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international / miscellaneous / other press Friday April 27, 2012 10:23 by Ciaron
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On April 20 there’s a memorial for Christopher Hitchens at the Cooper Union in Manhattan. There’s a PEN tribute, also in Manhattan, on April 30. Here’s my own little envoi. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Thursday April 26, 2012 15:50 by Rita Fagan
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Dear Friends, the Spectacle of Defiance and Hope are calling on all of you who disagree with the policies of Austerity against the Irish People, along with the unemployed, low paid workers, people being strangled with unrealistic mortgage payments, the household charges and the community, youth and voluntary sector are bearing this very heavy weight. Communities will be left without lifelines if they continue to close down vital projects and services and axe one job after another read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday April 26, 2012 14:32 by Dublin Basque
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This week 75 years ago, the Basquetown of Gernika was virtually destroyed with huge loss of life in a bombing raid by the Condor Legion, a cover name for a detachment of the Luftwaffe loaned to the Spanish generals leading a mutiny against the elected Popular Front government of the Spanish state. The Dublin Basque Solidarity Committee will be commemorating this event on Friday 27th (the actual anniversary is the 28th). read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment / event notice Wednesday April 25, 2012 22:33 by T
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Protect Dublin Bay – No Oil Rigs on Our Coast. Protest this Sun 12 midday – Meet at Seafront Entrance to People’s Park Dun Laoghaire. Tony O Reilly’s Providence Resources wants to drill for oil in Dublin Bay just 6km off the coast of Dalkey Island. Providence have applied for a foreshore licence to the Minister for the Environment, Phil Hogan, who will decide on this in the coming weeks or months. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday April 25, 2012 22:19 by anon
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Calling the disgruntled, the city's messers and tricksters, all those bored and sick of this age of austerity, ravers, rockers, buskers, artists, the unemployed, trade unionists, wage slaves, wee ones and the retired. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Wednesday April 25, 2012 16:37 by Cormac Mac Gall
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A political struggle in a European nation of less than three million, largely ignored by other socialists in Europe, has nevertheless come to the fore in the capitalist media repeatedly since the late 1960s. This has been largely as a result of the the Basque people’s struggle for socialism and independence from the Spanish and French states, a struggle led for decades by Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, the marxist armed organisation better known by its acronym, ETA. The organisation reawakened Basque national consciousness, has worked with others for the restoration of Euskara, the Basque language, organised Basque workers and faced the repression of the General Franco dictatorship in the Spanish state. Famously, in 1973 it assassinated the Prime Minister of the state, Admiral Carrero Blanco, Franco’s right-hand man, which hastened the fragmentation of the dictatorship and its passage to partial democracy. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday April 24, 2012 23:46 by anon
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Jerrie Ann Sullivan, one of the women who made a recording public in the Garda "rape tape" controversy, has said that the Garda Ombudsman investigation into the incident has been "about protecting An Garda Síochána". But James Gill, the sergeant found to have made remarks about two female protesters arrested at a controversial Shell gas project at Erris, Co Mayo will escape any action because he recently retired. read full story / add a comment 
cork / arts and media / event notice Tuesday April 24, 2012 11:42 by Eric
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Join us this Thursday April 26th in Solidarity Books for a screening of "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, Director Adam Curtis" . The latest documentary from Adam Curtis. We will show all three parts with a short interval for tea and cake ! Film description below. Start time is 8pm. read full story / add a comment 
national / eu / feature Tuesday April 24, 2012 06:00 by Sonya Oldham
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Once again we are being asked to vote on yet another EU treaty. This time it is the Fiscal Treaty otherwise known as the permanent austerity treaty. Most of the people of Europe are against this treaty and they are once again relying on us although as usual most of the governments of Europe are for the treaty because well they represent the people in power -the large banks, corporations and financial elite in general. As we know they call the shots these days in every country and it has got to the stage where "investors" will lend money to governments and charge a nice rate of interest too and in this way they get to decide how much they will allow governments to spend on luxuries for the middle class and poor like health, education, social welfare, pensions, water and sewage etc. And since the financial crisis they have come to the realization that none of this is neccesary. In fact the only arms of government really required are the police, army, courts and prisons. Anyhow in this feature the folks from People's Association Watchdog have done a really good job in going through the Fiscal Treaty line by line and doing alot of other research and analysis to discover and explains what it really means. And don't forget if enough of us vote No, the government will be back to give us plenty of more chances to vote Yes, just like they did with the Nice Treaty and the Lisbon Treaty. read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / event notice Monday April 23, 2012 23:57 by Stoneybatter CAHWT
