Blogs

This blog, taken from Kieran Murphy's speech at the final conference 'Breaking Through: The Future of Social Justice Advocacy' is a reflection on the past five years of the project and looks at where the community and voluntary sector and social justice advocates go from here.

We are preparing for our 6th Knowledge Exchange Forum next Tuesday (May 27 ^th ) on the themes of creative and visual advocacy. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the theme, many of the creative strategies are visually led – data representation, posters, theatre, street performance, street art - though we do have some literature in there too. That got us to thinking given our rich musical history, what are the songs that have led to or supported social change in Ireland?

In this blog Felix Spittal, Policy Officer of The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations writes about the disastrous implications of the gagging bill for the campaining work of charities in the UK if it passes through the House of Lords.

The legislative mess that is the Lobbying and Transparency Bill has now passed its third reading at Westminster and has moved to the Lords for their consideration. Unfortunately, the second part of the bill, which proposes changes to the rules around non-party campaigning, remains a serious threat to the campaigning work of the third sector.

On 25th June the Irish Times published an article on our perceptions research 'In Other Words' entitled 'Poverty industry targeted in report' (p5, June 25th 2013). The headline and article misrepresented the nature and content of the report. The Irish Times published a letter from Anna on 27th June. A number of other organisations also wrote to the Irish Times responding to the article, copies of this correspondence is included in this blog.