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international / gender and sexuality Monday July 07, 2008 - 21:54 by pat c
 13 comments (last - thursday july 10, 2008 - 13:23)  2 images
Peter Tatchell takes the mickey out of Iranian "President" Ahmadinejad but also makes it clear that he opposes any attack on Iran. Peter supports the Iranian people not the theocracy. Full text at link. Peter Tatchell marched in the Pride Parade holding a poster placard ridiculing the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It featured a doctored photo of Amhadinejad wearing blue eye shadow, red lipstick, a gold earring and pink nail varnish. The placard was emblazoned with the words: “President of Iran. Murderer.Homophobe.” “I don’t support a military-attack on Iran, but I do urge greater international solidarity with democratic, liberal and progressive Iranians who are struggling to overthrow the clerical dictatorship from within,” Peter Tatchell said. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 07, 2008 - 17:58 by TD
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John Pilger and the Democracy Now website are reporting that the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, the 24 year old Palestinian journalist and photographer from Gaza, Mohammed Omer, was strip searched, beaten by 8 armed Shin Bet officials and hospitalized for a week after being detained at the Allenby Bridge crossing. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday July 07, 2008 - 03:31 by D. Fahey
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The rise of the BNP in Britain is linked to Labour's failure to address social and economic inequality. Fascism is on the rise across Europe. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Sunday July 06, 2008 - 20:09 by justice 4 jean
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Tomorrow July 7 will see the anniversary of a series of Terrorist events which occured in London and the UK in 2005. Apart from the list of dead and wounded the legacy of those events are continuing counter-terrorism laws and powers which were rushed through the UK's parliament at that time. To date there has been no official public inquiry into the Terrorist events from July 7th to July 22nd 2005. The inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes in Stockwell Tube station London on the 22nd of July 2005 has been scheduled for 22nd September 2008 at Southwark Coroner's Court to be presided over by High Court Judge Sir Michael Wright QC. The setting of the inquest date was originally adjourned pending completion of the Health & Safety trial against the Office of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, which concluded in October 2007 with a guilty verdict. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 06, 2008 - 18:06 by Michael Gallagher
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Below is the first paragraph of the graphic account -in text and images- of the aftermaths of a suicide bombing in Iraq. The photographer, Zoriah, -who you may be familiar with through earlier posts- has since had his embed assignment cancelled by the Marine Corps for posting the blog on his site, which includes pictures of dead soldiers. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Sunday July 06, 2008 - 17:15 by **
Singer David Gray has spoken out and condemned US interrogators for playing loud music which includes one of his own tracks as a form of "torture". "Only the novelty aspect of this story gets it noticed... Guantanamo greatest hits," he said. "What we're talking about here is people in a darkened room, physically inhibited by handcuffs, bags over their heads and music blaring at them." That is nothing but torture." "It doesn't matter what the music is - it could be Tchaikovsky's finest or it could be Barney the Dinosaur." "It really doesn't matter, it's going to drive you completely nuts." ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Sunday July 06, 2008 - 16:42 by by
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Four years ago on July 7th 2004 at 09:47 an explosion occurred on a No. 30 double-decker bus in Tavistock Square, London. 13 people died. A shudder of terror went through all those who realised that a bus bomb could not be prevented, like perhaps a metro or subway bomb, with metal detectors or sniffer dogs that terror was compounded by the death and casualty figures in comparison to the total of 39 deaths for 3 rush hour underground trains. It was amazing anyone could survive. One did and has written a book which Amazon withdrew from distribution in March 2008. ... read full story / add a comment |
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