A refugee said "I cannot go back to my country because of the following points: 1. Imprisonment and Persecution 2. Torture and punishment 3. Electric torture 4. Beating with the stick on the feet (corporal punishment) 5. threatening me to be killed 6. Lack of human rights organizations which can lobby against human rights violation in the country. 7. Threatening to abuse my family members. 8. Demolition of my house. Due to all that I can’t go back".

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Nov 18, 2009

Anti War Events Tomorrow and This Weekend


There are four Anti-War meetings organised for this weekend as part of the Socialist Workers Party Marxism event. A number of the members of the Irish Anti-War Movement Steering Committee will be speaking at these meetings.

If you are interested please come along to any of them.

The Meeting Organised on 18th November is not part of the Marxism event.

List of Events:
•18/11/2009 - 19:00 [EVENT - LECTURE] Vietnam-Iraq: Language and the Ethics of War and Peace
•21/11/2009 - 10:30 [EVENT] Hamas, Hizbollah and the Taliban: The Left Religion and Resistance Movements
•21/11/2009 - 11:45 [EVENT] How can Palestine Win Freedom
•22/11/2009 - 14:30 [EVENT] World War II: Was Ireland Wrong to Stay Neutral?
•22/11/2009 - 15:45 [EVENT] Afghanistan: Obama’s Vietnam?


Event Details:
[EVENT - LECTURE] Vietnam-Iraq: Language and the Ethics of War and Peace

Start: 18/11/2009 - 19:00

Vietnam-Iraq: Language and the Ethics of War and Peace

International Peace Studies Public Lecture by Ron Large

Wednesday, November 18 at 7 PM

J. M. Synge Theatre
Arts Building
Trinity College Dublin

In this lecture, Ron Large will examine how leaders and policy makers used language to shape the moral world of the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq. Ron Large is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Gonzaga College in Spokane, Washington. He is currently a visiting Fulbright Scholar in the International Peace Studies programme at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin.

Organised by the International Peace Studies programme at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin www.tcd.ie/ise/peace/

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[EVENT] Hamas, Hizbollah and the Taliban: The Left Religion and Resistance Movements

Speaker: Alex Callinicos

Venue: Ashling Hotel, Dublin (beside Heuston Station)

Date: 10:30 21st November 2009

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[EVENT] How can Palestine Win Freedom

Speaker: Claudia Saba (Irish Anti War Movement Steering Committee).

Venue: Ashling Hotel, Dublin (beside Heuston Station)

Date: 11:45 21st November 2009

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[EVENT] World War II: Was Ireland Wrong to Stay Neutral?

Speaker: Liam Cummins

Venue: Ashling Hotel, Dublin (beside Heuston Station)

Date: 14:30 22nd November 2009

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[EVENT] Afghanistan: Obama’s Vietnam?

Speaker: Richard Boyd Barrett (Chair of the Irish Anti-War Movement)

Venue: Ashling Hotel, Dublin (beside Heuston Station)

Date: 15:45 22nd November 2009

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