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Ireland Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Saturday December 13, 2008 19:59 by Joe Moore - Cork Anti Racism Network mapuche at eircom dot net 087 2994796
December 10th 2008 marked the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) This event was marked across the globe last Wednesday. The anniversary was also marked by numerous events around Ireland. The Irish government marked the anniversary in its own way. During the week leading up to 10th December, numerous raids took place around the country. Up to 40 men and women were taken into custody. The women were taken to Mountjoy Women's Prison, the men to Clover Hill. The children of detained parents were put into the care of the social services. |
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Jump To Comment: 3 2 1The Irish Times commissioned 31 Irish writers to submit an essay to commemorate the anniversary. One of them was written by a cartoon, a fictional character named Ross O'Carroll-Kelly. The Irish Times provided a cartoon illustration of the character to go with the essay. Then they advertised a Trinity reading by all the authors - including the cartoon - in their newspaper and included the cartoon illustration again, squeezed between Seamus Heaney and Roddy Doyle. No - there was in their advertising no mention of the fictional character's creator; we were supposed to be post-modern enough to accept that a cartoon, a fiction, could contribute to a set of essays on human rights. I wrote a letter on the topic but the IT appears to have refused to publish it. Am I missing something? (Interestingly, if one dug deep into the Trinity College announcement of the readings' event, one would eventually, after reaching their bookings' form, find that the creator of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly was actually reading - was this a last minute correction? I see that the subsequent anthology of the essays still features the fictional character, however.) Can we expect at some point a set of essays on Guantanamo featuring Dustin The Turkey?
"No deportations."
Feck off would ye? Look at the way things are going. We need to be able to communicate with people and make sure theres not to much racial tension for when shit hits the fans, this isn't the U.S. or the U.K. the racism card won't work here for much longer.
to receive Human Rights abuses from the State - the Rossport 5 & Shell to Sea supporters know plenty about that.......