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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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mayo / environment / news report Tuesday February 21, 2012 11:20 by j debender   text 8 comments (last - friday february 24, 2012 10:15)
In Belmullet district court on Monday 20th February, 6 campaigners were
convicted of a total of 13 charges between them with fines totaling 3,035
euros. While this went on, local residents blocked Shell's haulage route
between Bellanaboy refinery and the compound in Glengad.
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national / eu / opinion/analysis Tuesday February 21, 2012 01:04 by O.O'C.   text 7 comments (last - tuesday february 28, 2012 15:24)
The Government seems determined to push ahead in the next few months with the ratification of two important treaties: the “Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union” and the revised “Treaty on the European Stability Mechanism.”

The two treaties would make member-states of the euro zone into regimes of economic austerity, involving deeper and deeper cuts in public expenditure, increases in indirect taxes, reductions in wages, sustained liberalisation of markets, and the privatisation of public property. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / news report Monday February 20, 2012 20:13 by Shell To Sea   text 3 comments (last - monday february 20, 2012 20:21)   image 19 images
Music, dancing, games and a bit of trespassing. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / environment / news report Monday February 20, 2012 18:14 by Nico   text 2 comments (last - wednesday february 22, 2012 18:53)   image 5 images
Today (19-2-12) the Dublin Citizens Defence Committee carried out a second weeks work on a communal garden in Charlemont Street, Tom Kelly Flats. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday February 20, 2012 01:01 by Diet Simon
The Australian Labor government is planning more assaults on the rights of Aborigines.
It plans to extend for another ten years onerous conditions on income quarantining, education, alcohol and land rights.
And moves to dump nuclear waste on Aboriginal land have advanced with a deal between government and opposition.
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antrim / environment / news report Sunday February 19, 2012 23:59 by No To Fracking   text 4 comments (last - thursday february 23, 2012 17:03)
The prospect of Fracking moves one ominous step closer in the North Coast. Join the No To Fracking campaign! read full story / add a comment
Stop criminalising our community
mayo / environment / news report Sunday February 19, 2012 23:28 by j debender   image 1 image
On Monday February 20th the Belmullet courthouse in Co. Mayo will be full of campaigners opposing the Corrib Gas Project. Nineteen people are facing 80 charges between them for civil disobedience, and this week has been set aside as a special sitting for the campaigners. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday February 19, 2012 22:18 by Shell to Sea
At 10.30am this Monday 20th of February nineteen campaigners will arrive at Belmullet District Court to face 80 charges arising from protests against Shell’s Corrib Gas Project in Co. Mayo. This unprecedented volume of civil disobedience charges is all scheduled to be dealt with within one week. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday February 18, 2012 15:11 by Yassamine Mathe   text 1 comment (last - saturday april 07, 2012 12:15)
Yassamine Mather examines the current threats to Iran, the internal situation and discusses how the drive to War by the Imperialists should be opposed. Full text at url below.

In the last few weeks Iranians have woken up every day to news of further military threats and new sanctions. Anyone you contact in Iran will tell you how the constant media ‘analyses’ of if/when the bombing will start is affecting the national psyche, how morale is down, how the current situation is reminiscent of the terrible days of the Iran-Iraq war.

One Iranian blogger summarised the frustration of many Iranians when he lambasted callous statements by United States and Israeli officials debating the likely timing of air raids and military attacks against Iran. He wrote “These people discuss the timetable for bombing Iran as if they were deciding on dates for family holidays.” read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday February 18, 2012 14:15 by Indyjourno   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 12, 2012 23:07)
Marian Price has been moved to Hydebank Wood a womens prison while her lawyers are set to begin judicial review proceedings against her internment.
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday February 18, 2012 14:05 by Kev   text 1 comment (last - wednesday february 22, 2012 18:38)   image 2 images
As part of Israeli Apartheid Week 2012, the NUIG Palestine Solidarity Society in association with the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign is honoured to host a talk and film screening by Iyad Burnat, a leader of the Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall. Iyad will talk about the ongoing civil resistance campaign, both in Bil’in and in other areas like Nabi Saleh, Nil’in, Budrus and Sheikh Jarrah. Born in 1973, Iyad Burnat is the head of the Bil’in popular committee and Friends of Freedom and Justice and will be a familiar figure to the many Irish who have travelled to Bil’in over the past number of years.

