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national / housing / press release Monday November 21, 2011 - 23:22 by Anti Eviction Task Force   image 1 image
An independent group of home owners has decided to band together and unite in a concerted effort to protect all homes against repossession. ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing / press release Tuesday November 15, 2011 - 23:39 by PAW   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 17, 2011 - 06:04)   1 attached file
We have been writing to all members of the Dáil for months asking to participate in identifying possible solutions and offering a view from the troubled home owners perspective, we are still awaiting a reasonable response from the government. ... read full story / add a comment
Gunman Willie Ó Dea
national / housing / press release Friday November 11, 2011 - 15:43 by PAW   image 1 image
Former Minister for Defence Willie "The Kid" O Dea, today failed to answer questions put to him by the People's Association Watchdog in our weekly email to all TDs, Ministers and an Taoiseach, among the questions put to Wily Willie were "Will you stand up for the people or take the cushy favours of the financial industry? Are you afraid to stand up to the banking sector? Have you asked how much money they got to cover mortgages in the bailout? Are you willing to see the demise of your country when you can take a stand?". The Banks Robbery of the People of Ireland appears to be going totally unchallenged by Willie, I wonder are his constituents ignored and disregarded in this manner by this "Gentleman". Below is our latest (unedited) letter to the TDs Ministers and an Taoiseach and Willie O'Dea's unedited reply. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / press release Monday October 31, 2011 - 22:50 by Eoghan McMahon   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 02, 2011 - 22:31)   1 attached file
Occupy Cork is holding a 'reverse bank robbery' to highlight the overnments signing off on a $1 billion bond, on behalf of the now defunct Anglo Irish Bank. Article lists details of the protest, quotes from activists and contact details. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday October 27, 2011 - 11:42 by Maryam Namazie
76 secularists and human rights campaigners, including Mina Ahadi, Nawal El Sadaawi, Marieme Helie Lucas, Hameeda Hussein, Ayesha Imam, Maryam Jamil, Maryam Namazie, Taslima Nasrin, Farida Shaheed, Fatou Sow, and Stasa Zajovic have signed on to a Manifesto for a Free and Secular Middle East and North Africa.

In light of the recent pronouncements of the unelected Libyan Transitional Council for ‘Sharia laws’, the signatories of the manifesto vehemently oppose the hijacking of the protests by Islamism or US-led militarism and unequivocally support the call for freedom and secularism made by citizens and particularly women in the region.

Secularism is a minimum precondition for a free and secular Middle East and for the recognition of women’s rights and equality. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday October 20, 2011 - 00:06 by Free Man   text 2 comments (last - thursday october 20, 2011 - 13:07)
dublin / racism & migration related issues / press release Friday October 14, 2011 - 15:59 by Bernardo O'Reilly
Anti-Fascist Action welcomed the decision today of Trinity's Philosophical Society to withdraw the invitation to Nick Griffin, leader of the far-right British National Party (BNP), who was due to speak at a debate entitled 'This House Believes That Immigration Has Gone Too Far' next Thursday 20th October.
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national / miscellaneous / press release Sunday October 09, 2011 - 14:47 by Volunteer
Monday October 10th is World Mental Health Day* which aims to raise public awareness about mental health issues. The day promotes open discussion on mental health, and investments in prevention, promotion and services.

This year the theme is "investing in mental health" and according to Manus Hanratty, the new CEO of the SpunOut.ie National Youth Organisation, Ireland needs to wake up and take action to address the youth mental health crisis facing our country.

Ireland has the youngest population in Europe with 40% under 25 and according to Manus Hanratty there is an urgent need to invest in the younger generation if we are to build a sustainable, inclusive and happy society.
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cork / environment / press release Friday September 30, 2011 - 12:04 by Dominic O Callaghan   video 1 video file   1 attached file
GasIreland will be screening the award winning documentary “Gasland” by Josh Fox at 8pm on the evening of the 14th of October at the Triskel Christchurch on South Main St, Cork ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Thursday September 29, 2011 - 06:04 by Teresa Treacy Support Group   text 2 comments (last - sunday october 02, 2011 - 03:25)
News Release.
Issued by the Teresa Treacy Support Group.
Wednesday 28th September 2011.

