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Equality aftermath
In the aftermath of the resignation of Niall Crowley, Chief Executive of the Equality Authority, the Minister for Justice made ‘no apologies’ for cutting the Equality Authority’s budget, privileging instead police spending. This is in line with seeing equality work as defending Irish society’s problematic marginal populations, rather than maintaining equality for all, which was…
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Hidden Ireland … once again
At the AkiDwA (African Women’s Network) AGM on 22 November 2008, African asylum seekers living in direct provision hostels – AKA Ireland’s holding camps – spoke about the real cost of the recent budget cuts, as their children are prevented from attending school regularly because the school bus has been discontinued. The women, who live…
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Let Obama not be a ‘friend of Israel’
Just read Gideon Levy’s article ‘Let Obama not be a friend of Israel’ in Haaretz: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1035415.html His main argument is that what Israel needs is a US president who encourages Israel to end the occupation, not bolster it, who remembers that Palestinians, not only African Americans, have human rights, who stops funding Israeli re-arming, who…
Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.