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Anti G8 Activities13th-15th June: Republican Sinn Fein will be holding an Alternative to the G8 Summit, an Anti-Imperialist Forum, in the Conway Mill Belfast, on June 13, 14 and 15. A number of speakers from both a Republican as well as a unionist perspective will be there as well as speakers the academic world. The Forum runs from 6pm to 9pm on Thursday June 13, from 1pm-9pm June 14 and from 10am-6pm June 15 see website for more info: http://www.irish-solidarity.net/db3/ 15th June: The BIG march for a fairer world: Civil groups such as the trade unions, ICTU, Amnesty, Friends of the earth, IPSC have organised a response to the G8. Assemble 12 noon Custom House Square. Rally at Belfast City Hall. Rally ends at 2.00 p.m. following which there will be a number of events in the city focusing on different issues. More details at this link: http://fairerworldfestival.org/events/ 16th June: DubAltG8 walking tours. Meet 2pm Dublin Castle (Dame Street Entrance). Spanish or English. Bring suitable walking shoes. please e-mail dublinalternativeg8@gmail.org or phone 085 2310663 to book. The tours are free of charge 16th June: The SWP is organising a "counter-summit" in Belfast on Sunday 16 June They are also arranging a bus to the march taking place in Enniskillen on Monday 17 June For more details phone 0876574100 see website for more details on SWP activities related to the G8 17th June: The Socialist party will be organising a bus for the march in Enniskillen. more info on the Socialist party's G8 activities and contact info here 17th June: Dublin Alternative G8 Summit 11am until 9pm, Teachers club Great list of speakers (see poster here: Article/posters ) Afterwards, a night of revolutionary music with David Rovics and Tommy Sands How to get there 18th June: (Tuesday) Dublin G8 Protest march: Assemble at Wolfe Tone Monument, Stephens Green @ 1pm March to American Chamber of Commerce, 6 Wilton Place, Dublin 2 
LINKS:Main Indymedia article on G8 2013 here: https://www.indymedia.ie/article/103602 Alternative G8 Organisers website: http://dubaltg8.org/ Facebook page: https://www.facebook...282700645195038
limerick / education / event notice Tuesday April 16, 2013 - 15:02 by Latin America Solidarity Centre
Saturday 20th April - Venue: TEACH FAILTE - University of Limerick Campus ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / other press Tuesday April 16, 2013 - 14:56 by Latin America Solidarity Centre
LASC, in partnership with the Colombian lawyers collective Equipo Juridico de los Pueblos, are launching a solidarity campaign with the internally displaced campesino community of Pitalito in Cesar, Colombia. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / press release Tuesday April 16, 2013 - 11:14 by Turing
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On Sunday April 14, Bolivarian candidate Nicolas Maduro won the Venezuelan presidential election by a narrow margin. With 99.12% of the votes counted, there was a 78.71% turn out, with Maduro receiving 7,505,378 votes (50.66%), and Capriles 7,270,403 votes (49.07%). Opposition candidate Capriles declared that he does not recognise the result and demanded an audit of 100% of the vote. On Monday April 15 Capriles made a speech, which was broadcast live by all private TV stations as well as CNN Spanish. In it he refused to recognise the election results and called for mobilisations to demand a full manual recount of the vote. These included a national pots and pans banging protest on Monday at 8 pm, marches on the regional offices of the National Electoral Council (CNE) on Tuesday 16, as well as a march on the CNE in Caracas on Wednesday 17. At the same time both the Organisation of American States president Insulza and the United States declared that they were also in favour of a full recount. The Spanish government added its voice to the chorus and said they did not recognise the results of the elections. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / opinion/analysis Tuesday April 16, 2013 - 02:46 by fred
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Today, for a brief moment, America knows how awful it feels to live in one of the states they have invaded or that they have helped reduce to sectarian nightmares with imported jihadist mercenaries, CIA advisors, funds and weaponry, such as Iraq, Syria or Libya, where explosions like this occur every other day
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wicklow / environment / event notice Sunday April 14, 2013 - 00:00 by Hiker
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This walk in the woods is to highlight the campaign to stop the government’s plan to sell off the harvesting rights to Ireland’s public forests under the EU/IMF “Troika” programme and to maintain them in public ownership. The sell off of the harvesting rights will mean that the government will lease the land for 99 years to private companies. There will be absolute no guarantee of public access and the companies will be under no obligation to provide it. This will affect all the different people who use our national forests such as hikers, walkers, bikers, horse riding, tourists, cross-country runners, sports people and many others. It also affects access rights for your children and their children. The event will feature music, readings and poetry with musicians Christy Moore and Paddy Casey, Actors Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack ... read full story / add a comment
leitrim / environment / event notice Wednesday April 10, 2013 - 22:43 by meg
Large areas of Leitrim and Clare are under options licenses for onshore Shale Gas extraction using destructive and invasive technology, including hydraulic fracturing. What is less well known is that large areas of Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon are also licensed for Lignite extraction, which in simple terms is Coal Bed Methane/Coal Seam Gasification, with an even greater environmental and human health impact than shale gas extraction. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / housing / feature Wednesday April 10, 2013 - 01:08 by andraiocht
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The central bank is planning changes to the Code of Protection on mortgage arrears, these changes will mean it will be easier for people to be counted as non co-operating and thus make repossession easier, please send the submission below to code@centralbank.ie or make your own submission and send before April 10th to ensure your opposition to this is taken into consideration, with 95,000 people in arrears because of this banking led recession, the people who are bailing out the banks need fairness, there is nothing fair in all powers of discretion, supervision and appeals being with the banks who will not consider the good of the person or common good of the country. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / feature Monday April 08, 2013 - 20:45 by feudal castrato
