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derry / environment / news report Tuesday March 25, 2008 23:33 by MAOR Derry
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MAOR (an Irish word for ‘guardian’ or ‘steward’) are a group of individuals based in the North West who came together in 2006 in solidarity with the Shell to Sea campaign and in response to the issues surrounding gas and oil exploration off the Donegal coast. The upcoming MAOR Energy Forum Fortnight attempts to be a tool to raise awareness of and generate discussion on ownership and management of Ireland’s natural resources. MAOR encourages everyone to take part in this energising programme of films, workshops, media discussions and a Citizen’s Forum. All participation in the MAOR Energy Forum Fortnight will be highly valued as MAOR will be compiling all the thoughts shared throughout the events for use in council and government consultation. read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 25, 2008 22:51 by Chekov Feeney
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Last year, the EU Constitution was defeated in referendums in France and the Netherlands. Europe’s governments quickly got together and rewrote the constitution as an incredibly complicated list of amendments to existing treaties. Together these amendments make up the “Treaty of Lisbon.” Valery Giscard d’Estaing, the president of the Convention on the Future of Europe which did much of the ground work in drafting the constitution, has concluded that “the difference between the original Constitution and the present Lisbon Treaty is one of approach, rather than content”. read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech / event notice Tuesday March 25, 2008 22:42 by smudged papyrus head
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March 26th sees the first "world document freedom day" celebrated in many states including Ireland to promote & raise awareness for Document Freedom and Open Standards. Irish support comes from the Dundalk Institute of Technology. DkIT is a proposed site of OOoCon2008 as well. So, if you're into the idea of an open standard which allows you produce, open and alter documents using open source software across platforms then you should go to Dundalk & get a t-shirt. Apparantly they've been sent loads. They may even have umbrellas too. If you're against this, you can always boycott Dundalk and campaign against it hosting the OocCon2008 event. Either way you ought learn a bit more about the campaign. read full story / add a comment
down / miscellaneous / press release Tuesday March 25, 2008 19:57 by East Down Ogra
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East Down Ogra Shinn Fein played a key role in Easter parades across the county, including Newcastle, Castlewellan and Downpatrick. The Ogra colour party lead the parade in Newcastle and Downpatrick and followed the senior colour party in the Castlewellan march. The colour party consisting of activists from Kilcoo, Newcastle and Ballynahinch proudly marched in commemoration of Irelands patriot dead and sought to show to the public that Irelands youth would continue to play a pivotal role in the struggle for re-unification. read full story / add a comment 
national / health / disability issues / other press Tuesday March 25, 2008 19:45 by C Murray
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The I.T Newswire is full of Information on the attendance of Mary Hanafin TD at the INTO Conference. headlines emerging discuss the secularisation of the Primary School System (only the religious would put up with the degradation that seems obvious to most parents..) and the ongoing 'reform'of the sector. I though that our 'Multi-culturalism' was strictly of White-eastern Europeans and bi-lingual Polish community, given the fight that many Nigerian parents have had to put up to have their kids access health and education services. Ms Hanafin did not dissapoint, her speech is accessible to download at:- http://www.into.ie/ROI , it is currently unavailable on http://www.education.ie (Department of Education and Science) read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media / feature Tuesday March 25, 2008 14:22 by Chekov
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Over the last few years, blogs and blogging have started to permeate the mainstream in Ireland. Features on bloggers and blogging have started to appear with increasing frequency in weekend newspapers. However, in comparison to the US, where blogs have become an integral part of political organising, blogs are very much still seen as marginal by the Irish political establishment.
