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the protest begins at 7.30am
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday May 25, 2011 21:36 by rossport solidarity camp   image 5 images
Shell's Belmullet office was once again shut down by protestors to highlight the ongoing concerns by local residents and supporters about Shell's proposed Corrib gas project. This morning (wed 25th may) the blockade began at 7.30am and for 2 1/2 hours protestors were able to stop Shell workers entering the building. IRMS arrived around10am to end the blockade. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday May 24, 2011 18:30 by Contaminated Crow
In Rossport an international solidarity meeting hears from activists of the Choctaw Nation, from Guatemala and from the campaign for justice in Bhopal read full story / add a comment
Tahrir > Spain > World
international / anti-capitalism / news report Monday May 23, 2011 23:03 by Dunk   text 9 comments (last - tuesday october 04, 2011 13:47)   image 17 images   video 6 video files   audio 1 audio file
All are agreed, something amazing is happening right here and right now on this beautiful little planet. And, by Christ do we need it!!! A week ago, even in Spain, there wasn’t too much awareness of what was going on with the M-15 movement, but now, only days later and it appears that a bomb has gone off. Last look on the digital map of places participating in the #SPANISHREVOLUTION gave a count of 650 (yes that’s right SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY) places around the planet expressing solidarity with what’s going on here in Spain, or being inspired to bring the revolution to their part of the world. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday May 23, 2011 11:52 by Ciaron   text 18 comments (last - wednesday june 01, 2011 07:49)   image 2 images
It has been weird being in Dublin security city the past week. It reminds me a lot of
growing up in the police state of Queensland/Australia in the late '70's.

On Thursday, I was stopped and searched by police five times before noon and shaken down by the Special Branch 3 times over the two daze. My poster (photo of Giusepe Conlon...with the words "Remember Giuseppe Conlon and All Victims of Empire") remains in police custody,
confiscated by an Inspector under State Security legislation.
Photo - Giuseppe Poster...set it free!
http://www.lightstalkers.org/images/show/1206924 read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday May 22, 2011 21:11 by Trade Union TV   video 1 video file
Hundreds took part in a joyful protest in Dublin in solidarity with the Europe Summer protests in Spain. This is a flavour of the Dublin solidarity protest. read full story / add a comment
A shell security guard in front of a broken fence
national / environment / news report Saturday May 21, 2011 18:12 by Andrew   image 2 images
Today at mid-day shell to sea and rossport solidarity camp walked onto shell land,
destroying fences, and yet again clashing with security guards in the ongoing dispute over the corrib gas field. read full story / add a comment
32CSM protestors carrying coffin of the British Empire.  The cops wanted to seize this prop...
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday May 21, 2011 00:29 by Ray   text 17 comments (last - wednesday may 25, 2011 12:07)   image 34 images
The armed power of the Irish state and the local establishment extended a heavily stage-managed and trumped-up 'welcome' for the reigning British monarch, while denying Cork citizens freedom of movement in their own city. Once again An Garda Síochána infringed upon people's freedom of protest. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday May 20, 2011 12:32 by Ciaron   text 2 comments (last - wednesday may 25, 2011 10:56)
Yesterday morning, I had the poster that appears in this clip of Giuseppe Conlon with the wording
"Remember Giuseppe Conlon and all Victims of Empire" confiscated by a Gardai inspector under some state security legislation.

I had been phoned by the Gardai about 11 pm the night before saying a friend of mine was in custody chargeed woth a pUblic Order offense and needed a lawyer and that he wouldbe appearing at the new court on Infimary Rd. I had been unable to get back to where I was staying as the city was closed down and had crashed on another friend's floor.

As I made my way to the court Thursday morning, a young Gard said she would not let me through her checkpoint with the sign. I asked if she could hang on to it and I would be back in 4o mins. She agreed.

After realsing I could not cross the road I returned to that checkpoint and the sign was gone. She pointed out the inspector that had seized the sign. I approached him and I said if read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday May 18, 2011 13:52 by Dave Donnellan   text 3 comments (last - monday april 30, 2012 15:43)   video 1 video file
The walking tour of Dublin, on the eve of the visit of Queen Elizabeth, was led by an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe with the slogan: "No queen but Mary Queen of Heaven -- single mother, refugee, role model for a revolutionary!" read full story / add a comment
7.30am..
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday May 17, 2011 23:31 by KatyB   image 3 images   video 1 video file
In response to Shell's AGM today in The Hague and London, the Shell to Sea campaign have shut down the Belmullet Shell office in protest against the on-going controversial Corrib Gas project which has no local consent or benefit to the people of Ireland. Shell will attempt to begin construction on the high pressure raw gas pipeline shortly despite a legal challenge by An Taisce and two local residents.