The event will take place at 7pm on Wednesday 22nd February 2012, in the Kirwan Theatre, Concourse, National University of Ireland, Galway. read full story / add a comment
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cork / miscellaneous / event notice Saturday February 18, 2012 13:58 by Eric   text 1 comment (last - monday february 27, 2012 10:10)   image 1 image
Every Tuesday from 7pm in Solidarity Books, 43 Douglas Street (across from Fionn Barra’s)
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cork / arts and media / event notice Saturday February 18, 2012 13:50 by Eric   image 1 image
Every Tuesday from 7pm in Solidarity Books, 43 Douglas Street (across from Fionn Barra’s)
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cork / arts and media / event notice Saturday February 18, 2012 13:40 by Eric   image 1 image

Start time is 8pm.

All welcome, donations appreciated. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday February 17, 2012 18:18 by pat c   text 23 comments (last - wednesday march 07, 2012 22:38)
Sanctions: such a simple word, it sounds harmless. But sanctions are really War by other means. Here Michael Jansen writes about the reality of sanctionsc as ordinary Syrian people suffer. Full text at link.

SHOESHINE BOYS and girls line up with their simple kits along the pavement across from the luxury Cham Palace Hotel, which charges more than a poor man’s monthly wage for a single night’s stay.

Women holding bundles which may or may not be babies sit on the broad walkway in a colonnade. Grubby children peddling chewing gum and lottery tickets pursue pedestrians for blocks in the hope of receiving a coin or two. In all the years I have been visiting Syria, I have never seen such desperation.

Economic sanctions touted as targeting the regime actually affect the poor, punish the middle class, and destroy commerce. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Friday February 17, 2012 12:16 by Charlie Williams   text 4 comments (last - tuesday march 06, 2012 23:51)   video 1 video file   3 attached files
Dear Taoiseach,
Dear Tanaiste,
Dear Ministers,
Dear members of the 31st Dáil Éireann,

In my last letter to you I discussed Tamboran's claim that almost as much gas could be recovered from the Laugh Allen Basin as from the 8 times larger Barnett Shale in Texas, US. Please take a look again at my updated article, Leitrim has $55bn gas reserves, Tamboran claims https://sites.google.com/site/frackingireland/leitrim-has-55bn-gas-reserves-tamboran-claims
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rabble Ruckus 3 - A Grimey Dublin Affair
dublin / arts and media / event notice Friday February 17, 2012 12:14 by Freda H   image 1 image
rabble Ruckus #3 A Grimey Dublin Affair

The best of Irish Hip-Hop and underground dance play a fundraiser for new Irish freesheet rabble. Line up includes Major Grave, Temper Mental Misselayneous, A-Force and Lady Grew, Don Rosco, Street Literature, Willa Lee and Gary O'Brien read full story / add a comment
John McDonnell: war warning
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Friday February 17, 2012 11:58 by pat c   text 4 comments (last - saturday february 18, 2012 12:51)   image 1 image
I was present in the Commons on January 24, when foreign secretary William Hague made a statement on European Union sanctions against Iran. In response to a question, he said that, while the UK was “not calling for, or advocating, military action”, it is “the job of our armed forces to prepare for many contingencies” and “all options remain on the table”. This was reflected on the Labour front bench by shadow foreign secretary John Spellar, that well known progressive politician (there’s no irony in Hansard, but I hope it’s not the same in this meeting). Spellar reflects the same attitude - that we should be ready for military action read full story / add a comment
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