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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 14, 2007 - 12:58 by Irish Times reader
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People may have missed this when it was publicised, since the protest coincided with (extensively reported) Shell to Sea protest in Mayo. The Wheelock family's plight has been highlighted on this site, so readers will be interested in the report on the forensic testing of Terence Wheelock's clothes. Since the Irish Times is subscription I reproduce the article here in full. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday March 14, 2007 - 12:21 by Guardianista
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Sinn Féin have always been prepared to meet with anyone, and discuss anything. The party has been excluded and silenced for so long in its history that there have been very few occasions when it has seemed correct to refuse to speak to someone, however much the people concerned might be considered unpopular or wrong. On the issue of the invasion of Iraq, Sinn Féin has often been critiscised for even speaking to Bush and Blair while the war was ongoing. This article from the Guardian might restore some people's faith that the party's representatives were not giving the British and Americans an easy time of it during these meetings. Not that it did much good of course. But better to try and fail, perhaps, than refuse to engage at all... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday March 12, 2007 - 17:36 by Dave
In the following footage California governor Arnold Schwarznegger explains his economic policies ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday March 11, 2007 - 20:23 by TD
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Now that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) - one of the main engines for America's support of Israel - is opening its annual policy conference today in Washington with such keynote speakers as Dick Cheney, Nancy Pelosi, the house speaker and Tzipi Livni, Israel's foreign minister, it's clear Palestine needs no further enemies, but, bejaysus, out steps Barack Obaba from his sheeps clothing to renege on his previous near pristine support for Palestine. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday March 11, 2007 - 19:46 by Italiano
international / arts and media Sunday March 11, 2007 - 18:37 by canal ti zef
Canal ti zef organise a new video activist festival, we need your films ! ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday March 11, 2007 - 13:46 by Felix Quigley
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People in Ireland should get a clearer picture of what is happening in the Middle East and the build-up to war against Israel. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday March 11, 2007 - 12:34 by nano
There is something politically odd about Bush’s tour of various Latin American countries. South American nations were ‘lost’ to the U.S. some time ago – the price paid for America’s fixation in the Middle East. Bush is loathed internationally but is particularly despised in Latin America. The Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez accurately called Bush a “political cadaver” and led 20,000 Argentinian supporters in the chant, “gringo go home”, during his counter-tour of the region. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday March 11, 2007 - 00:52 by hogworts
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Saturday saw thousands march in Bilbao the Basque country for civil rights & calling for an end to the so-called "18/98 macro-trial" which has been brought against diverse members of the Basque separatist or independence groups as well as others engaged in cultural activities. ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Saturday March 10, 2007 - 19:51 by Marie Stopes
In keeping with usual prectice, the police of the Islamo-Fascist Iranian state attacked women who were gathering to celebrate International Women's Day. In Dublin we dealt with their Catholic equivalents at the fake clinic. Sadly in Iran Clerical Fascists won the day. Iranian police clashed on Thursday with scores of rights activists who gathered in front of parliament to celebrate International Women's Day, one of the activists said. "Police attacked a gathering of some 700 women's rights activists and hit them with batons," the activist, who asked not to be named, told Reuters. Police cars and ranks of police blocked the roads to prevent the demonstrators from marching, the activist said. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday March 09, 2007 - 14:10 by tom eile
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During the Scooter Libby trial which ended this week , it was revealed that governments like to release bad news on a Friday on the assumption that most stories that appear on a Saturday are not followed up. We can expect tomorrow's news to be dominated by the north’s local council elections results ,so all around, it would seem like a good day to announce the launch of an inquiry into collusion between the RUC and the IRA’s security department “It is thought that a number of IRA killers were protected from prosecution because they were working as agents for Special Branch and other agencies.” ... read full story / add a comment |
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