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international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday January 29, 2007 - 16:35 by pat
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A genocide is engulfing the people of Gaza while a silence engulfs its bystanders. "Some 1.4 million people, mostly children, are piled up in one of the most densely populated regions of the world, with no freedom of movement, no place to run and no space to hide," wrote the senior UN relief official, Jan Egeland, and Jan Eliasson, then Swedish foreign minister, in Le Figaro. They described people "living in a cage", cut off by land, sea and air, with no reliable power and little water and tortured by hunger and disease and incessant attacks by Israeli troops and planes. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 29, 2007 - 11:40 by pat c
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Robert Drinan SJ, who was elected to the US Congress on an Anti-War ticket has died. Drinan was elected in 1970, after he beat longtime Democratic Rep. Philip J. Philbin. He became the first member of Congress to call for the impeachment of Richard Nixon for what Drinan viewed as the administration's undeclared war against Cambodia. Drinan was forced to step down from Congress due to pressure from the Vatican. Full text at link. pat c ... read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 29, 2007 - 04:33 by Anarchy Rules
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A roundup of the death toll in Iraq over the last week. The least become the most and the most become the least. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday January 29, 2007 - 03:46 by Brian Wardlow
National Irish Freedom Committee Free Forum Video Discussion Series ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 29, 2007 - 01:55 by Mocha
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According to the Independent (UK) : "Magistrates have jailed Lindis Percy, 64, after she failed to pay fines and court costs relating to a protest outside the United States Signal Intelligence Station, in Harrogate, North Yorkshire". The pensioner undertakes weekly vigils at the US intelligence station. She formed the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB) in 1992 and was sent to jail in March 2003, as the invasion of Iraq began. Though her protests have resulted in 12 prison sentences before, including a four-and-a-half-month spell in Holloway jail, Percy was adamant that she was not guilty of the crime that led to Friday's court appearance: wilful obstruction of the highway outside Menwith Hill, on 10 and 31 January last year. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 29, 2007 - 01:03 by Over The Edge
Against The Wall is a poetry project designed to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the occupation of Gaza and West Bank by the Israeli Defence Forces, and to raise awareness of the cultural boycott of Israel initiated by John Berger and 93 other international artists in December 2006. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday January 28, 2007 - 14:03 by Solidarity
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All the following folks are before the courts on Monday January 29th. for their trespass actions at the "School of the Americas" last November. Send them a post card or solidarity letter c/- SOA Watch P.O. Box 4566 Washington DC 20017 USA *your letter will be redirected to the resister. Previous sentences have ranged from 3-18 months. ... read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues Sunday January 28, 2007 - 13:37 by larry sweeney
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this story was reported in last sun irish mail on sun ie jan 21 page 31 ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday January 28, 2007 - 03:14 by TD
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Deja vu revisited ; Who amongst us, except those in wilful contemptible amnesia, can forget Lt Weiner's, 24th Panzer Division, powerful description of hell on earth in Stalingrad : " We have fought during fifteen days for a single house, with mortars, grenades, machine-guns and bayonets. Already by the third day fifty-four German corpses are strewn in the cellars, on the landings, and the staircases. The front is a corridor between burnt-out rooms; it is the thin ceiling between two floors. Help comes from neighbouring houses by fire escapes and chimneys. There is a ceaseless struggle from noon to night. From storey to storey, faces black with sweat, ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Saturday January 27, 2007 - 22:08 by E
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday January 27, 2007 - 17:55 by ArtActivist
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The damage done by the Catholic Church need not be gone over again. The fact that this story headlined the Guardian this week is apposite. The esssential thing is that gay couples have the right to adopt and bring up a child. Mr Tony Blair is sympathetic to the stance of the church- offering an exemption to the church agencies. ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Saturday January 27, 2007 - 13:43 by John Meehan
national / crime and justice Saturday January 27, 2007 - 12:29 by Renton
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http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0127/migrants.html McDowell recommends new asylum process ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday January 27, 2007 - 12:12 by anybody no about this
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A West Belfast teenager is bringing Peter Hain to court again - because the Secretary of State has blocked him and other young people from standing in the March Assembly election. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Saturday January 27, 2007 - 01:06 by Kevin Higgins
The new issues of West 47 - online literary quarterly of Galway Arts Centre - and Poetry Ireland News are now out. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 25, 2007 - 23:47 by redjade
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Surge = Escalation (via Ireland) ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Thursday January 25, 2007 - 22:03 by Miiram Cotton
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In discussion with a member of the Rossport Five last autumn mention was made of the fact that he believed the government were planning to make a big, election-winning announcement about the discovery of oil off our shores in time to secure a resounding victory at the next election. A tiny item in today's Irish Daily Mirror might point to something in that direction too: ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 25, 2007 - 14:12 by Woolly Lefty
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Nick Cohen (Observer journalist) promotes his new book "How Liberals Lost Their Way" in a brief mp3 "podcast". ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday January 25, 2007 - 13:16 by Seán Ryan
Yanks incinerate more black folks - no big deal. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous Thursday January 25, 2007 - 12:21 by S2S by the lee
From the western people ... read full story / add a comment |
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