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'We Will Return!' - Remembering the Nakba
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday April 12, 2008 15:52 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin   text 4 comments (last - saturday april 26, 2008 19:13)   image 4 images
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign in Belfast today held a white-line picket to remember the 60th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre. This was one of the many incidents that took place in the lead-up to Al Nakba, the Catastrophe, when the Zionist forces proclaimed the state of Israel and 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes. read full story / add a comment
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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Saturday April 12, 2008 12:22 by CWI   text 3 comments (last - wednesday may 14, 2008 17:29)   image 2 images
The five day hunger strike by three sacked airport shop stewards, Gordon McNeill, Madan Gupta and Chris Bowyer was suspended at 5.30 this afternoon after the workers received a letter from the union solicitors guaranteeing that their demands would be met. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday April 12, 2008 10:05 by Anonymous   text 5 comments (last - sunday april 13, 2008 10:11)   image 1 image
This Saturday the collective known as Anonymous launch "Operation: Reconnect" as a worldwide protest against the Church of Scientology. This initiative is designed to bring together families who have been torn apart and injured by the Church of Scientology's practice of Disconnection. From 11am (local time) onwards, thousands of Anonymous shall take to the streets in a peaceful global protest at over 100 of Church of Scientology centres around the world, including the Mission of Dublin Ltd on 62/63 Middle Abbey Street. read full story / add a comment
SWP member Eamonn McCann
international / arts and media / event notice Saturday April 12, 2008 03:22 by hot to trot   image 1 image
In a new series on BBC Radio 4, Geoffrey Wall looks at the history of the Socialist Workers.

A former member of the SWP, he asks how well the party is surviving in the 21st century.

BBC radio programmes can be listened to for a period after broadcast-
simply go to
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/fromtrotskytorespect/
for a chance to listen to part one, which was broadcast last week.

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national / history and heritage / event notice Friday April 11, 2008 21:18 by IPR Group   text 41 comments (last - monday august 18, 2008 21:09)   image 1 image   2 attached files
Main speaker: Conor Lenihan T.D., Minister for Integration

“…a very fine journalist, an excellent man, but on Northern questions a renegade or white nigger”
Those were the words from a conversation with the British Ambassador to Ireland at a lunch meeting in 1969, which he duly reported without delay to his masters at the British Foreign Office. But who said them and to whom did they refer?

The author lays bare the power structure of the newspaper which insists on transparency and openness for all other institutions in Irish life, but draws a discreet veil over its own activities. The Directors of the Irish Times, along with the Editor, have to swear an Oath of Secrecy before a Commissioner for Oaths each year. This book is essential for understanding one of the most important institutions in Irish life and therefore the dynamics of Irish society itself. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday April 11, 2008 21:04 by Ciarán   text 2 comments (last - saturday april 12, 2008 15:55)   image 1 image
Remembering the 60th anniversary of Deir Yassin and the ongoing suffering of the Palestinian people. read full story / add a comment
Khadijeh Moghaddam
international / gender and sexuality / other press Friday April 11, 2008 18:53 by pat c   text 5 comments (last - monday april 21, 2008 18:19)   image 2 images
Another Womens rights activist has been detained in Iran. Her only crimes was to demand equality of treatment for Women. Full text at the link.

On April 8th, security police forcibly entered the home of Khadijeh Moghaddam, women’s rights activist and member of the One Million Signatures Campaign and arrested her. Khadijeh Moghaddam who is a member of the Mother’s Committee of the Campaign was transferred to Eshrat Abad Security Police, where she was interrogated for several hours She was them brought to court and interrogated by Sobhani an Investigative Judge and charged. Bail was set at 100 Million Tomans (roughly $110,000). Moghaddam was then transferred to Vozara Detention Center.
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dublin / anti-capitalism / feature Friday April 11, 2008 18:23 by bot and emmo   text 15 comments (last - tuesday april 15, 2008 17:19)   image 1 image
Why Anarchafeminism?
A women-only discussion hosted by RAG

RAG, the Revolutionary Anarchafeminist Group is now in its third year. The collective was set up in order to explore our ideas and produce a magazine, the Rag. Meetings are held weekly on Mondays, but the first Monday of every month is an open meeting, in which non-members are invited to a workshop or discussion.

On Monday 7th April, the open meeting was entitled “Why Anarchafeminism?” The purpose of the meeting was to encourage women outside of RAG to question and explore their ideas about feminism and anarchism and to draw links between the two. Also, it gave members of the group a chance to revisit the fundamental aspects of our beliefs. The following is a personal account by two of us of the discussion. It is limited by the quality of our notes and recollections. It does not present a RAG position on anything, but is simply an attempt to share some of the ideas that were touched upon with those who were unable to attend. read full story / add a comment
Don't ignore the Homeless
dublin / housing / feature Friday April 11, 2008 16:36 by Pip, Damo, Ger, Foxey, Jot   text 13 comments (last - friday april 18, 2008 10:34)   image 2 images
The following article was written by an Adult Education discussion and research group based in the north inner city. It was a collective effort by Ger, John, Pip, Jonathan Wheelock and Damian. For us it is important to discuss homelessness because it is not just something that we pass by on the streets guiltily ignoring people or handing out a few pence depending on our humour. It is definitely not something we just read about in reports or newspapers- it is a problem that we have or could experience in the future. Everyone in the media talks about the Celtic Tiger but we don’t see it in our areas and we see more people on the streets rather than less and we want to know why.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday April 11, 2008 16:27 by Andrew   text 1 comment (last - friday april 11, 2008 17:08)   image 5 images   audio 1 audio file
An interview with James Schmidt of the Civic Media Center infoshop in Gainsville, central Florida. Interview covers student town, recession, CMC origins, IWW, homelessness, organic farms and farmwork and the elections read full story / add a comment
Usk 'Superdump' protest , An Bord Pleanála Offices, Dublin , Friday April 11 , 2008.
kildare / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday April 11, 2008 16:04 by Sharon.   text 34 comments (last - wednesday july 22, 2009 12:34)   image 4 images
"RESIDENTS of the Usk area, just outside Kilcullen, are continuing their campaign against the siting of a so-called superdump in their area. The proposal by Greenstar was originally turned down by Kildare Co Council because it contravened the county plan but, following an An Bord Plean·la hearing, the board over-turned that decision and gave permission for the landfill project to go ahead. This was despite the fact that, after a hearing lasting four and a half days, the An Bord Pleanála inspector actually recommended against the siting of the dump at Usk...."
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Mahmoud Salehi
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday April 10, 2008 18:08 by Drew   image 1 image
The following is a statement by the Communist Party of Iran (MLM). It was written before Mahmoud was released. The statement is not available elsewhere online in English. It is preceded by a commentary from A World to Win News Service.
Drew WPRM
http://www.wprm.org/

