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national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday October 07, 2012 - 21:56 by Eoin
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Two peace activists from Galway Alliance Against War were arrested on the runway at Shannon Airport today, marking the 11th anniversary of the attacks on Afghanistan. US military and CIA flights have passed via the Irish airport to and from the region since the war began. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Friday October 05, 2012 - 19:59 by Contaminated Crow
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Last week two activists from Bhopal in India came to Ireland seeking solidarity and support for their campaign to force the American transnational corporation Dow Chemical to take responsibility for toxic waste abandoned in Bhopal by Union Carbide, which Dow Chemical took over in 2001. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday September 18, 2012 - 15:33 by member of NFI
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On Sept 22, 2012, The Global Frackdown Day will unite citizens everywhere for a day of action against fracking and the extraction of onshore unconventional gas. We will be gathering at the Tourist Office, on the Quays, Carrick on shannon at 1pm. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Wednesday September 12, 2012 - 01:48 by Dagda
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A look at the ongoing GM potato trials in Ireland, the European context, a little bit of history and analysis as well as important information on patent holders. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday September 11, 2012 - 13:24 by Gerry Downing
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The plight of the Counihan-Sanchez family has got extensive coverage in the Irish Post and Irish world. Basically a family of seven is facing eviction onto the streets because Anthony, the father, inherited nine acres in Galway and Brent Council decided in January this year that this "capital asset" rendered then ineligible for Housing Benefit. They were issued with an eviction notice for 13 August, which was halted by court action. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment / news report Friday August 31, 2012 - 00:11 by C
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This morning members of Rossport Solidarity Camp disrupted Pat Rabbitte while he spoke at a conference at the Science Gallery in Dublin entitled "The Future of Energy: Dreams and Responsibilities"[1] ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Thursday August 30, 2012 - 21:12 by Dave M
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Teagasc has confirmed that it has already planted out Genetically Modified potatoes at its site in Co. Carlow – despite a period for legal challenges running to 25th October. The three month window opened after the trial received approval from the EPA in July. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday August 22, 2012 - 21:53 by neo
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This week Shell have recommenced work, eager to get a move on after the whole TBM-in-a-ditch saga. The Tunnel Boring Machine is still in the Bellanaboy refinery and they haven't made an attempt to move it the last 2km to Aughoose yet. Most of the work seems to be laying a track down from the back of Bellanaboy along the proposed route of the pipeline. So of course we at the solidarity camp have been very busy too: ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday August 17, 2012 - 10:37 by pat c
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The Anti-WikiLeaks hackers may be CIA agents, a wholly owned CIA subsidiary or just funded by the CIA. But they certainly advance the cause of US Imperrialism. They have now set their sights on RT.com and brought it down foe three hours this morning. RT,com is a vital source of information for activists on many issues from Syria to Iran to the struggles of Julian Assange. Assange presents an interviw show on the RT television station. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday August 17, 2012 - 09:56 by Poster
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Please watch and share this video report of a solidarity rally in Dublin yesterday with Pussy Riot. Interviewed are the Irish Times foreign affairs journalist Paddy Smyth, legendary feminist Rosita Sweetman, with her balaclavad Holy Mary Mary's, poet Arthur Broomfield along with others. The rally was heckled briefly with a passerby saying that the Pussy Riot women should be locked up and shot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY98sZWxt-w ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday August 16, 2012 - 11:45 by pat c
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The British are threatening to lift the Diplomatic status of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to facilitate the arrest of Julian Assange. The law the UK has informed Ecuador it could use in the case is the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987. It allows the UK to revoke the diplomatic status of an embassy on UK soil, which in this case would potentially allow police to enter the building to arrest Mr Assange for breaching the terms of his bail. This law was intended to deal with terrorist situations - not where someone was seeking refuge. A BBC correspondent said he could not recall a precedent in which the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 had been used in this way. And former government lawyer Carl Gardner told BBC Radio 4's Today programme legal advisers would be "urging the most extreme caution". Live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupynewsnetwork ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous / news report Saturday August 04, 2012 - 13:45 by resting camper
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An account of Friday's events on the day the tunnel boring machine was moved. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / news report Friday August 03, 2012 - 14:28 by RSC
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This morning at about 4am hundreds of Gardaí and Shell private security (IRMS) mobilised to Glenamoy crossroads where sections of Shell's tunnel boring machine has been stuck on a jack-knifed lorry for the last number of days. Since then convoys of lorrys have been hauling stone from a stock pile inside the refinery to the site, dumping it into the field below the cab of the jack- knifed lorry. It is thought that they need better foundations than the bog road and fields in order to use a crane big enough to lift the weight of the lorry and the TBM and want to extend the road for the cab. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday August 03, 2012 - 06:58 by Jose Maria Sison
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We, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), condermn in the strongest terms the duplicitous scheme of the US and NATO in instigating, funding and arming the so-called Syrian National Council and Free Syrian Army to seek the violent overthrow of the Assad government in Syria and at the same time pushing a “peace plan” and then a “transitional government” under the auspices of the UN in order to politically outmanuever the Assad government and the anti-imperialist and democratic forces. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday August 02, 2012 - 12:07 by resting camper
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Day three and things are still looking bad for Shell. Protesters and the Irish bog have the upper hand, with Shell receiving flack and Gardai humbled as crane sent packing. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday August 01, 2012 - 19:41 by pat c
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Syrian rebels have murdered prisoners. While the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch have condemned it. So far the US haven't mentioned it. Human Rights Watch has told the BBC the act was potentially a war crime. “What it looks like is execution of detainees and if that is the case, that would be a war crime”: Clive Baldwin, Senior legal adviser for Human Rights Watch. HRW, he added, had been seeing evidence of abuses such as torture and executions by rebel elements "for some time". The head of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which documents violence by all sides in the conflict, condemned the killings by the rebels as "criminal". The UN mission in Syria reports that the rebels in Aleppo are now armed with some heavy weapons including tanks and says that helicopters, heavy machine guns and artillery are also being used in the fighting. "We are calling on all parties to exercise utmost restraint... to distinguish between civilians and [combatants] in this conflict," said spokeswoman Sausan Ghosheh. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday July 31, 2012 - 23:48 by really tired camper
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Right, a quick update from camp. The Tunnel Boring Machine is still stuck. Shell's contractors Roadbridge have been trying several different methods, but none working. Currently, it is believed the plan is to build up the road so local residents can get past, then use the main road to bring in cranes that can lift the truck in sections. However, there is resistance in the air... ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Sunday July 29, 2012 - 21:27 by camper
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The TBM has been sighted at Dublin docks tonight (Sun) in three trucks, and is allegedly setting off towards Rossport this evening. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday July 29, 2012 - 12:35 by pat c
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“Four Corners”, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation current affairs program, this week broadcast what amounted to an exposé of the frame-up of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange on allegations of sexual misconduct in Sweden. Assange remains inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, seeking political asylum from the threat of being removed to Sweden, which would in turn facilitate extradition to the US. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday July 16, 2012 - 16:13 by Paul Gavan
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SIPTU members have welcomed the decision of the Department of Social Protection to partially restore material and training funding to Community Employment (CE) schemes. ... read full story / add a comment |
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