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Protest the Labour Party's vicious policies in Galway this Saturday!
Date: Thu, 2012-04-12 11:03
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The Campaign against Household and Water Taxes has organised a march and rally to protest the Labour Party's national convention in Galway this coming Saturday. Assembling in Eyre Square at 1pm, the march will proceed to the NUIG campus where the Labour Party will be busy planning how they proceed with selling out what little remains of their principles.
Kicking off the 2011 Revolts in the age of the Networked Individual
Date: Wed, 2012-04-11 13:44
To what extent do the revolutions and revolts of 2011 reflect a new world born from the shell of the old? Were these revolts of the internet generation -- networked individuals? Are people not only using new technology but becoming transformed by it? For anarchists, what lessons can we learn and to what extent must we transform our organisational methods and structures?
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Dub: Anarchists - who we are and what we are up to - public meeting in Dublin
Date: Tue, 2012-04-10 10:43
A Workers Solidarity Movement public meeting for everyone interested in finding out more about anarchism. Speakers will give an audio visual introduction to the history of anarchism before going on to looks at its relevance in Ireland today and detailing the various struggles that anarchists in Ireland are currently involved in. There will be time after the presentation for for your questions and discussion.
Wynns Hotel
Lower Abbey Street
19.00 12th April
Technical details of files deletions in relation to the GSOC interim report
Date: Thu, 2012-04-05 15:45
This technical note was produced by Shell to Sea to counter the misleading implications about file deletions found in the GSOC July 2011 ‘Interim Report’ into the Corrib cops 'rape tape' incident. It was published as part of a Shell to Sea response into that report. GSOC had used language to suggest that the recordings of the incident itself had been interfered with, a suggestion that was picked up and incorrectly reported by many sections of the media as fact. RTE were later forced to issue an apology for their inaccurate reporting.
NUIM academics on GSOC & the Rossport rape recordings
Date: Thu, 2012-04-05 15:32
Seven academics from NUI Maynooth have released this statement revealing the details of how GSOC treated them in the course of its 'investigation' into the Garda who recorded themseves threatening to rape a women in their custody to force her to give them her name and address. The statement was published as part of response to GSOC's highly misleading interim report.
GSOC bullying of women at center of Corrib Cop Rape Tape case
Date: Thu, 2012-04-05 15:03
In this personal account Jerrie Ann reveals the exraordinary pressure she was put under by GSOC after Garda in Corrib accidentally recorded themselves discussing threatening to rape a women she had been arrested with during a protest against Shell's experiemntal raw gas pipeline construction in Erris. "The GSOC ‘Public Interest Investigation’ has to date served only to mislead the media and the public about the facts of the case, which are actually straightforward" This piece was written as an appendix to the Shell to Sea report on the GSOC interim report.
Newly elected UUP leader Mike Nesbitt shows his true class colours
Date: Wed, 2012-04-04 15:50
Comments by newly elected Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt that “I’d actually like to live in an area of social deprivation for a day because I think it’s important to get a feel for what it’s like,” is what you would expect from someone who was born with a sliverspoon in their mouth. Mike was privately educated at Campbell college and Oxford university.
Cork: Cinema Night - Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey (2011) this Thurs, 8pm @solidaritybooks
Date: Wed, 2012-04-04 10:42
Join us this Thursday April 5th , 8pm, in Solidarity Books for a screening of Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey (2011) Start time is 8pm. All welcome, donations appreciated. Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey (2011) This remarkable documentary, made over a nine year period, charts the story of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey’s political journey since her explosive entry into the public arena in the late 60's.
Healthcare workers protest over attacks on pay and working conditions
Date: Tue, 2012-04-03 10:30
Last Wednesday workers representing all the main trade unions organised token lunchtime protests outside all the main hospitals in Northern Ireland including the RVH and Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry. These protests comes after the Tory led government in Westminster succeeded in passing its Health and Social Care bill through the houses of parliament on the 20thMarch. The bill marks the greatest shake up of the NHS since 1948 continuing the pattern of previous administrations in terms of cuts to essential services, staff and privatisation including the outsourcing of services to private companies subsidised by the tax-payer.
In Greece - the return of the horrors of the concentration camps in the birthplace of Democracy
Date: Tue, 2012-04-03 09:33
The ruling class in Greece in order to sustain it's power, is attacking the weakest in society, the migrants!
The plan of the government (PASOK,NEA DEMOCRATIA) with the open support of the enthusiastic, ecstatic extreme right*, is to build new camps and renovate old military camps close to the borderline, to use for the imprisonment of migrants! By the way this not a speculation, this has been announced officially a week ago now or so.