Dear TD/Senator,
I write to demand that the so-called “debt” of 1.25bn Euro (one billion, two hundred and fifty million) due to be paid to UNSECURED Anglo bondholders be not paid.
Since the Irish people had no hand in this debt; we do not consent to paying it. Since the Irish people will not benefit from its [...]

Didn’t You Kill My Brother?
As goes the old saying
Big fleas are having little fleas upon their backs which are bite them, and little fleas have even littler fleas, and so on until you get to the littlest.
What I am referencing here to on this occasion by my witty apothegm above is the recent case of [...]

Audio recording of Professor Fred Magdoff’s presentation at the Greaves School on Friday (9 September).
The title of the talk is: The international economic crisis – making the periphery pay.
The session was chaired by councillor Catherine Connolly, Galway City Council and barrister.
Fred Magdoff is a professor emeritus at the University of Vermont and [...]

What if we bought a modern telecommunications system, bringing Next Generation Broadband to every household and business in the country?
- What if we purchased a state-of-the-art waste and water system to secure an increasingly scarce resource?
- What if we provided one-on-one intensive tutorials for all those with literacy and numeracy problems that keep [...]

International business news and other TV channels are offering a Babel-like interpretation of the current slump in world financial markets. European (including British) stations are reporting the Wall Street-led declines as a response to the continued debt crisis in Europe. But this makes no sense. An EU crisis would have been felt first in EU [...]

This interview with the late Juliano Mer-Khamis was originally published on South/South on the 5th of April, after a shorter version appeared on Electronic Intifada. Many thanks to Maryam Monalisa Gharavi for allowing us to publish it here.
Art cannot free you from your chains, but art can generate and mobilize [a] discourse of freedom. [...]

Here’s a song and message from Gary Dunne.
Hi all,
I have pledged, to myself and to those who like my music, to release a new track every month in 2011.
This is the first of them – ‘What Kind Of Country Are We Living In?’

The track was written in late Dec 2010, in response to the [...]

Dear TDs,
It’s time for an election. It really is.
How long more can this charade of pretending you have a mandate from the “people” go on? You never had a mandate from the people in the first place - at most you had about 41% of a mandate from the 40% that voted [...]

Claire Hanna is International Secretary of the SDLP and chairs the Balmoral South Belfast Branch. She works for the development agency Concern Worldwide.
You come from a political family. When did you start to get involved in politics yourself?
Yes, my father was a Civil Rights activist and General Secretary of the SDLP in the 1980s and [...]

Update: Simon McGarr of the Tuppenceworth.ie blog has set up a Facebook group to argue for the diplomatic expulsion of the Papal Nuncio from Ireland. He also provides two sample letters to send to either Ministers or TDs about this affair. Here is a PDF copy of the sample letters which you can amend  [...]