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international / gender and sexuality Monday December 17, 2007 - 10:44 by Maryjane O'Leary
 2 comments (last - friday december 21, 2007 - 11:23)
Here is a report on the continuing detention of womens rights activists in Iran and a call for action on their behalf. Human rights groups and journalists across the globe have condemned the arrest of cyber feminists, Jelve Javaheri and Maryam Hossienkhah in Iran earlier this month. Both of these women are activists and members of the One Million Signatures campaign. They are currently in Evin Prison on charges related to their writings in support of women’s rights. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Sunday December 16, 2007 - 23:43 by wageslave
New Jersey's state assembly yesterday voted 44-36 to abolish the death penalty - the first state to do so since Iowa and West Virginia scrapped the punishment in 1965. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Sunday December 16, 2007 - 19:10 by Damien Moran
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"Ho, ho, ho - have some bloody Coke" Murder, torture, kidnapping and illegal detention by violent paramilitaries, frequently aided by bottling plant management, has been the tragic reality for Coca-Cola's Colombian employees for 2 decades now. Members of the SINALTRAINAL trade union ordinary employees carry a death sentence around their necks. Yet an appeal from Javier Correra, president of their union - “We want justice. We want people to know the truth about what is going on in Colombia against Coke workers. Now that you know, will you please help us?” - has not fallen on deaf ears. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Sunday December 16, 2007 - 15:53 by Ariko
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The Rites of Passage religious exhibit is currently closed, which was mesmeric in it's disection of the hypnosis of world religion, if one could avoid the big screens the bits of the Nag Hammadi Gospel and huge Buddhist Mandalas were worth a visit. '100 aspects of the Moon' is the current exhibition and every single print has a bit of moon in it- on Helmets, behind women (!) and accomnpanying dark and scary warriors. You could say there are many moons. The Chester Beatty is located in the Grounds of Dublin Castle and is far better than the auction house that comprises the State apartments, where Sarkozy will be welcomed to persuade the unsuae celts about his Reform Treaty.[2008] ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Sunday December 16, 2007 - 15:40 by KAREN FALLON
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I know its old news but it is actually interesting that this story was not screaming at us when it occured. I guess this plane came through Shannon Airport a few times.............. A Florida based Gulfstream II jet aircraft # N987SA crash landed on September 24, 2007 after it ran out of fuel over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula it had a cargo of several tons of Cocaine on board now documents have turned up on both sides of the Atlantic that link this Cocaine Smuggling Gulfstream II jet aircraft # N987SA that crashed in Mexico to the CIA who used it on at least 3 rendition flights from Europe and the USA to Guantanamo's infamous torture chambers between 2003 to 2005. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday December 15, 2007 - 11:35 by Michael Gallagher
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I was a bit taken aback to find that their is no coverage of this case on indymedia. Well here are the basics with some links, make of it what you will. Bilal Hussein was employed by Associated Press to photograph events in Iraq. With no previous experience of photography, he went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for his efforts. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / animal rights Friday December 14, 2007 - 23:33 by wageslave
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Pause for a while to contemplate our one sided abusive relationship with all the other inhabitants of this large spinning rock that we all live on. The other "Earthlings" ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday December 13, 2007 - 19:56 by Counterpunch
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Blocking the Strykers By SANDY MAYES The US military will have to think twice before it ever again tries to use Olympia, WA as a launching point for war. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Thursday December 13, 2007 - 19:12 by Joe
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Jamie Leigh Jones claims she was raped by co-workers while working for a Halliburton subsidiary at Camp Hope, Baghdad, in 2005. After being drugged and gang-raped, she claims she was imprisoned in a shipping container without food or water and threathened with dismissal if she reported the incident. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Wednesday December 12, 2007 - 20:04 by Larry
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As these articles show, they have no clear plan for a pipeline route, and to say they lack community consent would be something of an understatement, to put it mildly. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday December 12, 2007 - 12:50 by Miriam
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'It was awesome - let's do it again' ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday December 11, 2007 - 14:12 by Roja Bamdad
