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international / eu / other press Tuesday July 21, 2009 13:51 by Sheilanagig
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If the Lisbon Treaty passes in Ireland, the EU will be ruled by the likes of Tony Blair if France and England have their way. read full story / add a comment
cork / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Monday July 20, 2009 22:20 by Liam Cullinane 1 attached file
The Quickservice Food Alliance (A group of fast food employers including McDonalds, Burger King and Supermacs), backed by IBEC, is launching a legal challenge to the Joint Labour Committees that determine rates of pay and wages in the service industry. If they succeed, then 170,000 low paid workers in the service sector will suffer huge pay cuts. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday July 20, 2009 17:31 by RogerYates
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Gary L. Francione, Distinguished Professor of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University School of Law, Newark, USA (see full bio below), will give a lecture on ‘The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation’ at 7pm, Theatre ‘L’, UCD (Newman building). This interactive lecture, in which audience members can ask questions after the principal address, will be held live via satellite* from the USA. read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday July 20, 2009 16:48 by Workers Solidarity Movement
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The Workers Solidarity Movement and Anarchist Communist Discussion Group in Belfast, organised a successful day of discussions and workshops last Saturday in the Belfast Unemployed Centre tackling issues such as fighting fascism and racism from a class perspective, anarchist organisation and our vision of a free, classless, post-capitalist society. read full story / add a comment
donegal / animal rights / event notice Monday July 20, 2009 14:58 by Laura Broxson
Hi, Saturday 25th July will be the 4th, and final, part of our "Fur Farm Exposé Tour", and so we'll be traveling to Donegal (home to 3 fur farms and the Irish Fur Breeder's Association!), where we'll be teaming up with the Donegal Vegan Group. Again, there won't be a mini-bus, so please get back to us as soon as possible to reserve a seat in one of the cars! Also, if you'd be willing to offer additional transport for the day, please get in touch. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday July 20, 2009 14:52 by Kev (words) - TD (a/v)
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As part of the international Cultural Boycott of Israel campaign, on the evening of Sunday 19th July, members and supporters of the IPSC gathered outside the O2 Arena in the Dublin Docklands and distributed leaflets to concert goers, asking Leonard Cohen not to carry on with his scheduled tour finale in Tel Aviv. read full story / add a comment
donegal / arts and media / event notice Monday July 20, 2009 13:00 by Sarah
Carol Churchill's agitprop response to the Gaza incursion. This controversial play confronts the history of Israel and raises lots of questions about myths and nation building in deeply divided societies. The play will be performed by a cross border cast. There will be two performances in each location, the lunch time performance will be followed by a workshop for young people 14+ on conflict resolution and storytelling. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / event notice Monday July 20, 2009 12:23 by Jen Debender
Climate Camp fundraiser this Thursday in Galway! All donations go towards making Climate Camp happen in Ireland August 15th-23rd For more information on Climate Camp Ireland, visit: climatecamp.ie read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Monday July 20, 2009 10:45 by Lillian Hellman
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This is the story of the rape and murder of another young Iranian who was protesting for justice. Full story at link. On Friday June 19, a large group of mourners gathered at the Ghoba mosque in Tehran to await a speech about the martyrs of the post-election protests by presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. According to one Iranian blog, 28-year-old Taraneh Mousavi was one of a group of people that was arrested by plainclothesed security forces for attending the gathering. Weeks later her mother received an anonymous call from a government agent saying that her daughter has been hospitalized in Imam Khomeini Hospital in the city of Karaj, just north of Tehran -- hospitalized for "rupturing of her womb and anus in... an unfortunate accident". read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Monday July 20, 2009 09:34 by Teresa shallow
Protesting for our children read full story / add a comment 
galway / eu / news report Sunday July 19, 2009 13:10 by Galway Observer
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An anonymous group appears to have launched an expensive billboard campaign in Galway against the Lisbon Treaty. Clearly no expense was spared to capture a highly visible on Galway's coast road to Oranmore. Every picture tells a story. read full story / add a comment
kerry / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday July 19, 2009 12:33 by seán moraghan
People Before Profit (Tralee) will hold a meeting Imperial Bar, Tuesday 21st July @ 7.30. (This follows a well attended talk by Kieran Allen on "Ireland's Economic Crash", held recently). read full story / add a comment 
