Despite Justice Minister Alan Shatter’s recent denials, ethnic profiling is a part of our policing. Phoenix FM‘s Freda Mullin Hughes spoke to Aisling Twomey of Pavee Point about this issue. Aisling Twomey: One of the things that’s been very worrying for us lately is news of what’s emerged about the Garda PULSE system and particularly about Traveller and Roma children being recorded on it and given criminal intelligence numbers. … Read More
#rabbleReels: The War At Home
The award winning documentary The House I Live In travels the US in search of answers to questions about the War on Drugs and what it has done to America. Since 1971 the War on Drugs has cost at least $1Trillion and $45 million arrests. In reality it is a war on America’s poor. There are over 2.3 million Americans in prison, many on mandatory sentencing for minor drug violations … Read More
#outBeyond: Bigot Steak With A Side Of Hate
Meet Gary James, owner of America’s most bigoted ‘restaurant’. Since appearing on Oklahoma news having banned a disabled customer (who had no problem with the racism and bigotry before his injury), Enid’s best diner – Gary’s Chicaro Club – the tin shack on the outside of town has been making more news than in it’s previous 40 years. Gays, muslims, blacks, hell even Democrats are not welcome and he has the … Read More
Martin Luther King in today’s America
In the final installment of our three-part interview series with Guardian journalist Gary Younge we explore the relevance of Martin Luther King’s politics to today’s America.
#meEjit: Ian O’Doherty and Strawmen.
Remember earlier in the week, we posted how the European Network Against Racism got the Press Ombudsman to kick Ian O’Doherty to touch, over his ramblings on the Roma? The ENAR’s Shane O’Curry originally complained that the piece called “Begging – but I thought it was freedom of expression?” was in breach of Principle 8 of its code of practice for magazines and newspapers – it advocated the expulsion of … Read More
#rabbleReels: 80 Blocks From Tiffanys
Tonight’s fare is a firm favorite in rabble land. Capturing as it does the bombed out story of the Bronx in the mid-1970s and the gangs that ruled the roost. You’ve oft heard how New York in the ’70s was a rough looking place, nowhere more so than the South Bronx. Gary Weis’ 80 Blocks From Tiffanys is based on a long piece of prose from Esquire magazine about the two gangs … Read More
Martin Luther King and the Obama Presidency
In the second of a three-part series Ronan Burtenshaw asks Gary Younge, Guardian journalist and author of ‘The Speech‘, about what the legacy of Martin Luther King means for the Obama presidency. What do you think Martin Luther King, had he survived, would think of the first African-American President? Younge: I can’t answer that question without first saying that it would be invidious to pretend that I can channel Martin … Read More
Refudiate Racism With Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin marked Martin Luther King day with the above message – imploring Obama to stop ‘playing the race card’. You couldn’t make it up. You can leave her your thoughts here .
Behind Martin Luther King’s Dream
In the first of a three-part series Ronan Burtenshaw interviews Guardian journalist Gary Younge about his new book ‘The Speech’ and the legacy of ‘I Have a Dream’.
Cazzo di tutti Cazzi
Right-wing MP smears greasepaint on face in parliament. Says Italians need to be “a bit darker” to access state aid. “At the end of the day, maybe in this country in order to achieve anything we need to be a bit darker. I say we can all put make-up on and make ourselves a bit darker, and then we can all go around painted black and say we want the … Read More