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The murder trial of an asylum seeker believed to have arrived in the U.K. on a small boat could take twice as long because he does not speak English, a court heard.
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limerick / crime and justice Sunday November 29, 2009 - 19:51 by Tom   text 6 comments (last - sunday december 06, 2009 - 15:46)
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 29, 2009 - 14:56 by Chas D   text 8 comments (last - saturday april 02, 2022 - 00:45)   image 3 images
Initial results in this week’s referendum to ban construction of new minarets in Switzerland suggests a small minority in favour of the prohibition. As in other democracies , the minaret is seen by many Swiss as the power symbol of political Islam and Sharia law.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday November 29, 2009 - 13:08 by TaraWatch   text 7 comments (last - sunday november 29, 2009 - 19:08)   image 1 image
Matt Schwoebel wanted to take statements from protesters objecting to the construction of the M3 motorway through the Hill of Tara.
He is drafting a complaint to the UN Commission on Human Rights about the way the government has handled objections and treated those who made them. But when he arrived at Dublin Airport, officers from the Garda National Immigration Bureau informed him he would not be allowed into the country. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday November 28, 2009 - 23:09 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   image 1 image
Ehsan Fattahian R.I.P.
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday November 28, 2009 - 16:42 by pat c   image 1 image
Saeed Valadbaygi writes about the execution of Ehsan Fattahian and of how other Kurds languish on Iranian death rows. Saeedd makes it clear that the Iranian Theocracy will not be able to kill the revolution: Even if the executions continue, they will not only fail to succeed in keeping the people back, but rather will drive stronger nails into the Islamic Republic’s coffin.
Full text at link.

Ehsan Fattahian, a poltical activist in Kurdistan was executed on Wednesday last week. Shirko Moarefi and Habib-Allah Latifi, two other political activists are in danger of execution now. One woman and 11 more men, also in Kurdistan languish in prison with the burden of a death sentence. These executions are designed to create an atmosphere of terror in society and hold back the people from the streets in an effort to stabilize the system after the electoral coup d’etat. The Islamic Republic that today faces a big challenge by the name of the people’s revolution against their rulers, has no choice but such encounters. This way of suppressing for us who remember as a lesson for the current revolution, the first years of the 1357 (1979) revolution, is very familiar. In those years too, the Islamic Republic went to war with people with the same vast wave of imprisonment and execution of political prisoners in order to take control of social and political conditions in Iran. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday November 28, 2009 - 14:15 by tomeile
Dubai Default
Global markets have plummetted since Wednesday’s announcement by the Dubai government that it would delay the maturity date of $59 billion in bonds issued to its largest state owned company Dubai World.

“Such a default would not only mean an immediate worsening of the already brutal post-crash conditions suffered by millions of workers in defaulting countries, but would usher in a second, and probably worse, phase in the global financial crisis”.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 27, 2009 - 22:44 by Guerilla Blogger 86   text 4 comments (last - monday november 30, 2009 - 17:46)   audio 1 audio file
On the 25th of November 2009 on the Ray D'Arcy Show on Today FM, Ray and his co-hosts said that 'people' should stop playing the "BLAME GAME" in Ireland and just move on. However by the next show the following day (26 Nov '09) a woman by the name of 'Majella' had emailed them with a responce to this topic. I was working at the time, I actually stopped what I was doing and I couldn't believe what I was hearing, it was unreal. I ask you to listen to this 'pod cast' and above all keep an open mind. The link is posted below....

p.s. What you don't get to hear is the "Collector Generals" explanation which isn't much good as a responce to this email... you also don't get to hear the tongue lashing he got from Ray D'Arcy nor will you hear about the Collector Generals update of progress of investigation into this case today. You'll understand all of this after you have listened to the attached link; this will only take 6 minutes of your time, so please listen to it the whole way through!!

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limerick / racism & migration related issues Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 17:47 by Pat
Enda Kenny is being criticised for taking a soft approach to the deportation controversy caused by Mayor of Limerick, Fine Gael Councillor Kevin Kiely. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 16:36 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather reports on action by workers at the Abadan oil refinery in Iran who have not been paid for months. Yassamine also writes about the Coordinating Committee to Form Workers’ Organisations and the Charter of the Fundamental Demands of the Working Class of Iran. Full text at link

The refinery authorities associated with what remains of the state-owned Iran National Oil company say the workers are employed by a contractor and they cannot do anything about their demands. The protest followed a strike by the whole workforce of 450 involved in the development of Bandar Abbas Oil refinery. This was their third walkout in less than three months and the strike is continuing. The Iranian government’s privatisation plans are notoriously corrupt and generally help empower and enrich the Islamic Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards). But in the oil industry it is different from elsewhere. Privatisation has been undertaken with the aim of dividing workers and hampering national negotiations over wages and conditions, in the knowledge that for oil workers deployed in various sectors of the industry, working for so many different contractors, it would be impossible to negotiate common terms and conditions. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 16:35 by Kenny G
Thanks to the SpunOut.ie team, myself and a friend found ourselves with a once in a lifetime opportunity. We had won a competition to see Noam Chomsky speak.