This protest is also to highlight the fact that every hour Shell accumulates another £1.6 million pounds sterling ( 1.83 million Euro) by destroying communities across the globe, from the Niger Delta to the Canadian Tar Sands. Shell's appalling record of human rights abuses, oil spills, gas flaring and accidents forces people to protect their communities and their environment.

We call on all shareholders to disinvest.

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday May 17, 2011 16:18 by Trade Union TV   text 2 comments (last - tuesday may 17, 2011 21:31)   video 1 video file
Watch the video report from the protest held at the Tallaght offices of SDCC Monday 16th, 2011. read full story / add a comment
Jafar Panahi
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday May 13, 2011 19:04 by John Cornford   text 1 comment (last - friday may 13, 2011 19:27)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Imprisoned Iranian film-makers Mohammad Rasoulof and Jafar Panahi have both found success in Cannes.

Mohammad Rasoulof's latest film Good Bye (Bé Omid É Didar) has found a world wide distributor.

Jafar Panahi will be awarded the Carrosse d'Or in absentia. The Carrosse d'Or (or Golden Coach), awarded by the Société des Réalisateurs de Films (SRF), rewards film-makers' courage and independence of thought. read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday May 11, 2011 09:56 by Kevin Doyle   text 4 comments (last - sunday may 15, 2011 03:03)   image 2 images
Yesterday/ In Castle Street/ I saw two goblins at my feet/ I saw a horse without a head/ Carrying the dead/ To the graveyard/ Near Turner's Cross/ I am the madwoman of Cork/ No one talks to me (From The Mad Woman Of Cork) read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday May 10, 2011 13:29 by Justin Morahan   text 4 comments (last - monday may 16, 2011 13:08)
Lesbians and gays are already living in fear and terror in Uganda. Tomorrow, Uganda is about to legislate them almost out of existence. Unless we stop it. read full story / add a comment
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international / animal rights / news report Tuesday May 10, 2011 09:13 by Bernie Wright   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 10, 2011 10:43)   image 1 image
Animal rights group appeal to Irish filmgoers to boycott Water for Elephants due to Cruelty.
A Video released today by Animal Defenders International shows the elephant that appears alongside Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson in the new film Water for Elephants, being beaten and electric shocked during training.
We in AFAR are now urging the General Public to boycott this film in IRELAND.

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mayo / environment / news report Saturday May 07, 2011 19:01 by Party against the pipe   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 12, 2011 21:34)   image 4 images
Come & join us in celebrating over a decade of resistance to Shell's Corrib gas project...it's gonna be a good party!

June Bank Holiday weekend 4-6th, Aughoose, Co.Mayo

Bands, music, circus, dance, comedy, performance, crafts, kid's activities. Free camping area.
Transport is being organised from most cities in Ireland, see website for details partyagainstthepipe.wordpress.com

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Fascist poster
national / history and heritage / news report Saturday May 07, 2011 11:58 by Bernardo   text 5 comments (last - wednesday may 11, 2011 19:17)   image 4 images
Today, members and supporters of Anti - Fascist action remodeled posters that were put around Dublin city centre, by a tiny far-right Autonomous Nationalist group, to mark the 30th anniversary of Bobby Sands' death. read full story / add a comment
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cork / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday May 05, 2011 13:54 by Ray   text 3 comments (last - thursday may 05, 2011 14:04)   image 18 images
This Sunday, the international celebration of the working class was marked in Cork with the now-traditional May Day march organised by the Independent Workers Union. Cork WSM also marked the occasion by hosting a pair of talks after the march on May Day-related topics at Solidarity Books on Douglas Street. As a finale to the day's festivities, a fundraising cabaret was held for the union and the bookshop that night at the Spailpín Fánach on South Main Street.
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The Human Wall (pic by Greg M)
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday May 04, 2011 18:53 by Kev   text 2 comments (last - wednesday may 04, 2011 22:20)   image 6 images   video 2 video files
On the morning of Wednesday 4th May 2011, over 50 human rights activists supporting the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign formed a ‘human wall’ outside the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Irish multinational CRH, while concerned shareholders inside asked serious questions about the role of the cement company in the building of Israel’s illegal Separation Wall and illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / news report Wednesday May 04, 2011 14:49 by Shell to Sea   text 4 comments (last - wednesday may 04, 2011 20:08)   image 8 images   video 1 video file
Yesterday 4 campaigners were arrested as work was stopped at Shell's compound in Aughoose for over 7 hours. In a damning sequence of events, Gardaí continue to use inappropriate and unsafe methods to police the protests. read full story / add a comment
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