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Banned by Newcastle United for her 'gender-critical' tweets, Linzi Smith is suing the FA, criticising their LGBTQ+ rainbow campaign as an unlawful attempt to impose political propaganda on players.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday August 29, 2010 - 02:02 by Paul King
Reuters) - The UK government, the police and the Catholic Church colluded to protect a priest suspected of involvement in a 1972 bombing in Northern Ireland that killed 9 people, a report said on Tuesday.

Just one more of the thousand reasons to fully support the PROTEST THE POPE demonstrations. ... read full story / add a comment
The boycott movement threatens the visage of respectability and normality which the leaders of apartheid Israel so desperately crave.
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 28, 2010 - 19:09 by pat c   image 1 image
Dave Lordan writes in The Electronic Intifada on why he is taking part in the Cultural Boycott of Israel. Full text at link.

I am proud to be among the many Irish and Ireland-based artists from across creative disciplines who have chosen to publicly support the growing campaign of boycott against apartheid Israel. Compared to the imprisoned Palestinian people themselves and to those taking part in flotillas and other perilous anti-apartheid activities in Palestine our contribution and risk may be justly considered small. At most we might lose the chance of lucrative invitations to read, perform or display our works in parts of the US where apartheid Israel's supporters hold the power of censorship. Departments of foreign affairs and ministries of culture may also not include us among those artists they can rely upon to project a lying image of a harmonious, bon vivant and, above all, harmlessly apolitical intelligentsia. We are sure to be slandered and ridiculed by the hired bullies of the global media empires.
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international / anti-capitalism Friday August 27, 2010 - 20:52 by Carlos
Argentina is a country which has a defined scope which has been set by the imperialism. Every time someone tries to change anything the army, the navy, the aeronautics and all the police forces kill him or her without any mercy. However we still resist. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday August 27, 2010 - 02:44 by wake up ireland   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 31, 2010 - 18:01)
Major cannabis seizure, whilst the government prosecutes offshore tax evaders. Its not even about money now. Its about who is running the money, and how they can keep their hold on it. Stop drinking. Grow your own. Make Ireland what it could be. or watch as the rest of the world passes by... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 25, 2010 - 09:43 by Plowshares   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 01, 2010 - 14:12)
On September 9th. 1980 the Plowshares 8 entered the General Electric factory at King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA and began to disarm first strike nuclear weapons components under construction.

The folks at Nuclear Resister have put the following slideshow/soundtrack together to mark the 30th. anniversary of the Plowshares movement, Nukewatch and Nuclear Resister. It is a very inspiring and uplifting presentation. Makes ya wanna get off the bench and back into the fray....... ... read full story / add a comment
leitrim / politics / elections Monday August 23, 2010 - 11:26 by Star Ship   text 34 comments (last - tuesday november 02, 2010 - 19:32)
In an article in the "Sunday Tribune" on 25th July 2010, Conor McMorrow wrote about the "parachute candidate". The question that can now be asked is what the future holds and what is going to happen to the Labour Party in Sligo/N Leitrim, now that the general public and the dogs in the street, are aware that all is not well within the local party.? what a way to start an election campaign.
What if anything is going to happen?
there are some interesting comments attached to the web link below.

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international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 21, 2010 - 21:03 by pat c   text 24 comments (last - saturday september 04, 2010 - 20:52)   image 1 image
Mustafa Barghouti MP writes about the pressure that once again is being imposed on the palestinian people to enter into so called Peace Talks. Dr Barghouti believes that such talks without a clear agenda, timetable or without a binding mechanism for implementation will result in a betrayal of the Palestinian People. Full article at link.

