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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday May 20, 2010 - 22:17 by Ben Lewis
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Ben Lewis gives background details about the hungerstrike undertaken by imprisoned Iranian film maker Jafar Panahi and of the solidarity work being carried out on his behalf. Full text at link. Activists in Hands Off the People of Iran have been informed that Jafar Panahi, the internationally acclaimed film maker who has been incarcerated for over two months, has begun a hunger strike in Evin prison. This is the latest brave step by Panahi, who is increasingly becoming a symbol of resistance. The solidarity he can generate is of grave cause concern for the Islamic Republic, despite its jails, armed thugs and reactionary militias. Panahi fully realises this, and he is using his standing to exert as much pressure on the regime as possible. He has refused offers of bail, saying that he will only accept it when all other political prisoners are released. Like him, the overwhelming majority of these prisoners were arrested as part of the shocking wave of repression unleashed by the regime in response to the enormous protests on the streets of Iran following last June’s rigged presidential elections. ... read full story / add a comment
international / summit mobilisations Wednesday May 19, 2010 - 16:58 by non-voter
Some of Italy's most senior police officers have been given jail sentences of up to five years for what the prosecutors called a "terrible" attack on demonstrators at the 2001 G8 meeting in Genoa and an attempted cover-up. It isn’t expected that any of the police will serve sentences because delays in bringing the prosecutions mean the offences are “ timed-out “ under statutes of limitations . But several of the most senior defendants were also given five-year disqualifications from public office . Victims of the police expressed delight at the sentences. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 19, 2010 - 12:57 by WSM Newsroom
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The WSM and Semora Spraoi callout for the anti-capitalist bloc was reasonably successful - what looked like over 200 people showed up - including banners from the Revolutionary Anarcha-Feminist Group, Seomra Spraoi, Eirigi, the IRSP, the 32 County Sovereignty Movement and a student solidarity group. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 19, 2010 - 12:13 by Brian Alance
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The Financial Times says it had no problem editorially with an Amnesty International ad criticising Shell's practices in Nigeria but had to pull it for legal reasons. In case anyone is in any doubt what people in Ireland and beyond are up against when trying to get justice, remember you are not really dealing with the touchy-feely Shell that sponsors local events in Erris but with a well-oiled, well-funded global judicial machine that will stop at nothing to maximise profits. http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&s...7&c=1 ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday May 19, 2010 - 11:21 by Laurence Cox
From Irish Left Review: Presentation to the the “Equality in a time of crisis” conference organised by the Egalitarian World Initiative and the UCD School of Social Justice (May 6 - 7). ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 17, 2010 - 22:42 by Yassamine Mather
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Yassamine Mather writes on the execution of the Kurdish militants in Iran, She provides historical background to the Kurdish struggle and makes clear that the Anti-Imperialist response to the judicial murder of Kurds should not be to call for the Iranian regime to be hauled before a tribunal for ‘crimes against humanity'. It should be to step up our solidarity. Full text at link. Four of the five political prisoners executed by the Islamic government in Iran in the early hours of Sunday May 9 came from Kurdistan and were accused of membership of the left nationalist group, the PJAK (an Iranian version of the PKK). The executed prisoners - Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heydarian, Farhad Vakili, Shirin Alamhouli and Mehdi Eslamian - all denied membership of “political organisations” and the PJAK issued a statement clarifying that none of those executed had any organisational links with it. Farzad Kamangar was a teacher and trade unionist who had been accused of “endangering national security” and “enmity against god”. ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Saturday May 15, 2010 - 09:11 by Greg Lukianoff
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Evolutionary scientist Dylan Evans at UCC has been disciplined for showing an article on sex in fruit bats to a colleague in the context of a debate on human exceptionalism. Supporters of the campaign to reverse this include Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins and others. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 14, 2010 - 19:52 by pat c
Seymour Hersh reveals how US troops are executing pows in Afghanistan. He also speaks about thhow the Bush Adminstration had developed detailed plans for a military attack on Iran. Full text and vid at link. "I'll tell you right now, one of the great tragedies of my country is that Mr. Obama is looking the other way, because equally horrible things are happening to prisoners, to those we capture in Afghanistan," Hersh said. "They're being executed on the battlefield. It's unbelievable stuff going on there that doesn't necessarily get reported. Things don't change." ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday May 13, 2010 - 21:09 by watcher
The network of powerful players within the golden circles of Irish capitalism becomes even clearer. ... read full story / add a comment 
The second episode of the Irish History Podcast has been released ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Thursday May 06, 2010 - 15:08 by David Miller & Claire Robinson (summary)
