Saturday, March 11, 2006
Round Table Discussion (prerecorded 11.3.06)
A round table discussion with two groups of foreign nationals, hosted by Near FM presenter Ger Dogan, has taken place on Saturday 11th March 06.
We would like to thank all the participants for their open and honest answers and suggestions.
The two pieces (28minutes each) are definitely to be aired on 21st March 2006.
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Dolphin House - a conversation with Community Development Worker Tommy Coombes
I had a 19-minute conversation with my ex-colleague and good friend Tommy Coombes, Community Development Worker in Dolphin House about the stigma that seems to be still attached to the people from Dolphin House.Tommy gave an account about the various forms of discrimination he and others had to endure as well as telling us what is in store for the soon to be biggest social housing estate of the state ...
After the election of Hamas: What next
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) called for a public meeting on the question: "After the election of Hamas: What next" on March 7th at 36 Parnell Square.They brought three speakers along (from left to write): Hamdi Shaqqura from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Dr. Vincent Durac, Lecturer Middle East Studies @ UCD and Sarit Michaeli from an organisation called BĀ“TSELEM, The Israeli Centre for Human Rights. The whole feature has a length of 98 minutes and is a real eye opener to the issues on the West Band and the Gaza Strip.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Lunchtime Talks: "Tolerance and Reason" @ Unitarian Church
Total length: 48minutes
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Part of the solution: Intercultural Center
Thursday, March 02, 2006
From dream to reality
People often wonder why people end up in countries like Ireland or other European countries.
NGO Trocaire brought visitors from Nicaragua over who gave an account how difficult life is in the Americas where childlabour and poverty is a massive issue.
The program is divided in 4 parts (played as one piece though):
1) Interview with Lara Kelly, Trocaire
2 and 3) Interview with Karina Tellez Lazo and Eleazat Alonso Martinez, Funarte/Nicaragua and 4) "From Dream To Reality" presentation at Trinity College, recorded March 1st 2006
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
What is racism?
Fahad - an Irish born muslim with pakistani roots ...
Friday, February 24, 2006
Round Table Discussion
Great stuff is coming up - We will be having a real multi cultural round table discussion which will be aired on March 21st and so far people from the following countries are participating (hopefully :-) ) - Spain, China, Germany, France, Somalia, Nigeria, Greece, South Africa and Poland. For convenience sake we will all talk English!!!