Basque country a problem for IMC Ireland?

Thursday August 29, 2002 02:29

by pissed off

Repression.

Over twenty premises connected to the Bsaque seperatist movement have been closed down, many of them violently in the last fourty eight hours. Irrespective of whether you support Basque independence or not, this should be a story.

Lots of basque people live here and particpate in the political life here. A party which conservatively represents 10% of them has been outlawed. There is a history of massive state repression, documneted parastatist killings, torture against them. That doesn't ean you have to support car bombs against civilians. It means that there is a situation which stronly resembles our own in rather recent historica times. Someone may even have a view that contibutes something.

An yes, there are things going on in Uruguay, Argentina and Pelasetine. Amongst other places. And there's fuck all about them on IMC Ireland either.

But there's isn't even a link to the Basque Indymedia site on the left hand column, where there is for all the others, a simple technical question which contributors to the site cannot address.

On another point, lots of people are already publishing critcal information in Ireland, how is it that this site, which is basically a portal, doesn't contain links to any of them on the front page? PFC, SF, WSM, SP ..... And many IMCs are like this. Get your act together. If someone posts an article lifted from an organisation the moderatos are down people's throats in a second, but the truth is that there is fuck all fresh jornalism produced for here. Face the facts! Work with the situation as it is rather than acting as if its thebulleting board for a student course in DCU or Rathmines or somewhere....