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international / education / other press Sunday August 02, 2009 14:22 by Susan Boyle
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BBC News has this weekend added a piece on Hugo Chavez's "revolutionary reading list" to its feature pages. It's a curious article whose timing four months after the launch of the list appears to say little and omit plenty. We are told how there are queues of people in Caracas awaiting a free copy of French 19th century author Victor Hugo's masterpiece "Les Miserables" (in Spanish translation). One happy fellow tells the local BBC chap he's seen the movie and now wants to read the book. I wonder has he ever tried to sing the songs and get on a talent competition? But this curious space filler (all the more curious because in internet news one doesn't have to fill space) prompts me to quickly cast an eye over the efforts of South America to banish illiteracy. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Sunday August 02, 2009 13:38 by Caitlin
'ASSAULT ON GAZA - A WAR CRIME?' Following the assault on Gaza earlier this year, the theme of this year's 'Palestine Day' will be 'Israeli War Crimes'. Daytime session starts at 12 noon Evening Public Meeting starts at 7.00 p.m. VENUE : ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, FALLS ROAD, BELFAST. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Sunday August 02, 2009 12:49 by Con Carroll
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staff at Thomas Cook, Grafton st, have been occupying, their offices for the last three days. against redundancy. stand in solidarity Monday 3. 10.30. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday August 01, 2009 18:50 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather gives an update on the situation in Iran and analyses how the supposed leaders of the opposition are failing to confront the Iranian Regime. Full text at link. Some of the founding ideologues of the Islamic Republic of Iran are currently in exile, having fallen foul of the current leadership, and, together with royalists, they represent the most backward sections of the opposition. Yet they have been given unprecedented coverage by the international media, including, worst of all, sections of the Farsi-speaking media. First we have Akbar Ganji, promoter of a New York hunger strike and a man portrayed in the US media as a “human rights activist” who talks of Islam and democracy. An ironic description for someone who founded, and was a commander of, the dreaded Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards) and who played an active role in some of the worst mass executions of leftist and socialists under the Islamic regime. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Saturday August 01, 2009 16:24 by Laura Broxson
Let's get fur out of Ireland! read full story / add a comment 
dublin / animal rights / press release Saturday August 01, 2009 10:53 by Bernie Wright
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ANTI-HUNT DEMONSTRATION at the Louth Hunt Ball -NO TO ANIMAL ABUSE! Four Seasons Hotel. Ballsbridge at 7pm sharp, Saturday 8th August.. Animal abuse be it legal or illegal is wrong. The AOHS cannot ignore this annual Horse Show co-ordinated event held by the Louth Hunt. It is held to raise funds for the continuance of hunting, this starts with the torture and killing of fox cubs next month in September. Hunting season is 6 months. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday July 31, 2009 23:12 by Jen Debender
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In Bellmullet court on Thursday, five Shell to Sea protesters were up for hearings on charges ranging from last August 2008 to this June 2009. Judge Anderson dismissed several charges on technical points but was very harsh in serving two of the campaigners with four and eight month prison sentences. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday July 31, 2009 20:42 by Susan Boyle
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Bolivia has broke ground in the articulation and assertion of rights many times in the last years & not only since Evo Morales was elected as popular leader of a Bolivarian style regime. & this week, in what must be welcome news to Irish Animal rights activists, law have been passed which define the use of animals in circus as "cruel & unusual". read full story / add a comment
cork / racism & migration related issues / event notice Friday July 31, 2009 20:30 by Joe Moore
Civil Rights for Asylum Seekers-The Case against Deportation. A meeting to discuss this issue will be held on Friday 21st August at 8.00pm in the Victoria Hotel, Patrick St. Cork. The meeting will be addressed by Rosanna Flynn, Residents against Racism Dublin, Joe Moore, Cork Anti Racism Network and Theresa Obi, Cork Anti Racism Network. The proceedings will be chaired by Marie Claire Kah. read full story / add a comment 
international / racism & migration related issues / event notice Friday July 31, 2009 19:12 by luval/syneleusi mytilene no borderlesvos09
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Repression has no place on our boat… In the last few years the island of Lesvos has represented one of the main entrance gate for thousands of refugees and migrants seeking to reach Europe. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday July 31, 2009 18:36 by Brendan Butler
