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The People's Forum
mayo / environment / news report Monday December 08, 2008 22:51 by Niall Harnett   text 18 comments (last - tuesday february 03, 2009 17:31)   image 20 images   video 3 video files
On Friday 5th December 2008, Ministers Eamon Ryan and Eamon O'Cuiv hosted a 'Forum' at the Broadhaven Bay Hotel, Belmullet, Erris, Co Mayo.

Set in the context of the Shell Corrib Gas Project, what the forum is about or what it's supposed to address is not clear. “It's not a decision making forum”, said the chairman, Joe Brosnan.

Meanwhile, in another room at the same venue, local residents and community activists hosted a parallel forum, the People's Forum, to address what the Ministers' forum will not address … the substantive issues, which are:

Health, Safety & the Environment.
The Great Gas Giveaway.
Community Consent

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday December 08, 2008 22:28 by tony fitzsimons
Burma Action Ireland will be joined by Fair City actress Una Kavanagh and students from Liberties College who will perform street theatre at an event to both celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to highlight it's lack of significance to the Burmese People.
The event will take place on Human Rights day,Wednesday 10th of December at the Central Bank Plaza on Dame Street Dublin.
Your support for the long suffering people of Burmah would be appreciated. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday December 08, 2008 21:14 by Tom Cooper   text 5 comments (last - tuesday january 19, 2010 12:47)
The recent 'Nationwide' programme on the national broadcastor RTE, on the life and times of 'Irishmen in British uniform' on their day to day life in Aldershot army barracks in England as they prepare for combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, and perhaps even to the country that gave them birth, peddled a pro-British pro-unionist line that implied both the Irish and British armies are synonymous with each other. Despite the fact that the British army has been engaged in the blatent murder of Irish citizens since colonisation right up to present times, RTE, in the making of this programme, acted like a recruiting agency for the foreign army that continues to colonise six counties of this island. The behaviour of RTE in this matter is both unsavoury and sordid and acts against the national interest. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Monday December 08, 2008 17:35 by Sarah Lundberg
The Seven Towers Agency is delighted to announce the launch of Census The First Seven Towers Anthology at 3pm on Sunday 14th December, in Cassidy's Bar, Westmoreland St, Dublin 2.

This Anthology is a collaboration between the spoken work and the written word – all contributors are committed to performing and reading their work in public places and all have read at events organised by or participated in by Seven Towers
1 euro from every copy of Census sold will be donated to the Charity AWARE

AWARE is a national voluntary organisation providing support through depression. The organisation undertakes to create a society where people with depression are understood and supported, are free from stigma, and have access to a broad range of appropriate therapies to enable them to reach their full potential.

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dublin / arts and media / event notice Monday December 08, 2008 17:28 by Sarah Lundberg
Part of the'Run up to Christmas Litfest and an opportunity to buy numbered limited edition books and get them signed by the author!
1euro from each Seven Towers Book sold will go to AWARE read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Monday December 08, 2008 17:19 by Sarah Lundberg
Part of the'Run up to Christmas Litfest and an opportunity to buy numbered limited edition books and get them signed by the author!
1euro from each Seven Towers Book sold will go to AWARE read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Monday December 08, 2008 17:07 by Sarah Lundberg
Part of the 'Run Up to Christmas Litfest; 1 euro from every Seven Towers' Book sold will be donaqted to AWARE read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Monday December 08, 2008 16:53 by Richard Walsh   text 5 comments (last - friday december 12, 2008 14:14)   video 1 video file
The credibility of a recent announcement of a 'reduction' in British Crown Forces' personnel from January has been called into question by Republican Sinn Féin. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / education / event notice Monday December 08, 2008 16:44 by events@officer   image 1 image
Practice your oral Spanish and learn about Latin American issues! This unique space is aimed at intermediate and above level students who want to practice their Spanish. The class size is limited to 12 participants. There will be no formal teaching and using it to discuss Latin American issues. Each week a given theme will be introduced, discussed and appropriate vocabulary provided (e.g. debt, volunteering in Latin America, trade, justice, gender, environment, popular culture, indigenous issues etc.) This course is perfect if you are planning to visit Latin America (or have just come back!) and want to know more about the reality there. Great fun and a way to meet new people. No formal teaching takes place.
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dublin / education / event notice Monday December 08, 2008 15:47 by events@lasc.ie
Each class has a maximum of 12 students. The classes are taught in a lively and participative style. The 10- session course focuses on basic survival Brazilian Portuguese for beginners. All of the classes are geared at beginners, but the speed of progress in each group and the amount of Portuguese used in the lessons will be determined by the level you are placed in. In all of the levels students will learn to manage simple tasks such as introductions, shopping and getting around and will learn to use the present tense. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / event notice Monday December 08, 2008 15:22 by Ciaran   text 20 comments (last - monday december 15, 2008 01:47)   image 4 images
Solidarity picket at the Greek Embassy. Meet at the top of Grafton Street at 5pm and then a march to the Greek Embassy on Upper Pembrooke Street read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Monday December 08, 2008 14:35 by John Cornford   text 30 comments (last - thursday january 22, 2009 19:09)
Lindsey German and John Rees have declared all out war on the SWP central committee majority. There can be only one winner in this fight. If Lindsey and John lose the battle then a split is likely. Peter Manson reports on this fight to the finish. Full story at link.

The SWP leadership has continued the process of disempowering its former number one, John Rees, by recommending that he be removed from the central committee at the SWP annual conference, due to take place in London over the weekend of January 9-11 2009. Meeting on Wednesday November 26, the CC decided to exclude Rees from its take-it-or-leave-it slate, with only his long-time allies, Chris Bambery and Chris Nineham, voting against ditching him. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday December 08, 2008 14:14 by Kostas   text 8 comments (last - tuesday december 23, 2008 11:51)
The Communist Organization of Greece (KOE) salutes the dozens of thousands of youth and people who continue, for the third consecutive day, the resolute and combative demonstrations against the government and the police murder. At this moment (morning of Monday 8 December) thousands of school pupils are demonstrating in front of the Athens Police General Headquarters, as well as in many neighborhoods of Athens and all over Greece. This afternoon the Coalition of Radical Left (SYRIZA) and other left organizations call for big popular demonstrations in the centre of Athens and in many other cities. Even the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), which until now made nothing and did not participate in any protest, now feels the pressure and the anger of the youth and of the popular masses and calls for a (separate, as always…) meeting in Athens.
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dublin / education / event notice Monday December 08, 2008 13:42 by events@lasc.ie
Each class has a maximum of 12 students. The classes are taught in a lively and participative style. The 10- session course focuses on basic survival Latin American Spanish for beginners. All of the classes are geared at beginners, but the speed of progress in each group and the amount of Spanish used in the lessons will be determined by the level you are placed in. In all of the levels students will learn to manage simple tasks such as introductions, shopping and getting around and will learn to use the present tense. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Monday December 08, 2008 13:28 by Laura Broxson
The Pearl Brasserie have continued to sell foie gras for far too long now... Join us on Saturday - let's show them we mean business! read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Monday December 08, 2008 12:14 by Derry Chambers   text 4 comments (last - tuesday december 09, 2008 18:42)   image 1 image
Environmental Alliance calls on Minister Brendan Smith to resign in the wake of the contamination of pork products with dioxin. The group are also highly critical of the downplaying of the dangers posed to public health by dioxin, the world's number one toxin. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Monday December 08, 2008 01:59 by Ciaron   text 4 comments (last - sunday december 14, 2008 12:33)   image 3 images
Joshua Casteel Iraq Veteran Against the War www.ivaw.org will be doing a reading
of his play "Returns" at the Abbey Theatre on Dec 17th. 2 pm
Tickets 4 euro
Abbey Box Office is open Monday - Saturday 10.30 am - 7pm
Booking: 01 87 87 222 (No booking fee) read full story / add a comment
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national / education / news report Sunday December 07, 2008 22:55 by Paula Geraghty   image 10 images
Rallies and protests against the education cuts have taken place in Cork, Donegal, Galway and now Dublin. The same unions which have accepted the National Pay Deal are not accepting the cuts, the same people who voted to accepted the pay deal are not accepting the education cuts. This unresolved contradiction is at the heart of this new protest movement. The ideology of the market which became entrenched under Partnership and the Celtic Tiger is unravelling. These images reflect the search for a new language of resistance and a confusion on taking it forward. Who can do it? Who will do it? What will it take? read full story / add a comment
Michael McKevitt
national / crime and justice / news report Sunday December 07, 2008 22:32 by Ian Greene   text 4 comments (last - saturday february 14, 2009 13:28)   image 1 image
Lawyers acting on behalf of Michael McKevitt have submitted a fresh application to the Supreme Court in Dublin seeking to have a previous Supreme Court judgement overturned and a new appeal initiated. This unprecedented action by McKevitt’s legal team is prompted by the fact that the previous Supreme Court judgement (July 2008) relied greatly on ‘facts’ provided by the prosecution. Subsequently, the Director of Public Prosecutions has acknowledged these to be inaccurate.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday December 07, 2008 22:32 by Paula Geraghty   text 5 comments (last - friday december 19, 2008 14:09)   image 44 images   video 2 video files
Rallies and protests against the education cuts have taken place in Cork, Donegal, Galway and now Dublin. The same unions which have accepted the National Pay Deal are not accepting the cuts, the same people who voted to accepted the pay deal are not accepting the education cuts. This unresolved contradiction is at the heart of this new protest movement. The ideology of the market which became entrenched under Partnership and the Celtic Tiger is unravelling. These images reflect the search for a new language of resistance and a confusion on taking it forward. Who can do it? Who will do it? read full story / add a comment
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