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international / gender and sexuality Monday June 08, 2009 - 11:59 by pat c
The Bulgarian Queer-Community is under attack by neo-nazis, last year a Queer march was attacked byfash scum who threw Molotov cocktails at the parade.This year its under threat again and a member of the Bulgarian Parliament has called for it to be attacked. Full text at link. On June 28th 2008, neo-Nazi groups aggressively attacked the first LGBTQ Pride march in Sofia, Bulgaria. A week before the march, the Bulgarian National Alliance, the most visible nationalist organization in the country, called for a “week of intolerance.” The BNA strongly encouraged nationalistic groups to organize themselves against the right of the queer community in Bulgaria to peacefully march, which resulted in loosely organized violence during the festivities. BNA members and other neo-Nazis threw molotov cocktails and small explosives at the participants of the Pride march. Fortunately, no injuries were reported. However, more than eighty skinheads, including Boyan Rasate (head of the BNA) were arrested for their attempted harm and direct violence toward pride participants. This year neo-Nazi groups are once again organizing themselves against the march and Bulgarian queers’ ability to defend their human rights. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday June 05, 2009 - 06:51 by Ciaron
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Kathy Kelly is longtime U.S. nonviolent activist and anti-war resister. She has served prison sentences for nonviolent resistance to U.S. nuclear and interventionary war preparations. She was in the peace camp on the Iraq/Saudi border druing Gulf War 1, she initiated the sanctions busting "Voices in the Wilderness" movement in the mid-90's, was on the ground in Baghdad during the "Shock and Awe" bombardment of '03. She came to Dublin in '05 and '06 to testify at the 3 Pitstop Plougshshares trials and was recently arrested at the Nevada U.S. Air Force base where the U.S. drones have their firing mechanism pressed. She is presently in Pakistan...... ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday June 04, 2009 - 16:57 by Ronoc
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"What do Nigeria and Ireland have in common? Shell, gas and trouble." By Miriam Cotton "While Royal Dutch Shell are on trial in New York on charges of conspiring with the Nigerian government to have the activist and writer Ken Saro Wiwa hanged, Shell is also embroiled in a similar controversy in Co Mayo, Ireland, where its plans for a pipeline and refinery are meeting with determined opposition. A version of this article first appeared in the June 2009 issue of Village - an Irish current affairs magazine. " ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / politics / elections Thursday June 04, 2009 - 14:53 by Joe Higgins
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It is now clear that our campaign is the best placed to defeat Fianna Fail in the Dublin Euro Election. People really appreciate the relentless opposition I mounted to the Fianna Fail/Progressive Democrat Government when they were inflating the property bubble and allowing property speculators and big bankers rake in billions of Euro on the backs of young people needing homes. People want the same commitment now as the FiannaFail/Green Party Government savage the living standards of working people and the unemployed while they salvage the reckless developers and bankers. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Wednesday June 03, 2009 - 16:22 by Joe Higgins.eu
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This is a video of a speech Joe Higgins gave on Sunday at a fundraising gig O’Shea’s Hotel on Talbot Street. In it he reacts to the TNS poll and outlines the key reasons why he want’s to win the Euro election this Friday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday June 02, 2009 - 16:56 by Red Banner
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Issue 36 of Red Banner is out now, available from the above address or from good bookshops ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday June 02, 2009 - 16:28 by Susan Boyle
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Sandusky is a small city of about 70,000 citizens which is in the news because John Hamilton (48) tired of the unkempt grass in his local park decided to mow it himself & when he refuse to desist at the suggestion of the police, they arrested him and are charging him with obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday June 02, 2009 - 13:02 by CWI
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Rosa Luxemburg's body found? ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday June 02, 2009 - 09:27 by supporter
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How the Elites have Squandered with our Health and Wealth Dr. Andy Storey and Michael McCaughan “We gave the Corrib gas away and now Éamon Ryan is intent on giving away the remaining choice areas of our offshore acreage at less than bargain basement prices”. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday May 31, 2009 - 15:05 by Maidhc Ó Cathail
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A recent book by Gavan McCormack documents how Japan has become a "client state" of the United States, an indispensable ally through its uncritical support of the global American empire. However, a closer examination of the forces driving recent US wars in the Middle East suggests that America may in fact be serving the interests of one tiny country in the region. ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday May 31, 2009 - 14:57 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather writes on the upcoming presidential election in Iran. She suggests that there is no real choice on offer and in any case tne Supreme Leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei holds the real reins of power. Full text at link Western governments are hoping for the election in Iran of a more ‘moderate’ president and the US has delayed any negotiations until after the poll. Obama, speaking on May 18, said he expected international talks with Iran to begin shortly after the elections. Inside Iran, however, there seems to be little enthusiasm for this farce beyond the ruling circles. Most Iranians are well aware that the president, like all other ‘elected officials’ in the Islamic Republic of Iran, wields limited power. Iran’s supreme religious leader - currently ayatollah Ali Khamenei - is not just a figurehead, but the head of state and ‘guardian of the nation’. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday May 30, 2009 - 16:09 by prurience
