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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday January 14, 2005 00:01 by Sean Mc Aughey   text 7 comments (last - monday january 17, 2005 23:43)
Sources and friends close to Northern Ireland lawyer Padraigin Drinan are saying the official reasons behind an enforced closure by the Northern Ireland Law Society of the offices of Ireland’s foremost human rights defender and solicitor remains wide open for damaging speculation.... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday January 13, 2005 22:08 by Solidarity   text 13 comments (last - saturday january 15, 2005 03:16)
Dear Friends;

I got set free from the Polk County Jail Wed. Jan 13th at 12:40 a.m.

It was not an easy time - County Jails rarely are.

Below is a published jail reflection of mine.

It's great to be free! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday January 13, 2005 16:38 by www.ungdomshuset.dk
Today the danish High Court decided the following dates for the upcoming trial that the christian sect “Faderhuset” is leading against the alternative culture center Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark: the 21,22,25,28,29 nov. and 1st of dec. 2005
Ungdomshuset is now facing the biggest and most concrete threat in the history of the house... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Thursday January 13, 2005 15:48 by tracey   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 06, 2005 16:15)
an invitation to take part in the tree walk read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday January 13, 2005 13:15 by anti war
World Social Forum 2005 Fundraiser

Tens of thousands of people from all over the world will be attending the World social forum in porto alegre 25th-31st January. They will be discussing ways in which we can build movments of solidarity to end war, poverty and environmental destruction.

Come to the fundraiser gig and video screening

Thursday 20th January, 8pm
Mother Red Caps, Christchurch
entry €5

Video screening of world social forum 2004 and music from Strapa, James o Toole his band, Tomo and more....

Funds raised go towards costs of Rory hearne and Michael o brien from the Irish Anti-War movement going to the forum. They will be available to do report back meetings for local groups. trade and student unions and organations. Rory Hearne is also making a documentary of the event which will be available

for info or to donate contact 086 1523542 or 087 2400331

www.irishantiwar.org read full story / add a comment
sligo / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Thursday January 13, 2005 02:06 by D. Hevers   text 5 comments (last - thursday june 23, 2005 04:33)
The writer and former RTE radio presenter Mr Pat Feeley, will speak at a Connolly Forum public meeting on ‘Jim Gralton – the Leitrim Socialist’, which will be held in the Trades Club, Castle Street, Sligo, on Wednesday the 19th of January at 8.30.p.m. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday January 13, 2005 00:36 by hs
At a mass rally of 10,000 people on Monday January 10, Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez announced a new decree aimed at speeding up land reform. Since the Land Act was passed in December 2001, the National Land Institute has already distributed 5.5 million acres of land to peasant cooperatives. Up until now all the land distributed has been state-owned land and there have been no expropriations. The new decree is aimed at the large landed estates (latifundia) that have been left idle or are poorly used. (January 12, 2005) read full story / add a comment
derry / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Wednesday January 12, 2005 23:10 by Derry IRSP   text 10 comments (last - sunday march 13, 2005 03:35)
The Irish Republican Socialist Party representative John Hogan hit out at
the way in which a young Ukranian woman living rough on the streets of
Coleraine in Co Derry had both her legs amputated after turkey factory
bosses sacked her. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday January 12, 2005 18:01 by Libby   text 2 comments (last - thursday january 13, 2005 19:15)
The search for elusive weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has officially ended, the Washington Post says. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday January 12, 2005 10:34 by righteous pragmatist   text 16 comments (last - sunday february 27, 2005 02:42)
Take an anonymous Pentagon leak from a “high level military officer,” add an appalling lack of knowledge of history, and compound it with ignorance of special warfare tactics. This process describes the article published by Newsweek breathlessly revealing that a “desperate” Defense Secretary Rumsfeld is “considering” employing the “Salvadoran option” to thwart the “growing quagmire” of the Iraq War. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday January 11, 2005 22:37 by Eddie Sheridan
Upcoming bands get together to put on a gig in Eamonn Dorans on Sunday 23rd of January in aid of Irish Red Cross read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations / news report Tuesday January 11, 2005 21:52 by Killian D   text 8 comments (last - saturday january 22, 2005 16:22)
After nearly a week in cloverhill pison and signing-on over a period of six months, three times a week, i finally appeared in court last Wed 5th January. I pleaded not guilty to two public order offences resulting from Mayday last. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / news report Tuesday January 11, 2005 20:44 by Barry Finnnegan
Dublin Social Forum (DSF) Working Group minutes from post October 2004 ISF and December meetings.

NEXT MEETING: 7.00 to 8.30 p.m., Thursday 13th January 2005, in the Comhlámh offices, 10 Upper Camden St., Dublin 2.

In general it was agreed that the October 2004 ISF was actually more of a DSF. That is to say that the groups, organisations, collectives and individuals that participated and did the background preparatory work were primarily Dublin-based and were not in fact reflective of the global justice movement / anti-neoliberal forces on the island as a whole. In light of this and in conjunction with the learning experience a number of us had in Workshops with Local Social Forums from around Europe during the European Social Forum (ESF) in London last October, we decided to bring the focus down to a more local, Dublin-based level. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / news report Tuesday January 11, 2005 19:22 by Séamus Ó Cadhain   text 21 comments (last - tuesday february 01, 2005 10:24)
The arrest today of loyalists possessing £47,000 in Northern Bank £100 bank notes has been largely ignored in the mainstream media. This is despite the furore over allegations which originally linked the IRA to the mammoth robbery in Belfast over Christmas. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday January 11, 2005 18:12 by pc   text 2 comments (last - wednesday january 12, 2005 04:33)
Four remaining Britons and an Australian being held at Guantanamo Bay will be released soon, officials said Tuesday, amid reports the number of prisoners at the U.S. military base would be radically reduced. A lawyer acting for two of the Britons told Reuters all the British detainees would be released within weeks. "The Foreign Office has confirmed to me that the four of them will be coming back within the next few weeks," human rights lawyer Louise Christian said. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday January 11, 2005 16:59 by cwi   text 3 comments (last - tuesday january 25, 2005 20:22)
As in every country around the world, in Sri Lanka the people have reacted far more quickly than their government. It is an excellent opportunity for the masses to work together and to realise that co-existing and cooperation are possible and to experience them. Unfortunately, the authorities are not using this opportunity to forge unity, but the opposite.

Article from socialistworld.net read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Tuesday January 11, 2005 16:40 by Tsunami   text 1 comment (last - wednesday january 12, 2005 16:51)
There will be a  Vigil in Aid of The Tsunami on Fri 14th Jan. Dublin read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday January 11, 2005 12:45 by Seán Treacy   text 17 comments (last - friday january 14, 2005 00:45)
The decision by the Bloody Sunday tribunal to jail the man known as ‘PIRA 9’ exposes British hypocrisy in regards to the real victims of that day and shows that little has changed in the mindset of the British establishment. ‘PIRA 9’ who is due to begin a 3-month sentence today is charged with refusing to testify to the tribunal. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday January 11, 2005 00:24 by m. b.   text 6 comments (last - thursday january 13, 2005 17:29)
What exactly is fascism?
Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday January 10, 2005 22:35 by boo!   text 5 comments (last - friday january 28, 2005 21:36)
Pinochet is now going to get bail.
and will be able to leave his house with swimming pool to have a toddle around only and only if the next judge supports the decision made earlier today to accept his bali application in relation to the ongoing investigation into his alledged missappropriation of several billion dollars during the extended operation Condor which brought him to power September 11 long time ago.

He must be biting his nails. read full story / add a comment
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