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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday August 03, 2008 12:13 by anon
Lawyer for British resident held captive at Guantánamo Bay writes to Taoiseach Brian Cowen for information on transit through Shannon Airport of planes and personnel involved in the kidnap and torture. On 22 July 2002, CIA crew landed in Shannon on the well-known rendition jet, N379P, having – the previous day – rendered Binyam from Pakistan to Morocco where he faced 18 months of torture. On January 16 2004 CIA crew, this time in N313P, stopped in Shannon en route to rendering Binyam Mohamed from Rabat to the notorious ‘Dark Prison’ in Kabul. The crew then went on to render another man, German citizen Khaled el Masri before returning to Washington on 28 January 2004. (Eventually released because the US admitted he was wrong guy.) http://www.reprieve.org.uk/documents/2008_07_28Irishpre...2.pdf read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / event notice Sunday August 03, 2008 11:06 by captain danford
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memorial to limerick man to be unveiled in limerick read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Saturday August 02, 2008 14:33 by tomeile
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On his recent visit to Jordan Israel and Ramallah US presidential candidate Obama Barrack insisted that nobody in his party should wear green because of the colour’s association with Islam and Hamas. At a June campaign rally in Detroit two women wearing headscarves were told to leave the area behind the podium where Obama was speaking from so as to prevent them being framed in the same shot by cameras covering the event. A Counterpunch article by Rannie Amiri on how Barrack Obama has moved from being a victim to a perpetuator of Islamophobia. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday August 02, 2008 08:49 by Loin_de_loeil
It's about a film that might interest all those who want to see non-violence not only in speeches, but also in action. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Friday August 01, 2008 18:03 by Pollytix
Go see this fab docummentary- if you can't be in Belfast to stand up against bigotry! Project Arts Centre Sat Aug 2 8.30pm read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday July 30, 2008 11:59 by [email protected]
An informal discussion with José Antonio Gutiérrez, from LASC. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday July 29, 2008 21:26 by not 1 of
The Guardian reports it here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/29/wto.eu It didn't require the Irish Government to use their veto as the farmers have been demanding! Larger forces were at work. China and india don't want to be flooded by cheap food imports from the US. In other words they want to maintain their own small scale agriculture and their own food security. This is spelt out by Mandelson in his blog. Walden Bello of Focus on The Global South, and a noted ongoing critic of the WTO and neo-liberalism more generally, sees the re-localisation of agriculture (that such a collapse may make possible) as central to the mitigation of climate change. Extracts from and links to both below. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday July 29, 2008 20:11 by Seán Ryan
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Today, Mary Kelly appealed her conviction of a suspended sentence of 2 years (2 years and 1 year running concurrently) for her decommissioning of a war plane in Shannon Airport. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / press release Tuesday July 29, 2008 17:10 by NN
The Vaartkom is a squqtted social centre and living space in the Belguim city of Leuven. It was squatted 2 years ago, and has been the central meeting point for the Leuven autonomous movement. Being home to up to 10 people as well as providing space for an info shop, free shop, band rehearsal room, and a weekly bar and peoples kitchen. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 29, 2008 14:31 by Tracy Donegan
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Irish women are often starved in labour despite there being significant benefits to eating - and significant risks to being starved. Why hasn't Irish medical care caught up with the 21st Century? Should women eat and drink freely in labour ? Read on..... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday July 29, 2008 08:32 by anti-war activist
An interesting story just gone up on Lenin's Tomb. What do people think: are Chomsky and Lenin's Tomb right? Are we too worried about not being seen to be puritanical? read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Monday July 28, 2008 15:41 by Recession Diaries
Can it get anymore fun? The Right is turning the screws at every scrap of economic information coming out, ignoring the fact that it is their policies that have landed us in this mess. So the Recession Diaries continues – with comments, critiques and a few proposals. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday July 28, 2008 07:43 by Independent Media
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A group of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) are planning to start up a GI coffeehouse near the entrance of the Fort Lewis military base in Washington State. Though the project is still in its planning stages, the idea is that it will be a center for supporting GI rights and war resistance in the region, as well as a place for GIs to get coffee right off the base. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iOSDz6_iww Length - 5.50) read full story / add a comment
antrim / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Sunday July 27, 2008 20:42 by Belfast WSM
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“Where pride once mobilised, it now marshals that consensus as our anger and frustration into a range of diversionary shopping opportunities. The battle is no longer about(if it ever has been) equality and acceptance, but liberation and simply survival as human beings against a system galloping towards the abyss.” read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Sunday July 27, 2008 16:47 by ostrichsyndrome
Zion Train are a political Dub-Reggae band from the UK, from their DIY roots they have grown to be one a large force in music worldwide. The band have most recently released 'Terror Talk' , dedicated to Brazilian student Jean Charles de Menezes, who was killed at a London's Stockwell tube station by Police. More info Zion Train + Unite Tribe Andrews Lane Theatre Sunday August 10 2008 Doors 8pm Tickets €16.50 from WAV box office (camden row) Tickets.ie, Cool Discs and other good record shops read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Sunday July 27, 2008 13:49 by Ciaron
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Anti-War Vigil "Stop Irish Participation in the War!" "U.S. Military Out of Shannon & Iraq!" GPO, O'Connel St. Dublin read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday July 26, 2008 18:43 by pat c
Ben Lewis argues that the threat to Iran from Imperialism is still very real. He also analyses developments within various anti-war groups. Full story at link. Within the context of Barack Obama attempting to prove himself a reliable statesman by dropping in on occupying forces in Iraq, and with Gordon Brown’s speech to the knesset underlining his readiness to “stand firmly by Israel’s side” and call for “further sanctions and isolation” if Iran does not halt its alleged nuclear weapons programme, it is quite clear that the Geneva talks have not reduced the threat of a military strike. Things are precariously balanced and even the slightest incident, accident or diplomatic faux pas could trigger another bout of destruction and slaughter. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / event notice Saturday July 26, 2008 13:19 by Pauline Hadaway and Siobhan O Dwyer
Surely no right-minded individual could admit to being against 'sustainability'. Or in favour of 'unsustainable' development. End of argument? Not according to Austin Williams, author of a new book, The Enemies of Progress, who argues that the drive for sustainability is killing creativity and holding back development. But with the days of plentiful, cheap oil gone and with international terrorism and food security back on the agenda, has necessity truly become the mother of invention? And, anyway, isn't creativity about finding solutions which overcome restraints? Come along on Tuesday 29 July at 7p m, meet the author and join the debate read full story / add a comment
OZ Catholic Workers Acquitted for Criminal Damage Charges Arising from Exorcism of Raytheon Brisbane
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday July 26, 2008 13:00 by Jim Dowling
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An hour after a Wynnum magistrate found Lisa Bridle and I not guilty of "disobeying a police direction", police rang my home to let me know that Raytheon did not wish to proceed with willful damages charges resulting form another (our third) exorcism at their Brisbane offices. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Saturday July 26, 2008 11:44 by soldierofdestiny
There is great trepidation among farmers that their stranglehold on the price of basic foodstuffs within the EEU is under threat from Peter Mandelson read full story / add a comment |
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