At a time when the US is threatening to attack Iran and is posing as the “liberator” of the Iranian people, Mahmood took a clear position against both U.S. imperialist war and the IRI and has refused to call for “national reconciliation” with the Islamic regime.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday April 10, 2008 14:50 by Sumoud   text 16 comments (last - wednesday april 16, 2008 12:29)   image 22 images
Over on a short stay in London, an activist from the Ireland based, Free Palestine Campaign organized and participated in pickets of Lev Leviev's diamond boutique in 31Old Bond Street and Carmel Agrexco's depot in Swallowfield Way, Hayes, Middlesex, participated in the British Muslim Initiative/Palestine Solidarity Campaign's picket at Downing Street, PSC's Windsor Castle demo and found common purpose, solidarity and activism with the Free Tibet Campaign.
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Augusto in Full flight at the Abbey
national / arts and media / news report Thursday April 10, 2008 12:13 by Paula G   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 10, 2008 13:36)   image 2 images
"Boal’s teachings were controversial, and he was labeled a cultural activist, which the 1960s Brazilian military saw as a threat. In 1971, Boal was arrested, tortured, and eventually exiled to Argentina, where he published his first book "Theatre of the Oppressed" in 1973, later fleeing to Europe."

Augusto spoke about his life and work and his experience of torture. Link to podcast available at link. read full story / add a comment
Gordon McNeill taken to Belfast City Hospital
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday April 10, 2008 08:03 by sp   text 35 comments (last - thursday april 17, 2008 10:49)   image 3 images
Hunger Strike Update- Gordon McNeill Taken to City Hospital

Hunger striker Gordon McNeill has been rushed to City Hospital for treatment. An ambulance was called to the scene at Transport House due to a deterioration in his condition. Gordon is on his fourth day without food and his second day without water. Also on hunger strike are Madan Gupta and Chris Bowyer. The former airport shop stewards have taken the action to demand talks with the leadership of Unite/TGWU, who have refused to meet with the workers.



For more information, contact Chris Bowyer on 07764850945, Madan Gupta on 07810290938 or Gary Mulcahy on 07743282321.
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Bobby Sands : 1954 -1981.
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday April 09, 2008 22:53 by Sharon .   text 2 comments (last - saturday may 03, 2008 12:15)   image 1 image
Those attending this commemoration are asked to assemble at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin at 2pm on Saturday May 10 , 2008. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday April 09, 2008 18:37 by pat c   text 7 comments (last - friday april 11, 2008 18:30)   image 1 image
Here is a statement from the Iraq Freedom Congress on the fifth anniversary of the imperialist occupation of Iraq. The IFC wants to expel the US and its allied forces and dissolve all political, economic, military and paramilitary institutions set up by the US. It also wants to dissolve and disarm all armed and paramilitary groups linked to Islamic forces and lawless groups and confiscate all their weapons, resources and funds. The IFC stands for a Secular Democratic Iraq.

The 9th of April marks the fifth anniversary of the occupation. It is the anniversary of the genocide in which more than one million lives were lost and 4 million others were made homeless inside and ouside of Iraq. It is the anniversary of the destruction of everything that relates to humanity.

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dublin / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday April 09, 2008 16:51 by Anti-nazi   text 32 comments (last - wednesday march 07, 2012 16:34)   image 1 image
Youth Defence are organising a film showing of 'Bella' in UCD's arts block on Thursday 10th of April in Theatre P at 6pm read full story / add a comment
Ludu Daw Amar RIP
international / arts and media / other press Wednesday April 09, 2008 14:24 by Obit   text 1 comment (last - wednesday april 09, 2008 14:33)   image 2 images
Ludu Daw Amar has died .

Her name means 'Of the people', she was a publisher who published a pro-independence
Political Journal entitled the Ludu Daily news in the 1940s.

The journal was suppressed eventually by government censors, but she continued to criticise
the Burma/Myanmar Junta until near her death. Aung San Suu Kyi had flowers laid
at her graveside- in Memoriam.

Ludo published on Women's Issues and culture.

The Ludu Press became an ethical symbol for the people of Burma/Myanmar.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday April 09, 2008 13:08 by tomeile   text 24 comments (last - tuesday may 13, 2008 15:58)   image 2 images
"Amid a massive five-day civil defence drill, a senior Israeli cabinet minister has provocatively threatened Iran with complete destruction in retaliation for any attack. The chilling threat was made amid rising tensions with Syria and continuing hints of a preemptive Israeli military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities."
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