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international / history and heritage / news report Sunday October 22, 2006 22:12 by liszt
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It is very curious that most of the key momentous changes of European History & thus the events we note as watersheds of our social development - were spontanous & un-planned or even the results of "accidents". 50 years ago today young people took to the streets of Hungary & kicked off a popular revolution. No-one really knew what they wanted & no-one really remembers if they had leaders & what their names were. It proved to be the event which confirmed that the Warsaw Pact states of Europe would have to follow the stalinist isolationist path laid out just a few years before in the former East German state & sectored Berlin. It is odd how the Hungarian revolution began, as odd as how the Berlin wall came down (the result of a mistakenly read statement at a press conference). The brutality shown them was the same brutality that kept half of our continent in bonds till only recently. read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues / news report Sunday October 22, 2006 18:49 by Garrett Mullan
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Swords and baseball bats were used in a night of violence in the north Dublin suburb of Finglas. Youths and up to 30 foreign nationals fought violent battles when a long simmering row boiled over into the streets. read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday October 22, 2006 18:09 by TD
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Yesterday, outside Lynch's castle in Shop street, Malaysian UCHG medical students, mostly from Kuala Lumpur joined IPSC activists to leaflet the passers-by and to voice their anger against Israel's inhumanity towards their Palestinian, Sunni Muslim, sisters and brothers. read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / press release Sunday October 22, 2006 16:40 by Hermann Greuel
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Green Belt Movement founder and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof Wangari Maathai supports the international youth cinema film idea and film competition on climate change NUFF Global. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / news report Sunday October 22, 2006 16:29 by Laura Broxson
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Trendy boutique Fran & Jane adopt a Fur-Free policy read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday October 22, 2006 13:50 by richard whelan
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photo essay from yesterdays demand your right to health care rally in dublin read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday October 22, 2006 04:33 by Lefty
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Workers Power in the UK are taking a pro-North Korea stance on the Nuclear weapons issue, according to an article in the latest issue of their paper. See link to the article below. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday October 22, 2006 03:54 by Laban ng Masa (Struggle of the Masses)
The Department of Interior and Local Government’s “preventive suspension” of Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay and his entire city council based on flimsy administrative charges marks the height of the Arroyo government’s “mad dog” campaign to cripple the political opposition by all means. read full story / add a comment |
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