Memorial event remembers women incarcerated in Magdalene laundries

[me b zola]

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.

[elleng]

1. Great movie on the subject, Philomena.

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

[me b zola]

4. Thank you for the link

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]

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

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]

2. Thank you K&R

[Dawson Leery]

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

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]

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

[niyad]

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

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

[Dawson Leery]

7. Charlatans don't make amends.

[demigoddess]

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

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]

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

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

[GeoWilliam750]

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

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