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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
national / eu Saturday March 01, 2008 - 19:04 by Darragh Aiken, Civil Engineer
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In the run up to the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, there is much that is unsaid as regards our electoral history and the behaviour of the EU towards its honest politicians. This article sets out to give voice to those Europen politicains that have been ignored by Irish media and provides perspective on the proposed referendum. Suggestions for future referendums and laws are proposed that would serve the common good. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Saturday March 01, 2008 - 12:43 by Movie Fan
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It does what it says on the tin. A simplistic plot. A damsel in distress must be rescued by a hero against impossible odds. A black and white vision of good and evil. BUT WHAT EVIL! Like no other movie I have ever seen, perhaps Schindler's List, this movie demonstrates the evil of ethnic cleansing, tyranny and injustice that the West would like to pretend does not exist. Nobody can see this movie and not be changed, outraged and forced to do something for the people of Burma and other peoples oppressed through out the world. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday February 24, 2008 - 17:27 by seosamh an chnoic
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I spent about 10 years involved in voluntary community initiatives like local publishing, charity concerts, youth concerts. My motivation at that time was intensely political and leftist. I believed that the economy was a machine run by the merciless logic of profit and that any involvement in it meant unacceptable compromise. Therefore, my own political principles meant that I marginalised myself from any formal involvement with it. On the sidelines, from my Comfortable And Quite Elevated Chair of Ideological Analysis, it was crystal clear to me that Community Development was just a con-job. It was a ploy by The Elite to sap the revolutionary vigour of the people and co-opt potential revolutionaries. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 21, 2008 - 13:48 by observer
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What No fanfare. I'm suprised at the lack of comment. I would have assumed as Time for Change are simply a left wing election vehicle they would have been crowing proudly at their excellent election result in the NIPSA GC election. NIPSA Unity on the other hand I would expect to be more pragmatic and modest. Let's face it they do have a lot to be modest about!! ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Thursday February 21, 2008 - 07:23 by W. O'Day
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Michael Collins: A Musical Drama is currently playing at the Cork Opera House, Cork City, County Cork. Written and directed by Brian Flynn. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday February 19, 2008 - 05:16 by Astrid Essed
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With the total or partly blockade on Gaza, the Israeli authorities are guilty of crimes against humanity ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday February 18, 2008 - 18:04 by Fiachra Ó Luain
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‘Winter Soldier’ (1972) is a film that has suffered from de facto censorship for most of its thirty six years. Its recent screening as part of the ‘War at Home’ category in the Berlinale Film Festival affected people in Berlin’s Filmpalast theatre as it did when first screened in the early seventies. It is harrowing viewing. Perhaps never before have words, simple spoken words, had such an affect on a society as this film did in the United States of America in 1972. This was because of the undeniable integrity of the U.S. servicemen articulating the extent of the genocidal operating procedure of the U.S. Armed Forces in Vietnam. It has since effectively been erased from the public memory. In the eighties and nineties the era of the Vietnam War underwent a full-scale reconstruction with the likes of Hollywood facelifts of the Vietnam veteran with such films as ‘Rambo’, ‘Hamburger Hill’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket’. Many people in Berlin were moved by the film as it is once again so relevant to all of us. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Saturday February 16, 2008 - 17:52 by ribbid
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180,000 signatures on a petition have failed to lobby the Wikipedia foundation to remove images of the founder of Islam from entries in multiple languages available on the online encyclopedia. However, the illustrations are not nor are likely to be included in the arabic version or other lingustic portals associated with muslim sensibility. It might thus appear languages are sensitive. I have always suspected so, to be frank - perhaps more sensitive than the eye.., ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Friday February 15, 2008 - 17:21 by C Murray
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Many women artists have given time to their art and neglected their art to continue their passionate dialogues with contemporary culture. This small piece is about some contemporary activist women, in literacy, anti-war, against oppression; and surviving regimes that find 'art' to be at variance with their ideologies. ... read full story / add a comment
15.02.03 What was all that about then? The Rise & Demise of the Anti-War Movement!Where to Now Then?
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 15, 2008 - 09:56 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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It's five years on since millions marched against the invasion of Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday February 14, 2008 - 18:22 by Irish Nationalist
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The truth about religious discrimination in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 11, 2008 - 16:11 by Mairtin MacMaolain
Upon leaving the Westlink and heading right towards the heartland of Belfast Republicanism at the bottom of the Grosvenor Road is written on a low wall one of the more thoughtful pieces of graffiti associated with this troubled town. "Nil mar a shíltear a bhítear" it reads, which translates as "that which is thought is not that which necessarily is". Accompanying this defiant meesage is another equally penetrating statement "I am not your stereotype". ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Monday February 11, 2008 - 11:22 by C Murray
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http://www.europelostandfound.net http://schoolofmissingstudies.net The Lost Highway Expedition is currently in Sarajevo and comprises a network of groups, individuals and artists who are 'moving roughly along the unfinished Highway of Brotherhood and Unity in the former Yugoslavia'. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday February 11, 2008 - 10:58 by Nora
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It's time that Islamic followers all over especially women, must demand radical progressive change to their religion and the so-called Sharia laws, especially in this very modern century. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Friday February 08, 2008 - 18:38 by Cian Prendiville
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In January’s Finance Bill VAT on condoms was lowered slightly from 21% to 13.5%. Any reduction should be welcomed, the crucial question is why, given the problems with STIs, is there VAT on condoms, or indeed why are they not free? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday February 07, 2008 - 23:00 by mickeymouse
Former USI officer Steven Conlon recently published a piece in the irish times calling for USI to be made a statutory body with compulsory membership for all students unions ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday February 06, 2008 - 21:15 by Simon
Last year a Belfast anarchist travelled to the West Bank to work with the International Solidarity Movement and Palestinians and wrote this report on his impressions of the Palestinian struggle. “The South African apartheid regime never engaged in the sort of repression Israel is inflicting on the Palestinians. For all the evils and atrocities of apartheid, the government never sent tanks into black towns. It never used gunships, bombers, or missiles against black towns or Bastustans. "What we are witnessing in the occupied territories- Israel’s penal colonies- is the invisible and daily killing of the sick and wounded who are deprived of medical care, of the weak who cannot survive in the new poverty conditions, and those of us who are approaching starvation” (Ronnie Kasrils, S.Africa’s minister of water affairs, Al Ahram Weekly, p175). ... read full story / add a comment |
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