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international / rights and freedoms / news report Monday March 15, 2010 21:23 by arDaga
At around two oclock in the morning on March 10th a group of unidentified armed people entered the Tupinamb Native American Village Serra do Padeiro in the South of the Brazilian state of Bahia and brutalized, threatened with murder, drugged and abducted the local Chief Babau. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights and freedoms / news report Monday March 15, 2010 17:59 by Kev and Freda H
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WEST BANK, PALESTINE: Bil'in village, the internationally renowned centre of Palestinian non-violent resistance to Israel's Apartheid Wall, was this morning - 15th March 2010 - declared a 'Closed Military Zone' by Israeli Authorities, meaning that access for International and Israeli anti-Wall activists is outlawed for six months. Furthermore, the head of the Popular Committee in Bil'in, Iyad Burnat, received a phone call from the Shin Bet - Israel's 'internal security service' - ordering him to report to Ofer Military Prison for questioning. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / news report Monday March 15, 2010 15:05 by a-films
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Nahr al-Bared refugee camp has still not recovered from the devastating war in 2007 during which it was destroyed. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights and freedoms / news report Saturday March 13, 2010 16:44 by Inaki Irigocien and Diarmuid Breatnach
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Jose Luis Elkoro Unamuno, a political activist for Basque self-determination for most of his life, also elected Mayor of his town, jailed for founding the newspaper Egin, which the Spanish state closed down years ago. Even though a court last year declared the closure to have been illegal, Jose Luis remains in a Spanish jail, far from his family and friends. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Friday March 12, 2010 23:50 by Mairtin Og Meehan
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A letter sent to a number of Belfast Journalists/Newspapers containing serious allegations against myself and two other Belfast Republicans including, Tony (TC) Catney is printed in full below so that fellow Republicans can read for themselves the level of smears against RNU members of late. I'm disgusted and deeply hurt by the letter and challenge anyone to produce any evidence they have! I also publically challenge the Author of the letter to show publically anything of an evidenial nature such as, times, dates, places and moneys paid by the RUC. So I and my two comrades can properly challenge these scurrilious allegations. Until then, I'll make no further comment about these slurs apart from an article being printed in tommorrow's Irish News. read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / press release Friday March 12, 2010 10:34 by Amnesty International - Ireland
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Amnesty International is reiterating its call on the Israeli government to cease constructing or expanding illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) after a plan to build 1,600 new Israeli settler homes in East Jerusalem was officially approved. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Thursday March 11, 2010 17:42 by Drew
The following excerpts are from an interview by the Iranian students newspaper Bazr (issue 45-February 2010) with Shahrzad Mojab. This long interview is on the current political and social situation in Iran. The section excerpted here concerns the woman question and the role of Iranian women in the recent struggle that we are reprinting on the occasion of 8th March, International Womens Day. Shahrzad Mojab is an Iranian women activist and researcher who left Iran in 1983. She is the author of numerous papers and books on Iranian women, Kurdish women, and women in war zones. Mojab is currently a professor at the University of Toronto in Canada. Translation by A WorldTo Win News Service. read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media / press release Thursday March 11, 2010 08:53 by Kris Ameringer
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The deadline for the international children's poetry competition, Kids Express, is coming up on 15 April 2010. Make sure to enter now and join us in July for a fun packed family night of entertainment! read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday March 10, 2010 09:05 by Republican Sinn Fin
The Hillsborough Agreement is no international role model to solve national conflicts, Dieter Blumenfeld, press officer of the Republican Sinn Fin International Relations Bureau said. read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / press release Monday March 08, 2010 12:54 by Amnesty International - Ireland
Amnesty International Ireland has called on the Irish Government to mark International Womens Day by backing a global campaign for a single high-powered UN agency to protect womens rights. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / news report Monday March 08, 2010 12:27 by Raymond Deane
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine finds the European Union guilty of complicity in Israel's crimes against the Palestinian People, calls for the suspension of the EU-Israel Preferential Trade Agreement, and endorses the civil society campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Saturday March 06, 2010 18:26 by Freda Hughes
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The School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London organised a conference on the Left in Palestine through it's Palestine Society from February 27th-28th. As far as I know this is the first conference covering this specific area of the Palestinian question and, thus, it had the potential to open up much needed debate on the subject. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Saturday March 06, 2010 15:54 by john throne
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Taking the movement forward in continued mass direct action confrontation with the capitalist offensive. Defending it against the pressures of its right wing to make it subservient to the union leadership and the Democratic Party. Helping it stand against the pressures of ultra leftism which would cut it off from the support and involvement of the hundreds of thousands and millions it needs to win. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday March 05, 2010 17:07 by john throne
The beginning of a new movement and hopefully a new era. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights and freedoms / press release Friday March 05, 2010 14:10 by Anne
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Press release/for immediate release Internationally renowned Iranian film maker Jafar Panahi arrested by Islamic regime. Hopi demands immediate release of artist critical of the theocratic regime in films such as The Circle (Darareh) and Offside. Arrest could be pre-emptive strike by regime against International Womens Day protests and demos, says Yassamine Mather (Hopi chair) read full story / add a comment
international / workers issues / news report Friday March 05, 2010 11:26 by Eugene Mc Cartan
The severe permanent anti-people measures must not pass! Demonstrations, sit- ins and general strike on Friday March 5th read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / news report Friday March 05, 2010 03:21 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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*On a surrealistic aside Jim Dowling is presently careering down the Pacific Highway in the recycled vegie oil fueled Catholic Worker van full of Dowling kidz - carrying Damien LeGoullon's entry into this year's Archibald Prize (Australian portrait competition). They'll be swinging by the appropriate Sydney gallery before heading to a wedding. See Damien's work attached to this email - the final portrait has a B52 Bomber and runway in the background! Portrait http://thechristianradical.blogspot.com/2010/03/clockin....html read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday March 05, 2010 00:24 by Simon McGuinness
New blog site established to circumvent the absence of news from Haiti in the commercial media. Live from a field hospital in the earthquake zone ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu / press release Wednesday March 03, 2010 13:45 by Michael O'Callaghan
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European MEPs, scientists, and NGOs have accused the European Commission of exceeding its powers in a sinister move to fast-track the approval of more GM crops for cultivation in the EU. The GM-free Ireland Network has written to Irish MEPs requesting the European Parliament to take urgent action to stop the Commission from implementing this undemocratic move before Jos Manuel Barroso signs the new regulations into law. GM-free Ireland co-ordinator Michael OCallaghan said Cultivation of any GM crops on the island of Ireland (such as the antibiotic-resistant industrial-starch-producing GM potato approved yesterday by the Commission) would destroy Irelands untapped economic potential to secure the safest, most credible GM-free food brand in the EU. We cant allow the Commission to take this from us. read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / news report Wednesday March 03, 2010 05:30 by Diarmuid Breatnach
Basque parents seek support from the authorities for their sons and daughters abused and tortured by Spanish police. The mothers and fathers of the 34 young people snatched during the massive Spanish police operation against Basque youth last November have transformed their agony into into energetic campaigning. Although they have no connection to one anohter other than their shared anguish, they have joined their voices, going from door to door of the authorities to tell the story of their hardship. Included in the allegations of Spanish police torture of the 34 youth are those of special sexual humiliation and threats against the 14 young women among them. They ask for only one thing: the protection of the authorities so that no more families have to endure what they did. read full story / add a comment |
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