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international / gender and sexuality Thursday March 11, 2010 - 17:42 by Drew
The following excerpts are from an interview by the Iranian student’s newspaper Bazr (issue 45-February 2010) with Shahrzad Mojab. This long interview is on the current political and social situation in Iran. The section excerpted here concerns the woman question and the role of Iranian women in the recent struggle that we are reprinting on the occasion of 8th March, International Women’s Day. Shahrzad Mojab is an Iranian women activist and researcher who left Iran in 1983. She is the author of numerous papers and books on Iranian women, Kurdish women, and women in war zones. Mojab is currently a professor at the University of Toronto in Canada. Translation by A WorldTo Win News Service. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday March 06, 2010 - 18:26 by Freda Hughes
 19 comments (last - monday april 12, 2010 - 16:35)  4 images  1 video file
The School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London organised a conference on the Left in Palestine through it's Palestine Society from February 27th-28th. As far as I know this is the first conference covering this specific area of the Palestinian question and, thus, it had the potential to open up much needed debate on the subject. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday March 06, 2010 - 15:54 by john throne
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Taking the movement forward in continued mass direct action confrontation with the capitalist offensive. Defending it against the pressures of its right wing to make it subservient to the union leadership and the Democratic Party. Helping it stand against the pressures of ultra leftism which would cut it off from the support and involvement of the hundreds of thousands and millions it needs to win. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday March 05, 2010 - 17:07 by john throne
The beginning of a new movement and hopefully a new era. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / public consultation / irish social forum Friday March 05, 2010 - 15:21 by Fergal / Theresa (edited by Andrew Flood)
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An audio recording of the'Better Questions' seminar on Social Movements and Praxis' held in Seomra Spraoi Wed 3rd March 6.30pm. Speakers are Fergal Finnegan and Theresa O’Keefe. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday March 05, 2010 - 00:24 by Simon McGuinness
New blog site established to circumvent the absence of news from Haiti in the commercial media. Live from a field hospital in the earthquake zone ... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday March 02, 2010 - 23:32 by john throne
Capitalism has looted California. the state is banrupt. they are attacking education to try and balance the budget. Read the heroic story of the students and workers fight back. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / animal rights Monday March 01, 2010 - 12:09 by Bernie Wright
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The Greyhound Industry and the Dog Breeding Establishments Bill 2010 Please note the following facts and recommendations in relation to the current situation for Greyhounds in Kennels. The Greyhound Industry imply that they are recognised ‘as being already compliant with standards that are in fact higher than those included in this Bill as part of the Greyhound Industry Act (1958)….’ We deny this claim due to the gross animal violations inherent in the Greyhound industry, dogs being abandoned, drugged,mutilated, drowned, injured at tracks and killed when of no further use in racing. ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Saturday February 27, 2010 - 23:37 by Risteard Ó Faoláin
Bíonn a lán scannal ag baint leis na hEaglaise le déanaí. Mo thuairm, faoi stad na hEaglaise anois. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Friday February 26, 2010 - 11:11 by Mick O'Broin
The announcement of new legislation to create a directly-elected mayor of Dublin is yet another sign of the increasing political importance of the city a globalised world. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 24, 2010 - 19:08 by Amnesty International - Ireland
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The Government must adopt a coordinated approach if it is serious about improving its track record on mental health, according to a report launched today (24/02/10) by Amnesty International Ireland. The Missing Link: coordinated Government action on mental health was launched by Minister for Mental Health and Disability John Moloney TD at a press conference this morning. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday February 24, 2010 - 12:49 by Paddy/Alessandro (recorded by Andrew)
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This is an audio recording of a Better Question discussion if the ideas of the French left philosophers Jacques Ranciere and Alain Badiou. A fifty minute introduction is given by Paddy Bresnihan and Alessandro Zagato followed by about forty minutes of discussion about the presentations. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 23, 2010 - 12:34 by orangecitadel
Recent media reports have cited Dolores Kelly, the SDLP Assembly representative for the Upper Bann constituency (and the Garvaghy Road) as having claimed that people were ‘very frightened and anxious that a parade down the Garvaghy Road is a price Sinn Féin is prepared to pay for the devolution of policing and justice’. What does Dolores know? ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Monday February 22, 2010 - 13:54 by Joe Galvin
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The resignation of Willie O'Dea has again led to criticism of the Green Party, despite it being another failure on the side of Fianna Fáil (FF). ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 20, 2010 - 14:20 by Peter Mulholland
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After finally being forced to accept that Orange parades have kept up ‘an exclusive society in civil and military life, exciting one portion of the people against the other... [leading to] breaches of the peace and bloodshed’ the Grand Master of the Orange Order in Ireland met with ‘several influential members’ to arrange for the immediate dissolution of that sectarian organization. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday February 19, 2010 - 11:27 by Gavin Gleeson
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Joe Stack recently committed suicide by crashing an airplane into the IRS offices in Austin, Texas. He left a manifesto describing the long path which had finally led him to this decision. ... read full story / add a comment
As another RTÉ personality stands for Fine Gael, we discover that George Lee was on Leave of Absence
national / arts and media Thursday February 18, 2010 - 16:43 by Paul Larkin
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Article looking at the broadcasting ethics (or lack of same) of RTÉ and the slanted political make-up of personalities and news coverage ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Wednesday February 17, 2010 - 18:44 by Bernie Wright
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February 2010 We will be travelling soon to SDON in Kathmandu to oversee new centre plans and progress there. We will be able to carry limited light items with us so if anyone has Veterinary medicines especially skin creams or conditioning tablets we would love to have them. Any other animal equipment, bandages,dog coats,wormers,or books on Small Animal husbandry are still needed. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / miscellaneous Sunday February 14, 2010 - 20:53 by donkylemore
16 comments (last - wednesday february 24, 2010 - 17:13)
Lets face it . The GP is now little more than the bordello of Irish politics. You pay - the harlot performs. She does so at the whim of the punter.And repeats it just so long as he pays. The manner of their Machiavellian march into Dail Eireann under Gormley rather than Sergeant amply demonstrated their lust for the whiff of power- principals were for losers. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / miscellaneous Saturday February 13, 2010 - 11:45 by donkylemore
6 comments (last - thursday february 18, 2010 - 19:13)
If Ms de Burca's allegations are to be believed as written her unbridled personal column in today's Irish Times, it would seem that not only have the Greens lost their moral compass ; they have buried it under a host of erstwhile worthy principles. In these circumstances t'would be well were the Green's to bury this current arrangement of their party system and try to reform themselves rigorously before they attempt to resurrect themselves , with any credibility. ... read full story / add a comment |
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