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national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday October 31, 2006 02:27 by Sean C   text 19 comments (last - tuesday february 06, 2024 23:12)
Cathal O Broin the co-editor of a the Hibernian magazine, which has a readership measured in the tens, appeared on this week’s Late Late Show to embarrassingly spout on about ‘catholic values’ and sex. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday October 31, 2006 01:49 by Hugh H
The truly exceptional Reem Kelani is the star attraction in an all-day musical workshop at St. Raphael's in
Stillorgan, on Saturday, November 4th.
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national / anti-capitalism / news report Monday October 30, 2006 20:15 by anon
How insulting is this.

Bremer had two lieutenants on the economic front: Thomas Foley and Michael Fleischer, the heads of “private sector development” for the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). Foley is a Greenwich, Connecticut, multimillionaire, a longtime friend of the Bush family and a Bush-Cheney campaign “pioneer” who has described Iraq as a modern California “gold rush.” Fleischer, a venture capitalist, is the brother of former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. Neither man had any high-level diplomatic experience and both use the term corporate “turnaround” specialist to describe what they do. According to Foley, this uniquely qualified them to manage Iraq’s economy because it was “the mother of all turnarounds.”

Baghdad Year Zero
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0924-13.htm read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday October 30, 2006 18:23 by TJ   text 4 comments (last - monday november 13, 2006 13:59)
Todays Independent (UK) newspaper and the Democracy Now website are reporting that the "United Nations Environment Programme is investigating allegations, first published in The Independent, that Israel may have used uranium-based weapons during this summer's war in Lebanon. Twenty UN experts, working with Lebanese environmentalists, have spent two weeks assessing various samples. They are planning to report their findings in December". read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / news report Monday October 30, 2006 15:55 by MavisB   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 09, 2006 19:32)

Ex- Dublin city manager John Fitzgerald, who may be remembered in the Fair City as
the bureaucrat appointed by FF to oversee the estimates and ensure the liquidation
of local 'democracy' in the absence of agreement on the annual estimates..... has been
appointed to bring back 'Law and order' to the environs of Limerick city.
Including, it seems Moyross, it is presumed that the man with the plan- (unelected again)
will co-ordinate activites of the various services to maintain enough discipline to get
FF through an election......Yippeeee read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday October 30, 2006 14:48 by The New World Order Resistance   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 01, 2006 14:13)
www.ipsc.ie

'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' (Martin Luther King)

The IPSC was set up in late 2001 by a group of established Irish human rights and community activists, academics and journalists who were deeply concerned with the current situation in the Occupied Territories. In partnership with Palestinians now living in Ireland the IPSC was formed to provide a voice for Palestine in Ireland.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday October 30, 2006 13:34 by Joseba Agudo, lawyer from the Basque Country
Basque political prisoner Iñaki de Juana’s hunger strike has been in the media in recent weeks. After 63 days on hunger strike demanding justice and attending the numerous requests he received and the mobilisation of Basque society, De Juana ended his protest. He began his hunger strike due to the attempt by the Spanish State Prosecution to get him sentenced to 96 years in jail for writing two press articles. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday October 30, 2006 13:12 by F.E.M.   text 2 comments (last - friday december 01, 2006 12:40)
The Dutch governement does not care what happens in their country. Children are kidnapped even from abroad (also from Ireland) and put in jails, madhouses and are exploited sexually. Even as young as 7 or 8 year olds! The governement funds this! They also want to legalise paedophilism and have child prostitutes pay tax on sex like all over 18 prostitutes do in the Netherlands.
The governement wants the young below the age of 25 to fend for themselves so they are planning to cut all forms of social welfare to the under 25 year olds.
Now THEY TURNED THEIR ATTENTION TO THE OLD AND POOR! The social housing has to go in order to sell these houses for profit. The elderly and the poor flee their houses after years of harrassment and bullying. They are forced to leave their belongings behind. The ones that stay are forced out by the police. Anyone actively helping like the organisation “De Algemene Kraak Vereniging” is arrested. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday October 30, 2006 12:46 by Ciarán   text 1 comment (last - monday october 30, 2006 15:17)
Anti War Movement presents
War, Islam & Resistance

with speaker
Ibrahim Mousawi
Al Manar, Lebanon (Hezbollah TV Station)

