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How are we going to get rid of racism when we have expects and intellectuals paid to find us guilty of racism at all costs? The answer is never, says Prof James Alexander.
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offsite link Starmer Hands Prisoners 6.6% Pay Rise at Cost of ?4.4 Million Tue Feb 04, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has handed prisoners a 6.6% pay rise at a cost of ?4.4 million despite depriving 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel allowance because money is so tight.
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The EU is drawing up a plan to overhaul its 1951 Refugee Convention that prevents countries from rejecting asylum seekers at their borders in a belated effort to address Europe's exploding migrant crisis.
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The prosecution of a man for burning the Qur'an shows how Islamic blasphemy codes are becoming embedded in criminal law. Coming up with a legal definition of 'Islamophobia' will accelerate this process, says Sam Bidwell.
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national / consumer issues Monday October 31, 2005 - 12:14 by Tracy Donegan   text 5 comments (last - thursday december 13, 2007 - 10:37)
Still a routine procedure in many Irish hospitals learn how you can reduce your chances of getting an episiotomy. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-capitalism Sunday October 30, 2005 - 22:55 by Banker   text 1 comment (last - monday october 31, 2005 - 12:28)
The rich, and beaurocrats of Rio de Janeiro wish to bulldoze 100 year old favelas, home to 1.1 million of Brazils poor.
20 % of the population of Rio de Janeiro live in the favelas.
The favela shantytowns were hand built 100 years ago by the poor as makeshift homes. 68year old Glorinha Rogue Ariano has lived there all her life, where she has raised her 14 children.'What will I do? sleep in the road? ... read full story / add a comment
The controversial Transfiguration
national / politics / elections Friday October 28, 2005 - 13:50 by John McDermott   text 4 comments (last - saturday october 29, 2005 - 04:46)   image 1 image
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday October 27, 2005 - 19:49 by Michael Friesen   text 12 comments (last - saturday november 12, 2005 - 15:08)
A message from Noam Chomsky in support of the Ploughshares 5. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / environment Thursday October 27, 2005 - 11:43 by Bob Wilson   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 27, 2005 - 16:56)   image 1 image
The following ministerial announcement appeared recently in the newspapers (February 2005) :

‘Mr John Browne TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture and Food with responsibility for Forestry, announced that the Forest Service of his Department has issued a call for proposals from interested parties relating to the promotion and development of sustainable forestry. Applications are being invited, by means of press advertisements, for financial support towards pilot projects and initiatives concerned with developing sustainable forestry in Ireland and towards projects aimed at the promotion of forestry in Ireland.’ ... read full story / add a comment
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national / environment Wednesday October 26, 2005 - 13:48 by Niall Harnett   text 6 comments (last - wednesday november 02, 2005 - 12:42)   image 11 images
The greater the diversity of life in a woodland, the greater the health of the woodland as a whole and the greater the health of all the individuals in the wood.
Nature takes care of itself and will generate balance. The 'Woodsman' or the 'Hand in the Woods', to translate correctly, can help nature, can concertina time to a certain extent and can create a symbiosis with nature, with an ecosystem, with a woodland.
Or the hand of man can destroy nature and destroy itself. ... read full story / add a comment
where the ruffians and loveable rogues do business & banking is where children are sold, birds have flu, and misery is cheap.
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday October 24, 2005 - 22:11 by iosaf   text 4 comments (last - friday october 28, 2005 - 13:20)   image 2 images
Last week saw the publication of this year's "transparency org" world corruption perception report. Its a report which is taken seriously by some, and certainly no country looking for foreign investment wants to be at the bottom of the 158 rankings.

But both the annual list of "corruption perception" and "bribery perception" indixes, can not be understood as isolated statistics. Just as Greenspan's biographer assured us he takes stock of over 4000 weekly indicators, we can not consider just one single country or economy when discussing corruption or bribery. Nor can we refuse to draw in other human development indicators, (the UNHDR report) all the usual "facts and figures" and internal data. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 24, 2005 - 11:44 by Fiona de Londras   text 2 comments (last - friday october 28, 2005 - 12:42)   image 3 images
Today we celebrate the 60th birthday of the United Nations but to what extent can we celebrate the United Nations’ capacity to enforce the human rights standards they have successfully put in place in international law since the 1940s? ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice Monday October 24, 2005 - 01:15 by MMcD   text 13 comments (last - tuesday december 13, 2011 - 17:00)
With the pressure on the Minister for Injustice McDowell and the Government to tackle the Garda corruption being constantly exposed, an opportunity exists for all those affected by police harassment to push for a genuine independent complaints body. Both political activists and ordinary people, working to expose Garda brutality can have an effect. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday October 22, 2005 - 18:11 by Robbie Sinnott   text 5 comments (last - thursday april 17, 2008 - 12:49)   audio 1 audio file
With the construction of the China-Tibet railway this week, the destruction of Tibet reaches a new level.

