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Tonight, at 6pm, in Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin, Women to Blame – a multimedia history of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution – will be launched by Marie McMahon and Maura Molloy.

It will run until November 17.

Maura Molloy says:

“Gathering the history of the 8th Amendment into one room is no mean feat. Women to Blame allows those of us involved in the 1970s to look back and view our progress. It gives more recent choice activists an opportunity to view their own struggle as a continuation of second wave feminism in the 1970s. Tonight, I look forward to remembering and celebrating 40 years of Irish women’s struggle, with both veteran and young feminists who have taken up the torch.”

Exhibition organiser, Therese Caherty says:

“We see Women to Blame as an act of retrieval, not just of bags of memorabilia given to us by activists throughout the decades, but also of our history. The story of the struggle for contraception and abortion is fragmented and scattered. Our exhibition is a first attempt to bring that story in from the margins, make it whole and make it mainstream.”

Women to blame exhibition (Filmbase)

Gulp.

Meanwhile…

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Thanks Cormac McCann

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Earlier: Is He Among Us?

Previously: Desperate House Wi Fi

Who Took The Web From The Web Summit?

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A show of hands this afternoon of those affected by  wi-fi issues at the Web Summit.

Pic: Emily

 

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Colm Keena, in the Irish Times reports:

“Irish food multinational Glanbia has put more than €1 billion into companies in Luxembourg that have no employees but serve to reduce its tax bill here. The companies are the subject of advanced tax agreements (ATAs) negotiated with the tax authorities in Luxembourg and feature in 28,000 pages of leaked documentation from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Luxembourg detailing ATAs with multinational companies around the globe.”
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“The leaked documents show how Pepsi, Ikea, FedEx and 340 other companies secured tax deals from Luxembourg, allowing many of them to slash their tax bills while maintaining little presence in the tiny European Union member state.”

“The material also shows how foreign multinationals use Ireland as part of Luxembourg- based structures that reduce their corporation tax bills in the Republic and elsewhere.The documentation was made available to media organisations as part of a major investigation into Luxembourg’s role in global tax avoidance.”

Glanbia’s €1bn Luxembourg move to cut its Irish tax bill (Colm Keena, Irish Times)

trichetJean Claude Trichet

… It is the position of the [ECB] Governing Council that it is only if we receive in writing a commitment from the Irish government vis-a-vis the Eurosystem on the four following points that we can authorise further provisions of ELA [emergency liquidity] to Irish financial institutions:

1) The Irish government shall send a request for financial support to the Eurogroup;

2) The request shall include the commitment to undertake decisive actions in the areas of fiscal consolidation, structural reforms and financial sector restructuring, in agreement with the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the ECB;

3) The plan for the restructuring of the Irish financial sector shall include the provision of the necessary capital to those Irish banks needing it and will be funded by the financial resources provided at the European and international level to the Irish government as well as by financial means currently available to the lrish government, including existing cash reserves of the Irish government;

4) The repayment of the funds provided in the form of ELA shall be fully guaranteed by the Irish government, which would ensure the payment of immediate compensation to the Central Bank of Ireland in the event of missed payments on the side of the recipient institutions.

I am sure that you are aware that a swift response is needed before markets open next week, as evidenced by recent market tensions which may further escalate, possibly in a disruptive way, if no concrete action is taken by the Irish government on the points I mention above.

Portion of a letter sent to then Finance Minister Brian Lenihan from ECB President Jean Claude Trichet on November 19, 2010

Jean Claude Trichet letter to Brian Lenihan (Irish Times)

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