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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
international / anti-capitalism Friday August 08, 2008 - 19:02 by James R
An article on Argentina's assembly movement several years on from the perspective of someone there as a tourist of the pickets, published in Totally Dublin this month and available online at http://soundtracksforthem.com/blog/?cat=204 ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 07, 2008 - 11:27 by redjade
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This is not an accusation - but it is a question, and some Irish reporter should look into this.... ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Thursday August 07, 2008 - 11:07 by Gombeen Man
European Commission acts on complaint by Irish woman. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Wednesday August 06, 2008 - 21:11 by Michael Gallagher
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Below is the first paragraph of a Herald Tribune article from Saturday 26th of July...it makes interesting reading. BAGHDAD: The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from covering the U.S. Marine Corps after he posted photos on the Internet of several dead marines has underscored what some journalists say is a growing effort by the U.S. military to control graphic images from the war...... For the rest of the article go to: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/26/africa/embed.php More info and pictures: www.zoriah.net ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 06, 2008 - 14:07 by tomeile
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On the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima , John Pilger examines the lie of the “good war” which was used sixty three years ago to justify the mass murder of Japanese civilians . Pilger asks whether the world is today prepared to stand by as the American regime uses imformation supplied by discredited CIA-sponsored Iranian opposition sources to justify a possible nuclear attack on Iran. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Tuesday August 05, 2008 - 13:04 by Shane McLoughlin
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Lidl appears to have 'lowered the bar' by urging shoppers to 'don't spend your cash on trash' by shopping in Tesco. The question needs to be asked is whether such an advertising campaign can be justified? and what are the issues surrounding such a stark and attention grabbing ad campaign? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Sunday August 03, 2008 - 19:25 by Godot
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A story in todays Sunday Tribune reveals how a stall at a Balbriggan market run by Co. Down based Paul Rea is openly selling Nazi flags, uniforms, and daggers along with anti-semitic DVDs and ash-trays. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Sunday August 03, 2008 - 12:38 by IT Reader
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Lorna Siggins in the Irish Times reports that Bord Pleanála has asked for extensive further information from Shell about their plan to install a production pipeline linking the offshore Corrib gas field with the refinery they are trying to build nine kilometres inland. Many people fear that the planning procedure will be a simple "rubber stamp" exercise, since the original planning decision that the project was unsuitable for the area was overturned by the planning board on appeal. Since then, Shell has been supported at every step by all arms of the government, despite the fact that the project clearly lacks local consent. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday August 03, 2008 - 12:13 by anon
Lawyer for British resident held captive at Guantánamo Bay writes to Taoiseach Brian Cowen for information on transit through Shannon Airport of planes and personnel involved in the kidnap and torture. On 22 July 2002, CIA crew landed in Shannon on the well-known rendition jet, N379P, having – the previous day – rendered Binyam from Pakistan to Morocco where he faced 18 months of torture. On January 16 2004 CIA crew, this time in N313P, stopped in Shannon en route to rendering Binyam Mohamed from Rabat to the notorious ‘Dark Prison’ in Kabul. The crew then went on to render another man, German citizen Khaled el Masri before returning to Washington on 28 January 2004. (Eventually released because the US admitted he was wrong guy.) http://www.reprieve.org.uk/documents/2008_07_28Irishpre...2.pdf ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Sunday August 03, 2008 - 12:02 by .
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Someone on Indymedia Portland has published a set of photographs of a memorial for Andrew Hanlon, an Irish citizen who was shot dead by a police officer recently. A memorial gathering for Andrew is taking place there today. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Saturday August 02, 2008 - 14:33 by tomeile
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On his recent visit to Jordan Israel and Ramallah US presidential candidate Obama Barrack insisted that nobody in his party should wear green because of the colour’s association with Islam and Hamas. At a June campaign rally in Detroit two women wearing headscarves were told to leave the area behind the podium where Obama was speaking from so as to prevent them being framed in the same shot by cameras covering the event. A Counterpunch article by Rannie Amiri on how Barrack Obama has moved from being a victim to a perpetuator of Islamophobia. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday August 02, 2008 - 08:49 by Loin_de_loeil
It's about a film that might interest all those who want to see non-violence not only in speeches, but also in action. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday July 29, 2008 - 21:26 by not 1 of
The Guardian reports it here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/29/wto.eu It didn't require the Irish Government to use their veto as the farmers have been demanding! Larger forces were at work. China and india don't want to be flooded by cheap food imports from the US. In other words they want to maintain their own small scale agriculture and their own food security. This is spelt out by Mandelson in his blog. Walden Bello of Focus on The Global South, and a noted ongoing critic of the WTO and neo-liberalism more generally, sees the re-localisation of agriculture (that such a collapse may make possible) as central to the mitigation of climate change. Extracts from and links to both below. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday July 29, 2008 - 08:32 by anti-war activist
An interesting story just gone up on Lenin's Tomb. What do people think: are Chomsky and Lenin's Tomb right? Are we too worried about not being seen to be puritanical? ... read full story / add a comment |
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