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The EU bailout in Cyprus seems, on the surface to have taken on board some good ideas such as burning bondholders, capital flight controls, and much more limited small depositors state bank guarantee scheme, but does this stand up to closer inspection or have they just used these good ideas in a rather twisted way to further the same old financial terrorist agendas? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / opinion/analysis Sunday April 07, 2013 - 13:13 by Fidel Castro
A few days ago I mentioned the great challenges humanity is currently facing. Intelligent life emerged on our planet approximately 200,000 years ago, although new discoveries demonstrate something else. This is not to confuse intelligent life with the existence of life which, from its elemental forms in our solar system, emerged millions of years ago. A virtually infinite number of life forms exist. In the sophisticated work of the world’s most eminent scientists the idea has already been conceived of reproducing the sounds which followed the Big Bang, the great explosion which took place more than 13.7 billion years ago. This introduction would be too extensive if it was not to explain the gravity of an event as unbelievable and absurd as the situation created in the Korean Peninsula, within a geographic area containing close to five billion of the seven billion persons currently inhabiting the planet. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / bin tax/household tax / event notice Friday April 05, 2013 - 21:38 by CAHWT
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On Sat April 13th the EU Ministers of Finance are assembled in Dublin Castle. Join the National Protest to Stop Property Tax Robbery Assemble 12:30 Garden of Remembrance / Parnell Square to march to Dublin castle #ResistTheRobbery #A13 ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / workers issues / news report Friday April 05, 2013 - 12:57 by Clondalkin Resident
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Hi All: As of last Thursday ( March 28th 2013 ) FAS funding for the DBD Jobs Club, in Bawnogue ( Clondalkin ) has been withdrawn completely without any satisfactory explanation. The Jobs Club Leader has been told that he is about to be made redundant and all services from our Jobs Club is to be withdrawn immediately. Over the last 10 years, The Jobs Club has provided a very valuable service to local jobseekers over and it is unthinkable that, when its needed most, the area will be deprived of this valuable service. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / other press Friday April 05, 2013 - 04:14 by fred
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A lot of hype in the MSM lately about North Korea. These two clips from the RT show "breaking the set" with commentators from answercoalition.org give some much needed context and background from which to interpret the current media spin. Instead of a seemingly irrational belligerent nihilism, the North Korean statements in context, become more like a rational defensive response to a systematic aggressor bent on harming and undermining their country and it's tendency to socialism. You may find some of the facts that emerge about North Korea rather surprising. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice / news report Thursday April 04, 2013 - 22:37 by RoyalDutchShellPlc.com
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OSSL claim that their company was a supplier to Shell in respect of the Corrib Gas Project. They allege that acting on Shell’s instructions, OSSL has distributed bribes on Shell’s behalf to parties connected with the project, including the Irish police force (the Garda) who have been the subject of serious accusations of wrong doing by environmental activists protesting against the project. The main accusation being that the Garda has acted as an offshoot of Shell security. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights and freedoms / event notice Friday March 29, 2013 - 18:19 by Brian Clarke
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A Complete List of Ireland's Easter Republican Commemorations 2013 ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / other press Wednesday March 27, 2013 - 13:52 by Turing Test
Revisionists given a hammering by John Borgonovo . They are searching for an ouija board to contact Peter Hart for advice. Full text at link. UCC historian John Borgonovo casts doubt on some claims made in the TV3 series ‘In The Name Of The Republic’ TV3’s TWO-PART documentary series, In the Name of the Republic has created a stir among historians, though perhaps not in the way the filmmakers intended. The programme illustrates the danger of accepting local folklore as historical fact, especially during this much-heralded “decade of centenaries”. In the first episode, viewers met an aged Co Laois man who related his boyhood encounter with a neighbouring farmer, who claimed he had dug up a body while ploughing his field, one of three corpses supposedly buried there by the IRA. Series host Prof Eunan O’Halpin (of Trinity College Dublin) told the audience hisresearch had uncovered two civilians abducted by the Tipperary IRA and “never seen again”. The rest of the episode attempted to prove his theory that they were interred in this Laois field. The episode concluded with O’Halpin opening the sealed files, only to learn that both had survived the conflict. They were never killed by the IRA, much less secretly buried in Laois. The obvious lesson here is: Finish your research before you rent the JCB. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / consumer issues / other press Tuesday March 26, 2013 - 18:52 by fred
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The US House of Representatives quietly passed a last-minute addition to the Agricultural Appropriations Bill for 2013 last week - including a provision protecting genetically modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / press release Tuesday March 26, 2013 - 11:10 by Global Action Against WTO!
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Call to action of the Indonesian People's Movement Against Neocolonialism-Imperialism toward Bali WTO Ministerial meeting on 3-6 of December 2013 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / news report Monday March 25, 2013 - 23:58 by Newsmedia
From 'traitor' to Hero - whistleblower Bradley Manning is nominated for Nobel Peace Prize ... read full story / add a comment
international / education / press release Monday March 25, 2013 - 07:08 by Laurence Cox
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A course for movement practitioners and community educators who want to deepen their own practice ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Friday March 22, 2013 - 18:07 by Gale Vogel
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John and Louise are a Dublin couple who weep each evening in a cold house, their frustration ever growing. John is visibly angry but resigns to the fate that is meted by our leaders to comply with international dictate. We are being watched, pummelled and slowly destroyed. The busiest events are international job fairs. This is a synopsis of lives less than they should be. ... read full story / add a comment |
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