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international / gender and sexuality / other press Thursday July 22, 2010 13:26 by Clara Zetkin
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The ban on the wearing of the burqa is wrong. Just as it it is wrong to force women to wear the veil. The French Left have been found wanting. Full story at link. The fact that only one French MP - a member of the rightwing UMP - voted against the ban on the burqa says it all. On July 13, the bill prohibiting the “covering of the face in public” received the votes of 335 deputies. The bill does not specify Muslims or women, but everyone knows who the targets are - the less than 2,000 women in France who normally dress in the full-length burqa or niqab. After the law comes into force next year - it has yet to pass through the senate and may face a challenge in the constitutional court - those who continue to cover up will face a €150 fine and/or compulsory citizenship classes. Those who “force” a person to wear such attire could be looking at a €30,000 fine and a one-year jail sentence (the penalties will be even stiffer if a minor is made to cover their face). read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday July 22, 2010 13:15 by John Cornford
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Yassamine Mather writes on how the US is stepping up Sanctions against Iran in its attempts to impose Regime Change From Above and on the paraalysing effect thgis is having on the Regime. She also comments on problems among the opposition forces. Full text at url. New sanctions imposed by the United States government last week were the most significant hostile moves against Iran’s Islamic Republic since 1979. They marked a period of unprecedented coordination led by the US to obtain the support of the United Nations and European Union. After months of denying their significance, the government of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was forced to react by setting up an emergency counter-sanctions unit, whilst Iranian aviation officials accused the UK, Germany and the United Arab Emirates of refusing to supply fuel for civilian Iranian airplanes. As it turned out, this was not true. However, the EU banned most of Iran Air’s jets from flying over its territory, because of safety concerns directly related to previous sanctions. It is said that most of the national airline’s fleet, including Boeing 727s and 747s and its Airbus A320s, are unsafe because the company has not been able to replace faulty components. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Thursday July 22, 2010 12:29 by Cleo de Vito
A unique opportunity is presented by visiting specialist & co-editor of The Automatic Earth – Nicole Foss aka Stoneleigh - to discuss Community Solutions to the Global Crises. This inaugural event of the Mayo Sustainability Forum will take place on Monday 2nd August with keynote speaker, Nicole Foss, presenting her talk ‘Making Sense of the Global Financial Crises in the Era of Peak Oil’ - to date this is her only engagement in the West of Ireland. The venue will be the Linenhall Theatre in Castlebar, & will begin at 7pm. Admission is free. read full story / add a comment
dublin / gender and sexuality / event notice Thursday July 22, 2010 10:12 by Choice Ireland
Choice Ireland will be holding the latest in a series of demos against the rogue crisis pregnancy agency WRC at 50 Upper Dorset Street this Saturday at 1pm. read full story / add a comment 
derry / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday July 22, 2010 00:51 by Eleanor
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Last Thursday evening news arrived that Derry City was victorious in its bid to be the UK's first City of Culture. The great and the good of the city lined up in front of the worlds media and to join in with the celebrations. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday July 21, 2010 20:44 by Madam K
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After serving five months and one week for opposing Shell Pat O`Donnell arrives back home in Erris to a Hero`s welcome read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Wednesday July 21, 2010 18:16 by Dorothy Gale
Right-wing think tanks that deny climate change is even happening are advocating climate engineering to fix it. Don't listen to them. Full text of article by Clive Hamilton at link. IN 1892 Edvard Munch witnessed a blood-red sunset over Oslo, Norway. Shaken by it, he wrote in his diary that he felt "a great, unending scream piercing through nature". The incident inspired him to create his most famous painting, The Scream. The striking sunset was probably caused by the eruption of Krakatoa, which sent a massive plume of ash and gas into the upper atmosphere, turning sunsets red around the globe and cooling the Earth by more than a degree. Now a powerful group of scientists, venture capitalists and conservative think tanks is coalescing around the idea of reproducing this cooling effect by injecting sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere to counter climate change. Despite the enormity of what is being proposed - nothing less than seizing control of the climate - the public has been almost entirely excluded from the planning. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday July 21, 2010 15:23 by Rossport Solidarity Camp
