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Speaking out for human rights in Colombia 
Pedro Mahecha is a remarkable man. He is a human rights lawyer in Colombia, a country where the lives of those who challenge the state are routinely threatened and often taken. Pedro is a member of Colombia's renowned Lawyers' Collective, a body that has consultative status at the UN. UVF's outrageous 'racist quota' In a week when UVF paramilitaries forced the Chinese community to abandon plans for a community and resource centre in the loyalist Donegall Pass area of South Belfast, it has been disclosed that UVF gangs have also visited estate agents throughout South Belfast, warning them not to move any more Chinese people into the area. Cormac Explaining the Cuban Revolution 
SIPTU hosted a conference, organised by the Cuba Support Group, on Saturday 9 October in Liberty Hall, Dublin, where two of the visiting delegation from Cuba spoke about the political and economic developments in Cuba since the imposition of the US economic Blockade. Photo: Cuban MP Leonel Gonzalez is pictured with Sinn Féin's Seán Crowe, Daithí Doolan and Aengus Ó Snodaigh Young nationalist stabbed twice A 21-year-old nationalist man is in a stable condition in hospital after being stabbed in the stomach and arm in a sectarian attack by a group of loyalists as he walked through the Old Mill Road in Newtownabbey at around 1am on Tuesday 12 October. Users of Indymedia got a shock on Thursday 7 October with the temporary closure of 20 of its sites due to FBI intervention, supposedly in behalf of the Italian and Swiss Governments. The network of websites, which allow individuals or organisations to post alternative information on their sites to be accessed all across the world, are one of the key elements of the anti-globalisation movement when it comes to exchange of ideas, opinions and information. Unionist paramilitaries stir up sectarian tensions in Derry 
In a week which saw the UDA and UVF in Derry issue a joint threat against nationalists, Sinn Féin is accusing unionist paramilitaries of "targeting nationalists in an attempt to deflect attention away from their own internal feuding". Photo: Barney O'Hagan The Democratic Unionist Mayor of Lisburn, Cecil Calvert, has been forced into an embarrassing u-turn after council officials issued invitations to the council's four Sinn Féin members to attend the mayor's installation dinner. 
The establishment of a new GAA club in County Antrim is a good-news story. The fact that Cumann na Fuiseoige is located in an area with one of the youngest population profiles in the Six Counties makes it all the more exciting. Take that together with the reality of life in Twinbrook, Poleglass and the wider Colin Glen area, and you begin to get the picture. Photo: Paddy McCotter and Rab Kerr are presented with a cheques by Liam Shannon, chair of the Felon's Club, as a contribution to set up a GAA club in Twinbrook 
Last Saturday, over 2,000 people marched through Coatbridge town centre in Scotland demanding the release of the Castlerea Four. The march was part of a campaign organised by Cairde na hÉireann to raise awareness in Scotland of the men's plight. Relatives speak at Civil Rights Forum 
Sharon Pickering of An Fhírinne is pictured addressing a Civil Rights Forum Held in Exeter, England, last weekend, organised jointly by the Troops Out Movement and the National Civil Rights Movement. The meeting was on the theme, Unfinished Business - Murder, Racist Violence, Collusion, Public Inquiries and family struggles for truth and justice. Cahil McElhinny of the Bloody Sunday Relatives group and Sinn Féin Assembly member John O'Dowd were among those who spoke. Tyrone delegation at Leinster House 
Sinn Féin MP for West Tyrone, Pat Doherty, accompanied by MLA Barry McElduff visited the Dáil on Tuesday to bring the concerns of people living in the West Tyrone to Leinster House. They met with the Sinn Féin team, led by Caoimhghin Ó Caoláin, and discussed a range of issues in relation the provision of healthcare, transport infrastructure, agriculture and economic investment. MP calls for cross-border bridges to be re-opened In talks with Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern and Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern last week as part of a top level Sinn Féin negotiating team, Fermanagh/ South Tyrone MP Michelle Gildernew called for Knockaginney and Annaghoe Bridges, linking Tyrone and Monaghan, to be returned to working order and for spy posts to be taken down from Castle Hill and Quarry Lane. Sinn Féin calls for Rogan's release Sinn Féin has demanded the release of the North Belfast man who was arrested on Tuesday in the Spanish Canary Islands on foot of British extradition papers. The British allege Michael Rogan was involved in the 1996 IRA attack on Thiepval Barracks, the British Army's Six-County headquarters. 
The huge concrete barrier erected to block in Travellers in Dunsink Lane in Finglas, North Dublin, as part of a Council campaign to end illegal dumping, is to be dismantled. 
Hundreds of republicans from West Belfast attended the annual D Company commemoration along the Falls Road last Sunday 10 October. Sinn Féin demands Electoral Law change 
Sinn Féin Mid-Ulster MP Martin McGuinness, joined by party colleagues David Kennedy (North Belfast) and Angela Nelson (Lagan Valley), launched the party's electoral registration campaign on Wednesday. SF says Commission candidate should step down Comments from the incoming European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security, Rocco Buttiglione, that homosexuality is a sin and marriage is so women can have children, caused uproar on Monday when the EU Parliament rejected him as a candidate for the job. Donegal Social Economy Seminar 
• A seminar on Social Economy Projects was held in Letterkenny, County Donegal ,on Monday 11 October, organised by the republican ex-prisoners' group, Abhaile Arís. Donal Ó Cobhthaigh, a social economy expert for Coiste na nIarchimí, the umbrella organisation for republican ex-prisoner groups, gave an passionate talk on the place of the social economy sector in the Ireland of the future for the republican community. New look for Irish Democrat website 
THE WEBSITE of the Irish Democrat (www.irishdemocrat.co.uk), the oldest campaigning newspaper of the Irish in Britain, has undergone a major revamp. 
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