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| A massive eviction is underway in Dublin. It is at the complex of occupied houses and former factory spaces in Grangegorman. Reports indicate that at 7am in the morning a very large number of private security angle grinder their way through one of the metal gates, invaded the area en massed and are erecting barriers (pictured) inside and trying to evict the occupants. Related Links: Squatting Eviction Underway in Grangegorman |Aljazeera: Residents resist eviction, clash with police in Dublin suburb |From May 2014: Eviction attempt defeated in Grangegorman |Squat's the Story? Political squat facing eviction in Grangegorman national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Friday February 20, 2015 16:34 by anti-austerity alliance The Anti-Austerity Alliance has today condemned the jailing of anti-water meter protestors at the behest of Denis O’Brien’s company GMC Sierra. Related Links: Right2Water campaign shocked at jailing of water protesters|Stop poitical policing - Stop the arrests now! |Right to Plunder the Economy, Not Right to Protest |Free the Jobstown 4! - Socialist Party Press Release |Paul Murphy TD arrested on trumped up charges designed to discredit Anti-Water Charges campaign national / consumer issues Friday February 20, 2015 16:29 by missing our buses already Just three weeks ago the National Transport Authority (NTA) officially started the tendering for 2016 of initially 10% of Dublin Bus routes and a further 10% of all Bus Eireann routes with most of the routes in Waterford City, and a number of Dublin commuter routes are to be privatised. In the original plan a number of Cork City routes were to go but these will probably happen later. This process has been the culmination of a relentless effort by Fine Gael (FG) in the present government and their predecessors and fellow Neo-Liberal ideologists, Fianna Fáil (FF) in the last government where they have consistently pushed for the break up of both Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann so that it can be handed over to their friends in the private sector to run on a profit basis. The NTA is used as a sort of cloak of respectability to give the impression that they will actually be a regulator with teeth of which we know very few regulators have any teeth, with the banking regulator during the Celtic Tiger coming to mind, plus many other examples and the function of NTA is really for propaganda value to convince the middle class. However this whole scheme is about ideology and is NOT about competition but about privatisation. Related Links: Prices rises are on the way for public transport users... |Joe Higgins TD seeks topical issue debate tomorrow in Dáil on Bus Eireann strike |Government to fund private bus companies! - Jobs, wages & services under threat |Rivermeade residents wage war to defend the 40B bus international / anti-capitalism Saturday November 29, 2014 17:45 by Shane Cassidy This article examines the Transatlantic Free Trade agreement and it's potential repercussions. In 2010 the US mining and gas company, Renco, managed to successfully avoid having to pay compensation to Peruvian locals who were harmed due to pollution by their companies by successfully using a provision of the Peru-US Trade Agreement[1]. Not satisfied with avoiding having to pay compensation, the company has since demanded $800 million from the Peruvian government as they argue that one of the companies they own, Doe Run, was forced into bankruptcy due to an expensive pollution clean-up which the Peruvian government required Doe Run to conduct [2]. Related Links: Wikileaks Publishes Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) |Surround The European Business Summit! |Peoples News issue No. 110 Date: 21 – 9 – 14 -See TTIP related articles |PEOPLES NEWS ISSUE NO. 106 DATE: 22 – 6 – 14 -SeeP 2. The world’s largest trade union demands a halt to TTIP negotiations |PEOPLES NEWS Issue No. 103 -See P2. Could TTIP contain an Internet censorship plan? |Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Debate in Dublin – Weds 5 Nov |Galway meeting highlights the insidious nature of TTIP | Water Charges and TTIP! |TTIP: Democracy on trial national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Sunday November 02, 2014 00:07 by T Over 100 separate local demonstrations took place today (Sat Nov 1st) against the Water Charges and for the Right 2 Water. Organisers estimate conservatively that over 150,000 were out on the streets today to send a message to this government that they won't accept paying for water twice and having it privatised later. Related Links: Water Charge FAQ - your questions answered |Right2Water National Day of Local Protests - Sat Nov 1st |Right2Water National Protest against Water charges - Sat Oct 11th @ 2pm |No-one will be safe from water charges if we don't stand and fight | Why Irish Water Will Be Sold Off | The New Water Barons | Blockades of Water Meter installations in Cork and Dublin | The Irish water debacle: a timeline |http://www.Right2Water.ie/ Campaign Facebook Pages: Carlow, facebook| Clare, Ennis facebook | Dublin, Blanchardstown, facebook| Dublin, Blanchardstown, facebook| Dublin, Ballyfermot facebook| Dublin, Blanchardstown facebook| Dublin, Dun Laoghaire, facebook| Dublin, Dundrum facebook| Dublin, Ringsend, facebook| Dublin, Tallaght facebook| Fingal, Swords, facebook| Galway, facebook| Kildare, Athy, facebook| Kildare, Celbridge, facebook| Kildare, Leixlip, facebook| Kildare, Naas, facebook| Kildare, Newbridge facebook| Kilkenny, facebook| Louth, Ardee facebook| Louth, Dundalk, facebook| Sligo, facebook| Wexford, New Ross facebook| Wexford, Gorey facebook| Wexford, Wexford Town, facebook| Wicklow, Bray, facebook| Wicklow, Greystones, facebook| Wicklow, Wicklow, facebook| Wicklow, Arklow, facebook | Wed 08 Apr, 06:30
