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international / arts and media / other press Saturday March 01, 2008 18:02 by Feminist Polemix
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This being a leap year, anyone who wants to jump the broom and get the Alpha male should have proposed last night... Today, was the annual (instituted in 1947) Filene's 'Running of the Brides' . Thousands of young brides go haywire trying to buy a wedding gown in the bargain basement of a huge Department store. It's a blood sport where the winners are those that can squeeze their figures into a knock-down Vera Wang or some such label. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday March 01, 2008 17:07 by Asqar Karimi
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Asqar Karimi of the Worker-communist Party of Iran appeals for solidarity to isolate the Iranian Dictatorship and to to help the Iranian People to overthrow this brutal regime. Full text at the link. To the people of the world! To trade unions, student unions, women’s rights organisations! 3 Labour activists were flogged in Sanandaj and 8 others are to be flogged for taking part in a May Day rally! The Islamic Republic has taken another step against the working class and all the people in Iran. Their aim is to silence, crush and dehumanize. Its what the slave driver did 20 centuries ago. This time, however, they are dealing with a working class that has no intention of submitting; a working class whose struggles and leaders are known to the whole world. ·Official figures say, in the past 10 months,1 million women have been arrested, fined and/or flogged for not being dressed as demanded by the Islamic government and for courtship with the opposite sex; read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / news report Saturday March 01, 2008 14:53 by Terry
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Errors in mapping have caused severe damage to the National Monument at Rath Lugh read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / other press Saturday March 01, 2008 14:14 by JM
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Neighbours of Norfolk's giant gas terminal are today pondering how close they came to disaster after a blast rocked the seaside complex. read full story / add a comment 
national / housing / other press Saturday March 01, 2008 00:30 by Belfast WSM
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New housing poster produced by Belfast WSM read full story / add a comment |
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