Category: International
Barghouti Leads Hunger Strikers
Posted by admin | Apr 29, 2017 | International | 0
ABBRA!
by moderator | Feb 5, 2019 | International | 0
Long before Björn Ulvaeus founded ABBA in 1972, along with Agnetha Fältskog, Benny Andersson and...
Read MoreBarghouti’s Wife Banned
by admin | Oct 3, 2017 | International | 1
Earlier this year imprisoned Fatah prisoner Marwhan Barghouti led a 41-day hunger strike in...
Read MoreBarghouti Leads Hunger Strikers
by admin | Apr 29, 2017 | International | 0
Palestinian prisoners’ leader Marwan Barghouti, who has spent fifteen years in jail under...
Read MoreSands’ Book Now in Kurdish
by admin | Jan 21, 2017 | International | 3
Denis O’Hearn’s widely-praised biography of Bobby Sands has now been translated into Kurdish. Nothing But An Unfinished Song will be published this weekend in yet another language of one of the world’s oppressed yet risen...
Read More‘I dedicate this song…’
by admin | Dec 14, 2016 | International | 0
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIiu1xF92Qo[/youtube] Léo Ferré, the flamboyant French composer, poet and singer, who was born in 1916 and died in 1993, was a pacifist chansonnier and political rebel. His songs of...
Read More‘That Caught The World’s Imagination’
by admin | Jun 3, 2016 | International | 0
The US edition of Variety, the weekly entertainment trade magazine, carried a review of the film 66 Days about the hunger strike of Bobby Sands. Made by Fine Point Films, 66 Days premiered at the HotDocs Festival in Toronto and...
Read MoreAnother Award for Italian Writer
by admin | May 11, 2016 | International | 0
Congratulations to Italian writer and journalist Silvia Calamati who last month was given an international award for her book Bobby Sands’ Companions. Women and War in Northern Ireland. The book is dedicated to Kathleen O’Hagan,...
Read MoreWho Preached Pacifism
by admin | May 1, 2016 | International | 0
Father Daniel Berrigan, the radical priest whom, along with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the British government banned from visiting Bobby Sands on his hunger strike, has died. Daniel Berrigan visited Ireland on many...
Read MoreGordon Lightfoot & Bobby Sands
by admin | Mar 2, 2016 | International | 0
While on the blanket protest Bobby Sands wrote a song, I Wish I Was Back Home In Derry, which he sang out his cell door to the air of Gordon Lightfoot’s song, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Bobby’s song has been recorded...
Read MoreBasque Prisoners Translate Bobby Sands
by admin | Aug 9, 2015 | International | 0
French writer Julie Duchatel recently spoke by telephone with Basque prisoner Aitzol Iriondok who along with his comrade Jurgie Garitagoitia has translated into Euskara (Basque) Denis O’Hearn’s biography of Bobby Sands, Nothing...
Read MoreTo The Brink
by admin | Apr 25, 2015 | International | 0
Former hunger striker Laurence McKeown’s interview with Anns Sussman on NPR (formerly National Public Radio). NPR serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. This is the...
Read MoreVicenza/Verona Events
by admin | Mar 2, 2015 | International | 0
Last Sunday, 1st March, was the 34th anniversary of the day in 1981 that Bobby Sands began his hunger strike which lasted sixty-five days until his death. Recently, another former hunger striker, Laurence McKeown spoke at two...
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