History of Feminism

me b zola

(19,053 posts) Thu Mar 5, 2015, 08:08 PM Mar 2015

Memorial event remembers women incarcerated in Magdalene laundries

Memorial event remembers women incarcerated in Magdalene laundries

MEMBERS OF THE public gathered today in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, to remember and honour all of the women who were incarcerated in the Magdalene laundries.

The annual Flowers for Magdalene event was attended by many who came bearing flowers to place on the graves.

Survivors

Speaking at the remembrance event Sinn Féin Deputy Leader Mary LouMcDonald said that it was one year after Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s apology to the Magdalene survivors and still many surviving women have been excluded from the redress scheme and just a fifth of the eligible women have yet to receive their payments, she said.

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“The nuns have still not apologised, nor will they contribute to the compensation fund,” added McDonald, stating the women should not have to suffer further due to additional delays in the restorative justice process.

~more @ link~
http://www.thejournal.ie/magdalene-laundries-memeorial-glasnevin-1341282-Mar2014/#slide-slideshow7

They have not begun the process of apologizing for the children that were stolen from the Irish mothers and sold to be legally adopted.

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Memorial event remembers women incarcerated in Magdalene laundries (Original Post) me b zola Mar 2015 OP

Great movie on the subject, Philomena. elleng Mar 2015 #1

Thank you for the link me b zola Mar 2015 #4

I saw it when it first came out over Thanksgiving weekend 2013. StevieM Mar 2015 #8

Thank you K&R ismnotwasm Mar 2015 #2

Never forget the 300k children that were stolen from Dawson Leery Mar 2015 #3

has pope photo op made any comments on this nightmare? niyad Mar 2015 #6

thank you for posting this. I notice that dear old pope photo op isn't doing anything about niyad Mar 2015 #5

Charlatans don't make amends. Dawson Leery Mar 2015 #7

women are different, it is okay to be cruel to women. demigoddess Mar 2015 #9

you have that absolutely correct. this particular patriarchal institution has not changed its niyad Mar 2015 #10

It is difficult to win the long-term global power struggle GeoWilliam750 Mar 2015 #11

elleng

(137,262 posts)

1. Great movie on the subject, Philomena.

Reply to me b zola (Original post)

Thu Mar 5, 2015, 08:11 PM

Mar 2015

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/philomena-and-irelands-magdalen-laundries/

me b zola

(19,053 posts)

4. Thank you for the link

Reply to elleng (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 5, 2015, 08:56 PM

Mar 2015

I have recently been able to finally watch it. Wow, just wow, what a great movie, yet so painful.

I really loved how the movie showed how adoptees don't speak about their feelings on adoption, even among people that are close to them. Of course, her son's husband understood his feelings more than any other person in his life.

Just loved this movie, every second of it. It told her story without apology, exposing in a polite way the depravity of what occurred there. I bawled, and I am sure that I will bawl again when I watch it again.

StevieM

(10,555 posts)

8. I saw it when it first came out over Thanksgiving weekend 2013.

Reply to me b zola (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 5, 2015, 10:16 PM

Mar 2015

I saw it with my aunts and uncle when I was home for the holidays.

It gave me the opportunity to educate them about the Baby Scoop Era, a chapter that most Americans don't even know happened. It was good to provide that information to people who had been in the dark.

My aunt did say that she knew one girl in high school who "went away" for awhile.

ismnotwasm

(42,486 posts)

2. Thank you K&R

Reply to me b zola (Original post)

Thu Mar 5, 2015, 08:42 PM

Mar 2015

Dawson Leery

(19,382 posts)

3. Never forget the 300k children that were stolen from

Reply to me b zola (Original post)

Thu Mar 5, 2015, 08:52 PM

Mar 2015

Republican (supporters of the Republic against the Monarchy in Spain) parents after the Spanish Civil War.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049647/BBC-documentary-exposes-50-year-scandal-baby-trafficking-Catholic-church-Spain.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15335899

niyad

(121,094 posts)

6. has pope photo op made any comments on this nightmare?

Reply to Dawson Leery (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 5, 2015, 09:54 PM

Mar 2015

niyad

(121,094 posts)

5. thank you for posting this. I notice that dear old pope photo op isn't doing anything about

Reply to me b zola (Original post)

Thu Mar 5, 2015, 09:53 PM

Mar 2015

reparations, apologies, nothing in this horrific, obscene situation.

Dawson Leery

(19,382 posts)

7. Charlatans don't make amends.

Reply to niyad (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 5, 2015, 10:10 PM

Mar 2015

demigoddess

(6,675 posts)

9. women are different, it is okay to be cruel to women.

Reply to niyad (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 6, 2015, 01:13 AM

Mar 2015

we are not really human and therefore religion can do anything they want to us. After all, we were descended from Eve the original sinner. And if you believe that way, you are a religious male chauvinist pig. So many of them around.

niyad

(121,094 posts)

10. you have that absolutely correct. this particular patriarchal institution has not changed its

Reply to demigoddess (Reply #9)

Fri Mar 6, 2015, 02:40 PM

Mar 2015

stance on over 50% of the population since its inception.

GeoWilliam750

(2,551 posts)

11. It is difficult to win the long-term global power struggle

Reply to niyad (Reply #10)

Fri Mar 6, 2015, 08:42 PM

Mar 2015

Without control over demographics

Control of demographics means control over women

Denying women their rights is often a necessary path to major political power

And it is wrong

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