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kildare / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday November 20, 2011 22:13 by Kev
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Newbridge: Film Screening - ‘Occupation 101′ followed by Q&A with Fintan Lane of Irish Ship To Gaza
Wednesday, 30 November @ 7pm
Crooked House Theatre, 1 Main Street, Newbridge, Co. Kildare
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday November 20, 2011 19:45 by James Coughlan
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Thirty one malicious prosecutions of an innocent man, followed by perjury, cover ups, scandalous conduct by judges, barristers, solicitors, the Courts Service, the DPP's office, assaults by Gardaí etc - there was a long story to tell about the shameless legal and judicial system in Ireland outside our Houses of Parliament during the protest by Kevin Tracey, despite his illness.
This story is one that could also come under the Rights and Freedom heading as well as under "Crime and Justice". Kevin Tracey has been the victim of criminal behaviour but he has also been deprived of his human rights and of freedom to live a normal life with his family in peace.
Every day of the protest people ask
"Why is this happening in Ireland?"
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday November 20, 2011 15:37 by pat c
Louay Hussein a former political prisoner in Syria has more than a few doubts about the Syrian National Council. Hussein, a writer and political prisoner from 1984 to 1991, explains: “People who took part in the protests during the first three months were different from the people now,” he says. The original protesters “had political ideas and values and called for liberty and equality. They were for positive action . . . During this stage, I was part of the movement in the street, as an organiser. But others joined the protests. They regard this regime as murderers rather than a tyranny or dictatorship and raise harmful slogans” by calling for external intervention or executing Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
However, he observes that the “council has a lot of financial and diplomatic support. Many EU states give visas to its members but not to us.” read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday November 17, 2011 22:14 by Saoirse
The following is the Presidential Address delivered by Des Dalton at the 107th Ard Fheis of Republican Sinn Féin in Dublin on November 13: read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday November 17, 2011 14:28 by pat c
Iran claims the explosion was accidental but is there more to this? Full text at link.
A massive explosion at an Iranian military base on Saturday killed Major General Hassan Moghaddam and 16 soldiers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp. While Tehran dismissed the blast as an accident, indications have already emerged that it was an act of sabotage carried out by Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad. Moghaddam, who was trained in China and North Korea, has been described in Iran as the architect of the country’s ballistic missile program. The Alghadir base, at which the explosion occurred, housed Iran’s Shehab-3 missiles, which are capable of reaching Israel. Such was the scale of the blast that it was heard 40 kilometres away in Tehran. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 16, 2011 15:57 by Samuel Albert
The euphoria has evaporated. While today's raucous political climate is very different than the years before Hosni Mubarak's ouster, when an enforced silence and stillness prevailed, it has also changed markedly since the period immediately preceding and following his 11 February forced resignation. Now, among the millions who participated in or supported that revolt and more broadly, there is a feeling that the situation is becoming increasingly complex, unsettled and dangerous. Marches, strikes, sit-ins and other protests happen every day, but many ordinary people are becoming more passive. There is a chill in the air that comes from more than the approaching winter. read full story / add a comment
national / housing / press release Tuesday November 15, 2011 23:39 by PAW
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We have been writing to all members of the Dáil for months asking to participate in identifying possible solutions and offering a view from the troubled home owners perspective, we are still awaiting a reasonable response from the government. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday November 15, 2011 13:37 by Hurriyeh Ziadah
Groups of Palestinian Freedom Riders will attempt to board segregated settler buses heading to Jerusalem through the occupied West Bank this Tuesday November 15, in an act of civil disobedience that takes its inspiration from the US Civil Rights Movement Freedom Riders aim to challenge Israel’s apartheid policies, the ban on Palestinians’ access to Jerusalem, and the overall segregated reality created by a military and settler occupation that is the cornerstone of Israel’s colonial regime. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday November 14, 2011 19:27 by pat c
Jean Shaoul outlines the role that Saudi Arabia is playing in the Imperialist war plans against Iran. The lack of democracy in Saudi Arabia has never bothered the US. Full text at link.
Saudi Arabia’s key role in seeking to destabilise the Ba’athist regime of Bashir Assad has become the centrepiece of an attempt by Washington to cobble together an anti-Iranian alliance, aimed more generally at suppressing the Middle Eastern masses. Saudi Arabia, the world’s leading oil producer and exporter, has the largest known oil reserves in the world. This has brought untold wealth to the Saudi ruling family and its more than 20,000 princes. The House of Saud keeps power by a system of brutal repression that outlaws all public protests, strikes and expressions of dissent, combined with its championing of an extreme version of Sunni Islam, Wahhabism. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday November 14, 2011 19:19 by pat c
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Chris Marsden reports on Arab League to suspend Syria and exposes the hypocrisy of some of the despots who voted in favour. Full text at link.
