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All the latest news posted to Indymedia Ireland's open publishing newswire. Indymedia Ireland is a collectively run media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth, offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage of Irish news and events.
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Support Bradley Manning
While media attention has bee heaped upon Wiki-Leaks, one person has been largely forgotten: Bradley Manning. Private Bradley Manning has been accused of previously supplying information to Wikileaks and is under suspicion of providing the documents which have been released. Bradley is now held in isolation from the outside world, in military detention in Kuwait. Bradley faces, for his alleged actions, up to 52 years imprisonment. Here are two articles regarding Bradley. Full texts at link
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Western People opposes Shell as Niall spends 100th day in jail
Dublin Shell to Sea holds solidarity demonstration at Shell HQ
Dublin Shell to Sea yesterday held a demonstration in solidarity with Niall Harnett who spent his 100th day in prison for opposing Shell's experimental gas pipeline in Erris. That morning another 7 people were arrested while protesting the pipeline testing in Sruwaddacon estuary Special Protested Area.
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"Re-imagining the future" Steiner / Waldorf public talk
- Can we begin to discern elements of the emerging future?
- How can Contemplative Enquiry be a tool for this?
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Freedom, equality, solidarity
Steiner / Waldorf education public lecture
- What does it mean to be free and equal at the same time?
- How can the child experience themselves as a brother / sister to others?
- How can we begin to re-balance relationships in our communities and in society?
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Thousands demand that Dunnes stop stocking Israeli goods
Today, Thursday 29th July 2010, at 1pm, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) delivered a petition to Dunnes Stores signed by 6,000 shoppers across Ireland. The petition demands that Dunnes Stores stop stocking Israeli products, until Israel respects Palestinian rights and international law. Present at the handing-in were Brendan Archbold, the trade union official at the centre of the 1980s Dunnes strike when workers refused to handle South African goods, Freda Hughes IPSC National Chairperson, Aengus O'Snodaigh of Sinn Fein along with supporters of the campaign and members of both the Palestinian and South African communities in Ireland.
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Take Back Power
Galway-Irish Climate Camp Screening, Talk&Music
A screening of a short documentary about Climate Camp Ireland 2009 and a
collection of other shorts from previous Climate Camps in other countries
accompanied by a brief talk about what Irish Climate is and where/what it
will be this year. There will also be a chance to ask questions of some of
the people involved. The main film is 20 minutes along and the others are
between five and twelve minutes. There will be Dj's afterwards til 12.
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Climategate scientist breaks his silence
New Scient interviews Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK. Full text at url.
Do you feel that climate science and policy should be separate?
PJ I think there should be some separation. What we say about the science should be treated separately from what's happening with the policy. There should be an acceptance that the climate has warmed since measurements began. OK, there's then debate about what caused that warming. But I do find it difficult engaging with people who deny the evidence and say the world has not warmed.
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Lismullen Woods
Littering our woods
Here is a small wood, made smaller by the M3 Motorway and used obviously as a tip by locals now.
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The Irish Caesarean and VBAC Guide
1 in 4 babies will be born by caesarean in Ireland. Experts estimate that 1/3 of Irish caesareans are
avoidable. As the HSE announces a caesarean reduction strategy more Mothers are questioning the rise
in surgical birth.
A must read for all expectant Mothers. Tracy Donegan’s latest guide to birth in Ireland explores the
epidemic of surgical births in Ireland and the growing number of women choosing VBAC (vaginal birth
after caesarean). The Irish Caesarean and VBAC Guide provides answers to the many overwhelming
questions associated with caesarean birth and VBAC.
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No Private Hospitals – Fund our Public Hospitals
Health Crisis is "Deliberately Manufactured
New savage cutbacks are to be introduced at Sligo and Letterkenny General hospitals and others around the country.
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