20 April 2000 Edition

London Friends back Agreement

20 April 2000

The London-based group, Friends of the Good Friday Agreement, held its first major conference on 14 and 15 April at the TUC building in central London, entitled `Making the Good Friday Agreement Work'. The group, founded by British Labour MPs Kevin McNamara, Maria Fyffe and John McDonnell, called the conference to coincide with the second anniversary of the signing of the Agreement and invited key players from all pro-Agreement parties in the Six Counties and the British government. Representing Sinn Féin at the condference were Assembly members Alex Maskey and Mitchel McLaughlin. Free article

Troops Out demilitarisation call

20 April 2000

At its Annual General Meeting last weekend, the Troops Out Movement (TOM) agreed to prioritise its ``Demilitarise Ireland Campaign'', which is supported by Tony Benn MP. Free article

Bik to launch new H Block CD

20 April 2000

Bik McFarlane, the former OC of the republican POWs in the H Blocks, will launch Music from the Blocks 2, a recording of 20 famous ``jail songs'', in the Andersonstown Social Club on Saturday 22 April. Free article

Don't panic - Profiteers at work

20 April 2000

This Monday, workers across the world went to work just like every other day. However, everywhere they went newspapers, as well as radio and TV news reports, carried stories of the falling share prices on US and European stock markets. Even the Sun told us ``Don't Panic''. Free article

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Multicultural News

20 April 2000

Ireland's first multicultural newspaper, Metro Eireann, was launched in the Mansion House on Monday, 17 April, as a counter to ``the inadequate and often lying racist coverage of immigrant issues in the national media'', says to Abel Ugba, pictured left, with managing editor Chinedu Onyejelem. Free article

Unions and NGOs to fight `dispersal policies'

20 April 2000

Over 400 people, including representatives of many nongovernmental organisations and trade unions, packed into Liberty Hall on Sunday to plan a campaign against the discriminatory policy introduced by the 26-County government of ``direct provision'' for asylum seekers. Free article

Government `stroke' to legalise bin charges

20 April 2000

The Dublin government pulled a `stroke' in Leinster House on Wednesday when they rushed through all stages of a special Bill in less than three hours to enable local authorities to continue and to retrospectively impose refuse and other charges on householders. Free article


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