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Cedar Lounge
For Lefties too Stubborn to Quit

offsite link Work life balance? sort of? 09:51 Sun May 19, 2013 | WorldbyStorm

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offsite link ?Most Banks Do Exactly What You Expect???We do Exactly What You Want? 15:11 Sat May 18, 2013 | irishelectionliterature

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Dublin Opinion
Life should be full of strangeness, like a rich painting

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offsite link Who Benefits from Austerity? Mechanics Institute Limerick Summer School, 4 May 2013 23:59 Fri May 03, 2013

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Irish Left Review
Joined up thinking for the Irish Left

offsite link Framing ?The Gatekeepers? Fri May 17, 2013 17:46 | Raymond Deane

offsite link The May Issue of Socialist Voice is Out Now Fri May 17, 2013 17:14 | Communist Party of Ireland

offsite link Full-Sized Life Thu May 16, 2013 13:32 | Susan DuMars

offsite link Left MEPs to debate austerity and abortion rights in Dublin Wed May 15, 2013 13:53 | Irish Left Review

offsite link Action on X ? Protest May 18th Central Plaza, Dame St, Dublin 2, @ 4pm Tue May 14, 2013 17:59 | Irish Left Review

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NAMA Wine Lake

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offsite link NAMA sues Maria Byrne and Graham Byrne in Dublin?s High Court Fri May 17, 2013 11:39 | namawinelake

offsite link Johnny Ronan finally wins a court case Thu May 16, 2013 15:43 | namawinelake

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MediaBite
A shot at bias in the media

offsite link Separating the News from the Noise Thu Apr 04, 2013 21:14

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offsite link The Household Charge - How They Failed to Shape Our Perspectives Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:48

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Nicolas Maduro
international / elections / other press Thursday April 11, 2013 16:50 by Turing   text 2 comments (last - monday april 15, 2013 13:17)   image 2 images
Maduro leads in the polls but the Right-wing Opposition Candidate Capriles has attacked the National Electoral Council & refuses tosSign CNE document re respecting the Results. Another coup attempt. may be in the works. More at link and on the site.

Nicolas Maduro goes into Sunday’s elections with a huge lead in the polls, according to the final survey of the polls carried out by the VSC.

This shows:

• The average lead for Nicolas Maduro is 16%
• Nicolas Maduro scored an average 53% compared to 37% for his main rival Henrique Capriles. (See chart 1)
• Only 10% of voters have yet to make up their mind about who they are supporting or will not vote. This is not enough to overturn Maduro’s lead.
• When the figures are adjusted just to look at those who have decided how they will vote, Maduro’s lead extends to 18%. (See chart 2) read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday April 11, 2013 16:50 by Michael
InRathmines Information Day will take place on April 27th, 12 noon - 5pm in the Swan Centre. Representatives of clubs, societies, services, volunteering groups in the area will be on hand to inform the public of what's available in Rathmines. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday April 11, 2013 12:26 by Gan Ainm   image 1 image
Fifteen years on from the signing of the ‘Good Friday Agreement’ it is imperative that Irish Republicans and the people of Ireland give careful consideration to the merits, mechanisms and leftovers of what was offered to the country that reportedly historic day. read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations / event notice Thursday April 11, 2013 11:34 by Oppose G8   text 2 comments (last - friday april 12, 2013 02:46)
Oppose G8 Summit Demonstration , Dublin read full story / add a comment
leitrim / environment / event notice Wednesday April 10, 2013 22:43 by meg
Large areas of Leitrim and Clare are under options licenses for onshore Shale Gas extraction using destructive and invasive technology, including hydraulic fracturing.

