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Marian Price: a victim of inhumane treatment. Demand Her Release – protest march 15th September
Date: Thu, 2012-09-13 10:31
Marian Price has been detained without trial in inhumane conditions since May 2011. Despite the fact that the charges against her – encouraging support for a paramilitary organisation – have been dismissed and her release ordered by the courts, she continues to be held on the direction of the North’s secretary of state, Owen Patterson. 58-year-old Price spent a year in solitary confinement in Maghaberry (an all-male prison) and Hydebank prisons. During this time she was locked in her cell for 21 hours a day while kept under constant camera surveillance. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture has said that spending anything more than 15 days in solitary confinement amounts to torture.
Minister Joan Burton opposed by Household tax campaigners in Newbridge.
Date: Wed, 2012-09-12 10:05
Upon receiving word that Joan Burton, Dublin West TD and minister for Social Protection, would be present for a meeting relating to a resource centre in Newbridge, the Kildare town and Newbridge town branches of the Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes organised a protest to show that opposition to the unjust tax continues in the town and county.
IMAGE: Campaign members assembled in front of the hotel.
Dublin Luas drivers in ballot for industrial action
Date: Wed, 2012-09-12 09:56
Luas Drivers in Dublin are expected to be balloted for Industrial Action this week following an overwhelming rejection of a Labour Court Recommendation. Drivers are seeking parity with other Safety Critical staff who recently received 23 extra rest days and maximum 8 hour shifts. Drivers currently work 9 hour shifts in what is considered an extremely stressful working environment.
People in deprived areas 3 times more likely to take their lives in Northern Ireland
Date: Tue, 2012-09-11 15:11
People in deprived areas in Northern Ireland are three times more likely to take their lives. Health minister Edwin Poots said, ‘Unemployment rates in deprived areas further affect people and this is a major concern. Studies indicate that a 1% increase in unemployment is met with a corresponding 0.79% increase in suicide.
1,600 billion - Massive scale of oil giveaway revealed in Shell to Sea report
Date: Mon, 2012-09-10 11:23
€1,600 billion. That is the figure for Irish Oil & Gas reserves already licensed revealed this morning in a detailed report from Shell to Sea using the energy corporations own reports and estimates. People in Ireland will see almost no benefits from this incredible wealth because the Irish state gives these reserves to the corporations at the cheapest terms in the world.
Anti-household tax protest at Kildare County Council offices
Date: Sun, 2012-09-09 20:19
On Friday 7th Sept councillors at the Kildare county council offices choose to enter through a side door rather than pass a group of protesters at the main entrance to the building. The councillors were meeting to discuss how to implement the budget cuts imposed on the council by the government as part of its efforts to pay the State's odious debts. Chants of "Axe the household tax" and "Tax the rich, not the poor" resounded in the courtyard of Kildare's administrative centre.
The chickens come home to roost in latest outbreak of violence in North Belfast
Date: Thu, 2012-09-06 15:29
Loyalist rioting this week in North Belfast is a reminder that beneath the shiny new ‘normalised’ Northern Ireland is a political process that reaps what it sows. While our local politicians continue to promote and sell the North to greedy developers, investors and tourism the reality is the majority of us, the working class have been left behind by a so-called settlement in which we are left to rot to be discarded and disposed when necessary. As increasing poverty, sectarianism, lower wages, mass unemployment, lack of affordable and social housing; including the introduction of water charges back on the agenda being as raw as ever the need to build a political alternative to the politics of green and orange is as urgent and relevant as ever.
The Orange state is now a sectarian state where naked economic & political injustices are rampant.
Date: Thu, 2012-09-06 10:24
A Civil Rights march from Coalisland to Dungannon was organised on Sunday 26 August 2012 to commemorate a similar demonstration 44 years earlier and to highlight existing abuses. The march
Dub: Free Marian Price national march
Date: Wed, 2012-08-29 15:37
National Rally calling for the release of Marian Price at 2pm on Saturday the 15th of September. Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square, Dublin 1, and march to the GPO. Speakers include Monsignor Raymond Murray, Thomas Pringle TD, Pauline Mellon from the Justice for Marian Campaign in Derry and Councillor Cieran Perry.
Carrick Hill residents in Belfast subjected to sectarian hatred from Loyalist parade
Date: Tue, 2012-08-28 21:24
There was little ‘our time, our place’ for residents of Carrick Hill on the edge of Belfast city centre recently as they were subjected to a sectarian and provocative Loyalist band parade with the approval of the PSNI along a route that has been relatively ‘peaceful’ and ‘non-contentious’ for years. Despite a parades commission ruling banning the Shankill Road band Young Conway Volunteers from playing outside St Patrick’s catholic church after this incident on the 12th July in which they were deliberately playing sectarian songs such as the Famine outside the church. (See video)