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international / environment / news report Thursday August 28, 2003 02:52 by ollie
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Yes its true, a class class action against Monsanto, mutanto, morbanto, call them what you will, has resulted in that company having to cough up for PCB poisoning in Alabama. There is no real compensation for what these people went through - in a world where people get jailed for not paying a tv licience while the MD's of these MNC's swan around in multi-billionaire Forbes 500 land! However, the good news is that the money (most of it payable within 7 days! Yes!) will be used for comprehensive clean ups, as well as providing for 20,000 people's medical bills and cash payments. Most of these are 'low income african americans who have developed negative lifelong health impacts from the toxic pollutants. Monsanto's PCBs have caused everything from severe brain damage to cancer and death' according to organic bytes, the weekly mail out service of the organic consumers association. (USA) Read more: http://www.organicconsumers.org/Toxic/monsanto_pcbs.cfm read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday August 28, 2003 01:06 by FF INSIDER
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FF HQ have suspended the www.ogra.ie discussion board in the wake of the publication of the below story in this weeks Phoenix Magazine. Further: An emergency meeting of the NYC has been called for Friday 29/08. FFINSIDER will publish all his dirty information on THIS site if his demands are not met by Cathal Lee, Aidan O'Gorman, John McGuirk and Tom Malone. read full story / add a comment
derry / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday August 28, 2003 00:17 by Davina James-Hanman
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Foyle Women’s Aid today have issued an urgent appeal for support and help for a young Derry mother who is to be returned to the US against her will with her two children under duress from her abusive ex partner within the next few days. This young woman Cara Gunn fled the US last year after suffering years of abuse from her husband. However as soon as Cara left the US for Northern Ireland, her ex husband then enacted the Hague Convention against her saying that she had abducted his child, the younger of her two children. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 27, 2003 20:00 by E.G.
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Tommy Sheridan, the firebrand leader of the Scottish Socialist party, was sent to jail for seven days yesterday after he refused to pay a fine imposed for his role in an anti-Trident demonstration. At a court appearance which lasted less than a minute but attracted a full press gallery, Sheridan told the magistrate, Robert Hamilton, that he had no intention of paying a £200 fine imposed for breach of the peace last year. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday August 27, 2003 19:06 by Aoife
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Report on life in Occupied Iraq compiled from various sources and details of upcoming anti-war events. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday August 27, 2003 19:05 by dekarnys
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27 August 2003 17:20 Confirmed! Anti-electronic warfare activist - George Farquar has been committed to a mental ward in the Royal Endinburgh Hospital! read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / press release Wednesday August 27, 2003 16:51 by Connolly
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Cllr. Connolly voices her objections to the proposed bye-laws in advance of tonight's Public Meeting at Menlo Park read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / news report Wednesday August 27, 2003 16:24 by Bin the Bill
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postering organised for tonight read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Wednesday August 27, 2003 14:30 by Caoimhín
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An award winning documentary about the pollution of the river Ganges in India. [English subtitles on screen] read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday August 27, 2003 13:27 by Pitstop Ploughshares
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Dublin Benefit Gig for the Pitstop Ploughshares Five read full story / add a comment
tyrone / sci-tech / news report Wednesday August 27, 2003 00:38 by Nesta
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Vaccination assault on the human species, reveals that childhood immunisation doesn't work, with already immunised babies/children still contracting childhood diseases. Far from stamping out disease, injecting very young babies with live virus germs, in order to incur an immune recognition response, directly into their bloodstream, bypassing our normal human body's immune system, actually damages a babies immune system, sometimes irrepairably. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Tuesday August 26, 2003 19:11 by iosaf
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In today's european edition of the English "Guardian" newspaper the headlines suggest that THORP will be closed at a cost of 30,000,000,000stg by 2010. read full story / add a comment
dublin / public consultation / irish social forum / news report Tuesday August 26, 2003 16:16 by Tiocfaidh Armani
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Leafleting in support of Republican POW's, despite Special Branch harassment. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday August 26, 2003 11:26 by James McKenna
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At a meeting in Sardinia, the German and Italian interior ministers arranged the new European border controls to be run by Germany, Italy and Spainish police. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday August 26, 2003 09:42 by Kyaw S Win
Burma, as usual, remains the abusive, sexist and closed-minded in gentle Southeast Asia which is rapidly taken-over by soul-lost and messed up China. The cruel Military Intelligence chief is now Burma's new Prime Minister. We must fight the evil forces and free Aung San Suu Kyi and NLD leaders. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 26, 2003 01:01 by Brian
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Vigils for the Nuclear Whistle Blower and Prisoner of Conscience read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday August 26, 2003 00:13 by geek
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A weekend for environmental / animal rights / peace / social justice campaigners to get to know GNU/Linux read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / press release Monday August 25, 2003 13:40 by Dan Buckley
49 comments (last - friday august 29, 2003 23:50)
THE MOVEMENT AGAINST WAR FROM VIETNAM TO IRAQ WITH JONATHAN NEALE, AUTHOR OF THE AMERICAN WAR: VIETNAM 1960-75 7.30pm Queens Common Room 1 College Gardens, Belfast For more info email grbelfast@yahoo.co.uk read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday August 25, 2003 11:19 by Rapper Tandy
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The Plough Number 2 - 22 August 2003 E-mail newsletter of the Irish Republican Socialist Party http://www.irsm.org/irsm.html CONTENTS +INTERNATIONAL ISSUES +MAGHERA MEMORIAL CONTROVERSY +SUNDAY WORLD-SUNDAY LIAR +STATEMENT ON THE 5TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INLA CEASE-FIRE BY THE LEADERSHIP OF THE IRISH NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY +RESEARCH ON MIGRANT WORKERS +FORTHCOMING EVENTS +COMMENTS ON PLOUGH read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday August 25, 2003 01:14 by Kila
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I saw a news report in last saturdays Irish Times reporting the fact that Sinn Féin have taken a $5,000 donation from Coca Cola. read full story / add a comment |
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