Monday, Mar 15th 2010
The following is a short extract from the recently published biography of political activist and former Labour Party Councillor Joe Deasy by Brian Kenny, published in association with the Hugh Geraghty-Crumlin, Drimnagh, Walkinstown Branch of The Labour Party. Details of how to get Joe Deasy: A Life on the Left are at the end of [...]
Climate Justice Photosteam From Copenhagen 2009
Very nice photostream from Climate Justice taken during the recent protests outside the Copenhagen 2009 Climate Change Summit.
Christopher Bickerton | No means no; yes doesn’t mean yes
Bickerton, in this Le Monde Diplomatique article, argues that Ireland’s final yes vote in Lisbon II, and the whole journey of the EU constitution from initial drafting to full ratification, illustates that Europe’s governments value the opinion of their peers more than that of their citizens. [...]
Annie Leonard: The Story of Cap & Trade
The Story of Cap & Trade Annie Leonard’s brilliant 20-minute animated film looking at COP15’s favorite sustainability solution. The engaging, fast-paced film probes into the hidden dangers of the proposed (non-)solution, from how the biggest polluters are exploiting the system’s loopholes to why climate Band-Aids like fake offsets [...]
During the “Fuck You Emmet Stagg, Fuck You” exchange in the Dail last Friday, the following was said:
Deputy Paul Gogarty: It is most unparliamentary language and I now withdraw it and apologise for it but I am outraged that someone dares question my sincerity on this issue.
I do not like what has to be done, [...]
Perry Anderson | Acting in the Name of Integral Nationalism
Perry Anderson’s much anticipated book on Europe, New-Old World is available now from Verso, although it was supposed to be published in May 2009 it only became available in November. It’s a meditation on the history of the European community, not in the sense of the [...]
t r u t h o u t | Zombie Politics and Other Late Modern Monstrosities in the Age of Disposability
With the cruelest of ironies, zombie politics and culture invoke life as they promote death and human suffering. For example, zombie politicians who oppose the welfare state, health care reforms, investing in a quality education [...]
Zombie Zeitgeist | Why Undead Corpses Are Dominating at the Box Office
"In fact, I'll go out on a severed limb and take it further: If zombies specifically represent the apocalyptic downsides of immortalized mindlessness, then today's zombie zeitgeist is not merely a result of scary quandaries created by stupidity. It is a reaction to both [...]
Bad science | Climate change? Well, we’ll be dead by then
"Among all these, reigning supreme, is the "zombie argument": arguments which survive to be raised again, for eternity, no matter how many times they are shot down. "Homeopathy worked for me," and the rest.
Zombie arguments survive, immortal and resistant to all refutation, because they do [...]
Trade Union TV from Budget day at the Dail
Protests took place all day on December 9th 2009 outside the Dail while the Fianna Fail / Green / Independents’ voted to savage public services and the pay of Public sector workers while letting the rich off. Hundreds took part in rolling protests through the day and [...]