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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday September 13, 2006 23:41 by Solidarity
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A number of serious anti-war trials are underway around the globe. Margaret Jones and Paul Milling enter the last days of their trial for disabling vehicles specifically designed to reload the U.S. B52 Bombers that were based at Fairford (England) in '03 and were ging to drop napalm, cluster bombs and fuel explosives over Iraq. Meanwhile in the U.S. Fr, Carl Kabat OMI (who has already served 15 years imprisonment for nonviolent resistance),Vietnam vet/Catholic Worker Michael Walli and ex-soldier had no trouble finding WMD. they looked in North Dakota,USA, rather than wasting their time lookng for them in Iraq! Their trial started this week. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / news report Wednesday September 13, 2006 22:02 by o as if
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On this day 50 years ago IBM unveiled its RAMAC (Random Access Memory Accounting Machine). A computer machine which weighed several tonnes & occupied the same space as a bunch of fridge freezers. It was the first hard drive which could be searched & accessed without starting from the "beginning" of the data flow & running to the end, such as one must do with a magnetic tape. Between 13/9/56 and its withdrawl from the market in the mid 1960's IBM sold over 6,000 of the units each of which could store 5 megabytes of information. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday September 13, 2006 15:02 by IRISH BASQUE COMMITTEES
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On August 7, Basque political prisoner Iñaki de Juana Chaos began a hunger strike to demand his right to be released. Iñaki de Juana should have been released on October 25, 2004, after serving his sentence in full and having spent 18 years in jail. read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday September 13, 2006 11:58 by Eve
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Shell failed to start work yesterday as expected in the face of large numbers of picketers who gathered outside the gates of their proposed refinery site at Bellanaboy. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday September 13, 2006 11:25 by Sinéad Ní Bhroin on behalf of
PANA Press pana@eircom.net www.pana.ie Contact Roger Cole 087 2611597 read full story / add a comment 
dublin / gender and sexuality / feature Wednesday September 13, 2006 01:55 by sovietpop
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Report from the RAG dayschool A bit later than I hoped, here is a report of the days events. read full story / add a comment |
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