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international / eu Friday June 26, 2009 - 17:21 by Susan Boyle PopQueen
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The island of Martinique is in the Carribean sea where reggae, voodoo, rum & hurricanes come from. It is also an integral part of France and as such its map appears on Euro bank notes at the bottom in a little insert. Four months ago the people of Martinique and neighbouring Gaudelope paralysed their local economies with strike actions, civil unrest, general un-mellowness and all round anti-Sarkozy attitude. This was in no small part due to their extraordinarily high levels of unemployment compared to the rest of France. Today Sarkozy has started a tour of "overseas France" and has proposed a referendum on autonomy but not independence. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 25, 2009 - 17:07 by Yassamine Mather
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Yassamine Mather writes on the developing situation in Iran, on howdivisions are developing amongst the Mullahs and most importantly on the class composition of the demonstrations. Full text at link. The problem with most dictators is that, even in their dying days, they believe they can stop the movement by simply passing orders or blaming ‘foreign powers’. Some supporters of the shah are still under the illusion that he was not overthrown by the 1979 Iranian revolution, but was deposed thanks to a plot by Britain and the US. In fact, as he went on speaking, attributing strange comments to Obama (the US president has apparently admitted in public that he had been looking forward to the demonstrations that have rocked Iran), one wondered if Khamenei, well known for using opium as a painkiller for his injured arm, had taken a double dose that morning. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues Wednesday June 24, 2009 - 20:31 by gargoyle
Dublin No Borders have launched their new website to coincide with an imminent mass deportation. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 24, 2009 - 19:47 by SP-USA
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* Neda Agha-Soltan, Presente! Murdered June 20, 2009 ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday June 24, 2009 - 00:35 by Brid's Blog
Our first engagement with the council as newly elected councillors was an induction session where we met the main management team of the council and were briefed on meetings, facilities, positions etc. Dublin City Council is a huge organisation and has a beurocracy to match. But what alarmed me mostly was the horse-trading for positions that goes on among the elected councillors themselves. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Wednesday June 24, 2009 - 00:33 by Con
éirígí analysis of the recent local and European elections around the country. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday June 23, 2009 - 14:16 by Harry Wells
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Sammy Wilson bans ads on climate change (Channel 4 News 9th February 2009): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Ey1QGtGFI&feature=related Sammy is interviewed by Ali G: "Is you Irish? "No, I am British." "Is you here on holiday then?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCNG5UeKMZw ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / racism & migration related issues Monday June 22, 2009 - 15:45 by Sean Matthews-personal capacity
Mark McGregor should check his facts before embarking on baseless comments without any shred of evidence or truth, before deciding to demonise those who attended the rally as a crime and stayed with the Romanian families, who actually requested help and assistance. ... read full story / add a comment |
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