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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   text 33 comments (last - wednesday march 03, 2004 22:40)
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   text 5 comments (last - wednesday february 25, 2004 15:01)
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   text 3 comments (last - tuesday february 24, 2004 13:04)
Ireland Joins US and abandons Europe.
by An Bean Siodha - Monday, Feb 23 2004, 12:02am
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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   text 28 comments (last - friday february 27, 2004 19:33)
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   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 24, 2004 00:09)
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   text 1 comment (last - monday february 23, 2004 06:42)
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   text 3 comments (last - tuesday february 24, 2004 14:00)
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   text 21 comments (last - tuesday june 15, 2004 02:33)
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   text 21 comments (last - friday february 27, 2004 17:24)
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   text 6 comments (last - tuesday august 31, 2004 04:22)
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   text 1 comment (last - saturday february 21, 2004 18:04)
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
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday February 20, 2004 15:24 by copywhat?   text 14 comments (last - tuesday february 24, 2004 14:37)
international / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Friday February 20, 2004 14:03 by Colm Breathnach
A demonstration will be held outside the department of Taoiseach, Merrion Square on Monday 23rd Feb 2004 between 12 - 2 pm to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the deportation of the entire Chechen nation to Siberia on the orders of Stalin. The protest will highlight the massive human rights violations being perpetrated by Russian occupation forces in Chechnya, under the cover of 'the war on terror'. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday February 19, 2004 23:55 by John Cunningham
Denis Halliday and Stephen Cleghorn are the speakers at a major public meeting in An Taibhdhearc on Saturday night, 8 pm to 10 pm. The meeting is a joint initiative of the Galway Alliance Against War and of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign branch. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / news report Thursday February 19, 2004 22:24 by Fergus
Britain is pushing for maximum liberalisation.
Germany has already made labour market and social security changes - with last years cuts in jobless benefits, incentives for low-wage jobs and extra health charges.
The French plan to reform the social security system this Autumn but fear fierce public opposition.

Meanwhile, the front page of todays Irish Times claims that Germany, France and Britain were talking about "protecting social welfare systems for future generations". read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday February 19, 2004 20:35 by barry   text 5 comments (last - saturday february 21, 2004 18:55)
On the 17th of January some 50 people who have been active in the anti-war movement in Ireland came together for an informal meeting in Taylors bar in Galway. read full story / add a comment
limerick / crime and justice / event notice Thursday February 19, 2004 17:13 by Joe Sheehan
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
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