The vote by the Arab League to suspend Syria brings a step closer the possibility of external military intervention into what is already a de facto civil war. A meeting in Cairo Saturday told Syria it will be suspended from the Arab League and face sanctions if it does not end its crackdown on anti-government protesters. A total of 18 countries agreed to the suspension, beginning Wednesday. Only Syria, Lebanon and Yemen voted against, with Iraq abstaining. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday November 14, 2011 13:26 by pat c
“Mobilizing against Inequality: Unions, Immigrant Workers and the Crisis of Capitalism”
Thirty-Fifth Countess Markievicz Memorial Lecture by Lowell Turner Professor of International and Comparative Labor, Cornell University Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 13.00 – 14.00 National College of Ireland, Mayor Street Upper, Dublin 1. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday November 13, 2011 17:54 by Kruk
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Again groups of the extreme right have tried to march through Warsaw. Nationalists and Neo-fascists from across Poland as well as from abroad have come to the capitol to allegedly demonstrate their patriotism. With it, they have left behind horrified residents, injured police, torn-up streets, burnt media vehicles, smashed bus stops, demolished cars. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Friday November 11, 2011 19:47 by pat c
The IPSC Stall with the CRH Wall is going ahead this Saturday, 12th November. From 11 am to 4 pm at the top of Grafton Street. It would be great if you could come along and help with the stall and leafleting. You could even act as a checkpoint soldier or as Palestinians.
Or just give out leaflets! Come along even for just an hour. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday November 11, 2011 19:33 by pat c
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James Turley writes about the criminalisation of those who have burned poppies and elaborates on the imperialist agenda behind the whole remembrance charade. Those who fell should be remembered but not to glorify imperialism.
It is that time of year, again, when the world is colonised by plastic poppies. No establishment luminary will be seen in a public forum without one of these slightly naff trinkets pinned to his or her lapel; and thousands more people around the country will likewise sport the designated symbol of remembrance for the war dead.... . More troubling is the fate of three Northern Ireland teenagers, about whom little is known except their ages - two are 17 and one 16 - and that they were pulled up before Coleraine magistrates court, charged with ‘incitement to hatred’. The 16-year-old also faces charges relating to ‘improper use’ of a social networking site, thanks to his publication of damning visual evidence of the ‘crime’ on Facebook.... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday November 09, 2011 16:26 by Kev
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Seven of the kidnapped Irish participants in the #FreedomWaves to Gaza mission will return home to Terminal 1 in Dublin Airport on flight BD123 (from London) at 2.25pm on Thursday 10th November.
Zoe Lawlor, Mags O’Brien, John Mallon, Fintan Lane, Trevor Hogan, Hugh Lewis and Patrick Fitzgerald have all been illegally held by the Israeli state since Friday afternoon after being violently abducted in international waters while attempting to break the illegal siege and sailing to the blockaded Gaza Strip.
The Irish Ship To Gaza campaign is organising a welcoming committee to meet them at Terminal 1 in Dublin Airport, and asking people to gather there at around 2pm to be there when they come through the gates.
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday November 09, 2011 14:44 by pat c
Seminar: Eyal Clyne, ‘The Tent Protest Movement in Israel’
Tuesday 15 November, 19:00-21:00 Robert Emmet lecture theatre, Arts Building, TCD Organised by the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity and Conflict, Department of Sociology Further information: David Landy, dlandy@tcd.ie read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday November 07, 2011 00:46 by T
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The Occupy movement has grown steadily in the past 4 weeks in Ireland. It is part of the global Occupy movement. As to what it is about is best summed up by the OccupyGalway statement:
Occupy Galway is part of the international movement against austerity measures imposed on ordinary people around the world. We are all part of the 99% who, so far, have been subject to economic inequality and social injustice from the 1% who control the world's resources. We, the 99% demand: 1 - The removal of the IMF and ECB from all Irish financial affairs; 2 - That the national debt imposed on Irish people from the bank bailouts be lifted; 3 - The return of Irish resources (gas, oil, forestry) to the people of Ireland; 4 - Real particpatory democracy. THIS IS NOT A RECESSION, IT'S A ROBBERY!!! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday November 06, 2011 21:39 by Robert Fisk
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I turned on the television in my Damascus hotel room to witness a dreary sight: all the boys and girls of BBC World wearing their little poppies again.
Bright red they were, with that particularly silly green leaf out of the top – it was never part of the original Lady Haig appeal – and not one dared to appear on screen without it. Do these pathetic men and women know how they mock the dead? I trust that Jon Snow has maintained his dignity by not wearing it.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday November 04, 2011 14:30 by pat c
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War preparations against Iran continue. In the US, legislation, which includes sanctions against Iran's Central Bank and strict curbs on official diplomatic contacts between Washington and Tehran, was approved unanimously by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives.
The first bill, the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Reform and Modernization Act, would impose penalties against any individual or company – foreign as well as domestic – that has facilitated the transfer of equipment that could be used in Iran's nuclear programme. It also would bar access to the U.S. of any vessels that have visited ports of any of the three countries in the last two years. Among other provisions,the second bill would sharply reduce the president's authority to waive existing sanctions against any individual, company or country doing business with Iran; expand existing sanctions against companies that sell Iran refined petroleum to include any barter transactions; and impose sanctions against any individual, company or country that conducts a transaction with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is believed to control as much as 40 percent of the Iran's national economy. Sanctions are war by other means. read full story / add a comment 
derry / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday November 01, 2011 01:05 by Grupo Raíces (Grúpa Fréamhacha)
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Documentary Screening and Discussion with Javier Orozco, Colombian Refugee and Trade Unionist
Chaired by Eamonn McCann, Trade Union Representative and activist.
Organised by Grupo Raíces (Grúpa Fréamhacha) and the pat Finucane Centre.
Upstairs Sandino's, Water Street, Derry,
Saturday 5 November 4 pm read full story / add a comment |
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