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The East Wall, Cabra & Stoneybatter groups have organised a protest outside the offices of Joe Costello TD and Paschal Donoghoe TD for this Saturday (April 28th). Meet at noon, St Peter's church (junction of Cabra Road & North Circular Road) These TDs never sought a mandate for household or water taxes. We will not hand over our hard earned money to bail out unsuccessful speculators, bank bosses and other gamblers. Over 800,000 are boycotting the home tax. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Monday April 23, 2012 19:16 by Cara
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Shell Ireland have announced that they are to carry out more seismic surveying of the offshore pipeline which is supposed to carry raw gas from the sea bed to their valve at the landfall. The survey is scheduled to take place from June 1st 2012 and although they are vague about how liong it will take, they say the survey should be completed by the end of September. If there are protests, it might not be completed at all. Full details here: http://www.transport.ie/upload/general/13495-MN17OF2012...1.PDF read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Sunday April 22, 2012 13:16 by j debender
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On Friday haulage was stopped as six campaigners stood in the road outside Shell's Aughoose compound. This meant work at both the Glengad and Aughoose compounds was stopped as one tractor and three lorries waited in the road. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday April 20, 2012 13:01 by pat c
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Police have arrested protesters outside a Moscow court during a custody hearing for three women accused of violating public order at a cathedral. At least 20 people were detained, both supporters and Russian Orthodox opponents of the women, said to be members of a punk band, Pussy Riot. The women were arrested last month after an obscene political song was played inside the cathedral in Moscow. Contact President Putin To Ask For Their Release. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Friday April 20, 2012 12:32 by Rossport Solidarity Camp
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The next Day of Solidarity is Friday 4th May. Actions will start first thing Friday morning, so please arrive on Thursday night. Food and accommodation provided, donations welcome. There may be buses or lift shares coming from Dublin Cork or Galway so please get in touch if you need a lift or are able to offer one. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / event notice Thursday April 19, 2012 23:52 by Stoneybatter Campaign Against Household & Water Taxes
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Kavanagh's Bar (upstairs) - junction of Aughrim Street & Manor Street - Thursday April 26th, 8pm read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Thursday April 19, 2012 19:57 by BrianClarkeNUJ
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Brian Faulkner the last Prime Minster of Occupied Ireland like the present autocrat, the unelected English Tory, Owen Paterson was an committed foxhunter. Faulkner lived in Highlands Estate, near the village of Seaforde and surrounded himself and his family like Paterson today, with the heavy security presence of the disgraced Ulster Defence Regiment, while Paterson uses their renamed successors, the Royal Irish Rangers for whom he raised a huge sum of money riding in the worlds most horse cruel race of 1,000 kilometers over 10 days in the Mongolian Derby last Summer. Faulkner who was ultra security conscious had every room in his house leading to another, with panic buttons everywhere. Despite all of this his horse of fenian pedigree got him. read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous / press release Thursday April 19, 2012 15:38 by Malachy Steenson
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The Association of Combined Residents Associations (ACRA) predicts mass opposition to any attempts to impose a tax on water. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Thursday April 19, 2012 14:04 by Rossport Solidarity Camp
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This morning work was held up at the Shell Glengad and Aughoose compounds by a truck occupation. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday April 18, 2012 22:29 by Sharon.
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Annual Bobby Sands Commemoration. read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / feature Wednesday April 18, 2012 01:06 by Occupy Galway
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Occupy Galway took part in a protest march over the weekend along with many other groups at the Labour Party conference held in NUIG Galway. Here are some photos from the event read full story / add a comment |
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