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national / public consultation / irish social forum / press release Monday February 23, 2004 16:56 by Roughan Mac Namara
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ACTOR CILLIAN MURPHY HELPS LAUNCH MAJOR PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN FOR FOCUS IRELAND TO HIGHLIGHT THE GROWING PROBLEM OF HOMELESSNESS · Research shows 85% of pubic believe the problem has got much worse in last 10 years and 78% think not enough is done to help people who are homeless. Actor Cillian Murphy today (Monday 23rd Feb) helped launch a major public awareness campaign for the charity Focus Ireland to highlight the growing problem of homelessness and social housing crisis in Ireland. Latest figures show record totals of at least 5,581 (2002) people homeless while there’s 48,413 households (Aprox 140, 000 people) on the housing waiting lists without a proper place to call home read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Monday February 23, 2004 16:15 by Michael Lemass
Go up the Sandyford Road past the Dundrum Gym. You will see a big open car park on your left which is at the back of Taney School. At the back of this car park on the right is the hall. Spread the word and if you get lost Contact: 086 245 6958 Ciaran 087 688 5172 Aiden For background info on this: http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=62989&topic=environment http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=62974&topic=environment read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday February 23, 2004 14:53 by Dave McCarthy
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While working on material concerning racism in the media, I found that nowhere on the internet could I get a copy of Mary Ellen Synon's infamous article she wrote in 1996 concerning Travellers. This article achieved a new low in standards of journalism in Ireland. Four years later, the same writer managed to offend all but Kevin Myers when she wrote about the athletes in the Special Olympics. I have scanned the 1996 article into our own web site for reference. Below is the text. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday February 23, 2004 14:44 by Sean Heffernan
Protest in support of the Tibetan peoples right to Self-determination, and an end to the barbaric human rights abuses suffered by all Tibetans by the Chinese State, since the country was occupied over 50 years ago. protest to coincide with Euro-Asian summir in Dublin Castle. Meet @ Dublin Castle @ 9am this Thursday. Organised by the Tibet Solidarity Group (Ireland) read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday February 23, 2004 14:38 by w mc cormack
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on the run up to the 1st anniversary of the occupation of Iraq the next Marxist Forum in Cork City will take place on Sat 28th FEB at 3 pm in An Spailpin Fanach bar South Main St.Title/THE BRUTALITY OF COLONIAL WAR. The film THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS will all so be played. The film recreates the events from 1954/62 in the city Algiers when the French sent in paratroopers to crush the FLN ALGERIAN NATIONAL lIBERATION FRONT in their war of liberation. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday February 23, 2004 14:23 by Idiot
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This peice relates to the developmental process of two different Middle Eastern states, the Lebanon and Iraq. It stresses the benefits of the civil war in the Lebanon and asks if a civil war is the only way for Iraq to function as a nation. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / press release Monday February 23, 2004 13:47 by Alan Braddish
February marks the start of a campaign to call on organizations and initiatives to sign the European Manifesto for Minority Community Media. This manifesto supports and underlines the importance of minority community media and calls for recognition of the role this sector plays in Europe. The initiators aim to get as many signatures as possible by 15 April 2004. Organizations and initiatives interested to sign the European Manifesto can do so from 9 February 2004 onwards. The campaign will culminate in the presentation of the manifesto to the President of the European Parliament before the European elections in 2004. The European Manifesto and the campaign are an initiative of Online/More Colour in the Media (OL/MCM) and the transnational network of national platforms of minority community media. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday February 23, 2004 12:58 by WCR
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As the 'peace process' hits yet another brick wall, the rise of racism in the north is viewed by some as the price we will have to pay for 'normalisation', as though the blow-torch of sectarian invective will simply switch its focus on another set of blameworthies, marked out as somehow 'different'. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Monday February 23, 2004 12:26 by kokomero
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According to an American company which is selling fluorescent fish for $5 a pop they are intended for use as aquarium fish only, and should not be used for any other purpose. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / news report Monday February 23, 2004 11:44 by An Bean Siadha
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Ireland Joins US and abandons Europe. by An Bean Siodha - Monday, Feb 23 2004, 12:02am address: phone: international / anti-war / news report Ahern and Cowen praised by US on Shannon stance 22/02/04 00:00 The Sunday Business Post, in an article by Pat Leahy reveals that the US and Ireland are far more closely interconnected than many Irish people realised. This article can be read on Page 4 of the SB Post on 22 Feb 04. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / news report Monday February 23, 2004 11:34 by Fear faire
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Belfast dissidnet Tohill gives interview to La claiming that he was not kidnapped by IRA read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday February 23, 2004 10:19 by DMAN
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And your telling me Ireland does not support the war in Iraq Bertie !!! Yeah right. "In comments to reporters during a refueling stop in Shannon, Ireland, Rumsfeld signaled US concern over attempts by extremists to drive wedges between the country's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish communities ahead of a planned handover of sovereignty in June." read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday February 23, 2004 04:21 by anonymous
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Never were Nicaraguans' chances better to get what the International Court ruled the US owed to them. A new initiative at the United Nations Security Council may be worthwhile given the current member situation. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday February 22, 2004 02:36 by John Cunningham
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158 admission tickets were issued at An Taibhdhearc for tonight's public meeting with Dr Stephen Cleghorn and Denis Halliday. (The organisers were delighted that anybody would turn up at a meeting on a Saturday night). read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday February 22, 2004 01:11 by Watchdog
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All fraudulent laws are created, as they were in the time of Mussolini and elsewhere, to be "for our protection". How many know of Hitler's "concerned" and "wholesome" anti-smoking" policies? read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday February 21, 2004 18:47 by Laurence Vize
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2 Members ousted in crude takeover read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday February 21, 2004 12:47 by s.fleming
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psychiatry's answer to mental health problems is psychiatric drugs which they believe help to correct the 'patient's' brain chemistry or bio-chemical imbalance. Critical psychiatry seeks a more holistic approach seeing personal/interpersonal, social and environmental contexts as the origins of severe mental distress. Psychiatric drugs with their damaging effects on the individual and the genetic hypothesis that psychiaty operates behind have failed and must be replaced with a new social and holistic model which can truly help people. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Saturday February 21, 2004 11:10 by Australian newspapers
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A quick insight into the underlying causes of the Redfern (Sydney) Aboriginal riots. If you wish to receive this kind of news regularly as email write to Trudy Bray at [email protected] and tell her Diet sent you. read full story / add a comment
limerick / crime and justice / event notice Friday February 20, 2004 15:54 by Mama
Owen Rice is still on hunger strike in Limerick Prison where he is be unjustly held. Owen is not receiving his full privileges and is being threatened that his visiting rights will be removed if he stays on hunger strike. read full story / add a comment
louth / environment / event notice Friday February 20, 2004 15:30 by Sean Crudden
The routine February meeting of Cooley Environmental and Health Group will be many faceted and will probably set a busy and full agenda for this small but innovative group for the rest of 2004 and beyond. read full story / add a comment |
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