Archive for February 2014 | Monthly archive page
by Jamison Maeda
Protesters marching to prevent the construction of the Keystone Pipeline
In what is being called “religious protection legislation,” politicians in the US state of Arizona have voted to allow businesses to refuse service to gay people. While at the same time the religious beliefs and traditions of Native American people are once again being completely ignored as oil company Trans Canada continues working on the Keystone XL Pipeline which would carry the planet’s dirtiest fossil fuel across sacred Native American land in the US.
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Circus Sea Lions are currently performing in Fingal, home to the ISS, with Duffy’s Circus on tour, notwithstanding Fingal County Council’s 2007 claim to be the 1st council to ban circuses with wildlife. The ISS is of the view the circus is not a suitable life for a marine mammal, closely confined, travelling and performing and has made Duffys the offer to home or facilitate retiring and rehoming these Sea Lions.
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Clare recently asked Eamon Gilmore about escalating attacks on Palestinian rights…
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the calls for legal action to be taken against the illegal decision of the Israeli authorities to approve the construction of over 500 apartments in occupied east Jerusalem earlier this month; and the action he will take regarding this escalating attack on Palestinian rights.
Clare Daly.
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To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline a strategy in relation to the urgent necessity to deliver Metro North..
– Clare Daly.
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