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mayo / miscellaneous / news report Friday August 13, 2010 19:30 by RSC
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Yesterday people from the local community of Pullathomas and Rossport and Solidarity campers lead by the rousing sound of a visiting bagpiper and drummer, returned to one of Shell's drilling rigs, gaining access at low tide across the exposed sand bars of Sruwaddacon bay. On arriving at the rig a number of people surrounded the drill casing and danced around it before forming a tight huddle to prevent any further work occurring. Meanwhile others held a large banner and occupied the area while children played in the sand. read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice / press release Friday August 13, 2010 15:17 by RNU-PRO
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The REPUBLICAN NETWORK FOR UNITY (RNU) Cathaoirleach/Chairperson, DANNY MCBREARTY, has called for the proposed parades bill to be “Binned rather than Revised” because the misjudgments at the very heart of the proposed the measure run too deep to be papered over by a few corrective amendments as suggested by the language of the joint announcement by Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday August 12, 2010 21:56 by Ardoyne Republican
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Earlier tonight, (Thursday) GARC Activists delivered a new Newssheet throughout the Greater Ardoyne area. As the title states above, it was to set the record straight about our 12th July protests. The following text was contained in our Newssheet...... 'Three days before the Twelfth, GARC members and residents met PSNI Chief Super, Nigel Grimshaw in the presence of Fr. Gary Donegan at Holy Cross. During the meeting, we articulated our position, the results of our survey, and other literature which we previously distributed within the area. We also pointed out that it included no inflammatory content i.e.: incitement etc. We also notified him that there would be a protest but our plan of action had yet to be decided. Contrary to what Sinn Fein and others say, at no time did the residents collective never state it wouldn’t talk to the PSNI. As we’re on public record saying that we would talk to anyone, except the Parades Commission. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday August 12, 2010 21:00 by Kev
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On the afternoon of Thursday 12th August 2010, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) officially launched the historic “Irish artists’ pledge to boycott Israel” at a lunchtime concert in Meeting House Square in Dublin. Present at the launch were 20 of the pledge’s current 150 signatories, including musicians Damien Dempsey, Donal Lunny and Eoin Dillon (Kíla), artists Robert Ballagh and Felim Egan, playwright Jimmy Murphy and actress Neilí Conroy as well as a crowd of supporters. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday August 12, 2010 12:47 by éirígí Sligeach
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The decision to increase the price of electricity will lead to increased poverty, illness and deaths read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday August 12, 2010 00:27 by Anthony Ravlich
Because of human rights omission New Zealand has suffered major social problems, some social statistics worse than other countries, at the bottom of the social scale but it is hidden from mainstream New Zealanders. Fear is pervasive and there is a sense of hoelessness which is holding back progress and adaptation to global changes. A focus on the truth rather than power politics and the 'money grab' will help overcome this. It has, in my opinion, modeled itself on the British class system permitting mass social class discrimination. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday August 11, 2010 15:52 by Shell to Sea
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Yesterday morning forty people from around Sruwaddacon Estuary brought Shell’s survey work in the area to a complete standstill. The community walked out onto the mudflats at low tide to assert their cockle-picking rights and disrupt Shell’s borehole drilling survey. At around 11.30am people converged at Aughoose and walked down a public right of way onto the mudflats. The group walked to one of the two jack-up barges and prevented drilling by walking underneath the platform. IRMS - Shell’s private security firm – tried to block their free passage but the people prevailed and walked where they pleased. Three people scaled the legs of the barge and occupied them for about four hours. One person chained himself to the one of the drill-shafts in order to stop the work. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / press release Wednesday August 11, 2010 00:55 by Charlie Williams
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We're pleased to inform you that a new political party in Ireland is on its way. Fís Nua or New Vision. We see ourselves as a federation of socialy and ecologicaly engaged persons and groups/organisations that want to enter the parliaments. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 10, 2010 22:51 by Sean Clinton
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Both the print and broadcast media have given a lot of coverage to the saga of Naomi Campbell’s encounter with blood diamonds, allegedly given to her by the former Liberian ruler and accused war criminal Charles Taylor. The controversy surrounds what Campbell described as a few “dirty looking pebbles” she received in the middle of the night while attending a dinner party hosted by former South African President, Nelson Mandela. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 10, 2010 19:25 by George Hill
