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national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday June 26, 2009 16:34 by FSB!
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A written reply to a Dáil question by Aengus Ó Snodaigh by justice minister Dermot Ahern shows that Garda personnel strength in a large majority of Irish counties is less than the number of Gardai deployed in Erris to protect Shell's interests. For example, Shell has more cops than Co. Clare, Co. Kerry, or Co Sligo. Shell also has more cops defending its corrupt Corrib Gas Project than there are Gardai 'defending' the citizens of Galway, Waterford or Dún Laoghaire. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday June 26, 2009 16:05 by RogerYates
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"Animal Rights July," a 5-week event in Dublin, featuring films, discussions and lectures on animal rights philosophy and social movement advocacy. read full story / add a comment
clare / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday June 26, 2009 14:24 by John Lannon
Members of Amnesty International, Shannonwatch and others will gather at Shannon Town Centre on Saturday 27th at 2pm to mark the launch of a new Amnesty report outlining how CIA planes have been using Shannon Airport. Dressed in orange to represent the rendition cases that can be directly tied to Shannon, they will walk towards the airport. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / news report Friday June 26, 2009 14:09 by iosaf
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Of course news attention is overwhelmingly focussed today on the passing of the king of pop, Michael Jackson. We are even told that global internet traffic slowed whilst humanity came to terms with its loss. However, hard as it is believe and as impalatable as it may be for some to stomach, in poorer countries life has appeared to have gone as normal. General Romeo Vasquez chief of staff of the Honduran army put tanks on the streets surrounding the presidential palace where democratically elected Mr Manuel Zelaya lives and up till yesterday was mostly worrying about winning a referendum which will allow him to be re-elected and sit more terms. read full story / add a comment ![]()
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Friday June 26, 2009 14:04 by Andrew
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In any country with a half way critical media, the last few months would have been disastrous for Shell. In a crucial period in Shell’s imposition of an experimental gas pipeline on the people of Erris it emerges that Michael Dwyer, one of the security guards on this project, was part of an attempt to trigger a civil war in Bolivia. Soon after that it became clear that at least three others who had worked as security guards at the Shell compound had travelled to Bolivia with Dwyer and were wanted there for questioning. Some, it emerged, had links to fascist organizations in Eastern Europe. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Friday June 26, 2009 13:17 by kevin
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Speaking at a public meeting in Wynn’s Hotel on his new book, Ireland’s Economic Crash, Kieran Allen, long-standing socialist and a senior UCD sociologist condemned the ‘elite consensus’ that wage cuts will bring an economic recovery to Ireland. A recording of the meeting with slideshow will be posted on www.swp.ie later today. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Friday June 26, 2009 11:17 by Rossport Solidarity Camp
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In a daring action by the Shell to Sea kayak team Shell's pipe-laying ship the Solitaire was forced to flee from activists late yesterday. Read on... read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Thursday June 25, 2009 20:07 by O. O'C.