Left wing political blogs have until recently been particularly thin on the ground. However, this has started to change, with the emergence of a number of increasingly popular blogs written from an explicitly left-wing point of view. Last month, some of these bloggers came together to establish the Irish Left Review, as an online magazine to help further disseminate left wing views in Ireland. This article presents an interview with Donagh Brennan of dublinopinion.com,one of the founders and current editor of Irish Left Review, about blogging and the origins of this project. read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday March 25, 2008 13:54 by LCI
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Legalise Cannabis Ireland in association with Electronic Resistance is proud to bring you the first in a series of gigs in the run up to the 2008 anti-prohibition march. The gigs are hoped to raise awareness of the issues and bring people closer to the campaign,hopefully with the result of more involvement and participation to make the 2008 an even bigger success than in 2007. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday March 25, 2008 13:34 by Hilary
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Social Centre Gathering A space to share our experiences and knowledge about Social Centres. By sharing these things and making them collective we can sharpen our tools, develop our ideas; create new forms of non-hierarchical and anti-capitalist organisation. Through collective discussion debate & action we create communities of resistance. read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday March 25, 2008 11:54 by 1 of Bookfair Organising Group
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The Dublin Anarchist Bookfair – held this year on the weekend of 14th and 15th March – has firmly established itself as the biggest and most exciting event on the political left in Ireland. read full story / add a comment 
clare / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday March 24, 2008 23:04 by John Lannon
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The monthly Shannon vigil to highlight the airport’s involvement in acts of torture and war was held on Easter Sunday, 23 March 2008. Once again it was a dignified affair, attended by members of Amnesty International, Cosantori Siochana, and a wide cross section of public support. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday March 24, 2008 22:17 by Michael Gallagher
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international / anti-capitalism / feature Monday March 24, 2008 21:50 by Andrew
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I spent the last month Greyhounding around the USA speaking about anarchism in Ireland. Fourteen cities, 20+ meetings in thirty days in cities with populations from thirty thousand to over eight million. On my travels I used the opportunity to record interviews with many of the local anarchists who were organizing the meetings which I edited on the bus and posted to indymedia.ie once I hit my next wi-fi signal. I've collated these interviews below, over two hours of audio in all. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday March 24, 2008 20:53 by Michael Gallagher
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mayo / anti-capitalism / news report Monday March 24, 2008 20:51 by maria walsh
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One Shell garage was shut during the morning rush hour and drivers were turned away from a second when protesters in Bristol, England took to the forecourts in support of the Rossport community in Mayo. read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media / news report Monday March 24, 2008 19:08 by Fu Manchu
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Commercial news organisations are already carrying the story that earlier today three "pro-Tibetans" were arrested at Mount Olympus, Greece after attempting to disrupt the beginning of the Olympic Torch route. But most newspapers & TV portals will not highlight the specific group responsible for the action; Reporters Sans Frontiers or RSF members used their press privileges to bypass tight security & wave their banner. By doing so they have endangered press privileges & cast any doubt aside as to the true nature of the supposed "pro-Tibetan" nature of the recent global mobilisation against the Olympiad (first) & Peoples' Republic of China (second). read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday March 23, 2008 20:21 by Michael Gallagher
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international / miscellaneous / news report Sunday March 23, 2008 12:52 by Bazooka Joe
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Legislative election results emerging from Iran today show the consolidation of conservative power and the Revolutionary Guard base of President Ahmadinejad. This is an outright failure for the international sanctions and the associated propaganda drive carried out on the insistence of the US through the UN and a myriad trolls. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday March 22, 2008 22:35 by Soundmigration
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An Interview with Takis Fotopoulos Takis Fotopoulos (age 67), is a Greek-Londoner political philosopher, economist, editor of Democracy & Nature and The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy and former academic. Author of Towards An Inclusive Democracy and founder of the Inclusive Democracy movement . He is noted for his synthesis of the classical democracy tradition with the libertarian socialism tradition and the radical currents in the New Social Movements. He is the author of numerous books and over 600 articles which have been published in various languages. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Saturday March 22, 2008 20:11 by Tadhg McGrath
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A large number of people took a chance on yesterday's changeable weather to join the annual Good Friday Rossport Solidarity walk. The walk, now in it's fourth year, is along the original route planned by Shell for their production pipeline, which was supposed to carry raw gas at extremely high pressure to the refinery at Bellanaboy. This route was abandoned by Shell in the face of protests, but not before five local men had to spend three months away from their families locked up in a high security prison in Dublin. Shell keep saying that they will announce the new route for the pipeline "soon", but it seems that they have yet to find an opportune moment. Deliberations ended in January, we are told, but for some reason they are slow to make a formal announcement of their new plan. Some people are wondering if they are waiting for a certain Dublin politician to announce his resignation, so they can then slip out the announcement while the mainstream media have their hands full... read full story / add a comment 
meath / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday March 22, 2008 17:02 by Paula Geraghty
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"I saw the worst destruction, all in the name of construction" Squeek on Thursday's activities by the in the name of the NRA. Listen to the full interview on the down loadable mp3 file, exactly 4 minutes long. read full story / add a comment |
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