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offsite link The Curious Links of Led by Donkeys Wed Dec 18, 2024 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
Led by Donkeys, the group behind anti-Brexit and assorted other Left-wing stunts, was set up by four Greenpeace activists who have a lot of curious links to the Blob, says Charlotte Gill.
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Bush First, Obama Second
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Wednesday December 02, 2009 23:02 by Gerard Horgan   text 5 comments (last - wednesday december 16, 2009 05:21)   image 2 images
After more than three months' deliberation, President Barack Obama has finally decided to commit more than 30,000 US troops to the Afghan war. The ‘Afghan surge’ is to be fast tracked over the next six months with a large bulk of the troops arriving before Christmas. The deployment will cost approximately $1 million dollars per soldier, per year, some $30 billion overall. This price tag is on top of the considerable costs (running into the hundreds of billions of dollars) of keeping over 100,000 US soldiers ‘in-country’, while maintaining other US global military operations as well as the on-going fiasco in Iraq. The combined deployment of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan is close to 250,000 service personnel, which is augmented by the greatest number of private military contractors/mercenaries ever seen (some 100,000 in Iraq alone). read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 19:43 by Rudiger   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 03, 2009 17:09)   image 2 images
This weekend saw the annual Ken Saro Wiwa memorial weekend being held in Erris, Co Mayo. This was the 14th such memorial weekend, and is held in memory of the Ogoni leader who was hung along with 8 other men because of their opposition to Shell. The weekend was organised as Sr Majella McCarron, who told the assembled crowd during the weekend of how she had worked closely with Saro Wiwa for 18 months while she was in Ogoniland and continued to communicate with him up until the time he was detained and subsequently hung. read full story / add a comment
'no ifs, no buts- no education cuts!'
kildare / education / news report Wednesday December 02, 2009 17:26 by Donal Ó Fallúin - WSM/FEE NUIM   text 13 comments (last - wednesday december 16, 2009 19:11)   image 6 images   video 1 video file
www.free-education.info read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday December 02, 2009 10:58 by Andrew   text 11 comments (last - wednesday december 09, 2009 21:04)   image 2 images
The Budget is going to be a massive attack on ordinary working people and the poor across Ireland. Lets show our anger in huge number outside the Dail on Dec 9th as they waffle within. The Social Solidarity Network is joining the protests that day at 5pm to demand "Reverse the Cuts Make the Rich Pay" and "Tax the Greedy Not the Needy". read full story / add a comment
Fighting for Animal Rights Across Ireland
dublin / animal rights / news report Tuesday December 01, 2009 19:40 by ARAN   text 2 comments (last - friday december 04, 2009 12:21)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
This Sunday join compassionate people from across Ireland and beyond to gather in Dublin for a peaceful march and rally to call for stronger laws in the upcoming animal welfare bill due to be released in 2010 – the rally also aims to highlight the problem of animal abuse in Ireland to the nation and call for tougher penalties for those who abuse animals and who currently get away with a mere a slap on the wrist. The march also aims to establish rights for animals and to remove from society that animals are nothing more than commodities. read full story / add a comment
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galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday December 01, 2009 19:36 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
The December Over The Edge: Open Reading takes place in Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street, Galway on Thursday, December 17th, 6.30-8pm. The Featured Readers are Gerry Galvin, Liam Duffy & Conor Mark Kavanagh. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday December 01, 2009 17:07 by C   image 3 images
On Budget Day, 9th December members of Shell to Sea will hold a protest outside the Dáil to highlight the disgracefully giveaway of Irish oil & gas to foreign multinationals.

The protest will start at 10 am and continue throughout the day. read full story / add a comment
Could be Che?
international / summit mobilisations / other press Tuesday December 01, 2009 16:48 by Iron age   text 3 comments (last - wednesday march 10, 2010 00:39)   image 2 images
In these difficult times, many people have hoped for a sign from somewhere, showing that maybe, just maybe, everything will turn out okay.

The news from Methuen, a samll town in Essex County, Massachusetts has come, but in the surprising form of a picture of the face of an historical figure on an item of closely associated with unpaid labour.

The face of Karl Marx can certainly be made out, but what does it mean? read full story / add a comment
'Our Year Without Oil'
dublin / environment / event notice Tuesday December 01, 2009 14:49 by Patrick   text 2 comments (last - tuesday december 01, 2009 19:18)   image 1 image
From Channel 4’s The True Stories strand, which showcases the best of international feature length documentaries, continues with John Webster's funny film about climate change and how he and his family coped when they tried to give up using oil for a year. read full story / add a comment
Kish energy prospect
dublin / consumer issues / news report Tuesday December 01, 2009 14:31 by Ramon Eyan   image 2 images
The Department of Transport has issued a notice to mariners to steer clear of an area in Dublin Bay where an exploration vessel is to conduct tests to check the viability of a plan to convert under sea deposits of coal to gas which could be used to produce energy. The tests will be carried out on behalf of a company called VP Power in the Kish Basin, around thirteen miles east of Bray Head starting on December 7th.

