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PANEL: Iñaki de Juana, Arturo Beñat Villanueva, Julen Arzuaga, Danny Morrison and Colleen Gildernew
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday August 12, 2009 01:08 by Emma Clancy   text 2 comments (last - friday august 14, 2009 14:25)   image 2 images
The Don't Extradite the Basques Campaign held a very successful conference on political persecution in the Basque Country on Saturday August 8 in An Chultúrlann in west Belfast as part of the annual Féile an Phobail (Festival of the People). Julen Arzuaga, a lawyer from Behatokia, the Basque Observatory of Human Rights, travelled from the Basque Country to speak at the conference, which also heard from Iñaki de Juana and Arturo Beñat Villanueva, two Belfast-based Basque activists who are fighting extradition charges by the Spanish government. Colleen Gildernew from Kevin Winters Solicitors, the firm representing both men, outlined the legal efforts to defeat the extradition charges.

Introducing the conference, veteran republican activist Danny Morrison
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national / education / event notice Tuesday August 11, 2009 21:26 by Godot
The Union of Students in Ireland is to rally against the re-introduction of Third Level fees at 12pm on Wednesday, August 12th, outside Trinity College Dublin. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday August 11, 2009 17:48 by Eli Mcbett   text 3 comments (last - thursday august 13, 2009 21:00)
FRIDAY 14TH AUGUST 2009 @ THE SHED – WAVES
8a Henrietta Lane
(rear of King's Inn pub in Henrietta street)
Dublin 1 (top Capel Street)

Doors @ 9,00 pm till late
Suggested Donations: 8,00 Euro @THESHED

Installation
REBUS FRASE by MCBETT (ITALY)
Exploring concepts of languages and communication values

Music performance
ELDER ROCHE, vocalist, songwriter, pianist and guitarist
http://www.myspace.com/elderroche

MONICA HARKIN, vocalist & songwriter
Michael Allen (Piano)
Ciaran Brougham (Double bass)
Aaron Harbourne(drums)
Dave Dore (guitar)
http://www.myspace.com/monicaharkin

Photography
MICHAEL GALLAGHER
Slideshow from “Shell to sea”
http://www.myspace.com/libertypix

DJ SET
From 160 to 80 bpm by Nat
electro music + visuals from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s films.
www.myspace.com/natsoa

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday August 11, 2009 16:07 by Ceithearna Coille Nua Eabhrac   image 1 image
Deá chleachtas idirnáisiúnta
Ar 10.45 rn, in Ostán Europa, Béal Feirste

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dublin / crime and justice / event notice Tuesday August 11, 2009 13:02 by Niamh Rooney
Burmas heroic Democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested and charged with breach of the terms of house arrest in May 2009, just days before her current term of house arrest was due to end. The lengthy trial has now ended and the Nobel Peace Prize winner has been found guilty and sentenced to three years jail and hard labour. However, in a move surely aimed at avoiding international sanctions, Home Affairs minister General Maung Oo said outside the court that military ruler Than Shwe had signed a special order suspending the sentence and ordered that Suu Kyi should spend 18 months under house arrest. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Tuesday August 11, 2009 12:51 by Niamh Rooney   text 3 comments (last - thursday august 13, 2009 12:43)
Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested and charged with breach of the terms of house arrest in May 2009, just days before her current term of house arrest was due to end. The lengthy trial has now ended and the Nobel Peace Prize winner has been found guilty and sentenced to three years jail and hard labour. However, in a move surely aimed at avoiding international sanctions, Home Affairs minister General Maung Oo said outside the court that military ruler Than Shwe had signed a special order suspending the sentence and ordered that Suu Kyi should spend 18 months under house arrest. read full story / add a comment
Over The Edge
national / arts and media / event notice Tuesday August 11, 2009 00:39 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
Long-list to be announced for 2009 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year read full story / add a comment
Máighréad Medbh
galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday August 11, 2009 00:00 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
The August Over The Edge: Open Reading takes place in Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street, Galway on Thursday, August 27th, 6.30-8pm. The Featured Readers are Michele Coghlan, Kevin O’Shea & Máighréad Medbh. read full story / add a comment
On the picketline, 7am.
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday August 10, 2009 23:24 by Michael Gallagher   text 13 comments (last - friday august 14, 2009 12:04)   image 18 images   video 1 video file
A large crowd of 200-300, made up mainly of families and workers from North and South city dockland communities, showed their support for the sriking dockers today in Dublin.
Marching from the East Wall/North Wall and Ringsend/Irishtown, the meeting point for the supporters was the Point Depot Bridge from where they marched united to the gates of the Marine Terminal Limited. read full story / add a comment
Peace vigil at Shannon 9Aug09
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday August 10, 2009 21:26 by Edward Horgan   text 8 comments (last - wednesday august 19, 2009 11:19)   image 4 images   audio 1 audio file
13 peace activists attended the monthly Shannon peace vigil on 9 Aug 09. As usual we were outnumbered by uniformed and plainclothed Gardai. Peace activists travelled from Dublin, Cork, Mullingar, Galway, Ennis and Limerick to attend. The reaction of passing motorists is increasingly encouraging and positive.
Since August 9 is the aniversary of the distruction of Hiroshima in 1945 by an Atomic bomb, a war crime committed by the US airforce, on the orders of the then US President, it was considered appropriate to commemorate this event. Within the airport about 200 armed US troops were passing through the airport on an Omni Air chartered troop-transporter. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Monday August 10, 2009 19:11 by Contaminated Crow
Two quarries, a landfill, a homeless hostel, a possible World Heritage site and claims of excess cancers read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / press release Monday August 10, 2009 11:22 by éirígí   text 3 comments (last - wednesday august 12, 2009 01:21)   image 5 images
The thirty-eighth anniversary of the introduction of internment was marked yesterday (Saturday) with éirígí protests in Dublin and Enniskillen. At both locations the theme of protest was the same – demanding an end to 28-day detention and the use of plastic bullets by the occupation forces read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday August 10, 2009 08:32 by IFPAL
The IFPAL (Irish Friends of Palestine Against Lisbon) campaign made waves in Dublin city centre on Saturday morning with the launch of a campaign raft on the river Liffey. Anchored just down stream from the famous ha’penny bridge it blares out the campaign message “EU policy facilitates Israeli genocide. No to Lisbon” read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / press release Monday August 10, 2009 02:45 by Republican Socialist Youth Movement   text 1 comment (last - thursday august 13, 2009 11:55)   image 1 image
RSYM condemns Labour and Fine Gael Hypocrisy read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday August 10, 2009 02:06 by Plowshares   text 13 comments (last - friday december 25, 2009 16:57)
Johnson: The priest, the clown and the life of protest
By Bill Johnson

