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cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Sunday March 20, 2011 23:17 by Nickibopp
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"Purpose in the Age of Uncertainty" is the title of David Korowicz's talk at the Cork launch of Feasta's "Fleeing Vesuvius", this coming Monday lunchtime in the Central Library. In the just-published North American edition Richard Heinberg describes Fleeing Vesuvius as a "goldmine". It is a rare resource for the dark times ahead; one that allows, not false hope, but a way to face the future with purpose - when the systems as we've known them can no longer provide the road map. As well as the publication of the North American edition of the book (by New Society Press), a New Zealand/Australian version will be published shortly, proving that Fleeing Vesuvius has both regional and global relevance. Please pass this event on to your friends and colleagues, thanks. read full story / add a comment 
national / education / press release Saturday March 19, 2011 17:24 by FEE QUB
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Free education for Everyone (FEE) QUB have called on all students to support striking lecturers by not attending class on Monday 21st and Thursday 24th of March. Added to that FEE QUB call on all students to attend their nearest picket line on both strike days and to actively support their lecturers. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday March 19, 2011 09:46 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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Last night I went to see Ken Loach/ Paul Lavety's latest effort, the film "Route Irish". I was invited along by a friend, Ben Griffin, who is an Iraq S.A.S. combat veteran. For most of my anti- war activist life the word "veteran" would conjure images of older guys from my town who had fought in WW2 in New Guinea and also recenlty returned Vietnam Veterans. I grew up sharing a back fence with the second largest military base in Australia - "Gallipoli Barracks"/ Enoggera, Brisbane, Australia. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / press release Friday March 18, 2011 20:10 by Paddy Healy
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Paddy Healy, Former President, TUI, Independent Candidate for Seanad Eireann Tireless Campaigner for education and Public Services An Independent Voice for All Public Servants including Teachers, Lecturers, Social Workers, Health Workers, All Administrative and Maintenance Staff , and all Public Service Pensioners as New Government Promises to eliminate 25,000 Jobs A Voice for Academic Freedom As New Government Reinforces Existing Threats and Department of education threatens further pay cuts for Lecturers. Paddy Healy 086-4183732, paddy.healy@eircom.net, Blog: http://paddyhealy.wordpress.com read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / press release Friday March 18, 2011 07:24 by IRSCNA
A statement celebrating the 140th anniversary of the Paris Commune. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday March 18, 2011 02:40 by GYBO Team
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The Afro-Asian People's Democratic Islamic Congress (APIC[APICONG]) is glad to forward the manifesto of Gaza Youth Breaks Out (GYBO) in its current, as well as in its original form. We are asking you to support the youth of Palestine in their endeavour to establish Palestinian unity beyond HAMAS and FATAH. The people, united, cannot be subdued. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday March 15, 2011 12:54 by Lasc
international / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Saturday March 12, 2011 16:10 by Yassamine Mather
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Yassamine Mather examines the reality of the continuing struggle against the regime's oppression. On March 8, for the second time in a week, demonstrators gathered in the streets of Tehran and other major cities in Iran to protest against the regime - despite its attempts at suppression, its armed security forces, its tear gas and its arrests. Thirty-two years ago, on March 8 1979, tens of thousands of Iranian women took part in the first major demonstration against the newly established Islamic Republic of Iran, following the forced imposition of the hijab. The women’s slogans were: “I say it every moment, I say it under torture: either death or freedom!” “Freedom is neither eastern nor western: it is universal!” “Death to censorship!” “In the dawn of freedom, the place of women is empty: revolution is meaningless without women’s freedom - we do not want the hijab!” read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday March 11, 2011 10:42 by Derek Leinster
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Dear Ruairi Quinn, Minister for education and Skills, Congratulations on your appointment as Minister. We ask you to consider sympathetically and favourably the request of Bethany Home survivors to be included on the schedule to the redress scheme for survivors of institutional abuse. We have been greatly assisted in the past by, amongst others, Joe Costello TD, Katleen Lynch TD and by Senator Ivana Bacik, who have supported our campaign. TDs from all parties have supported our request. read full story / add a comment
national / education / press release Tuesday March 08, 2011 23:12 by Laurence Cox
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Practitioner course for movement activists, community educators and newcomers at Maynooth now taking applications for 2011 / 2012. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / press release Tuesday March 08, 2011 20:22 by 1percentnetwork
