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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 02, 2011 - 19:12 by John Cornford
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The Iranian regime has sentenced Houtan Kian, (the lawyer of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani), to death by hanging. Houtan Kian was arrested in October 2010 along with Sajjad Ghaderzadeh, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s son, and two German journalists during an interview. The other three have been released, Houtan Kian faces imminent execution. Moreover Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s death sentence has been confirmed. Upon hearing the news, it is reported that Sakineh attempted suicide but survived. ... read full story / add a comment
Open Letter to Dublin City Council Today, the 2nd March, the provisional university sent an open letter to the City Manager of Dublin City Council demanding a space for student-managed teaching and research and denouncing the neo-liberalisation of the university and the destruction of the public good. This is the second step in our campaign to reclaim a space to fight for education as a right and to take back the university. The text of the letter follows. ... read full story / add a comment ![]()
mayo / environment Wednesday March 02, 2011 - 16:00 by Rossport Solidarity camp
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This morning 6 people got in the way of Shell's survey work causing them to pack up and go away. ... read full story / add a comment
Check out the newly launched University in Crisis blog, keeping people up to date on the neo-liberal university and struggles against it. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 28, 2011 - 19:48 by AC
Tell Statoil what you think of the Corrib Gas Project - in public ... read full story / add a comment ![]()
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 28, 2011 - 10:12 by éirígí PRO
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éirígí Dublin City Councillor Louise Minihan was handed a two month suspended sentence and a €1,500 fine on Friday last [February 25] following her convictions on charges of assault and of causing criminal damage. The convictions arose from a high-profile protest against the under-funding of the health service which took place on November 1, 2010. As part of that protest Louise poured diluted red paint over the clothing of the then Twenty-Six County Minister for Health Mary Harney at Cherry Orchard Hospital in Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday February 26, 2011 - 09:42 by London Catholic Worker
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Feb. 24th. -Associated Press Photo (Matt Dunham) - Catholic Workers Ciaron O'Reilly, left, and Roland Gianstefani, right, are removed by police and security officers after sitting in the road after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange departed after his extradition hearing at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in London, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011. http://fr.news.yahoo.com/3/20110224/img/pwl-britain-wik....html ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday February 26, 2011 - 04:26 by Adrian Boutureira
These were a series of tweets received earlier tonight (late night, early morning Egypt time) from activists that had been demonstrating against the government in Tahrir Square. The most disturbing thing as someone receiving and trying to report these, was the media blackout that came along with the attacks. Al Jazeera was MIA. It has been on Egypt for a while. The Egypt Live Blog has been dormid for days and is now actually not even found in AJ's blogs page. There were NO news networks there to report on these attacks. Hours later, AJ produced a report, this after we bombarded their Libya live blog with pleas for coverage. This is what we received between and around the hours of 8 and 10 pm US Eastern time. (Thanks to the comrades of APIC(APICONG) for putting these together. http://apicong.blogspot.com/) ... read full story / add a comment |
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