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national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday May 04, 2006 19:39 by Starstruck
Marlay Park,Rathfarnham-Sturday 6th May from 2pm on! read full story / add a comment
tyrone / miscellaneous / other press Thursday May 04, 2006 19:36 by Ógra B
In an unheard unity of opinion the UUP, SDLP and Sinn Féin sang from the same hymn sheet at a debate by their youth wings in Omagh. The only thing, however, they agreed upon was that the Socialist Youth – which had branded them as sectarian parties – was talking rubbish. The debate took place at the training room of Omagh District Council on Tuesday Night and a panel of some 11 members drawn from the UUP, Ógra Shinn Féin, SDLP and Socialist Youth debated various issues. The DUP declined to send a team. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / event notice Thursday May 04, 2006 17:07 by Rick Lines, Executive Director
The IPRT is pleased to announce our guest for the 2006 Annual Lecture will be the acclaimed criminolgist and prisoners' rights advocate Thomas Mathiesen, who will speak on the topic "10 reasons for not building more prisons"
note from IPRT CANCELLED Due to the sudden illness of Prof, Mathiesen, the 2006 IPRT Annual Lecture scheduled for 25 May has been cancelled. We will seek to reschedule the event later in the year. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday May 04, 2006 15:01 by Madam K
Freedom of speech in Dublin. Fighting the poster ban ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Thursday May 04, 2006 14:35 by iosaf mac diarmada
Reporters without Borders published their annual report on the freedom of the press and internet yesterday to co-incide with the United Nation's World Press freedom day. It is important for readers and contributors alike to remember that the idea of "journalism" can not really trace a history longer than Mayday and the struggle for workers' rights, or indeed the emancipation of American slaves, or the long ardous and brave road to full suffrage. The first journalists, did just what the word implies - they contributed as writers to small circulation journals, and often went without collecting their stipends, and thus decided to form the first "unions". There appeared to be no special qualifications other than literacy. Today we send children to universities to study * how to spell. * how to ask the questions "what? when? where? why?" and then of course how to manipulate it all. an Anglo-saxon model of the "reporter" has taken global hold, and the founders of the "industry" such as Hersch raised to the pedastal. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday May 04, 2006 12:30 by Miriam Cotton
It would be hard to beat the condescension of Irish Times editorials most days, but they really excelled themselves yesterday - and on the subject of press freedom, what's more. BTW, we are all now 'citizen journalists' here on Indymedia. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / opinion/analysis Thursday May 04, 2006 09:33 by Timmy Nolan
Foxhunting is just as cruel as many outlawed forms of entertainment which involve violence against animals. Fox hunters profess to be doing the agricultural sector a favour by hunting and killing foxes. The reality is that foxes are beneficial to crop farmers as they hunt and kill rodents such as field-mice and rabbits to survive. These “pests” are very often responsible for the destruction of crops. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / feature Thursday May 04, 2006 04:13 by Elaine
'Comely maidens dancing at the crossroads' was what started it. DeValera's dismissive comment regarding women's roles in his vision of a new Ireland. Misquoted, of course, the actual word he used was 'happy'. So there we were, a bunch of women activists with nothing to do on Mayday (No RTS, aaaahhh) but be happy. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Wednesday May 03, 2006 16:51 by iosaf .:. ipsiphi
Bolivia has nationalised her fuel resources. I'll bring you through it simply :- * Last June Bolivia entered popular rebellion and verged on civil war. * Morales emerged as popular leader of the Left & said if elected he would nationalise Fuel resources. * He got elected. and sworn in 22/1/2006 * His thinking man Garcia Linera went about figuring out how that would happen. * the oil companies (Repsol - Spain) said they'd sue if their investments were "misappropriated". * Morales met Zapatero and promised he'd go about it easily in a staged way. * Garcia Linera said it wouldn't be a surprise. * May 1, 2006 morales put on his presidential sash and announced a presidential decree. * May 2, 2006 the Bolivian army accompanied by Police in riot gear turned up at the installations kicked every inside out, and put up banners "nationalised for the Bolivian people". read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday May 03, 2006 16:29 by redjade
'...actually handing over to Muqtada al-Sadr, whose bloc controls the provincial government...' read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Wednesday May 03, 2006 14:43 by iosaf mac diarmada
3 little mafia news items not really getting attention in the Irish Commercial Press to put everything in perspective for you as to the quality and depth of our "liberal democratic system" this May 3rd which as we all know is "World Press Freedom Day". Which the UN wants us to use to correlate media freedom and the eradication of poverty, as you may obviously see from this mornings commercial newspapers. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday May 03, 2006 14:10 by Shell to Sea
The Irish government's report on how the Rossport pipeline scheme is completely safe is due today. A casual observer might ask when the report finally sees the light of day: If there are genuine questions about the safety of the high-pressure scheme as Shell proposed to build it last year, then weren't the Rossport Five justified to protest against it? So will the government be making a formal apology to the five men, and compensating them for their imprisonment? Will Shell be censured for their conduct? Of course not. This report will come out, say the pipeline was safe as proposed, but with a few cosmetic changes it will be even safer (the gas will still be raw, untreated, odourless, and high pressure). The economics will still be the same (Nigeria gets a better deal from Shell on their natural resources). So the Irish people will still get nothing for letting a multi-national destroy a community. Let's hope Noel Dempsey realises that the pipeline will never be built, so the time to get out is BEFORE the election. http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0503/corrib.html read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday May 03, 2006 13:46 by Union of Students in Ireland
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has welcomed the publication of a new study revealing the number of gays and lesbians who have chosen to marry in countries that uphold marriage equality. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Wednesday May 03, 2006 05:14 by Seán Ryan
Four opinions on the Dublin ban on posting public notices. The fourth is a statement explaining tomorrow's (Thursday) picket outside the Mansion House between 11am and 12pm. read full story / add a comment
down / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday May 03, 2006 00:17 by Int Brigade supporter
The Linen Hall Library in Belfast is holding a public lecture on Thursday, May 4th, 7.30pm. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday May 02, 2006 18:55 by IPAI
BAHAR KIMYONGÜR WAS ARRESTED IN HOLLAND Bahar Kimyongür, spokesman of the DHKC Information Bureau in Brussels and one of the defendants in the “DHKC-trial” in Belgian Brugge, was arrested in Holland in the night from 27th to 28th of April, after the Dutch police stopped him in a car together with another person, approximately 40 kilometres from Amsterdam. From there he was brought to the detention center at the Schipool Airport, under the pretext of an international arrest warrant. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday May 02, 2006 17:43 by john throne
Over 2 million marched in the US over the past four days. This is a great step forward. I try to discuss here some issues this movement faces. Especially the issues of leadership and program. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday May 02, 2006 16:43 by Paula Geraghty
Some images outside the US embassy on May Day 2006 read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / other press Tuesday May 02, 2006 16:05 by Pushkin
Here is a story about Gareth Jones who exposed a famine in Stalins Soviet Union which killed up to 10 million people. It was a manmade famine caused by Stalins insane purging of the Kulaks and the creation of agricultural "plans" which had set dates for planting and harvesting regardless of local conditions or the state of the crops. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday May 02, 2006 12:53 by Paula Geraghty
Some images from this years SARI event, held in Crumlin villages. Alas, all the food was gone by the time I had gotten there. The Scouts had burgers but no buns! read full story / add a comment |
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