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mayo / environment / feature Friday April 03, 2009 22:25 by Niall Harnett   text 12 comments (last - saturday april 11, 2009 14:21)   image 13 images   video 2 video files
For the third time this week nets at Glengad have been put up by Shell and taken down by local residents. The purpose of the net is to stop sand-martins from nesting in the cliff-face.

What was once thought to be a specially protected priority habitat for birds and wildlife has actually, in effect, become a priority habitat for Shell.

All sorts of chats, communications and rumours abound about the permission for this and the consent for that, the legality of one thing and the illegality of another. But as Kevin Moore, An Bord Pleanala Senior Planning Inspector predicted in 2002, everything about this project is wrong. And it’s the right thing to do to disallow it and to stop it whatever the law says.
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Poster for meeting
international / consumer issues / news report Friday April 03, 2009 16:55 by Andrew recording Stanley Aronowitz   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
This is a recording of Stanley Aronowitz speaking on 'Popular Education in a Time of Struggle' to a Workers Solidarity Movement meeting in the Seomra Spraoi Social centre, Dublin the end of March 2009. Stanley Aronowitz is professor of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a veteran political activist and cultural critic and an advocate for organized labor. read full story / add a comment
RCPI Public Meeting - Ageing Well - Ageing Positively
national / public consultation / irish social forum / event notice Friday April 03, 2009 16:11 by RCPI   image 1 image
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

In the last seven years Ireland's population grew faster than in any other EU state and by 2011 it is estimated that 14 per cent of people living in Ireland will be aged 65 and over
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In the hope of straightening things out.
galway / arts and media / press release Friday April 03, 2009 13:32 by Lee Welch   image 2 images
At the still point of the turning world.
Lee Welch

Preview: Thrusday 16th 2009 6-8pm
April 17th - May 23th 2009

At the still point of the turning world. offers a constellation of points of reference, provocation and stimulation. Nonetheless, the show is modest in its form, comprising of a small array of carefully selected elements, which have been placed with thoughtful deliberation throughout the gallery space. Materials derived from contemporary phenomena and historic events make up much of this exhibition, including vintage magazine advertisements, rare editions of books and bootleg records. As the title suggests, At the still point of the turning world. offers a quiet and still space for reflection. read full story / add a comment
The Diversity of Labour
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday April 02, 2009 18:35 by A.R   text 28 comments (last - thursday april 30, 2009 01:35)   image 2 images
The purpose of this article is to challenge the assumption that it is the 'leaders' who sell out rank and file members, and to highlight that 'leaders' reflect the median moderate worker within Trade Unions. It therefore favours a more bottom-up grassroots focused analysis of Trade Union activity over a top down hierarchical 'leadership' focused analysis. It is my argument that constantly talking about the ICTU 'leaders' is disempowering and a more actor-worker-centered focus is better suited to Libertarian politics. read full story / add a comment
Pete as archivist
dublin / environment / event notice Thursday April 02, 2009 17:40 by Pepe   image 1 image
Saturday 25th April | 8pm film followed by gathering til late | €5 donation requested to help pay the screening fee

The new four-year epic from McLibel director Franny Armstrong. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

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Has his allegiance coloured McDonald's 'official' history?
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday April 02, 2009 17:01 by Paul Larkin   text 4 comments (last - tuesday april 21, 2009 12:24)   image 5 images   1 attached file
(Henry McDonald is Ireland Correspondent for the Guardian newspaper)

