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Human Rights in Ireland
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international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 27, 2012 09:33 by YBIG   text 41 comments (last - monday july 02, 2012 21:33)   video 1 video file
"Rent a drunken Paddy"
"They are only there for a sing song"
"Singing away while we are humiliated"
"They are an embarrassment"

These are some of the abuse leveled at the Irish fans who travelled to the Euro's by a small, yet loud, number of fans who stayed at home. To those of us who travelled we have a different story to tell. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday June 25, 2012 19:34 by Rossport Solidarity Camp   text 2 comments (last - tuesday june 26, 2012 13:53)   video 1 video file
Today the AGM of Mayo Co. council was disrupted by a high pitched grinding noise; a recording of the sounds that came from Shell's compound in Aghoose during the June bank holiday weekend. Local residents aimed to demonstrate how they were ignored when they tried to complain about this disturbance which lasted for four days, and were told the council offices were closed on the bank holiday.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Friday June 22, 2012 02:41 by Emma Purdy   video 1 video file
Charles Taylor’s sentencing to 50 years’ imprisonment on 11 counts of war crimes is undeniably momentous. However, with Sierra Leoneans still suffering abject poverty and remaining in dire need of aid, it must be questioned for whose benefit the costly War Crimes Court really is, writes EMMA PURDY read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday June 16, 2012 05:52 by BrianClarkeNUJ   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 16, 2012 06:19)   video 1 video file
British Headlines screamed; REES LASHES DUBLIN OVER TORTURE REPORT, Times, ANGRY REES ATTACK AS DUBLIN CHARGE OF TORTURE IS UPHELD: Daily Telegraph,REES ANGRY AS EIRE PRESSES TORTURE ISSUE, Sun,TORTURE TURMOIL, BRITAIN LASHES BACK OVER THE GUILTY VERDICT, Financial Times, IRISH PERSISTANCE ANGERS UK, Mirror, REES IN STORM OVER TORTURE. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Saturday June 02, 2012 08:29 by Sean Clinton   text 10 comments (last - thursday june 07, 2012 09:21)   video 1 video file
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee used to promote diamond brand that supports a Unit of the Israeli military’s notorious Givati Brigade.

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national / animal rights / opinion/analysis Thursday May 31, 2012 10:10 by Bernie .Wright   text 7 comments (last - wednesday june 06, 2012 12:07)   video 1 video file
COCK FIGHTING IN IRELAND: INFORMATION NEEDED
The AOHS has received information that a Cock fighting event will be held in Ireland this coming Saturday, 2nd June 2012. We were told that it will be organised by some of the Travelling Community. It is apparently well known by blood sports enthusiasts in the area.
The area is Tipperary/ Waterford, near the border. The alleged event we are told is apparently to be put on utube.
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international / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday May 23, 2012 19:50 by #SpanishRevolution > #OccupyMordor   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 24, 2012 10:26)   video 3 video files
“The hobbits united will never be defeated!” #OccupyMordor continues in Barcelona, against a huge bank: La Caixa

Article about the celebrations and actions of the #Indignados in Spain for the 1 year anniversary of the 15M movement. Read full article, view images, view vids at: http://itsafunnyoldworld.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/occup...rdor/

THIS SPRING WERE NOT INTERESTED IN THE SQUARES
WERE GOING AFTER THOSE RESPONSIBLE
THIS 2012 WE OCCUPY MORDOR:
THOSE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING
WERE NOT GOING TO ALLOW IT
WE (#NOSALTRES) ARE THE 99%
PERMANANT CACEROLADA* INFRONT OF MORDOR
#CAIXAROLADA
#OCCUPYMORDOR

* CACEROLADA = Banging of pots and pans, a popular form of protest in Spain, as it was in Argentina in 2001
**Caixarolada = Cacerolada against the main Spanish bank La Caixa read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / opinion/analysis Thursday May 17, 2012 11:54 by Diarmuid Haughian   text 9 comments (last - sunday may 20, 2012 18:18)   video 3 video files
The Irish educational system is currently failing to provide equal chance, equal access and share to graduate employment opportunities with global employers in Ireland. There seems to be a cultural over-reliance on the English language in Irish society, a lack of awareness importance of being multi-lingual at an early age and language learning time in the classroom is spent on compulsory Irish.
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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Tuesday May 15, 2012 22:58 by CDC   text 4 comments (last - monday june 25, 2012 14:01)   video 1 video file
Fundraiser in aid of the Dublin Citizens Defence Committee read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Saturday May 12, 2012 20:47 by Darcy   text 5 comments (last - saturday may 19, 2012 18:59)   video 2 video files
“I pay tribute to the ‘Farmers For No’ for coming together and calling for a No Vote…

…Contrary to popular belief and what the government is spouting, the sky won’t fall on our heads if we vote no on May 31st.

