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offsite link Lord Sumption: ?I?m Not Optimistic About the Future of Our Democracy? Sun Feb 09, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Lord Sumption KC warns that democracy is under threat as power moves from Parliament to the courts, driven by lockdowns, a safety-first mindset and the legal entrenchment of DEI.
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offsite link Tour Guides Told Not to Say ?Able-Bodied? As It ?Perpetuates Harmful Stereotypes? Sun Feb 09, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
Tourism quango VisitBritain is telling its staff to ditch the term 'able-bodied' because it's deemed "harmful" and use "non-disabled" instead.
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offsite link Charity Boss Cancelled for ?Islamophobia? Wins Legal Battle in Victory for Free Speech Sun Feb 09, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
A Jewish charity boss who was cancelled for "Islamophobic" posts has just won a major court battle, getting his trustee ban overturned in a huge win for free speech and a major slap-down for the Charity Commission.
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offsite link Will BBC Media Action, Auntie?s International, Pro-Censorship Charity, go Bust Now That Elon Musk Ha... Sun Feb 09, 2025 13:00 | Tony Edwards
One of the woke boondoggles USAID was funding was BBC Media Action, a pro-censorship lobby group. Now that Elon Musk has turned off the tap, will it go bust? asks ex-BBC science producer Tony Edwards.
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offsite link Labour MP Sacked Over Racist, Sexist and Antisemitic Slurs in Leaked Messages Sun Feb 09, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
Labour minister Andrew Gwynne has been sacked and suspended after leaked WhatsApp messages exposed racist, sexist and antisemitic slurs ? including a 'joke' about a constituent being mown down by a truck.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday May 10, 2004 14:52 by LASC
the offices of the Colombian trade union Sintraminercol were bombed last Monday. the President of the Union was in Ireland last July to address the ICTU conference. read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations / press release Monday May 10, 2004 13:13 by Dublin Grassroots Network   text 8 comments (last - monday may 10, 2004 20:32)
May Day organisers challenge criminalisation of dissent
Dublin Grassroots Network, the organisers of many of the May Day protest events, today condemned the effective suspension of civil liberties for the weekend. read full story / add a comment
mayo / politics / elections / news report Monday May 10, 2004 04:11 by Keith Martin   text 6 comments (last - tuesday may 11, 2004 18:37)
Keith Martin has declared himself as an Independent candidate for a seat on Westport Town Council. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Monday May 10, 2004 01:30 by Michelle Geoghegan   text 1 comment (last - monday may 10, 2004 02:59)
The Brazilian/American artist exhibits in Ireland for the first time at the Irish Museum of Modern Art read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations / opinion/analysis Monday May 10, 2004 01:02 by Alexander Trocchi   text 63 comments (last - friday june 25, 2004 10:22)
A personal account from a member of the Black Bloc about
the events in Dublin, including anarchist and Irish history and
tactical discussion. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday May 09, 2004 22:08 by Fintan Lane   text 7 comments (last - tuesday may 18, 2004 20:33)
[The following article was submitted to the Irish Times last Wednesday. The paper decided against publishing it.]

Lessons learned for the Bush visit protests

By Fintan Lane read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Sunday May 09, 2004 21:02 by Fintan Lane   text 2 comments (last - saturday may 22, 2004 12:02)
CONGOLESE IRISH PARTNERSHIP CALL MARCH IN DUBLIN read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Sunday May 09, 2004 11:32 by Organise!
The role of teachers?

