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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday February 27, 2012 09:42 by Giuseppe Conlon House   text 2 comments (last - tuesday july 02, 2013 20:02)   image 1 image
YOUTUBE -"Giuseppe Conlon" performed by Joe Black at Giuseppe Conlon House, London

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQsUcLAx03U&list=UUn6VMo...=plcp

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carlow / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday February 27, 2012 07:32 by Laurence Cox
Public meeting against paying Anglo debt read full story / add a comment
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international / sci-tech / other press Saturday February 25, 2012 17:44 by Pleb   text 5 comments (last - sunday february 26, 2012 20:49)   image 1 image
(original article is in Scientific American, re-published here in the public interest)

By Julian Dibbell

• The Internet was designed to be a decentralized system: every node should connect to many others. This design helped to make the system resistant to censorship or outside attack.
• Yet in practice, most individual users exist at the edges of the network, connected to others only through their Internet service provider (ISP). Block this link, and Internet access disappears.
• An alternative option is beginning to emerge in the form of wireless mesh networks, simple systems that connect end users to one another and automatically route around blocks and censors.
• Yet any mesh network needs to hit a critical mass of users before it functions well; developers must convince potential users to trade off ease of use for added freedom and privacy.
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cork / arts and media / event notice Saturday February 25, 2012 13:32 by Eric   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Start time is 8pm.

All welcome, donations appreciated.

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This drama-documentary tells the story of Ethel MacDonald. A forgotten legend, her story ranks alongside the courage of 'La Pasionaria' and the legendary 'Odette'. Whilst both these women sustained world-wide recognition, our Scots heroine dwindled into obscurity and remains forgotten to this day. Ethel MacDonald's own intimate recollections are presented through a definitive mix of documentary and drama, re-visiting the Killing Fields that were the Spanish Civil War. Supporting commentary spoken by David Hayman paired with expert interviews, including Noam Chomsky, provides background knowledge of 1930's European Politics and a further insight into the young Scot's motives, actions and social situation. The film links her own personal drama to specific archive footage of Barcelona in disarray - an image Ethel MacDonald came to know so well.
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dublin / history and heritage / event notice Saturday February 25, 2012 08:20 by Josephine Hayden   text 1 comment (last - sunday april 22, 2012 11:07)   image 1 image
Republican Sinn Féin holding seminar in the Ireland Institute, Pearse Street, Dublin on April 21, 2012.
Doors open 11.30am, begining 12noon sharp to 5pm read full story / add a comment
Hare Coursing: A former judge and a respected conservationist group now say it should be banned
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Saturday February 25, 2012 00:53 by Ban Hare Coursing Now   text 1 comment (last - saturday february 25, 2012 15:38)   image 5 images
Evidence is mounting recent weeks that hare coursing can no longer ward off accusations of deliberate cruelty and ecological vandalism. Opposition to it is increasing, with a former district court judge and the prestigious Irish Wildlife Trust caoming out in favour of its abolition. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday February 24, 2012 17:50 by pat c   text 2 comments (last - saturday february 25, 2012 13:18)
British Foreign Secretary William Hague claims that the World is Facing a new Cold WAr unless Iran gives up its hopes of constructing nuclear weapons. Peter Manson thinks this is a load of codswallop and analyses whats really going on. Full text at link.

Foreign secretary William Hague’s absurd claim that the world faces a “new cold war” if Iran does not give up its aim of acquiring nuclear weapons might not stand up to examination, but Hague was undoubtedly given a boost on February 22 when a team from the United Nations-sponsored International Atomic Energy Agency returned from a two-day visit to Iran. read full story / add a comment
Changes in ice thickness (in centimeters per year) during 2003-2010 as measured by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, averaged over each of the world's ice caps and glacier systems outside of Greenland and Antarctica.
international / environment / press release Friday February 24, 2012 17:35 by Steve Cole   text 32 comments (last - wednesday february 29, 2012 14:30)   image 10 images
In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team used NASA data to calculate how much Earth's melting land ice is adding to global sea level rise.

Using satellite measurements from the NASA/German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), the researchers measured ice loss in all of Earth's land ice between 2003 and 2010, with particular emphasis on glaciers and ice caps outside of Greenland and Antarctica.

The total global ice mass lost from Greenland, Antarctica and Earth's glaciers and ice caps during the study period was about 4.3 trillion tons (1,000 cubic miles), adding about 0.5 inches (12 millimeters) to global sea level. That's enough ice to cover the United States 1.5 feet (0.5 meters) deep. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday February 24, 2012 12:54 by LCW   text 5 comments (last - wednesday february 29, 2012 00:50)   image 7 images   video 2 video files
Seven Catholic Workers, a Quaker, a doctor and a priest were detained and searched following the marking of the M.O.D. Buiding in Whitehall in an anti-nuclear weapons action on Ash Wenesday read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday February 24, 2012 12:13 by SIPTU Community Campaign
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has criticised spending cuts in the community and voluntary sector as “short-sighted and ultimately self-defeating.” Launching a new study on the impact of cuts – Downsizing the Community Sector – Congress General Secretary David Begg said it was clear many of the cuts were taking place “below the radar and out of the spotlight. But their impact is enormous. In many communities these cuts are eroding the social fabric, eating away at what binds those communities together,” he said. read full story / add a comment
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limerick / environment / press release Friday February 24, 2012 12:06 by William Gomes   image 1 image   1 attached file
The constant removal of sand is now threatening the existence of the islanders. When the affected inhabitants of the islands observed the vulnerability and realized that the authorities were doing little to protect their land from the illegal sand-miners, hundreds islanders including women and children came out of their houses on 3 October 2011. They captured one dredger and six perpetrators while the remainder of the dredging workers and perpetrators fled the scene. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday February 24, 2012 09:57 by Camelin   text 3 comments (last - saturday february 25, 2012 11:00)
Who? Real Democracy Now! Ireland
What? Protest in Solidarity with the students in Valencia who where brutalized by police.
When? Saturday 25th February @ 3 pm
Where? Central Bank of Ireland, Dame Street, Dublin 2.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Thursday February 23, 2012 12:37 by Vetarans for Peace   text 5 comments (last - saturday february 25, 2012 08:58)
A national organization representing thousands of military veterans is calling on the US Army to abandon court martial proceedings against Private Bradley Manning, the accused Wikileaks whistleblower. The young soldier, who has been imprisoned for 21 months, will be formally arraigned today (Thursday, Feb. 23) at Fort Meade, Maryland. Army prosecutors say they will file 22 charges against PFC Manning, including “aiding the enemy,” a crime that can be punished by the death penalty or life in prison. read full story / add a comment
Israeli Apartheid Week 2012
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Wednesday February 22, 2012 23:24 by Kev   text 2 comments (last - tuesday march 06, 2012 17:45)   image 2 images
Israeli Apartheid Week is an annual international series of events held across the globe. The aim is to educate people about the nature of Israeli apartheid against the Palestinian people and to build the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement locally and globally. Last year, IAW took place in over 60 cities across the globe and this year the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (http://www.ipsc.ie) is proud to again host a series of events in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
Locals show their solidarity with many from the Rossport Solidarity Camp who are in court
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday February 22, 2012 22:54 by j debender   text 15 comments (last - monday march 05, 2012 00:58)   image 6 images
On Tuesday Shell to Sea spokesperson Terence Conway was handed two 3-month prison sentences for protesting against Shell's Corrib Gas Project. Throughout the week local residents have been protesting on the roads while many of their supporters are up in court in Belmullet, which so far has resulted in fines totalling 5,825 euro. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday February 22, 2012 18:48 by Kev   image 1 image
***Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to cancel the talk by Bil’in Organiser Iyad Burnat on non-violent resistance to Israeli Apartheid. We have instead organised the following event which we hope will interest you:***

As part of Israeli Apartheid Week 2012, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign is honoured to host the Irish Première screening of the new acclaimed film “Roadmap to Apartheid”, to be followed by a Question and Answer session with Huwaida Arraf and Adam Shapiro two of the founders of the International Solidarity Movement, who will discuss non-violent resistance to Israeli Apartheid.

The event will take place at 7pm on Thursday 23rd February 2012, in Cassidy’s Hotel, Cavendish Row, Parnell Square, Dublin 2 (map here: http://tinyurl.com/7xn68sk ). read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Wednesday February 22, 2012 16:47 by Joe Mc   text 4 comments (last - tuesday march 06, 2012 18:18)   video 1 video file
The right-wing Heartland Institute think-tank , which produces anti-scientific propaganda for climate change denial purposes , has often been criticized for its links to mining, oil and mineral extraction industries . These links would seem to have been confirmed by the publishing of documents on the Desmogblog site on February 14 that , if authentic, reveal much of the "inner workings " of Heartlands . read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday February 22, 2012 14:59 by Paul Gavan   video 1 video file
This short video gives a summary of reasons why workers employed in the Community Sector need to organise in order to defend the vital services they provide. It's time for all Community Workers to demand their right to collective bargaining, and have their say over the future of the Community and Voluntary Sector! Join us on the Road to Recognition! read full story / add a comment
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national / arts and media / event notice Wednesday February 22, 2012 09:03 by Eamonn   image 1 image   1 attached file
Louth Contemporary Music Society presents a new arrangement of Seán Ó Riada’s Mass by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky performed by the EQ Singers with Zoe Conway, fiddle, Laoise Kelly,harp & Mel Mercier, bodhrán conducted by Eamonn Dougan with a special guest performance by Iarla Ó Lionáird in St.Nicholas’ Church of Ireland (The Green Church)Dundalk at 8pm on Saturday 10 March 2012

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