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international / gender and sexuality Thursday June 28, 2007 - 20:31 by ribbid
 7 comments (last - wednesday december 17, 2014 - 02:21)  1 image
A 2005 UNICEF report suggested 97%of Egyptian women between ages 15 and 49 had undergone some type of genital mutilation or circumcision. Last week ago Bodur Ahmed Shaker an 11 year old girl died after undergoing the operation at a private clinic in Minya province in the south of the state. Doctors at the clinic had suggested her death was due to a a heavy dose of anaesthetic and her operation is believed to have been a result of her parents wish to preserve her chastity.., Since then the Egyptian establishment has moved to close a final loop-hole in their legislation which had allowed a practise which has been common since Pharonic times to continue. The change to the law announced this afternoon followed statements on Islamic theology from the state mufti (supporting the end to this barbaric practice and reminding all it has no scriptural basis in either Quran or Talmud [old testament] ) ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Wednesday June 27, 2007 - 22:16 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain
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Members of the EU petitions committee today visited the Hill of Tara and the new National Monument at Lismullin along with petitioners who had made submission. ... read full story / add a comment 
kildare / history and heritage Tuesday June 26, 2007 - 15:32 by Connection Breaker
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Thousands of Republicans from, across Ireland and Internationally gathered in Bodenstown, County Kildare, on Sunday 24th June to honour the founding father of Irish Republicanism, Theobold Wolfetone. As part of the crowd was a vibrant display of youth from Ógra Shinn Féin. ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Monday June 25, 2007 - 23:00 by Gan Ainm
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Well over a hundred people attended a video showing and music night to raise funds for Mumia Abu Jamal and Anarchist life prisoner and jailhouse lawyer Harold Thompson. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday June 24, 2007 - 22:51 by Edward Horgan
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Protest at Shannon on Sat 23rd June, Galway airshow on Sunday 24th and the shocking attempts to indoctrinate GAA underage players into the myths of US military just wars ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday June 24, 2007 - 22:17 by Wandering Reporter
Last Thursday 14th June in Asturias, Northern Spain I was present at an action where a Zombie Collective came back from the dead to support La Campana Asturiana e Contra el Expolio de las Petroleras and other Spanish solidarity organisations by staging a series of die-ins in a garage forecourt and elsewhere around the city of Gijon. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-war / imperialism Sunday June 24, 2007 - 15:10 by TD
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Shortly, ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Sunday June 24, 2007 - 14:28 by Brendan Young
10 comments (last - tuesday june 26, 2007 - 16:25)
CAEUC to meet Saturday July 7 at 11.00 at the WP offices in Hill St We are now in the run-up to either a referendum or Dáil decision on a revised version of the EU Constitution. The EU Heads of Government agreed on changes to the failed Constitution over the weekend and a full IGC will begin in July to finalise a new treaty / constitution. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday June 24, 2007 - 08:21 by Caoimhe Butterly
As the siege of Nahr al Bared continues reports of the systematic abuse of Palestinian detainees have emerged. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday June 22, 2007 - 17:51 by éirígí - For a Socialist Republic
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Defend the right to protest free from state violence ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday June 22, 2007 - 00:50 by Jolly Red Giant
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Classroom assistants across Northern Ireland are preparing for industrial action to defend their pay. Their employers, the Education and Library Boards acting under the direction of Education Minister Catriona Ruane, are proposing to cut their pay by as much as 79p an hour. The insulting move comes at the end of years of negotiation by the main trade unions representing Classroom Assistants, NIPSA and UNISON. ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Thursday June 21, 2007 - 20:17 by R. Isible
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ThePirateBay is best known for hosting trackers for distributed file-sharing and getting raided recently by the Swedish police at the behest of the US MPAA. They've been making noises about a couple of new ventures, and one of them has gone live: a completely uncensored image hosting service. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / politics / elections Wednesday June 20, 2007 - 19:03 by Jake E Lee
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Former Labour Cllr Declan Bree has continued with supporting the Labour/FF pact on Sligo Borough and County Council despite leaving the Labour party recently ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Tuesday June 19, 2007 - 23:06 by NIall Harnett
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On Thur 3rd May 2007 at Westport District Court, I successfully applied for summonses and initiated prosecutions against 3 members of An Garda Síochána, Belmullet, Co Mayo, who were then summonsed to appear to answer charges of assault, criminal damage and theft at Belmullet District Court on 13th June. On Wed 13th June 2007 at Belmullet District Court, I failed to bring the case to a full hearing, because of a number of avoidable mistakes that I made, one of which proved to my undoing, whereby the judge put a stop to me proceeding any further with these summonses. This article is an account of my days in court, including the procedures I went through to initiate the prosecutions and the mistakes I made in failing, at this stage, to bring the proceedings to the proper conclusion of a trial. I hope others can learn from my experience, avoid the pitfalls, and be encouraged to bring their own prosecutions against criminal Gardaí, in order to stop their violence and the cowardly abuse of their power. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 19, 2007 - 21:25 by william considine
21 comments (last - thursday march 27, 2008 - 12:54)
A couple of months ago the story of Thomas Kennedy's unlawful imprisonment was carried on Indymedia. In the meantime he remains in prison being periodically brought back to Judge Olive Buttimers Court. He believes he is unjustly imprisoned and Judge Buttimer states she will keep him in prison until he changes his mind. Justice, the Kennedy family and the tax payer is the loser in Olive Buttimers merry-go-round. This is todays episode. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Monday June 18, 2007 - 17:48 by IMC Athens
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http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/asfal...s.avi On the 24th of June 2006, at least four policemen tortured two migrants in the police station of Omonia in central Athens. They forced them to beat each other, beat them both and captured the torturing on a mobile phone camera. For nearly a year, that footage was circulated amongst policemen via mobile phones. On the early hours of the 16th of June 2007 the video was uploaded to a commercial video sharing service and from there, to Athens Indymedia. A few hours later it featured as breaking news in Greece's major media outlets, forcing prime minister Karamanlis to issue a statement condemning the incident. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday June 17, 2007 - 18:36 by TD
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Yesterday, Galway IPSC activists did their customary seven hour stint outside Lynch's castle in Shop Street gathering signatures for the Israeli Blood Diamonds petition and, generally, bearing witness to that torn country, ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Sunday June 17, 2007 - 14:31 by John McDermott
Various goings on, re the Soldiers of Destiny and their new Broccoli Brotherhood. ... read full story / add a comment 
limerick / miscellaneous Saturday June 16, 2007 - 18:22 by Limerick Socialist Party
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The new government is set to continue the old policies; underfunding healthcare and creating a US-style, for-profit health system. This will only worsen the crisis and must be resisted. The current scandal here in Limerick of people having to travel long distances for dialysis underlines this. For years now the government and HSE have been aware that the dialysis machine in Limerick Regional Hospital is over worked and that one or more new macines are desperately needed. They refused to act, putting costs before service. Now people are forced to travel to Tullamore, Kilkenny or Tralee a few times a week to recieve vital dialysis. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Wednesday June 13, 2007 - 13:05 by Red and Black
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Confidential letter shows 'belt tightening' ordered in Cork hospital. ... read full story / add a comment |
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