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Community Anger Against Household Tax at meeting in Cabra
Date: Fri, 2012-02-24 17:36
A lively and energetic meeting took place in the local community hall in the Dunard estate in Dublin 7 on Wednesday night. The meeting was addressed by Councillor Cieran Perry and local resident and campaigner Dermot Sreenan about the upcoming Household Tax and the campaign against it.
Bernadette: One women's journey from mass protest to hunger strikes to the peace process
Date: Fri, 2012-02-24 16:26
The end of the 1960’s in northern Ireland were a unique time when, as elsewhere around the world, mass popular protest emerged onto the streets with ordinary people doing extraordinary things. The unique circumstances of northern Ireland and the particular form the state backlash took there resulted in a military conflict that lasted some 30 years and dominated politics on the entire island and to a much lesser extent in Britain. Although tens if not hundreds of thousands of people made this history it can also be told as the history of some of the prominent individuals involved, including the Irish republican socialist activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.
Garda caught on film smashing windows of Erris residents car at Shell roadblock
Date: Thu, 2012-02-23 13:05
Shocking video has emerged of a Garda attack on a local resident, John Monagahan, at a roadblock the police were operating on behalf of Shell. The video shows the car being stopped at the roadblock and then you can hear the Garda smashing in the drivers window of his car with a baton before threatening to pepper spray him. John had just left his home some 500m away.
‘Protests Work’ says Minister: How the DEIS Cuts were reversed at Primary Level
Date: Thu, 2012-02-23 10:54
Following his announcement that many of his proposed cuts to teacher numbers in schools serving areas of social disadvantage are to be reversed, Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairi Quinn, has admitted that protests work and that he reversed his decisions because of the huge protests faced by himself and his colleagues on the government backbenches.
“…in relation to the area where all the pressure was coming from and all the protests was [sic] coming from …. I reflected on the impact on those schools….and I reversed that decision,” he said.
Hundreds attend Action on X meeting in Dublin to demand Abortion Legalisation in Ireland
Date: Wed, 2012-02-22 11:35
A meeting calling for abortion legalisation in Ireland, at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin, was filled to capacity last night as hundreds crammed into the room. The meeting marked 20 years from the X-case and the failure of all the political parties in the years since to legislate for the limited abortion provision required by the X-case court judgement. The clear message was that it was time for Action on X.
The first speaker, journalist Vincent Brown described the long fight for abortion rights in Ireland, from the so -called 'pro-life' referendum in 1983, to the X-case in 1992 and the referendums afterwards.
Six Shell to Sea Campaigners convicted as community block Shell's haulage in Mayo
Date: Tue, 2012-02-21 15:59
In Belmullet district court on Monday 20th February, 6 campaigners were convicted of a total of 13 charges between them with fines totaling 3,035 euros. While this went on, local residents blocked Shell's haulage route between Bellanaboy refinery and the compound in Glengad.
19 Shell to Sea campaigners facing 80 charges in special sitting of Belmullet court today
Date: Mon, 2012-02-20 11:13
On Monday February 20th the Belmullet courthouse in Co. Mayo will be full of campaigners opposing the Corrib Gas Project. Nineteen people are facing 80 charges between them for civil disobedience, and this week has been set aside as a special sitting for the campaigners.
What is Direct Action and can it deliver change?
Date: Sun, 2012-02-19 21:39
The idea of direct action is sometimes simply understood as meaning anything violent, anything from a brick through a window to a full-scale guerrilla war. Our political opponents and enemies go out of their way to spread confusion because they know that in a “battle of ideas” they would lose. Firstly the fact that we are sitting in this room now having this teach in is a result of direct action being taken, doing it for ourselves and not relying on any politicians or anyone else to sort out homelessness or the building social centres.
A community stands against punishment attacks in Derry
Date: Sun, 2012-02-19 11:29
Several hundred people from both sides of the community gathered today despite arctic conditions outside Annie’s Bar, in Derry’s Waterside. They came together united in their outrage at last weeks brutal murder of local man Andrew Allen.
Anti-Household Tax Campaign - Dun Laoghaire area gets organised
Date: Fri, 2012-02-17 22:10
Following a series of 4 public meetings across the area (attended by a total of about 100 people), the following activity is planned by the Dun Laoghaire Campaign Against Household And Water Taxes in the next couple of weeks: