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international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 28, 2008 - 15:54 by pat c
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Yet another Iranian Trade Unionist is threatened with flogging by the Iranian Theocratic Regime. His "crime"? Participating in "illegal" Mayday demonstrations. Here is an appeal from Iranian Trade Unionists, support them in their struggle against the Iranian Dictatorship. A summons for the administration of a flogging has now been issued for Tayyeb Chatani for participating in the May 1st event last year. Mr Chatani works at Par Rees factory, where he is an active shop steward. Eleven of the workers arrested for taking part in the May 1st event last year in Sanandaj were sentenced to 91 days in prison and 10 strikes of the lash. The Appeal Court changed the sentences to fines, but upheld the sentence of 10 lashes. So far, the lashing have been carried out in the case of 3 workers: Seddigh Amjadi, Habibollah Kalekaani and Faares Gaviliaan. The only crime of these workers is having participated in the May Day ceremony in Sanandaj. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday February 28, 2008 - 14:25 by Joe
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday praised Japan’s “firm” stance on Iran as the Zionist state agreed to strengthen ties with Japan. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday February 27, 2008 - 18:24 by Seán Ryan
An article that's currently doing the rounds is one which the authorities wish would quietly go away. Let's not forget that we in Ireland facilitate this barbarity by allowing the unfetterd access of our airports and airspace to the CIA. Wink wink... Nod nod... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Tuesday February 26, 2008 - 19:49 by C Murray
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The 52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women began meeting at the United Nations Headquarters in New York yesterday and will be in session until the seventh of March. A coalition of over 150 International Non-Governmental Organisations who represent the Civil Society Groups on advocating for stronger gender reform architecture (GEA) will be in session. Mostly these groups are known on Indymedia and the IMC's because they have not stopped bringing the issue of Measurable Reform in the area of gender equality to the table. and Ban Ki-moon agrees. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday February 26, 2008 - 14:45 by pat c
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This an extract of a letter from The National Union of Dismissed and Unemployed Workers of Iran To the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) regarding workers being flogged for participating in May 1st actions in Iran. Full text at the link. Dear Friends, As you are aware the police and security forces assaulted last year’s peaceful May 1st rally in the city of Sanandaj, battered workers, and arrested 13 of them. Among them were Mr. Shays Amaani and Mr. Seddigh Karimi, President and Executive Committee member of our union, respectively. They were released on a $50,000 bail each after 42 days in detention. The court sentenced them to two-and-a-half years’ imprisonment. We appealed, but the Court of Appeal has not yet given its verdict. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday February 26, 2008 - 14:04 by John Cornford
Jim Moody interviews Ahmed Hussain who has defected from the SWP to the Conservative Party. JM: Why have you left Respect (Independent) group on Tower Hamlets council? AH: Initially the four of us left the party because of the leadership: it was not going anywhere. It was just out of order, because everyone was doing what they wanted to do. The reason I left the new group is because we were trying, but we were not going anywhere to help the community. The other thing is, the party itself is just not going anywhere because the electoral commission has put an embargo on the name. You can’t really re-establish the party all over again. It was quite hard to do with Respect. People had elected me to the council to serve them, and that was not happening because I was concentrating more on party problems. That was why I thought I should move on to another party. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday February 26, 2008 - 01:59 by Abu Saad
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Bono has a hard decision to make . Live up to his old "Sun City" Anti-Apartheid stance.... or ignore Palestinian suffering in order to delight the Israeli military regime with a cultural visit. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Friday February 22, 2008 - 00:06 by Terence
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This is a must listen podcast and presents the case that we are in grave danger with the climate as the effects of global warming are happening much quicker than anyone has in public admitted. According to Philip Sutton, we need to declare a Sustainability Emergency. In this report, he outlines how the existing institutes have failed. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday February 21, 2008 - 21:50 by .