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The People Before Profit Alliance have made an official complaint against Independent Senator Rónán Mullen in relation to reports he made in Seanad. This raises questions about PBPA's judgement and their approach towards elected office. read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / news report Tuesday August 10, 2010 15:15 by Carmel Diviney
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Support the call for a full prosecution of those who destroy our heritage. About 35,000 ring fort sites are currently identifiable in the Irish landscape – they are clearly marked on Ordnance Survey 6“ maps. Of these, only about 250 ring forts have so far been subjected to archaeological excavation. How many we retain protected and preserved is up to us. Write letters to Gormley in support of the call from the Friends of the Irish Environment to bear the full weight of the law down upon the people responsible for this destruction. read full story / add a comment 
donegal / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Tuesday August 10, 2010 13:12 by Paula Geraghty
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Thousands marched to defend health services at Letterkenny hospital from going under the knife. Anger and hurt was clearly evident on the streets of Letterkenny as pensioners and workers most vulnerable to any cuts in health services brought traffic to halt. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 10, 2010 12:13 by Latif Serhildan
The oppressive fascist Turkish regime attempted to eliminate the Kurdish population more than decades now. One has to look at the brief history of the Kurds to know what Turkish state has tried to do with the Kurds. In 1921 at Kocgiri; 1925 at Sex Sait; 1930 at Agri and Zilan by killing more than fifty thousand people. In 1938, at Dersim an estimated seventy thousand children and elderly men and women were killed. Since 1984, more than forty thousand people have lost their lives due to the Kurdish conflict in Turkey. Kurds have not only been deprived of their basic rights and freedoms, read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday August 09, 2010 21:00 by Ardoyne Republican
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Once again, the discredited Parades Commission has permitted an unwelcome sectarian parade to pass through the Greater Ardoyne community to then board a bus at the rear of Holy Cross Church, to travel to Derry. GARC feel it is necessary to inform the wider public that this parade has nothing to do with the Protestant religion, heritage or culture. So those who insist on this act of provocation need to justify why? read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday August 09, 2010 20:21 by IPSC
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Subject: IPSC Statement in Solidarity with the 'Ahava 4' Date: Monday 9th August 2010 To: The 'Ahava 4', London read full story / add a comment 
dublin / arts and media / press release Monday August 09, 2010 16:10 by L.A.N.C.I
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LANCI is launching a new festival to commemorate and celebrate this year . This will incorporate the 8th International Tango Festival! The LANCI Festival aims to give international recognition to the varied cultures of Latin American Countries. This Latin American Festival offers a variety of artistic and traditional presentations including music, and dance in the form of salsa, samba and tango, film exhibition, photographs and paintings from Latin American artists. This is the first time that a festival of this kind is being held in Dublin. A cosmopolitan city like Dublin guarantees that this type of event will be a success. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Monday August 09, 2010 14:38 by RSC
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Yesterday at about 2.30pm Shell began to lower "Jack - 1" - one of two survey barges currently in Sruth Fhada Chonn estuary SAC (Special Area of Protection) - in order to tug it to another part of the estuary. The Rossport Solidarity Camp was ready and willing to claim free passage of the public estuary and in the process upset the operation. Over a dozen Shell security boats and two Garda RIBS couldn't keep the 6 kaykers out, with two of them reaching the moving barge after an hour and a half of chase. read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / opinion/analysis Monday August 09, 2010 00:29 by mat
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday August 08, 2010 23:19 by Ardoyne Republican
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Earlier this evening, the Republican Network for Unity (RNU) held a successful Rally against Plastic Bullets outside Antrim Road RUC/PSNI Barracks in North Belfast. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday August 08, 2010 16:17 by Conall O & Freda H
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On Sunday 8th of August, on a sunny day in Dublin, around 30 members and supporters of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign gathered at the Spire on O'Connell Street to take part in the international day of solidarity with the people of Sheikh Jarrah. read full story / add a comment |
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