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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday March 23, 2011 17:59 by IPSC Cultural Boycott Officer
Below is an open letter to Bob Geldof regarding the offer he has received of an honorary doctorate from Ben Gurion University in Israel. The IPSC urges Mr. Geldof not to accept this dubious doctorate, for to do so would be aiding in the whitewash of Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people. We would also ask you to send emails to Bob Geldof asking him not to accept this doctorate, at the following mails: info@krugercowne.com, tina@bobgeldof.com, enquiries@bobgeldof.com read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 23, 2011 15:41 by Astrid Essed
By applauding the Western military actions against Libya, the Libyan resistance doesn't rely on their own strength, but will be bound to either a Western occupation, or a far going Western influence, when Gaddafi is defeated read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday March 23, 2011 09:48 by Galway Alliance Against War
The Galway Alliance Against War has issued an open letter posing serious questions to the Labour Party, its party president, Michael D. Higgins and its leader and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore, in relation to their attitude to Ireland facilitating the US war machine in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday March 23, 2011 09:42 by Malachy Steenson
Most damning aspect of tribunal report is thatt nobody is likely to face prosecution read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 23, 2011 09:22 by Francesca Palazzi Arduini
In October 2010, the Irish website Count Me Out, which had until then supplied the forms needed to carry out formal Defection from the Roman Catholic Church, suspended distribution of the forms and its own activity as a result of a statement from the Catholic Church in Ireland regarding the acceptance of defection requests. But was the Archdiocese of Dublin being truthful when it issued its statement? Italian anti-clericalist Francesca Palazzi Arduini examines the changes in which led to the Church's statement and finds that the answer is "NO".. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Tuesday March 22, 2011 23:53 by Declan Cullen
The people of Ireland should consider a Boycott in relation the upcoming Census in April 2011.
The reason I say this is that the company contracted to carry out the Census is CACI UK who
are a subsidiary of CACI international which through its various outsourcing has been accused
of contributing to the torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib in Iraq, something I myself am not happy
about, and it will be one of the reason's why I will not be completing the Census form this time. read full story / add a comment |
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