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A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday May 03, 2010 21:09 by Desso   text 2 comments (last - tuesday may 04, 2010 11:00)   image 4 images   video 4 video files

Declan O’ Shea speaks with Tommy Donnelan, Irish Activist presently in the village of Bil’in, West Bank. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday May 03, 2010 18:16 by getouttamyhead   text 2 comments (last - friday may 07, 2010 09:25)
The Alliance for Irish Radiation Protection (AIRP) has declared the month of May as Electromagnetic Sensitivity Month in Ireland in line with growing world-wide concern about the dangers of microwave radiation.

Microwave technology is behind the proliferation of cell phones, the use of the Tetra signal by the emergency services and the MiMAX signal developed at NUI Maynooth. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Sunday May 02, 2010 21:13 by Paulo Nunes dos Santos   text 6 comments (last - tuesday may 04, 2010 16:07)   video 2 video files
May Day protest march in Dublin. [MULTIMEDIA] read full story / add a comment
Arthus Scargill addresses Dublin Mayday rally
dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday May 02, 2010 16:38 by Andrew N Flood   text 1 comment (last - friday may 21, 2010 07:01)   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
On a miserable wet day around 400 workers marched through Dublin in the annual Mayday march organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. Speakers at the end included Arthur Scargill, president of the British National Union of Mine Workers during the bitter year long 1984 strike in which 10 people were killed. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday May 02, 2010 16:22 by Iyad Burnat   text 4 comments (last - tuesday may 04, 2010 11:31)   image 4 images   video 2 video files
April 30, 2010 Today’s demonstration began with speeches in honor of International Workers’ Day by the Union of Palestine Workers, after which the crowd processed to the Wall. After several minutes, soldiers fired the first rounds of tear gas into the crowd, and continued to launch tear gas deep into the protestors’ route. Soldiers aggressively entered the village in waves in an effort to make arrests. read full story / add a comment
Iyad Burnat with the ex Mayor of Geneva (Remy Pajani)
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday May 02, 2010 16:08 by Iyad Burnat   text 3 comments (last - saturday may 29, 2010 23:35)   image 2 images
Israel Bans Popular Struggle Leader From Traveling
Press Release - Bil’in Sunday May2nd 2010

Iyad Burnat, a leader in the popular struggle against the Israeli
wall, was banned by Israel’s military from crossing the West Bank
borders into Jordan on Saturday. Burnat is head of the local committee
against the wall and settlement in the central West Bank village of
Bil’in. The villagers of Bil’in have been organizing weekly anti wall
protest since five years. read full story / add a comment
CRH placards lead the demo
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday April 30, 2010 16:46 by Kev   text 10 comments (last - sunday may 02, 2010 23:52)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Irish activist and documentarian Tommy Donnelan, 63, was this afternoon wounded and detained for two hours by the Israeli Military in the West Bank. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday April 29, 2010 15:04 by LASC   text 3 comments (last - friday april 30, 2010 07:49)   image 1 image   video 1 video file   audio 1 audio file
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 / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday April 29, 2010 10:21 by Paula Geraghty   video 1 video file
"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
Father and child being harassed in Hebron's Old City
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday April 27, 2010 21:44 by TD   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 27, 2010 21:53)   image 7 images   video 5 video files
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
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday April 27, 2010 16:57 by Paula Geraghty   video 1 video file
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
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derry / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday April 27, 2010 11:43 by Solidarity with the 14 Raytheon accused   text 1 comment (last - friday april 30, 2010 17:39)   image 1 image
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
48-hour fast by Republican prisoners to begin next Friday 30 April 2010....
international / history and heritage / news report Saturday April 24, 2010 23:19 by Sharon.   text 3 comments (last - sunday april 25, 2010 21:28)   image 2 images
A 48-hour fast will be held shortly by Republican POW's in Portlaoise Prison in support of their comrades in Maghaberry Prison. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Saturday April 24, 2010 10:38 by Kev   text 22 comments (last - tuesday may 04, 2010 16:28)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
I just got a call from an eirigi comrade, saying a group of them are currently occupying the Anglo-Irish building on St Stephen's Green. They are looking for supporters to get down there now. Please spread the word, and go down in solidarity if you can. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday April 21, 2010 12:43 by dD   text 6 comments (last - wednesday february 02, 2011 11:30)   image 1 image

It's being reported by the he Garda Ombudsman that a man has been found dead in a garda cell in Dublin.

The man was arrested for a public order offence on Tuesday evening and held at Tallaght Garda Station where he was found dead at 9.30 last night.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday April 21, 2010 12:04 by Paula Geraghty   text 7 comments (last - friday april 30, 2010 16:37)   video 1 video file
About 30 people came out to change the law on users of cannabis for medicinal purposes. read full story / add a comment
Spreading the word
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday April 20, 2010 23:39 by Ray   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 22, 2010 13:14)   image 1 image
Members of the Cork and Kinsale Shell to Sea groups held information stalls on their respective main streets to keep the imprisonment of Pat 'the Chief' O'Donnell in the eye of the genneral public. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday April 19, 2010 21:41 by Kev   text 4 comments (last - saturday may 15, 2010 21:27)   image 5 images
(Sorry about the delayed nature of this report, been busy!)

On the evening of Monday 12th April 2010 around 40 members and supporters of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) staged a solidarity demonstration outside Dublin City Hall in support of the anti-Veoila motion that was tabled to be voted on by Dublin City Council (DCC). read full story / add a comment
galway / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday April 19, 2010 12:55 by Paula Geraghty   video 1 video file
Trade Union TV presents the Restaurant Workers Action Group protest at Supermac's Eyre Square Galway to defend restaurant workers minimum wages (16/04/2010)

Start you week with a little bit of resistance! read full story / add a comment
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