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international / eu Wednesday February 06, 2008 - 18:39 by C Murray
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/spai-f06.shtml The first abortion rights issue that I was involved in was a press-statement forwarded by some polish activists who asked for dissemination of a petition to do with an amalgamation of three far right parties which included the LPR, PiS and another group. They had hoped to change the Polish constitution (article 38) to 'protect life from the moment of conception'. During the ensuing parliamentary debate and rucus, the tri-partite union who had attempted to force the issue down throats split ;and Poland was found in breach of Human Rights Articles in relation to the Alicia Tysiac case. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 06, 2008 - 01:14 by +
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The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has long been on of the most trustworthy & respected research resources for people who like to count Scud missiles & stuff like that. In addition to "stuff like that", they do pretty good analysis too & not for nothing have they been ranked in the top 30 most influential think-tank entities on the planet. But most people who use this site don't pay attention to think-tanks & probably wouldn't even notice if they were floating like Tom Cruise in a tank having a think about how bad & evil the arms trade is for the good reason they didn't get the right degrees or recruited by the appropriate sort of shadowy agencies in their youth. Thankfully SIPRI has now decided to offer a lot of its information not only for free, but in a format & language. In short - (for I know no other way) I introduce you to the website " Armsflow ". ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Tuesday February 05, 2008 - 12:24 by C Murray
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Ronald Brooke Kitaj, Painter and Writer born in Cleveland 1932- died 2007. RB Kitaj- Diasporist Artist and Magician. He wrote in 1989 a book which was entitled 'The First Diasporist Manifesto', it was sold along with catalogues that accompanied his Retrospective at the Tate Gallery. A further book entitled :- The Second Diasporist Manifesto' was later published by Yale. ... read full story / add a comment |
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