The 1% Network has announced plans for a Street Theatre and Music event and an Open Meeting during which the Central Bank in Dublin’s Dame Street will be cordoned off as a crime scene. read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality / press release Monday March 07, 2011 14:07 by Dorothy Gale
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As the womenss movement and progressive throughout the world celebrate International women's day HOPI Ireland ask people in Ireland not to forget those who do not have even basic human rights. HOPI (Hands off the People of Iran) Ireland wish to remind people today to remember the plight of Iranian women suffering under the dictatorship of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the state control that stops them from the same rights that many women in Ireland take for granted: the right to work, the right to education, the right to protest and even the right to dress in the way they want. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday March 06, 2011 00:55 by john throne
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The employers have been on an offensive against the working class for the past forty years. The assaults on the public sector are the latest fronts. Unfortunately the union leaders have gone along with this offensive. In the present battles they bleat that they will get their members to give concessions as long as they can negotiate these. In essence this is what the union leaders position boils down to. Let us negotiate and we will get our members to make concessions. Of course this would continue to give the union leaders a role. The union leaders fear a victory in Madison and elsewhere because this would show that victories are possible and that defeat in front of this bosses offense is always inevitable. If this was shown it would undermine the entire propaganda of the union leaders and weaken their control of the movement. They prefer defeat to this. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday March 05, 2011 20:08 by okanenas
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This is not a call for philanthropy. This is a call for solidarity to 300 proud and brave people who are determined to sacrifice their life in order to claim their right to a better future. They want the same thing our forefathers wanted when they decided to migrate. They are not strangers, they are not invisible, they are not disposable. They are dignified human beings who teach us a hard lesson about true struggle. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Saturday March 05, 2011 13:52 by Graduate
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FF, FG, Labour, ex-PDs, and other shades of establishement opinion are putting themselves forward as 'independents' in the upcoming election to Seanad Éireann. The mask of 'disability campaigner' or 'human rights advocate' is unfortunately the last refuge of some of them. This is most obvious on the university constituencies. Here I have outlined the party loyalties of some of them. read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / news report Wednesday March 02, 2011 16:33 by Mick
Open Letter to Dublin City Council Today, the 2nd March, the provisional university sent an open letter to the City Manager of Dublin City Council demanding a space for student-managed teaching and research and denouncing the neo-liberalisation of the university and the destruction of the public good. This is the second step in our campaign to reclaim a space to fight for education as a right and to take back the university. The text of the letter follows. read full story / add a comment
national / education / news report Tuesday March 01, 2011 14:03 by Mick
Check out the newly launched University in Crisis blog, keeping people up to date on the neo-liberal university and struggles against it. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / other press Friday February 25, 2011 12:31 by Andrew
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Today, in an even more meaningless exercise then normal, a minority of the population of Ireland will choose between two almost identical options as to who will implement the ECB / IMF austerity plans for southern Ireland. Outside of this plan the wealthiest 1% will continue to set economic policy tomorrow as they did yesterday and have throughout the last decades. The electoral circus we are now going through provides the rest of us with the illusion of control even though deep down almost everyone acknowledges the ritual as having no real impact on what policies are actually implemented. read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections / feature Thursday February 24, 2011 08:50 by T
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Given it is just days away from the election and a new government, most likely to be led by Fine Gael, many are probably wondering what exactly is the current state of Ireland and what are the prospects for recovery. In short, things are bad and a recovery is very unlikely. There are also wider and bigger global issues and we are unprepared and should be doing something about it now. read full story / add a comment 
tyrone / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Wednesday February 23, 2011 23:27 by PRO
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The community sector is being urged to sit up and take action to prevent it being seen as an easy target by both the Assembly and Westminster when the budget cuts are finalised. The call came at a public meeting in Omagh on Thursday night (17th February) organised by trade union SIPTU, which addressed how vulnerable the community sector will be to the budget cuts. The crowd was made up of a cross section of local councillors, community group and resident association representatives from the Omagh area. read full story / add a comment |
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