Belfast Unemployed Recource Centre
Tuesday 31st October (Halloween)
7.30pm read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday October 30, 2006 12:16 by F.E.M.
Please let this be known: People are still dying in Chile for fighting for their basic human rights.
Waikilaf has been in jail for over 2 months now. He was not convicted and does not await a trial, much like Owen Rice here in Ireland.
Waikilaf has been tortured. Burns from boiling water can be seen on his back.
He needs your letters to get him out before he is killed. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday October 30, 2006 08:47 by Fiachra Ó Luain   text 3 comments (last - monday october 30, 2006 17:25)
This is very sad. David tells us how Brad used sing his own version of "Saint Patrick's Battalion" all around Latin America. Now he shares their fate. I just checked the RTE news website and there is nothing on it about Oaxaca, a disgrace.
Long Live Indymedia, who have just lost one of their wordwarriors. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Monday October 30, 2006 05:13 by nano
This past week in Australia has been ‘fundamentally’ outstanding; dimwitted fundamentalist religionists vied with each other for top billing in the local media. Never has the nation seen such retarded behaviour from so many diverse religious groups. The prize for fundamentalist imbecile of the week however goes to the Muslim cleric Sheik al-Hilali for his retrogressive reference to women as “uncovered meat”. He unashamedly placed the responsibility for rape and other sexually violent acts onto women; men were exonerated on the basis that “uncovered meat” is sexually provocative! The local media now refers to the cleric as the “Meat Sheik” and continues to sensationalise aspects of the story. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday October 30, 2006 00:18 by Máire Mhic Fhearghusa
Written September 2006 and adapted October for singing.

See: sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiCLAREDRG;ttCLAREDRG.html for tune and words

See: www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/jacobite_era.htm for history and words.
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international / animal rights / event notice Sunday October 29, 2006 23:53 by Bernie Wright
Over 200 senior members of the pharmaceutical and medical professions are expected to attend the IHPA annual awards on Thursday 26 th October.Our message is simple -NO TO ANIMAL EXPERIMEMTS.
There are THREE COMMERCIAL 'registered user establishments' ie. laboratories using animals for commercial purposes here in Ireland.
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national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday October 29, 2006 20:38 by Anti-War Ireland
Tony Lagouranis, one of three former US Abu-Ghraib interrogators in Ireland at the invitation of Anti-War Ireland, has been interviewed repeatedly since his arrival in Ireland. Along with Joshua Casteel and Stephen Lewis, Tony spoke at the anti-war rally at Shannon airport on Saturday and called for the expulsion of the US war machine from that airport. On Tuesday and Wednesday, Tony will speak at Anti-War Ireland public meetings in Cork and Belfast.
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international / gender and sexuality / other press Sunday October 29, 2006 18:50 by Mary Riddell   text 4 comments (last - tuesday october 31, 2006 15:15)
Women die at the hands of the occupying US forces; but most women die at the hands of the "Resistance". Read the full article by Mary Riddell at the link.

Where death is the penalty for going bare-headed

If our leaders are intent on finding peace in Iraq, they could begin by upholding women's basic human rights

Black is never out of fashion in Iraq. Some women, the bereaved, have not cast off their mourning robes since 2003. Others, Christians included, wear Muslim dress as camouflage to preserve their lives. Driving a car or walking bare-headed is a come-on to executioners in a country where last year's Western fashions have become this season's shroud.
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clare / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday October 29, 2006 14:39 by Margaretta D'Arcy   text 37 comments (last - thursday november 02, 2006 14:14)
How I bypassed security and found myself in the airport terminal when the army, the gardai, dogs, horses, helicopters were all mobilized to keep us out. read full story / add a comment
limerick / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Sunday October 29, 2006 12:45 by UL-SP Member
The new documentary of the historic struggle waged by Turkish and Kurdish workers against GAMA construction and the Irish Government, will be showing THIS WEDNESDAY in UL.

Day: Wednesday
Date: 1 Nov 2006
Time: 6:30
Venue: UL Students Union Building, Room 3 read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday October 28, 2006 21:41 by Con Carroll   text 3 comments (last - wednesday november 08, 2006 18:47)
Non expert on politics or the reality of working class black South Africans read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday October 28, 2006 16:03 by R. Isible   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 29, 2006 02:12)
Article in the Guardian appearing to draw largely on the work of a Guardian journalist that has published "Ghost Plane" (which claims that it was his articles which first revealed rendition flights 1 year ago) talks about Germany parliamentary report revealing how the CIA and Syria attempted to stop Germany revealing information about torture flights. read full story / add a comment
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