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The United States did not begin seeking permission from governments before using their airspace and facilities for rendition until after the 2002 flights in question, according to a State Department official. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday February 21, 2008 - 16:14 by pat c
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Yet again the US Occupation Forces have launched an attack on The Iraq Freedom Congress. In another poor move; the occupying troops has made another attempt to eliminate the voice of freedom from Iraq by raiding the IFC headquarter in Baghdad on 12 February when they forced themselves in, verbally and physically assaulted the guards and stood them out in the rain for several hours. It is understood from the many previous incidents that these attempts are not to look for weapons or investigations regarding terrorist activities; but in fact they are to intimidate and eliminate any voice that objects the occupation and its puppets. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 21, 2008 - 14:42 by John Cornford
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James Turley writes on how in Respect Chris Bambery claimed that Secularism ‘justifies’ islamophobia. Yet now Socialist Worker demands separation of church and state. Bambery writes on islamophobia in media and establishment reactions to the speech. The Sun’s “bash the bishop” campaign and David Blunkett’s reference to something “external to this country” is a breath away from “there ain’t no black in the union jack”. The article implies that the pro-islam stance of the SWP has hardened since the break with Galloway. He writes that in spite of talk of muslim ‘backwardness’, many of the foundations of science were commonplace in islamic culture by the middle ages. True -science would not be doing well without the concept of zero. But it buys into the logic of the ‘clash of civilisations’. The idea of religions competing in some cosmic dog-show for the prize of ‘most progressive’ is ridiculous in itself without Bambery on the judges’ panel. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday February 21, 2008 - 12:10 by tomeile
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Catherine Nevin’s appeal against her conviction for murder began in the Court of Appeal yesterday. Ms Nevin was convicted in 2000 of the murder of her husband Tom at their pub, Jack White's Inn, Brittas Bay, on March 19, 1996. The appeal will be based on evidence that prosecutors failed to disclose at her original trial that witnesses , William McClean and former provos Gerry Heapes and John Jones ,were long-standing police informers . Nevin’s lawyer ,Anne Fitzgibbon , is seeking access to classified documents including security files which indicate that Mr McClean was a suspect in the Dublin/Monaghan bombings of 1974. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 21, 2008 - 09:08 by autonom
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Since the famous rebellion in the district Kreuzberg in the german capital Berlin at 1st of may 1987 every year there are streetfights and resistance. Now the 90 minutes video documentation from 1987 to 2007 is available in english for free download. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Wednesday February 20, 2008 - 12:03 by Negotitated Programme for Government
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The Green Party has employed someone to update it's website and provided for us , the party political consumer of branded politics, a useful pdf and bullet point link to the Green/FF :'Negotiated Programme For Government' Wherein people will find their policy on Environment:- 'The Transposition of the Aarhus Convention into Law' ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 19, 2008 - 18:44 by Cael
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Irish people all over the world will be saddened to hear that Maggie Hughes, the mother of Francis Hughes, has passed on to her eternal reward. She gave her most precious treasure for the cause of Irish freedom. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a h-anam dilís. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday February 19, 2008 - 17:15 by Miriam Cotton
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"Wikileaks Under Attack: California Court Wipes Wikileaks.org Out of Existence Mon Feb 18, 2008 at 06:20:15 AM PST One of the most important web sites in recent months has been Wikileaks.org. Wikileaks has upset the Chinese government enough that they are attempting to censor it, as is the Thai military junta. Wikileaks is now under attack from a censorship effort by a California court." ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Monday February 18, 2008 - 16:47 by Gender aware
While many Indymedia readers are probably not fans of any of the prospective presidential candidates in the US, I thought this analysis of the coverage was quite interesting and worth putting up. While I don't agree with all the points made, it does provide some interesting and disturbing commentary on the media coverage, and the way in which feminisation of the candidates is seen as a way of degrading them (particularly in relation to Clinton, of course). While I'm not her greatest fan, I do think some of the points made here and the examples given show how deep the distrust of female leadership still goes in Western society. Obama has faced some ethnocentric bias too, but it seems his charisma and gender are saving him from the worst of it. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Monday February 18, 2008 - 12:52 by Joe
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Raymond Gilmour who served as a British agent inside the IRA and who has now been left, penniless, homeless with a heart condition and post traumatic stress disorder by his handlers is now giving free advice to other potential rats. Don't do it! ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Sunday February 17, 2008 - 19:08 by Abkhazian Basque with a South Ossetian granny.
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Here are some useful links so you and your family or friends can follow the recognition of Kosovo. This will help you recognise Kosovars in your local community and avoid embarassment should you find yourself in the awkward situation of distinguishing between an Albanian and a Serb. Their government http://www.kuvendikosoves.org/ Their "thank you site" http://www.kosovothanksyou.com/ Their newspapers http://www.kosovapress.com/ http://www.newkosovareport.com/ Their Telly http://www.rtklive.com/ http://www.rtv21.tv/site/?id=1,0,0,1,a ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Sunday February 17, 2008 - 14:12 by JM
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The sale of licences to drill for oil and gas rights in Alaska will threaten the future of the region’s polar bears, conservationists warned today. ... read full story / add a comment |
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