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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday August 24, 2009 23:36 by Daithi Byrne
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Dublin activists today took part in a march organised by the Dublin Port Workers Group, which have been locked in a bitter dispute with their employer Peel Ports Group. The dockers have held out for over seven weeks, and were forced to strike after their employer imposed force redundancies and introduced new contracts with pay cuts and worse conditions. Despite the company employing scabs from Britain, and a security firm made up of ex-SAS operatives, the communities of Irishtown, East Wall and Ringsend have stood by the dockers in support. The company also took a high court injunction preventing effective picketing. Dock workers from across Europe have sent messages of solidarity and after pledges of similar action, Rotterdam was shut down in support of the action in Dublin today. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday August 24, 2009 20:31 by concerned friends of Niger
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A sample letter, addresses, and statements by Nigerien and international rights groups are below. Further links to background material follows sample letter and statements. read full story / add a comment
tyrone / miscellaneous / press release Monday August 24, 2009 18:48 by Richard Walsh
The DUP are correct to state that commemoration of the hunger strikers and their brave sacrifice is incompatible with Ruairí Gildernew's membership of the support network for the British colonial police, Republican Sinn Féin have said. read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday August 24, 2009 15:22 by TD
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Last Thursday, 20th August to an eager audience in an overbrimming room of the Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway, with contributions from Jenny Graham, Susan Johnson and Derek Graham, husband of Jenny gave harrowing eyewitness accounts of the Israeli/US/EU created hell on earth that is called Gaza, in the case of Derek Graham, he told his story about being kidnapped at gunpoint in Mediterranean international waters along with 20 other Free Gaza Movement human rights activists, on board the Spirit of Humanity on a voyage of mercy,, forced into the Israeli port of Ashdod and then in tune with the Kafkaesque perversion and inversion of morality and reality that is the hallmark of Zionism, bizarrely questioned for violating Israeli territorial waters. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday August 24, 2009 15:14 by Pirate Party 1 attached file
The Pirate Party of Ireland is strongly condemning the blocking of the Pirate Bay website by eircom. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday August 24, 2009 13:56 by Davy Carlin
Giving succour to the racists.
The DUP’S Sammy Wilson has recently accused anti racism groups of exaggerating the scale of racism to access public funding. Mr Wilson stated that ‘these charges of racism were always coincided with the holding out of the hand for more money for the organisations which were dealing with the issue’ and referred to the situation as ‘an anti racism industry’. read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media / press release Monday August 24, 2009 13:09 by Fred Johnston
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Artist designs book to house the work of three Galway poets read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday August 24, 2009 12:58 by Andrew
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The dispute at MTL is escalating with hundreds of people taking part in demonstrations organised by the Port Workers Support Group. SIPTU members at the MTL depot in Dublin Port have been on strike since the beginning of July, resisting forced redundancies and pay cuts. The company shipped in scabs from the North and Britain on day one to steal the dockers’ jobs, and also got a High Court injunction preventing effective picketing. Below are updates coming in from this mornings actions, sent via Twitter by WSM members who are present. read full story / add a comment |
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