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recent bookmarks from jmThe Culture War Funded by Russian Roubles2023-08-21T22:51:08+00:00
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/09/the-culture-war-funded-by-russian-roubles/
jmBetween 2009-18, anti-gender actors from within the European Union, Russia and the US have spent at least $707.2 million in Europe, with the Russian Federation making up 26.6% of that spend, according to research published by the European Parliamentary Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Rights.
As reported in this paper, the two main Russian funders of anti-gender disinformation are Vladimir Yakunin and Konstantin Malofeyev – oligarchs sanctioned for their alleged involvement in the annexation of Crimea, after Russia’s 2014 invasion.
Their roubles have mingled with US dollars at the World Congress of Families; with Euros at the Novae Terra Foundation, and La Manif Pour Les Tous; and British pounds at Agenda Europe – in 2013, the assets manager of banker Sir Michael Hintze attended the network’s London summit, the following year Malofeyev’s man in Europe, Alexey Komov, was on the guest list.
The campaigns and individuals funded by this wealth have regularly spread anti-abortion, anti-LGBTIQ disinformation, including that abortion is “Satanic” and that there’s a “homosexual agenda” which wants to make children “sex education propagandists in the EU”. They also spread anti-trans rhetoric.
]]>russia politics terfs gender lgbtqi abortion europe eu trans-rightshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:55cfd3069679/Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics2022-05-04T10:03:59+00:00
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vzjb/location-data-abortion-clinics-safegraph-planned-parenthood
jmabortion capitalism data data-privacy privacy location safegraphhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:785d2d9cd559/Human Life International operating in Ireland2022-03-21T11:44:19+00:00
https://the-beacon.ie/2022/03/19/irish-branch-of-us-anti-abortion-catholic-group-has-income-of-nearly-e1m-per-year-and-runs-rogue-crisis-pregnancy-agency/
jmhuman-life-international hli ireland abortion gender-rights ask-majella contraception politics right-winghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b2d12ec7439d/The one man behind all those slick, glossy, anti-abortion posters2019-05-14T11:25:24+00:00
https://twitter.com/ErynnBrook/status/1127605211764338689
jmgregg-cunningham abortion us-politics posters icbr ccbrhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:126c3f952105/8 Myths of Abortion in Ireland2018-12-13T14:15:28+00:00
https://www.abortionrightscampaign.ie/tag/8days2repealthe8th/
jmarc abortion ireland politics mythbusters repealthe8thhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a3841148baa4/Template GDPR video request for CCTV images2018-06-27T10:59:03+00:00
https://twitter.com/marksugruek/status/1008692593792880641
jmhospitals bodycams icbr abortion gdpr privacy sar cctvhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ea7e721aadb2/How Ireland’s Abortion Referendum Became a Test Case for Democracy in the Social Media Age2018-06-05T22:13:45+00:00
https://storyful.com/blog/2018/06/01/how-irelands-abortion-referendum-became-a-test-case-for-democracy-in-the-social-media-age/
jmOn 4chan, a number of users who identified as Irish attempted to infiltrate the online conversation and tarnish the pro-repeal campaign. Operation Zyklon encouraged users to spread awareness of a connection between Amnesty International Ireland and the philanthropist George Soros, who donated €137,000 to Amnesty’s My Body My Rights campaign in 2016. Operation Trojan Horse saw users sharing templates of fake pro-repeal posters with extreme captions such as, “There should be no limit on abortion up to birth”. Users were encouraged to print and spread these posters around college campuses and share them across social media. A particularly curious operation called Operation Drunken Monkey aimed to stifle student voter turnout by organizing club nights on May 24 in the hope that students would be too hungover to vote the following day.
]]>4chan repealthe8th abortion referenda politics fake-news amnestyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:73da75e4857c/How Ireland Beat Dark Ads – Foreign Policy2018-06-02T17:21:31+00:00
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/01/abortion-referendum-how-ireland-resisted-bad-behaviour-online/
jmIn practice, while these recognizable attempts to disrupt the democratic debate with microtargeted ads, bot activity, and misinformation were active, they appear to have been relatively ineffective and may even have turned voters away from those employing them.
Given the battleground online discourse has become in democracies across the world, this small country’s resistance to it may offer some cause for hope. The resilience offered by the small size and close-knit nature of the Irish electorate may be difficult to reproduce in larger democracies. But the active measures taken by media, volunteer groups, and campaigners against potentially corrosive techniques can be a powerful inspiration.
