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national / miscellaneous Thursday April 28, 2005 - 09:31 by dave
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Selected Articles from this issue: Editorial: Campaign for the Socialist and Environmental Alliance (SEA) Nurses lead protests over health crisis: Enough is Enough! Bin charges set to rise by 34%: keep up the non-payment campaign Iraqis demonstrate against occupation: “There will be no security and stability unless the occupiers leave” Defending the oil companies: Irish government to send troops to Sudan Pope Benedict XVI -- A German Shepherd? May Day 2005 workers of the world unite: protest for migrant workers rights Debate: Can the Make Poverty History campaign and the G8 protests end poverty and war for good? Momentum is building for G8 protests in Scotland Campaigning for a real alternative: Socialist Environmental Alliance stands five candidates in Derry’s local elections ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 27, 2005 - 23:56 by Movimiento Libertario Cubano
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* Responding to the invitation extended a few days ago from Havana by Celia Hart Santamaria – member of the Cuban Communist Party and daughter of prominent figures of the regime – calling for discussions on leftist alternatives for Cuba’s future, and where she explicitly asks for an anarchist opinion, the Cuban Libertarian Movement makes public its proposals for the debate. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 27, 2005 - 19:42 by AmericaWatch
The Independent (UK) has a brief report on how the UN's chief human rights investigator for Afghanistan has had his "position eliminated" after he authored a detailed report on the torture and abuse of Afghans. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday April 27, 2005 - 16:57 by Kola Kube
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290 jobs are under threat in Dublin and Louth following a decision by the Coca Cola bottling company to re-organise its Irish operations. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 27, 2005 - 15:48 by Terry
This article documents how over the past 40 years the CIA has organised coups and run operations to put elites in power whilst pretending to be promoting democracy. It is an interview with Philip Agee a former operative who left the agency in 1967. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Wednesday April 27, 2005 - 13:16 by hogworts
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To mark the anniverary of Hans Christian Anderson, and the calls by Shroeder to support this immoral EU constitution- unknown forces have caused more than a thousand toads, (which belong to the same genus as frogs) to leave the small pond of Altona in Hamburg, and spontanously explode. This is fatal. The Public are being asked not to go into the parks. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Wednesday April 27, 2005 - 10:51 by having taken off the sunglasses now, legs bit sore from the
In a series of co-ordinated actions yesterday, Greenpeace, one of the most popular non-Governmental organisations with teenagers, which produces the most recycled information booklets and posters in the world, got lots of its protesters arrested. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday April 26, 2005 - 15:17 by Resist
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From the Irish Times ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday April 26, 2005 - 11:00 by non tali auxilio nec defensoribus istis tempus eget;
yesterday in the early morning the Syrian's completed their withdrawl from Lebanon. the intelligence HQ is empty, swept and squeeky clean. The installation at Riyyak was the last bastion they had, they quit the Beirut HQ much earlier in hariris game. Here is a short guide to the events of the past and reactions and plans for the future- ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday April 26, 2005 - 10:41 by Colm Toibin
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As Dick Roche shadows this sacred place with his money-driven sword, Colm Toibin comments in the New York Times. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 26, 2005 - 04:37 by oz.unslaver.com
Monday, 25 April 2005 Author - Oz.unslaver.com A Central Queensland family wonders at the priorities of a local high school after their child collapsed on parade. While the family was subjected to a two week period of imtimidation by the School administration at the start of the year over uniform breaches, they wait to be informed of their childs fainting fit some five days after the event. In Febuary this year, the child and the parents were informed that it would be unacceptable for the child to attend school wearing basic black shorts rather than the regular uniform royal blue. The child was threatened with disciplinary action for refusing to wear school supplied clothing and had been forced to sit out a lesson because of the uniform breach. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Tuesday April 26, 2005 - 00:43 by Jess
Wandering American anarcho-folkies will be coming to Ireland in June. They want to play! If anyone has a suitable event or venue for them please contact them via their website http://www.riotfolk.org or contact me at this email. Thanks// ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Monday April 25, 2005 - 20:36 by Jon Glackin
Homeless Link has launched its manifesto website, www.endhomelessness.org.uk to give candidates and MPs the opportunity to view the 10-point manifesto and to support our call for the next government to commit to the goal of ending homelessness within three terms of parliament. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous Monday April 25, 2005 - 13:25 by mms
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Just wondering if anyone involved in grassroots has any comments about this new "top down" strategy from the Irish government ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Monday April 25, 2005 - 13:20 by iosaf
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Today Rumania and Bulgaria will sign bits of paper which shall move them closer to membership of the European Union. There will be a family photo. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Monday April 25, 2005 - 11:18 by iosaf
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Vlad Putin has taken the podium to give his sixth state-of-the-nation address to the combined houses of the Russian legislature. Present were -Members of both chambers of parliament and the government, heads of supreme courts, the Prosecutor-General, the head of the Central Electoral Commission, the head of the Auditing Chamber, members of the State Council (regional leaders) and heads of the main religious confessions. And for the first time as a bumper extra, commanders-in-chief of armed services and heads of military districts. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 25, 2005 - 07:30 by oz.unslaver.com
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Monday, 25 April 2005 There is no doubt that one of Australias’ greatest shames is the Stolen Generation of Indigenous Children. While the debate over that sad part of our past rages, another Stolen Generation is happening under our noses and we aren’t seeing it. This new generation of children raised outside their family is not restricted to Aboriginal children but is applied equally to all children across the board. The Department of Child Safety has been given open range to exercise the Child Protection Act 1999 without any recourse left open to the parents of Queensland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday April 24, 2005 - 13:43 by endevant!
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Andorra is a small country, official language catalan, which sits in the pyrennes between Catalonia and France. It's a great place to hide papyrus, do banking, buy cheap tobacco, ski, and pick wild flowers. Today it's 16,022 registered voters have been called to exercise their democratic right to vote, regardless of ethnicity (they're all andorran), gender, creed, in secret, and they don't get their thumbs inked, so you don't know if an andorran has voted by looking at their paw afterwards. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 24, 2005 - 11:30 by oz.unslaver.com
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Less than a week old, one globally based Counter Surveillance Co-operative is more than aware of the new strategies employed in the effort to bring rampant censorship across the Internet. ACLU, Global Coalition Launch International Surveillance Campaign coincided with the lauch of the ICAM Co-op and is endorsed as a practical and forceful statement against the increasing and seemingly endless array of surveillance being utilised openly and covertly across the globe. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday April 23, 2005 - 23:50 by Paul King
As a journalist who writes about AIDS, I am endlessly amazed by the difference between the public and the private face of HIV; between what the public is told and what’s explained in the medical literature. ... read full story / add a comment |
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