Claiming Our Future - the task now is to convert an aspiration for equality and sustainability into tangible social change
Aiden Lloyd is coordinator with the European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland and a member of Is Feidir Linn
The Claiming Our Future event held last Saturday in the RDS in Dublin, which brought over 1,000 people [...]

Something interesting happened in Dublin on Saturday October 30th 2010. It is not yet clear whether what happened was important. But it was interesting nonetheless.
More than one thousand people from all over Ireland gathered in the Industries Hall at the RDS to participate in an event called Claiming Our Future.
There were community and voluntary sector [...]

During the summer of this year, the HSE Crisis Pregnancy Programme (then known as the Crisis Pregnancy Agency) said that there had been a fall in the number of Irish women travelling abroad for abortion services. During 2001, at the height of the Celtic Tiger, 6,673 women gave Irish addresses to abortion clinics abroad when [...]

As we enter a winter of searing discontent, the prognosis is bleak. While the government continues to funnel truckloads of cash into the gaping maw of our banking sector, the rest of us have to prepare for a slash and burn raid on our public services, together with an increase in our taxes and corresponding [...]

The Taoiseach’s comments on the issue of the proposed children’s rights referendum, which may yet not take place at all, will come as no surprise to any person who has followed the issue since his predecessor, Bertie Ahern first agreed that the children of this state needed their rights enshrined [...]

The Immigration Residency and Protection Bill passed the Second Stage in the Dail last week.  This brings the legal basis for summary deportation without notice of anyone found to be illegally resident in Ireland, a step closer to becoming reality.
The Bill was originally intended to update and bring all immigration rules under one piece of [...]

The October edition of the Socialist Voice is now available. It includes this article on the Irish government’s shock doctrine approach to Irish health care.
Renewed plans to strip the country’s acute hospitals of their emergency and intensive-care services have recently been unveiled by the Health Service Executive. The new hierarchy of hospital closures spells [...]

FEMINIST OPEN FORUM
Do the Trade Unions Belong
to Women?
Panellists include:
SALLY ANNE KINAHAN
Assistant General Secretary, ICTU
FIONNUALA Ni BHROGAIN
Branch Officer, CWU
STEPHANIE SCHMOLINER
IG Metal (Germany
ANNE SPEED
National Campaigns Organiser, SIPTU
Chair: Dr SOPHIE GAMWELL
ICTU Newman Fellow, UCD
Thursday 14TH October at 7.30pm
at: Exchange Dublin, Exchange St Upper,
Temple Bar, Dublin 2
ALL WELCOME - Please come along and join in the discussion!

The World Health Organization (WHO) has highlighted stigma and the associated discrimination as comprising the “single most important barrier”  facing people with mental health and behavioural issues. The World Psychiatry Association and World Association for Social Psychiatry have joined the WHO in identifying Stigma as a key public health challenge.
As the State Minister for Mental [...]

DCTV programme on the seminal Irish feminist journal, Banshee, which was produced by Irish Women United in the 1970s.
Contributions from Anne Speed, who was a member of Irish Women United, and from Clare Butler and Angela Coraccio of RAG (Revolutionary Anarchafeminist Group). I give some historical background. The programme was recorded in February of [...]