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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday March 13, 2016 18:53 by Sean Throne 2 comments (last - thursday march 17, 2016 09:56)
Trump started back when Obama came to power. Questioning his birthplace. I have no time for Obama but this was racism. Then he refuses to condemn the KKK. His father was arrested as part of a KKK mob in New York City in 1927. Google Trumps farther and the KKK. Then he calls immigrants from Mexico and Central America, criminals and rapists. Then he calls for all Muslims to be kept out of the US. then he attacks women in the most vicious and degrading way. He is trying to build a white racist movement of mainly low paid workers and workers who have not benefited from the economic policies, globalization etc, of the past decades. Policies of the system that the racist Trump is a leader. in Chicago the youth came out and shut his racist divide and rule mouth. As Chicago resident i am proud. I thank the youth who took the lead. Sean O'Torain. (Throne.) read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday March 11, 2016 13:47 by Redred
RNU Ard Chomhairle member Tony Taylor had his license revoked by the Secretary of State yesterday. He now finds himself in Maghaberry, yet to find out why. read full story / add a comment
280 organisations from Europe, Canada and the US denounce the inclusion of investors’ rights in TTIP
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday February 22, 2016 11:36 by Stop TTIP 1 comment (last - saturday february 20, 2016 10:27) 1 image 1 attached file
Monday 22nd February, 2016 – Ahead of the 12th round of TTIP negotiations, 280 civil society organisations from across Europe, with the support of US and Canadian groups, have called on the European Commission and the United States Trade Representative to eliminate the Investor State Dispute Mechanism (ISDS) and its so-called replacement, the Investor Court System (ICS), from the TTIP, CETA and all other trade agreements. The issue comes back to the negotiating table after a two-year impasse. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday February 20, 2016 10:07 by Vince McGreal
In 1932, Ireland ratified the United Nations’ Convention Concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour (1930). The Convention defines forced labour as "all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily.” Eighty-four years later, Ireland is in breach of that convention. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday January 21, 2016 18:21 by Justin Morahan 10 comments (last - wednesday march 09, 2016 12:20)
Mary-Anne Grady Flores a grandmother from upper State New York was jailed for six months and started her sentence on Tuesday last for taking pictures of an anti-drone protest. The letter below has been sent to the US Ambassador along with the Democracy Now account of the jailing read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday January 12, 2016 22:55 by Emilio José Lemos de Lima
Brazilian blogger accuses senator of commanding the invasion of his computing systems and of harassment. Brazil: Censorship on the Internet read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday January 10, 2016 06:26 by Nancy Carvajal 3 images
Killings and harassment of the Lumad, or the indigenous people (IP), should stop and those accountable should be brought to justice, according to Ola Almgren, the UN country representative and humanitarian coordinator. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 05, 2016 14:20 by Sean Crudden
There is no doubt that the images in the film The Danish Girl are lovely and a joy to watch as are the leading actors Eddie Redmayne as Einar Wegener and Alicia Vikander as Gerda Gottlieb. Screenplay is by Lucinda Coxon an excellent minimalist job as regards dialogue but eloquent as regards narrative. The director is Tom Hooper. This is a classy really well shot and well worked out film. I am not going into the plot. The best way to get that is to attend the film. One thing that struck me apart from the drama is that the film presents a marvellous portrait of what marriage should really mean. But despite the beauty of the images this is an unsettling film. Please excuse me if I share below some of the thoughts the film provoked for me. read full story / add a comment
derry / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday December 20, 2015 00:51 by Michael Steinberg
The author's account of his visit to the North of Ireland in 1985, on the occasion of its 3oth anniversary; read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday December 06, 2015 01:24 by 1 of Indymedia
Thursday, December 3, 10am EST, WikiLeaks releases new secret documents from the huge Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) which is being negotiated by the US, EU and 22 other countries that account for 2/3rds of global GDP. Coinciding with the ongoing climate talks in Paris, the publication touches on issues of crucial relevance including the regulation of energy, industrial development, workers' rights and the natural environment. WikiLeaks is also publishing expert analyses of the documents. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday December 03, 2015 21:58 by pm
The current edition of People's News, dated 22 November 2015, is available for download. The opening lead article discusses "The Myth of Social Europe" documenting the continue attack on workers rights and conditions. Later one of the more important articles in this newsletter discusses how the CETA is probably more dangerous than the TTIP agreement. ....Importantly, it doesn't matter who has the highest standards to start with: what matters is how the corporations from both sides of the Atlantic will use the regulatory co-operation and ISDS provisions of CETA to lower standards across the board. Also, in both Canada and Europe there are internal processes already deeply committed to the deregulation of environmental, health and labour standards, as well as the privatisation of public services. CETA will speed up the pace of this process in both Europe and Canada.... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday November 22, 2015 02:25 by T 5 comments (last - tuesday december 08, 2015 23:07) 1 image
It is over a week since the Paris Attack and the slaughter of innocent people. Europe is now suffering the spillover of the terrorism and wars launched by Western powers including France on the Middle East and Arab world for over a decade now and it seems the war is being brought home. Looking at the actual efforts on not just French society but Europe, it just so happens to serve the creeping totalitarian state and the 0.1% and corporate power. This article tries to put together some context and background to see if it is possible to figure out whether this appalling carnage was simply blowback of French foreign policy and or even some kind of black operation. Don't expect clear cut answers to any thing. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday November 02, 2015 23:19 by Citizen Sane 1 comment (last - wednesday november 11, 2015 22:09)
Herein we will focus on what seems to be a somewhat elaborate, albeit loosely organized, conspiracy (one hesitates to use the word as arguments are quickly dismissed as conspiracy theories) in the making in which a relatively large number of pro-Israeli factions (both students attending American campuses as well as outside organizations as well as outside monies)are attempting to manipulate and intimidate people so Americans relinquish their right to free speech on American campuses—that is the right to say critical things about peoples and organizations including Jews, Zionists and Israelis. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday October 28, 2015 19:34 by Concerned 1 image
Prisoners call on the Department of Justice to make public a recent prison doctors report that highlights the dangers prisoners are exposed too, legionnaire’s disease for example and other serious respiratory health risks due to the extremely poor conditions. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday September 16, 2015 13:46 by Justin Morahan
This is an unjust barbaric execution read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday September 16, 2015 13:34 by Justin Morahan
Put a stay on an unjust barbaric execution read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday September 03, 2015 13:59 by Akbayan (Citizens Action Party) 1 image
Akbayan took exception to Senator Bongbong Marcos’s statement that there was no downside to being a Marcos should he decide to run for higher office in 2016. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday August 15, 2015 22:32 by Astrid Essed
Recently, due to a joint cooperation of the Tel Aviv and Paris municipal government, a section of river bank in Paris was turned into “Tel Aviv sur Seine” , complete with falafel stands and “Israeli nightlife. Of course in order to promote Israel. No promotion of a 48 years occupation power with as ´´falafel´´ the Gaza Blockade and as ´´nightlife´´bombings of Gaza and shooting of Palestinian children. On the Gaza beach. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Friday August 07, 2015 15:51 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
Anti-water charge campaigners had a major moral victory over government plans to make the people pay for the financial crisis when Eurostat determined that Irish Water had failed the Market Corporation Test.[1] read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday August 06, 2015 13:03 by Editorial Collective
State repression of IndyMedia by the Government of Cyprus read full story / add a comment |