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international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday August 24, 2008 - 19:06 by pat c
The Iranian Regime has used riot police to attack telecom workers in Shiraz who were on strike due to unpaid wages. Full text at link. The workers of Iran Telecommunications Industry in Shiraz, in southern Iran, have not been paid for five months. The 1200 workers have gathered in front of the Fars province governor general's office many times but no officials have taken any steps to help them or responded to their demands.THings got so bad a worker hanged himself. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday August 24, 2008 - 18:24 by pat c
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The ex chief of Mossad gives his opinion of Ahmadinejad. And it aint pretty! Ahmadinejads very existence makes it more difficult to build solidarity against US aggression towards Iran. Full text at link. "Ahmadinejad is our greatest gift," Israel's Haaretz newspaper quoted ex-Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy as telling the US-sponsored Al-Hurra Arabic satellite channel on Tuesday. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Saturday August 23, 2008 - 19:57 by Kevin Pina
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According to a report delivered to the U.N. General Assembly on January 10, 2008 by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), there were no reported instances of persons disappeared in Haiti during the year 2007. The WGEID is part of the U.N. High Commission on Human Rights and as such is in the loop to receive regular human rights reports filed by the U.N. mission in Haiti. More than five months after Mr. Pierre-Antoine’s disappearance and public acknowledgement of the case by U.N. authorities in Haiti, the WGEID completely omitted any reference to it in their report to the General Assembly. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 18:27 by Y
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Here is some good background from activists and writers on the left about the current situation in Georgia. Mark Almond is especially interesting as he is very knowledgeable on Georgian democracy. These speeches are from an SWP meeting held in Central London recently under the banner of the Stop the War Coalition. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 16:21 by pat c
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The great US liberators are facillitating union busting in Iraq. Military action is being used as a cover to attack workers rights. Full text at link. The administrations of some oil departments backed by the ministry of oil have clearly infringed on our rights.In fact, they have done more than that by excluding, relocating and issuing warrants for union leaders who defended the rights and entitlements of workers. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 15:28 by evil gerald
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In today's Evening Herald, columnist Dan White plumbs new depths of idiocy. In a bizarre link, he tries to make out that the conflict in Georgia and South Ossetia should encourage the Irish government to help Shell bring the gas from the Corrib field onshore. What does he think they have been doing? Does the 11 million euro spent on Garda overtime not indicate (even to the slow witted Dan White) that maybe the government is already on Shell's side? read the full column here: http://www.herald.ie/opinion/columnists/dan-white/the-r....html ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 20, 2008 - 13:46 by TD
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Barak Ravid is reporting in today's edition of Haaretz newspaper that Israel would, according to PM Ehud Olmert, "unleash more massive firepower" and to "hit back harder than before," if Lebanon were to become a "terrorist state" under the domination of Hezbollah. Israel "did not use all means to respond then, but if Lebanon becomes a Hezbollah state, then we won't have any restrictions in this regard ... gone are the days when wars are fought on remote and hidden battlefields while life in the cities carries on as usual," he said. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Tuesday August 19, 2008 - 16:37 by The Bold Collective
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Currently broadcasting from letterfrack: Brian Anson, speaking about the Divis Flats ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Tuesday August 19, 2008 - 13:14 by Mayo News Reader
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According to Sunday's Daily Mail, Shell misled the experts who were tasked with assessing the company's planning application for the proposed onshore pipeline route. Julie Fossitt, Senior Ecologist with the National Parks and Wildlife Services and author of the standard reference work "A Guide to Habitats in Ireland" asserted in a memo released under Freedom of Information legislation, that '‘key information was withheld from specialists whose opinions were included in the planning documents" and that ‘the project ecologists did not have access to key sections of the proposed pipeline route’. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday August 19, 2008 - 10:35 by pat c
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Peter Tatchell writes on how the Iranian Regime is stepping up its war against the working class: trade union activists have been jailed and flogged. This is part of the Regimes wider assault on all dissidents: In Baluchistan alone700 nationalist and human rights campaigners are on death row. Full article at link. Among those recently jailed were two workers' rights campaigners, Sousan Razani and Shiva Kheirabadi. They have been sentenced to 15 lashes and four months in prison for the "crime" (under Iran's Islamic law) of participating in a May Day celebration in the city of Sanandaj earlier this year. The verdicts were issued by the criminal court of Sanandaj – branch 101. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 18, 2008 - 18:23 by pat c
Here is the case of Farzad Kamangar. teacher, trade unionist, human rights activist. Sentenced to death by a kangaroo court. You can help to save his life. Full text at link. Farzad Kamangar, a 33-year old teacher and trade unionist from the Kurdistan Province of Iran, is at risk of execution following an unfair trial.In recent weeks, Education InternationaI has written to the Iranian Government to request a fair trial for Farzad Kamangar and other union activists who are under arrest. In spite of joint efforts from various national and international organisations to have death sentence of Farzad Kamangar communted, it was upheld by the Supreme Court on 11 July 2008. In addition, Iranian trade union colleagues and human rights activists who show solidarity with Farzad are being subjected to pervasive intimidation by the Iranian authorities. ... read full story / add a comment 
clare / anti-war / imperialism Monday August 18, 2008 - 18:19 by redjade
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Maybe in the future the only consistant revenue to keep Shannon Airport alive will be from the killing? ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday August 18, 2008 - 17:27 by Bold Collective
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Currently broadcasting from letterfrack: ... read full story / add a comment
derry / crime and justice Monday August 18, 2008 - 12:56 by Ciaran Gallagher
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On the 10th Anniversary of the Omagh bombings of August 15th 2008 in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, which left 29 people dead and more than 200 injured, a relative of a victim of the bomb has accused that British agents were responsible for carrying out the attacks. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday August 17, 2008 - 17:55 by Catholic Worker
Catholic Worker, mother of eight, Mary Rider remains in a North Carolina (U.S.A.) Prison for attempting to stop the state execution of Sammy Fippen. The following report in the News Observer descrbes the original anti-death penalty NVDA and is based on an interview with Mary in Raleigh Prison. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Sunday August 17, 2008 - 17:54 by pat c
Here is an extract of An interview with Mariam of RAWA. The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) is a women's organization that runs underground schools and other projects, educates Afghan girls, runs a periodic journal, and agitates politically for women's rights, human rights, secularism, and social justice in Afghanistan. Full text at link. From the beginning, RAWA announced that the US and the West have their own reasons for being here and it is not for the freedom of the Afghan people. We said that what the US/NATO is doing under the name of democracy is in fact a mockery of democracy. It is clear for us. Today NATO bombings are increasing, more civilians are being killed, and other violations are being done by the US and NATO. And now even they are trying to share power with the Taliban and terrorist party of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday August 16, 2008 - 13:33 by CB
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Majority World on NEAR90fm. ... read full story / add a comment 
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 14, 2008 - 14:04 by The 1971 Ballymurphy Massacre Committee
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On Monday 9th August 1971 Internment without Trial was introduced by the British Government. Between 9th -11th August eleven people were killed in the Ballymurphy area of West Belfast ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 14, 2008 - 13:55 by tomeile
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Galway Alliance Against the War argues that the conflict in the Caucasus has implications not only for Ireland, but also for the whole world . I'm not a member of the Galway Alliance Against War , but think that this press release is important so I'm posting a link to the IAWM website where it is featured. The IAWM as a body hasn't issued any statement . ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday August 11, 2008 - 09:00 by Gegentypus
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A controversial viewpoint that sees the recent "enthusiasm" for Gaelic language schools in working class areas as just another manifestation of insularity and... whisper it.... racism. ... read full story / add a comment |
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