Boycott the ESB – Switch Service Provider – Say It, Mean It, Do It! ... read full story / add a comment
Grab them now...
dublin / arts and media / press release Wednesday September 28, 2011 - 14:57 by antrophe   text 7 comments (last - monday october 03, 2011 - 14:07)   image 1 image
rabble is a non-profit, newspaper from the city’s underground. It’s collectively and independently run by volunteers. rabble aims to create a space for the passionate telling of truth, muck-raking journalism and well aimed pot-shots at illegitimate authority. We stand within, and with, Dublin as it struggles from below against the ghost of the Celtic Tiger and the state it left us in. We support those who fight with a new world in their hearts and encourage those who create cultures that seed hope in bleak times. Those involved know each other from alternative media and street mobilisations, from raves, gigs and the football terraces, or by just living in the village that is Dublin. We range from people living and raising their families in the city, to community and political activists, to artists, messers and mischief-makers. We Are rabble. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Friday September 23, 2011 - 13:49 by O.O'C   text 2 comments (last - saturday september 24, 2011 - 19:27)
The People’s Movement welcomes today’s wake up call in this morning’s Irish Times by twenty six Oireachtas members and one MEP warning about the implications of an commitment by the Government to a very significant diminution of the sovereignty of the State, hoping that it can sleep walk the country into it. We agree wholeheartedly with their demand that the issue must be put to the country in a referendum. ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing / press release Wednesday September 21, 2011 - 17:43 by Protest Allsop Auction   text 2 comments (last - thursday september 22, 2011 - 12:42)
Smart Properties in association with Allsop auctioneers are moving to sell off the repossessed homes of Irish families this week, one can only make comparisons to the days of the English landlords turfing Irish people off their land and out of their homes for inability to pay rent that was collected by the Landlords Irish lackies. ... read full story / add a comment
national / housing / press release Wednesday September 21, 2011 - 14:01 by PAW   1 attached file
We, the members of the People's Association Watchdog, are a group of informed, concerned citizens who are engaging ourselves to address current issues and intend to offer solutions based on our experience of speaking to people in crisis.
We call on the Minister for Finance and the current Government elected by the citizens of Ireland to take immediate steps to correct the deteriorating mortgage arrears/negative equity issue plaguing the state currently.
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SEAN CRONIN - former IRA Chief of Staff, Irish Times US Correspondent - ashes scattered Kerry, Sat 17 September 2011
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday September 15, 2011 - 18:27 by Richard Behal   text 3 comments (last - monday september 19, 2011 - 07:56)   image 1 image
Following his death in New York in march 2011, Sean Cronin's ashes are to be scattered in his native BALLINSKELLIGS on Saturday 17th September - following Mass at 11am in local DUNGEAGAN church.

Reception afterwards, 2pm in nearby WATERVILLE Lake Hotel

As well as serving in the southern Irish state Defence Forces, and as IRA Chief of Staff in the 1950s, Cronin was also Irish Times US Correspondent from the1960 until his retirement, initially under the great Irish Times (and its last Protestant) Editor, Douglas Gageby ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Monday September 12, 2011 - 13:50 by Paddy Healy   text 1 comment (last - monday september 12, 2011 - 18:20)
A report arising from a statement by the Restaurant Association of Ireland was carried on several RTE news bulletins to-day and was also discussed on Morning Ireland on which a spokesperson was interviewed. The content of the statement is totally misleading. The news item and the interview provide examples of the uncritical broadcasting by RTE of employer propaganda.

The RAI had claimed that the Irish restaurant sector had created 490 new jobs in the months of July and August and that 164 of these had been due to the abolition of JLC/ERO system by the courts on July 7. It went on to argue that the JLC/ERO system should not be restored as it was an obstacle to job creation.

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national / housing / press release Thursday September 08, 2011 - 18:16 by Pat Riot   text 2 comments (last - friday september 09, 2011 - 13:27)
This open Letter of Acceptance of Contract was sent to Michael Noonan T.D. Minister for Finance and copies have been sent to all TDs and media outlets, We the People of Ireland will take the responsibility that the stooges in the Dáil are afraid to take. We accept the contract to resolve the financial crisis and the mortgage scandal, we can and will remedy the situation, we are not paid by big business or shadowy power brokers, We accept this challenge because our political leaders have shown themselves to be impotent, we stand willing and able to take all actions necessary to get us out of the hole that the politicians have put us in.
Minister Noonan You have [10] Ten days to reply to this acceptance of contract after which time we will deem it as binding. ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Tuesday August 30, 2011 - 21:53 by O.O'C.   text 3 comments (last - monday september 12, 2011 - 14:36)
It is seen by the Fine Gael-Labour Government, as well as by its Fianna Fail predecessor, as a way round the restrictions on ratifying new EU Treaties without constitutional referendums here which were laid down by the Supreme Court in its 1987 Crotty judgement.

There is still a little time left for Ireland to foil this power grab by the Eurozone elite if our political leaders can summon the courage to serve the Irish people rather than themselves. ... read full story / add a comment
al-Nuseirat, palestine
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday August 18, 2011 - 02:15 by Pchr   text 9 comments (last - saturday august 20, 2011 - 01:54)   image 3 images

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

1. Asserts that these crimes are part of a series of war crimes committed by IOF with total disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians.2. Calls upon the international community to take immediate actionagainst IOF and IDF in order to put an end to such war crimes.

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international / eu / press release Wednesday August 17, 2011 - 17:04 by Malachy Steenson   text 5 comments (last - friday august 19, 2011 - 00:43)

Padraig Mannion, EU spokesperson of the Workers' Party, has slated the Merkel-Sarkozy plan for the Euro as economically incompetent and politically disastrous, and said it must be rejected out of hand by the government

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