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international / anti-capitalism / feature Thursday October 05, 2006 16:52 by D McC
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This week sees the launch of new book Clandestines: the pirate journals of an Irish Exile published by AK Press by the Irish author Ramor Ryan. D. Mc C takes a look at Clandestines, a collection of pieces documenting twenty years of political activism, to see if Irish exiles can still knock out a good book. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / feature Tuesday October 03, 2006 17:20 by .
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State picks the moment of bertie gate and gas prices hike to re-take Ballinaboy for Shell. Hundreds of police present (170 directly at Ballinaboy according to police figures). Riot police brought up from Cork and held on stand by. Mood among protesters resilient. read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice / feature Tuesday October 03, 2006 15:55 by bruise violet
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After nearly a fortnight of political turmoil, which Bertie really wishes would have died down by now, today seems to be the D-day on which all of his future will be decided. After his Nixon-esque interview on Six-One, the FF strategists were surely hoping that his personal life being laid bare for the cynical public, as well as his stated intention to pay back the "loans", were enough to silence the hounds. However the Manchester payment, by some group of businessmen, for some vague reason or other, is going to cause him enormous damage, and it remains difficult to see how he could come out on the other side of all this with his image as a simple man of the people intact. Surely even FF are going to be wondering if sticking with their leader is worth it. In the last general election, his face was the face of Fianna Fail, adorning the posters on the lamposts, with the slogan 'A Lot Done, More To Do'. They face losing the next election if Bertie is still at the helm
and is the brand of FF. read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / feature Tuesday October 03, 2006 00:17 by rory
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Over 3,000 objections to proposed Poolbeg incinerator. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / feature Tuesday September 26, 2006 17:12 by Ruth
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People power and peaceful resistance effectively completely defeated Shell’s first concerted effort to break the picket at the refinery site at Bellanaboy this morning. read full story / add a comment 
national / racism & migration related issues / feature Saturday September 23, 2006 21:05 by Caoimhe
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I was outside the GNIB last Wednesday t,he day the deportation took place, from 10 in the morning to roughly 7:30 in the evening. This is a (sketchy) account of what happened down there. read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Wednesday September 20, 2006 19:01 by David Logan
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The purpose of this article is to describe my experience of an International Volunteer Project so that well-intentioned potential volunteers will have some idea of the kind of conditions they may face. Service Civil International (SCI), the organisation that promoted the project describes itself as: “an international non-governmental organisation committed to the promotion of peace and understanding through voluntary activities. These activities consist primarily of 2-3 week long international volunteer placements involving volunteers from all over the world. These projects range from working with marginalised people to ecological, arts and cultural projects, amongst others.” The Irish branch of Service Civil International is called Voluntary Service International (VSI). read full story / add a comment 
international / politics / elections / feature Wednesday September 20, 2006 00:50 by iosaf
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Riot police have been firing tear gas at demonstrators in Budapest in the last hours as they tried to storm hungary's state TV company. Storming TV stations is a pretty traditional way of kicking off a revolution. The protesters are angry at the revelation that the current prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsany admits that his party lied to gain office. Being relatively new to democracy the Hungarians find such cleverness a distasteful display of sociopathy. Hungarian radio played a tape of a meeting in which Gyurcsany & other party leaders (socialists by the way) did their Nixon best to pull the wool over the electorates' eyesv last week & since then the "politicisation" index of Hungarians has shot up. They are now very newsworthy and enjoying their second day of attention on slavic language news sites. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday September 18, 2006 13:31 by orig mac consaidin, edit dot
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www. rateyoursolicitor.com was set up last March to allow Irish users of legal services to communicate their experiences of solicitors and barristers. The site provided the public with an opportunity to name and shame (or name and fame) the legal practitioners they had experience of, by awarding them a 3, 2 or 1 star rating or an AVOID rating. However, over the past couple of weeks serried ranks of lawyers have lined up in the Four Courts to try to get the site taken down. The site was indeed down all day today and today’s paper claims it is down because of a court order. In fact it is only off-line for technical reasons. It is being given broader bandwidth and other improvements and it will be back on-line within days. In the meantime it can be accessed from the www.crookedlawyer.com site by clicking on “Latest News 15th September 2006”. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / crime and justice / feature Monday September 18, 2006 01:02 by Jim
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There was a large turnout today on the 1st anniversary of Terence Wheelock who died as a result of injuries received in Garda custody. About 500 people from the Sean McDermot Street and Summerhill community turned out in support of the Wheelock familes demand for an independent inquiry. The protest was preceded by a mass in Sean McDermot Street church. Other groups that came to show their support included activists with Residents Against Racism, Working Class Action, Sinn Fein, Labour and the Workers Solidarity Movement. The family of John Maloney also came out in solidarity as well as independent T.D. Tony Gregory, Cieran Perry, Christy Burke of Sinn Fein and Joe Costello of Labour. Larry Wheelock addressed the crowd and was followed by Joe Costello speaking on behalf of the local public representatives (Burke and Gregory) and Cieran Perry then spoke. read full story / add a comment 
cork / miscellaneous / feature Thursday September 14, 2006 21:56 by Miriam Cotton
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" How many of us can put our hands up and say we are not ourselves primarily responsible for the culture of drunkenness that our children are now embracing with such eagerness?" read full story / add a comment 
dublin / gender and sexuality / feature Wednesday September 13, 2006 01:55 by sovietpop
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Report from the RAG dayschool A bit later than I hoped, here is a report of the days events. read full story / add a comment 
national / housing / feature Wednesday September 06, 2006 14:25 by Indymedia Editorial Collective
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Articles on the use of public space and state managed property read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Saturday August 26, 2006 17:33 by Farah Mokhtareizadeh
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Voices for Creative Non-Violence (VCNV.org) - a team that includes Farah Mokhtareizadeh (USA), Caoimhe Butterly (IRL), Michael Birmingham (IRL) and Kathy Kelly (USA), read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Tuesday August 22, 2006 09:46 by Shane Faherty
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In Kazakhstan massive slum clearances are taking place to facilitate the development of luxury apartments and leisure facilities. These homes were built by people who were made unemployed and displaced by neo-liberal policies following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now they find that in order to facilitate these policies they must once again become homeless. The CWI (Comittee for a Workers International. The international of which the Socialist Party is part) section in Kazakhstan, Socialist Resistance, is deemed to be an illegal organisation but has played an active role in organising resistance to these clearances with many of our Comrades having been arrested or injured. I have published here information received from Kazakhstan and while I have edited it to some degree to run two seperate pieces together, it is otherwise a firsthand account of the situation there. Any letters or emails that can be sent in solidarity would be greatly appreciated. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / feature Saturday August 19, 2006 22:26 by Hugh H
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The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) won a small but significant victory in the international struggle against Connex and the illegal Israeli tramline being built by them on occupied Palestinian territory. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Tuesday August 15, 2006 21:07 by Niall Harnett
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El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido. Be fully assured of the righteousness of the struggle.
Above are two quotes from a book in the Rossport Solidarity Camp library called 'Clandestines -The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile' by Ramor Ryan. Ramor describes a memorial concert for a female student leader shot down during the Venezuelan revolution in the early nineties ... and the chant: 'El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido - A united people can never be conquered.' Orla Kaiser from Pallaskenry (http://www.indymedia.ie/article/76611) and Joe Burke & Der Holland from Bantry (http://www.indymedia.ie/article/77007), who all face threat of jail for ignoring high court injunctions instructing them not to protect the health and safety of their families and communities, visited the solidarity camp in Rossport, met with some of the 'Five' and the local Shell to Sea campaigners and received unequivocal support, to be ‘assured of the righteousness of their struggles’ . "The level of defiance and optimism is palpable" - says Shane who donated his friend Ramor's book to the camp library. On Saturday night at the camp it was Joe Burke who was telling us not to give up the fight. On Monday evening Orla & Stefan Kaiser left Mayo with the words of Willie Corduff ringing in her ears. "Don't give up, never give up." read full story / add a comment 
derry / anti-war / imperialism / feature Thursday August 10, 2006 13:35 by By Stander
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On Wednesday 9th August Anti War protesters in Derry stormed into the local plant of US missile manufacturer Raytheon. They were protesting against the use of Raytheon technology by the Israelis and used by them in their attacks in Lebanon. After eight hours in occupation of the plant nine protesters were arrested by the PSNI and were charged with "Unlawful Assembly" and "Aggravated Burglary" when they appeared in court this morning (Thursday Aug 10th). read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / feature Wednesday August 02, 2006 19:35 by Gregor Kerr
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Throughout the world, public services have been under attack for the past twenty years. Forming a central plank of the capitalist globalisation agenda, ‘privatisation’ and ‘competition’ are the seemingly unchallenged dogma of modern capitalism. The levels of privatisation which have taken place worldwide are absolutely mindblowing. During the 1990s alone over $900billion worth of public assets were transferred into private hands. Globally this agenda is pushed by the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The basic theory by which these bodies operate is that all decisions should be made on the basis of profitability alone. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Wednesday August 02, 2006 19:34 by IMC Éire foreign correspondent
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Some thoughts on Cuba. read full story / add a comment |
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