Teachers are viewed by some as the ‘soft cops’ of the state; a youth wing of the police force whose objective is to atomise individual creativity, to accustom young people to their role as submissive industrial fodder, and to indoctrinate against subversion and unorthodoxy of any kind. In Ireland, the role of Christian faith meted out in form assemblies and classrooms across the country is hand in glove with statist control. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / event notice Saturday May 08, 2004 19:30 by €U thing   text 1 comment (last - saturday may 08, 2004 19:31)
Marx Engles.
fair play fixture
for the comrades.
RBB and co.
love you all.
platonic sort of way.
weird sense of humour but it's there and verified. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Saturday May 08, 2004 15:27 by Maratist
amBUSH2004! fundraiser this Thursday 13th May 9.00pm, Aras na Gael in
Domnic Street, DJ Fíor plus guests - mixing up techno, groovy house
and trance. Admission: 3 yoyos.

www.ambush2004.org read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday May 08, 2004 12:20 by a grateful european citizen   text 3 comments (last - saturday may 08, 2004 16:48)
On this the 59th anniversary of the unconditional surrender of the third reich let us not forget the brave men of the Allied Forces who brought about the final capitulation of the nazi regieme. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Saturday May 08, 2004 12:05 by R Glenn
THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) conference starts on 11 May. In the wake of last year's national strikes against low pay, the two keynote conference debates will be on pay and the union's link with New Labour. read full story / add a comment
kildare / eu / news report Saturday May 08, 2004 12:05 by Eoin Dubsky   text 5 comments (last - monday may 10, 2004 16:00)
Peace campaigner and environmentalist Eoin Dubsky is running for election to the European Parliament and he needs your help. Because he is running as an independent candidate in the East (Leinster) constituency for the European election, he needs 60 registered voters from the area to sign up as "assenters" endorsing his campaign. The authorities have made it quite difficult, where you need to sign the nomination form in the County Council head office during office hours next week only , and not including lunch. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Saturday May 08, 2004 11:52 by Dominic Carroll   text 3 comments (last - wednesday may 12, 2004 12:41)
A Cork anti-war activist will appear in Cork District Court on Monday (10th May) following a peaceful protest at the Cork-based weapons manufacturer, DDC Ireland Ltd., a subsidiary of the powerful US multinational, Data Device Corporation (DDC). read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday May 08, 2004 06:44 by cat&dog   text 1 comment (last - saturday may 08, 2004 15:49)
All wars have one common thing, war is not something you buy from store, it is something that grows in the nature we call capitalism and it is also a terrible tragedy to humankind and we cannot achieve peace without giving the necessary sacrifice building our anti-capitalist movement by saying no to guns and violence that keeps this world turning around and around like a hurricane that destroys all it can touch without leaving people noithing or verry little to say at least. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday May 07, 2004 22:31 by John Reimann   text 2 comments (last - sunday may 09, 2004 10:32)
The scandal of the tortures at Abu Ghraib, the US retreat from Fallujah both indicat a developing crisis for US capitalism and its drive for world comination read full story / add a comment
international / eu / news report Friday May 07, 2004 21:48 by John Meehan   text 45 comments (last - thursday may 13, 2004 17:05)
social and democratic, feminist and ecologist, peaceful and in solidarity

February 15, 2003, was a historic date: tens of millions of people, all around the world, demonstrated to stop the war. Moreover, these unprecedented mobilisations show a strong political will to impose universal peace, justice, international solidarity and social equality on those in power.
That day a new Europe was born. A rank and file Europe that is confronting the European Union and the ruling classes whose instrument it is. read full story / add a comment
waterford / anti-capitalism / press release Friday May 07, 2004 19:21 by Roy Hassey
Dr. Paul Connet to speak in Waterford Friday 14th May, Granville Hotel, 7.30pm read full story / add a comment
national / eu / press release Friday May 07, 2004 16:23 by Eoin Dubsky   text 65 comments (last - wednesday may 12, 2004 19:54)
Eoin Dubsky (24) from Ballymoney, Gorey in north Wexford is to contest a seat in the European Parliament elections for the East (Leinster) constituency as an independent candidate. The young peace activist and environmental campaigner helped throw Ireland's role in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq into the spotlight when he spray-painted a U.S. warplane at Shannon Airport and took the Irish government to court later the same week in 2002. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday May 07, 2004 15:39 by DFC   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 11, 2004 16:38)
Doctors For Choice in Ireland have published a guide to clinical practice
for GP's, and other interested doctors, on the management of the abortion
patient in Ireland. This is the first such guide published in this country. read full story / add a comment
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