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derry / rights, freedoms and repression Friday March 26, 2010 - 19:00 by Eleanor
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The 14 Raytheon accused are 9 women and 5 men, based in Derry, in the north of Ireland, who are facing criminal charges after they used Non Violent Direct Action to access the Raytheon Software plant in Derry, in an attempt to disarm the mainframe computer. Raytheon are the world's largest manufacturer of missiles and the world's fifth largest weapons manufacturer. Until they left in February 2010 (thanks to all the action taken against them), Raytheon's Derry software plant developed the firmware for transponders, targeting software and other crucial guidance system-related work for weapons. Their factories globally manufacture Tomahawk Cruise missiles, Sidewinder missiles, Hellfire missiles, the "Bunker Buster" bombs, the delivery systems for Cluster bombs, White Phosphate and Napalm. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Thursday March 25, 2010 - 11:33 by Homer Hostage
Karl Rove, right-wing advocate of torture and government by assassination, broadcast on the air a detailed description of the floor plan of Air Force 1, during a radio interview. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Monday March 22, 2010 - 11:37 by TaraL
50 years ago an experiment was conducted by Stanley Milgram, measuring the willingness of participants to obey an authoritative figure dressed in white coat that instructed them to illicit shocks on another human being, called the learner. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Friday March 19, 2010 - 14:12 by donkylemore
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Forget about Blair .. As the baroness leads the EU team to negotiate in the region with the other members of the quartet what can be achieved . -Nothing unless sanctions are applied against Israel and the UN courts come out with less ambiguous deliberations . The danger is that situation will escalate into another JIhad and open an opportunity for Iran to enter the fray.. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Thursday March 18, 2010 - 22:05 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience." Rebecca West ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday March 16, 2010 - 13:25 by donkylemore
Both Shia communities In Iran and Iraq can see that ‘’ the enemy of my enemy is also my friend ‘’ and in this regard they will find common ground in their distrust of the West and Israel with possibly dreadful consequences . So while it suited the US to have Iran and Iraq locked in a decade of war , the tables are perversely reversed now . Mission Accomplished ? The world is in a more parlous state after G.W Bush's military folly ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Friday March 12, 2010 - 22:31 by Emily Smith
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Articles about the shortcomings of recent graduates appeared in all of last weekend's papers. This is a response to those articles from one of those illiterate graduates. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday March 12, 2010 - 19:48 by Kieran McNulty
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In January 2006 the Government accepted the recommendations contained in an independent report that it had commissioned, Vision for Change (VFC), as the basis for its future mental health policy. In the four years since the report’s publication almost nothing has been done to realise its full implementation. ... read full story / add a comment
Israel- Expansionism even as Joe Biden arrives to negotiate a settlement between Israel and the bele
galway / crime and justice Friday March 12, 2010 - 11:45 by donkylemore
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The UN mandate 424 demands that Israel return to it's pre '67 borders. She has refused to do so in 40 years. Israel 's hegemony in the region is manifest in her military and social expansionist policies . She ignores the rest of the world , perpetrates whatever atrocities she chooses with impunity. When criticized by the Goldstein report she attacked Goldstein , then attacken the UN for having the timerity to criticize her invasion of Lebanon and killing of over 1400 civilians. There is one bizarre and paradoxical for a recalibrating the balance of power in the Middle East.... ... read full story / add a comment
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
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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 |
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