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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Bangladesh union restrictions lifted after pressure

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Only just discovered that Bangladesh garment workers are not allowed to form trade unions without prior permission from factory owners.  Pe...
Monday, May 6, 2013

How do we support Bangladesh garment workers?

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Most important image to emerge from the Bangladesh factory collapse (death toll 580 as of yesterday with little sign of what the final num...
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Saturday, May 4, 2013

2-year-old girl killed with 'my first rifle'

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American man and boy out hunting with shotguns, circa 1955. FPG/Getty Images A story on the NPR website (National Public Radio) on 2nd...
Thursday, May 2, 2013

I visit passage tombs in the Boyne Valley

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With Cork Astronomy Club last weekend to Newgrange (top photo) in the Boyne Valley. A passage tomb - a vast mound covering a passage of s...
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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Boston 6 months from now

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Time Magazine 17 April 2013 What will we think of the Boston atrocity 6 months from now? Will it be this letter on the New York Times ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Today's funeral arrangements

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Night-time dress rehearsal for Thatcher funeral. Credit: www.news.com.au "We haven't come here to insult anybody, we have come...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Stop Monsanto patenting tomatoes

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Patented tomato image promoting the Avaaz petition. 1,610,404 have already signed. They want 2 million I'm not a huge fan of online...
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