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limerick / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday March 22, 2008 - 15:01 by Cael
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ATTEMPTS by some members of Limerick City Council to place obstacles in the way of the new regeneration boards must be condemned, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin said this week. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday March 21, 2008 - 17:43 by KevinT. Walsh
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Contemporary Irish society is more divided than it has been for a long time - or so it was written last week. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday March 21, 2008 - 07:49 by James R
Army Sergeant Ronn Cantu is serving his second tour in Iraq. He's also a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Last year, he rose to prominence as a rare outspoken troop against the war and occupation when he spoke live from his base in Iraq, to America's radical online radio network Democracy Now. Then he described how he was scared out of his mind during the interview for expressing opinions the military machine simply did not want the public to hear. This time round, in an interview for another radical media outlet, we chatted over Myspace, about how he is utilizing the internet to organise against the occupation from its front line, just as the Winter Soldier events were getting closer. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday March 20, 2008 - 11:29 by Jim
We've been here before. In 1992 Bill Clinton who never served in the military or fired a shot in anger challenged President George H W Bush, who was one of the youngest US fighter pilots of World War 2 and who was shot down and rescued at a sea while others who participated in the same attack were captured and cannibalised by the Japanese. In 1996 Bill Clinton challenged Bob Dole, a veteran of the the WW2 Italian campaign who was wounded by a German machine gun and waited for nine agonising months to be evacuated to an American hospital leaving his right arm paralyzed preventing him from shaking hands, a serious disability for a politician. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 19, 2008 - 09:59 by Mr Pipe from Yorkshire
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News coming from the Meath conference of AGSI says that the Gardai want murder trial televised for General Public viewing, supposedly that would up the clothing allowances of the judge's bench and provide a cannon fodder of violent and disturbing viewing for the General Public. Maybe they will provide interactive buttons for people to get involved in the legal process. The risible reason for this suggestion is to show 'us' the great people and public viewers what Gardai must suffer in the courts. They seem well enough appraised of the rights of the individual and one of those is the presumption of innocence. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Monday March 17, 2008 - 19:34 by Brian
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This article is just an attempt to speculate on how the Vatican intends to juggle the competing interests of the two streams of thought within the Catholic Church. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday March 16, 2008 - 23:20 by Fu Manchu
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Firstly, I do not intend to exhonerate or belittle human rights abuses by the PRC in this piece. However, I feel it appropriate to provoke the thoughts of the readership & our horizontal media community on what exactly are the main issues & ethical social principles at the root of the recent violence in Tibet & other provinces of the PRC with ethnic Tibetan communities. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / politics / elections Friday March 14, 2008 - 10:02 by C Murray
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The Breast cancer unit at Mayo General Hospital is to be phased out under the HSE policy of Professor Brendan Drumm, many who travelled to the Breast cancer protest in buses and stood in the cold to highlight lack of services to the North-West will be heavily disappointed in the decision for the scheduled phase-out. Mostly they will be disappointed in the TD whom they elected who upholds the decision of the 'medical men' who know best. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/85161 Ms Flynn was at that protest, she most purposefully strode across the road to listen to the women speak and then she turned her back on them to support Mary Harney and the HSE. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday March 13, 2008 - 12:07 by Health Working Group
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Radical health reform, in terms of creating equality and accessibility, and stopping the agenda of privatisation and for-profit medicine, is one of the great challenges facing Irish society. In this pamphlet, anarchists explain the reasons why such change is needed, give examples of important first steps in creating change, and describe the type of struggle that is necessary if we are going to win. PDFs of this pamphlet can be downloaded: A4 version - http://www.wsm.ie/attachments/mar2008/health_pamphlet_1...1.pdf A5 booklet version (for double sided printing) - http://www.wsm.ie/attachments/mar2008/health_pamphlet_a...1.pdf ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Wednesday March 12, 2008 - 22:04 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi
