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international / crime and justice / other press Thursday September 03, 2009 15:27 by über pleb
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"This one looks, walks and quacks like a duck. It's time to stop hedging and call this bird what it is." So writes Howard L. Berman, chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee in this morning's LA Times in an opinion article which demands that the US State deparment under Hillary Clinton formally declare the Honduran crises as coup & thus cut all funding. His call is significant for several reasons. read full story / add a comment
meath / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday September 03, 2009 15:26 by 1st May Branch WSM
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Public Meeting Newgrange Hotel, Bridge Street, Navan, Co Meath Saturday 3rd October 2009 4pm read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media / event notice Thursday September 03, 2009 15:24 by Western Writers' Centre
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Writer, founder of the annual Cúirt literature festival and Director of The Western Writers' Centre (Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlín Maude) Fred Johnston will commence with his Creative Writing Classes at NUIGalway on Thursday, October 1st. This course is aimed at beginners with some experience of writing prose or poetry, for more mature participants who are interested in Creative Writing (prose and poetry) and for those who are interested in the processes involved in researching, writing and publishing their work in the future. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / eu / event notice Thursday September 03, 2009 14:24 by Peter
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Launch of the Socialist Party Dublin City Branch campaign against Lisbon II with Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP, speaking. read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights / event notice Thursday September 03, 2009 12:52 by ALiberation
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Protest at Fianna Fail HQ over their continued support of fur factory farms in Ireland. When: Tuesday, 8th Sept 2009 Time: 1pm – 2pm Where: Fianna Fail Headquarters, 65-66 Lower Mount St, Dublin 2 Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=65-66+Lower+Mount+St,+Dub...num=1 read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights / press release Thursday September 03, 2009 12:36 by ALiberation
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In 1966 the Fianna Fail Government were labeled the “Mink Coat Government” by Deputy Sweetman in a Dail debate. Today they can as easily be labeled the “Mink Farm Government”. Every other political party except Fianna Fail has called for a ban on fur factory farms. Without Fianna Fail’s support there would be no fur factory farms in Ireland. There would be no fur factories in Ireland if Fianna Fail carried out the law Protest Fianna Fail due to their support of fur factory farms. Organised by AFAR and ALiberation. Photo opportunity; Press welcome. 6 ft high Mink on a mobile Ad trailor. Protesters dressed as Ministers in Fur. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday September 03, 2009 11:48 by James O'Brien
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It’s the time of year where we plebs get a chance to rectify our impertinence in rejecting the Lisbon Treaty. In itself, rerunning the referendum is hardly an affront to democracy. After all, people are simply being asked to confirm the decision made read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday September 02, 2009 18:32 by Henry Silke
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Introduction Is the spectre of mass unemployment a permanent feature in post-boom Ireland? Ireland’s economic boom was predicated on a policy of low tax entry to the European free market as well as an unsustainable housing boom. The Irish state’s response to the global crisis seems to be deflationary policies in a ‘race to the bottom’ between peripheral and semi-peripheral economies. The weakness of indigenous Irish capitalism and the living costs in debt ridden Ireland do not leave much room for growth in private sector employment. The private sector has never been able to provide sustainable full employment in the history of the state. This article explores this thesis and maintains that workers should not depend on the private sector and its political servants to provide decent employment for all. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday September 02, 2009 16:33 by Yassamine Mather
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This article covers the continuing crisis in Iran, workers struggles, prisoners hunger strikes, the show trials and the Regimes problems in getting a new Cabinet appointed. Full text of article at link below. Over the last few weeks, following the show trials of ‘reformist’ personalities and the imposition of even more severe forms of repression in Iran, the nature of protests has changed considerably. However, demonstrations continue on a daily basis in Tehran and most other Iranian cities, with numbers attending ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Reports from the working class neighbourhoods of Tehran, such as Ekbatan, Apadana and Karaj, and from the white-collar suburbs of Tehran Pars, indicate that anti-government demonstrations take place every night and often lead to confrontation between protesters and Bassij militia. Last week dozens of political prisoners started a hunger strike in Evin prison and on the first day of Ramadan families of those arrested in recent protests gathered outside calling for the immediate release of all political detainees. There are daily protests in factories and workplaces against the political and economic conditions and in some provinces, including Khorassan, there is news of peasants protesting against confiscation of their land by religious authorities. Five hundred peasants from Sarakhss have staged a sit-in for the last week in front of Mashad’s main petrol station, complaining about the use of religious legislation to expropriate their land. read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday September 02, 2009 15:32 by Alan MacSimóin
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Thomas Cooke workers refused to go quietly when they were tossed onto the dole. Cooks had made £400m profit in 2008 and their boss, Manny Fontela-Novoa, took home €7 million. This was not a failing business. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday September 02, 2009 15:24 by Workers Solidarity
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The WSM is calling for a No vote in the 2nd Lisbon referendum on the grounds that people in Ireland can do a lot better than a choice between the clowns in the Dáil or those in Brussels. We oppose the EU's policies of privatisation, militarisation and attacks on workers' conditions but don’t insult people’s intelligence by saying that our current society in Ireland with its severe recession, diabolical public services and corruption is anything better. The major lack of democracy in our lives is not between us and the EU but between the Irish government and us. read full story / add a comment
national / sci-tech / other press Wednesday September 02, 2009 12:39 by über coinín
Google has added Irish Gaeilge, Yidish, Welsh, Belarussian, Macedonian, Afrikaans, Swahili, Mali and Icelandic to the suite of languages which its free online translation tool supports. The last upgrade to the list which currently offers 51 languages was the inclusion of Persian or Farsi, an update which we remember occured during the "green revolution" and allowed us all to follow events in Iran without paying to much attention to tweeting twits based in US lobby offices. This great news now means we will be able to follow similar events as they happen in Ireland without having to study Gaeilge, understand Hector or even own a copy of the Bunreacht. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday September 02, 2009 11:59 by Eli Mcbett
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FRIDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER 2009 @ THE SHED – LEMOMO 8a Henrietta Lane (rear of King's Inn pub in Henrietta street) Dublin 1 (top Capel Street) Doors @ 9,00 pm till late Suggested Donations: 8,00 Euro @THESHED September the 4th to celebrate two different events: 1 Antonine Artaud's Birthday 2 A positive answer: The appeal presented by the Irish Georgian Society and supported by many of you, against the earlied approved by the City Council planning permission for the dismantling of The Shed in order to build a 5 storey building, has now been denied. FILM LA PELICULA DEL REY (A King and His Movie) by CARLOS SORĺN 1986 Argentine - 107min - Spanish language - English subtitles LIVE MUSIC LINE HONOURS www.myspace.com/linehonours DJ and VISUALS CORMAC O'DONOGHUE www.myspace.com/phonographic.funhouse read full story / add a comment
donegal / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday September 02, 2009 11:58 by Amnesty Galway
What: My Rights, My Struggle is an interactive exhibition with photos and audio clips from 20 human rights activists living and working in Zimbabwe. Where: Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny When: From 7 pm September 11th – September 22nd read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday September 01, 2009 18:41 by Gregor Kerr
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Invitation to meeting Saturday 3rd Oct read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / news report Tuesday September 01, 2009 18:38 by fotdmike
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Climate Campers protest at Shell in solidarity with the Rossport campaigners read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday September 01, 2009 16:43 by Seami Mc Dermott
Huge Turn-out in Bundoran Co. Donegal for Hunger Strike Commemoration, Saturday 29th August 2009. Event organised by Republican Sinn Féin. 100's attended. It was as large as the Provisional Sinn Féin (PSF) Easter event in Drumboe, Co. Donegal. This shows the growth of Republicanism and is another indicator of the continuing decline of PSF. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 01, 2009 13:49 by Paddy Hackett
For the working class the debate over whether to nationalize Irish banks or support NAMA is a false debate. read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday September 01, 2009 11:36 by Reel Thing
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Coca-Cola likes to sponsor sport events to promote its brands. But with threatening to destroy 130 workplaces in distribution in Ireland, Coca-Cola Hellenic clearly has scored an own goal. SIPTU members visited the Irish Football Semi Finals Saturday August 30 to inform fans about the companies plan, threatening the livelihoods of the workers and their families amidst a deep recession. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / news report Tuesday September 01, 2009 03:31 by Fred Johnston
Galway's arts practitioners were promised consultation over any proposed Arts Strategy Plan - but Galway City Arts Office has put the clamps on it and curiously instructed the person brought on board to assist with the arts' strategy that she is not to meet individually with artists or practitioners read full story / add a comment |
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