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Resistance to Shell and the great gas rip off continues This is the video shot last night the sound file is the soundtrack I made for it
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uJJ1sd7wtIListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Second audio recordingdiscussionListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The politics of direct action and the struggle of the Visteon workersOn Saturday 9th May, the Belfast branch of the WSM held a public meeting at An Culturlann in West Belfast on‘Can Direct Action achieve success’.
Contributions from former Visteon workers, Dessie McEnroe and Mark O’Hara on their participation in the occupation, building links with fellow workers and lessons learnt.
Here is a short report and audio recording from the discussions.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IPSC Speech at Dublin Mayday Rally 2009The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) were present at this year's Mayday march in Dublin City. The IPSC formed one of the biggest contingents in a very poorly attended demonstration. I can't say for definitely, but it was suggested, several times by different people in attendance, that this was the smallest Dublin mayday march ever - why this was the case is not for me to say.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Belfast: 'The history of Mayday and its relevance today'As part of this year’s Mayday celebrations the Anarchist Communist Discussion Group formed by the WSM, hosting a talk on ‘The roots of Mayday and its relevance today.” The talk took place on Tuesday 5th May in Belfast city centre.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Argentina: Workers Rally to Keep Occupied Factory (2:32)May 1, 1909. Police kill thirty workers in a South American city. The workers are gunned down and violently beaten during a protest to demand an eight hour work day and remember the Hay Market Martyrs. Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, was the scene of this massacre targeting the anarchist-labor movement which proliferated throughout the region through the beginning of the 20th century.
Rest of the story at the link.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Question & Answer session from Three speakers on Pro-Choice Struggles in Ireland This is the Question and answer session from the meeting, its just short of 30 minutes
Some further reading
Choice Ireland - http://www.choiceireland.org/
Old Dublin Abortion Rights Group site - http://struggle.ws/darg.html
The struggle for abortion rights in Ireland - a pretty detailed history - http://www.wsm.ie/story/4421Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three speakers on Pro-Choice Struggles in IrelandThree speakers talk about the pro-choice struggles in Ireland they were involved in over the last three decades. These include the 1983 anti-referendum campaign, the Womens' Information Network, the SPUC v students case, Dublin Abortion Information Campaign, X-Case, Repeal 8th Amendment, 1992 Referendum, Dublin Abortion Rights Group, Alliance for a No Vote, 1998 referendum, Choice Ireland and the D-Case.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview with Charlie Maxwell- Deputy convenor at Ford/Visteon Belfast plantInterview conducted today at the plant. Workers remain determined to achieve their demands despite attempts by the administrators to evict them.
Solidarity is Strength!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MidWestRadioNews - 24th April - Lack of Glengad PermissionHere's a clip from MidWestRadio News last friday from Liamy McNally who stated"There is no planning permission in place for work in the site in Glengad"and also reads what the authorities are claiming and why this is incorrect.
I missed the beginning of the report.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iranian Revolution 1979 – the hidden history - HOPIYesterday Torab Saleh who took part in the Iranian revolution of 1979 spoke in Dublin of his personal experiences of that time and the challenges it presented to him and others on the left. This is the audio recording of that meeting.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Embedded audio: http://www.sligocentre.net/ab_site/Audio/Tanaiste%20on%20Ocean.mp3This is a copy of the press release sent out regarding the 'Save Sligos Cancer Services' (SCSS).
The group are organising a huge protest in Sligo this good friday, they are marching on Sligo General and demanding that the management choose whether they are going to represent the people of the Northwest or the private interests and agenda of Mary Harney and the HSE. The SCSS have stated that their memmbers are sick and tired of teh duplicity and lies of both the management in Sligo and the H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RallyAlso BBC footage of the march
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7990210.stmListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Audio recordings with workers and the rally [1]Audio recordingsListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rally inside the plantAudio recordingsListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Audio recordings with workers and the rally [2]Audio recordingsListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Second Workers InterviewInterviewListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Audio recordings with workers and the rally [3]Audio recordingsListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stanley Aronowitz speaking to WSM meeting on popular educationThis is a recording of Stanley Aronowitz speaking on 'Popular Education in a Time of Struggle' to a Workers Solidarity Movement meeting in the Seomra Spraoi Social centre, Dublin the end of March 2009. Stanley Aronowitz is professor of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a veteran political activist and cultural critic and an advocate for organized labor.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Embedded audio: http://www.archive.org/download/DissidentIslandRadioApril1st2009-G20Part1/Dissident_Island_Radio-April-01-2009_64kb.mp3details:
http://www.dissidentisland.org/ShowArchive/2009-04-01.html
Go to end to listen from this thread
including the space hijackers tank story
info from yesterdays DN! show outlining reasons behind the protests etc:
As Obama Arrives in London for G20, Tens of Thousands Gather to Protest in the Streets
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/1/as_obama_arrives_in_london_for
G20 protests: Riot police, or rioting police?
