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national / eu Friday April 18, 2008 - 10:38 by Stephen O' Regan   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 29, 2008 - 10:03)
Coverage of the Farmers Protest on Dame Street, Thursday 17/04/2008. ... read full story / add a comment
Israeli killing machine
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday April 17, 2008 - 22:55 by Wageslave   text 5 comments (last - sunday april 20, 2008 - 00:16)   image 2 images
metal darts from a tank shell killed Fadl Shanaa, a Reuters cameraman, as he was working in Gaza, doctors in the territory have said. Several of the 3cm-long darts, known as flechettes, were embedded in Shanaa's legs and chest, a medical examination showed on Thursday.

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international / anti-capitalism Wednesday April 16, 2008 - 17:50 by international preparation group   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 23, 2008 - 12:33)   image 1 image
PGA - People's Global Action - started in 1998, it has been a tool and a diffuse structure coordinating groups and people sharing common struggles and practices, in accordance with various anticapitalist and anti-authoritarian principles (see the hallmarks ... read full story / add a comment
Lydia Cacho Ribeiro. Press Freedom Award.
international / gender and sexuality Wednesday April 16, 2008 - 12:52 by C Murray   image 2 images
The 2008 Guillermo Cano award for Journalism is being awarded on May 3rd to Lydia Cacho
from Cancun , In Mexico.

The award Names her as an International Press Freedom Writer and will be awarded by UNESCO.

Lydia has endured defamation, sabotage, car-bomb attack, police harassment and persecution
for writing on corruption and child pornography in official Mexico.

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/85907
http://libertadlatina.org ... read full story / add a comment
clare / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday April 15, 2008 - 12:05 by Ciaron   text 9 comments (last - saturday april 19, 2008 - 17:32)   image 1 image
Nearly 67,000 U.S. Troops Passed Through Shannon in January March

The numbers of U.S. troops going through Shannon airport in the first quarter of this year increased by almost 150% on the corresponding period last year. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 13, 2008 - 18:52 by G F Eh   text 3 comments (last - monday april 14, 2008 - 19:40)   image 1 image
éirígí analyses the Good Friday Agreement ten years on. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 13, 2008 - 12:56 by redjade
Washington high court rules inmate has no right to starve himself ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday April 12, 2008 - 22:28 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - monday april 14, 2008 - 18:22)
All is not as it appears at surface level. Iran condemns Israel as Zionist butchers but at the same time sells oil to Israel. Oil which fuels the tanks and jets that slaughter the Palestinians and Lebanese. Full story of the Iranian Regimes treacherey at the link.

If you've ever wondered about the definition of hypocrisy you'll find the answer right here. Last month the Swiss signed a multi-billion euro contract for Iran to supply Switzerland with natural gas over the next 25 years. The US State Department condemned the deal and said it would be investigating whether it breached the Iran Sanctions Act. Israel complained too, describing the Swiss minister's visit to Tehran as an "act unfriendly to Israel".On March 30, the Swiss newspaper Sonntag retaliated with the revelation that Israel, supposedly observing an ironclad boycott of all things Iranian, has been buying Iranian oil for years.
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The Photograph is from a film
international / miscellaneous Saturday April 12, 2008 - 19:21 by Bazooka Joe   text 12 comments (last - friday october 11, 2013 - 11:18)   image 8 images
A picture that was spread all over the international media purporting to show the stoning of and Iranian woman has been exposed as a fake. ... read full story / add a comment
Khadijeh Moghaddam
international / gender and sexuality Friday April 11, 2008 - 18:53 by pat c   text 5 comments (last - monday april 21, 2008 - 18:19)   image 2 images
Another Womens rights activist has been detained in Iran. Her only crimes was to demand equality of treatment for Women. Full text at the link.

On April 8th, security police forcibly entered the home of Khadijeh Moghaddam, women’s rights activist and member of the One Million Signatures Campaign and arrested her. Khadijeh Moghaddam who is a member of the Mother’s Committee of the Campaign was transferred to Eshrat Abad Security Police, where she was interrogated for several hours She was them brought to court and interrogated by Sobhani an Investigative Judge and charged. Bail was set at 100 Million Tomans (roughly $110,000). Moghaddam was then transferred to Vozara Detention Center.
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Usk 'Superdump' protest , An Bord Pleanála Offices, Dublin , Friday April 11 , 2008.
kildare / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 11, 2008 - 16:04 by Sharon.   text 34 comments (last - wednesday july 22, 2009 - 12:34)   image 4 images
"RESIDENTS of the Usk area, just outside Kilcullen, are continuing their campaign against the siting of a so-called superdump in their area. The proposal by Greenstar was originally turned down by Kildare Co Council because it contravened the county plan but, following an An Bord Plean·la hearing, the board over-turned that decision and gave permission for the landfill project to go ahead. This was despite the fact that, after a hearing lasting four and a half days, the An Bord Pleanála inspector actually recommended against the siting of the dump at Usk...."
http://archives.tcm.ie/kildarenationalist/2006/10/12/st...1.asp ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Thursday April 10, 2008 - 12:25 by tomeile   text 4 comments (last - wednesday may 14, 2008 - 13:28)
The British National Party is urging its members to drop anti-semitism in favour of Islamophobia in order to win votes ahead of May’s assembly elections in London . Its leader ,Nick Griffin ,has written in favour of “adopting an 'Islamophobic' position that appeals to large numbers of ordinary people”. Targeting Zionist voters and former supporters of the ,now largely defunct , UK Independence Party , the BNP expects to pick up the necessary votes to win at least one seat in the election . One of its councillor , Pat Richardson , is quoted in today’s Guardian saying :
"I'm in the BNP because no one else speaks out against the Islamification of our country."

