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kilkenny / arts and media / other press Sunday December 06, 2009 17:43 by Paul Ryan   video 1 video file
Training and Support Kilkenny or TASK is an organisation setup to provide training and lend support to people suffering from mental illness. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Saturday December 05, 2009 17:59 by pat c
Houzan Mahmoud of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, speaks of how the Imperialist invasion and occupation of Iraq has affected women, forcing many into sexual-slavery. Along with Nadya Khalife of HRW Houzan was interviewed by Rachelle Kliger of The Media Line. Full text at link.

Houzan said that since 2003 more than 70% of Iraqis have lost their jobs, a situation compounded by a lack of welfare provisions.

“We have more than four million widows in Iraq… who will provide for these women? The situation created absolute poverty, particularly for women, and these women have virtually no other option but to turn to prostitution. There’s nothing called choice in this,” she stressed. “They are either being forced into it because of the economic and political situation or because of a lack of security, whereby women and young girls are being kidnapped.” read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday December 04, 2009 19:58 by Paddy Cole   text 19 comments (last - thursday december 10, 2009 02:48)
Evidence is emerging that Iranian "president" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have been involved in savagely assaulting members of the Iranian Fedayeen at the Iranian consulate in April 1984.Yassamine Mather was a member of the Fedayeen (Minority) at the time is interviewed below. Full text at link.

The Mail on Sunday (November 29) published a photograph purportedly showing Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the regime’s London consulate in April 1984. Comrades from the Fedayeen (Minority), who had forced their way into the building, were imprisoned and severely beaten by Iranian staff. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Friday December 04, 2009 13:22 by DSF   text 2 comments (last - saturday december 05, 2009 09:53)   video 1 video file
In an interview, Mary Lou McDonald said she supports the public service workers and wants to see social welfare rates protected. Sinn Fein has offered an alternative to the slash and burn economics of the government which seem to be being accepted by the other political parties. By raising taxes while stimulating the economy and protecting the lower paid, the deepening of this recession can be avoided. read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / other press Friday December 04, 2009 00:54 by eireanne   text 5 comments (last - tuesday january 26, 2010 08:20)   image 3 images

Ireland is not alone in having its children abused psychologically, physically, emotionally and sexually by the catholic hierarchy. It is particularly unfortunate because Catholicism was so closely linked to politics north and south particularly after 1922 and the de Valera constitution in 1937. No matter how horrified everyone is at this litany of abuse, any criticism of the church leaves one open to Loyalist triumphalism and resentment from practising Catholics who are obviously smarting from the deception and hypocrisy. However some questions have to be asked.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday December 03, 2009 22:33 by Anne Mc Shane   text 1 comment (last - friday december 04, 2009 04:44)
This article forcuses on the significance of the recent revelations in the Murphy Report for the left. Anne Mc Shane argues that the left needs to take up the struggle for democracy against the Irish state. With the church exposed once again for their sanctimonious hypocritical and abusive behaviour the time is right for such a challenge. read full story / add a comment
limerick / crime and justice / other press Thursday December 03, 2009 14:57 by Tom
So now the truth is out there. This so called meeting of priests & lay people that issued the statement supporting Bishop Murray consisted of 65 priests and 15 invited lay people . So much for public consultation. read full story / add a comment
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international / summit mobilisations / other press Tuesday December 01, 2009 16:48 by Iron age   text 3 comments (last - wednesday march 10, 2010 00:39)   image 2 images
In these difficult times, many people have hoped for a sign from somewhere, showing that maybe, just maybe, everything will turn out okay.

The news from Methuen, a samll town in Essex County, Massachusetts has come, but in the surprising form of a picture of the face of an historical figure on an item of closely associated with unpaid labour.

The face of Karl Marx can certainly be made out, but what does it mean? read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday December 01, 2009 11:42 by Vlad
General strike in Ireland involved 250 thousand people.

As the Russian website www.novopol.ru., reports, in Ireland on November 24, a general strike took place. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday November 30, 2009 13:41 by North West Red   text 8 comments (last - wednesday december 02, 2009 14:45)   image 2 images
This article highlights the growing levels of harrasment and intimidation by the British army and the PSNI throughout the six counties in recent times, but particularly in Fermanagh.

It also highlights the deployment of undercover British troops in operations here in Ireland, the latest example being the revelation that the British army Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) were involved in a joint operation with the PSNI in Garrison on the Fermanagh/Leitrim border.

