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international / arts and media / other press Friday January 18, 2008 12:32 by Fu manchu
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Tara Brabazon is Professor of Media Studies a the University of Brighton and Director of the Popular Culture Collective. She's an author of a few bits & bobs on internet use, media culture & is building quite a profile for herself for attacking Google & Wikipedia claiming that they undermine educational & didactic processes & more than Harry Potter actively contribute to turning our kids brains (& minds) to utter mushy shite. Thing is, her arguments are proving to interest & influence far beyond the generally airified chitchat discussions of Media Studies university departments. Today's "Liberation" the French leftwing daily reports how the "Just say No to Wikipedia!" stickers are appearing across the USA in high schools as well as public amenity libraries. The cultural link with Nancy Reagan's "Just say no to Drugs!" ought be obvious. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous / news report Thursday January 17, 2008 13:35 by Anti-Racism
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Far-right nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen has been invited to Ireland by the UCD Law Society according to this morning's Daily Star. The Star reports that Le Pen's availability is somewhat unsure, as his trial for conspiracy to justify war crimes and deny Nazi crimes against humanity is ongoing, with a verdict due next month. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Thursday January 17, 2008 13:08 by Rudiger
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Latest update from Erris read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media / other press Thursday January 17, 2008 13:07 by + "ora pro nobis"
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This week's Vatican Observatory newspaper has fielded two articles on Harry Potter explaining to whomever bothers that the popular kids' series of novels & movies is really doing what the mad sicko fundamentalist Americans already said it is. Yep. Sending your kids to Satan. ....."J.K. Rowling's successful character Harry Potter is the wrong model of a hero, says the Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano in its Monday-Tuesday edition. In an article signed by Edoardo Rialti, L'Osservatore says that many have tried to establish a parallel between Rowling's main character and "the great fantasy masterpieces of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and Clive Staples Lewis, the Christian authors of the most beloved fables of the 20th Century............" read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday January 15, 2008 22:28 by Cathal Lalor
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The Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation today released their so-called 'Index of Economic Freedom' for 2008. This index ranks countries according to how their institutions and policies facilitate the power of capital. Ireland is third, beaten only by the dictatorships of Hong Kong and Singapore. The dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and its rationalizing ideology,-neo-liberal economics-, has triumphed in Ireland. The developing societal breakdown is a measure of its success. The other side of the coin is the dismal failure of the left. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / news report Tuesday January 15, 2008 16:28 by Voteno.ie
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A new website - www.VoteNo.ie - has been launched to garner a No vote to the Lisbon Treaty. read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday January 15, 2008 12:08 by + "ora pro nobis"
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67 members of staff at the university of Sapienza in Rome have joined their student body in rejecting a planned visit by Pope Benedict XVI this Thursday citing his position & opinion on Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) common era, who was placed under house arrest by the Roman Catholic church from 1633 onwards in a process which Joseph Ratzinger described as "reasonable & just" in 1990. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday January 14, 2008 23:58 by Seamus Power.
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Institutionalised religion is concerned in retaining control: the reality of power is more important than the prospect of exploring multiple realities. Anything new or different raises the alarm bells. The words of church officials come from dogma not from the heart, influenced by tradition, not intuition. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday January 14, 2008 20:23 by WSM
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international / miscellaneous / event notice Monday January 14, 2008 18:07 by Fleachta
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Come along and support us to highlight our protest against profit driven Globalisation. Be part of the Global Day of Action on Saturday, January, 26th 2008, 11:30 am outside the Central Bank, Dame Street, Dublin 1- for a Media Stunt and Information Stalls of Groups and Organisations read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday January 14, 2008 17:13 by Sharon .
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A picket in memory of the 14 people massacred by the British Parachute Regiment on Sunday , January 30 , 1972 , will be held in Dublin on Saturday January 26 , 2008. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Monday January 14, 2008 16:29 by AM
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Paul Allen, Cheif Executive Officer of Serica Energy, has said that the company hopes to drill Corrib "look-a-like prospects" this year. He states that the tax and licensing situation in Ireland is very good for the oil industry (and thus not so good for the people of Ireland). read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday January 14, 2008 15:47 by Johnny H
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There will be a CYM Discussion Class on "The Ongoing Cuban Revolution" this Wednesday at 7pm in Connolly Books, East Essex Street, Temple Bar. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday January 14, 2008 12:37 by Margaretta D'Arcy
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The anti-war spirit is alive and active in a prison near Stirling in Scotland. On Thursday January 12th, at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, a pair of grandmothers, Georgina Smith (78) and Helen John (70), were sentenced by Sheriff Richard MacFarlane to jail for 45 days and 40 days respectively, for writing the truth on the outside of the Edinburgh High Court on Armistice Day November 11th 2006. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday January 14, 2008 11:59 by N.A.R.C
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Ógra Shinn Féin will launch a major National campaign on Drugs and Alcohol this coming weekend in Dublin. The launch will take place this Saturday 19th January at the youth movement’s National Congress in the ATGWU Hall, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin at 2pm. Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams will be attending the launch. The campaign which will run for the next 6 months is called N.A.R.C, an acronym for not another ravaged community. It will focus on many issues relating to drug and alcohol abuse, including youth and community action, gaining a more concerted effort from government, and rolling out a vigorous and broad based awareness programme. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday January 14, 2008 10:40 by Amnesty1
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Amnesty International members and supporters mobilised across Ireland read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday January 13, 2008 18:21 by Ciaron O' Reilly
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The London Catholic Worker marked the 6th. anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo with a vigil at the U.S. embassy, located near Grosvenor Square in central London. To vigil is stay awake; to stay awake to the mainstreaming of torture, to attacks on civil liberties, to our complicity with the CIA kidnapping and rendition flights refueling in England to the U.S. gulag that is Guantanamo. As we enter the 7th. year of the Bush initiated war without end, civil society remains asleep, sedated and silenced in the face of a war that escalates in Iraq and Afghanistan and expands into Lebanon, Somalia, Pakistan and who knows where next? read full story / add a comment 
dublin / animal rights / news report Sunday January 13, 2008 17:53 by Laura Broxson
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New Target for Anti-Fur Protesters! read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Sunday January 13, 2008 14:40 by C Murray
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Dark tales of babies for breakfast and drugged up doctors on muscle -relaxants racing in dark nights of Belfast operating theatres (in the nineties) provided an evening of food for those inclined to Carteresque tales and shape-shifters of the Danish variety. This evening of story-telling of shamanism and shrimps was brought by the good offices of Coilin- the Oh-Aissieux, of the Narratvie Arts Club:-http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84746. Backround to the Narrative Arts Club:- http://tinyurl.com/2barxo read full story / add a comment 
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday January 12, 2008 20:23 by Seán Ryan
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Brief summary of the vigil held outside the Dublin embassy. read full story / add a comment |
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