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national / crime and justice / press release Tuesday July 18, 2006 02:00 by B   text 72 comments (last - wednesday august 23, 2006 10:59)
Press Release
From: sylvia wall ( mailto:sylvia_m@hotmail.co.uk )

Today (monday 17th July) is the 57th day of the hunger strike of Peter Preston.

He is in a tent on the pavement outside the National Library. He is weak, looks very thin but was alert,
lucid and both pleasant and amusing.
He has an appointment to see the Minister for Justice, equality and law reform - Michael McDowell - at 9-30 am on Wednesday, 19th July. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday July 18, 2006 00:45 by justin morahan   text 6 comments (last - wednesday july 19, 2006 15:15)
national / animal rights / press release Monday July 17, 2006 22:30 by Stephan Wymore   text 15 comments (last - sunday november 05, 2006 13:55)
ARAN is taking a big step and is willing to organize a huge rally against the cruelty on December 10th 2006, which is the official International Day For Animal Rights. All over the world events will be taking place and we want this year to be the biggest ever here in Ireland.

Right now the animals are counting on us all to speak up and free them from the pain and needless suffering that is taking place in the greyhound industry, bloodsports, circuses that use animals, animal experiments, shooting, fishing, homeless and abandoned dogs, cats and other animals, animals slaughtered for their skins, their flesh and even dogs that are chained up all over the country who are forced to live outside in all weather extremes be it in the thundering harsh winter or the excruciating summer heat that we seem to be getting, all this without food, water or shelter and there is so much more happening to animals. They desperately need us all to help them and we must because we all know this cruelty is needless and it’s in our hearts to do so. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday July 17, 2006 18:57 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin
Beidh Máire Nic an Bhaird, ball de Na Gaeil Óga i mBéal Feirste, beidh sí os comhair na cúirte sa chathair Dé Céadaoin 19ú Iúil. A coir – gur labhair sí as Gaeilge leis na póilíní. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday July 17, 2006 18:26 by Ciarán Mac Giolla Bhéin
A Chairde Gael,

Mar is eol ag go leor agaibh, thóg an PSNI ár gcara, Máire Nic an Bhaird, ar na mallaibh agus choinnigh siad thar oíche í ar an ábhar gur labhair sí ina teanga dúchais leo. Is ábhar náire é, 8 mbliain i ndiaidh síniú Comhaontú Aoine an chéasta, go bhfuil an stát go fóill i mbun feachtais cos ar bolg in éadan na Gaeilge agus ar Ghaeilgeoirí araon.

Beidh cás Máire ag dul os comhair na cúirte ar an chéadaoin ar a 10. Tá Máire ag glacadh cás i gcoinne na bpéas chomh maith agus beidh sí ag troid a cás trí mhéan na Gaeilge. Tá sé rí-thábhachtach go dtagann Gaeilgeoirí agus cairde na Gaeilge i mBéal Feirste agus níos faide anonn amach i mbun agóide, ní amháin le tacú le Máire ach le taispeáin don stát nach nglacfaidh Gaeilgeoirí leis an leatrom seo a thuilleadh. Gurbh ionann Cearta teanga agus cearta daonna.

Bígí i láthair le bhur dtoil.

10r.n, An Chúirt cois an Lagáin, Béal Feirste. read full story / add a comment
international / housing / other press Monday July 17, 2006 16:59 by Barrington
Shanyrak shanty town in revolt

Last Friday, 14 July, police attacked shanty town dwellers in the Shanyrak area of Alma-Ata city, in Kazakhstan. Residents bravely fought back and scores were injured.
Continued at http://www.socialistworld.net read full story / add a comment
wicklow / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday July 17, 2006 16:04 by John Kelly   text 21 comments (last - monday august 09, 2010 15:24)
A 33 year old man was sentenced to seven days in jail for wearing the T-shirt with the words "Never mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols" at a court in Bray on Friday July, 16, 2006. The judge Murrough Connellan refused an attempt by the man to purge his "contempt" after his partner Lorraine Fitzpatrick purchased a plain blue T-shirt. The judge said he had not furnished "good reason" for wearing the garment. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday July 17, 2006 15:21 by One of G8 Press&Info Group
Police in Russia have targeted press coverage of the anti G8 protests.
Yesterday they arrested accredited Associated Press journalists for
covering a protest. They also attacked photographers, broke cameras and
arrested six Ukrainian activists for holding a press conference read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Monday July 17, 2006 11:29 by Friends of the Earth   text 1 comment (last - monday july 17, 2006 21:20)
Friends of the Earth has described the government's climate pollution plan, published on Friday, as " the ultimate stealth tax". It will cost the public at least €2 million a week according to the environmental justice group. The EPA plan estimates the rise in Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions will be twice what is allowed under the Kyoto Protocol from 2008 to 2012 or, put another way, an average of 7 million tonnes of excess pollution a year[1]. Every tonne of this overshoot will have to be offset by an emissions permit. The government is assuming permit prices will remain steady at around €15 a tonne giving a total cost to Ireland of €105 million a year or €2 million a week for five years[2].