INTRO SpinWatch (www.spinwatch.org), created in 2005, provides public interest reporting on spin and deception, and campaigns for lobbying transparency. Spinwatch are co-founders of the Europe-wide Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation and the more recent UK campaign, the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency. Spinwatch has come under sustained attack from a bizarre group of former left wing activists who switched to the pro-market right in the 1990s. Today, this 'LM Network' act as lobbyists for and defenders of multinational corporations. As such, the LM Network features on the associated SpinProfiles.org website (http://spinprofiles.org/index.php?title=LM_network). Because of that fact the LM network, that guards its origins and activities from prying eyes, has attempted to undermine Spinwatch's credibility. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Monday May 03, 2010 - 16:37 by Opposed to Shell and their nazi friends
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Just a year after Micheal Dwyer met his bloody end in Bolivia, we get a News update from Bolivia... The news concerns our favourite LatAm fascist Branko Marinkovic, chickenshit multimillionaire and coupmonger who fled Bolivia after his racist plot failed... From inca kola news- Branko has left the building and is very unlikely to return (March 18 2010) http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2010/03/branko-has-lef....html Ex-Aid Testifies that Marinkovic Financed Accused Terrorists On March 17th, former Santa Cruz civic leader Branko Marinkovic’s longtime personal assistant and right-hand man for 14 years Juan Judelka confirmed that Marinkovic was financing a group called “La Torre” that is accused of terrorist conspiracy. Judelka declared under oath before prosec ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday April 30, 2010 - 10:50 by SIPTU Community
The latest edition of the SIPTU Community Newsletter is now available. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 29, 2010 - 10:37 by Mairead O'Shea
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The latest recruit to the Labour Party is Mary Harneys buddy Mae Sexton. Sexton was the PD Dail Deputy for Longford up until she was defeated at the last General Election. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 29, 2010 - 02:12 by Larky
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This is the text of the speech made by Michael O’Boyce the president of the Garda Representative Association to their annual conference. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday April 28, 2010 - 15:35 by lynn
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The courts have recently become a very hotly contested arena in the conflict over Shell's imposition of their unsafe project on Erris. Charges and prosecutions have been coming thick and fast over the last year and a half, but they seem to be more about persecuting campaigners than any concept of justice, and recent weeks have shown a clear bias in the policing of protest. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 27, 2010 - 14:15 by Bimpe Archer
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The former face of the BBC Northern Ireland's GAA coverage has unleashed an extraordinary attack on the corporation for downgrading its coverage of Gaelic games and subjecting him to "racial harassment". Self-proclaimed "Mr GAA" Jerome Quinn is representing himself in a case against the BBC in which he alleges unfair dismissal and discrimination. He was sacked last year after his employer discovered he had been posting anonymous criticism of its coverage of Gaelic football and hurling on a GAA discussion board. The award-winning presenter said they were an attempt to "inform fans of what was behind anti-GAA coverage in BBC NI". ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Sunday April 25, 2010 - 13:31 by WMD
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According to a notice issued by Eamon Ryan's Department of Transport, work is to re start shortly on the Corrib Pipeline. The notice gives a rough outline of plans to survey the estuary, but makes no mention of Shell/Garda security compounds, increased garda and navy presence, dodgy security guards with cameras, and articles in the O'Reily press saying "we need the gas". Maybe that's a different department... ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday April 24, 2010 - 18:28 by pat c
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Here are two articles by Eva Bartlett on the war that the Israeli Army wages against Palestinian farmers. full texts at links. "Our sheep and goats would feed at the base of trees before the trees were all destroyed," she says. Over the years of Israeli air and land invasions, Israel's bulldozing and bombing trees and agricultural land, the environment in Gaza suffers almost as much as the people. With animal fodder only sparingly allowed into Gaza under the siege, that which enters through the tunnels from Egypt is unaffordable to herders like Um Mohammed. http://www.countercurrents.org/bartlett230410A.htm ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 24, 2010 - 18:17 by pat c
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Israel continues its war against Palestinian children by destroying a Strategic WMD - a childrens playground! 100 olive and fruit trees were also destroyed. Full text at link. Israeli bulldozers today destroyed a garden and children’s playground in Beit Jala, and 100 fruit and olive trees in Al Walaja and Beit Jala, both in the Bethlehem district, to make way for the continued construction of their illegal apartheid wall. Soldiers present used violent force to remove Palestinian, Israeli and international activists who attempted to prevent the destruction. Two Israelis were arrested immediately, and six internationals were later arrested. ... read full story / add a comment |
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