+1 -- it's heartening that we were able to defeat these 21st century dirty tricks after the damage they did with Trump and Brexit.]]>brexit elections trump fake-news propaganda bots dark-ads facebook social-media repealthe8th referenda abortion ireland repeal-shield twitterhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7fa6d59ac179/‘Abroad For Yes' Helped Irish Voters Get Home for Abortion Referendum2018-06-01T20:32:19+00:00
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/abroad-for-yes-ireland-abortion-referendum/
jmRebecca Wilson, one of the Abroad for Yes co-founders, said she and two other women, her sister Lauren Wilson and Hannah McNulty Madden, decided to launch the group when the referendum date was announced in late March. Wilson was visiting Helsinki, where Lauren and McNulty Madden are students.
After realizing Lauren and McNulty Madden weren’t eligible for a postal vote, they looked up the cost of flights and panicked. On Twitter, however, McNulty Madden noticed that people were expressing interest in helping people who wanted to go home to Ireland but couldn’t afford it. The women decided to set up the Abroad for Yes Facebook group as a community for supporters of repealing the eighth amendment to gather and find one another.
Wilson thought they’d help fund travel for maybe 10 people total, but in the first day of the group’s existence funded 5 trips, including for Lauren and McNulty Madden. After traveling back to Dublin, Wilson and the group continued to help others, enlisting three other group administrators. Wilson said they don’t have an exact figure, but she believes they’ve helped raise at least 30,000 euros.
]]>ireland repealthe8th abortion referenda abroad-for-yes t4y facebookhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c604d557e4ae/A first draft of history2018-05-31T22:25:33+00:00
http://philipoconnor.com/a-first-draft-of-history/
jmFor journalists it is always easier to point to the politician with the pearly-white smile and the pithy sound-byte as the harbinger of change – they attract the cameras and the microphones and make us turn our backs on the truth. It’s like we cannot – or will not – believe that change can be brought about by ordinary people doing extraordinary things, no matter how often we see it. It’s like we need the fallacy that our leaders are somehow better than us, somehow in control to sleep safely at night, when in fact much of our insomnia and worry is their creation.
My first draft of history is this:
“On Friday May 25 2018, the women of Ireland repealed the Eighth Amendment.”
And that’s it.
It may have taken them 35 years, and in that time they were scorned and laughed at and belittled and abused, right up until Saturday morning and in some cases beyond, and yet they did it. Nothing else is relevant.
Through the day I saw women, from teenagers who had just cast their first vote to political veterans who started out on this trail 35 years previously, gradually realising what they had done.
One by one, it dawned on them the immense power that they now wield.
They banded together, and over the weeks and months and years, they changed a country.
And they’re not done yet.
Amen to that. Resist the rewriting of history -- this was a revolutionary moment for Ireland, and in some ways, the world.]]>ireland history repealthe8th abortion referenda journalismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c2d82e5ef0c0/If only Brexit had been run like Ireland’s referendum | Fintan O’Toole | Opinion | The Guardian2018-05-30T13:22:12+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/29/brexit-ireland-referendum-experiment-trusting-people
jmIrish voters were subjected to the same polarising tactics that have worked so well elsewhere: shamelessly fake “facts” (the claim, for example, that abortion was to be legalised up to six months into pregnancy); the contemptuous dismissal of expertise (the leading obstetrician Peter Boylan was told in a TV debate to “go back to school”); deliberately shocking visual imagery (posters of aborted foetuses outside maternity hospitals); and a discourse of liberal elites versus the real people. But Irish democracy had an immune system that proved highly effective in resisting this virus. Its success suggests a democratic playbook with at least four good rules.
]]>trump fake-news abortion referendum repealthe8th democracy ireland fintan-o-toolehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0b4017240fc7/Louise Kenny's repeal facts and FAQs2018-05-22T11:02:02+00:00
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eprz9qb29429ezb/repealfacts%20and%20FAQs_update.pdf?dl=0
jmscience medicine louise-kenny repealthe8th abortionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:bd056b232b1d/Tricks, Lies and Videotape: The Dirty Tactics of the Anti Choice Side - HeadStuff2018-05-21T11:08:06+00:00
https://www.headstuff.org/topical/dirty-tactics-of-the-anti-choice-side/
jmrepealthe8th ireland law abortion prochoice dirty-tricks tacticshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3395a2727892/Abortion - the street demonstrations in pictures2018-05-15T14:21:50+00:00
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/abortion-the-street-demonstrations-in-pictures-1.2803266#&gid=1&pid=10
jm1992 1990s history ireland x-case abortion repealthe8th lawhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a2667e439129/repealfacts and FAQs.pdf2018-04-29T22:18:04+00:00
https://www.dropbox.com/s/deglzs4i2ss282w/repealfacts%20and%20FAQs.pdf?dl=0
jmrepeal repealthe8th science biology medicine pregnancy abortion pro-choice ireland miscarriagehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:42f341c2db9d/How to report graphic abortion imagery to the gardai under Irish law2018-04-14T11:41:26+00:00
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/984791345926758401.html
