NIPSA to call for members to support anti war protests

by Chris Henry - Socialist Youth Coleraine Tue Mar 18, 2003 00:18 lavosfanfiction at hotmail dot com

Fantastic news. To have NIPSA behind Day X is a massive boost. Hopefully the whole thing will take off as it should do, but I have no doubts that it will be a success.

by Well done branch 8 Tue Mar 18, 2003 10:04

Well done those activists on the ground within their branches for building up the pressure for the Nipsa leadership to now eventually take action. Good work

by aidan - IMC Tue Mar 18, 2003 12:28

And we would have gotten away with it if it wasnt for you pesky kids.

instead of wild conspiracy theories that indymedia ireland is rife with pro israeli sympathisers you could accept our explaination that we are in fact preventing you from posting because you are spamming several indymedias with the same articles.

by Lance Luther - lance@graffiti.net Tue Mar 18, 2003 13:12

No - you are lying. When you deleted the article you deleted - it was posted NO Where Else but on Irish Indymedia.

The only explanation for doing that - is that your indymedia (and several others I find) are indeed rife Pro-Israeli occupation of Palestine reporters. You have this guy 'Avi' constantly repeating his rote by the numbers objection to almost every article that criticizes Israel - but I see that he finds no need to complain of your CENSORSHIP.

Later after you DELETED 5 reposts of my article here -yes I started telling other Indymedias what you did - and showing the article that YOU Deleted.

And I decided to repost parts of that article as comments in Irish Indymedia - every time you erased the comment of it - which you did over 20 times - until you got tired of chasing my comment post of it around on here.

People are getting on to you. I have seen several posts charging this Israeli Bias in Indymedia up and then Deleted.

ITS TIME TO EXPOSE IRISH INDYMEDIA FOR IT'S ISRAEL BIAS AND GET ANOTHER -CITIZEN NEWS MEDIA GOING - FOLKS, SO WE DON'T HAVE TO BE DECEIVED BY THESE LIARS HERE.

AND SO 'AIDAN' - ARE YOU ALSO GOING TO DELETE THIS COMMENT - BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE IT'S CRITICISM OF YOU ???

Yes you do indeed censor here in the support of keeping the criticism of murderous Occupying Israel Reduced so it is not known as too wide spread.

One of the BEST proofs of an Israeli Bias site like Irish Indymedia is the leaving up of relatively OlD news stories in the Center Column for a week - But then Not putting up a News report of an Activist Murder like Rachel Corries in the Front Column - because you don't want the mass of your readers to be too aware of Israel's atrocities.

However 5 other Indymedia sites I have been to have acknowledged the importance of that peace activists Murder - by putting the story of it on their Front Pages. YOu haven't because you are pro-israeli biased.

But I will bet you 'Aidan' that over the next few weeks many people will be discovering that about you.

Every site even the Commercial ones that CENSOR people - all try using the old 'you spammed' charge. But most of us know that that is just the usual Excuse you pull out to justify CENSORSHIP.

YOU are trying to control peoples speech expression on here just as the Commercial news media do. I think that you are an opinion- Containment 5th column for Israel.

by Aidan Tue Mar 18, 2003 14:24

Is you can be accused to be pro zionist and anti semitic in the same week.

For starts by the time your article was posted there where already several articles about rachels death on our newswire. The newswire should contain many different articles not just many different versions of the same story.

Avi is a poster and user on this site, we dont censor him because Avi doesnt breach our editorial guidelines, by crossposting, he has been critized for posting several articles on the same subject at the same time.

By constantly throwing the same article everywhere on the site, you are effectively doing what you accuse us of doing, censorship. All people are seeing is the same article, and same comment over and over again, drowning out other opinions, and stories.

By having the same article on every indymedia it defeats the purpose of local indymedias, local indymedia reporting local news.

Making demands about what we should and shouldnt have on the front page, why dont you join our editorial list and discuss what should and should not be a feature on indymedia ireland.

http://www.indymedia.ie/archives/arch1.html

Will give you an archive of indymedia irelands coverage of Israeli and palestine. Youll see articles about Caoimhe Butterly an irish peace activist wounded working with ISM.

While the story of what happened to Rachel is tragic, it is being covered by several IMCs as you point out yourself. Whats the point of regional IMCs if they all report the same story.

You can scramble around to find evidence for your delusion that IMC ireland is riddled with a pro israeli fifth columists, or you can accept that you are breaching editorial guidelines by posting your article all over the site.

by asdfg Tue Mar 18, 2003 15:46

just say it as it is!