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national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 23, 2004 - 14:53 by Dave McCarthy
 14 comments (last - saturday february 12, 2005 - 00:53)
While working on material concerning racism in the media, I found that nowhere on the internet could I get a copy of Mary Ellen Synon's infamous article she wrote in 1996 concerning Travellers. This article achieved a new low in standards of journalism in Ireland. Four years later, the same writer managed to offend all but Kevin Myers when she wrote about the athletes in the Special Olympics. I have scanned the 1996 article into our own web site for reference. Below is the text. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday February 23, 2004 - 14:23 by Idiot
3 comments (last - wednesday february 25, 2004 - 13:12)
This peice relates to the developmental process of two different Middle Eastern states, the Lebanon and Iraq. It stresses the benefits of the civil war in the Lebanon and asks if a civil war is the only way for Iraq to function as a nation. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday February 23, 2004 - 12:58 by WCR
33 comments (last - wednesday march 03, 2004 - 22:40)
As the 'peace process' hits yet another brick wall, the rise of racism in the north is viewed by some as the price we will have to pay for 'normalisation', as though the blow-torch of sectarian invective will simply switch its focus on another set of blameworthies, marked out as somehow 'different'. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday February 22, 2004 - 01:11 by Watchdog
21 comments (last - tuesday june 15, 2004 - 02:33)
All fraudulent laws are created, as they were in the time of Mussolini and elsewhere, to be "for our protection". How many know of Hitler's "concerned" and "wholesome" anti-smoking" policies? ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday February 21, 2004 - 12:47 by s.fleming
6 comments (last - tuesday august 31, 2004 - 04:22)
psychiatry's answer to mental health problems is psychiatric drugs which they believe help to correct the 'patient's' brain chemistry or bio-chemical imbalance. Critical psychiatry seeks a more holistic approach seeing personal/interpersonal, social and environmental contexts as the origins of severe mental distress. Psychiatric drugs with their damaging effects on the individual and the genetic hypothesis that psychiaty operates behind have failed and must be replaced with a new social and holistic model which can truly help people. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 20, 2004 - 15:24 by copywhat?
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday February 20, 2004 - 13:14 by Jean Holmes
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The Iraqi woman scientist Dr. Huda Ammash resarched about the US use of Depleted Uranium during the US Gulf War 1991 ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Thursday February 19, 2004 - 15:24 by seedot
5 comments (last - sunday february 22, 2004 - 10:20)
Bin Collection, Aer Rianta, An Post, CIE, FAS, Bord Failte, ESB - all of these bodies have their futures discussed at the Article 133 meetings. When we want to know what's behind 25% of bus routes being introduced, or the push behind service charges we HAVE to think about these meetings. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Wednesday February 18, 2004 - 14:30 by Owen Deere
153 comments (last - friday november 26, 2004 - 10:13)
I've been trying to work out who will be listed as anti-bin tax local election candidates. I'm not making any comment on whether this is a waste of time, just merely trying to ascertain who is likley to be the candidate in each ward. Below is the list I have compiled. I'm not sure that this is accurate. I'm only going on previous announcements. That's where you come in. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 18, 2004 - 01:30 by reeuq
9 comments (last - monday february 23, 2004 - 19:14)
“What is the use of rainbow week” is the title of a tread on the UCD student union message board. Followed by a comment that says “I don't know if the scrawls on the posters were homophobic - sounds like it was people who think it's funny to slag gay people, not necessarily homophobes!” Reading this makes me think of this Le Tigre song Tres bien and the line “because they will try to convince us that we have arrived, that we are already there, that it has happened. Because we need to live in the place where we are truly alive, present, safe and accounted for.” ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Tuesday February 17, 2004 - 02:53 by Democracy and Public Services in Europe
4 comments (last - tuesday february 17, 2004 - 20:46)
.......article 133 . . . . . . . . ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday February 16, 2004 - 18:21 by Grudge Report
2 comments (last - tuesday february 17, 2004 - 13:23)
The drop in CAO numbers was reported on the front page of last Wednesday’s Irish Times. However it only briefly mentioned that the OECD is currently working on a report of the third level sector here. What it didn’t mention though was that this was at the behest of the Higher Education Authority. Also going unreported is the fact that the OECD heaped praise in a report (following an IMF heaping similar praise) upon Blair’s top up fees in January. I wonder if the HEA and the Dept of Education are expecting an OECD change of heart, in regards to it’s future report for our colleges? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday February 16, 2004 - 18:20 by lish
2 comments (last - wednesday february 18, 2004 - 18:07)
The ESF may not take place in London due to extreme lack of cashfIow but if it does this is what we're looking at: I just received the following mail about the London ESF meetings from an activist friend. It's a familiar litany of undemocratic, concensus-free, bullying decision making based on a phony "we don't have time to discuss it so let's just agree in principle and then forget about it argument." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday February 16, 2004 - 16:35 by Anarcho
Who can deny that the Bush Junta did not leap into action. The instant people complained, a federal enquiry was launched to discover what happened, why and to make sure it does not happen again. Shame it was only Janet Jackson's breast that got that treatment. ... read full story / add a comment
derry / politics / elections Monday February 16, 2004 - 13:18 by Paul Mallon
24 comments (last - thursday november 10, 2005 - 14:19)
FRFI on the electoral pact known as the SEA ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Saturday February 14, 2004 - 13:13 by John McDermott
2 comments (last - saturday february 14, 2004 - 18:44)
There must be a united coalition of all groups to defeat the common enemy. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Friday February 13, 2004 - 16:33 by taken from ap/rn
2 comments (last - saturday february 14, 2004 - 16:27)
DUP postion becomes clearer ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / environment Friday February 13, 2004 - 02:36 by landless nameless
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 12, 2004 - 11:42 by Caitriona
32 comments (last - thursday august 02, 2007 - 22:47)
Early morning raids on houses in Dublin and the Holding Centre in Mosney resulted in the deportation of 60 'failed' asylum seekers to Romania and Moldova this morning. The Gards accommpanied them over to make sure they are delivered safe and sound into the hands of the Romanian police. Our Guardians of the Peace are probably preparing to make the journey back to Ireland this afternoon having aided in the forced transportation of nameless, faceless individuals who will be remembered (for about a week ) as the 'failed asylum seekers'. I can't help feeling that it is us who have failed these people. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Wednesday February 11, 2004 - 21:34 by John McDermott
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.Fianna Fails unfettered corruption hurt the young,the old, the sick, and the handicapped.! This must be the agreed slogan for all opposition to the current Mafiosi in Leinster House. While on the subject of taxis and tax- The corrupt political vote-buying, tactics of the Fianna Fail Party re taxi plates which led to the deregulation fiasco and consequent meagre compensation payout to widows,pensioners and many others who suffered is a scandel which merits another tribunal! a .Wheelchair accessible taxis have all but disappeared from Dublin since deregulation .In fact the Corporation has refunded the 18,000Euros which every driver paid them for his licence.For ten years hackneys were refused admission to bus lanes,even though they were shoring up the scandalous shortage of taxis,by providing a co ... read full story / add a comment |
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