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national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 06, 2005 - 20:54 by Pinhead
 2 comments (last - thursday december 08, 2005 - 23:07)
The social welfare office is a bleak place to find yourself on a summer’s afternoon. It's decrepit decor of ruddy orange plastic chairs and ratty gray carpets, scarred with cigarette burns from anxious claimants testify to a lack of state investment and care . With every text and fag leaving another dent in a miserly bank balance, attempting to navigate signing on for the first time is more obstacle course than a walk in the park. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 06, 2005 - 19:28 by Paddy Savage
18 comments (last - wednesday december 21, 2005 - 19:27)
Weds 5thOct: Protesters called on the British governement to take action against Irans treatment of gay and lesbian people,the protest took place outside the Iranian embassy after the brutal execution of two young men accused of being lovers.Celebrities such as Matt lucas,Simon Callow,Boy george,Scott capuro and gay rapper Qboy sent their messages of support to the event,Cappuro said"i just think its horrible,im sick of this shit."The boys were tortured,given lashes and then hung!! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 06, 2005 - 13:00 by Fred
10 comments (last - monday january 01, 2007 - 12:08)
A group calling itself the Swords of Truth Brigades has kidnapped four members of the pacifist group Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), accusing them of being "spies working for the occupying forces.” They have threatened to kill the four hostages unless all detainees held by the Coalition and the Iraqi government are released by December 8. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday December 06, 2005 - 09:34 by Kevin Mannerings
9 comments (last - saturday december 17, 2005 - 09:43)  1 image
How much did Otto Schilly and Gerhardt Schroeder know about the CIA kidnapping of Khaled al-Masri, the man who was grabbed by mistake? ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Monday December 05, 2005 - 13:33 by %
10 comments (last - friday january 06, 2006 - 02:11)
We have come a long way with Chavez. But no-one ever suggested we were going to go all the way with him. Years ago, he went from military officer, to charismatic left wing popularist, to television master, to dauphin of Castro, to the "most left wing and popular champion of the poor" in the Americas. A man who could taunt with impunity the Americans under Bush, the Mexicans under Fox. A man who could send fuel and food aid to the poor of Boston, a man who chose not to side with the striking miners of Ecuador. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 03, 2005 - 15:36 by Sean Crudden
4 comments (last - saturday december 10, 2005 - 12:27)
In an age of spin and the sound-bite no-one is listening. Have we lost the capacity to talk and to listen? Are we all just parrots programmed by mass media which considerably undervalue the individual? Is democracy just a clash of stereotypes? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 01, 2005 - 14:56 by Observer2
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In October of this year the Pitstop ploughshares trial opened in Dublin Ireland. One of the international witnesses who came to Ireland for the trial was former United States Marine Corps Staff Sargent Jimmmy Massey from North Carolina. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 01, 2005 - 02:05 by Coilín ÓhAiseadha
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In an analysis published last week, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern presents the high level of agreement expressed by Iraqi factions at the previous weekend's reconciliation conference in Cairo, in acknowledging the legitimacy of resistance, denouncing terrorism and demanding a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign forces. But he remains pessimistic about prospects that the Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal will take the hint, or that Condoleezza Rice will take any independent initiative within the State Department to press for withdrawal. Meanwhile, in news reports Wednesday, although Bush maintains the pretence that he will "settle for nothing less than complete victory" - a sure recipe for complete defeat - and insists that he will not be induced to announce a deadline for withdrawal, he has nevertheless declared an intention to "decrease our troop level in Iraq". ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday November 30, 2005 - 12:57 by Ciaron O'Reilly
23 comments (last - wednesday december 07, 2005 - 19:37) 3 images