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The Transnational Chiquita company was actively involved and not for the first time in the overthrow of a Central American democratically elected Government . With its powerful allies in Washington the Obama Administration has not formally declared the ousting of President Zelaya as a Coup D'Etat which would require it under U.S. law to suspend all economic and military aid to the regime. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / news report Friday July 31, 2009 18:03 by Fred Johnston
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AIB plans to knock part of the mediaeval structure in Galway are approved read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Friday July 31, 2009 16:05 by Darren C
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At 10.00am management from Thomas Cook arrived at shops in Dublin to enforce closure. Members refused and are now occupying the shops. The context to this dispute is a company that seeks to consolidate and increase profits through the closure of more than 100 shops, the closures in Dublin fly in the face of these shops making more than £400 million profit during 2008. read full story / add a comment
galway / miscellaneous / event notice Friday July 31, 2009 15:41 by Amnesty Galway
The Freedom Café is hosting a special FamilyFun Day with chocolate fondue, circus, live music, workshops and more! Chocolate dipped goodies in overflow, circus shows, loads of live music,kids workshops on how to have fun recycling your packages, face painting,raffles and much more happening - all this you can find in the Freedom Caféon Sunday 2nd August from 2pm till 7pm. A whole day of fun for the entirefamily! read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / other press Friday July 31, 2009 15:18 by history buff
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An article on Irish anarchism in the 1880s by historian Fintan Lane that was published in the March/April 2008 issue of History Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday July 31, 2009 14:42 by Hypatia
Here are extracts from a statement by 42 Arab Human Rights Organisations. They make clear their solidarity with the Iranian People and their opposition to the repression carried out by the Iranian Regime. Full text at link. We, the undersigned human rights organizations and advocates from the Arab region, express our condemnation of the brutal repression undertaken by the Iranian authorities against the Iranian people involved in peaceful demonstrations and protests against the course and outcome of the Iranian presidential elections. The repressive acts led to the death of dozens and the detention of thousands, including members of political opposition, journalists, workers and human rights defenders. The detainees have been subject to maltreatment and torture intended to force them to make false confessions or to give statements to be broadcast by the state media to distort the image of the popular uprising. The Iranian government has used the latter statements to support its fallacious claim that any dissonance or upheaval around the elections is merely the result of a foreign ploy to target Iran. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Friday July 31, 2009 14:41 by Namgyal Damdul
Venue: RUA RED, Tallaght (near Luas last stop) (www.ruared.ie) Saturday 15th August, 2009 2.35 - 3 pm: Leaving Fear Behind (25 mins) 3.15 - 4.03 pm: Undercover in Tibet (48 mins) 4.35 - 5 pm: Leaving Fear Behind (25 mins) Saturday 29th August, 2009 2.35 - 4.33 pm: Dreaming of Tibet (58 mins) 4.45 – 4.37 pm: Tibet's Cry for Freedom (52 mins) 4.45 – 5.10 pm: Leaving Fear Behind (25 mins) These films contain challenging images. Parental guidance is advised for Under 15s. Note: Screening times are subject change. read full story / add a comment 
dublin / history and heritage / news report Thursday July 30, 2009 23:11 by Anti Fascist
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Ógra Shinn Féin Dublin has condemned the attack on a statue commemorating Irish Patriot Seán Russell. Unknown individuals painted Nazi flags on the base of the monument late on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning and also poured red paint over it. The new bronze memorial to Seán Russell,a veteran of the Easter Rising and IRA chief of staff during the bombing campaign launched in London in 1939, stands in Fairview Park in Dublin and was only recently unveiled by the National Graves Association following the destruction of a previous memorial by vandals in 2004. read full story / add a comment 
national / anti-war / imperialism / feature Thursday July 30, 2009 21:04 by Shannonwatch
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The abject disregard of the Irish political elite for Ireland's neutrality has been demonstrated by the routine transit of US military planes and troops through Shannon Airport for most of this decade. With the re-run of the Lisbon Treaty referendum we are now being asked to accept EU promises that it will not affect or prejudice Ireland's traditional policy of military neutrality. But the ongoing support of the Irish government for US-led NATO exercises around the world clearly shows that we cannot trust our leaders to uphold Irish neutrality, with or without the non-binding decisions that have been tagged onto the Treaty in an attempt to have it accepted by the people of Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday July 30, 2009 20:49 by Free Honduras
We, a group of Senior and Junior Officers (we do not mention names for obvious reasons and not because of cowardice) facing the situation in which politicians in collusion with commanders have involved the armed forces and that have deteriorated the good image that we had to the Honduran people we speak and we denounce the following: • read full story / add a comment |
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