We have followed with great concern the increasing external pressure, especially from the U.S. and Israel, on the PLO leadership to shift from indirect negotiations (which have not resulted in any progress) to direct negotiations without clear and binding terms of reference regarding a complete halt of all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory - including in Jerusalem. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday August 21, 2010 - 14:21 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - saturday august 21, 2010 - 15:44)
This convoy will leave from New Delhi mid-September and will travel across Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and ultimately through the Rafah Crossing into Gaza-Palestine. The Asian convoy will be joined by delegations and vehicles in each of the nine countries through which it passes. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday August 19, 2010 - 11:48 by green leprechaun   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 04, 2010 - 15:54)
Ireland, by its very nature, should become a model of tolerance and intellect for the rest of the world...afterall....no one else is doing it...the market for tolerance and real intellect is WIDE OPEN...with electronic security and a little know-how the crime can be squashed and the profits can be enormous, all the while setting an example for the world about what freedom means. ... read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage Wednesday August 18, 2010 - 10:10 by Irish history Podcast
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday August 12, 2010 - 08:18 by children_of_lir   text 10 comments (last - thursday november 04, 2010 - 05:30)
From Guardan Newspaper Article: "The Iranian woman whose sentence to death by stoning sparked an international outcry is feared to be facing imminent execution, after she was put on a state-run TV programme last night where she confessed to adultery and involvement in a murder." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday August 11, 2010 - 20:41 by Solidarity   text 16 comments (last - friday october 29, 2010 - 22:45)
There were several acts of nonviolent resistance to nuclear weapons during the past week's anniversaries of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Wednesday August 11, 2010 - 19:41 by Sean Crudden   text 25 comments (last - sunday september 25, 2016 - 09:01)
What jumps out at me about the recent report by PNA (Psychiatric Nurses Association) to the Minister of Health is that it underlines a definite antagonism between providers and patients in the mental health services. It conveys graphically and in a rather stock way a strong underlying sense of fear and loathing of mental patients. Undoubtedly relations between patients and nurses can assume knife-edge proportions at times. And it is, as we all know from human experience, at times of heightened tension or drama that basic and fundamental motivation emerges clearly in the spotlight. I believe Mr. Kavanagh (general secretary of PNA) when he says nurses in their hundreds have been injured by patients. I am sure he, too, can remember the names of John Carthy and Anthony Burke. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday August 06, 2010 - 13:09 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - friday august 06, 2010 - 16:18)
John Pilgers outlines the reasons why Blair should be arrested and why he should not be allowed to profit from his War Crimes. We need a new Nuremberg. Full text at link.

Tony Blair must be prosecuted, not indulged like Peter Mandelson. Both have produced self-serving memoirs for which they have been paid fortunes; Blair's, which have earned him a £4.6m advance, will appear next month ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday August 04, 2010 - 12:19 by Sally Bowles   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 04, 2010 - 12:27)
Could todays bomb attack on Ahmadinejad be a set up to allow him to bring in even more repressive measures against dissidents? Om Monday Ahmadinejad said: "The stupid Zionists have hired mercenaries to assassinate me". Now surprise, surpriise an attack takes place. Full story at url below.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad survived an attack with a homemade explosive device on his motorcade during a visit to the western city of Hamadan today, a source in his office said. The source said Mr Ahmadinejad's convoy was targeted as he was travelling from Hamadan's airport to give a speech in a local sports arena. The president was unhurt but others had been injured in the explosion. One person was arrested. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Wednesday August 04, 2010 - 12:07 by Darklight Festival
Make a short film on the Environment and become a category winner in the Darklight Film Festival. Open to all. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media Tuesday August 03, 2010 - 17:59 by Darklight
Darklight Free Your Film Movie Making Challenge in association with The Darklight Festival 2010 and Sony Ericsson. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday August 02, 2010 - 18:12 by John Cornford
Another Iranian journalist, Abdolreza Tajik , is imprisoned without charge and is being mistreated. The International Federation of Journalists have issued this statement. Full text and more details at link.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on Iranian authorities to release journalist Abdolreza Tajik who has been in detention for 50 days without being charged. His family claims he has been ill treated in jail.

"The failure to produce evidence that he has broken the law and the fears that he is being abused in jail should be enough to indicate that there is a terrible injustice here," said Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary. "If there is no case to answer he should be freed immediately and all the allegations of ill treatment must be investigated." ... read full story / add a comment
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galway / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 31, 2010 - 15:30 by TD   text 23 comments (last - sunday august 08, 2010 - 18:13)   image 1 image   video 2 video files
Instead of being "cannon fodder for the Russian masses on the German plains," Queen's shilling Irishmen can now engage in imperial conquest in Afghanistan. Happily, they are "not stepping off to Afghanistan with the words of the prime minister ringing in their ears.” Ovinely, “they are going because the guy next to them is going.” ... read full story / add a comment
Bradley Manning
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday July 30, 2010 - 13:10 by pat c   text 12 comments (last - saturday december 04, 2010 - 14:28)   image 1 image
While media attention has bee heaped upon Wiki-Leaks, one person has been largely forgotten: Bradley Manning. Private Bradley Manning has been accused of previously supplying information to Wikileaks and is under suspicion of providing the documents which have been released. Bradley is now held in isolation from the outside world, in military detention in Kuwait. Bradley faces, for his alleged actions, up to 52 years imprisonment. Here are two articles regarding Bradley. Full texts at link ... read full story / add a comment
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