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| international / economics and finance Sunday October 22, 2017 - 23:49 by Kate Zeller More than 130 faith communities across the United States are praying and acting for hurricane victims during religious services this weekend. ... read full story / add a comment  international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday October 01, 2017 - 10:17 by iosaf mac diarmada  3 comments (last - monday october 02, 2017 - 19:43)  7 images A little over a week ago the Spanish state attempted to take control of the Mossos d'Esquadra the Catalan national police force whose men and women have sworn an oath of fealty to Catalonia and answer to the Catalan government "la Generalitat". The Mossos sidestepped all such attempts. The Spanish ministry of the Interior ordered the Mossos to cordon off with "do not cross police" tape and guards all potential 6000+ electoral centres. A civil rights movement emerged intent on protecting those centres. Friday afternoon parents and teachers as well as children stayed on.at At 06h23 this morning I went to the school in my area, known to some as the "Forat". A neighbourhood which has a long and sometimes difficult history of confrontation policing (lives lost or ruined), and is considered by some the anarchist heart of the city. I joined the civil rights movement there. ... read full story / add a comment  international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday September 30, 2017 - 14:44 by iosaf mac diarmada 3 comments (last - sunday october 01, 2017 - 10:11) 8 images October 1st, tomorrow at time of writing shall see the "illegal referendum on Catalan independence and conversion to a republic". On September 20th the central Spanish state launched an extraordinary campaign of intimidation and criminalisation. Ministers of the regional government were arrested. Printers were searched and ballot papers confiscated. Websites were closed down. 3 cruise liners hired by the Spanish state provide accommodation to police and paramilitary police drafted in to prevent voting, counting and disemination of information related to the referendum. I shall later provide more information drawing on the wealth of archived articles on this node of indymedia which I hope and always hoped would explain the route from the fringe to centre of the process of Catalan self-determination. For the moment, the final opinion poll published today shows the intent of 63% of the enfranchised wish to vote & of those 83% will vote yes. ... read full story / add a comment national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday September 25, 2017 - 23:01 by ipsc Dear friends, in case you missed this shocking news last week, while en route to occupied Palestine four Irish people were seized by Israeli authorities in Ben Gurion airport and deported. Below is a statement issued by the four deportees which includes a call for you to write to the Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney (minister@dfa.ie) voicing your concerns about this arbitrary expulsion of human rights activist to stop them from bearing witness to the effects of Israel’s apartheid regime ... read full story / add a comment national / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday September 19, 2017 - 12:06 by Mack MThomais Several foreign based volunteer networks are placing unsuspecting travellers in exploitative and manipulative situations and cashing in on free labour with no rights or security. ... read full story / add a comment  international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday September 10, 2017 - 13:43 by AKBAYAN (Citizens Action Party) 1 comment (last - wednesday september 13, 2017 - 00:28) 5 images Akbayan Partylist condemns President Rodrigo Duterte’s denial of his policy to kill under the War on Drugs. ... read full story / add a comment national / housing Friday September 08, 2017 - 12:45 by Mac MacThomais 5 comments (last - thursday october 26, 2017 - 09:23) In the face of the worst housing crisis since rackrenting of the 19 th century why is Irish society so hung up on cement houses that resemble bunkers.There are numerous alternatives to cement and concrete and most western countries and developing world universities are exploring and investing in education for engineering and architectural studies called biotecture and geotecture knowledge transfer degrees ... read full story / add a comment  international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday August 27, 2017 - 02:20 by 1 of indy 3 comments (last - sunday september 03, 2017 - 02:35) 1 image The German minister of the Interior announced today (Fri 25th Aug) early in the morning that Indymedia Linksunten, a local German IMC, was declared illegal. This seems partially as a result of the media coverage the site gave to the recent G20 protests in Hamburg that embarrassed the government on the world stage and for the crime of airing the grievance of the populace that they don't like predatory capitalism. It comes also as the government faces into an election and that the entire political system shifts further to the right and all things Left are to be discredited such as free health or education, equality etc. Instead fear is the new norm these days and at the very same time when it is plain to see that practically all European governments are now simply vassals of the USA as evident in the way their foreign policies match in lockstep the dictates of the US war machine and the financial policies imposing austerity, privatisation and the stripping away of the social gains of the last century match those of the "Washington Neo-Liberal & Banking Parasitic" class. ... read full story / add a comment  international / crime and justice Friday August 18, 2017 - 20:25 by iosaf mac diarmada 2 comments (last - saturday august 19, 2017 - 21:55) 3 images Yesterday the city where I live was victim to terrorist attack which has long been anticipated and it would seem prepared for. The attack happened within 600 metres of my home. I pass on foot every day the street which yesterday became a trail of human blood dragged out by a young man turned mass murderer, to be claimed and vaunted later by so-called DAESH/ISIS and then it seems to be a trigger for another simliar attack on a tourist town. You will understand if I come to this text with attitude. I have pointed out many times the soft points in the city