jmI tried to report ICBR graphic abortion imagery to the Gardai today and met a lot of resistance. The following thread gives an account of what happened and how someone can effectively report this imagery. 1/x
At 2pm on Friday the 13th of April I noticed the presence of ICBR graphic abortion imagery being displayed outside the Nassau street entrance of Trinity. I called Kevin Street Garda Station in order to make a complaint under Section 7 of the Public Order Act 1994 2/x
I was told that the Gardai had been instructed by their superiors to not intervene with such imagery and that this direction had come from the Refendum Commission itself. I then called the Refendum Commission in order to query this, as they'd never been involved previously. 3/x
A representative from the commission informed me that no such direction had been given to the Gardai as it is not in the commission's remit to influence such imagery. The representative told me that they would contact with Kevin Street Station about this miscommunication. 4/x
I then rang Kevin Street Station again to inform them of what I had been told by the Refendum Commission. I was then told that a complaint had to be made in person to either a Garda on the scene or to a local station (Trinity would be Pearse Street), which is understandable. 5/x
I informed the Gardai of a similar experience in Dundrum in which the local station had dispatched officers to move along those displaying the imagery to prevent a breach of the peace without a complaint being made in person. 6/x
I was finally told that Pearse Street Station would be contacted to have an available car dispatched to Trinity. 8/x
TLDR: If you see this imagery, report it under Section 7. If you are told that the Gardai cannot intervene, let them know that other stations have before. If they say they have been directed by the Referendum Commission, let them know there is no such directive on record. 9/x
I hope this miscommunication can be cleared up and that both @gardainfo and @RefCom_ie end up on the same page, so that Gardai can continue to do their jobs effectively and respond to public complaints of breach of the peace. 10/10
Very illuminating.
]]>twitter threads abortion propaganda gardai law ireland public-order-acthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9122cedf3fdc/How to talk to your children about abortion care in the run-up to the referendum2018-04-12T12:54:35+00:00
http://parentsforchoice.ie/talk-children-abortion-care-run-referendum/
jmShe pointed out one of the “baby” posters the other day when we were in the car and passed one. I said “Actually that’s a baby seed but the people who paid a lot of money for those posters made it look like a baby on purpose, because they think everyone who has a baby seed should have to grow it into a baby whether they wanted to or not. And that I think that’s telling lies and shouldn’t be allowed."
]]>abortion pro-choice kids children education childbirth savita propaganda repealthe8th parentinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f7e08d1b4f5b/Seeking medical abortions online is safe and effective, study finds | World news | The Guardian2017-05-17T10:45:39+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/17/seeking-medical-abortions-online-is-safe-and-effective-study-finds
jmOf the 1,636 women who were sent the drugs between the start of 2010 and the end of 2012, the team were able to analyse self-reported data from 1,000 individuals who confirmed taking the pills. All were less than 10 weeks pregnant.
The results reveal that almost 95% of the women successfully ended their pregnancy without the need for surgical intervention. None of the women died, although seven women required a blood transfusion and 26 needed antibiotics.
Of the 93 women who experienced symptoms for which the advice was to seek medical attention, 95% did so, going to a hospital or clinic.
“When we talk about self-sought, self-induced abortion, people think about coat hangers or they think about tables in back alleys,” said Aiken. “But I think this research really shows that in 2017 self-sourced abortion is a network of people helping and supporting each other through what’s really a safe and effective process in the comfort of their own homes, and I think is a huge step forward in public health.”
]]>health medicine abortion pro-choice data women-on-web ireland law repealthe8thhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c52b564461e0/New Scientist: Home abortions are safe – we should let women do it themselves2016-10-17T12:54:23+00:00
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2109111-home-abortions-are-safe-we-should-let-women-do-it-themselves/#link_time=1476705138
jmnew-scientist safety abortion pro-choice medicine mifepristone pills poland ireland repealthe8thhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:68493d0d6652/Anti-Choice Groups Use Smartphone Surveillance to Target 'Abortion-Minded Women' During Clinic Visits - Rewire2016-05-26T10:37:02+00:00
https://rewire.news/article/2016/05/25/anti-choice-groups-deploy-smartphone-surveillance-target-abortion-minded-women-clinic-visits/
jmWhat Flynn realized is that he could use [ad targeting] to infer that a woman might be seeking an abortion, and to target her for ads from anti-choice groups [using geofenced advertising].
“We can reach every Planned Parenthood in the U.S.,” he wrote in a PowerPoint display sent to potential clients in February. The Powerpoint included a slide titled “Targets for Pro-Life,” in which Flynn said he could also reach abortion clinics, hospitals, doctors’ offices, colleges, and high schools in the United States and Canada, and then “[d]rill down to age and sex.” “We can gather a tremendous amount of information from the [smartphone] ID,” he wrote. “Some of the break outs include: Gender, age, race, pet owners, Honda owners, online purchases and much more.”
