We’ve seen Youth Defence and their far-right backers produce billboards full of women. Women upset, women laughing alone with salad, women concentrating but always stock shots of women. Now they’ve decided the most ‘contemplative’ man they could find is this chap.
A Fistful of Bitcoins
Ed zillion takes us to the wild wild west of digital culture. The Libertarian Millennium, if you will. A place where the twin technologies Bitcoin and Tor have led to the emergence of an online community like no other with its own marketplace and its own currency. A place inhabited by a disparate collection of cyber-utopians, digital activists, scammers and their inevitable marks. A place where you can buy LSD … Read More
Just Say Know: An Interview With The Irish Needle Exchange Forum
Definitely the media has an important role to play, some of them have been great, others not so much. It is also the individuals who make statements to the media who have a significant responsibility to ensure that their facts are right. The whole issue with the pmma was that people reporting about it didn’t really have a grasp on what it is.
To counter RTÉ propaganda
Since we posted the photo contrasting RTÉ’s coverage of last night’s Legislate for X Case Bill with reality (see featured image) our Facebook page has been flooded with new people claiming everything from ‘only Sky has a licence to broadcast from Kildare St.’ to ‘ Satellite dishes don’t work in Kildare St.’Bullshit. We have been covering news from outside the Dáil for years and while admittedly RTÉ rarely broadcasts … Read More
How your TD voted tonight.
There follows a complete list of TDs votes from tonight’s Bill for legislation on the X case. Contact your local representative via the email addresses we supply below if they have not represented you.
The Vigil. The Vote.
We’re outsde the Dáil listening to various degrees of fundamentalist nonsense on speakers broadcastng the ‘debate’ on Clare Daly’s Abortion Bill. Some stirring speeches coming through but there is an overwhelming feeling that while Opus Dei and the Knights of Columbanus dominate the benches of our more conservative political parties the rights of women in this country will always come second to the desires of elderly priests.
Foetal Attraction
While our headline might not have been in the best taste, this article from issue 4 of our print mag deals with the timely issue of abortion legislation and has a look behind the scenes at Youth Defence. We hope to see many of you at the Dáil this evening, the Jesus Army are down there already with their big virgin heads and two pairs of socks inside their … Read More
Expert Group Report on Abortion
The expert group charged with reporting on the abortion issue in Ireland has returned it’s findings. Read them below. Clare Daly, who has led the rallying cry for legislation and change says ‘The expert group says we must provide for life-saving abortions where suicide is affected. So really the personal opinions of Fine Gael TDs shouldn’t really come into it.”
Clare Daly’s Amended Bill
Clare Daly’s Medical Treatment Bill arrived today. Read it at the following link. It will be voted on next Wednesday coinciding with a protest outside the Dáil. Also see below the voting as it proceeded on Daly’s earlier unamended Bill in April. Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) (No. 2) Bill 2012 [PMB] Follow the leap here for the voting record…
Any of you received this automated call?
This automated call has been doing the rounds over the last 48 hours. Looks like someone in the pro-life movement is getting scared. That’s democracy for ya!! Courtesy of our friends over on Shit Youth Defence Say this is a recording of an unsolicited automated message that has been doing the rounds in the last 48 hours. It’s the type of garbled yes speak the government referendum commission would be proud of. Churning … Read More