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international / miscellaneous Thursday July 15, 2004 - 19:21 by guy
 22 comments (last - monday april 17, 2006 - 17:37)
In the most startling display of people taking a film's inherent message far too seriously, almost 75% of Americans now base their religion on the story depicted in Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ." Theologian Tom Sandell sat down and talked to us about this extraordinary phenomenon. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Thursday July 15, 2004 - 18:31 by Barry Finnegan
2 comments (last - saturday july 17, 2004 - 21:35)
Greg Palast the investigative reporter and author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, carried this story for the BBC television show Newsnight and The Guardian newspaper in the UK back in 2000 and goes as far as to have in his possession two computer discs contains the 97,000 names of mostly Democrat-voting African-Americans which were illegally removed by the office of the Secretary of State of Florida from the Florida electoral roll. The list was so faulty that Mr. Palast even interviewed an conviction-free electoral returning officer whose name was purged from the electoral roll. Palast will also be revealing the details he has uncovered regarding precisely how Governor Jeb Bush [Bush The Younger’s brother] managed to swing Florida for the NeoCons when he appears as a panellist on a joint Minority Outreach Forum sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus and Senator Hillary Clinton. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Thursday July 15, 2004 - 15:54 by Sinn Fein
38 comments (last - saturday july 24, 2004 - 17:13)
Christie to give up council seat Martin Christie announced yesterday evening that he will resign his Sinn Féin seat on Fingal County Council at the request of the party's Ard Chomhairle. ... read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 15, 2004 - 14:17 by dunk
16 comments (last - monday september 13, 2004 - 01:16)
"at the traveller site in black pool off gt william o`brain st. guards are here trying to evict or scare them off. we are supporting the travellers, could use more bodies. have just heard the gardai have threathened to block the travllers in. all help appreciated" recieved from cork activist at 14.45 yesterday ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 15, 2004 - 13:39 by Davy Carlin
43 comments (last - saturday july 31, 2004 - 10:09)
The American racist organisaton the Ku Klux Klan has sent its congratulations to the people of Ireland in the wake of the "yes" vote in the citizenship referendum. The klan`s "Imperial Wizard" - the head of the organisation - Ray Larsen spoke to Dubliner magazine, and has written to Ireland`s Justice Minister Michael McDowell in praise of his work. The KKK says it is "excited" by the Irish move to restrict citizenship, as it says, "according to blood-lines rather than birthplace". The klan has said it has no problem with white immigrants. ... read full story / add a comment
cavan / environment Thursday July 15, 2004 - 02:32 by M. Lynch
3 comments (last - tuesday october 26, 2004 - 21:29)
Cavan quarry company, John Nulty Limited have finally lodged a planning application with Cavan County Council to extend their quarry at Ardkill More mountain, Carrickaboy, five miles south of Cavan town. ... read full story / add a comment
waterford / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday July 14, 2004 - 20:25 by Jim
2 comments (last - thursday july 15, 2004 - 03:13)
Comrades, families and friends gathered in Waterford to commemorate the international bridage from the town and county. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / crime and justice Wednesday July 14, 2004 - 15:12 by dileacht
7 comments (last - tuesday july 04, 2006 - 00:15)
Money dries up for CIRA and their drug dealing/gun renting/ 'security' services ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Tuesday July 13, 2004 - 18:11 by Cllr Eoin o' Broin
14 comments (last - wednesday july 14, 2004 - 18:12)
The following is a report from the UTV website on SFs allignment in the EU and our broad agenda. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 13, 2004 - 14:57 by Justin Morahan
2 comments (last - monday july 26, 2004 - 03:07)
Mordechai Vanunu, who served close on 18 years in prison in Israel for having revealed secrets about the Dimona reactor, has had severe restrictions placed on his freedom of action since his release last April. An Israeli Civil Rights group has made a petiton to the Supreme Court and on 11 July the case was heard. There was the equivalent of a reserved judgement, so we await the outcome. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday July 13, 2004 - 11:51 by T L
2 comments (last - wednesday july 14, 2004 - 09:39)
AFSCME and SEIU unions take bold anti-war stance “Working-class brothers and sisters in uniform died in Iraq for profits” ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Monday July 12, 2004 - 10:14 by Ionest
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Buy Israel - if everyone does a little, together we can make a difference. , ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday July 12, 2004 - 09:20 by Nuclear Resister
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Along with the late Fr. Paul Kabat & the late Larry Cloud Morgan, Helen and Carl were part of the Silo Pruning Hooks that carried out a nonviolent disarmament action on an ICBM missile silo in 1984. ***See link below for backgorund on this 1984 action.... Larry & Paul were sentenced to 8 years. Helen & Carl were sentenced to 18 years. Since 1984 Helen has spent less than a week out of custody. While in federal custody she carried out further resistance actions on military related industries in the federal prison. In the late '80' s she resigned from the specifically pacifist plowshares movement. When paroled in 1996, she expropriated $10.000 from a bank in Chicago. placed it on the floor of the bank, burnt it with lighter fluid and stated "money is the root of all evil!". She was released a few months ago and her probabtion breaking action is described below. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Saturday July 10, 2004 - 13:16 by iosaf
14 comments (last - thursday july 15, 2004 - 17:24)
I thought to profile one of the companies which is unusual in that it has made bids for all three available contracts, and interesting in that it is Irish registered. And that it's annual stock-holders meeting which allows the owners of the 55,913,669 shares to discuss policy, profit and direction will be held on Monday July 12th 2004. ... read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism Friday July 09, 2004 - 20:16 by karen
17 comments (last - tuesday july 20, 2004 - 13:44)
court proceedings of the hearingsof Ed Hoprgan,Arron Baker,Eibhlin Ni hir (S.A.B.S.) ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday July 09, 2004 - 17:40 by fin
14 comments (last - tuesday july 13, 2004 - 20:58)
Israel found guilty and as usual are ignoring it. ... read full story / add a comment 
AUDIO: from the Black Bloc to "Bread & Butter" struggles - i/view with 2 activists from "La Commune"
international / anti-capitalism Friday July 09, 2004 - 15:26 by interview by Padraic
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45 minute MP3 audio 25.1 Megabytes 80kb Stereo ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday July 09, 2004 - 12:27 by J.M. O'Connell
51 comments (last - thursday july 29, 2004 - 15:46)
Indymedia has recently come in for criticism by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). The SWP is sensitive, it seems, to criticism of the party and its front organisation, the Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM). ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 08, 2004 - 19:12 by Niav
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News report about Gardai investigations into back street abortions in Ireland from a memeber of Alliance For Choice. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday July 08, 2004 - 16:46 by Dave Lordan
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SIPTU and NRBU rank and file to unite on pickets against privatisation on July 20th ... read full story / add a comment |
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