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Beat the Boreholes continued yesterday with a walk on the strands of the estuary in the evening and leisurely paddle out earlier in the afternoon. Members of the local community walked close to the drilling barges at low tide and showed their opposition to Shell's willingness to destroy Sruwaddacon estuary. The estuary is not only a Special Area of Conservation and Special Protected Area – it has been an integral part of live in the community for generations. Despite this Minister Gormley has given the go-ahead for Shell to damage it. read full story / add a comment 
galway / arts and media / press release Wednesday July 21, 2010 03:27 by Fred Johnston
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Breton-based poet and publisher arrives in Galway for two readings this weekend. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday July 21, 2010 01:06 by DD
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After serving the full five and a half months of his sentence local fisherman Pat 'The Chief' O'Donnell was released from Castlerea Prison on July 17th. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday July 20, 2010 23:08 by Dorothy Gale
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A night of ska/reggae and international songs of resistance. Party night for AFA and St Pauli Dublin Supporters Club being held on Friday, 30th July in Murray's Bar, O'Connell Street, Dublin. KO at 8pm. Admission is €5. read full story / add a comment 
cork / environment / event notice Tuesday July 20, 2010 19:26 by anarkitty
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from 3pm to 6pm on sunday 1st august read full story / add a comment 
cork / arts and media / event notice Tuesday July 20, 2010 18:45 by anarkitty
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From 8pm to 10pm on Thursday 29th July read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday July 20, 2010 15:52 by Latin America Solidarity Centre
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The Latin America Solidarity Centre (LASC) will hold a mini fair from 11am – 4pm on Saturday 31st of July at the LASC offices, 5 Merrion Row, Dublin 2. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 20, 2010 11:42 by Sean Keir Moriarty
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Dear Prime Minister Cowen, Over the course of the past three (3) years, I've written you, Mr. Gormley, the members of Dáil Éireann, the Meath County Council, archaeologists at NUI Galway, UC Dublin, UC Cork, The Heritage Council, The Discovery Programme and the OPW on numerous occasions regarding my research paper, 'Orthostat, the Mound of the Hostages'. http://www.knowth.com/tara-pdf.htm The purpose for doing so was to convince The Heritage Council, The Discovery Programme & OPW to complete the geo-physical mapping of Tara, which I have no doubt will confirm the hypothesis set forth in my paper, that the symbols carved on Orthostat L2 within the Mound of the Hostages, constitute a map of the Hill of Tara, as it existed during the Neolithic Age. ( ca. 3200 BC) The response I received from The Discovery Programme was that "no one here is compet read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday July 19, 2010 16:23 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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It was over a decade since Chris Cole and I had been at the gates of British Aerospace (BAE) Warton in Lancashire, England. That was back in the day when BAE were making their money from butchering East Timorese. read full story / add a comment
donegal / miscellaneous / event notice Monday July 19, 2010 16:16 by Séamus Mac Lochlainn
This Saturday 24th July 2010 two activists, Dr Fintan Lane and Fiachra Ó Luain willl address a public meeting in Donegal Town. The event is being organised by the North West Solidarity Network. The event will take place at 3pm in the Central Hotel in Donegal Town. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday July 19, 2010 15:55 by Paddy Hackett
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The left and the right are the same. They merely perform different political and ideological functions. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday July 19, 2010 13:54 by RNU - PRO
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The Republican Network for Unity (RNU) chairperson/ cathaoirleach Danny McBrearty, has announced that RNU will join the October 5th civil rights march against the repressive law proposed by the DUP-Sinn Fein Stormont partnership. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday July 19, 2010 11:51 by Greg T
Thursday 22nd July @ 7.30PM in Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2 Ask at the Central Hotel Desk for directions to the meeting.. read full story / add a comment |
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