Having worked as a journalist and film maker for BBC Northern Ireland’s investigative programme Spotlight in the late 1980s through to 1994, and having also written a book about collusion between the British intelligence services and loyalist paramilitaries, I have had occasion to read a good many books about the most recent round of the Irish Troubles. Even the poorest of these books has had some redeeming quality, some insight, which for me, as an informed reader, provided a new understanding of some aspect of the Troubles. I regret to say that Henry McDonald’s latest book has no such redeeming feature. read full story / add a comment
Read the truth about events inside occupied Ireland
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday April 02, 2009 16:07 by Irish Freedom News   image 1 image
http://irishfreedomnews.freeforums.org is a Republican forum to discuss your Republican views without censorship. read full story / add a comment
Boy Herding Goats
international / arts and media / event notice Thursday April 02, 2009 13:01 by Hu O Reilly   text 2 comments (last - saturday april 04, 2009 12:50)   image 4 images
An exhibition of photographs by Hu O Reilly, opening in Filmbase on Thursday 16th April, 6-8pm. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday April 02, 2009 09:10 by Darren C   text 6 comments (last - thursday april 09, 2009 22:36)   image 3 images
On Tuesday morning workers occupied the Belfast Visteon car parts plant after they were told it would close with two hundred employees to lose their jobs on the spot.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Wednesday April 01, 2009 22:43 by Padraic   text 2 comments (last - saturday april 04, 2009 23:03)   image 1 image
Natalia Szymanska, a young Polish woman was sacked from Subway in her fifth month of pregnancy on a dubious charge of being in breach of the company's health and safety policy. In response to this people across Ireland and Britain will be picketing local banches of Subway. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / press release Wednesday April 01, 2009 22:12 by Financial Fools Day   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 02, 2009 13:57)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Brian Cowen and Brian Lenihan where out on the streets of Dublin today (Wednesday 1 April) reassuring citizens that the ‘economy was fixed’, before bringing them back down to earth with a big ‘financial fools day!’ message.The Taoiseach and Finance Minister dawned dunce hats, and handed out leaflets, showing that they haven’t a clue how to run a country, never mind sort out the current economic downturn. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 01, 2009 17:52 by Jolly Red Giant   text 15 comments (last - tuesday april 07, 2009 19:27)   image 4 images
RTE Radio 1 had both Richard Boyd Barrett (People Before Profit) and Eamonn McCann (journalist and broadcaster) as contributors on the Spirit Moves programme with Myles Dungan on March 29th. Neither Boyd Barrett nor McCann declared their membership of the SWP (no surprise there). However the most disgraceful aspect of their contribution was the opening comments by Boyd Barrett who attacked the recent Lyndsey strike in Britain as 'racist' . read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday April 01, 2009 16:22 by Cormac Mac Gall   text 4 comments (last - wednesday june 24, 2009 10:53)   image 1 image
Irish and Basque runners will stage a mini-Korrika in Dublin on Saturday 4th April and hold a fund-raising event after at the Cobblestone in order to raise funds for the promotion of the Basque language in the Basque Country. The Korrika runs every two years in the Basque Country, attracting around 600,000 participants. The current Korrika is being held currently, to cover 2,500 kilometres and last 11 days, non-stop, with runners running even through the night. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday April 01, 2009 14:14 by siobhan   text 10 comments (last - thursday april 02, 2009 14:14)   image 1 image   video 1 video file   audio 1 audio file
Poet and Editor, Burt Kimmelmann
galway / arts and media / event notice Wednesday April 01, 2009 13:42 by Fred Johnston   image 1 image
Fresh from the success of their recent 2nd Forge at Gort Literature Festival, The Western Writers' Centre is rarin' to go! Leading New York poet and editor Burt Kimmelmann will read for the Western Writers' Centre, Galway, at The Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway on Tuesday, April 14th, at 8pm. Admission is free. read full story / add a comment
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kerry / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday April 01, 2009 11:21 by Alan M.   image 1 image
They got us into this mess but now they want us to pay the price for it too!

With the economic crisis now in full swing, anarchists are arguing for fundamental change and an end to capitalism. How can we achieve this and how should the new society be organised? read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday April 01, 2009 00:49 by El Libertario, Venezuela   image 1 image
* Call to the First Libertarian Print and Audiovisual Documentary Fair of Caracas. D O C U M E N T (a) November 200 read full story / add a comment
REVOLUTION DAYSCHOOL
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday March 31, 2009 22:05 by james   image 1 image
the socialist workers party presents a dayschool workshop on the plolitics of revolution.. each session begins with poltical intro and then breaks down into small working groups to discuss issues and report back to main meeting... read full story / add a comment
Net over cliff at Glengad
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday March 31, 2009 17:07 by d   text 34 comments (last - monday april 06, 2009 14:37)   image 16 images   video 2 video files
Shell has returned to Glengad beach to install nets over the cliff face. read full story / add a comment
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