This issue contains a special report from the International Labour Organisation on Iranian violations of workers rights. ILO ANNUAL SURVEY OF VIOLATIONS OF TRADE UNION RIGHTS: IRAN. Protest activity: Despite the ban on strikes, workers protests and other work stoppages are a daily occurrence throughout Iranian enterprises. They are often repressed. Most of these protests concern either low wages, the non-payment of wages, lay-offs or factory closures. The minimum wage set by the government is $US 140 per month, while the official poverty line stands at $US 300. Nearly two million workers have not been paid - some for nearly two years. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / politics / elections Monday December 10, 2007 - 22:34 by seńora donzella morales chavez
2 comments (last - wednesday july 01, 2009 - 09:49) 1 image
Something quite extraordinary has happened in Argentina. & to appreciate it, all you really have to do is wonder how many spouses see each other serve in the highest office of their land. Hilary obviously pops to mind, but the you get the absolutely extraordinary nature of the new Argentinian presidency - for not only is it legitimatised by one of the highest electoral margins in democratic history - there was no need for two terms of a Bush type (or to be completely up-to-oligarchy style) the son or daughter of a rival. Yep - admit it you political experts & know-alls are hard put to remember any other state where a president has served his constitutional limitations then handed the sash & baton to his wife. Or indeed the other way round. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Sunday December 09, 2007 - 22:12 by Houzan Mahmoud
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This is an article on the situation of women in the Middle East. It was first published on open democracy blog for international day against violence against women. The undeclared war on women continues to victimize women worldwide on a daily basis; the Middle East is no exception. Women in our region are amongst the most oppressed and terrorized in the world. The Islamic law upheld in many Middle Eastern countries has turned women into slaves with invisible chains. In Saudi Arabia in March 2006, a woman was abducted with a friend and was raped by 7 men. In October, the men were sentenced to 2-3 years in prison, but the woman herself was sentenced to 90 lashes. Saudi Arabian Islamic law forbids a woman to meet with a man to whom she is not related. The woman and her solicitor appealed the sentence; the men's sentences were increased from 2 to 9 years in prison, but the woman's sentence was also increased as a result to 200 lashes and 6 months in prison. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday December 09, 2007 - 21:18 by Sean Melman
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A Galway company Composites Testing Laboratory does materials testing for Raytheon, Lockheed and Cessna. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Sunday December 09, 2007 - 18:51 by Red Banner
Issue 30 of Red Banner is out now. €2 / £1.50 from bookshops, sellers or the address above. Articles: ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday December 08, 2007 - 00:47 by Karl Quigley
2 comments (last - sunday december 09, 2007 - 21:48)
Bush's neocon Irish envoy, Paula Dobriansky, has hailed the N.I. solution as an exemplar for other world trouble spots. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Dobriansky ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday December 07, 2007 - 17:27 by staring at goats
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The New York Times has run a story which immediately has been taken up globally on the destruction of video tapes by the CIA of an interrogation despite those tapes being potential evidence in Congressional inquiry, hearings or other such grand jury activity. Thus, we see the issue of torture, CIA use of extreme interrogation techinques & the Bush regime allowance of said placed on the table of forthcoming review of that agency & the other 15 intelligence services of the USA during the next presidency. But for the moment it's just a story about "Al Qaeda" suspect Abu Zubaydah being subjected to the notorious water boarding data extraction sicko kicks of the CIA in 2002. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 07, 2007 - 14:53 by Hamid Taqvaee
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Here is a statement from the Worker-comunist Party of Iran which outlines the reality that the people of Iran face: a struggle against both US Imperialism and the Iranian Dictatorship. The threat of a US attack and the devastating consequences of economic sanctions are looming over the people of Iran. US’s war with the Islamic Republic is not the war of the people. People of Iran and their interests are not represented in this conflict. They want neither the Islamic Republic, nor a military attack, nor economic sanctions. For years, they have been fighting the Islamic Republic and the unbearable conditions that this ultra-reactionary regime has imposed on society. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality Friday December 07, 2007 - 12:10 by Mina Ahadi
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This brutal judical murder of a young man whose only crime was to be gay is further proof that Iran is ruled by a Fascist Dictatorship. The news has just reached us. Makwan was executed last night (local time) in Dizel Abad Prison in the city of Kermanshah. Makwan's family have just collected his body and are on their way to the city of Paveh. Around 200 cars are following in procession the car carrying the body of a youngster murdered in cold blood by a bunch of criminal thugs. This crime must be recorded in history. Not only that the criminals in power in Iran must be indicted through international courts. Makwan had not committed any crime. He was executed for a sexual relation with a class mate when they were both 13. He was executed for homosexuality. ... read full story / add a comment |
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