This article runs a counter to the perceived notion that there has been demilitarisation and a new beginning to policing in the six counties read full story / add a comment
limerick / crime and justice / other press Sunday November 29, 2009 19:51 by Tom   text 6 comments (last - sunday december 06, 2009 15:46)
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday November 29, 2009 14:56 by Chas D   text 8 comments (last - saturday april 02, 2022 00:45)   image 3 images
Initial results in this week’s referendum to ban construction of new minarets in Switzerland suggests a small minority in favour of the prohibition. As in other democracies , the minaret is seen by many Swiss as the power symbol of political Islam and Sharia law.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday November 29, 2009 13:08 by TaraWatch   text 7 comments (last - sunday november 29, 2009 19:08)   image 1 image
Matt Schwoebel wanted to take statements from protesters objecting to the construction of the M3 motorway through the Hill of Tara.
He is drafting a complaint to the UN Commission on Human Rights about the way the government has handled objections and treated those who made them. But when he arrived at Dublin Airport, officers from the Garda National Immigration Bureau informed him he would not be allowed into the country. read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Saturday November 28, 2009 23:09 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   image 1 image
Ehsan Fattahian R.I.P.
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday November 28, 2009 16:42 by pat c   image 1 image
Saeed Valadbaygi writes about the execution of Ehsan Fattahian and of how other Kurds languish on Iranian death rows. Saeedd makes it clear that the Iranian Theocracy will not be able to kill the revolution: Even if the executions continue, they will not only fail to succeed in keeping the people back, but rather will drive stronger nails into the Islamic Republic’s coffin.
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Ehsan Fattahian, a poltical activist in Kurdistan was executed on Wednesday last week. Shirko Moarefi and Habib-Allah Latifi, two other political activists are in danger of execution now. One woman and 11 more men, also in Kurdistan languish in prison with the burden of a death sentence. These executions are designed to create an atmosphere of terror in society and hold back the people from the streets in an effort to stabilize the system after the electoral coup d’etat. The Islamic Republic that today faces a big challenge by the name of the people’s revolution against their rulers, has no choice but such encounters. This way of suppressing for us who remember as a lesson for the current revolution, the first years of the 1357 (1979) revolution, is very familiar. In those years too, the Islamic Republic went to war with people with the same vast wave of imprisonment and execution of political prisoners in order to take control of social and political conditions in Iran. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday November 28, 2009 14:15 by tomeile
Dubai Default
Global markets have plummetted since Wednesday’s announcement by the Dubai government that it would delay the maturity date of $59 billion in bonds issued to its largest state owned company Dubai World.

“Such a default would not only mean an immediate worsening of the already brutal post-crash conditions suffered by millions of workers in defaulting countries, but would usher in a second, and probably worse, phase in the global financial crisis”.
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday November 27, 2009 22:44 by Guerilla Blogger 86   text 4 comments (last - monday november 30, 2009 17:46)   audio 1 audio file
On the 25th of November 2009 on the Ray D'Arcy Show on Today FM, Ray and his co-hosts said that 'people' should stop playing the "BLAME GAME" in Ireland and just move on. However by the next show the following day (26 Nov '09) a woman by the name of 'Majella' had emailed them with a responce to this topic. I was working at the time, I actually stopped what I was doing and I couldn't believe what I was hearing, it was unreal. I ask you to listen to this 'pod cast' and above all keep an open mind. The link is posted below....

p.s. What you don't get to hear is the "Collector Generals" explanation which isn't much good as a responce to this email... you also don't get to hear the tongue lashing he got from Ray D'Arcy nor will you hear about the Collector Generals update of progress of investigation into this case today. You'll understand all of this after you have listened to the attached link; this will only take 6 minutes of your time, so please listen to it the whole way through!!

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limerick / racism & migration related issues / other press Tuesday November 24, 2009 17:47 by Pat
Enda Kenny is being criticised for taking a soft approach to the deportation controversy caused by Mayor of Limerick, Fine Gael Councillor Kevin Kiely. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday November 24, 2009 16:36 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather reports on action by workers at the Abadan oil refinery in Iran who have not been paid for months. Yassamine also writes about the Coordinating Committee to Form Workers’ Organisations and the Charter of the Fundamental Demands of the Working Class of Iran. Full text at link

The refinery authorities associated with what remains of the state-owned Iran National Oil company say the workers are employed by a contractor and they cannot do anything about their demands. The protest followed a strike by the whole workforce of 450 involved in the development of Bandar Abbas Oil refinery. This was their third walkout in less than three months and the strike is continuing. The Iranian government’s privatisation plans are notoriously corrupt and generally help empower and enrich the Islamic Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards). But in the oil industry it is different from elsewhere. Privatisation has been undertaken with the aim of dividing workers and hampering national negotiations over wages and conditions, in the knowledge that for oil workers deployed in various sectors of the industry, working for so many different contractors, it would be impossible to negotiate common terms and conditions. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday November 24, 2009 16:35 by Kenny G
Thanks to the SpunOut.ie team, myself and a friend found ourselves with a once in a lifetime opportunity. We had won a competition to see Noam Chomsky speak.

The night to see Chomsky came and we were not sure what to expect, having only Chomsky’s Youtube broadcasts as a rough guide. As soon as he begun speaking though, our imaginations started firing. We listened to a man who spoke about what our hearts had told us, but what the world around us had convinced us not to believe. read full story / add a comment
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