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international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 09, 2008 - 18:37 by pat c   text 7 comments (last - friday april 11, 2008 - 18:30)   image 1 image
Here is a statement from the Iraq Freedom Congress on the fifth anniversary of the imperialist occupation of Iraq. The IFC wants to expel the US and its allied forces and dissolve all political, economic, military and paramilitary institutions set up by the US. It also wants to dissolve and disarm all armed and paramilitary groups linked to Islamic forces and lawless groups and confiscate all their weapons, resources and funds. The IFC stands for a Secular Democratic Iraq.

The 9th of April marks the fifth anniversary of the occupation. It is the anniversary of the genocide in which more than one million lives were lost and 4 million others were made homeless inside and ouside of Iraq. It is the anniversary of the destruction of everything that relates to humanity.

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Ludu Daw Amar RIP
international / arts and media Wednesday April 09, 2008 - 14:24 by Obit   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 09, 2008 - 14:33)   image 2 images
Ludu Daw Amar has died .

Her name means 'Of the people', she was a publisher who published a pro-independence
Political Journal entitled the Ludu Daily news in the 1940s.

The journal was suppressed eventually by government censors, but she continued to criticise
the Burma/Myanmar Junta until near her death. Aung San Suu Kyi had flowers laid
at her graveside- in Memoriam.

Ludo published on Women's Issues and culture.

The Ludu Press became an ethical symbol for the people of Burma/Myanmar.

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international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 09, 2008 - 13:08 by tomeile   text 24 comments (last - tuesday may 13, 2008 - 15:58)   image 2 images
"Amid a massive five-day civil defence drill, a senior Israeli cabinet minister has provocatively threatened Iran with complete destruction in retaliation for any attack. The chilling threat was made amid rising tensions with Syria and continuing hints of a preemptive Israeli military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities."
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international / summit mobilisations Wednesday April 09, 2008 - 12:38 by tomeile   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 09, 2008 - 12:57)
Lawyers representing victims of the police raid on the Diaz Centre in Genoa in July 2001 have issued an appeal for anyone with information on the movements of the spy and provocateur ,Martin Hogbin ,while at the summit to contact them.
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the flag of the Romani / Roma nation.
international / racism & migration related issues Wednesday April 09, 2008 - 00:00 by euro-knacker   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 14, 2008 - 15:27)   image 3 images
You have a few minutes left to enjoy this year's international day of the Romani nation or the Roma.

They're not Romanians.

There are approximately 15 million people of the ethnic group worldwide, and surprising and no doubt shocking as it may seem, they are often not made as welcome as they undoubtedly are in Ireland.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 07, 2008 - 19:13 by Belfast WSM   text 13 comments (last - thursday april 10, 2008 - 01:24)   image 1 image
Workers Solidarity 102 ... read full story / add a comment
Defecit in Protection in Ireland.
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 07, 2008 - 18:56 by One of Many Readers   text 5 comments (last - thursday may 08, 2008 - 03:24)   image 2 images
its funny to have a headline on the newswire with Mc Dowell's Name on it, but current
Department of Justice head Mr Brian Lenihan TD failed to separate himself adequately
from the racist policy of his former government cohort ;and has garnered international
and national criticism on his proposed implementation of the 2006 'Immigration,
Residence and Protection Bill'

in fact its only an Immigration Bill because Mr Mc Dowell was forced to implement
International protection treaties on October 10th 2006. To date only one woman has
been granted a subsidiary protection order for FGM. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 07, 2008 - 12:11 by tomeile   text 6 comments (last - wednesday april 09, 2008 - 16:53)
Racists desecrated 148 graves in the Muslim section of a military cemetery in Lille France, last Sunday daubing anti-Islamic graffiti and swastikas on graves , and hanging a pig's head on one of the headstones. The widely condemned hate crime comes at a time of tension for Muslim communities throughout Europe , occurring in the same week that Deniz Ozgur Uzun ,a 17-year-old Muslim high school student , was beaten to death by Islamophobes in Copenhagen . ... read full story / add a comment
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