Ireland
Protest at Dept of Agriculture...January 30th...to coincide with 3 Day National Hare Coursing "Festival"
Protest against 3-day "National Hare Coursing" event.
Location: The Department of Agriculture, Kildare Street, Dublin.
Date: January 30th 2012.
Time: 1 pm to 2 pm.
Enda Kenny "morally" against Property Tax
"It is morally wrong, unjust and unfair to tax a person's home" - Enda Kenny, 1994 @endakennytd #propertytax
— Irish Government (@eiregov) December 23, 2011
Bingo Vegan Christmas, Dublin, Sun 11th Dec
Bingo Vegan Christmas, Dublin, 11th Dec
Bingo, Vegan Food, Prizes, Board Games, Poker, Christmas decorations, great fireplace and of course absolutely great company. “Vegan Ireland” is hosting another great event. This time it’s "Christmas Bingo" and it will take place on Sunday December 11th at 6.30pm
Critically acclaimed anti-hare coursing memoir now a free e book
With the cruel practise of live hare coursing still shaming our country, I wish to inform everbody that Bad Hare Days, the critically acclaimed memoir by anti-bloodsports campaigner John Fitzgerald, is now available as a free e book (link below).
Labour WILL NOT cut Child Benefit
Dear Labour TD,
In your pre-election manifesto, this is what you committed yourselves to. Now, commit yourselves to it.
Labour believes that our children should not be made to pay for the current economic crisis. LABOUR WILL NOT CUT CHILD BENEFIT, because we acknowledge that:
- Some extremely harsh budgets in recent years have meant that family
incomes have already taken a substantial hit.
- Despite our current economic problems, Ireland remains a very expensive
place to raise a child, and child benefit is the only recognition by the State of
Labour WILL NOT cut Child Benefit
What I Hope to Hear at the Next Protest I go on
This is a guest post from Brian Burn
What I hope to hear from the next protest I go to.
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What if one man spoke and said,
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If one man holds on to his mortgage payment for 6 months, the bank you helped to bail out will come after him. But what if all the mortgage payments of all the people here .What if each and every one of you held on to your payment. What if two hundred thousand, mortgage holders held back payment. What if they stood as one united in a common cause.
Instead of a single individual trying to negotiate with the nonnegotiable?
Who then I ask would have the power of negotiation.
We are opposed to Septic tank charges
Why I'm voting for Michael D. Higgins for President of Ireland - #aras11
This is a guest post from Fiachra O'Luain.
Michael D Higgins was there for us when hundreds of us travelled to Sellafield in February 2002 to protest the introduction of the MOX reprocessing plant. Michael D turned up at 7am in Dun Laoghaire on a Saturday morning to simply wish us his support before we sailed for Britain.
The War on Terror Ten Years On
This is a guest post by ShannonWatch.
A brief war in Afghanistan is shortly to enter its second decade, seven years of war in Iraq have yet to bring a lasting peace, and Pakistan remains deeply unstable. Meanwhile, groups linked loosely with the al-Qaida movement make progress in Yemen, Nigeria, Algeria and the Horn of Africa.
This is one of the conclusions of a recent security briefing by Paul Rogers for the Oxford Research Group. The briefing says that it has become increasingly clear over the last decade that the United States and its partners must learn from the failure of the so-called 'war on terror' by paying more attention to the underlying causes of conflicts, especially the factors motivating young paramilitaries to take extreme action.