What is less well known is that large areas of Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon are also licensed for Lignite extraction, which in simple terms is Coal Bed Methane/Coal Seam Gasification, with an even greater environmental and human health impact than shale gas extraction. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday April 10, 2013 18:23 by The Undertaker   text 31 comments (last - saturday april 27, 2013 13:55)   image 3 images   video 2 video files
I hereby reveal the following copy due for publication in one of Britain's papers today, but which was suppressed by the editors 'for security reasons'. read full story / add a comment
HeadSpace, Issue One
dublin / arts and media / press release Wednesday April 10, 2013 13:19 by Orla Price/Naomi Elster   image 2 images   1 attached file
HeadSpace is a writing and art magazine based around mental health. The magazine features deeply moving personal accounts, spectacular creative writing, and thought-provoking art dealing with the panic and confusion that comes with mental health difficulties and stories of hope and recovery. Issue One will be launched on May 11 to be distributed for free to psychiatric wards and support centres. Copies will also be made available for general purchase, with sales revenue being used to provide more free copies to support centres for people undergoing mental health difficulties. The magazine is entirely not-for-profit and was created by a group of volunteers. Issue One is now available for advance orders online at http://headspacemagazine.bigcartel.com/ for €5 including delivery. For more information please visit www.facebook.com/HeadSpaceForAll. To donate and receive some fantastic perks in return, visit the HeadSpace Indiegogo campaign at http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/headspace-magazine--3...69728. read full story / add a comment
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national / housing / feature Wednesday April 10, 2013 01:08 by andraiocht   text 1 comment (last - sunday april 14, 2013 23:58)   image 3 images
The central bank is planning changes to the Code of Protection on mortgage arrears, these changes will mean it will be easier for people to be counted as non co-operating and thus make repossession easier, please send the submission below to code@centralbank.ie or make your own submission and send before April 10th to ensure your opposition to this is taken into consideration, with 95,000 people in arrears because of this banking led recession, the people who are bailing out the banks need fairness, there is nothing fair in all powers of discretion, supervision and appeals being with the banks who will not consider the good of the person or common good of the country. read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / event notice Tuesday April 09, 2013 16:45 by Latin America Solidarity Centre
19th, 20th, 21st April
Venue: 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2 - The Pearse Centre read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / event notice Tuesday April 09, 2013 16:37 by Latin America Solidarity Centre
22nd, 23rd, 24th April
Venue: An Droichead, 20 Cooke Street, Belfast BT7 2EP read full story / add a comment
national / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Monday April 08, 2013 21:19 by Gale Vogel   text 21 comments (last - friday may 10, 2013 09:55)
What is a day in the life of people living in Ireland today? If we're lucky we awake to the stress of travelling to work, breakfast and getting the children ready for school. What of those who do not have this luck? read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / feature Monday April 08, 2013 20:45 by feudal castrato   text 12 comments (last - wednesday april 17, 2013 11:34)   image 2 images
The EU bailout in Cyprus seems, on the surface to have taken on board some good ideas such as burning bondholders, capital flight controls, and much more limited small depositors state bank guarantee scheme, but does this stand up to closer inspection or have they just used these good ideas in a rather twisted way to further the same old financial terrorist agendas? read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday April 08, 2013 14:35 by Lover   text 14 comments (last - saturday april 13, 2013 01:00)   image 6 images   video 1 video file
I know various parts of Britain are hosting gatherings to remember the dark legacy of Maggies reign but I think that in Dublin we should all come together tonight on O Connell Street to collectively remember all effected by the woman, particularly the hunger strikers, shoot to kill victims, Argentines, miners the list goes on. SO just throwing it out there and open to suggestions but this occassion should not pass with out challenging the message that Thatcher represented. Needless to say the media will be quick to have revised sanitised versions of her life being beamed over the airwaves. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday April 07, 2013 20:37 by Brian Clarke   text 5 comments (last - monday april 08, 2013 23:06)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Chomsky spent an inordinate amount of time on climate change, in Dublin, which a small part of environmental damage, resulting from the current unregulated greed of capitalism, without any sense of social responsibility particularly in contemporary Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / opinion/analysis Sunday April 07, 2013 13:13 by Fidel Castro
A few days ago I mentioned the great challenges humanity is currently facing. Intelligent life emerged on our planet approximately 200,000 years ago, although new discoveries demonstrate something else.

This is not to confuse intelligent life with the existence of life which, from its elemental forms in our solar system, emerged millions of years ago.

A virtually infinite number of life forms exist. In the sophisticated work of the world’s most eminent scientists the idea has already been conceived of reproducing the sounds which followed the Big Bang, the great explosion which took place more than 13.7 billion years ago.

This introduction would be too extensive if it was not to explain the gravity of an event as unbelievable and absurd as the situation created in the Korean Peninsula, within a geographic area containing close to five billion of the seven billion persons currently inhabiting the planet. read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Sunday April 07, 2013 12:58 by Maryam Namazie
The AP has revised its stylebook to no longer include the term Islamist. They explain why:
"Islamist” is frequently used as a label for conservative Islamic political movements, particularly Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood . It generally carries a negative connotation"

Has the AP thought that maybe it carries a negative connotation because fascistic movements – religious or otherwise – generally do?

The disgusting Council on American-Islamic Relations which has previously lobbied AP to drop the term because they say it ”has become shorthand for ‘Muslims we don’t like’” and “is currently used in an almost exclusively pejorative context” is elated: We believe this revision is a step in the right direction and will result in fewer negative generalizations in coverage of issues related to Islam and Muslims."

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international / rights and freedoms / news report Saturday April 06, 2013 13:29 by Akbayan   image 1 image
Akbayan Partylist today called on President Benigno Simeon Aquino III to "shake the military establishment" and "weed out the corrupt, murderers and traitors" among its ranks. The partylist group made the call after the Court of Appeals' decision to hold elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) accountable for the enforced disappearance of Jonas Burgos in 2007.
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cork / rights and freedoms / event notice Friday April 05, 2013 23:13 by IPSC   image 1 image
The IRELAND-PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN presents:

MIKO PELED, Israeli activist and author of The General’s Son

3pm, Sat 13th April, Gresham Metropole Hotel, McCurtain St, Cork City

Don’t miss this unique oppurtunity to hear firsthand from an Israeli activist for freedom, justice and equality in Palestine and Israel. Copies of his book will be avaialble for purchase and signing on the night. read full story / add a comment
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national / bin tax/household tax / event notice Friday April 05, 2013 21:38 by CAHWT   text 1 comment (last - saturday april 13, 2013 23:42)   image 2 images
On Sat April 13th the EU Ministers of Finance are assembled in Dublin Castle. Join the National Protest to Stop Property Tax Robbery Assemble 12:30 Garden of Remembrance / Parnell Square to march to Dublin castle #ResistTheRobbery #A13 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Friday April 05, 2013 14:14 by John Cornford
Weekly Worker issue 956 - April 04 2013

Welfare cuts: Housing should be a basic human right
The cuts to housing benefit are cruel and irrational, says Michael Copestake

Anti-cuts movement: Frontism produces no lasting gains
What can we expect from the People’s Assembly? Dave Isaacson looks at the June 22 build-up

South African left: Attempt to go round already existing mass organisations
Wasp might be able to sting the SACP/Cosatu bureaucracy. But, asks Peter Manson, can it become a mass party capable of leading a socialist revolution? read full story / add a comment
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