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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday August 20, 2008 10:03 by Susan
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The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) Ireland and Afri will hold a vigil outside the Russian embassy in Dublin on Wednesday, 20 August 2008, at 12.00pm. The event has been organized to protest Russia’s use of cluster bombs in Georgia, just three months after 107 nations agreed to ban this indiscriminate weapon at the Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday August 20, 2008 09:34 by Ciaron
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As Tibet solidarity and other human rights activists are rounded up i Beijing, a designated protest pen is transformed into a trap from where people disappear (77 applications were made to enter this "protest pen" - all have been withdrawn, suspended or rejected!), a Chinese girl is ditched from the Olympic Opening Ceremony for not having "the look" to go with the voice, the Party promotes, the corporates profit and prima don athletes are expected to keep a housebroken silence - one's mind is cast back to an iconic image from Mexico '68. read full story / add a comment ![]()
wicklow / miscellaneous / feature Wednesday August 20, 2008 07:59 by Flood Victim
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Wicklow County Council has no flood plan and it's Fire Service is not allowed respond to flooding. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday August 19, 2008 22:37 by Richard Walsh
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Sinn Féin have condemned Ian Óg Paisley's calls for Republicans to be murdered on sight following an IRA attack in Fermanagh. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / news report Tuesday August 19, 2008 22:09 by Alfied
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At present there are 50 plus mobile phone masts on top of the Northside Swimming Pool in Coolock. I find it's sad that we have got to the stage without anybody lifting a finger. I am not living in the area at the moment, but appeal to anybody from Coolock who reads this, and thinks it is an outrage, to make a commitment to do something about it. Phone, write, make a leaflet, tell friends and family and let's try and get a public meeting on the go. read full story / add a comment
wicklow / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 19, 2008 20:55 by Mr.Peter Brady.
This is our third statement. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / other press Tuesday August 19, 2008 16:37 by The Bold Collective
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Currently broadcasting from letterfrack: Brian Anson, speaking about the Divis Flats read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / press release Tuesday August 19, 2008 13:40 by Fred Johnston
The Western Writers' Centre are already liaising with a prominent Irish-based poetry group to organise a possible Scotland exchange . . . .but there's a missing link read full story / add a comment ![]()
mayo / environment / other press Tuesday August 19, 2008 13:14 by Mayo News Reader
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According to Sunday's Daily Mail, Shell misled the experts who were tasked with assessing the company's planning application for the proposed onshore pipeline route. Julie Fossitt, Senior Ecologist with the National Parks and Wildlife Services and author of the standard reference work "A Guide to Habitats in Ireland" asserted in a memo released under Freedom of Information legislation, that '‘key information was withheld from specialists whose opinions were included in the planning documents" and that ‘the project ecologists did not have access to key sections of the proposed pipeline route’. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday August 19, 2008 10:35 by pat c
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Peter Tatchell writes on how the Iranian Regime is stepping up its war against the working class: trade union activists have been jailed and flogged. This is part of the Regimes wider assault on all dissidents: In Baluchistan alone700 nationalist and human rights campaigners are on death row. Full article at link. Among those recently jailed were two workers' rights campaigners, Sousan Razani and Shiva Kheirabadi. They have been sentenced to 15 lashes and four months in prison for the "crime" (under Iran's Islamic law) of participating in a May Day celebration in the city of Sanandaj earlier this year. The verdicts were issued by the criminal court of Sanandaj – branch 101. read full story / add a comment
fermanagh / miscellaneous / press release Monday August 18, 2008 23:09 by Richard Walsh
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RSF have urged people not to collaborate with the RUC. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday August 18, 2008 18:23 by pat c
Here is the case of Farzad Kamangar. teacher, trade unionist, human rights activist. Sentenced to death by a kangaroo court. You can help to save his life. Full text at link. Farzad Kamangar, a 33-year old teacher and trade unionist from the Kurdistan Province of Iran, is at risk of execution following an unfair trial.In recent weeks, Education InternationaI has written to the Iranian Government to request a fair trial for Farzad Kamangar and other union activists who are under arrest. In spite of joint efforts from various national and international organisations to have death sentence of Farzad Kamangar communted, it was upheld by the Supreme Court on 11 July 2008. In addition, Iranian trade union colleagues and human rights activists who show solidarity with Farzad are being subjected to pervasive intimidation by the Iranian authorities. read full story / add a comment ![]()
clare / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday August 18, 2008 18:19 by redjade
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Maybe in the future the only consistant revenue to keep Shannon Airport alive will be from the killing? read full story / add a comment ![]()
Conscience their lodestar, Israeli violence their sword of Damocles,the Boats of Mercy sail for Gaza
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday August 18, 2008 17:39 by TD
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More the decks of a Noah's ark than a cobblestoned trading emporium, Free Palestine Campaign activists took to rain deluged Shop Street last Saturday in solidarity with the brave women and men who presently will be sailing from Cyprus in two boats to break the medieval siege of Gaza and on what Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire, calls a "pilgrimage of justice and peace." read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday August 18, 2008 17:27 by Bold Collective
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Currently broadcasting from letterfrack: read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Monday August 18, 2008 15:25 by Contaminated Crow
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This week's reports on environmental campaigns and controversies from the local papers read full story / add a comment
derry / crime and justice / other press Monday August 18, 2008 12:56 by Ciaran Gallagher
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On the 10th Anniversary of the Omagh bombings of August 15th 2008 in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, which left 29 people dead and more than 200 injured, a relative of a victim of the bomb has accused that British agents were responsible for carrying out the attacks. read full story / add a comment ![]()
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday August 18, 2008 10:59 by events@LASC.ie
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This lively and participative course provides an overview of the causes and consequences of lack of development in Latin America. Rooted firmly in the experience of the people of the region, the course will cover historical, social, economic, political and cultural perspectives. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday August 18, 2008 09:35 by J
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Dublin City Council are trying to implement a ban on restricted breeds being owned by council tenants, this is discrimination at its very least and it is an infringement on your human rights, responsible dog owners and council tenants are being treated as second class citizens in yet another example of Ireland's two-tier Society. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / event notice Sunday August 17, 2008 20:36 by M. Ni Bhrolchain
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Feis Teamhra, a turn at Tara Poets and musicians will perform at "Feis Teamhra, a turn at Tara" on the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath on Sunday 24th. August at 3.30pm. read full story / add a comment |
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