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international / crime and justice Friday November 16, 2007 - 13:05 by C Murray
 10 comments (last - sunday december 30, 2007 - 20:18)  6 images
The Sixteen Day Campaign for stopping Violence Against Women is set for the 25th November to the Tenth of December 2007. Lip Service and Tokenism abound here, but it is a period that internationally women address Safety, Violence, Rape, Women's Aid and of course, how our divided societies create a wealth class of pseudo-feminism and an opposing class of community activism based wholly in gendered stereo-typing and money, or to be politically correct about it how we make our daughters second class citizens by ignoring their Basic Rights. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/82605 ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Friday November 16, 2007 - 10:56 by Miriam Cotton & David Manning
5 comments (last - friday november 16, 2007 - 13:10)
FC discusses the way the media works - the pros and cons and acknowledges some of the contraints on journalists when they are trying to do seriously challenging investigative work. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday November 16, 2007 - 10:14 by Aragon
16 comments (last - wednesday november 21, 2007 - 23:22)
International outcry should meet the latest example of polic brutality involving tasers. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 16, 2007 - 00:00 by G. Falvey
60 comments (last - saturday december 08, 2007 - 20:23)
Eamonn McCann points out that criticism of today's republican dissidents could also have been made of the men who died 50 years ago at Edentubber. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 15, 2007 - 16:39 by SOAW
2 comments (last - thursday november 15, 2007 - 17:21)
Thousands are presently gathering at the gates of the School of the Americas, Ft. Benning, Georgia, USA . ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday November 15, 2007 - 15:14 by Miriam Cotton
21 comments (last - sunday november 18, 2007 - 12:19)
While whole forests were felled to do justice to the memory of 'our boys', not an inch of it was used to speak of the dead who they refuse to acknowledge. Or did amnesia afflict the mainstream media on remembrance day? ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Wednesday November 14, 2007 - 16:14 by Miriam
4 comments (last - tuesday september 01, 2009 - 20:22)
A very interesting and insightful discussion of various aspects of Irish media - in two parts -the second to follow within a few days. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday November 13, 2007 - 17:52 by linker
company laying pipes as a sop to western towns goes bust. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday November 13, 2007 - 16:55 by Aragon
4 comments (last - tuesday november 13, 2007 - 20:20)
'Particiaptory democracy' is not something we have heard much of from Labour over the last decade or two. Interesting therefore that the term should fetch up in arch pragmatist and moderniser Fergus Finlay's Irish Examiner column today. The piece was a kind of starting shot for the Labour Party conference taking place this coming weekend. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality Tuesday November 13, 2007 - 15:06 by Dorothy Gale
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Delaram Ali, a Womens rights activist has been sentenced to be flogged and to serve 34 months in prison. Her "crime: demonstrating for womens Rights. Delaram Ali has been told to present herself to court in order to start serving a prison sentence which has not formally been conveyed to her. She has been told that if she does not attend court by 10 November, she will be arrested. There is also a risk that she will be flogged. If she is detained, Amnesty International would consider her to be a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful exercise of her right to freedom of expression and association for her activities promoting women’s rights in Iran. The Head of the Judiciary has the power to suspend Delaram Ali’s sentence and to order a reinvestigation of the case. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday November 13, 2007 - 00:56 by Kevin 1 attached file
Really it's far far too much ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 12, 2007 - 14:26 by Miriam Cotton
Almost never mentioned: 28,000 US troops injured in Iraq ... read full story / add a comment |
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