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international / gender and sexuality Friday April 11, 2008 - 18:53 by pat c
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Another Womens rights activist has been detained in Iran. Her only crimes was to demand equality of treatment for Women. Full text at the link. On April 8th, security police forcibly entered the home of Khadijeh Moghaddam, women’s rights activist and member of the One Million Signatures Campaign and arrested her. Khadijeh Moghaddam who is a member of the Mother’s Committee of the Campaign was transferred to Eshrat Abad Security Police, where she was interrogated for several hours She was them brought to court and interrogated by Sobhani an Investigative Judge and charged. Bail was set at 100 Million Tomans (roughly $110,000). Moghaddam was then transferred to Vozara Detention Center. ... read full story / add a comment 
kildare / rights, freedoms and repression Friday April 11, 2008 - 16:04 by Sharon.
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"RESIDENTS of the Usk area, just outside Kilcullen, are continuing their campaign against the siting of a so-called superdump in their area. The proposal by Greenstar was originally turned down by Kildare Co Council because it contravened the county plan but, following an An Bord Plean·la hearing, the board over-turned that decision and gave permission for the landfill project to go ahead. This was despite the fact that, after a hearing lasting four and a half days, the An Bord Pleanála inspector actually recommended against the siting of the dump at Usk...." http://archives.tcm.ie/kildarenationalist/2006/10/12/st...1.asp ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Thursday April 10, 2008 - 12:25 by tomeile
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The British National Party is urging its members to drop anti-semitism in favour of Islamophobia in order to win votes ahead of May’s assembly elections in London . Its leader ,Nick Griffin ,has written in favour of “adopting an 'Islamophobic' position that appeals to large numbers of ordinary people”. Targeting Zionist voters and former supporters of the ,now largely defunct , UK Independence Party , the BNP expects to pick up the necessary votes to win at least one seat in the election . One of its councillor , Pat Richardson , is quoted in today’s Guardian saying : "I'm in the BNP because no one else speaks out against the Islamification of our country." ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 09, 2008 - 18:37 by pat c
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Here is a statement from the Iraq Freedom Congress on the fifth anniversary of the imperialist occupation of Iraq. The IFC wants to expel the US and its allied forces and dissolve all political, economic, military and paramilitary institutions set up by the US. It also wants to dissolve and disarm all armed and paramilitary groups linked to Islamic forces and lawless groups and confiscate all their weapons, resources and funds. The IFC stands for a Secular Democratic Iraq. The 9th of April marks the fifth anniversary of the occupation. It is the anniversary of the genocide in which more than one million lives were lost and 4 million others were made homeless inside and ouside of Iraq. It is the anniversary of the destruction of everything that relates to humanity. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Wednesday April 09, 2008 - 14:24 by Obit
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Ludu Daw Amar has died . Her name means 'Of the people', she was a publisher who published a pro-independence Political Journal entitled the Ludu Daily news in the 1940s. The journal was suppressed eventually by government censors, but she continued to criticise the Burma/Myanmar Junta until near her death. Aung San Suu Kyi had flowers laid at her graveside- in Memoriam. Ludo published on Women's Issues and culture. The Ludu Press became an ethical symbol for the people of Burma/Myanmar. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 09, 2008 - 13:08 by tomeile
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"Amid a massive five-day civil defence drill, a senior Israeli cabinet minister has provocatively threatened Iran with complete destruction in retaliation for any attack. The chilling threat was made amid rising tensions with Syria and continuing hints of a preemptive Israeli military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities." ... read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations Wednesday April 09, 2008 - 12:38 by tomeile
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Lawyers representing victims of the police raid on the Diaz Centre in Genoa in July 2001 have issued an appeal for anyone with information on the movements of the spy and provocateur ,Martin Hogbin ,while at the summit to contact them. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / racism & migration related issues Wednesday April 09, 2008 - 00:00 by euro-knacker
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You have a few minutes left to enjoy this year's international day of the Romani nation or the Roma. They're not Romanians. There are approximately 15 million people of the ethnic group worldwide, and surprising and no doubt shocking as it may seem, they are often not made as welcome as they undoubtedly are in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 07, 2008 - 19:13 by Belfast WSM
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Workers Solidarity 102 ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 07, 2008 - 18:56 by One of Many Readers
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its funny to have a headline on the newswire with Mc Dowell's Name on it, but current Department of Justice head Mr Brian Lenihan TD failed to separate himself adequately from the racist policy of his former government cohort ;and has garnered international and national criticism on his proposed implementation of the 2006 'Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill' in fact its only an Immigration Bill because Mr Mc Dowell was forced to implement International protection treaties on October 10th 2006. To date only one woman has been granted a subsidiary protection order for FGM. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 07, 2008 - 12:11 by tomeile
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Racists desecrated 148 graves in the Muslim section of a military cemetery in Lille France, last Sunday daubing anti-Islamic graffiti and swastikas on graves , and hanging a pig's head on one of the headstones. The widely condemned hate crime comes at a time of tension for Muslim communities throughout Europe , occurring in the same week that Deniz Ozgur Uzun ,a 17-year-old Muslim high school student , was beaten to death by Islamophobes in Copenhagen . ... read full story / add a comment |
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