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Reggae deal to halt gay-bash lyrics

Stop Murder Music campaign suspended - Music industry committed to reject violent hate songs

Defend the victims of Islamist repression

Ramzi Isalam says it is time the left sided with the victims of Islamist repression, not the fundamentalists. First published in Labour Left Briefing, February 2005

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Sylvia Pankhurst remembered

Peter Tatchell reveals his admiration and affection for the socialist suffragette, Sylvia Pankhurst

CHAINS OF MARRIAGE

01-02-2005 08:39 | Gender | London | World

class origin of monogamy, Free Love & the nonviolent culture

Tatchell arrested in Holocaust Day asylum protest

“Never Again, today means not closing our doors to refugees fleeing persecution. Don’t let Michael Howard dishonour the victims of the Holocaust with his quotas for asylum seekers. Never Again means Never Again.”

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Peter Tatchell arrested

Campaigner pleads for asylum seekers at Holocaust Memorial Day

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Ordeal of a Gay Asylum Seeker

Ramzi Isalam tells how he escaped murder by Islamic fundamentalists in Algeria, and is battling against the Home Office to win asylum in Britain

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Qaradawi says tsunami victims deserved to die

14-01-2005 17:19 | Culture | Gender | London | World

Livingstone defends Qaradawi - again

Qaradawi says tsunami victims deserved to die

Mayor cancels GLA Gay Forum to stop debate

Ken Livingstone has defended Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the day it was revealed the Muslim cleric said the Asian earthquake victims deserved punishment from Allah because, he believes, their countries are centres of immorality, decadence and perversion.

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Decriminalize the Prostitutes, not Prostitution

10-12-2004 02:31 | Analysis | Gender | World

In an unprecedented gesture, around thirty personalities known for their social and political commitment asks the government of Canada to reject the decriminalization of prostitution claimed by certain groups and to take immediate measures to to put an end to the harassing of prostitutes and to the sexual trafficking which is practised in Canada.

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gayshame.org

gayshame.org
queer mutiny now
queers against capitalism

When A Beautiful Soul Comes To Visit

09-10-2004 02:38 | Gender | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Tali Fahima , an Israeli woman under administrative detention, joins Palestinian women and girls held in prisons as political prisoners. The way in which Israel keeps them is cruel, without conscience and in violation of many human rights.

The Prison authority is answerable only to the Prime Minister, who has, himself, been accused of war crimes.
Please ask for a full investigation into the human rights violations.

Lesbian activist murdered in Sierra Leone

The founder and leader of the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association (SLLAGA), Fannyann Eddy, was raped and murdered on the night of 28/29 September by unknown assailants who had broken into the in the SLLAGA office.

Buju Banton concert axed in Manchester

22-09-2004 13:26 | Culture | Gender | Social Struggles | World

Police express community safety concerns
Manchester police have intervened to secure the cancellation of reggae
superstar Buju Banton's Manchester concert, which was scheduled for
this Thursday 23 September.

Urgent Action: Buju Banton Concert

7 – 9 PM Sunday 19 September 2004
Outside Coronet Cinema
10 New Kent Road, London SE1
Nearest tube: Elephant & Castle

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Why men suicide in Australia?

24-08-2004 02:29 | Analysis | Gender | Repression | World

25 years ago in Australia, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser established Family Court. This Court disciminate against men so fanatically that more than 50,000 Australian fathers couldn't cope with Court decission and killed themselves. Prime Ministers Hawke, Keating and Howard refined the system of this modern genocide.