The Dublin Council of Trade Unions, in conjunction with the Youth Committee of the ICTU and in co-operation with the Health trade unions, inaugurated a ‘Campaign for a Decent Public Health Service’ some time last year.
The Campaign hoped to bring together those who work in the Health Service and their trade unions, with patients’ advocates, Health and Hospital campaigners, concerned Health professionals, community and voluntary organisations, the trade union movement in general and the general public to demand a civilised Health Service.
DCTV recorded the meeting as part of our The Document series.
The background to the Symphysiotomy practice in Ireland.
This program tells the horrifying story of how hundreds of women in Ireland were subjected to a mutilating childbirth operation driven by religious fanaticism rather than medical necessity. From 1944-84, fundamentalist Catholic doctors boycotted Caesarean section because they were opposed to birth control: they opted instead for a barbaric 18th century operation that severed the pelvis.
This program is a recording of a meeting held by the Feminist Open Forum in Dublin Thursday 29 October 2009 with speakers including: Marie O’Connor Health Analyst and Author, Jackie Morrissey Researcher and Lecturer, Colm McGeehin, a solicitor who represents over 100 women who are casualties of this horrible childbirth operation.
Anyone directly affected by the issues raised in this programme may phone 086 86 98 373 for information and advice.
In this Neat TV production, Dave Donnellan and other volunteers bring viewers a glimpse into the recent Climate Camp in Shannonbridge, Co. Offaly. The protest camp highlighted the urgent need to address the issue of peat bogs in Ireland and the dangerous effect their exploitation by Bord na Mona and the ESB has on Climate Change.
Originally a video installation that ran in the Project Arts Centre, this recreation of the planning hearing for the Corrib Gas Project looks at the 10 year struggle between two cultures in the West of Ireland. On one side, a small community defends the safety of its people and rights of its farmers and fishermen, On the other the consortium of Shell Oil, the Norwegian state company Statoil and Marathon, plan to bring to market the valuable gas deposit of the Corrib gas field, off the North-West coast of Ireland. To achieve this, a production pipeline is being laid to carry the high pressure gas inland, to a processing plant in Mayo, exiting the Atlantic Ocean and reaching the Irish Coast at Glengad and Rossport.
You can read an interview with the artist that made the piece, Seamas Nolan over here.
Completed in 2005, Granito de Arena provides context and background to the unprecedented popular uprising that exploded in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2006. It serves as an excellent prequel to Corrugated Film’s latest release, Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad. Award-winning Seattle filmmaker, Jill Freidberg, spent two years in southern Mexico documenting the efforts of over 100,000 teachers, parents, and students fighting to defend the country’s public education system from the devastating impacts of economic globalization.
This 60 min documentary is about how the country was systematically ruined by US imperialism and the international financial institutions IMF and the world bank under the label of neoliberalism, as well as the help of a currupt political class. the compact and unanimous resistance of the public since the 19th/20th december 2001 has started to stir things up, slowly but surely: people are getting together in neighbourhood meetings, the unemployed are blocking streets, factories are being occupied and run by the workers, the unpunished militarymen (there were 30,000 missing people during the military dictatorship) and politicians are attacked on the street and openly condemned. the poor -who have no house, no tarmac roads, no money to eat- got to speak out, as well as professors, activists, factory occupants; the people who got together at the meetings.