Greece submitted a list of economic reforms to the European Union (EU) in an effort to secure emergency financing. This Morning at 6.30am we were woken from our beds.Private security working for NAMA were breaking into our homes. We live in a flourishing squatted community in Grangegorman.This space which was once disused warehouses filled with rubble, asbestos and broken glass has been turned into an inspiring and beautiful place to be.The place is coved with artwork, and the community garden has begun to blossom.We have a circus space, poetry nights, folk gigs, Art Exhibitions, Fairs and a community Kitchen. It has been 10 years since the European Court of Human Rights fined British courts 57,000 pounds for denying free speech to Steel and Morris in London Greenpeace V McDonald's,
American Professor describes the World's State Criminals deciding human rights issue at the international level. In my view, a Global Iron Curtain exists with the UN hiding much of enormous and profound importance from the rest of humanity. The Philippines Should Stop Being US’s Pawn and Warfront
Front line view of the first anti-state riot in Athens under the new government of SYRIZA & ANEL. For years, a number of Irish movements have stood in solidarity with the struggle for justice, dignity, equality and freedom of the popular movements in Colombia. Now, hearing of the case of political persecution against the Water Rights movement, Colombian organisation have expressed their solidarity with the struggle of the Irish people. Peasant organisations of Cauca Valley and a broad coalition of over 50 organisations of indigenous, Afros, peasants, women and workers from the Southern jungle of Putumayo, together with refugees in Europe, have issued two statement expressing their unconditional support with those who struggle and reminding the government of Ireland of their obligation to respect the rights of the people in Ireland. Eight housing activists were today acquitted by the Dublin Criminal Court of Justice, relating to a case spanning back seven months ago, when the charge against them of trespass was thrown out of court. Eight housing activists were today acquitted by the Dublin Criminal Court of Justice, relating to a case spanning back seven months ago, when the charge against them of trespass was thrown out of court. On the weekend of 23-25 January, Irish actors, musicians and activists descended on Wales for a weekend of solidarity with WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning (formerly known as Bradley Manning) and her family.
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We are republishing this very interesting interview between 'The Saker' and Dr. Paul Craig Roberts a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under President Reagan and thereby someone with a key insider view and understanding and who writes compelling and hard hitting articles at his own site. The Saker is a blog that has grown in huge popularity because it has been providing very informative and insightful analysis of the situation in Ukraine and wider picture around it relating to the US empire and has accurately predicted the trajectory of this crisis and has helped counter the widespread propaganda that tries to hide the fact that the Kiev regime is a neo Nazi puppet regime used as a tool of Washington to try and destablize Russia and has explained and given context to how each of the European states and the EU are just vassel states of the US and how this crisis and the sanctions are hurting Europe and are essentially suicidal for its own well-being. The interview covers a number of wide ranging issues but what makes it great is the way it strips away all the pretensions that there is anything democractic at all in how the big game of geo politics is working and gets to the core issues and forces driving it
Some of what I saw behind the Global Iron Curtain which, in my view, exists between the UN and the rest of humanity. I describe what I consider to be very much of enormous and profound importance hidden from people.
when are we going to demand the truth, we could be hours, days, nights awaiting. will we ever get there who benefits. more >>
In the past week an unprecedented amount of community support has been shown to the squatters of a NAMA property in Grangegorman, Dublin 7. The 6th year class from the Educate Together primary school which shares a wall with the squatters spent their yard break creating a 'Save Our Squatters' petition which the entire class signed.
Despite three reports on this mysterious, the last of which was the 'final word', ambiguities still persist and the most credible version of events would still seem to be the original report from1970 which drew on eye witness accounts.
A scenario that was thought to have ended with the Cold War seems set to return with vulnerable fishing communities in the front line.
Have you ever witnessed a revolutionary idea that develops into an action and spreads globally, gathering more than 150 young people from all around the world with passion and dedication to make the world a better place? If you haven't, now is the right time to pay attention because a positive change is about to happen and it is called Anti-Corruption International.
In the heart of Dublin, a new collective has occupied an old building to create a new radical, autonomous social centre and infoshop for our city. more >> |