"They cannot claim a legally binding victory and then avoid the necessary ratification together with the Lisbon Treaty. Under EU law a protocol is only legally binding when it is ratified by all Member States. There is no other way." read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday June 25, 2009 18:25 by Joe Moore
A protest in support of the Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign will place on Saturday 27th June at 1.00pm in Daunt's Square, Cork read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday June 25, 2009 17:07 by Yassamine Mather
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Yassamine Mather writes on the developing situation in Iran, on howdivisions are developing amongst the Mullahs and most importantly on the class composition of the demonstrations. Full text at link. The problem with most dictators is that, even in their dying days, they believe they can stop the movement by simply passing orders or blaming ‘foreign powers’. Some supporters of the shah are still under the illusion that he was not overthrown by the 1979 Iranian revolution, but was deposed thanks to a plot by Britain and the US. In fact, as he went on speaking, attributing strange comments to Obama (the US president has apparently admitted in public that he had been looking forward to the demonstrations that have rocked Iran), one wondered if Khamenei, well known for using opium as a painkiller for his injured arm, had taken a double dose that morning. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Thursday June 25, 2009 16:43 by Socialist Youth Dublin 1 attached file
SUPER-RICH USE RECESSION TO ATTACK PAY! read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday June 25, 2009 14:33 by League for the Fourth International
For more than a week, Iran has been convulsed by mass demonstrations denouncing election fraud. Hundreds of thousands have repeatedly taken to the streets to denounce the government, which is now threatening, and beginning to carry out, a bloody crackdown. This time around, imperialist intervention is veiled: the White House feigns neutrality, the Western media go all out for the opposition, while in the background various agencies provide vital technical aid. In reality, all candidates in the presidential vote swear allegiance to the Islamic Republic, and the supposed moderate reformers are no less butchers and enemies of poor and working people than the conservative "populist" government. The situation cries out for revolutionary leadership independent of all factions of the theocracy, to wage a struggle for workers revolution against imperialism and clerical reaction. read full story / add a comment ![]()
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday June 25, 2009 12:57 by adam and steve
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A group of Marriage Equality Protesters have blocked access to Leinster House on Kildare Street by locking themselves to the gates of the entrance. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday June 25, 2009 12:14 by Socialism or Barbarism!
An in-depth socialist review of the IMF report on the economy of the Republic of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Thursday June 25, 2009 12:09 by watcher
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Marathon's share in the controversy-ridden Corrib gas project is to be sold on to Canadian firm Vermillion Energy Trust, which claims to "live and breathe" a motto of "excellence, trust, respect and responsibility every day". read full story / add a comment ![]()
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday June 25, 2009 11:09 by FSB! et al
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In a reprise of last year's repeated arrests on the waters of Broadhaven Bay, Shell's Gardai have arrested Pat 'the Chief' O'Donnell and his son Jonathan while they were fishing in Broadhaven Bay this morning. Their two boats were commandeered by Gardai and brought to Ballyglass pier under tow and naval escort. Gardai claim that the two boats were 'loitering', the new term for criminalising fishermen exercising their rights to fish in their native waters. Pat's brother Martin is currently still on the water in the bay fishing in his boat. Meanwhile the Solitaire is less than an hour away from arriving off Glengad. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday June 25, 2009 02:57 by Nick Folley
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So Sarkozy – and others in the UK – cry ‘Ban the burkha!’ What do they have against it? I picked up a copy of the Daily Express (Wednesday 24th June 2009) which carried the loud headline “Ban the Burkha here in Britain” (all in capitals in the original, of course) with my morning coffee, hoping to shed some light on the answer. read full story / add a comment ![]()
mayo / environment / news report Thursday June 25, 2009 00:15 by S2S
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The last few days have seen some very interesting developments in the situation after Pat O'Donnell's boat was sunk. First of all, we had an appeal from Pat for State protection (see below) to the Gardai on Sunday. This was read out in full on local radio on Wednesday, and it went into some other media coverage too. Following on from this, the Gardai called out to Mr. O'Donnell, and asked him what he wanted in terms of protection – his reply was: a 500 metre exclusion zone around his boat, and a Garda RIB to accompany him when he goes out. They agreed to the second one, and didn't really comment on the first(!). Two swimmers were also arrested this evening Wednesday, despite being well outside Shell's so-called exclusion zone. Well, the 200+ Gardai up here have to justify their existence somehow... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Wednesday June 24, 2009 23:49 by Reclaim the resources,protect the communty!
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As the Solitaires arrival looms large,the state ups the pressure with more frivolous arrests read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Wednesday June 24, 2009 22:16 by Fergal Scully
"ATTENTION BEBE" A 15 piece band that play a 2 hour set of 90's tunes with instruments including Sax..Violins..Trumpet..keyboard..congas/djembe..bass..guitar..Glockenspiel..French-horn..Trombone..vocals..drumkit..and Chooobabababa At the Lower Deck this Saturday 27th of June From 8pm read full story / add a comment |
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