Archive for the ‘Citizenship, migration, race, and ethnicity’ Category

GRC summary

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

I had planned to blog more from GRC, but my airport card stopped working on Friday, which was somewhat of an annoyance. I was pleased that my session on podcasting was reasonably successful - we didn't get into discussing much of the more arcane aspects of adopting podcasting for community ...

Visiting New Orleans

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Approximately 225,000 people left New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina flooded most city neighborhoods in August 2005. A sizeable number came from the 9th ward. Some 1800 people died during the floods; later, hundreds more succumbed to stress-related ailments. [Saul Landau] My parents visited the US recently, and we took the opportunity ...

Activism compendium

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

A number of items today, from a range of sources. First, the picture to the left is of Labour TD Joe Costello, who for the last 5 years has run a weekly protest outside the Mater hospital, calling for better healthcare. Second, potentially good news for grad employees in private universities in ...

Lunch and learn – Unofficial

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

It's getting close to that time of year. For the uninitiated, each year undergrads at the University of Illinois participate in an event titled Unofficial St Patrick's Day, or Unofficial for short. The slogan "Drink Until You're Irish" or - on this year's t-shirts - "Instant Irish: Just Add Alcohol." Last ...

Opposition coalesces against axing of MW by RTÉ

Monday, February 11th, 2008

The Éan (Emigrant Advice Network) blog has compiled a list of coverage of RTÉ's decision to cease broadcasts on Medium Wave. In my own piece I noted that while RTÉ touted the fact that it would continue service on Long Wave:LW is not present on most domestic receivers at this stage, so it will ...

Immokalee Workers win global anti-slavery award

Monday, November 12th, 2007

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers are doing important work across a range of areas. I first came across them in connection with their founding of WCIW, an LPFM station serving farm-workers in Florida.They are also well-known for their work to gain extra income for workers through putting pressure on companies ...

RTÉ continues DRM tests on longwave

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Interesting news from Enda O'Kane, letting me know of some new DRM tests being conducted by RTE on the 252kHz wavelength:This broadcast will also be available at the IFA Show Amsterdam and is part of a 24hr trial. RTE has carried out digital trials over the past month on Longwave 252 kHz.These ...

Funding for Irish TV productions

Friday, September 7th, 2007

It's always interesting to consider the difference in scale between the costs of radio and television programming. Today the BCI announced €8.7m in funding for television programming, spread across 54 projects (out of 121 applications). With over €150k on average being provided for each project, one of the figures released by ...

Fun with numbers

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

The British Labour Party has come out swinging at the SNP at their national conference:The home secretary's attack followed an ICM survey for the Sunday Telegraph which suggested support for Scottish independence had reached 52% among Scots and 59% in England.Yes, that's right - more English people favour Scottish independence ...

Irish birth rate highest in Europe

Monday, May 8th, 2006

"Baby Boomers" na hEorpa is how Foinse is describing the fact that Ireland's birthrate is by far the highest in Europe, at 15.2 births per thousand per annum. Of course, this is a somewhat different measure than the total births per woman (in her lifetime), where I think we recently ...