Commenting on how government inaction will cost the consumer and the taxpayer, Friends of the Earth Director, Oisin Coghlan said:
"This is the ultimate stealth tax. The government has replaced the polluter-pays principle with the public-pays principle. On the one hand industry will get their pollution permits for free but raise consumer prices to reflect their value [3]. On the other hand the government will use taxpayers' money to buy permits for the rest of our Kyoto overshoot. It's a double whammy for the average household." read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday July 17, 2006 00:36 by X   text 2 comments (last - monday july 17, 2006 15:50)
Trial of the Pitstop Ploughshares 5/Shannon 5/Catholic Worker 5 resumes in Court 23 at 11am. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / press release Sunday July 16, 2006 23:31 by G8-int   text 3 comments (last - monday july 17, 2006 00:15)
Russian 'Network Against The G8' and international activists blockaded the entrance of a hotel in St. Petersburg where delegates of this year's G8 summit were staying
Police heavy-handed.
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday July 16, 2006 20:20 by Fintan Lane   text 3 comments (last - tuesday july 18, 2006 10:27)
Today's Sunday Independent carries two advertisements seeking to recruit Irish people to work as Sales Representatives for a company, apparently called 'Exchange', whose sole function is to sell cars, motorbikes and utility vehicles to US military personnel serving abroad. These particular adverts are looking for people to service the US war machine in Iraq, Kuwait and the Middle East in general. Those employed will be based on US military facilities in Iraq and Kuwait.

Prospective applicants are directed to a website, which carries the company motto:

'The only overseas car-buying program created by the [US] military, for the military'.

It is a disgrace that an Irish newspaper is carrying advertisements recruiting civilians to service the US war machine in Iraq. Those who consider applying should bear in mind that they will be viewed in Iraq as servants of the US military and their lives will be at grave risk. Holding Irish citizenship will make no difference. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday July 16, 2006 19:00 by gan   text 1 comment (last - monday july 17, 2006 19:56)
Gone are the days of a fair fight and a ‘just’ war – whatever that insane expression is supposed to mean – today we have the actions of the ‘might is right’ ideology of barbarism. This ‘new’ primitivism is evident in the actions of Zionist Israel and the Zionist influenced USA. Today’s wars are the most inglorious wars in human history. How proud we should be of our achievements when we allow idiotic differences and greed to escalate into bloodshed. What a ‘noble’ race of ‘civilised’ humans we are! View this planet as a visitor and be thoroughly appalled. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Sunday July 16, 2006 17:02 by AWI (Belfast)   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 18, 2006 10:40)
The next picket/leaflet distribution in Belfast in solidarity with the Pitstop Ploughshares
will be at Belfast City Hall on Tuesday the 18th of July between
5.30pm and 6.30pm.

This time is to facilitate people who are working.

Turn up, help out and show your solidarity with these five anti-war activists as they face the southern courts for their decommissioning of a US warplane at Shannon.

All welcome!!!

Organised by Anti-War Ireland. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday July 15, 2006 22:15 by Sean Crudden
How far are the rights of the dead to be respected, upheld and vindicted by our judges and our courts? Has anyone the right to act in the name of a dead person? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday July 15, 2006 16:08 by g8 press berlin   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 15, 2006 16:19)
Global Day of Action Against the G8, Solidarity Shown with Protesters in
St. Petersburg Worldwide. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Saturday July 15, 2006 10:22 by Ed Lee   text 6 comments (last - saturday july 22, 2006 17:02)
The Israeli-Lebanese+Gaza conflict and wildifires in California.
I can't help but think both situations are alike. Both cause destruction and can easily spread.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday July 14, 2006 23:53 by reposted   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 15, 2006 03:09)
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Friday July 14, 2006 23:53 by FG   text 1 comment (last - saturday july 15, 2006 16:43)
Inflation Set to Wipe Out Wage Increases

Campaign Calls For Pay deal To be Rejected
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday July 14, 2006 22:56 by Brian Mac Grath
This article provides some background to the terrible events at Daechuri, and the neighbouring village of Doduri, where the South Korean state is using powers equivalent to the Irish Compulsory Purchase Order to clear the local farmers off their ancestral lands for a proposed expansion of the existing Camp Humphreys military facility, previously a Japanese military base. The farmers have been moved off their lands with extreme brutality, and the village is now surrounded by thousands of troops and police, villagers have been served with eviction notices and the area is enclosed by barbed wire. Protest by letter and e-mail to the South Korean Embassy: 15 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland.
City: Dublin
Phone: + (353 -1) - 660 - 8800/8053, 668 - 2109
Fax: (+353-1) - 660 - 8716.
Updates on the situation can be found on: http://antigizi.or.kr/english/
http://www.saveptfarmers.org/Daechuri_background
http://saveptfarmers.org/blog/
Brian Mac Grath. read full story / add a comment
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