Unfortunate student gets an education on how Irish Democracy works
Copyright by Mark Moloney

News is coming in that upwards of thirty students have occupied the Department of Finance in the centre of Dublin with several hundred supporting them in the streets outside. Tens of thousands of students are demonstrating as part of the USI protests against plans to introduce fees, these students carrying out the occupation appear to have broken away from the main demonstration which is taking place around the corner in Merrion square.

Indymedia Links:
French student protests | Police attack student demo | Interviews with students who took part | Profile of Gary Redmond USI president | Anti capitalist protest | students and unemployed protest education cuts | 1% Network Find The Pot Of Gold On Shewsbury Road | Walking Tour sees 'how the 1% live | John Pilger on UK austerity measures |
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WSM coverage | EdufactoryIreland site | Trade Union TV video | RTE video coverage | Irish times coverage
Girl knocked unconscious by gardai

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USI

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A larger than expected crowd turned out for last night’s 1% Network Treasure Hunt around the exclusive Aylesbury and Shrewsbury roads in Dublin. In 2006 Shrewsbury Road was the 6th most expensive address in the entire world and it remains exclusively populated by the richest of the 1% who own 34% of the wealth in Ireland.

Indymedia Links:
Walking tour sees how the 1% live |
Other Links:
One percent network website |
Wikipedia Links:
Four seasons hotel chain | Derek Quinlan | Dermot Gleeson | Denis O Brien | Sean Dunne | NAMA | Anglo Irish Controversy | Irish financial crisis

Blood on her hands as she buries our public health system for private gain

éirígí activist Louise Minihan today poured red paint over Mary Harney's clothing in Cherry Orchard Hospital, Dublin.

Indymedia Links:
Harney moves to close St Luke's ahead of schedule? | Harney moves to close St Luke's Cancer Hospital | Dail passes 'close St Luke's Bill' | Vital centre faces closure | No Private Hospitals – Fund our Public Hospitals | Roscommon Hospital protest 14th August 2010 | Thousands March to Defend Health Services in Letterkenny | The need for a united European response of workers against the attacks
Other Links:
The Susie Long story RTE audio, video links
Joe Duffy Interview on RTE | Harney and husband | Mary Harney's lasting contribution (irish independent)
Wikipedia Links:
Mary Harney | HSE

Amid the hum of words spoken and written here in Ecuador and further afield about the events of Thursday, September 30, two are easily discernible: “coup” and “democracy”. Yet it can be argued that neither concept had much to do with what unfolded on that day.
It would be easy to say that the convulsions that gripped Ecuador on that day were just more of the same. This is a country, after all, that has deposed three elected presidents by different means (none of them impeachment), and at one stage could count 9 different presidents in 10 years.

Indymedia Links:
Failed coup attempt | The new Latin American century, FARC, arms races, US bases & sundry fibs |
Other Links:
BBC article | Chevron's ecuadorian legacy | Lasc contact link (Note to LASC: currently OPEN DNS (wrongly) completely blocks lasc website as a phishing site) |
Video Links:
Chevrontoxico campaign against chevron in ecuador | Democracy now interview with Correa | Correa on Obama and the dollar |
Wikipedia Links:
Rafael Correa | 2010 Ecuador crisis |

The mine owners were so greedy for profits they would not put in the proper safety safeguards and this is why the miners were trapped in the first place. The right wing in Chile are trying to exploit the popularity of the miners. see the right wing president at the rescue site. but it was the right wing who supported their hero the dictator Pinochet who slaughtered tens of thousands of union and left activists. if this had not happened the miners union might have been strong enough to enforce safe conditions in the mine and not been trapped in the first place.

Indymedia Links:
Chilean miners: fake solidarity in the land of "every man for himself" | Solidarity meeting for chilean miners | Whats happening in Bolivia? | Chilean miners can build a worldwide movement
Other Links:
John Pilger's take on the rescue | Chilean miners rescued after ten-week ordeal | Poor safety condemned by workers at San Jose mine | we know what's up | laborsmilitantvoice website
Wikipedia Links:
2010 Copiapó mining accident | Augusto Pinochet