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A shot at bias in the media

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Dehumanizing Internment
international / rights and freedoms / news report Monday October 29, 2012 16:36 by BrianClarkeNUJ   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 31, 2012 19:11)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
As a result of her internment of 18 months, more than a year in isolation, SD torture and 6 months of force feeding, Marian Price is now suffering from both physically and psychologically. After further deterioration in recent moths, Marianis currently in the City Hospital Belfast. She suffers from a number of psychological conditions as well several physical ailments including severe arthritis, a suppressed immune system and repeated infections.Now to compound this she has fluid in one lung.So Let your voice be heard in Dublin Nov 3rd. Assembly @ Garden of Remembrance, 2.00 pm and march to the iconic steps of the GPO !
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international / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 23, 2012 22:57 by Maryam Namazie   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 24, 2012 00:05)   video 1 video file
Someone always has some statistics about the West’s failings whenever I speak of Iran or Islam or sharia and wants to know what I’m doing about it…

Next time I meet someone protesting against the welfare cuts in Britain, I’ll be sure to ask what s/he is doing about the Iranian regime’s cut in subsidies or the brutal economic sanctions!?

And this happens to me all the time and it’s usually from people who do – well – nothing. read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / news report Tuesday October 23, 2012 22:42 by Consuelo
The Ross article includes a review of companies in the business of medical writing, including Scientific Therapeutics of New York. Ross’s research uncovered one of their memos to Merck dated 1999 in which the status of eight separate reports was mentioned. read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / press release Tuesday October 23, 2012 20:42 by littleink
73 people detained at Immigration Detentions Centres in Bialystok, Biala Podlaska, Przemysl and Leszowola decided on beginning a hunger strike together. It is not the first protest of detained refugees, but for the first time information about a strike reaches the public. In the past, strikers had been put in isolation and punished in various ways, while the public knew nothing about it.
Detainees’ demands include: right to information in a language they comprehend, right to contact the outside world, right to proper healthcare, education for underage detainees, respect for children’s rights, improvement in social conditions within detention centres, end to abuse and to excessive violence, end to criminalizing detainees.

Refugees decided to strike together, in all Polish Detention Centres, wishing that their voice will not be ignored nor quenched by the centres’ authorities. read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / press release Friday October 19, 2012 11:36 by Elric
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

19 October 2012
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America

Solidarity with Grand Jury Resisters

The Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America stand in
solidarity with three anarchist activists who have been incarcerated
in a United States federal detention center in SeaTac, Washington for
refusing to provide testimony about fellow activists before a federal
grand jury. read full story / add a comment
Irish Parliamentary Group Visit to Marian Price
international / rights and freedoms / news report Thursday October 18, 2012 11:21 by BrianClarkeNUJ   text 4 comments (last - monday october 29, 2012 06:03)   image 3 images   video 3 video files
Irish Foreign Affairs Minister to Accept Parliamentary Report of Group Visit to Marian Price

