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international / consumer issues / news report Thursday November 30, 2006 23:02 by iosaf
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The Basque political situation is not all about the "Peace Process". Many other things happen there too. For years the group "Soziedad Alkoholica" used a logo on their albums of anarcho-punk garage angst music which was quite obviously a take on the logo used by ETA. Their disks were withdrawn from sale by the largest department store chain & they were brought before the Judiciary to be investigated for "incitement to or glorification of terrorism". They've been cleared. They sing songs about victims too. read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / press release Thursday November 30, 2006 18:07 by Woodsman
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The future of forestry in Ireland will be affected by the National Forest Standard being put together by the Irish Forest Certification Initiative (IFCI) steering group that is now at the stage of third and final draft. Big forestry concerns are trying to push through a weak standard so that they can easily get their Forest Stewardship Certification with little regard for social and environmental factors (e.g. pollution of water courses, landslides such as at Derrybrien, native trees and biodiversity, landscape character). Consultation with the public has been limited due to lack of information and advertising of meetings. If a weak standard is accepted, then we can expect more of the same Sitka Spruce plantations raping our natural environment for years to come - and more of Coillte's selling off of state lands in their control to make up for the lack of profitability from Sitka Spruce - and more pollution and landslides. read full story / add a comment
antrim / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Thursday November 30, 2006 12:51 by Madigan
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Isn't it strange that when in sniffing distance of getting back into power the local parties shy away from association with opposition to separate water charges. Is the thought of missing out on the double tax so hard to swallow. Maybe the truth is as suspected that all allong the likes of the DUP SF really agreed with the policy. read full story / add a comment 
international / housing / feature Thursday November 30, 2006 12:41 by Punk System Destroyed
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After waging a battle against Christian right-wing sect Faderhuset for several years, recent decisions in both the Copenhagen City Court and the National Court have ordered the current occupiers of infamous Danish social centre Ungdomshuset out on December 14th, 2006. This decision and the process through which it was made is hotly contested. This is obvious through both extensive coverage in mainstream Cophenhagen social democratic newspapers like Politiken and in how opposition from the centre´s users more recently spilled over into street fighting when police attacked ( 1 ) a Reclaim the Streets demonstration.
This interview was carried out during their 24th birthday party which was on during the weekend of October 25th. It tries to go into some of the recent history around the Ungdomshuset court saga so far, the strange alliances formed around it and how the future is likely to pan out for a building that remains highly emblematic as a symbol for the left overs of the Northern European autonome scene. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday November 30, 2006 01:10 by D'other
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Hurriedly returning from negotiations with the Shell executive in Holland, Evo Morales last night granted accession to a law of agrarian reform leading many of La Paz´s morning tabloids to carry headlines claiming he had declared war on the latifundia dominating the country's system of land distribution. In Santa Cruz and Beni, regions dominating 80% of the Bolvian economy, as little as 14 families hold over 3m hectares of unproductive grounds in their hands. This new land reform facilitates removing this land from idle hands and redistributing it to campesinos, similar perhaps to legislation facilitating the placing of unproductive factories into the hands of workers in Argentina. The passing of the law was accompanied by the arrival of marchistas from across the country as an excercise in popular support for the land reforms. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday November 29, 2006 18:32 by John B
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In addition to the national Shell to Sea meeting last weekend in Erris there was also a creative weekend organised by members of Cork Community Circus to make banners, raise spirits and bring some lightheartedness to counter the heaviness that shell, statoil and the irish state are trying to dump on this community. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday November 29, 2006 17:59 by w.
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One of Coolock's biggest employers, Cadburys, are looking to lay off up to one third of it's 1,100 staff over the next three years. Cadburys say that they are committed to remaining in Ireland, having invested over 80m euro since 1999 but must reduce staff numbers due to rising costs. read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 29, 2006 17:13 by w.
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The most immediately striking thing about Guillermo del Toro’s latest film “El Laberinto del Fauno” (Pan’s Labyrinth) is that it is entirely in Spanish with English subtitles yet still draws large crowds in Dublin’s ordinary multi-screen cinemas. The film, a mixture of fantastic fairy-tale and dramatic account of life in post civil war Spain, follows the journey of a highly imaginative young girl called Ofelia. Ofelia’s mother has married a sadistic fascist army Captain, who is engaged in a battle with local guerrillas throughout the film, and she is forced to move to his remote outpost despite a complicated and pregnancy. read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / press release Wednesday November 29, 2006 16:50 by A.R.I.S.E
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Barry McColgan "I'm out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world!" Woody Guthrie As we, Ógra Shinn Féin, enter into an intense Broad Anti Imperialist campaign (A.R.I.S.E.), we must be pitching our message and actions to the widest possible audience. read full story / add a comment 
national / sci-tech / news report Wednesday November 29, 2006 15:16 by TestTubeBoy
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Contract researchers are forming an association to improve their lot read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice / news report Wednesday November 29, 2006 12:07 by Ungdomshus Kid
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This sunday a demonstration against the church Faderhuset turned into resulted in police brutality and mass arrests. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 29, 2006 08:40 by m.m.mccarron
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Reducing the Rossport Issue to Communication Failures - Rational? read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / press release Wednesday November 29, 2006 08:27 by .
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The We Won’t Pay Campaign has attacked the Government over recent revelations that poorer householders who do not pay water charges will be pursued quicker than wealthy households. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday November 28, 2006 17:14 by lyinternational
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Labour Youth will mark November 29th, the United Nations day of solidarity with Palestine by calling for a boycott of all Israeli goods and services as well as support for the educational and cultural boycott of Israel. read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday November 28, 2006 11:41 by Evie
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Mary Hanafin, has published 'The Report and Recommendations for a Traveller Education Strategy'- which envisages cutting out education capitation grants in order to mainstream traveller kids. 'Mainstreaming' is a term familiar to a lot of Irish Parents who have children with educational special needs, and it doesn't work in terms of choice or individual need. A committee has already been appointed to oversee implementation of the report. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 28, 2006 09:05 by Watchdog
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If a high dose of radiation element, Polonium 210, can be a tool of quick assassination, lower doses (as in typical cigarettes) are no less tools of homicide. Ask health officials, et al, why Po-210 is still permitted in cigarettes, with zero warning to anyone. Ask why smokers and Pub Proprietors bear the burdens of law, but the cig makers, ingredient suppliers, and complicit regulators go free. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday November 28, 2006 04:31 by dinny the farmer
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A visit to Rossport focuses the mind on the issues at stake. Come and see for yourself: this project is fundamentally flawed, needs to be, and will be reconfigured. A renewed effort at informing ourselves and friends & the wider public is needed, to create broader awareness of the issues here. SET UP YOUR OWN SHELL TO SEA GROUP LOBBY YOUR LOCAL POLITICIANS WRITE LETTERS REGISTER TO VOTE;-) read full story / add a comment 
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Monday November 27, 2006 20:52 by Paula Geraghty
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Some images from Dublin Against the Bin Tax protest at City Hall for Estimates meeting read full story / add a comment 
galway / miscellaneous / news report Monday November 27, 2006 20:16 by Noise Hacker
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday November 27, 2006 19:06 by Justin Morahan
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The persecution of released whistle-blower, Mordechai Vanunu, continues in Israel with strange decisions, strange evidence, strange telephone calls and other strange happenings the order of the day read full story / add a comment |
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