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international / anti-capitalism Tuesday October 02, 2007 - 19:19 by Chris Murray
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The monthly Isis Women e- newsletter is just released with its focus on International Women's Rights and Issues. Generally these are related to trade and its effects on indigenous communities as well as journalism that encompasses huge regions around the Pacific Basin and further afield. This Month's blog section is studying the Japan-Chile, Japan-Thailand FTAS (Free Trade Agreements) and how Japanese corps are buying legal rights over biodiversity in developing nations- or 'biopiracy" ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 02, 2007 - 15:21 by Indyjourno
In this essay on the anniversary of Gandhi's birth (Oct. 2, 1869), writer Pablo Ouziel recalls Gandhi's enduring message about the evils of violence and the hope for human redemption ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday October 02, 2007 - 12:28 by Headser54
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In an amazing redefinition of 'GM free' and contrary to Green Party policy, Green Junior Minister Trevor Sargent has now stated GM free is 'not about banning imported GM feed' according to the Irish Independent (Oct 2, 2007) (see below). ... read full story / add a comment
meath / history and heritage Tuesday October 02, 2007 - 05:20 by Susan Isabella Sheehan-Repasky
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Minister Gormley Stays Destruction ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday October 01, 2007 - 20:24 by o as if
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Catalan independence news these days seems to be focussed on a prison sentance passed on a protester who burnt a photo of the King of Spain last September 13th whilst Juan Carlos Bourbo y Bourbo was in Girona to open the science park there. A crowd of protesters had attended the event as part of the wider "300 years" movement which aims to raise independence hopes on the anniversaries of the beginning and end of the war of Bourbon succession between 1707 and the 11th of September 1714. That of course was the war which saw the European alliance supporting the Catalans (& British by they way) lose to the Bourbon dynasty (& the Basques by the way) which still holds the crown today. & that was when they lost their powers to raise tax & sundry other privelages. Yesterday a bomb was difused in the headquarters of the Catalan Green party ICV-EUA which is a sister party of the Spanish state's IU or reformed marxists (who are linked to the SWP by the way) ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 01, 2007 - 11:56 by pat c
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Robert Tait reports on the latest crackdown on dissidents in Iran, in particular on students who oppose the regime. He also illustrates the warm welcome Ahmadinejad received from students who physically drove him out of a University. Mansouri, a student activist, was arrested due to the circulation of campus commentaries on Iran's Islamic system. Includeing the "incendiary "statement that neither Mohammad nor Imam Ali who is the most revered figure in the Shi'ite branch of Islam, were 'innocent'. It also argued that no figure in today's Iran should be considered 'sacred'. One publication said the highest number of prostitutes in Iran could be found in Qom, which is home to the country's religious establishment. In the cloying religious atmosphere of Iran's ruling theocracy, making such statements can be almost suicidal. Mansouri was one of eight students arrested. Five were released. He remains in custody along with Majid Tavakoli and Ahmad Ghasaban. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Sunday September 30, 2007 - 13:53 by quang duc
Great news for people who like Youtube, which I suppose are those who never actually become dismayed by reading the comments or want to wander out of their macro-cultural or sub-cultural niche. Start again - If you go to Youtube today, you can watch or upload vids of Police Brutality on the brand spanking new "police brutality channel"..........."oh but it's not snuff!" they complain. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday September 29, 2007 - 08:53 by Miriam Cotton & David Manning
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All the collapses in US democracy that have occurred over the last fifty years well summed up by Sheehan. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday September 28, 2007 - 10:46 by VP
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Jeremy Scahill, former member of the New York Catholic Worker and Jonah House, U.S. mercenary corpotaion Blackwater most recently responsible for killing 11 Iraqi civilians last week. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday September 27, 2007 - 20:35 by Solidarity
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Four years into the war on Iraq it seems more serious nonviolent resistance is coming from within the military, from veterans of the war and the families of the military war dead than any civilian anti-war movement in the western world. Lt Ehren Watada refused deployment to Iraq declaring the war illegal. His court martial earleir this year collapsed over a legal technicality. His second trial is due to start early October. Moreinfo read link..... ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday September 27, 2007 - 15:40 by Miriam Cotton
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Most people are prepared to kill on command. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday September 26, 2007 - 13:04 by FS
