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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday April 29, 2010 18:15 by Fintan Lane
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday April 29, 2010 15:04 by LASC
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The two individuals whose deaths have been confirmed are Beatríz Alberta Cariño, the director of CACTUS and member of the Southeast Mexican Indigenous Community Radios Network, and Jyri Jaakkola, an international solidarity observer from Finland. Four people have been confirmed disappeared: David Venegas Reyes and Noe Bautista Jimenez, from VOCAL, and Érika Ramírez and David Cilia, reporters from Contralínea. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday April 29, 2010 11:54 by Fintan Lane
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday April 29, 2010 10:21 by Paula Geraghty
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"USI haven't gone away- and we're gonna wreck your heads, until students get their way!" USI hold protest at Fianna Fail Green party attacks on those who want to participate in the knowledge society. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / press release Wednesday April 28, 2010 16:36 by Ardoyne Republican
The REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY (RNU) Belfast Chairperson, CARL REILLY has strongly criticised the use of a vulnerable teenager as a paid Informant by the RUC/PSNI in West Belfast. read full story / add a comment
galway / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday April 28, 2010 14:56 by Galway Revolutionary Left
Getting the page into the public eye, informing the public that we're fed up sick and tired of the current "government", and that we want to inform the youth of Galway that there is an alternative, and hopefully inspire similar movements in other towns and cities in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 28, 2010 14:31 by Mulholland
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On April 20th 2010 the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister of the Northern Assembly released the consultation paper drawn up by the Assembly Working Party on Parading Issues. Do you think 'traditional rights' or 'cultural expressions' of sectarian domination that have been established through violence and corruption should be equated with basic human rights? Now is the time to share your views. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 28, 2010 14:23 by Paddy Hackett
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Brendan Behan, Paddy Kavanagh and Brian O' Nolan. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday April 28, 2010 12:37 by Amnesty1
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Amnesty International has warned of a ‘potential nightmare scenario’ in eastern Chad. Almost 500,000 people are at serious risk if the number of UN peacekeepers is reduced and they are no longer able to protect civilians. Amnesty International members across Europe are logging on to www.amnesty.org/actforchad to demand the French Government ensures the peacekeepers stay. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday April 27, 2010 21:44 by TD
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Beit Jala : One of the fronts of the popular struggle in the West Bank is now Beit Jala, Bethlehem district. The whole of the Bethlehem district has been surrounded by the Apartheid-Annexation Wall and ever-expanding settlements for years. Now, Beit Jala is being hit even harder by the apartheid policies of the Israeli army and government via the new path of the Apartheid Wall in the area. On the morning of Tuesday, April 22nd 2010, Israeli bulldozers reached the home of Beit Jala resident Mitri Ghneim and started to level and damage the garden of his house. This event was just the most recent attack by Israeli soldiers. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Tuesday April 27, 2010 19:14 by Gerry Nobody
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Not really sure where to post this—just got thinking about repression and state power etc. and thought I would share some observations on the subject with whoever’s interested. Yes, it ended up being more of an essay than a post but what the hell—feels good to get it off my chest. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday April 27, 2010 16:57 by Paula Geraghty
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Workers from Connolly Shoes are in their third week of a strike. Trade Union TV caught up with the strikers at a rally to support the strike organised by People Before Profit, saturday 24th 2010. read full story / add a comment 
down / politics / elections / press release Tuesday April 27, 2010 15:49 by Irish Republican Youth
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Education Minister Caitríona Ruane joined a large group of Ógra Shinn Féin members today at Down’s County Museum in Downpatrick, to launch Sinn Féin’s Youth Manifesto ‘Creating the Future’, for the upcoming Westminster election. The Museum was selected as a site of historical significance, it previously being home of the County Gaol where United Irishmen leader Thomas Russell was executed on 21 October 1803. The youth manifesto which was drafted by members of the party’s youth wing Ógra Shinn Féin forms the basis of the work and policies which Sinn Féin will be carrying out regards youth in the next 5 years. These include education, suicide prevention, drug and alcohol awareness, calling for the abolition of ASBO’s, road safety, youth job creation, creating affordable housing, and progressing Irish Unity. read full story / add a comment 
derry / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday April 27, 2010 11:43 by Solidarity with the 14 Raytheon accused
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The trial of 14 people in connection with a protest at the defence company Raytheon in Derry is to begin at Belfast Crown Court on Tuesday May 4th. Solidarity pickets are being planned to coincide with the court hearings outside of the Laganside Court complex. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday April 26, 2010 14:45 by nipsa 517
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As the current Minister for Education Caitriona Ruane attempts to slash budgets, education staff and their families will be steeling themselves for yet another round of propaganda attacks from politicians (both nationalist and unionist camps), pseudo economists and representatives of special interest groups who the Minister can rely on to make the usual calls for cuts in bureaucracy and administration. read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday April 26, 2010 11:09 by Andrew
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The audio below is a recording of the second 'Rethinking Revolution' meeting which took place last week in Seomra Spraoi on the topic of 'Will there be a revolution in our lifetime.' read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / press release Monday April 26, 2010 06:18 by Dublin Basque
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The Dublin branch of the Irish Basque Solidarity Committees protested the European Union Presidency being held by Spain, a state condemned for repression and torture by Amnesty International and by committees of the United Nations and of the European Union itself. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday April 25, 2010 18:29 by Saoirse
Following a visit to Maghaberry prison the President of Republican Sinn Féin Des Dalton said that Republican prisoners were following in the footsteps of previous Irish Republicans in defending their right to political status. He was addressing a rally held by Republican Sinn Féin POW Department outside the jail. read full story / add a comment
galway / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday April 25, 2010 02:17 by donlylemore
Our European Commissioner was ''doorstepped '' and asked about her current pension/s in the light of the waiver of pension entitlements in the case of a retiring banker ... With an overly hasty riposte she said to the reporter "That is a question that I have refused to comment on up to now and I continue to refuse to comment on it.'' The pique was palpable , and the affront visible .. she then canceled an arranged interview with RTE . ..but she is not alone .. and FG and Labour also have their formidable pension earners while still working.. and some ( teachers ) .. are they still blocking the appointment of a full time pensionable locum tenens ? - ''subs '' while they are in politics..and accruing more years for their teacher's pension also.. read full story / add a comment |
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