kerry / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday July 19, 2009 07:33 by Fintán
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Jarvey's in Killarney have had recent success after a row with the National Park and Wildlife services over them refusing to get dung-catchers attached to their horses, which saw them being prevented from entering the park. Following a strike and picket which began on Tuesday morning the 14/07/2009, the Jarvey's received an interim injunction after a high court hearing on Friday last, which has suspended the wearing of the dung-catchers and has seen the Jarvey's returning to work as normal. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday July 18, 2009 23:50 by Mairead Maguire
Natasha Estemirova was killed on Wednesday last in Chechnya for telling the truth about Russia's dirty war there read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Saturday July 18, 2009 19:06 by Patricia McKenna
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The Green Party’s decision to support the Lisbon Treaty and backtrack on its long standing campaign for a more democratic EU will be more of a hindrance than a help to the Yes side. The voters would currently not buy a used car from the Green Party let alone a rejected treaty. The party leadership has shown that once part of the so-called ‘accepted political establishment’ they turn their back on their principles read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Saturday July 18, 2009 16:25 by Ann Garrison
July 16th, 2009, marked the 30th anniversary of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, when, at 5:00 A.M., 1100 tons of uranium mining tailings, and 100 million gallons of radioactive water burst through United Nuclear's earthen dam, into the Rio Puerco, at a uranium mine in Church Rock, New Mexico, on the Navajo Reservation. Today, the Navajo Nation remains under toxic siege, by coal mining, uranium mining, and coal-fired power, even though an EPA doc already suggests that the entire reservation is a Superfund site. The Navajo Tribal Council, in 2005, passed a uranium mining ban, the Diné Natural Resources Protection Act, and thus won a Nuclear Free Future Award, but the ban has been under pressure ever since, and uranium mining claims now surround the Navajo Reservation like an advancing army. read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / news report Saturday July 18, 2009 14:35 by AM
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Serica, the British energy company, has found oil in the Slyne basin, off the west coast of Ireland. Under current licencing agreements, all oil found in Irish waters will belong exclusively to the finder, with no royalty payable to the people of Ireland. All exploration and development costs will be claimed back before tax is paid. Minor changes to the licencing terms, brought in by Eamon Ryan in 2007, won't apply to this find. In a Reuter's interview last year, Paul Ellis, the company's chief executive, said of the Irish exploration: "They are look-a-like prospects to Shell's Corrib prospects, and are attractive partly due to the tax rate in Ireland." read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday July 18, 2009 12:27 by anthony ravlich
Bottom-up rights are those rights excluded from UN human rights instruments because they were considered incompatible with neo liberalism and globalization. This pits a 'we are all in this together' establishment against the independent peoples e.g. small business, and the most disadvantaged. The discontented need to struggle to have these rights, which entail an ethical globalization, included in domestic and international human rights law. read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality / other press Friday July 17, 2009 22:42 by + "ora pro nobis"
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Those interested in Roman Kathurlick affairs will this last week have noted how the pontiff and german shepherd, Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict XVI snubbed Berlusconi during the G8 bash in Italy but managed to give Obama a cuddle despite the former being anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-cell-stem research (& simply into good looking young girls) & the latter being a protestant. Then the Pope went off on holidays to get out of Rome which is a smelly and oppressive place during the summer months & broke his wrist, an incident reported throughout the global catholic interest press. But at the same time the official Vatican newspaper decided to "rehabilitate" Oscar Wilde. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / other press Friday July 17, 2009 22:33 by Plebian
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[here's an interesting profile on Colm McCarthy from the Phoenix, and published here in the national interest] ECONOMIST Colm McCarthy has been selected as the man to make sensible, ie swingeing, cuts in public expenditure as chairman of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure (‘An Bord Snip Nua’). But as ministers agonise about the wisdom of even allowing the public to know what’s in McCarthy’s report, there is no debate about McCarthy’s credentials or judgment in these matters. read full story / add a comment |
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