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Pedro Iñaki Pérez Beotegui (alias "Wilson") died yesterday, on the fourth anniversary of the Al Qaeda M11 bombing of Madrid, in Vitoria in the Basque Country at 60 years of age. As "Wilson" he led the group who in 1973 rented a flat on at Calle Claudio Coello 104, Madrid overlooking the road which Franco's prime minister & expected successor Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco used every morning to travel to work after mass in an armoured car. For several weeks the four members of the team, codenamed "Ogre" tunnelled under the street and then placed 80kg of explosives which they detonated on the 20th of December 1973. The car in which Carrero Blanco travelled was sent 20 metres into the air & over a five storey building in the blast. The assassination is cited in almost every account of how the Spanish state passed from an authoritiarian military dictatorship to the process of "transition" upon Franco's death without named successor to the European social democracy it is today. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Wednesday March 12, 2008 - 10:54 by C Murray
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The issue of the RTE 'Documentary'- 'Fairytale of Kathmandu', (which I must confess to have not seen) is rolling on with questions in the Seanad , with fattening well-budgetted disc-jockeys allowing hysterical women in rollers Tut! over homosexuality and the sexual activity of a splendid poet. Interesting letter in the Times today by a regular contributor to indymedia as well. I shall publish an extract in a minute. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Tuesday March 11, 2008 - 03:07 by Rob Henderson
Feel free to circulate this text at will. It might not mean much but if you think it could make a difference somewhere then post it there, or write your own version. Those in the most ideal positions of our national press are not investigating this issue. The people on the ground only have so much time to spread around each day. It is up to you to provide whatever you think we need, we'll accept all the help we can get. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday March 10, 2008 - 00:21 by ronan
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Most people will be aware that Irish troops are being sent to Africa as part of an EU 'peace-keeping' mission to Chad and Central African Republic (CAR), but many will be relatively unaware of the background to the conflict and the reasons for the mission. This article looks at some of the realities behind the rhetoric and suggests some more plausible motivations for the intervention. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Sunday March 09, 2008 - 00:16 by Cliona Flanagan
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Every year we celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th. This goes back to 1910, when an international conference of socialist women decided that 'women the world over set aside a particular day each year to remember women and their struggles.' ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Saturday March 08, 2008 - 11:57 by Cael
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Personally, the biggest problem I see with private property is that western society has not been able to put any limit on it. It has become, or always was, psychotic. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Friday March 07, 2008 - 17:51 by Tracy Donegan
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Tokophobia is a debilitating fear of childbirth which in many cases is so profound that it can lead to a complete avoidance of pregnancy or a pregnancy filled with terror and anxiety. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday March 07, 2008 - 11:02 by Des
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Foreign kictchens bought instead oof our own. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Wednesday March 05, 2008 - 10:09 by Soundmigration
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Carbon trading and offsets distract attention from the wider, systemic changes and collective political action that needs to be taken in the transition to a low-carbon economy. Promoting more effective and empowering approaches to climate change involves moving away from the blinkered reductionism of free-market dogma, the false-economy of supposed quick fixes, the short-term self interest of big business. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday March 02, 2008 - 13:42 by Gecoga
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This articule makes an analisis of the current junture of multitudinary marchs in Colombia. It reviews the situation of human rights violations and the causes of the Colombian conflict to finally explore alternatives to achieve peace in the country. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / eu Sunday March 02, 2008 - 08:40 by M Walshe
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An analysis of EU Commissioner's Margot Wallstrom's involvement in two parallel but contradictory processes - as head of the Commission's 'Plan D for Dialogue, Deabte & Democracy' allegedly aimed at involving citizens in the defining of Europe's future, which was set up in the aftermath of the 2005 rejection of the EU Constitution in France and Holland - while at the same time she played a little reported but significant role in the Amato Group - a self-selected group of 16 of the EU's top political elite who met to to redraft - behind closed doors, and with funding from a leading European multinational - the rejected Constitution text and effectively re-packaged it as what was to become known as the Lisbon Treaty, a document which every member state in the EU, bar Ireland, is being denied a popular say on. Commissioner Wallstrom was in Dublin last Thursday to speak at the National Forum on Europe. ... read full story / add a comment |
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