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national / environment / news report Monday November 30, 2009 17:05 by Contaminated Crow
Three masts, two windfarms, two quarries, an electricity sub-station and an animal rights protest read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday November 30, 2009 14:57 by Medusa
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Taping Placards to the Main door at the Galway Cathedral high lighting churches abuse of children read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / news report Monday November 30, 2009 12:24 by dunk
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“The day the political landscape changed forever“, was how Fritjof Capra referred to events of N30, Tuesday 30th of November 1999, in his book The Hidden Connections. He was referring to the day when 1000´s of global justice activists came together and succeeded in shutting down the first WTO (World Trade Organisation) talks in the US using (mostly) non violent direct actions (NVDA) in the north western US city of Seattle. This was the event which brought the “globalisation” debate to the mainstream. It has been misleadingly described as anti-globalisation, what it should be accurately described as is anti corporate globalisation. 10 years on and again there is rubber bullets, tear gas and flames in the streets. This time in Geneva, as people from all over the world converge in the lead up to COP15, the climate change talks in Copenhagen... amongst others, the Social and Climate justice caravan. read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday November 30, 2009 11:35 by Andrew
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On the 24th of November something extraordinary happened. Some 250,000 workers acted together in a day-long strike against the public sector wage cuts planned by the government. The vast majority of these workers had never gone on strike before, yet across almost all workplaces the strike involved 90% or more of those working. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday November 30, 2009 01:37 by iosaf
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A referendum was held in Switzerland on 29 November 2009. Three questions were put to the voters: * a ban on the construction of new minarets; * a ban on exporting weapons and war materiel; * a prescription that money raised from taxes on aviation fuel should be used for aviation matters. read full story / add a comment |
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