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international / public consultation / irish social forum / other press Wednesday June 08, 2011 21:21 by Speranza
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Climate scientists lives are at risk. Why? Because they have produced evidence which shows the erxtent of Global Warming and the damage done to the environment. The deniers don't like this and neither do the big mining and oil companies. They go crazy at the idea of paying a carbon tax. These companies have deep pockets and it wouldn't be surprising if they slipped a few dollars to the nuttier deniers to threaten scientists and perhaps go further. Most deniers are harmless folk, they rarely leave their computers and wouldn't have the nerve to counter protest at an environmental demo. But there is always the mad few, looks as if they may be at work in Autralia. A number of Australia's leading climate scientists have been moved into safer accommodation after receiving death threats, in a further escalation of the country's increasingly febrile carbon price debate. The revelation of the death threats follows a week of bitter exchanges between the government and the opposition in the wake of a pro-carbon price TV advert featuring actor Cate Blanchet. Being a denier of GLOBAL warming and supporting the destruction of the Environment is easy. read full story / add a comment ![]()
antrim / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday June 08, 2011 15:22 by Northern Ireland Student Assembly
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The Northern Ireland Student Assembly (NISA) has called a protest in accordance with the Prime Minister, David Cameron's visit to Stormont to talk in favour of a corporation tax cut in Northern Ireland. NISA is encouraging young people and trade unions to attend the protest. read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday June 08, 2011 15:11 by Northern Ireland Student Assembly
David Cameron, the man who is responsible for the attack on education, the working class and the public sector, will be visiting the Stormont Assembly to discuss the Lowering of Corporation Tax. Under European rules on state aid to regions within nations, any cut in corporation tax would come with a price tag. The compensating cost to the NI block grant could be £215m by 2015. read full story / add a comment ![]()
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 08, 2011 14:32 by James Blake
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Conflict over resources has been a particularly strong feature of the last 500 years or a period regarded by some commentators as the five centuries of global capitalist expansion, begun by Christopher Columbus and followed up by the brutal conquistadors such as Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro, who searched for 'Eldorado', the city of gold. Millions of indigenous Indians from the islands of the Caribbean down the spine of Central America to the mountains of Bolivia, toiled the fields and mines to serve European monarchies who, on the back of exploited labour, built ostentatious cathedrals and palaces as, according to Eduardo Galeano in 'Open Veins of Latin America', tens of millions of souls perished from this earth. read full story / add a comment ![]()
international / animal rights / press release Tuesday June 07, 2011 21:51 by meat-abolition.org
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Throughout the world, individuals, groups and organizations stand up to proclaim their dissent. We demand the banning of animal agriculture, fishing and hunting. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday June 07, 2011 18:25 by Cathal
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Starting in Solidarity Books on Thursday the 16th of June is a reading group for Karl Marx's Capital (or 'Das Kapital' in the original German) Volume 1. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday June 07, 2011 14:41 by Seb Dooris
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Here’s the kicker - all of the works on view will be given away free to interested members of the public, from 6.00 pm, Thursday 16 June, (Bloomsday). It’s all part of the Dublin artist’s illustrative invective against what he calls ‘bankers greed’ and gives practical expression to his mantra that : “ The opposite of Greed is Generosity - giving away 300 original works is my way of declaiming the activity that has provoked widespread punishment on masses of blameless people in Europe, the Uk and Ireland.’ read full story / add a comment
What Do Governments Fear Most? They Fear Us Dublin WikileaksCables Reveal IrishGovt. Groveling to US
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday June 06, 2011 18:28 by By HARRY BROWNE
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Ireland’s foreign-affairs minister assured the US ambassador in Dublin in 2006 that the Irish government was prepared to change the law that had allowed the acquittal of five anti-war activists for damaging a US Navy plane. The revelation that a senior Irish official discussed possible amendments to domestic criminal law with the US ambassador is contained in a Wikileaks cable (see below) that has not been published or reported upon elsewhere, but which has been seen by Counterpunch. At the time of the acquittal of the so-called Shannon Five, or Pitstop Ploughshares, in July 2006, the US embassy made a public statement expressing its disquiet about the verdict. The then foreign minister, Dermot Ahern, responded with what was seen as a firm public statement of his own, underlining the independence of the judicial system and stating that its verdicts were not a matter for discussion by government officials or between governments. read full story / add a comment ![]()
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday June 06, 2011 10:48 by Costas A.
