Anti-Fascist Action welcomed the decision today of Trinity's Philosophical Society to withdraw the invitation to Nick Griffin, leader of the far-right British National Party (BNP), who was due to speak at a debate entitled 'This House Believes That Immigration Has Gone Too Far' next Thursday 20th October.
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Trinity's Philosophical Society has invited the leader of the racist British National Party, Nick Griffin, the speak in a debate entitled, "This House Believes that Immigration has gone too far."

Concerned students and organisations are organising to oppose the BNP leader. ... read full story / add a comment

Asylum seekers in Tralee are concerned with the following denials of basic human rights.
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A no border camp will be organized between the 25th of September and the 3rd of October. Some places to visit... ... read full story / add a comment

Youth Against Racism has organised a protest against the BBC's invitation to the far-right, racist BNP to participate in Question Time. The protest will take place at 5.30pm on Thursday 15th October outside BBC Broadcasting House, Ormeau Avenue, Belfast. ... read full story / add a comment

Residents Against Racism is preparing to protest a second mass deportation to Nigeria within a month - a move the group describes as unprecedented. ... read full story / add a comment

Irish documentary about asylum seekers nominated for IFTA. [....]

'As far as documentaries go about asylum seekers and the immigration debate, no other is as human and evocative as Seaview' Sheffield Doc/Fest ... read full story / add a comment

Call for Submissions

As the editors of an anthology of immigrant poetry in Ireland we are asking poets from other countries who live here and who write in English to send us poems for possible inclusion in the anthology. ... read full story / add a comment

The Jesuit Refugee Service Europe is inviting aspiring journalists to investigate the reality behind the headlines by asking current and recent students across Europe to write an article on the theme: ’Access to Asylum’ ... read full story / add a comment

SWP condemns police harassment of Roma in Ballymun and says ‘Let them stay!’ ... read full story / add a comment

The end of Michael McDowell’s five-year reign in the Department of Justice is great news for everyone who wants an Ireland free from racism. His period as justice minister was marked by a cruel determination to attack the rights of people from other countries. He presided over a rotten system that routinely refused 92 per cent of people looking for asylum. His deportation mania led him to break up families and send snatch squads into schools. He took away the citizenship of children born and reared in Ireland, promoting racist prejudice in the process.
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There are two more upcoming events in Ireland to note in your diary. At next Friday's Shamrock Rovers V St Pats Athletic FAI Cup Semi- Final clash the second edition of the Show Racism the Red Card Shamrock Rovers poster will be distributed.

On the Sunday, Bohemians are hosting local schools for a tournament on the theme Football Against Racism in Europe.

The seventh annual FARE Action Week got underway with a Europe-wide campaign to eradicate the cancer of racism and intolerance from the beautiful game. ... read full story / add a comment

Statement made by Samander Khan Oriyakhal on behalf of the Afghan asylum seeker hunger strikers. ... read full story / add a comment

NGO coalition calls for an urgent review of the Department of Justice’s handling of Afghan hunger strikers protest ... read full story / add a comment

This is the press release sent out by several of the NGO's who were involved supporting the men. Needless to say ,the governments version of events is a total fabrication. Further details will be released shortly ... read full story / add a comment

The Irish Anti War Movement condemns the heavy police presence at St Patrick’s Cathedral. Hundreds of police arrived this morning at what has been a completely peaceful protest by the Afghan hunger strikers and by protestors maintaining a vigil outside the Cathedral.
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The Irish Anti War Movement supports the asylum claims of the Afghan hunger strikers in St Patrick’s Cathedral. The desperate measure by the 36 asylum seekers highlights the lies and the myth that the US and its allies are spreading democracy through its ‘war on terror’. The reality is that the US has replaced one group of thugs that it helped to create and fund – the Taliban, with another group that it now funds – the Northern Alliance (NA), to rule Afghanistan. The real agenda behind the US ‘war on terror’ is the extension of US power and dominance in the world. The Irish Anti War Movement calls on the Irish government to approve their asylum claims in recognition of the continued oppression and absence of democracy that exists in Afghanistan.
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Show Racism the Red Card launched its' website, dvd and poster on Monday ... read full story / add a comment

To prevent the threatening expulsion of the Algerian refugee to a dangerous situation, I appeal to you to mail the deporting flying company, Alitalia, not to take him as a passenger ... read full story / add a comment