Studio interview with Yungchen Lhamo (from Tibet) and Neil Steedman (Tibet Support Group Ireland). mp3 (22mins, FM-friendly).

To listen on broadband (immediately - depending on your player settings/preferences), left-click the next link.

http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/yungchenradioedit.mp3

to download on any connection, right-click etc.
The above link is also the radio edit, suitable for rebroadcasting on FM.

The same interview is segmented at lower resolution for immediate access for all sorts of internet connections lower down, and synopsis given under those headings. ... read full story / add a comment
"its up to the Africans" - Will they save us?
international / racism & migration related issues Saturday October 22, 2005 - 15:31 by iosaf   text 5 comments (last - monday october 31, 2005 - 12:08)   image 1 image
Once upon a time, the global system allowed pharmaceutical companies to withhold patents on drugs, vaccines and treatments needed by the poorest of this earth to protect intellectual property rights, assets, and the R&D budgets of scientists in the newly prosperous technologically focussed economies of the north. ... read full story / add a comment
Micky Og Devine speaking earlier this year at conference in solidarity with prisoners
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 21, 2005 - 22:25 by IRSP   image 1 image
20 October 2005
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday October 20, 2005 - 03:03 by Robbie Sinnott   text 9 comments (last - friday october 21, 2005 - 19:43)   audio 1 audio file
18 min phone interview mp3 (128kbps - Fm-friendly).

to hear on broadband immediately, click
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/nuria.mp3

or, to download on anyinternet connection, just right click the link etc. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-capitalism Wednesday October 19, 2005 - 22:34 by banker   text 5 comments (last - thursday october 20, 2005 - 12:01)
If you live in south belfast, you might as well be living in a totally different country, to the rest of belfast.

If you live in south belfast, your experience of belfast, would be totally different to that of people who live, in the new lodge, lower north belfast, shankill and the Falls. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / environment Wednesday October 19, 2005 - 00:06 by Olga   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 19, 2005 - 12:05)
What's all the fuss about.

The recent leakage of 20 tonnes of plutonium and uranium fuel from sellafields Thorp processing plant has forced the closure of the Thorp processing plant. Radioactive waste leaked into a huge stainless steel chamber which is so radioactive it is impossible to enter. http://guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,2763,1479527,00.html ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / crime and justice Tuesday October 18, 2005 - 17:00 by m.m.mccarron   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 18, 2005 - 18:21)
Irish Times on Corrib Shell Illegal Pipe Today.
Shell, break the pipe and obey the law! ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 17, 2005 - 22:12 by John Waters   text 15 comments (last - tuesday august 22, 2006 - 17:18)
I have heard of no case where the department has taken the most rudimentary steps to ascertain whether the so-called "absent father has declined to support his child or children. When did the department last contact such a man and ask him if he was willing to marry the mother, or to accept joint, or even sole custody of his child/children? Not one of, these 70,000 men owes mothers or the State a cent, because there can be no legal obligation on a father to pay "maintenance" for children he has not refused to support in these ways. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday October 17, 2005 - 15:40 by Jim   text 35 comments (last - saturday october 22, 2005 - 19:37)   image 1 image
Yesterday the people of Iraq - Shia, Sunni and Kurd alike - voted overwhelmingly in support of the new Iraq Charter defying political extremists of the Ba'athists and Islamic fundementalist terrorists. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Friday October 14, 2005 - 14:56 by Independent Media Consultants   text 1 comment (last - friday october 14, 2005 - 16:13)
Outlines the benefits of unleashing the P.R.I.C.K. on the Irish electorate. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Thursday October 13, 2005 - 15:10 by "John"   text 244 comments (last - friday may 06, 2011 - 16:11)   image 2 images
Alcoholism is a bad thing, right? Anybody who makes any attempt to eradicate it deserves our gratitude and encouragement. Well, that’s not the story at all, as it turns out. There is only one way to do it and it’s the Alcoholics Anonymous way. At least according to AA themselves, that is. Theirs is the only thing that works and they are 100% infallible in what they say and do. Jesus Christ had more self-doubt than the AA. ... read full story / add a comment
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