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Last night in Athens, took place the bigest gathering i ever witnesed myself in 37 years. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / press release Monday June 06, 2011 10:13 by Maureen Gallagher
Maureen Gallagher has just won the Goldsmith Poetry Award 2011. read full story / add a comment ![]()
international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday June 05, 2011 18:49 by John Cornford
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On May 28, Hands Off the People of Iran organised a roundtable discussion to debate the question of the uprisings in the Middle East, the connection to the capitalist crisis and the impacts on Turkey and, crucially, Iran. read full story / add a comment ![]()
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday June 05, 2011 18:31 by John Cornford
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Supporters of Hands of the People of Iran have produced a bulletin on working class struggle in Iran for trade unionists and anti-war activists. Articles include: Trade union successes “Selling your kidney has turned into a profession" Unemployment rises by 1.6million each year read full story / add a comment ![]()
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Sunday June 05, 2011 00:07 by Diarmuid Breatnach
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As Elizabeth Windsor's visit moves into history it is time to analyse the reasons for the visit and what happened during it: the small protests, the massive restrictions on movement in Ireland's capital city, the huge violations of the right to protest, read full story / add a comment ![]()
wicklow / environment / event notice Saturday June 04, 2011 21:24 by Kruk
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We will be screening Planeat movie on 24th of June at The Happy Pear in Greystones. Planeat is the story of three men's life-long search for a diet, which is good for our health, animals, good for the environment and good for the future of the planet. read full story / add a comment ![]()
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday June 04, 2011 21:23 by Hypatia
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Roisin Ingle writes on the growing number atheists, agnostics, humanists in Ireland and their struggle for recognition. A FEW WEEKS ago Brian Whiteside of the Humanist Association of Ireland addressed a gathering that included Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Minister for Justice Alan Shatter as well as various religious leaders. He used the opportunity to raise the issue of our religious presidential oath, which he says is just one example of State discrimination against the growing godless community. The oath, the wording of which is enshrined in the Constitution, is taken in “the presence of Almighty God” and is a non-negotiable promise that must be given by whoever is elected president. It concludes, “May God direct and sustain me.” read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday June 04, 2011 18:22 by Ionad an Phiarsaigh –– The Pearse Centre.
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Part verité travelogue, part exposé, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown. In this film, Josh Fox encounters EPA whistleblowers, congressmen, world recognized scientists, and some of the most incredibly inspiring and heart-wrenching stories of ordinary Americans fighting against fossil fuel giants for environmental justice read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Saturday June 04, 2011 17:39 by Young Ho Chi
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Connolly Soviet is launching a Left Wing \ Alternative stand up comedy night at Seomra Spraoi, 10 Belvedere Court, Dublin 1 (next to Mountjoy Square) on Friday, 24 June. read full story / add a comment ![]()
national / miscellaneous / press release Saturday June 04, 2011 11:29 by GRAI
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Irish greyhounds and dogs of all breeds with their owners will be meeting in Dublin City Centre on Sunday June 19th for the first “Walk for the Greyhounds”, which has been organised to promote greyhounds as family pets. Hundreds of two legged and four legged walkers are expected from all over Ireland, the UK, and other European countries. Walkers will meet at 12 noon, near the Fusilliers Arch at St Stehen’s Green. The walk which will start at 1pm is just over two kilometres through the centre of Dublin. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / news report Saturday June 04, 2011 11:24 by Costas A.
Abuse of human rights!! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday June 03, 2011 18:22 by Costas A.
An exersise of direct democracy read full story / add a comment |
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