The trouble-makers are out in force again. Dressed in black, their face ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Workers occupations spread at Visteon Plants.“Don’t wait for politicians and people high up in the unions- just do it yourself”, says Unite shop steward John McGuire.
Protests spread, as workers continue to occupy Visteon/Ford plant in West Belfast.
Workers decided to take action on Tuesday after the car parts company announced without notice that administrators are being brought in with the loss of 210 jobs with minimum redundancy payments. A further 400 people will also lose there jobs across the UK. Even those who have been ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Singing at the gates of Mountjoy jail for MauraThe video is scenes from last nights protest and the one two Saturdays back with Finbarrs song about the Solitaire as performed last night dubbed over the video
The audio recorded last night is an instrumental followed by Brid singing 'The Foggy Dew' and then Finbarr again.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ashanti Alston at the 2009 Dublin Anarchist Bookfair - HQ verThe first posting of the audio of the Ashanti posting above had to be compressed to 32bps because of the then existing limitaons on the size of audio files. Indymedia.ie has upped the limit and as 32bps means the introduction of a lot of compression artifact noise I'm reposting a 56kbs version which will be a lot better. I've also attempted to correctly link in the video someone tried to post above
Note to editors - the low quality version should probably be left in place as I suspect ther ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discussion on social centers in North America&EuropeA look at 'social centre' spaces in North America, Glasgow, Spain and Italy. What is a social center in these different contexts and how do they relate to anti-capitalism.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What is Anarchism at the Anarchist Bookfair 2009This is the last of the audio recordings from the 2009 Dublin anarchist bookfair and it is the 'What is anarchism' session. Two sessions were not recorded, the one on social centres as the workshop technique used for not sutable for audio recording and the one on sexual health as it would have had too big an effect on the questions people felt able to ask.
This 'What is anarchism' session was recorded using my backup gear, this along with the fact that it happened in a cordened off area of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martha Ackelsburg at the 2009 Dublin anarchist bookfairMartha is a US anarchist feminist and author of the classic anarchist text 'Free women of Spain'. In her talk at the bookfair she discusses the movement of revolutionary anarchist women that arose during the Spanish revolution of 1936.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ashanti Alston at the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair 2009Ashanti Alston is a former member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army member told us about his experiences, the lessons he draws from them and what he thought of revolutionary politics in Ireland.
Note - indymedia has a 20mb file size limit which means that the only way I could get this file up was to reduce the sampling rate to 32bit, most of the others here are 40 but really they should be at least 48.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Palestine & womens rights discussion at 2009 Anarchist BookfairThis audio is of the session organised by the Irish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign. The speaker is Nidal Saadeh, a leftist Palestinian activist from Bethlehem in the West Bank.
Note - this was recorded with my back up equipment which isn't as good as my main recorder. The first minute or so of the audio is very indistinct but it improves after that.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Organising the Fightback meeting at Dublin anarchist bookfair 2009This is an audio recording of the '‘Organising The Fightback’' meeting at the 2009 Dublin anarchist bookfair. There were three speakers at the meeting, Gregor Kerr a WSM (and INTO) member, an Executive member of the Civil and Public Services Union (CPSU) and a representative of the Free Education for Everyone (FEE) Campaign.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Debate on Left Unity between ISN & WSM at 2009 Dublin Anarchist bookfairThis is the audio recording of one of the first morning meetings at the bookfair 'Left Unity? What sort of Left should we be trying to build?' Which was a debate between the WSM & ISN. There are contributions from the floor from "People before Profit' and the 'International Bolshevik Tedency'.