VP Power is group of investors who have raised money to fund the testing of the experimental gas-from-coal prospect. Brian Geoghegan, husband of health minister Mary Harney, is one of the backers of the scheme.
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday November 30, 2009 17:22 by Laura   text 1 comment (last - tuesday december 01, 2009 23:25)   image 1 image   1 attached file
It has been mooted that the government plan to cut the dole for under 23 year olds to 160 euro per month. read full story / add a comment
Bloom - Movement for Global Justice
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday November 30, 2009 15:32 by Bloom - Movement for Global Justice   image 1 image
The Bloom Movement for Global Justice presents a Training Day for people new to, or wanting to learn more about Global Justice Activism.
The meeting will particularly provide an open, supportive space for members of migrant communities. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday November 30, 2009 13:41 by North West Red   text 8 comments (last - wednesday december 02, 2009 14:45)   image 2 images
This article highlights the growing levels of harrasment and intimidation by the British army and the PSNI throughout the six counties in recent times, but particularly in Fermanagh.

It also highlights the deployment of undercover British troops in operations here in Ireland, the latest example being the revelation that the British army Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) were involved in a joint operation with the PSNI in Garrison on the Fermanagh/Leitrim border.

This article runs a counter to the perceived notion that there has been demilitarisation and a new beginning to policing in the six counties read full story / add a comment
A thing born once in Seattle amidst tear gas and protest > happy birthday indymedia
international / environment / news report Monday November 30, 2009 12:24 by dunk   text 17 comments (last - wednesday january 13, 2010 15:36)   image 23 images   video 9 video files   audio 8 audio files
“The day the political landscape changed forever“, was how Fritjof Capra referred to events of N30, Tuesday 30th of November 1999, in his book The Hidden Connections. He was referring to the day when 1000´s of global justice activists came together and succeeded in shutting down the first WTO (World Trade Organisation) talks in the US using (mostly) non violent direct actions (NVDA) in the north western US city of Seattle. This was the event which brought the “globalisation” debate to the mainstream. It has been misleadingly described as anti-globalisation, what it should be accurately described as is anti corporate globalisation.

10 years on and again there is rubber bullets, tear gas and flames in the streets. This time in Geneva, as people from all over the world converge in the lead up to COP15, the climate change talks in Copenhagen... amongst others, the Social and Climate justice caravan. read full story / add a comment
Number of strike days each year - the 2009 is just for Thursdays strike, in fact the final figure would include the many small disputes that have gone on this year
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday November 30, 2009 11:35 by Andrew   image 5 images
On the 24th of November something extraordinary happened. Some 250,000 workers acted together in a day-long strike against the public sector wage cuts planned by the government. The vast majority of these workers had never gone on strike before, yet across almost all workplaces the strike involved 90% or more of those working. read full story / add a comment
not really just about incoming minarets - the swiss have a few missiles outgoing too.
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday November 30, 2009 01:37 by iosaf   text 7 comments (last - friday december 18, 2009 13:59)   image 2 images
A referendum was held in Switzerland on 29 November 2009. Three questions were put to the voters:

* a ban on the construction of new minarets;
* a ban on exporting weapons and war materiel;
* a prescription that money raised from taxes on aviation fuel should be used for aviation matters.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Sunday November 29, 2009 23:48 by Kev S & Freda H   text 6 comments (last - wednesday december 02, 2009 20:48)   image 4 images   video 4 video files
The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign took part in this year’s International Week of Solidarity called by the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (http://www.stopthewall.org).

An international call to activists was put out to launch a week of global mobilisation against the walls of apartheid in Palestine from November 9th to 16th 2009. The IPSC used this opportunity to highlight the necessity of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, with specific reference to the ongoing role of Irish construction company CRH (formerly Cement Roadstone Holdings) in the building of the Apartheid Wall and illegal colonial settlements in the West Bank. read full story / add a comment
OPIM men at the meeting in their headquarters, Jane Jones from Tlachinollan in the foreground and two Peace Brigades accompaniers who are delegated to OPIM on the far right
international / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Sunday November 29, 2009 20:31 by Sarah C   text 1 comment (last - wednesday december 02, 2009 03:49)   image 1 image
David Salgado was a seasonal agricultural worker who died in the course of his work as a 'jornalero', that is a seasonal migrant worker on an industrial farming operation. His death occurred in Sinaloa state in northern Mexico in January 2007. Deaths in farming are all too frequent worldwide but this case was different, David , who hailed from Guerrerro one of Mexico's poorest states, was eight years old. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday November 29, 2009 14:56 by Chas D   text 8 comments (last - saturday april 02, 2022 00:45)   image 3 images
Initial results in this week’s referendum to ban construction of new minarets in Switzerland suggests a small minority in favour of the prohibition. As in other democracies , the minaret is seen by many Swiss as the power symbol of political Islam and Sharia law.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday November 29, 2009 13:08 by TaraWatch   text 7 comments (last - sunday november 29, 2009 19:08)   image 1 image
Matt Schwoebel wanted to take statements from protesters objecting to the construction of the M3 motorway through the Hill of Tara.
He is drafting a complaint to the UN Commission on Human Rights about the way the government has handled objections and treated those who made them. But when he arrived at Dublin Airport, officers from the Garda National Immigration Bureau informed him he would not be allowed into the country. read full story / add a comment
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