Flynn explained that he would then use that data to send anti-choice ads to women “while they’re at the clinic.”
]]>geofencing grim-meathook-future abortion phones smartphones pro-choice adshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:db64a381145f/WWN’S Guide To Abortion In Ireland2014-08-20T12:49:08+00:00
http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/08/19/wwns-guide-to-abortion-in-ireland/
jmabortion ireland politics women rights wwn england ovaries rosaries religionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:682a105e5711/The dark truth about modern Ireland its media don't talk about2014-06-20T12:32:16+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jun/20/ireland-childprotection
jmThe economy has been built on cronyism, group-think, the double talk of absurdly low corporate tax rates and light touch regulation, the cult of the leader, an over reliance on "strong" international forces. These were the factors that caused the Celtic Tiger to collapse.
This has had consequences for all. It's the same for the system of shame and sexual repression. The impact has not been restricted to its most obvious victims. Ireland is not just a bad place to be a woman or an immigrant, it's a bad place to be in any way "different." As a result, sadly, it's a bad place to be anyone at all.
]]>ireland history women celtic-tiger industrial-schools immigration sinead-o-shea tuam abortion pregnancyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1b254ae0eb97/The Irish Times, terminations and Holles Street: The story that wasn’t there.2013-09-02T15:14:40+00:00
http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2013/09/02/the-irish-times-terminations-and-holles-street-the-story-that-wasnt-there/
jmI don’t know what happened here. I don’t know whether there ever was a woman who met the description given by the Irish Times who suffered a medical crisis during pregnancy. I don’t know why a group of men in positions of authority in the Irish Times decided that, if there was such a woman, they had any right to tell the rest of the country about her experiences. I don’t know why, when they discovered that a mistake had been made in the one legal fact used to justify that decision they didn’t immediately apologise.
And I don’t know what happened between the 23rd August 2013 and 31st August 2013 to prompt them to print a shoulder shrugging ‘acceptance’ that the case ‘hadn’t happened’ and limit the paper’s apology to an institution, as opposed to its readers. But, from what I’ve seen this week, I do know one thing. Whatever questions readers might have, The Irish Times isn’t interested in giving them any answers.
]]>irish-times fail shoddy abortion health public-interest journalism pregnancy correctionshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:168625a0ee26/Expert in Savita inquiry confirms Irish women get lower standard of care with chorioamnionitis2013-04-13T20:07:12+00:00
http://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/expert-in-savita-inquiry-confirms-irish-women-get-lower-standard-of-care-with-chorioamnionitis/
jm
Dr. Knowles’ testimony confirms for me that the law played a role, because her statements indicate the standard of care for treatment of chorioamnionitis is less aggressive in Ireland. This can only be because of the law as there is no medical evidence to support delaying delivery when chorioamnionitis is diagnosed. Standard of care is not to wait until a woman is sick enough to need a termination, the idea is to treat her, you know, before she gets sick enough. An elevated white count and ruptured membranes at 17 weeks is typically enough to make the diagnosis, so Dr. Knowles needs to testify as to what in Savita’s medical record made it safe to not recommend a delivery.
By the way, I also disagree with Dr. Knowles about her interpretation of Savita’s medical record, the chart doesn’t have “subtle indicators” of infection, it screams chorioamnionitis long before Wednesday morning. In North America the standard of care with chorioamnionitis is to recommend delivery as soon as the diagnosis is made, not wait until women enter the antechamber of death in the hopes that we can somehow snatch them back from the brink. If Irish law, or the interpretation thereof, had nothing to do with Savita’s death no expert would be mentioning sick enough at all.
]]>jen-gunter ob-gyn medicine savita law ireland abortion tragedy galway hospitalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3b56cc2f711b/The full timeline of Savita Halappanavar's mistreatment2013-04-12T20:23:33+00:00
http://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/savita-halappanavars-inquest-the-three-questions-that-must-be-answered/#comment-10485
jmtimeline savita abortion malpractice ireland medicine failhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:360777b1f6f8/Savita Halappanavar’s inquest: the three questions that must be answered | Dr. Jen Gunter2013-04-11T21:27:37+00:00
http://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/savita-halappanavars-inquest-the-three-questions-that-must-be-answered/
jmFetal survival with ruptured membranes at 17 weeks is 0%, this is from prospective study. [...but] “real and substantial risk” to the woman’s life is what is required by the Irish constitution to terminate a pregnancy, *whether or not the foetus is viable*.
So the foetus had 0% chance of survival -- but still termination was not considered an option. Bloody hell.]]>religion ireland savita horrors malpractice galway guh hospitals hse health inquest abortion pro-choice pregnancyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1439d726689d/Facts still sacred despite Ireland's spectrum of conflicting views on abortion - The Irish Times - Fri, Jun 29, 20122012-06-29T10:17:24+00:00
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0629/1224318966035.html
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