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offsite link Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters

offsite link Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'

Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home

offsite link British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.

Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.

Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,

offsite link It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.

offsite link [Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.

The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

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offsite link Sex Sells. It Always Has. And the Ad Industry Has Finally Remembered That Sat Aug 02, 2025 19:18 | Lee Taylor
Sex sells, says Lee Taylor, and that is something many brands, caught up in the joyless theatre of modern virtue-signalling, could well stand to relearn.
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offsite link Migrant Hotel Residents Film and Laugh as Protesters Clash in Islington Sat Aug 02, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
Nine people have been arrested after protests in Islington turned ugly over a hotel housing asylum seekers, with migrants seen laughing and filming from the windows.
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offsite link Record Number of Over-60s Referred to Prevent Amid Explosion in ?Extreme Right Wing? Views, eg Likin... Sat Aug 02, 2025 15:00 | Toby Young
The over-60s are being referred to Prevent in record numbers for their susceptibility to ?extreme Right-wing? ideology, with red flags including liking the Dambusters and owning the complete works of Shakespeare.
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offsite link GB News is Now Britain?s No1 News Channel Sat Aug 02, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Just four years after launch, the People's Channel has toppled the BBC to become Britain's most-watched news channel, beating both the Beeb and Sky in key July slots.
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offsite link Red Cross Pays For Dependents of Asylum Seekers to Relocate to Britain Sat Aug 02, 2025 11:00 | Toby Young
The Red Cross is paying for the families of hundreds of migrants granted asylum to relocate to Britain. Confronted about this by the Telegraph, Yvette Cooper blamed the Tories. Shock!
The post Red Cross Pays For Dependents of Asylum Seekers to Relocate to Britain appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Launch of Progressive Film Club by Adrian Dunbar

category national | arts and media | news report author Monday February 25, 2008 12:36author by Progressive Film Club - Progressive Film Clubauthor email info at progressivefilmclub dot ie Report this post to the editors

The Progressive Film Club is a voluntary organisation that has been established to show progressive films—in the broadest sense of that term—from all over the world. Struggles for people’s rights, for the rights of workers, of immigrants, of women, for national liberation and for social justice are some of the themes of the outstanding films we have shortlisted, most of them never shown before in Ireland. Showings are on Sunday evenings at the New Theatre in East Essex Street. Booking through Connolly Books—or come early to avoid disappointment.

The Progressive Film Club is a voluntary organisation that has been established to show progressive films—in the broadest sense of that term—from all over the world. Struggles for people’s rights, for the rights of workers, of immigrants, of women, for national liberation and for social justice are some of the themes of the outstanding films we have shortlisted, most of them never shown before in Ireland. Showings are on Sunday evenings at the New Theatre in East Essex Street. Booking through Connolly Books—or come early to avoid disappointment.

Because some of our films are obtained through distributors, the programme is subject to change. Visit our web site (www.progressivefilmclub.ie) to make sure you have the latest information.

Sunday 2 March 2008, 7 p.m. official launch followed by screening of 'Sisters-in-Law'

The Progressive Film Club will be officially launched on Sunday, March 2nd 2008 at 7:00pm by Adrian Dunbar. Along with a prolific career in theatre, Dunbar has appeared in such notable films as Hear My Song (which he co-wrote), My Left Foot, The Crying Game, and The General. He has also had leading roles in the films Triggermen, Shooters, How Harry Became A Tree, Richard III, and Widows' Peak. At present he is directing Connolly, a movie about 1916 leader & Irish labour union organiser James Connolly.

Sisters in Law (2005)

Directed by Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi. A fascinating and sometimes hilarious documentary that follows the work of a state prosecutor, Vera Ngassa, and court president, Beatrice Ntuba, as they help women in Cameroon fight difficult cases of marital abuse, despite pressure from families and the community to remain silent. In Cameroon English, with English subtitles.

Sunday 9 March 2008, 7:30 p.m.
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed (2004)

Written and directed by Serge Le Péron. A dramatised account of a notorious political scandal. The Moroccan intellectual and national liberation leader Mehdi Ben Barka disappeared in 1965 after being picked up by the French police in Paris. The official account was that nothing was known about the incident; but the involvement of the criminal world together with the French police tells a different story. In French with English subtitles.

Sunday 16 March 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Fast Food Nation (2006)

Written and directed by Richard Linklater. A drama loosely based on the book by Eric Schlosser. A researcher goes to the slaughterhouse that supplies the meat for America’s best-selling hamburgers. There he discovers that the industrial production of food involves not only contamination but the exploitation of illegal immigrants as well as other abuses.

Sunday 15 June 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Days of Glory (2006)

Directed by Rachid Bouchareb. A drama about the plight of North African soldiers who fought for France in the Second World War. It follows a company of Algerian soldiers who fight against fascist Germany in Morocco and Italy and then in France, where their sacrifices for the “Motherland” are rewarded with discrimination. In French, with English subtitles.

Sunday 29 June 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Venezuela Bolivariana:
People and Struggle of the Fourth World War (2004)

Directed by Marcelo Andrade Arreaza. Venezuela Bolivariana looks at the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela as part of the worldwide movement against globalisation. It shows the evolution of the popular movement from the “Caracazo” demonstrations of 1989 to the massive actions that brought the revolutionary president, Hugo Chávez, back to power forty-eight hours after a US-led coup in 2002. The film ends with an epilogue that shows how the Venezuelan people are not only fighting against the oligarchy and imperialism but are exercising people’s power in the “revolution within the Revolution.” In Spanish, with English subtitles.

Sunday 6 July 2008, 7:30 p.m.
West Beyrouth (1998)

Directed by Ziad Doueiri. In April 1975 civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Muslim-Christian line. Tarek is in secondary school, making super-8 films with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from West to East is a game . . . As Tarek comes of age, the war moves inexorably from adventure to tragedy. In Arabic and French, with English subtitles.

Sunday 13 July 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Water (2005)

Directed by Deepa Mehta. A compelling film that explores the role of women in traditional Indian society. It is set in the 1930s, when Hindu widows were often condemned to live in an ashram or “widows’ house,” where they led a life of little comfort and little hope. But some rebelled, including eight-year-old Chuyia, who becomes a widow after the death of her elderly husband.

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author by Celia Spublication date Mon Feb 25, 2008 15:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Wow. Looking forward to one or two of these movies. There is definitely a need for some enjoyable 'cultural' spaces and initiatives on the left.

Congratulations on this venture. Looking forward to it very much.

CS

author by Ben Barkapublication date Tue Mar 04, 2008 15:57author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I saw the 'sister-in'Law' film on sunday. I was very impressed with this choice of film, showing as it does that women can indeed be strong and act in defense of what is right, even in very patriarchical societies

Looking forward to the next one

author by apublication date Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:43author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Yes at last a venue in Dublin showing some good political films this kind of club is long over due! I saw "Sisters in Law" last week it was great to see a film like this on women in Africa. They are showing "I saw Ben Barka get killed " a film about the Moroccan intellectual and national liberation leader Ben Barka this Sunday March 9th. The club is an not for profit club all the more reason to support this type of event !

 
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