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international / gender and sexuality Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 13:59 by pat c
 4 comments (last - wednesday january 09, 2008 - 17:48)
A report below by the Iraq Freedom Congress on the continuing attacks on women by Islamist gangs. But IFC point out that the occupation forces bear full responsibility for the practices of these gangs. Unidentified gangs began to commit a series of organized crimes and killing many women in various cities in Iraq, particularly in Basra where more than 40 women are said to have been killed in the last 5 months. In addition to those crimes, these gangs threatened unveiled women to follow Islamic law and start wearing head scarf otherwise facing the severe consequences. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 13:26 by Joe
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Israel is to build more homes in built up areas of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Israeli officials said on Monday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 13:14 by tomeile
During the festive season a lot of drink is consumed ; party-goers can get careless and forget about the dangers of fire . Danger is ever present , particularly in unregulated premises with ineffective fire prevention procedures in place. The Scottish Fire Brigade has issued a call for vigilance . ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 12:53 by tomeile
Domingo Reyes who ran an unlicensed drinking den in New York has been charged with six counts of manslaughter . The charges relate to a fire that swept through the “social club” Reyes ran in the city’s Bronx district .Police and local residents say that the club had been a “ gathering spot for prostitutes and drug dealers” . ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 10:14 by antifascista
The sentence of the trial against the 25 demonstrators for the Genoa g8 riots has fixed the price to pay for expressing our own ideas and going against the actual state of things: 110 years of jail. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 00:03 by -
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- Stephanie Clare's photo of 11 year old Ghulam a girl in Afghanistan sitting next to her 40 year old husband on their arranged wedding day ( as in the marriage was arranged against her wishes - not that they should really come into it anyway - your 11 year old wants to get married to anyone - you say no ) won the 2007 UNICEF photo award today at a ceremony in Berlin (Europe). Many people will remember that one of the most admired & thought provoking photographs in the late 20th century was also of an Afghani girl Sharbat Gula who at 12 years of age was photographed by Steve Mc Curry and made th egfront cover of "National Geographic" to celebrate the end of the Taliban in 1995. It moved us all to take action. The americans went into to sort it out. The rest is the history of how the Taliban came back. ... read full story / add a comment
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
5 comments (last - thursday december 20, 2007 - 14:39) 1 image
"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
4 comments (last - monday december 17, 2007 - 19:10) 7 images
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
6 comments (last - monday january 31, 2011 - 20:20) 3 images
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
6 comments (last - thursday april 10, 2008 - 08:12) 1 image
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
2 comments (last - saturday december 15, 2007 - 12:49) 1 image
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 señora 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 |
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