I have known Norman Kember for the past ten years. We have met through mutual nonviolent activism against the arms trade, nuclear weapons and opposing the various wars that unfolded while I was living in England ('96-'02)....on Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq. We are both faith based activists. Norman is a Baptist minister and active with the Baptist Peace Fellowship and Fellowship for Reconciliation. He is 74 years of age. He is a pacifist and a humble man. He is a father and a grandfather and now a hostage in Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Tuesday November 29, 2005 - 12:41 by Alban McGuinness
7 comments (last - tuesday december 06, 2005 - 12:13)
The killers of 2,100 victims will get away scot-free in a mockey of of the proper truth and justice process. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 28, 2005 - 21:26 by Jane Horgan Jones
40 comments (last - wednesday january 25, 2006 - 03:35)
It is time for a full, frank and honest debate about USI ; both the future of the organisation itself, and more locally, UCDSU’s continued involvement within its structures. Serious questions are being asked about the direction of USI and whether UCDSU is a union that wishes to remain associated with that direction. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 26, 2005 - 21:33 by Prisoner solidarity
2 comments (last - sunday november 27, 2005 - 23:05) 1 image
Message Of Solidarity With The Political Prisoners: Hunger Strikers Son Demands Human Rights Intervention ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday November 23, 2005 - 18:24 by Dave
3 comments (last - friday december 09, 2005 - 10:14)
The bad news is that , a high school teacher in the Saudi town of Ein Al-Juwa, has been sentenced to three years in jail and 750 lashes to be administered in a public market. His crime, as reported by the Saudi daily Al-Madina, is “mocking religion,” or, specifically, discussing the Bible and praising Jews. Al-Harbi was taken to court for these transgressions by students and colleagues at his school. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Wednesday November 23, 2005 - 17:38 by Kathy Sinnott
1 comment (last - thursday november 24, 2005 - 05:44)
With a close friend battling cancer and another friend going in for a biopsy next week, I am even more acutely aware of the breathtaking inadequacy of our cancer treatment services than usual. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 21, 2005 - 14:38 by Paddy Rua
In Dublin, we were visited by a Haitian activist, Obed Alexis, who participated in the picket organised by the Latin American Solidarity Centre, joining the international protest against the occupation and Latortue’s dictatorship of 30 September. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Sunday November 20, 2005 - 15:17 by iosaf mac D .:. ipsiphi
4 comments (last - friday may 19, 2006 - 14:21) 2 images
It has been long observed that people for some reason on their non-banking days readily absorb shite about Dangerous Places, Famous People, Sensible Saving Options, Holidays, Interesting facts, Sport results, Media, gardening and health as well looking ahead at “opinion polls” and looking back at "how history was made". Here are three dates- july 27th 1968, August 29th 1975 Nov 20th 1975 Today marks the 30th anniversary of the last "one". It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Nuremburg trials. __________________________________________ ... read full story / add a comment 
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 20, 2005 - 13:38 by Prisoner
2 comments (last - monday november 21, 2005 - 00:34) 1 image
The family of 1981 INLA Hunger Striker Patsy O’Hara have expressed their concern at the ongoing hunger strike taken in protest by several political activists in the Fresnes Prison, France by issuing a direct statement to those involved. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 18, 2005 - 18:02 by John McDermott
3 comments (last - friday november 18, 2005 - 19:41) 4 images
New Draconian road rules may hoist Martin on his own Petard (if he ever loses his personal chauffeur)! ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 17, 2005 - 15:47 by James McBarron
3 comments (last - friday november 18, 2005 - 11:21)
The recent spate of sectarian attacks in villages in Antrim and elsewhere are obviously not a reaction to the IRA as there is no longer anything resembling a war going on. In fact they are a product of the sectarianism deeply embedded in northern society. They're a product of hundreds of years of cynical use of same to maintain the privilge and position of the ruling class. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Thursday November 17, 2005 - 15:33 by Kathy Sinnott
1 comment (last - thursday november 17, 2005 - 15:46)
There is a very active organic college in Drumcollogher, Co. Limerick. Everyone there obviously loves what they are doing, in pursuing not just a different way of producing food but a different way of life. ... read full story / add a comment |
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