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international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 06, 2004 - 21:21 by redjade
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Mothers and relatives of dissidents camped out in Havana's Revolution Square for a second day in a rare, bold public protest seeking the release of one of 75 dissidents rounded up in a major crackdown by Cuba's communist government in March 2003. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 06, 2004 - 19:23 by Paul McAndrew
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The founder of Sierra Leone's only lesbian and gay rights organization has been brutally murdered, to the shock of international human rights organizations and gay activists. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 06, 2004 - 17:58 by Pete
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=18062002-051845-8272r Active in Gaza and the West Bank, Hamas wants to liberate all of Palestine and establish a radical Islamic state in place of Israel. It is has gained notoriety with its assassinations, car bombs and other acts of terrorism. Israel and Hamas may currently be locked in deadly combat, but, according to several current and former U.S. intelligence officials, beginning in the late 1970s, Tel Aviv gave direct and indirect financial aid to Hamas over a period of years. Israel "aided Hamas directly -- the Israelis wanted to use it as a counterbalance to the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)," said Tony Cordesman, Middle East analyst for the Center for Strategic Studies. Israel's support for Hamas "was a direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO by using a competing religious alternative," said a former senior CIA official. http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=18062002-051845-8272r ... read full story / add a comment
cork / crime and justice Wednesday October 06, 2004 - 17:33 by Paul McAndrew
The Government was yesterday urged to introduce tougher anti-racism legislation by a group working with asylum seekers and refugees following repeated racist graffiti incidents at an African shop in Cork PSNI investigates racist motive in Armagh attack ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 06, 2004 - 12:55 by redjade
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info and such about the 5 Oct 2004 debate ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Wednesday October 06, 2004 - 04:01 by rampART
Are you heading to London for the European Social Forum? If so, check out the ESF coverage now streaming from indymedia icecast server in London. http://radio.uk1.indymedia.org:8800/rampART.m3u ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Wednesday October 06, 2004 - 00:28 by pc
By Adam Pasick, UK media correspondent
LONDON (Reuters) - A new flexible form of copyright for creative material is set to launch in Britain next month, at a time when "remix culture" is gaining in popularity despite the fact it is often illegal.
Creative Commons, a U.S. based non-profit foundation, has created a copyright licence that lets musicians and authors decide what limits to put on their creations -- enabling DJs, for example, to remix music legally. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday October 05, 2004 - 20:45 by Phuq Hedd
Short selection of letters from named servicemen written to Michael Moore. Published in his new book. Interesting to read these letters from actual soldiers. Be worth a read from some of the faux-military pro-war crowd. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday October 05, 2004 - 19:28 by Slarti
"A major rescue effort has been launched off Ireland after a Canadian submarine asked for assistance." ... read full story / add a comment
derry / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 05, 2004 - 15:13 by Paul McAndrew
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The North of Ireland city of Derry is a worse environment for gay people than during the violence of the troubles, according to one victim of homophobic attacks. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 05, 2004 - 12:49 by jhill
Want to know exactly what you are up against with the new corporate government surveillance technologies and mind f**ks? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday October 05, 2004 - 12:35 by redjade
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Sci Fi, like irony, is also dead. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday October 04, 2004 - 14:40 by -
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"Mikel Antza" (Mikel Albizu born 1961), a writer attributed with leading the organisation since 1992, is thought to be directly responsible for 120 deaths. He was arrested on the french side of the pyrennes along with his partner "anboto" (Soledad Iparagirre - born 1961) who is blamed for 14 deaths. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday October 04, 2004 - 13:03 by redjade
a voice in baghdad ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Saturday October 02, 2004 - 18:35 by redjade
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national / miscellaneous Saturday October 02, 2004 - 08:23 by Jerusalem Growth: 1838-
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The truth and other facts you can find (and we will teach at New board http://p214.ezboard.com/bproisraelforum ) ask for me.. 'abu afak' ... [email protected] http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08364a.htm (Catholic Encyclopedia) ""...Jerusalem (El Quds) is the capital of a sanjak and the seat of a mutasarrif directly dependent on the Sublime Porte. In the administration of the sanjak the mutasarrif is assisted by a council called majlis ida ra; the city has a municipal government (majlis baladiye) presided over by a mayor. The total population is estimated at 66,000. [b]The Turkish census of 1905,[/b] which counts only Ottoman subjects, gives these figures: Jews, 45,000; Moslems, 8,000; Orthodox Christians, 6000; Latins, 2500; Armenians, 950; Protestants, 800; Melkites, 250; Copts, 150; Abyssinians, 100; Jacobites, 100 ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 01, 2004 - 14:05 by Ezetz
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The ex-general of the Civil Guard, Galindo, who was condemned to 75 years of prison for the apalling torture and murder of the Basques Joxean Lasa and Joxi Zabala (of the many that were committed under his responsibility in the infamous barricks of Intxaurrondo, in Gipuzkoa, Euskal Herria) has been released under home arrest after spending only 4 years in prison. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 01, 2004 - 10:55 by Dez Wildwood
"Civil society and people in Timor-Leste continue to follow the negotiations between our government and Australia with great interest. We believe that the issues being discussed in Darwin this week are among the most important for the future of our nation." East Timor NGO Forum ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 30, 2004 - 18:25 by - - - - - - - - - - -- - - -
if you're gay or lesbian or maybe if you aren't and would just like to be married officially to someone of your own sex you can now in Spain, or Nederlands or Sweden or Massacheussets. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday September 30, 2004 - 17:33 by redjade
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