The night to see Chomsky came and we were not sure what to expect, having only Chomsky’s Youtube broadcasts as a rough guide. As soon as he begun speaking though, our imaginations started firing. We listened to a man who spoke about what our hearts had told us, but what the world around us had convinced us not to believe. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media Tuesday November 24, 2009 - 10:42 by Dave Lordan   text 3 comments (last - thursday december 17, 2009 - 17:55)
Seeking to diversify in an era of ever tightening margins in the book trade the esteemed publisher Faber and Faber is moving into the lucrative, and unregulated, area of creative writing classes. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous Monday November 23, 2009 - 18:13 by MediaWatch   image 1 image
LORNA SIGGINS Western Correspondent
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1123/1....html

Mon, Nov 23, 2009

PEACE AND human rights organisation Afri plans to initiate a national “active citizenship” campaign in the new year as it says “traditional sources of authority have proven to be ineffective”. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Sunday November 22, 2009 - 19:58 by Bazooka Joe   text 4 comments (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 - 13:29)
Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents of prominent American and British climate researchers hacked from a computer server at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 20, 2009 - 23:37 by Diet Simon   text 2 comments (last - sunday november 22, 2009 - 11:46)
"In the heart of this first world I found scenes more reminiscent of the third world.."
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday November 20, 2009 - 12:13 by Anne Mc Shane   text 7 comments (last - monday december 14, 2009 - 15:03)
Dave Isaacson criicises leading SWP members who have undermind and sabotaged attempts to forge rank and file organisation in the CWU. Now SWP member Jane Loftus has actually endorsed a sellout deal. Full text at link.

There was one significant omission in Jim Moody’s article on the sell-out of the postal strike by the Communication Workers Union leadership, which allowed CWU president Jane Loftus to come out of it looking rather good, when actually she has been an utter disgrace (‘Militants condemn sell-out’, November 12).

Loftus, a long-standing member of the Socialist Workers Party and therefore supposedly a revolutionary, is also a member of the CWU’s postal executive committee (PEC), which voted unanimously on November 5 to accept the interim agreement and call off the strikes, just as the strength of the postal workers was starting to be realised. This goes completely against the position of Loftus’s organisation. Socialist Worker has rightly stated that “Leaders of the postal workers’ union were wrong to suspend strikes at Royal Mail last week … There was no reason for the union to sign up to the agreement. The proposed escalation of strike action - that would have seen two 24-hour strikes in close succession last week - had widespread support within the union” (November 14). ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / education Thursday November 19, 2009 - 22:01 by Aidan Rowe   text 10 comments (last - saturday november 21, 2009 - 12:53)
The Student's Union of NUI Maynooth has confirmed, via email correspondence, that they will not be encouraging NUIM students to support the strike on Tuesday. The full text of the email correspondence is presented below. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday November 17, 2009 - 10:04 by Eugene Mc Cartan
Brazilian Workers Charge Shell with "Environmental Crimes"

Brazilian WorkersLeft to right: Rasteiro, Cascone, de Lima

(November 12, New York City) -- Brazilian chemical workers addressing a New
York audience of students, academics, and union members said that the Shell
Oil Company, one of the world's largest, had willfully ignored
life-threatening exposures to its workers who handled hazardous chemicals in
South America. ... read full story / add a comment
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international / racism & migration related issues Monday November 16, 2009 - 13:27 by Mover   image 1 image   1 attached file
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday November 15, 2009 - 20:15 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather writes on how workers confidence has increased in the ongoing demonstrations in Iran. While the militias beat many protesters, they were also opposed and in some cases forced to retreat. Full text at link.

No-one in Iran will ever forget November 4 2009. It was the day when illegal demonstrations in at least six separate locations in Tehran and 20 cities and university campuses throughout the country overshadowed the state-organised event. As the national broadcasting service was showing live pictures of the gathering outside the former US embassy, shouts of “Death to the dictator” from protesters on neighbouring streets and squares were so loud that it was difficult to hear the minister’s speech. In Tehran the six locations were Enghelab Square, Ferdowsi, Haft Tir, Enghelab Square, Vali Asr and Vanak Square.
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national / miscellaneous Sunday November 15, 2009 - 18:39 by F. Murphy   text 9 comments (last - wednesday november 18, 2009 - 20:12)   image 1 image
Des Dalton has become leader of Republican Sinn Fein
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