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international / crime and justice Friday November 16, 2007 - 13:05 by C Murray
 10 comments (last - sunday december 30, 2007 - 20:18)  6 images
The Sixteen Day Campaign for stopping Violence Against Women is set for the 25th November to the Tenth of December 2007. Lip Service and Tokenism abound here, but it is a period that internationally women address Safety, Violence, Rape, Women's Aid and of course, how our divided societies create a wealth class of pseudo-feminism and an opposing class of community activism based wholly in gendered stereo-typing and money, or to be politically correct about it how we make our daughters second class citizens by ignoring their Basic Rights. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/82605 ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Friday November 16, 2007 - 10:56 by Miriam Cotton & David Manning
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FC discusses the way the media works - the pros and cons and acknowledges some of the contraints on journalists when they are trying to do seriously challenging investigative work. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday November 16, 2007 - 10:14 by Aragon
16 comments (last - wednesday november 21, 2007 - 23:22)
International outcry should meet the latest example of polic brutality involving tasers. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 16, 2007 - 00:00 by G. Falvey
60 comments (last - saturday december 08, 2007 - 20:23)
Eamonn McCann points out that criticism of today's republican dissidents could also have been made of the men who died 50 years ago at Edentubber. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 15, 2007 - 16:39 by SOAW
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Thousands are presently gathering at the gates of the School of the Americas, Ft. Benning, Georgia, USA . ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 15, 2007 - 15:14 by Miriam Cotton
21 comments (last - sunday november 18, 2007 - 12:19)
While whole forests were felled to do justice to the memory of 'our boys', not an inch of it was used to speak of the dead who they refuse to acknowledge. Or did amnesia afflict the mainstream media on remembrance day? ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Wednesday November 14, 2007 - 16:14 by Miriam
4 comments (last - tuesday september 01, 2009 - 20:22)
A very interesting and insightful discussion of various aspects of Irish media - in two parts -the second to follow within a few days. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday November 13, 2007 - 17:52 by linker
company laying pipes as a sop to western towns goes bust. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday November 13, 2007 - 16:55 by Aragon
4 comments (last - tuesday november 13, 2007 - 20:20)
'Particiaptory democracy' is not something we have heard much of from Labour over the last decade or two. Interesting therefore that the term should fetch up in arch pragmatist and moderniser Fergus Finlay's Irish Examiner column today. The piece was a kind of starting shot for the Labour Party conference taking place this coming weekend. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality Tuesday November 13, 2007 - 15:06 by Dorothy Gale
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Delaram Ali, a Womens rights activist has been sentenced to be flogged and to serve 34 months in prison. Her "crime: demonstrating for womens Rights. Delaram Ali has been told to present herself to court in order to start serving a prison sentence which has not formally been conveyed to her. She has been told that if she does not attend court by 10 November, she will be arrested. There is also a risk that she will be flogged. If she is detained, Amnesty International would consider her to be a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful exercise of her right to freedom of expression and association for her activities promoting women’s rights in Iran. The Head of the Judiciary has the power to suspend Delaram Ali’s sentence and to order a reinvestigation of the case. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday November 13, 2007 - 00:56 by Kevin 1 attached file
Really it's far far too much ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 12, 2007 - 14:26 by Miriam Cotton
Almost never mentioned: 28,000 US troops injured in Iraq ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Sunday November 11, 2007 - 03:36 by Susan Isabella Sheehan-Repasky
12 comments (last - sunday november 25, 2007 - 14:57)
There are those who truly care about our heritage~ ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 10, 2007 - 15:35 by Obit [the second or third].
14 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 - 23:57) 3 images
[Due to limited time and breaking all the Obituary rules] :- The death Of Norman Mailer has been announced:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mailer and instead I want to focus on one issue about his writing and that is the Gilmore Case and the resultant book :- 'The Executioner's Song' which set a bar in documenting the issue of US capital Punishment and also tied into the Timothy Mc Veigh Case in an interesting manner. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Thursday November 08, 2007 - 15:20 by scorchio
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One of the most serious issues of European exploitation, corrupt Charity activity & international relations Monday last saw Sarkozy play his "Super Sarko" role in a headline grabbing stunt the reaction to which has already bolstered calls for November 30th to be declared "No Sarko in Media Day". The government of Chad (in Africa) has started taking against so-called "charity" agencies who are accused of trafficking in children by arranging their adoption by European parents without the consent of their natural parents or surviving family or wards. This is a very big story which touches many other very important issues. In the last week both French & Spanish citizens were held in Chad under charges of "child-trafficking". The Spaniards included pilot, co-pilot and cabin crew of the jet on which the children would have been flown out of the state by the "Zoe's Ark" charity. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Monday November 05, 2007 - 18:59 by C Murray
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The Lisbon Treaty is at this time according to the Irish Times, 'In doubt' due to a big drop off in support for the re-negotiated Reform Treaty which sees the EU member states dropping the article on rights (article 3.3) and retaining for the most part the main body of the rejected Nice II Treaty. The next thing on the EU agenda is a meeting with the African nations in Lisbon toward the end of the year which aims to set in pace the economic architecture for further bi-laterals and free trade agreements which undercut these nations and have brought quality of life issues into the community airwaves and NGO's;- http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84739 ... read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday November 05, 2007 - 13:58 by TD
Tariq Ali in his Counterpunch article illumines the provenance of Pakistan's latest coup and , surprise, surprise, the US is the Svengali in the parlour: "The two institutions targeted by the Emergency are the judiciary and the lively network of independent TV stations, many of whose correspondents supply information that can never be gleaned from politicians. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 05, 2007 - 12:06 by John Cornford
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Jamers Turley outlines the history of the WRP and how it recieved money from despots such as Saddam and went to pretend that Iraq was a democracy. This raises questions as to why the SWP support the Iran Regime and portray it as progressive. It is now indisputable that Healy was looking beyond his own members and supporters for funds. It was this that led him in 1976 to send a WRP delegation to visit the Libyan government of Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi and to request money for a new printing press. Healy himself apparently visited Libya the following year.6 It is unclear the extent to which financial assistance was ultimately procured from Qaddafi. In his investigative documents relating to the 1985 split, David North claimed over Ł1 million in total from Libya, Ba’athist Iraq and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.7 ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday November 04, 2007 - 20:33 by iosaf
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This other press text lets you the aware reader see the declaration which kicked off the 2007 state of Emergency in Pakistan. It's a great little number which has already spawned a comprehensive encyclopedia page on English language wikipedia & means that the chances of numerous intelligent young Pakistani or Pakistani looking people, or even intelligent older people with Pakistani surnames getting their blogs noticed or opinions published are very good. It's great to be Pakistani. General Musharraf reckons his is the way to preserve that greatness whilst other worthy Pakistani politicians are coming out of the exile woodwork to volunteer to take him on. One favoured by RTE speaking from Saudi Arabia reckons things are going to Anarchy. Lovely you might think. Time to brush up on your coup d'etat statements & know this how to fight the mad mullahs. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday November 03, 2007 - 17:28 by Damien Moran
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