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The rightwing (not leftwing) Italian dailies are reporting how Nicolò Ghedini (supposedly Silvio Berlusconi's straight lawyer) has got an injunction through the courts to stop a Sardinian "paparazzi" Antonello Zappadu's publication of 700 photos taken last christmas when Pappi Berlusconi entered like a comet into the orbit of sweet young Noemi and was proximate to her sets' parties. This was a bit back when the monsters were working out how to reduce the Italian EU election to a plebiscite on a septuagenerian's sex appeal. The most demographically honed and mass psychologically horific display of conflicts of interest between society's estates of executive, media, judiciary & of course mafia. We need to pay attention. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday May 30, 2009 - 15:33 by ronan gallagher
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Lebanon’s army has been put “on full alert” in response to the Israeli Home Front Command drill which is to begin this Sunday. Despite Israeli and UN assurances that the drill will be defensive in nature , Hezbollah has was warned of “possible aggression” along the Israel Lebanon border and stated that its fighters are prepared to respond ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday May 30, 2009 - 02:32 by Miriam O
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According to Reuters a massive bomb just rocked the South of Iran and many people have died. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Saturday May 30, 2009 - 00:38 by Socialist Party
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Irish Times and RTE say that Joe Higgins is now fighting with Eoin Ryan and Mary Lou McDonald for the last MEP seat in Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Friday May 29, 2009 - 11:17 by Joe Higgins.eu
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This is the second of a series of videos on what Joe Higgins stands for. Here Joe outlines why he stands for defending workers rights and public services. He argues the Trade Unions must be forced to take action to fight the attacks. More videos of his key demands will be put on the campaign's YouTube channel, available at http://www.youtube.com/VoteJoeHiggins so make sure to subscribe or check back regularly. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 28, 2009 - 13:39 by redjade
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Balazs Nagy: Can you tell a few words about yourself and how you got to the situation that you are in? Victor Agosto: Ok, I am Victor Agosto, I joined the Army of the United States in August of 2005. I was sent to Iraq in October of 2006. And I stayed there until November of 2007. And while I was in Iraq I turned against both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And now my unit is sending me to Afghanistan - or wants to send me to Afghanistan - but I have already told them that I am not going to go and that I am not going to obey any orders supporting my unit's deployment to Afghanistan. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 28, 2009 - 13:18 by Ronan Gallagher
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Alonzo Bodden arrived in Ireland this week for the Carlsberg Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival. He’s back here after playing to US troops at Camp Liberty in Iraq. As a former Stealth Bomber mechanic, Alonzo was no stranger to the military world when he signed up to bring a bit of laughter to the lives of troops on active service. The zany comic told Jay Richardson wittily in an interview published in today’s Irish Times. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Wednesday May 27, 2009 - 19:47 by iosaf
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June 2nd 1967 was a watershed in German postwar history so pivotal that the date would be used by a terrorist grouping as their name. Benno Ohnesorg was shot dead by a policeman. Ohnesorg had been peacefully protesting the visit of the then Shah of Iran to the then West Berlin. It has now emerged the policeman in question, Karl-Heinz Kurras had been a member of the STASI since 1955 though there is no evidence he was acting on their orders at the time of the shooting. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Monday May 25, 2009 - 20:22 by erudite type
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Reuters and other newswires are carrying an Iranian story in the last hour that the revolutionary guard have arrested 114 "devil worshippers" and seized drugs and alcohol during a party in a southern city. "Cutting (their own) skin and sucking up the blood was among the indecent behavior of the group," Mehr News Agency quoted Colonel Abbas Hamedi of Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the city of Shiraz as saying. He said a Guards intelligence unit launched an investigation into the all-male group about one year ago, leading to their arrest Sunday evening. "The group's aim was to promote irreligious behavior," Hamedi, adding they had posted footage of their parties on the Internet. The Islamic Republic, which bans alcohol and narcotics, last year said it would launch a crackdown on "indecent Western-inspired movements" such as rappers and satanists. Which all sounds dandy to the general public who probably don't know about the Melak Taus ... read full story / add a comment |
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