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international / environment / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 28, 2011 15:59 by Luke Eastwood
Revisiting the effect of pesticides 50 years after Rachel Carson's expose of their terrible impact on all living organisms read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / event notice Wednesday December 28, 2011 02:51 by Rossport Solidarity Camp
We are starting the new year as we mean to go on. Come celebrate with us this Friday the 13th and show solidarity with the community in Erris who have been opposing Shell for the last 11 years. Saturday the 14th will be another Shell-stopping day, so come spend the weekend! read full story / add a comment 
Exclusive Report by one of the Peace team that sabotaged US warplane at Shannon airport last Tuesday
national / anti-war / imperialism / feature Wednesday December 28, 2011 00:30 by Galway Alliance Against War
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The Irish government has been complicted in the murder of innocent people for almost a decade now via the wars of aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq. They are completely hypocritical when for so many years they condenmed the acts of murder in the North, but now not only remain slient about these mass murders in far off lands but actively support it through the apparatus of the state in the form of providing resources -Shannon Airport, policing to go with it and of course welcoming back in 2004 the war criminal Bush and more recently Obama. We are supposed to cheer when the US and NATO drop daisy-cutter 4,000 lb bombs or when drones fire missles and say oops! when innocent civilians get killed.
And to counter the propaganda spewed a few weeks ago about the so-called ending of the war in Iraq. It is not over. There are still troops there. And contary to statements at the time of only 64,000 killed as if that was just a few, the figure is well over one million people, as estimated by internationally peer reviewed Lancet study that was done twice to confirm the initial findings. We are so immersed in the propaganda that we have all forgotten our true values and the difference between right and wrong. Fortunately there are a few individuals willing to stick by their convinctions. Below we reproduce a handwritten communication we received from one of the members of the Peace Team that sabotaged a US troop transporter at Shannon warport last Tuesday morning, 20th December 2011. We have verified that this person participated in this action. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday December 26, 2011 15:41 by Galway Alliance Against War
GALWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST WAR ****** DECEMBER BULLETIN 2011
FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!! FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!! FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!! FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!! CONTENTS 1) EXCLUSIVE REPORT ON THE PEACEFUL ACT OF SABOTAGE AT SHANNON WARPORT 2) SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS: IN PALESTINE 3) LIBYA: AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE 4) NORTH KOREA: AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE 5) REPORT ON AN ALTERNATIVE CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN 6) EDWARD HORGAN REPORTS FROM THE CONGO 7) BUSH & BLAIR FOUND GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES 8) FOR YOUR DIARY read full story / add a comment 
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Monday December 26, 2011 14:32 by Sharon.
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Dáithí Ó Conaill Commemoration to be held in Dublin on January 1 , 2012. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday December 25, 2011 22:43 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
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Claiming Our Future is campaigning for the introduction of measures to tax wealth. As you all know it is very important that there is a counter argument to the austerity approach being pursued by government.
The type of tax options that are being proposed include
1. A levy on assets and property worth over €1 million
2. High net worth Irish citizens paying their dues here so that the number of tax exiles decreases
3. Eliminating tax breaks for those with high incomes so that they pay their fair share
4. A levy on financial transactions (Tobin Tax)
5. A higher tax rate on incomes over €100k
It would be great if you could support the campaign by
Go to www.claimingourfuture.ie where you will find information and facts about wealth and taxation.
Tell all your contacts and friends about it.
Putting it on your organisations website. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday December 25, 2011 16:24 by Frank Maher
The writer of a letter to the Irish Times was surprised when it was published on the 22nd. inst. it was in response to an earlier letter written by a Ms. O'Dwyer expounding the virtue of German efficiency. His letter is reproduced in the full content below. It was expected that there would have been a vigorous response to it, instead no response was published, however two days later, two letters were published in regard to Ms. O'Dwyer original letter. The peculiar aspect to these letters was that they were published under a different heading to the first two letters. I have never seen that happen before despite being a reader of the IT for over twenty years. The writer of the letter is concerned that powerful forces influenced the Irish Times to kill the topic, that is that Germany is involved in a conspiracy so as to bring about a federal Europe through economic manipulation of the economies of the peripheral states of Europe. He also wonders if he is in danger, I'm not sure. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday December 24, 2011 04:27 by BrianClarkeNUJ
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Marian Price from her prison cell says, Sinn Fein have approved her political internment without trial. "Sinn Féin might be hypocritical but I'm not. I wasn't having them shedding crocodile tears over my case to appease their grassroots. I'm in Maghaberry because Gerry Adams as OC of the Belfast Brigade sent me to bomb Britain in 1973 when I was 19. But then my memory must be deceiving me. I must have the wrong man because Gerry Adams was never in the IRA."(Gerry Adams is now President of Provisional Sinn Fein in power sharing Government.) read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday December 23, 2011 23:48 by RNU PRO
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The REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY extends New Year’s greetings to our activists and supporters across the thirty-two counties of Ireland and abroad, to all allied Republican organisations or independent Republicans, who work separately from RNU, but on shared principles to achieve our common political objectives, and to all Republicans who today remain faithful to the sovereign and indefeasible right to national freedom enshrined in the 1916 Easter Proclamation.
We particularly wish to remember all Irish Republican political prisoners, whether in Maghaberry, or Portlaoise or beyond, and especially their families, who are at all times in our hearts and thoughts but most especially as they endure the pain and hardship of separation from loved ones during the Christmas season and the advent of the New Year. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday December 23, 2011 22:31 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
This year ending (2011) and the new year starting (2012) marks the tenth anniversary of the illegitimate, illegal and unjust wars of aggression and colonial occupation being waged against the people of Afghanistan and Iraq that destabilised the Middle East and indeed the whole world and things are worse than ever there :-( read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Friday December 23, 2011 22:14 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
The year 2011 has seen an amazing resurgence of grassroots resistance here and around the world. In January and February, we saw the popular uprisings that brought down the U.S.-backed regimes in Tunisia and Egypt. read full story / add a comment
donegal / miscellaneous / news report Thursday December 22, 2011 16:32 by Emmett Farrell 1 attached file
Meeting on Household Charges and Septic Tank Legislation where Pearse Doherty Sinn Feing stated that he would not advocate not paying the charge read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday December 22, 2011 12:45 by James Connolly Soviet
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On the 20th of January, 2012, The Last Friday Comedy Club, at the Maple Hotel, 74 Lr. Gardiner St. Dublin, will be held as a benefit night for the campaign to have Leonard Peltier released. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / press release Thursday December 22, 2011 12:43 by ALiberation
(Please send in a submission to ban fur farming to furfarminsubmissions@agriculture.gov.ie
See bottom of article for Dept of Agriculture Notice. This still isn’t on their website.)
The animal rights group ALiberation have compiled a list of things that has happened in relation to the proposed ban of fur farming since the current government has come into office. (See Below) read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday December 22, 2011 10:49 by black betty
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Shell Claus the black pariah of the Claus family is out to take rather than to give. Santa's younger brother has often been compared to Lucifer the dark angel. Rather than give presents, Shell Claus comes to take away what you have and destroy it.
His betrayal of the spirit of thanksgiving often brings Santa to tears.
In Ireland, Shell Claws has come to visit all the houses in the Erris area, offering false gifts to seduce people, but then afterwards betraying even those who give him their trust.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday December 22, 2011 10:28 by Paddy Hackett
The capitalist crisis can provide the working class with the opportunity to forcefully take power. read full story / add a comment 
clare / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday December 21, 2011 17:00 by Trevor
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A sketchy report on the Irish Anti-War Movement website states that a U.S. troop carrier plane was attacked and sabotaged at Shannon airport. From other sources I understand that that Omni used this aircraft as a spare and that was parked in a relatively remote area of the airport when disarmed a day or so ago by having its hydraulic or fuel lines severed. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday December 21, 2011 10:34 by Karina
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Now Michael D has gone a step further from his ceremonial role in supporting war-mongering. He is openly feeding the feel-good factor for the FG-Labour government anti-social economic and political decisions. At a time of extraordinary hardship for the people of Ireland caused by the regressive and pro-business politics of Labour and FG, he comes out to send a Christmas message of "hope" in economic recovery. It is surely strange for a so called "socialist" and "progressive" to come out in such base way to support the fact that his government has passed the burden of the crisis onto the shoulders of the ordinary people of Ireland. read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice / press release Tuesday December 20, 2011 23:37 by RNU PRO
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REPUBLICAN NETWORK FOR UNITY SPOKESPERSON, MARTIN ÓG MEEHAN has described as scandalous recent house raids in Armagh, Fermanagh and West Belfast by the counter-insurgency agency, RUC/PSNI. read full story / add a comment
national / bin tax / household tax / water tax / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 20, 2011 19:08 by Pól Ó Cionsalígh
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The response to the legislation on household tax has been very encouraging. A poll taken on Sunday by Newstalk after the launch of the campaign opposing the tax, showed over 70% indicated opposition and a determination not to pay. This is a great start to what will be one of the dominant campaigns in 2012. There will be a consistent and vicious propaganda campaign by the establishment which has already begun. There will be intimidation and pressure on people who can face massive fines if they refuse to register for this charge before the end of March. read full story / add a comment |
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