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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday July 04, 2013 13:06 by dave
''Peaceful persistent standing protest in front of the Dail, inspired by recent events of disgrace in our country, and the protests in Taksim square. 4th of July to demonstrate our independence and the fact that we won't stand for this sort of behaviour from the banks and the government much longer. Bring a book that reflects your feelings on what is happening to our country right now, your fears for Ireland and your memory of what makes us great.''

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kildare / environment / event notice Thursday July 04, 2013 10:40 by Tadhg
The impact of chemtrails in modifying our weather, future food production dependent on this modified weather and the health impact on society of chemtrails. On Monday July 15th, a screening of the documentary: What In The World Are They Spraying? will be shown in the Day Care Centre, Drogheda Street, Monasterevan, Co. Kildare at 8pm. read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / press release Tuesday July 02, 2013 22:00 by wsm   text 2 comments (last - monday july 08, 2013 00:04)
The Workers Solidarity Movement has decided to withdraw from the Campaign Against Home and Water Taxes. Please see statement below. We have made a donation of €1,000 towards paying off the debts of CAHWT. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday July 02, 2013 14:41 by Susan Collins
This workshop is open to anyone who has returned home from working or volunteering overseas ideally for less than 3 months, in a development/humanitarian/aid or human rights capacity. The workshop provide an opportunity to meet with other returned development workers and volunteers, hear each other's experiences and plan the next steps part of the journey. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday July 02, 2013 14:37 by Susan Collins
This six evening course on 6 consecutive Tuesdays will introduce you to, and demystify the world of global trade. It will aim to get you up to speed on some of the key issues, perspectives and debates around trade and the developing world, and reassure you that you don’t need a degree in economics to have an opinion on these issues! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 02, 2013 13:36 by VM
In an interview with The Vast Minority, writer Paul Cudenec calls for anarchists to unite in "total opposition" to the global capitalist system. He says he is trying to unearth the primal force behind the philosophy and argues that anarchism has the potential to become a new "religion" for the current age. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 02, 2013 13:20 by Galway Alliance Against War   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 03, 2013 08:26)
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SOLIDARITY RALLY AT ENNIS DISTRICT COURT
10th JULY 2013 at 10.30am
JOIN US THERE TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR MARGARETTA D’ARCY

GAAW SUPPORTED PEACE EVENT
Shannon Peace Vigil
Sunday, 14th July, 2013
14:00 until 15:00
Meet at small roundabout just before Shannon Airport

CONTENTS
1. MARGARETTA’S COURT CASE
2. GAAW PRO TAKEN IN FOR QUESTIONING BY GARDAÍ
3. MEANWHILE AT SHANNON THE WAR GOES ON…..

4. FROM SOLDIER TO RESISTER – JOE GLENTON IN GALWAY
5. THE GARDAÍ INVESTIGATING THEMSELVES

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national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Sunday June 30, 2013 21:50 by I. Greene
Despite the multiple cover-ups between the Garda Commissioner and the Justice Minister there still lingers an undercurrent of malpractice and deceit, which could only be resolved with an independent investigation. Lurking beneath the surface there appears to be dishonesty and cover-up and some within the Garda organisation are of the view that the Garda Commissioner should stand aside rather than be pushed later. read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations / news report Thursday June 27, 2013 20:55 by Republican Sinn Féin
Republican Sinn Fein would like to thank the Conway Mill, Belfast for the use of its facilities; the Orient Pub on the Springfield Road for hosting a very successful function on the Friday night and David Rovics for supplying great music and song. To those who helped in making the Forum possible; to those who took part in the sessions and to those who travelled from various parts of Ireland and a special thanks to those who travelled from abroad. We would also like to say particular thanks to Roy Garland who offered a Unionist perspective to the Forum. We are grateful to him for such insightful contributions over the two days.

A booklet will be printed within a short time with the submissions made to the Forum which will make for fascinating reading. It will be available from the Head Office at 223, Parnell Street, Dublin 1. ///