Audio is one hour and five minutes in duration.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website People reactions to the 2009 Dublin anarchist bookfairIn the region of 1,000 people attended the Dublin 2009 Anarchist bookfair at Liberty Hall on Saturday. From the time doors opened at 10.30 to 6pm a constant stream of people came into the venue to browse the books, listen to the speakers or to take part in workshops and discussions.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bold, Beautiful, Blooming Barcelona asks: What would it mean to win? [1]Springtime in Europe and the Earths life's cycle is in bloom again. The 3 parts of the radio documentary capture magical moments in the recent history of one of the most exciting projects in Barcelona at present, our community garden in Gracia. This article was written after a lovely Valentines weekend of much open, shared and participative activity; the highlight of which was our collective mural day in the garden. It is hoped that some of the life, current ideas, projects, tools, spaces, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bold, Beautiful, Blooming Barcelona asks: What would it mean to win? [2]Springtime in Europe and the Earths life's cycle is in bloom again. The 3 parts of the radio documentary capture magical moments in the recent history of one of the most exciting projects in Barcelona at present, our community garden in Gracia. This article was written after a lovely Valentines weekend of much open, shared and participative activity; the highlight of which was our collective mural day in the garden. It is hoped that some of the life, current ideas, projects, tools, spaces, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bold, Beautiful, Blooming Barcelona asks: What would it mean to win? [3]Springtime in Europe and the Earths life's cycle is in bloom again. The 3 parts of the radio documentary capture magical moments in the recent history of one of the most exciting projects in Barcelona at present, our community garden in Gracia. This article was written after a lovely Valentines weekend of much open, shared and participative activity; the highlight of which was our collective mural day in the garden. It is hoped that some of the life, current ideas, projects, tools, spaces, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mary Cummings, North Wall Womens Centre @ Sheriff StreetIt was quite ironic that we had this discussion in a space, which COULD have turned into a major positive node for Dublin, Stack A. Apparently in the early days of Charlie Haugheys deal to construct the IFSC, Stack A was designated as some sort of"community space", in the end, as stated by Frank Mc Donald and Robert Ballagh, it has turned into yet another space of consumption.... But now that its crisis time, perhaps we will see a change??
Im attaching an MP3 from Mary Cummings, of the NWW ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dublin´s MetamorphosisDiscussion chaired by Frank McDonald, journalist with The Irish Times, on a broad range of architectural and developmental issues that have become apparent in Celtic Tiger Dublin. Contributors include Dr. Gary Boyd, Ciarán Cuffe TD, Robert Ballagh and Siobhain Ní Éanaigh. The majority of the speakers were very critical of Celtic Tiger Ireland, a change from previous"architectural discussion". The talk happened inDocklands"white elephant", CHQ, aka: Stack A.Sunday August 10 2008 was the d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Part 2 of Andrew Flood Ashanti Alston discussionThis is part 2 of the interview/discussion, about 50 minutes worth this time
Again rough notes on what this section of the interview covers
The number of political prisoners still in US jails
The use of the police to keep people under control and the militarization of the police in the major cities
Cop Watch the deterrent power of videoing policing
Prison abolition
Security, provocation and paranoia and how to deal with the consequences on the movement
FBI crackdown on Earth First and Anim ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Flood in discussion with Ashanti Alston part 1US Anarchist Ashanti Alston who is speaking at the Anarchist Bookfair in Dublin this March 7th has spent that last few days speaking at meetings in Cork and Galway and hanging out with anarchists in Dublin. In this interview recorded last night in Kilmainham he talks about his visit to Ireland, the post Seattle anarchist wave in the USA, the formation of Anarchist People Of Color (APOC) the current capitalist crisis and the need to seize the moment.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The largest act of civil disobedience to happen in the US this Monday!!!Al Gore:"I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants."Next Monday The largest act of civil disobedience will happen against global warming in the US.A large protest has been called at a coal-fired plant in Washington, D.C, 11,000 people are expected.In the days leading up to the protest, youth climate activists are organizing a conference calledPower Shift’09.Thousands of student activists plan to lobby lawmake ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview about the ICTU march against pay cuts and job lossesImages from todays demonstration against the pay cuts&job losses and an interview with Dermot who was at the demonstration leafletting for the WSM on the atmosphere of the demonstration and what is to come.
