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international / gender and sexuality / news report Friday August 08, 2008 21:57 by pat c
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Kobra Najjar, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery has lost her final appeal for amnesty. Iranian women’s rights activists working on her case saythat Kobra has exhausted all domestic legal remedies and that her execution by stoning could happen any time. Kobra is a victim of domestic violence who was forced into prostitution by her abusive husband in order to support his heroin addiction. He was murdered by one of Kobra’s “clients” who sympathized with her plight. Kobra has already served 8 years in prison as an accessory to her husband’s murder. The man who murdered her husband also served 8 years in prison and was free after paying blood money and undergoing 100 lashes, while Kobra faces imminent stoning to death for adultery - the prostitution her husband forced upon her. Yet another example of Iranian justice. read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights / news report Friday August 08, 2008 13:44 by vegan agenda
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Animal Rights groups were tipped off that the Hunting Association of Ireland was going to be hosting a breakfast seminar this morning to unite groups and companies which have been the subject of protest for their treatment of animals. The main speaker at the event was Lt. Col. Dennis Foster (US Army, ret'd) who was described as an ''expert on animal rights terrorists" . read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday August 07, 2008 23:03 by Candle in the Wind
In Italy in 2007 there were twice as many workplace deaths and 8 times as many road deaths as murders. But the government is focusing all its energy on combating crime read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday August 07, 2008 18:01 by nuachtan
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It's been reported that the gardaí have spent 11,000,000 euro on policing the protests against the Shell scheme to install a production pipeline and refinery in Kilcommon County Mayo. The amount is more than half of what is being spent on fighting organised crime (€20M) and the Irish Independent newspaper reports that Garda sources are concerned that policing the protests is draining overtime budgets. In May this year the Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission recommended that there should be a general review of the way public protests are policed, in the light of more than 70 complaints received about the Corrib protests. GSOC wrote to Minister for Justice proposing that it carry out an examination of management of crowd protests and civil disobedience. However, the minister turned down the proposal, as he “did not feel that it was appropriate at that time”. http://www.corribsos.com/index.php?id=1774 read full story / add a comment 
dublin / animal rights / news report Wednesday August 06, 2008 22:55 by NARA
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For the past few weeks we've been having regular demonstrations outside Novartis in Dublin (Regus House, Harcourt Road, Dublin 2). read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday August 05, 2008 22:40 by Cork Warship Watch
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A Royal Navy ship, HMS Enterprise is due in the port of Cork tomorrow morning (Wednesday) where she will tie up at the city's North Custom House Quay. read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday August 05, 2008 19:03 by TD
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Stephen Lendman in a Znet article http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18348 succinctly puts the moral imperatives behind the Free Gaza Movement's brave sailings to the Israeli besieged Gaza Strip: "After Hamas' January 25, 2006 electoral victory, Israel targeted Gaza oppressively. All outside aid was cut off. Sanctions and an economic embargo were imposed, and the democratically elected government was falsely called a terrorist organization and isolated. Stepped up repression followed along with repeated IDF incursions, attacks, killings, targeted assassinations, arrests, destruction of property and more in a pattern all too familiar to Palestinians for over six decades. Gazans are imprisoned in their own land and have been traumatized for months. In June 2007, things got worse after Israel placed the Territory under siege - described by some as medieval because of its extreme harshness". read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday August 05, 2008 06:20 by Dave Donnellan
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A potpourrai of events on Grafton Street last Saturday including the fur protest! read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality / news report Friday August 01, 2008 19:14 by Paula Geraghty
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Last year Pride in Latvia took place hemmed in a closed off park surrounded by Riot Police and hundreds of homophobic protesters. These images and report follows on the fight for sexual freedom and civil rights one year on in Latvia. read full story / add a comment 
louth / arts and media / news report Friday August 01, 2008 11:03 by Sean Crudden
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A very attractive program of Russian music was presented in the refurbished Marist Church, Dundalk, last night. Tickets were €15. The program and the performance was captivating and exemplary. read full story / add a comment 
derry / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday July 31, 2008 17:45 by DAWC
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Members of the Derry Anti War Coalition marked the second anniversary of the massacre at Qana in Lebanon with a vigil at the Derry Raytheon plant on Wednesday. read full story / add a comment 
national / consumer issues / news report Thursday July 31, 2008 15:33 by Gu.com reader
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Shell announced second quarter profits of $8,000,000,000 today. The company is currently exploiting Irish Natural gas off the west coast for which it is liable for zero royalties. While tax may be charged at some point in the future on Shell Ireland's profits, the Anglo-Dutch company has shown itself to be skilled in avoiding tax when it can. Irish gas bills for domestic users are set to raise by 20% in September, with another 20% rise expected in the new year. The Irish state owns no stake in the Corrib field. New licences on the same giveaway terms are currently being issued for Irish offshore blocks in the Rockall Basin. http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Natural/Petroleum+Affairs+Divis...d.htm read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday July 29, 2008 20:11 by Seán Ryan
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Today, Mary Kelly appealed her conviction of a suspended sentence of 2 years (2 years and 1 year running concurrently) for her decommissioning of a war plane in Shannon Airport. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday July 29, 2008 15:24 by Rudiger
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The latest from Glengad beach, were Shell have occupied a section of the beach and fenced it off from the local community read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday July 28, 2008 21:22 by Edward Horgan
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Shannon airport and Irish airspace are being used on a daily basis by US warplanes, with the permission of the Irish Government, in contravention of international laws on neutrality, in spite of the Irish Governments claims that Ireland is still a neutral state. Lies, Lies and Damn Lies read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Monday July 28, 2008 10:22 by Dolphin Watcher
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A school of curious dolphins were attacked yesterday lunchtime by a vessel supporting Shell's offshore pipeline works in Broadhaven Bay at Glengad. The Niamh Aine - a pleasure boat hired to escort various work vessels around the area - drove across the path of two of the dolphins who were inspecting the Vlaanderen VII barge. read full story / add a comment 
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Sunday July 27, 2008 23:14 by Sean Matthews
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“In 1907 there was only one Jim Larkin in Belfast; in 2008 there are thousands of Jim Larkin’s.” (Gerry Trainer, SIPTU shop steward, Andersonstown News, 19/07/08) read full story / add a comment 
dublin / gender and sexuality / news report Saturday July 26, 2008 20:20 by Andrew
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Saturday lunchtime saw dozens of pro-choice activists take part in the final picket of the month of action against the rogue pregnancy counselling agency on Dorset street, read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday July 26, 2008 13:20 by éirígí
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37 years ago, the doors of working class nationalist homes across the Six Counties came crashing down as the British government's armed thugs went on the offensive in defence of the Stormont junta. read full story / add a comment
OZ Catholic Workers Acquitted for Criminal Damage Charges Arising from Exorcism of Raytheon Brisbane
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday July 26, 2008 13:00 by Jim Dowling
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An hour after a Wynnum magistrate found Lisa Bridle and I not guilty of "disobeying a police direction", police rang my home to let me know that Raytheon did not wish to proceed with willful damages charges resulting form another (our third) exorcism at their Brisbane offices. read full story / add a comment |
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