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national / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 23:08 by red n black
Last year a Belfast anarchist travelled to the West Bank to work with the International Solidarity Movement and Palestinians and wrote this report on his impressions of the Palestinian struggle. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 14:47 by pat c
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A statement below from the ITF regarding the release of Ebrahim Madadi; however the ITF are concerned regarding the continuing detention of Mahmoud Salehi who is seriously ill. In response to the release yesterday of Ebrahim Madadi, the Vice President of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, David Cockroft, ITF General Secretary said: "This is very good news - Madadi had committed no crime. Let us hope that the Iranian authorities have finally understood that trade union activities are a vital part of any strong society." ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Tuesday December 18, 2007 - 13:59 by pat c
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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 |
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