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ach herrje, herrjemine Josef und Maria!

Hundertwasser 

"Meisjes, koop niet bij joden"

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Gebenedijd oh Wonderbare Poldervrouwe, hoor de klucht van deze tijd.

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Singapore Good Shepherd "There has been relentless character assassination. Relentless character assassination!'

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€23m in redress paid to Magdalene laundry survivors

29-4-2016

Irish Times 

Some 624 women held in Magdalene laundries have to date received a lump sum payment of more than €23m under a government redress scheme.

The payments work out at an average of €36,858.

According to Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald, some 807 applications have been received under the Magdalene Laundries Restorative Justice Ex-Gratia Scheme.

She said 103 applications were refused, as the women had not been admitted to one of the 12 specified institutions.

Ms Fitzgerald said 11 applications were received from women who are now resident in the US.

“Eight of these women have received their lump- sum payments and the other three applications were refused as the women had not been admitted to a relevant institution,” Ms Fitzgerald said.

A number of women who claim they were used as forced labour in High Park Magdalene laundry in Dublin, but who have been excluded from the redress scheme, launched a High Court challenge to the decision last year.

The basis for excluding the women was that, although it was accepted they worked at the High Park Magdalene laundry, they were not admitted to it.

They had been admitted to An Grianán Institution, which was on the grounds of the convent laundry.

The case followed revelations in the Irish Examiner that evidence that An Grianán and High Park Magdalene Laundry were “one and the same thing” was uncovered by the HSE in 2012.

The revelation was contained in a memo sent from the then assistant director of the Children and Family Services, Phil Garland, to the Department of Children and Youth Affairs representative on the McAleese committee, Denis O’Sullivan, and Gordon Jeyes, the national director of the Children and Family Services at the HSE, on June 26, 2012, while the HSE was examining the laundries issue as part of the McAleese inquiry.

Mr Garland points out that the HSE had uncovered evidence that showed “quite categorically” that An Grianán and High Park Magdalene Laundry were “one and the same thing”.

However, despite the revelation, Ms Fitzgerald reiterated the view that An Grianán “served a different purpose” to High Park Magdalene laundry, and stated it had already been included Residential Institutions Redress Board Scheme.

Two other institutions not previously considered laundries — St Mary’s Training Centres in Stanhope St, Dublin; and Summerhill in Wexford — were included in the redress scheme.

Justice for Magdalene Research has pointed out that not all residents knew they were entitled to compensation under the previous redress scheme and has accused the Government of denying justice to victims of forced labour.

The group has also been extremely critical of the legislation brought in last year to provide survivors with access to a range of primary and community health services free of charge as recommended in the Magdalen Commission Report by retired High Court Judge and president of the Law Reform Commission, Mr Justice John Quirke.

Justice for Magdalene Research has said that the provisions do not provide the women with the same range of drugs and services made available to Health (Amendment) Act cardholders as promised.

Roupa suja se lava em casa; herbronning van St. Patricks kranten ezeltje

Rest het theologische probleem wie in de Strijd bij Clonwel tussen Toon en Patrick het nu eigenlijk gewonnen heeft,

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Bad girls do the best sheets; Exhibition: Enslaved In A Magdalene Laundry, Adelaide - 5th September - 3rd October 2014

The Pines 1957

12 August 2014 

These drawings were made
by Rachael Romero, who, as a fourteen-year-old runaway, was locked in a Good Shepherd Convent
Laundry.

 Here girls were forced to work in prison conditions without pay.

Authorities failed to regulate or inspect the dangerous working conditions in these industrial laundries where young women suffered forced labor under the rule of silence, physical and emotional abuse that left a legacy for survivors to overcome

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¨ Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don’t help us, who else in the world can help us do this?
CAMUS, (1948); reported in Resistance, Rebellion and Death (translation by Justin O'Brien, 1961), p. 73
Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.   --Camus  ¨

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Former residents to boycott nuns' reunion

The Age
21-6-2013 

Carolyn Webb

Members of a support group for people who grew up in care say they will boycott a reunion organised by the Good Shepherd nuns as part of celebrations for the order's 150th anniversary in Australia.


Care Leavers Australia Network chief executive Leonie Sheedy said the nuns' event was inappropriate ''when they haven't acknowledged, or publicly apologised for, the damage that's been done to children in their care''.

With the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse under way and the state inquiry into how the churches handled clergy sexual abuse to report later this year, abused former residents of Good Shepherd institutions said there was nothing to celebrate.
The nuns, on their webpage, say the June 21 and 22 celebrations at the Abbotsford Convent will include tours and an exhibition.

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Ms Sheedy said many CLAN members would boycott a reunion afternoon tea ''for all former
residents of Good Shepherd institutions'' at the convent on Friday.

She said they felt their lives had been ruined as girls and young women by being forced to do harsh, unpaid labour - for example, in industrial laundries - and by physical, sexual and mental abuse.

Ms Sheedy believes the royal commission may have something to do with why the nuns are holding the reunion. ''It's to show that they're engaging with the women.'' She said survivors of Good Shepherd institutions had received no compensation, except for a handful who were offered up to $5000 each.
Stena Keys, of Portarlington, who laboured at Abbotsford aged 13 in the late 1960s, sees ''nothing to celebrate'' this weekend.

''I was sexually abused by two of the other residents there, the other girls, and the nuns verbally abused me,'' she said.

She said the nuns shouldn't hold a reunion. ''Definitely not as a celebration. Maybe more as an apology.
''I worked in the laundry. I did the slave child labour for them. I worked on the presses. I'm definitely paying for it now … physically I'm just no good. I'm 56 and I can barely get around.''

Heather Templeman, of Hastings, said her legs were burnt by hot pipes and her knees were ruined when she was forced to work for three years in the convent laundry from 1958, aged 16.
''The ironing was done for the Windsor Hotel, the Savoy, the Plaza, we earnt a lot of money for them, but we didn't get paid for it.''
She said of the reunion: ''What's it celebrating? I'm not sure why they're doing it, to make them look good or something? But it doesn't help, the damage is done.

''My shoulders are bad, I'm waiting for a knee replacement and the other knee is going.''
She said a staff member - not a nun - once punched her for hiding in a cupboard as part of an escape attempt.

In a statement, Good Shepherd province leader Sister Anne Manning said counsellors would be at the reunion. Not all former residents are happy about the event, but 104 were coming ''and are looking forward to it''.
The reunion had ''absolutely nothing'' to do with the royal commission. ''We believe it is appropriate to include former residents as part of our 150th celebrations. They are part of our history.''

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