We will retain some flexibility and some ability to retain the control over our National finances and to be able to use those finances for the good of all the citizens of the country and not for the good of saving the financial institutions of Europe.”

- Thomas Pringle, TD (Member of Irish parliament) read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Friday May 11, 2012 15:07 by Paul Murphy MEP   video 1 video file
A press conference was held today launching the Socialist Party's http://www.austeritytreaty.ie website and the pamphlet “Austerity Treaty explained: how it undermines democracy & institutionalises austerity” (http://www.austeritytreaty.ie/the-pamphlet#) read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday May 11, 2012 00:41 by Kev   text 70 comments (last - saturday june 02, 2012 09:31)   video 1 video file
1pm – 2pm, Vigil - Israeli Embassy
4pm - 6pm, Moving Gallery - Stephens Green to The Spire

On Tuesday 15th May 2012, to commemorate what Palestinians call Nakba Day which marks the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (‘Catastrophe’) which saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians, forcibly uprooted from their homeland in an act of ethnic cleansing that facilitated the foundation of the State of Israel, the IPSC has organised two actions in Dublin. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 09, 2012 11:09 by BrianClarke   text 8 comments (last - thursday may 10, 2012 17:46)   video 2 video files
" God himself could not sink this ship!"


After the British Holocaust visited on Ireland in 1845 which cost the lives of millions( I use the word MILLIONS, carefully researched) of Irish lives, from 1848 to 1950 almost another six million people left Ireland. It has continued ever since, its called ethnic cleansing by some, forced emigration by others and "see another part of the world" by an Irish minister of the current fascist Government in Ireland. The result is that most of the real Irish are overseas and whats left on the small island today is a poor spiritless mostly imitation of anything Gaelic or free. read full story / add a comment

international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday May 07, 2012 05:08 by BrianClarkeNUJ   text 8 comments (last - wednesday may 09, 2012 08:35)   video 1 video file
Boycott Olympics London and its sponsors : McDonalds, Coca-Cola, Adidas, Panasonic, Acer, Atos, Dow, GE, Omega, Proctor & Gamble, Samsung, VISA and Nike. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Friday May 04, 2012 11:00 by Paul Gavan   video 1 video file
Thousands of people marched in protest at plans by Minister Reilly to close a vital Public Hospital in Abbeyleix which cares for the elderly. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 02, 2012 02:48 by Darcy   text 11 comments (last - wednesday may 09, 2012 15:42)   video 1 video file
BUT WHAT HAPPENS IF WE VOTE NO?

COULD IRELAND’S ACCESS TO A FUTURE BAILOUT FROM THE ESM RESCUE FUND BE PUT AT JEOPARDY BY THAT DECISION?

This is the so-called ‘Blackmail Clause’ contained in Article 136 of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Treaty. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / press release Friday April 27, 2012 10:29 by Caddy   text 4 comments (last - monday april 30, 2012 09:59)   video 1 video file
Animal Rights Zone (ARZone), the global campaigning, activities, and social network for animal advocates, announces the third phase of their ongoing Vegan Buddies Programme. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday April 27, 2012 10:23 by Ciaron   text 42 comments (last - sunday may 06, 2012 14:03)   video 2 video files
On April 20 there’s a memorial for Christopher Hitchens at the Cooper Union in Manhattan.
There’s a PEN tribute, also in Manhattan, on April 30.
Here’s my own little envoi. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Wednesday April 25, 2012 16:37 by Cormac Mac Gall   text 3 comments (last - saturday may 12, 2012 01:30)   video 1 video file
A political struggle in a European nation of less than three million, largely ignored by other socialists in Europe, has nevertheless come to the fore in the capitalist media repeatedly since the late 1960s. This has been largely as a result of the the Basque people’s struggle for socialism and independence from the Spanish and French states, a struggle led for decades by Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, the marxist armed organisation better known by its acronym, ETA. The organisation reawakened Basque national consciousness, has worked with others for the restoration of Euskara, the Basque language, organised Basque workers and faced the repression of the General Franco dictatorship in the Spanish state. Famously, in 1973 it assassinated the Prime Minister of the state, Admiral Carrero Blanco, Franco’s right-hand man, which hastened the fragmentation of the dictatorship and its passage to partial democracy.
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dublin / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Sunday April 22, 2012 22:11 by Shelly Shale   text 7 comments (last - thursday april 26, 2012 03:58)   video 3 video files
This is not a typical movie review describing the movie, plot, characters, and themes, as well as celebritizing each actor by naming every other movie appeared in, etc., and yet have very “little” to say about how the movie might relate to real life. We will refer to an American writer, namely Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winning author of several important books, to help contextual this movie. Herein we visit a few major “themes” as related to social and political issues in the real life of the audience as drama of human history including that as compares to ancient Rome.
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