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Charles Dickens's Oliver musical has been slapped with a trigger warning for "discriminatory language", "poverty" and "smoke", among other things that snowflakes might be troubled by.
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offsite link Mixing Up Names of Non-White Colleagues is Racist, Tribunal Rules Sat Mar 01, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Mixing up the names of non-white colleagues counts as?race discrimination?as it makes them feel "lumped together as a group", an employment tribunal has ruled.
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offsite link Declined: Chapter 10: An Anti-Health Extremism Offence Sat Mar 01, 2025 09:00 | Molly Kingsley
Chapter 10 of Declined is here ? a dystopian satire by Molly Kingsley about the emergence of a social credit system in the UK. This week: Theo is investigated for an Anti-Health Extremism Offence.
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This St David's Day, why is Welsh Labour trying to decolonise Wales from Welsh people? Its vision of an 'anti-racist' Wales involves conjuring up an entirely fictitious history of multi-ethnic diversity.
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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
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / press release Thursday February 19, 2004 16:01 by Dublin Catholic Worker
As we await trial for our nonviolent disarmament of a US Navy war plane, we continue to oppose Irish complicity in this war. We invite you to join us on the streets as we journey through trial and the consequences. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday February 19, 2004 15:24 by seedot   text 5 comments (last - sunday february 22, 2004 10:20)
Bin Collection, Aer Rianta, An Post, CIE, FAS, Bord Failte, ESB - all of these bodies have their futures discussed at the Article 133 meetings. When we want to know what's behind 25% of bus routes being introduced, or the push behind service charges we HAVE to think about these meetings. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday February 18, 2004 18:27 by Eoin Dubsky   text 22 comments (last - monday june 14, 2004 19:58)
When searching the internet for for Irish mobile phone "location based services", I perchanced upon a webpage on the "02" site offering spying services to employers (http://web.o2.ie/portal/business/enhanced_business_solutions/location_based_services/). Its a shame too that the only function they have found for this technology is for surveillance. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday February 18, 2004 18:18 by Seán
12 a Chloig – Front Square,
Coláiste na Tríonóide, ag mairseáil ar
An Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtra

Thursday 19th Feb.

12 o’clock – Front Square,
Trinity College, marching on to Dept. of Foreign Affairs read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday February 18, 2004 17:20 by Anthony   text 1 comment (last - friday february 20, 2004 15:40)
Meeting to discuss anti-war activity in Ireland read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday February 18, 2004 16:45 by Seán   text 1 comment (last - thursday february 19, 2004 22:06)
Déardaoin 19 Feabhra.

12 a Chloig – Front Square,
Coláiste, ag mairseáil ar An Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtra

Thursday 19th Feb.

12 o’clock – Front Square,
Trinity College, marching on to Dept. of Foreign Affairs read full story / add a comment
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