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Figure 1. Pros and Cons for many email providers to a few dominat global providers
national / rights and freedoms / news report Tuesday October 16, 2012 20:15 by T   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 18, 2012 10:29)   image 1 image
With the closure of Ireland.com free email service, considering the alternatives automatically raises the questions of how safe is our email, who is reading it, what power does it give to those hosting it and when it comes to comes to the likes of gmail with over 400 million accounts, do we have any privacy left and is Big Brother already well and truly established. read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights and freedoms / news report Tuesday October 16, 2012 12:41 by Anonymous   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 16, 2012 23:12)   image 1 image
Occupy Galway anniversary assembly disrupted by Gardai: Yesterday marked the 1st anniversary of the establishment of the Occupy movement in Galway. Between the Lisbrook house refugee eviction protest, the hearing of a spurious courtcase against two occupiers for "chalking", a subsequent spontaneous "chalking" reunion in the square and some heavy handed police action, it was not uneventful! ;-) read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Friday October 12, 2012 13:07 by Sudhama Ranganathan
So much good happens by way of the tax dollars the people of my home country, America, pay. We pay for emergency services that can keep us and our love ones safe, secure and healthy. We pay for our military which is there to protect the nation and guard against attack, invasion and military aggression against our nation and they also help out in emergency situations. We have social safety nets set up that ensure people still have the ability to get on their feet when and if they fall. read full story / add a comment
national / rights and freedoms / press release Thursday October 11, 2012 21:59 by John and Mary   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 17, 2012 12:19)
Rally for Choice, Choice Ireland and UCD Pro Choice Society welcome the opening of a Marie Stopes Clinic in Belfast which will give women in Ireland a clear route for accessing legal abortion in the region for the first time. read full story / add a comment
Cutting Commoners Down to Size
international / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 09, 2012 07:46 by BrianClarke   image 1 image
The British Vice Royal in British Occupied Ireland, Theresa Villiers, while on a visit to Dublin, at the start of October, asked, about the internment without trial of republican Marian Price interned in May 2011, by her predecessor Owen Paterson, claiming to revoke a non-existent licence, on which she had been supposedly released in 1980, stated. “A number of people have raised this with me, so I know it’s a sensitive issue, I know there is concern about it, but the reality is that this is not a decision for me, this is a decision for the Parole Commissioners and they are conducting their review at the moment. If I were to seek to intervene politically in what is a legal process I think that would be wholly inappropriate.” read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / press release Tuesday October 02, 2012 19:28 by Anthony Ravlich
Recent riots in Bangladesh between Muslims and Buddhists. Argues that Muslim anger is best directed towards supporting an ethical approach to human rights, development and globalization for World Peace - it would replace neoliberalism whose many human rights omissions are seen as the underlying cause of much conflict more so than any religious differences. read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Sunday September 30, 2012 00:33 by Luke Eastwood   text 2 comments (last - sunday october 07, 2012 06:54)
Bringing real change can only come through a non-violent opposition to oppression read full story / add a comment
national / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Friday September 28, 2012 20:01 by Sonya Oldham   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 06, 2012 10:11)
It is a child's right to grow up safely and to reach their own potential. Unfortunately this does not always happen, so will this constitutional change provide the impetus and the framework to allow the betterment of children's circumstances? read full story / add a comment
Section of the march at the beginning, Frederick St. and Parnell Square.
dublin / rights and freedoms / press release Wednesday September 26, 2012 18:57 by Diarmuid Breatnach   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 13, 2012 05:52)   image 3 images
Around a thousand marched on Saturday in Dublin on the 16th to demand the freeing of Marian Price, currently 18 months in in solitary confinement in British custody in the Six Counties. Tensions were high due to the recent Gardaí raids on republicans in parts of Dublin and Louth, including the arrests of the mother and two brother of a republican. In addition a heavy Garda presence at the start of the march, along with their taking names and addressses of some marchers, boded ill for the event. However, it passed peacefully.

The marchers, led by the banner of the Dublin Free Marian Price Commitee, started from the Garden of Remembrance and as the lead banner and the Pride of Erin flute band from Portadown stepped on to O’Connell Bridge, the end of the march was just setting foot on to the far end of O’Connell Street.
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cork / rights and freedoms / press release Wednesday September 26, 2012 01:00 by Prisoner Solidarity Group
Selective Internment, torture, political policing.... read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 25, 2012 02:27 by Nathan Gilbert Quimpo
On September 21, forty years ago, President Ferdinand E. Marcos declared martial law. For almost 13-and-a-half years afterwards, the country suffered terribly from a brutal and corrupt dictatorship. Among the victims of the grave violations of human rights under martial law were the following: 3,257 “salvaged” (summarily executed), 35,000 tortured, and 70,000 incarcerated, as documented by historian Alfred McCoy. read full story / add a comment
The Martyrdom of Marian Price
international / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Saturday September 22, 2012 03:40 by BrianClarke   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 22, 2012 04:04)   image 1 image   video 2 video files
In May 2011, Marian Price was arrested after she held up a piece of paper on a windy day, at a traditional Easter commemoration from which a masked man read. She was taken to Maghaberry high security prison an all-male prison and was placed in solitary confinement, where Marian was accused of, ‘encouraging support for an illegal organisation’. Marian has now been in prison for 16 months, during which time neither her lawyers, or Marian have been allowed to see any of Britains ‘alleged’ evidence. Having been previously force fed 400 times by the British in an English prison and in considerable, ill health, distress with extreme pain as a result, she was taken ; read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights and freedoms / news report Tuesday September 18, 2012 17:48 by mary   text 13 comments (last - thursday september 27, 2012 15:19)   image 10 images
Last night Enda Kenny met with Mary Robinson for an evening soiree in Ballina Arts Centre to launch her new book. The title of her memoir, ‘Everybody Matters’ was a ironic reminder of the silence maintained by Robinson on the human rights abuses associated with Shell’s Corrib Gas project. Since 2002 Shell have been operating less than 35 miles away from her home in Ballina and over that time human rights concerns have been documented by international human rights organisations including Frontline Defenders (“Breakdown of Trust: a Report on the Corrib Gas Dispute http://ww.frontlinedefenders.org/files/en/corrib_gas_re...t.pdf). read full story / add a comment
international / rights and freedoms / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 18, 2012 11:31 by Anthony Ravlich
Expresses the opinion that the choice between neoliberalism and an ethical approach to human rights, development and globalization is a choice between war and peace. And also a concern at the effects of neoliberalism on the rebuilding of Christchurch following massive earthquakes. Considers New Zealand should pursue an independent path from the IMF and its neoliberal economic policies.
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