Denver Post Columnist
Posted: 08/07/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT

Father Carl Kabat awoke early Thursday morning, put on his clerical
collar, grabbed his clown suit and quietly strolled out of his
longtime friend's Arvada home.

William Strabala, who has known the Catholic priest since their days
in the seminary more than 50 years ago and had hosted him since he
arrived from St. Louis, simply sighed. It was pointless, he knew, to
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Kev
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday August 09, 2009 21:05 by TD   text 5 comments (last - monday august 10, 2009 13:06)   image 8 images
CRH, formerly known as Cement Roadstone Holdings, "fully committed to human rights" and supporting "the principles as set out in the articles of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights" http://www.crh.ie/crhcorp/about/employeescode/english_c...e.pdf is deeply complicit in war crimes in the occupied West Bank with the holding company, the Mashav Group - in which CRH has a 25% stake - through Nesher Cement supplying cement for Israel's Apartheid Wall, IOF checkpoints and illegal colonies. Transnational corporations like CRH are required by international law to comply with international rules governing corporate responsibility with respect to human rights and CRH seriously transgresses these. read full story / add a comment
ETA has detonated 3 bombs throughout today in civilian bars in Mallorca
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday August 09, 2009 20:49 by brutal cynical nationalist splitting hair type   text 7 comments (last - friday august 14, 2009 22:29)   image 1 image
ETA as everyone knows broke its March 22nd 2006 ceasefire for the Spanish state when it murdered 2 Ecuadorian migrants in Madrid's airport on the 31st of that year.

However, many might not know that on the 18th of February 2004, ETA declared a ceasefire for the Catalan territories. It was a cynical exercise and dismissed by most except for the most resolute and radical supporter of complete Catalan independence for the territories of current Catalonia, Valencia, French Catalagne & the Balearic islands. Especially when that ceasefire was subject to a further declaration that "military targets" would be entertained in "paisos catalanes".

This summer ETA killed 2 soldiers in Mallorca- (were those two murders somehow legitimate targets?) But today they detonated 3 bombs in bars. = civilian targets. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Sunday August 09, 2009 13:47 by Gregor Kerr   text 3 comments (last - sunday august 09, 2009 19:26)
When a force of 80 – 100 gardai arrived at the Thomas Cooke office in Grafton Street Dublin at 5a.m. on Tuesday 4th August, smashed the door down, and dragged 28 protesting workers off to the Bridewell Garda Station, the Irish state was attempting to deliver a strong message to all workers. read full story / add a comment
Memers of IFPAL and CAEUC at the successful launch
international / eu / feature Sunday August 09, 2009 13:46 by Michael Gallagher   text 32 comments (last - saturday august 29, 2009 16:40)   image 17 images
Irish (and tourist) people wake up to a sign of the coming times in Dublin.

Hello friends,

This Morning, Saturday the 8th August at 7am, Irish Friends of Palestine Against Lisbon (IFPAL) launched the Vote No To Lisbon raft on the River Liffey in Dublin City Centre.

Irish Friends of Palestine Against Lisbon are calling for Irish voters to oppose the Lisbon Treaty in the forthcoming re-run of the Lisbon Treaty Referendum, a referendum that is exactly the same as the one they have rejected already. VOTE NO to Lisbon on October 2nd.

Issued on behalf of IFPAL.
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Sunday August 09, 2009 13:46 by pat c   text 16 comments (last - saturday august 15, 2009 17:51)   image 9 images
• Do you remember when Dublin Port was a key local employer, and the Docklands were the location of thriving industries?

• Do you support workers rights, hard fought for and won for us by previous generations?


These are now under threat at Marine Terminal in Dublin Port. The owners, the UK based Peel Group, have targeted Dublin workers, some of whom live locally in Dockland communities. read full story / add a comment
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