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday June 27, 2013 14:56 by Séan Heuston 1916 society Dublin   text 2 comments (last - sunday june 30, 2013 18:24)
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday June 27, 2013 08:17 by Ciaron
VID (26 mins) East Timor/ Seeds of Hope Ploughshares documentary, 1996
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national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 26, 2013 19:45 by ordinary citizen   text 22 comments (last - tuesday november 07, 2017 17:03)
Bonos arrogance has touched a nerve with ordinary people struggling to get by read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday June 25, 2013 21:32 by anonimo   text 1 comment (last - thursday june 27, 2013 12:47)
Convocação para solidariedade internacional! / Convocation for international solidarity! / Llamamiento a la solidaridad internacional! read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / press release Monday June 24, 2013 22:59 by Sam Malone
On Thursday 20/6/13 a number of Protestors attended the Dail in Kildare Street to repeat their claims of widespread criminal wrongdoing and corruption within the Garda Siochana (police) and Legal System in Ireland. The Protestors met with members of the Dail (Parliament) who promised to do something about the shocking stories they heard. In addition many lay people enquired as to the reason for the protest and were largely shocked by the stories told. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday June 24, 2013 00:26 by Very Vagabond
Many Americans, of Christian ancestry, were taught their (supposedly their) Judeo-Christian “God” (Anglo-Saxon term for Yahweh) knows all because he sees all. Yet if we put these powers into political terms and context—then these capacities are not much different from the current National Security Administration’s “Operation Prism” that has vast potential to know all about Americans and apparently the entire world of personal communications, as recently revealed by Glen Greenwald’s stories in British daily The Guardian. Thus we learn our Leviathan State can know everything and anything about anyone. By analyzing religion through a lens of political philosophy we can see the psychology of Judeo-Christian Yahweh’s exclusivity to power, as in “he” (anthropomorphized) holds all the cards, is thus the exemplar religious model for a political state of Monarchy (and privileges to a more or less self-select court elite).
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international / gender and sexuality / other press Sunday June 23, 2013 19:47 by TDoT   text 3 comments (last - tuesday july 16, 2013 16:55)
Cai Wilkinson on recent LGBTQ developments in Russia. Her geographic focus is on the former Soviet Union, and she is currently working on projects about LGBT rights and human rights norms in Kyrgyzstan and Russia.
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The issue of LGBT rights in Russia first properly came to mainstream international attention in March 2012, when the St Petersburg Duma passed a law prohibiting “public acts aimed at the propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism and transgenderism amongst minors“. The law provoked an international outcry, including calls for tourists to boycott St Petersburg, sister-cities to consider cut off ties with Russia’s “window on Europe”, and condemnation from the EU, with the European Parliament passing a resolution noting that it was “gravely concerned by developments which restrict freedom of expression and assembly on the basis of misconceptions about homosexuality and transgenderism” and calling on Russia and other countries considering the adoption of similar legislation to “demonstrate, and ensure respect for, the principle of non-discrimination”. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday June 23, 2013 12:39 by Turing
Prisoner rights campaigner, Pauline Mellon with a piece on the imprisonment of Michael Campbell in Lithuania. It was written on 21st of June 2013 within hours of the writer attending a meeting meeting concerning Michael Campbell's case. Full text at link.

I would like to draw your attention to the very disturbing case of Irish citizen Michael Campbell. Michael is currently serving a twelve year prison sentence in Lithuania in what has been described as in inhumane and degrading conditions. Michael has been imprisoned since January 2008.

I met briefly today in Derry with a member of Michaels family, a fellow campaigner, a member of the European Parliament and a member of the Stormont Justice committee. The purpose of the meeting was to enlist support to add to the growing call to have Michael repatriated.

Michael is being held in Lukiškės Prison in the Lithuania town of Vilnius. A 2008 judgement of the European Court on Human Rights (ECHR) declared conditions at Lukiskes Remand Prison and the Rasu Prison to be violations of the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment as defined by European Convention on Human Rights. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Thursday June 20, 2013 23:59 by Barry O'Sullivan
A massive protest vote elected a centrist candidate with over 50% of the vote, crushing the conservatives. But will he be able to create a more open Iran? Yassamine Mather examines this question. Full text at link.

On Friday June 14, Iranians voted in large numbers for ayatollah Hassan Rowhani, a regime insider who was elected as Iran’s president with 50.71% of the vote. A centrist, not a ‘reformist’, he became the candidate of an unofficial coalition between ‘reformists’ and ‘centrists’ forged three days before the vote, after green leader and former president Mohammad Khatami asked the ‘reformist’ candidate, Mohammad Reza Aref, to withdraw from the elections. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday June 19, 2013 15:26 by Red Banner
Issue 52 of
Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas
is out now, €2 / £1.50 from bookshops or the address above. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday June 17, 2013 20:24 by Robert Long   text 1 comment (last - wednesday june 19, 2013 12:20)
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”

Iraq had WMD’s, Gaddafi was killing his own people, Iran has been six months from having nuclear weapons since 2004 and now Syria has used chemical weapons in its civil war. These are lies purported as truth by the vast majority of the mainstream media. These are four examples from the last decade, but of course lies of this kind have been used throughout history to justify wars of aggression. All of these government sponsored fallacies are inextricably linked in an on-going geo-political chess game. This game is all too real for those living in the “theatres” of conflict, and it shall be so for us few, lucky enough to reside in the still relatively peaceful albeit now austere “western” world.
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