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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday September 02, 2004 01:37 by Donal
According to the Israeli Prison Service, more than 2,900 Palestinian prisoners have joined the open-ended hunger strike that began on 15 August. The Palestinian Authority quotes a slightly higher figure. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / news report Thursday September 02, 2004 00:54 by john mcdermott
The building frenzy countrywide is bringing huge profits to well connected farmers and speculators.The ordinary people are now organizing to fight back, read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday September 01, 2004 19:41 by John Cunningham
Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli gaols have been on hunger strike for several weeks. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040822/wl_nm/mideast_hunger_dc The Galway branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign is running a public information meeting on the hunger strike (and on non-violent resistance generally) on Friday night, 3 Sept, at 8 pm in the Ardilaun Hotel, Taylor's Hill. There will be two speakers: Dr Kathleen Cavanaugh of the Centre for Human Rights, NUI, Galway (recently returned from Palestine) will speak on the Israeli penal system, about the status of the hunger strike, and about the condition of the hunger strikers. Eoghan MacCormac, Sinn Fein member and former hunger striker, will discuss the use of fasting as a form of non-violent protest. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday September 01, 2004 17:50 by Mary La Rosa
Ambiguity: Mordechai Vanunu; a lawyer in Israel representing Dimona employees; two solutions for nuclear waste that give us alternative viable energy; a portable nuclear weapons detection system since 1999; blackmail and extortion; another dead scientist and the closing of the National Lab in Los Alamos read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday September 01, 2004 17:21 by iosaf
yet they went and like many other workers took up legal arms to guard Westerners. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday September 01, 2004 12:53 by Lasc
A chance to spend two days familiarising yourself with current issues facing Latin America and ways of acting in solidarity with Latin American grassroot movements. read full story / add a comment
cork / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Wednesday September 01, 2004 12:52 by Kevin
Non-payment of bin charges remains very high despite the Council’s bullying tactics and the introduction of a ‘pay or we won’t collect’ policy read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Wednesday September 01, 2004 12:34 by pat c
A report on how an art find of 90,000 works saved from Stalin are now in danger of perishing. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / news report Wednesday September 01, 2004 02:46 by Rasta4i's
national / arts and media / other press Wednesday September 01, 2004 02:40 by Rasta4i's
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday September 01, 2004 01:19 by Michael Hennigan
On Tuesday, August 30th a scathing report detailing allegations of 'self-righteous, and aggressive looting' by Lord Conrad Black and his associates who controlled Hollinger International, the former owner of the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper was presented to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 01, 2004 00:06 by sharp
As a protestant who used Maysfield leisure centre, the decision to close Maysfield leisure centre appears blatantly sectarian against the nearby catholic community close to the centre and protestants who chose to use the centre because of its convenience. read full story / add a comment |