where I live & yesterday my wife and another our closest friend were both caught up in on ordeal which lasted hours. There are lessons to learn. These are thus my initial published thoughts on the terrorist attack I and my partner survived and endured 17th August 2017 & are party to the words I am writing and publishing now in various languages. There are lessons to learn & I feel it my duty to point out a few. Especially since a meme idea I promoted lots perhaps thought up if i can remember correctly is the go to for societal collective fetishized memorial glyph. I never wanted to see black ribbons again. But they do come back & they will. ... read full story / add a comment dublin / environment Tuesday August 15, 2017 - 12:29 by anon There will be an information event in the County Library, Tallaght from 3pm – 6pm on Tuesday 15th August 2017 where Council staff will be available to provide general guidance and answer queries relating to the proposed Dodder Greenway This has been posted at short notice because it is happening today. ... read full story / add a comment international / elections / politics Wednesday August 02, 2017 - 17:42 by Abby Wilhelm Puerto Rico religious leaders are urging Congress to reduce child poverty on the island by granting equal access to US health care funding and child tax benefits. ... read full story / add a comment national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Sunday July 30, 2017 - 22:21 by r2w The Right2Water campaign is currently developing a submission in relation to the River Basin Management Plan (RBMP) which will be submitted to the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government as part of their consultation process. In order to ensure all Right2Water Ireland's supporters' voices are heard and are involved in this process, we are asking you to fill in this short survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PKN3YXN ... read full story / add a comment  national / history and heritage Saturday July 29, 2017 - 10:02 by Tom Cooper 1 comment (last - monday august 07, 2017 - 10:54) 2 images A NEW FLAW has been discovered in the Eoghan Harris / Gerry Gregg TV documentary An Tost Fada (The Long Silence) A 1939 gravestone (& inscription) of a woman was presented as that of man killed in 1921 (who An Tost Fada said was killed in April 1922). See link to original story below. Original Story of successful complaint: RTE upholds complaint against Eoghan Harris programme on War of independence http://indymedia.ie/article/102026 ... read full story / add a comment international / elections / politics Wednesday July 05, 2017 - 22:22 by Abby Wilhelm Ahead of President Trump's first G20 meeting in Germany this weekend, Mozambique released an audit exposing violations of the country's laws to secure now-defaulted loans. ... read full story / add a comment national / environment Wednesday July 05, 2017 - 00:22 by sg  1 video file Ireland has become the fourth European country to ban hydraulic fracturing (after France, Bulgaria and Germany). On June 28, the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill passed the final legislative stages in the Seanad. The session included the committee, report, and final stages that took place in the Seanad chamber, where the gallery was full of supporters of the ban. It now requires only the signature of President Michael D. Higgins to become law. This is expected in the coming days. ... read full story / add a comment international / eu Monday July 03, 2017 - 16:15 by Abby Wilhelm The European Parliament is set to vote on landmark corporate transparency rules known as "country-by-country" reporting. ... read full story / add a comment international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 30, 2017 - 11:17 by séamas carraher Two recent studies have once again drawn attention to the unprecedented crackdown – even by Turkish standards based on previous episodes of severe State repression – on academics and intellectual freedom in post coup Turkey. ... read full story / add a comment  international / anti-capitalism Sunday June 25, 2017 - 23:22 by Socialist Party Reporter 1 image Reproduced from the editorial of “The Socialist”, newspaper of the Socialist Party in England and Wales As more details emerge and the death toll rises, it becomes clearer and clearer what a terrible disaster this is. The fire spread with horrifying speed and witnesses describe heart-breaking scenes as people desperately tried to escape. It is a huge tragedy for the immediate community. Children have died; three generations of the same family have died. But rather than being torn apart, the community has come together in a remarkable display of human solidarity, supporting each other, collecting donations of goods and money, organising emergency accommodation, coordinating relief. The heroism, the courage, the self-sacrifice of the emergency services and of local residents is incredible. Who can fail to be moved by the scenes of the firefighters being applauded as they drove away from the scene? And there has naturally been a much wider outpouring of sympathy with the residents and families affected, with overwhelming donations of money, clothes, bedding, toys, nappies, etc. The true face of humanity has been shown in this solidarity. ... read full story / add a comment international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday June 16, 2017 - 19:46 by séamas carraher June, 2017: Firat News Agency (Ajansa Nûçeyan a Firatê) covered one of the first legal cases to result from the Turkish military’s sieges of Kurdish Cizre in September 2015 and December 2015-February 2016. ... read full story / add a comment international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday June 15, 2017 - 12:47 by séamas carraher Figen Yüksekdağ, recently replaced co-chairperson of the Turkish HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party), whose 10 month prison sentence for “spreading terror propaganda” was approved by the Supreme Court of Appeals on September 22, 2016 has now (6 June 2017) been given another 14 months in prison for a 2015 interview with German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle where she made the statement that the “PKK is a people’s liberation movement." ... read full story / add a comment | UK Indymedia FeaturesTue May 02, 2017 01:55 UK Indymedia Features
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