Since 10 July, 135 workers have been occupying a bicycle factory in east Germany. The factory is threatened with closure at any time, but the workers have decided not only to occupy it, but to attempt to manage it themselves. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday September 25, 2007 - 15:01 by pat c
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This is a statement from A group of workers employed in Iran Khodro, Irans largest car plant. It vividly describes the exploitation suffered by Iranian workers both at the hands of Iranian Capitalist employers and from the Iranian Capitalist State. The Iranian Workers issued this statement on September 17. The full text of the statement is at the link. Friends and fellow workers: Sharivar 22 [September 13] is the anniversary of the death of our fellow worker, Peyman Razilou. On that day in 2002 he died from exhaustion during the afternoon shift. His death was four years ago and we haven’t forgotten that tragedy - or the untimely death of our colleague, Mahmood Khayami, who died from stress. And this year we have witnessed another death - this time it was Ali Akbar Shourgashti who was killed because Iranian capitalists pay no attention to health and safety regulations. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday September 25, 2007 - 14:29 by indyjourno
A munich court had issued an extradition request for 13 CIA agents over a notorious abduction of a German citizen Khaled al-Masri. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday September 25, 2007 - 11:35 by pat c
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This is an interview conducted by Peter Tatchell with Mark Fischer and Yassamine Mather . There is also some commentary below in which Peter Tatchell makes clear the case against US aggresion towards Iran Neither Washington nor Tehran. A war against Iran would be another disastrous neo-imperial adventure, which would strengthen the Tehran dictatorship. The overthrow of the clerical regime by the Iranian people - not US military intervention - is the best way to resolve the nuclear crisis and prevent a needless, unjustified war. Peter Tatchell interviews Mark Fischer of Hands Off the People of Iran and Yassamine Mather of Workers Left Unity Iran, 21 September 2007. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday September 25, 2007 - 11:17 by Ed Walsh
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[From the September/October issue of Resistance, the ISN paper] Resistance in Iraq to US imperialism remains strong By Ed Walsh (ISN ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday September 24, 2007 - 21:04 by prone
For the geeks who have Second Life accounts, here's you chance to picket in the virtual world... "During the talks to renew IBM’s Italian internal collective agreement, the works council, supported by the majority of IBM Italy employees, asked for a small salary increase. IBM responded by cancelling their "productive results benefit", resulting in a loss of €1000 per year for each employee. For a company that wants to lead in corporate social responsibility, this is unacceptable." ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Monday September 24, 2007 - 16:16 by IT READER
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For those without a subscription, here's the text of the long article in last Saturday's IT about the Corrib Gas dispute. It makes interesting reading, and gives a fairly balanced account of the recent history of Shell's scheme. Sadly, the lie that the project will provide 700 jobs is repeated as if it was a fact. Careful readers will notice that Shell never commit themselves to this (or any) figure, instead using meaningless phrases like "up to 700 jobs in the construction phase", etc. The Shell PR machine now seems to think that if it repeats the notion that the majority of the people in Erris actually support the scheme then it will become accepted. The company's plan, to install a high pressure pipeline and a huge refinery in a area of bogs which is prone to landslides, has never enjoyed local support, but Shell says the people of the local communities have "moved on". The coming months will show how much support Shell has. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday September 23, 2007 - 21:04 by Quang Duc
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The largest protests in twenty years in Burma have seen a reported 10,000 bare foot monks march today as part of a crowd estimated at up to 20,000 people. Some of the monks had greeted Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the pacifist Nobel Peace laureate and house-arrested leader of the Burmese democracy movement at the gates of our prison-home at 54 University Avenue, Bahan 11201 Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) Saturday. In contrast today "the Hindu News" based in neighbouring India reports "A crowd of about 400 people led by monks peacefully gave up their attempt after being turned back at two different approaches, where police had placed barbed wire barricades". But everyone knows where that house-prison is............. .........."The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear." : Aung San Suu Kyi ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Sunday September 23, 2007 - 08:40 by Miriam Cotton
Shawn Pogatchnik of AFP fillets Ahern's testimony for the Inquirer with a minium of fuss. ... read full story / add a comment |
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