00:03 by Electronic Resistance   text 2 comments (last - friday february 27, 2009 12:33)   image 2 images
ER presents The BrokeBeat Sesh-Fri Feb 27th- Brokers

Electronic Resistance presents The BrokeBeat Session

Prince Kong > DJ Class A < Konspiracy b2b Welfare > DJ Deki

Brokers Bar,opposite the Central Bank,Dame Street 10 til 2.30!
Fundraiser for the Seomra Sproai Autonomous Social Centre read full story / add a comment
Workers' Party members picket Billy Kelleher's office in Cork
cork / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Saturday February 14, 2009 20:19 by John Jefferies   text 2 comments (last - sunday february 15, 2009 13:44)   image 3 images
The Workers' Party today held a protest at the constitutency office of Junior Minister Billy Kelleher who earlier this week strongly hinted at moves to cut the statutory Minimum Wage. read full story / add a comment
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meath / miscellaneous / event notice Saturday February 14, 2009 16:00 by Peter Fitzsimons   image 1 image
Sinn féin Poblachatch Contae na Mhí will be holding the following Easter ceremonys this Year. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday February 14, 2009 04:24 by Posner   image 1 image
Host a birthday party for political prisoner Albert Woodfox on Feb. 19th. Woodfox is entering his 35 year in solitary confinement in Angola State Penitentiary. His birthday is the 19th. Enter the Bake the Best Cake Contest.

for more info www.angola3action.org read full story / add a comment
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dublin / gender and sexuality / feature Friday February 13, 2009 19:23 by Paul McAndrew   text 9 comments (last - sunday february 15, 2009 16:42)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
This Valentine's Day, come and do your bit for love by showing your support for Ireland's LGBT people - and their children - at the Central Bank at 2pm. It'll be a great big Valentine's love-fest with a message - you bring the love, we'll bring the music, balloons and blindfolds! (more on those anon)14 February 2009

14:00 - 15:00
Central Bank
Street:
Dame Street
Dublin

Contact Info: Email: info@lgbtnoise.ie read full story / add a comment
Teachers United protest at Anglo Irish Bank
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Friday February 13, 2009 17:41 by Teachers United   image 1 image
Three teachers' unions - the TUI, the ASTI and the INTO - are to ballot their members on industrial action against the Government's decision on a public service pension levy. Arrangements are to start immediately to ballot the INTO union's 30,000 members. read full story / add a comment
The Labour Movement
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Friday February 13, 2009 17:02 by Worker   text 2 comments (last - saturday february 14, 2009 00:39)   image 1 image
The Labour party has overtaken Fianna Fáil in the recent TNS/MRBI poll. The first time in the history of the state. A historic moment for those interested in the wider labour movement (as opposed to the revolutionary movement olr the labour party). I am not too familiar with the methodology behind this poll but I assume it is a fair and honest reflection of the electorate at the present moment. The TNS/MRBI poll predicted the outcome of the last election with relative precision.

Fianna Fáil’s satisfaction rating has plummeted to 14 percent. 62 per cent want a change of government. The support for the parties is as follows: Fianna Fáil, 22 per cent (down 5 points); Fine Gael, 32 per cent (down 2 points); Labour, 24 per cent (up 10 points); Sinn Féin, 9 per cent (up 1 point); Green Party, 4 per cent (no change); and Independents/others, 9 per cent (down 4 points). The message is simple: the electorate want Fianna Fáil out of office. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Friday February 13, 2009 14:00 by The Workers United Will Never Be Defeated!!!!!   text 2 comments (last - friday february 20, 2009 10:45)   image 1 image
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has called a National Day of Action for Saturday, February 21st over the Government's Pension Levy, the lack of protection for Private Sector Pensions and the Cuts Generally. March Assembles Garden of Remberance, Parnell Square, Dublin at 2pm. I'm calling on all (all workers, private and public sector, the unemployed, those who've been affected by the cuts generally, the voluntary and community sector and the general public) to attend in mass numbers to show this 'Government' that we're as mad as hell, and that Saturday, February 21st is only the start of a long war of attrition. read full story / add a comment
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national / environment / event notice Friday February 13, 2009 00:57 by IshtarCelt   text 5 comments (last - friday february 20, 2009 08:14)   image 1 image   video 3 video files   3 attached files
Dave is going to do a sponsored run along the M3
to raise funds for a mass day of action on the 3rd march at Tara
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international / animal rights / news report Thursday February 12, 2009 21:25 by John Carmody   text 6 comments (last - wednesday february 18, 2009 20:48)   image 2 images   video 2 video files
Braving the cold this afternoon, five sexy PETA activists stripped off nearly naked and urged foie gras-peddling Selfridges to ‘Have a Heart’ for ducks and geese this Valentine’s Day. The topless girls (including model Monica Harris) and one dishy guy handed out delicious vegan chocolates and roses to passers-by who just couldn’t help but stare – and take photos on their mobile phones, of course! read full story / add a comment
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