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international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday December 18, 2007 12:53 by tomeile
Domingo Reyes who ran an unlicensed drinking den in New York has been charged with six counts of manslaughter . The charges relate to a fire that swept through the “social club” Reyes ran in the city’s Bronx district .Police and local residents say that the club had been a “ gathering spot for prostitutes and drug dealers” . read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday December 18, 2007 10:14 by antifascista
The sentence of the trial against the 25 demonstrators for the Genoa g8 riots has fixed the price to pay for expressing our own ideas and going against the actual state of things: 110 years of jail. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday December 18, 2007 01:13 by mark chacha
Supporters of the Adefowoju and the Falode families are planning a demonstration on Wednesday at Stormont calling for the Northern Ireland Assembly to help stop the deportations. Comfort Adefowoju and her four children, and Ronke Falode and her three sons, are in Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire and have been told they could be deported at any time. They were arrested at their homes in November. Both families face an uncertain & dangeroud future if they are deported to Nigeria. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday December 17, 2007 14:20 by Basque Info
Listen to Basque Info, Tuesdays 6.30-7pm in Féile FM 103.2 Belfast or on line at www.feilefm.com. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Monday December 17, 2007 10:44 by Maryjane O'Leary
Here is a report on the continuing detention of womens rights activists in Iran and a call for action on their behalf. Human rights groups and journalists across the globe have condemned the arrest of cyber feminists, Jelve Javaheri and Maryam Hossienkhah in Iran earlier this month. Both of these women are activists and members of the One Million Signatures campaign. They are currently in Evin Prison on charges related to their writings in support of women’s rights. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday December 17, 2007 00:20 by Gregor Kerr
In early December classroom assistants in the North returned to work after a series of strike actions which had gone on since September. This action by the classroom assistants showed in stark form the two faces of the trade union movement. On the one hand there was the tremendous bravery and solidarity shown by the workers themselves in standing up to attempts to bully and harass them back to work. On the other hand was the duplicitousness and skulduggery of some trade union bureaucrats who not alone did their best to undermine the dispute but actively worked with management and politicians to betray the workers. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Sunday December 16, 2007 23:43 by wageslave
New Jersey's state assembly yesterday voted 44-36 to abolish the death penalty - the first state to do so since Iowa and West Virginia scrapped the punishment in 1965. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday December 15, 2007 12:12 by Margaretta D'Arcy
The West Bengal government is violently attempting to crush village resistance to the seizure of land by a multi-national company under cover of colonial-era legislation. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Saturday December 15, 2007 11:00 by Cllr Keith Martin
Westport Town Councillors call on Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan TD to protect area of great national and international significance as an environmentally sensitive, culturally and religiously important area with a massive intrinsic tourism value. read full story / add a comment |
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