Audio is about 9 minutes long
The text of the leaflet Dermot refers to can be found at http://www.wsm.ie/story/5183
Background articles on the crisis and resistance can be found at http://www.wsm.ie/story/5185Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Embedded audio: http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2009/02/12/the_gracia_community_garden_radio_doc-final.mp3Maybe might add to your productive and culinery fun and games in cork
3 page manual: http://www.rebargroup.org/projects/parking/src/PARK(ing)_Manual.pdf
web: http://www.rebargroup.org/projects/parking/index.html#
source: http://www.postoilcities.org/
Related vids on Transitioning from the BCN / SPANISH TI community, which surely park(ing) will soon play a part: http://transicion.ning.com/video/video
happy weekend, happy planting, tmrw we work more in our gracia garden and paint a mural, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christopher Hitchens RacistChristopher Hitchens can be heard here making a Racist Comment on BBC Radio 4 on the "Any Answers" Program on Saturday 17 January 2009 which was recorded in Washington USA.No apology for his behavior was made by either the BBC ,Jonathan Dimbleby or Christopher Hitchens.
This is the commentary that came with the recording.
"Jonathan Dimbleby hosts from The George Washington University in Washington, DC. The panel includes Christopher Hitchens, Renee Amoore, Thomas E Mann and Colonel Larry ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Audio from Public Meeting in Cork in Solidarity with the Waterford Crystal WorkersNoel Atkins and Pat Phelan, Waterford Crystal workers and Unite Shop Stewards, travelled to Cork last night to speak out against the attempted closure of the plant. They spoke from the heart as workers tossed on the scrap heap after decades of service.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Embedded audio: http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/nov2008/capitalistcrisisggnov08.mp3At all levels, the education system is under attack from the present government.
The savage cuts already announced at primary and second level appear to be just the first steps in what will be a sustained attack on the public sector in general and education in particular – both from the point of view of the provision of the service and the wages and working conditions of those employed in it.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Waterford Occupation: A Snapshot Of A 'Tiny Ugly World' / Interview with Joe Kelly (UNITE)Members of the Cork branch of the Workers Solidarity Movement travelled to Waterford today (2nd Feburary) to offer solidarity and support to the workers who are occupying Waterford Crystal. While there we took the opportunity to do an interview with Joe Kelly of the UNITE union and of Waterford Crystal, asking him the kind of questions that fellow workers and readers of Indymedia might be interested in. We also took some photos of a unique Waterford twist on 'canteen culture'. You can hear ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MP3 of Interview with Joe Kelly - 10 minutesMembers of the Cork branch of the Workers Solidarity Movement travelled to Waterford today (2nd Feburary) to offer solidarity and support to the workers who are occupying Waterford Crystal. While there we took the opportunity to do an interview with Joe Kelly of the UNITE union and of Waterford Crystal, asking him the kind of questions that fellow workers and readers of Indymedia might be interested in. We also took some photos of a unique Waterford twist on 'canteen culture'. You can hear ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Former Black Panther to Speak in Dublin [1]The Anarchist Bookfair 2009 is being held in Liberty Hall on March 7th. This year, the Workers Solidarity Movement are proud to announce US Anarchist Ashanti Alston will be speaking. Ashanti was a member of the Black Panther Party in the sixties and early 1970's. As a political prisoner he spent over a decade in US prisons. Ashanti has since become an anarchist while still drawing on many of his experiences and ideas that spurred him on as a Black Panther activist.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Former Black Panther to Speak in Dublin [2]The Anarchist Bookfair 2009 is being held in Liberty Hall on March 7th. This year, the Workers Solidarity Movement are proud to announce US Anarchist Ashanti Alston will be speaking. Ashanti was a member of the Black Panther Party in the sixties and early 1970's. As a political prisoner he spent over a decade in US prisons. Ashanti has since become an anarchist while still drawing on many of his experiences and ideas that spurred him on as a Black Panther activist.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Former Black Panther to Speak in Dublin [3]The Anarchist Bookfair 2009 is being held in Liberty Hall on March 7th. This year, the Workers Solidarity Movement are proud to announce US Anarchist Ashanti Alston will be speaking. Ashanti was a member of the Black Panther Party in the sixties and early 1970's. As a political prisoner he spent over a decade in US prisons. Ashanti has since become an anarchist while still drawing on many of his experiences and ideas that spurred him on as a Black Panther activist.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | |