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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday November 08, 2008 10:46 by Michael Cronin   image 4 images
On the 15th November 2008, a conference was organised by the Irish National Forestry Foundation and held at the Silversprings Hotel, Cork. A protest by forestry contractors was present at the conference, claiming pollution of Irish rivers from harvesting of timber, also another peaceful protest was held at the National Ploughing Championships on the 23rd September 2008 (Photos of which are attached). read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday November 07, 2008 17:47 by SF
The Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Natural Resources, Martin Ferris TD, welcomed
the announcement that the Government is to set up a forum to attempt to
settle the ongoing impasse over the development of the Corrib Gas field. read full story / add a comment
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national / environment / opinion/analysis Friday November 07, 2008 15:39 by Oedipus at the National Theatre   text 11 comments (last - friday june 19, 2009 00:41)   image 2 images
Before the lawyers get busy, let's have a look at what he said yesterday when he announced that the Fioanna Fáil/Geen Party government was setting up a talking shop to give the impression that they care what people think about the project (which will go ahead, it seems, regardless of whatever the "Corrib Gas Community Forum" says or concludes).

In the Irish Independent today, the Minister is quoted as saying the following:
"Mr Ryan said it would give the State greater energy security, help bring down gas prices and bring in €1.7bn in corporation taxes over the project's estimated 15-20 year lifespan."

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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Friday November 07, 2008 15:30 by Stephen Boyd   text 57 comments (last - wednesday november 19, 2008 17:52)
Socialist Party publishes new critique of the SWP read full story / add a comment
national / sci-tech / press release Friday November 07, 2008 15:02 by Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland
The Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland (HISI) spoke out today, in advance of their 13th Annual Conference, about the need to increase the confidence of political and management decision makers in using and investing in information and communication technology (ICT). HISI also identified the need to raise public awareness of how critical a role ICT plays in the current delivery of services. In today’s economic climate HISI stresses that technology is crucial to the drive for efficiencies and effectiveness within the sector because it underpins and supports the development of services. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / event notice Friday November 07, 2008 14:11 by Noisy Joe
7-10.30pm, Monday November 10th 2008
London Action Resource Centre (LARC, 62 Fieldgate St (corner of Parfett St), Whitechapel, London E1 1ES; 020 7377 9088; www.londonarc.org
Nearest tubes: Whitechapel & Aldgate East
Admission by donation read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Friday November 07, 2008 13:21 by Michael Gallagher
A remembrance service will be held for deceaed members of SIPTU.

A selection of images from the anti war photography exhibition, 'Images of Resisance, -inside and outside of Iraq' will also be on display from that date for a short period. The local school choir will perform and light refreshments will be served.
For more info, call Paddy Behan 01-8903057 or contact him at SIPTU offices, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1.

Our Lady of Lourdes Church
Sean Mc Dermott Street
Dublin 1

Sunday, November 9th.

11.30 am

www.flickr.com/photos/libertypics read full story / add a comment
'Changing Ireland' - greenest Irish magazine today
national / environment / press release Friday November 07, 2008 12:51 by Allen Meagher   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Changing Ireland’ has become the greenest magazine in Ireland. While we're celebrating, we are shocked to find ourselves leading the way.
“‘Changing Ireland’ finds is now ahead of a range of popular commercial magazines that weigh down the shop-shelves with paper from virgin forests and inks derived from heavy chemicals. We should be following their lead into a greener world, not showing them the way,” said editor Allen Meagher.

‘Changing Ireland’, Issue 27, is the publication’s first ‘green issue’. The new edition is now on the web: www.changingireland.ie and the paper version is due out from Monday, Nov. 10th and it is available in Eason’s or directly by contacting ‘Changing Ireland’.
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limerick / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday November 06, 2008 23:08 by Zoe Lawlor
Sahar Francis will speak about the situation of Palestinians interned by the Israeli authorities. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday November 06, 2008 19:35 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 8 comments (last - monday november 17, 2008 10:10)   video 1 video file
"Democracy is Coming to the U.S.A."
clip -Leonard Cohen
http://noolmusic.com/yahoo_videos/leonard_cohen_-_democ...y.php

I've been in Glasgow the past few daze catching to my godson Seanoidh and his parents Brian and Babs. I met B & B when I accompanied my friend Richard, who had just been deported from Genoa as he was trying to make his way to the G8 2001 demonstration, down to the Italian embassy in London to register our protest at the killing of Carlos,
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday November 06, 2008 18:51 by TD   image 1 image
NUI Galway's Palestine Solidarity Society along with the college Film Society are screening Sufyan and Abdallah Omeish thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions.

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Iyad at the last Belfast May Day Rally
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday November 06, 2008 18:39 by TD   image 1 image
This evening, the Palestine Solidarity Society in Galway University are hosting Iyad Burnat's powerful documentary on the non-violent resistance to the building of the Israeli Apartheid Wall and the building of Jews only illegal colonising "settlements" on the expropriated land of Bil'in, a small Palestinian village, 12 kilometers (7 mi) west of the city of Ramallah in the West Bank.
Discussion afterwards.

Iyad is the head of the Bil'in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements and co-founder of the Friends of Freedom and Justice society

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international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday November 06, 2008 17:56 by john throne
"There is no one who represents the black inner city, who is rooted in the black community. It's the whole black Brahmin thing.: Vote for us because we're better than you." read full story / add a comment
Obama cosying up to Emanuel at the Illinois Delegation party at a restaurant in Boston
cavan / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday November 06, 2008 17:47 by Terry   text 1 comment (last - friday november 07, 2008 11:37)   image 1 image
Electronic Intifada is reporting : "Obama picks pro-Israel hardliner for top post" whilst Haaratz describing the the choosing as: "Obama kick-starts transition, picks Israeli Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff" http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1034635.html

As Ali Abunimah puts it in his EI article: "During the United States election campaign, racists and pro-Israel hardliners tried to make an issue out of President-elect Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein. Such people might take comfort in another middle name, that of Obama's pick for White House Chief of Staff: Rahm Israel Emanuel ... Rahm Emanuel was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1959, the son of Benjamin Emanuel, a pediatrician who helped smuggle weapons to the Irgun, the Zionist militia of former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, in the 1940s. The Irgun carried out numerous terrorist attacks on Palestinian civilians including the bombing of Jerusalem's King David Hotel in 1946. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday November 06, 2008 17:33 by National Secretary of the WSM   text 3 comments (last - friday november 07, 2008 10:04)
Report of the National Secretary for the Fall 2008 Conference held at the Teachers Club in Dublin on the 25th and 26 of October. read full story / add a comment
Offaly residents celebrate
international / animal rights / news report Thursday November 06, 2008 15:56 by Hilary   text 7 comments (last - friday march 18, 2011 16:19)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
The United States of America took a giant step in the last week in the field of civil rights and human development when a man with Offaly ancestry was chosen to lead the nation. While there is no legal bar against people from Offaly or their descendants holding high office in the U.S., many were surprised that voters were able to overcome the widespread prejudice against the county.

Men from Offaly (known as BIFFO's) have often encountered a "glass ceiling" whereby they would be trusted with a glass, but not a pint. read full story / add a comment
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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday November 06, 2008 14:29 by Sean Matthews (Personal Capacity)   image 1 image
Text of talk from Belfast WSM educational read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday November 06, 2008 12:18 by Ciaron   text 13 comments (last - tuesday may 12, 2009 03:02)   image 11 images
Sunday Nov 16th
1pm-3pm
Outside Dublin's U.S. Embassy
*Testimonies/ Speeches from Latin Americans (and others who have worked there) relating how the S.O.A. and U.S. foreign policy has brought torture, death and oppression to their countries.
*Also speakers on nonviolent resistance to .S.O.A. this will include Petria who has been arrested for trespass at rhe S.O.A.
More info Ph. 087 918 4552 read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday November 06, 2008 10:55 by Mark C
A public demonstration against the proposed education cuts in Budget 2009 will be held in Galway city next Saturday, November 8th. The protest will start in Eyre Square at 1.45pm.
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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 05, 2008 22:07 by Bonnan buí   text 10 comments (last - sunday november 09, 2008 14:07)

Sinn Fein defend the Free State read full story / add a comment
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