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CrisisJam #1
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Crisisjam: exposing and challenging the myths, the half-truths and the occasional outright lies disseminated by a largely uncritical and frequently complicit media; providing a space for new alternative and radical ways of talking and thinking about the crisis, as well as a forum for original research and reporting.
This edition is curated by Colin Coulter.
- How the Hunt Report is compromised
- Naming the Shameless
- Health is Wealth: What Ireland needs - by Justin Frewen and Anna Datta
- Guess who's having a good recession? The Bank of Ireland Art auction. By Michael Cronin
- Exploiting young workers
(Image left: Tadhg O'Sullivan)
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Factory Farms for the Mind
 The onset of recession has sparked a systematic assault on the notion of the public good in Ireland. The vilification of the public sector in the media mirrors the ambition of the government to erode the institutions of state provision. The political prejudices of Fianna Fail are only too apparent in their plans for third level institutions. In this essay, Colin Coulter takes a look at what the authors of the crisis have in mind for higher education in Ireland.
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Health is Wealth
 In the years of plenty, health provision in Ireland continued to fall far short of that in other comparable countries. As the recession takes hold and public expenditure is slashed, the health services available to most Irish people will deteriorate further. Here Justin Frewen and Anna Datta make the case that more spending on health is not only ethical, it actually makes a great deal of economic sense as well.
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Fade Street and the New Precariat
 While the recession has been disastrous for hundreds of thousands of Irish people it has also represented a major opportunity for unscrupulous employers. A new generation of talented young Irish graduates are increasingly expected to work long hours for nothing as 'interns'. The depressingly predictable response of our national broadcaster has been to cast this grinding exploitation as the very last word in glamour. Angela Nagle takes up the story.
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Guess Who's Having a Good Recession?
 One of the mantras repeated endlessly in the Irish media is that the country is broke. Apparently those vast fortunes accumulated during the boom have all disappeared like snow on a ditch. It came as something of a surprise then to learn that in the days leading up to Christmas eight people were willing and able to part with €4,000 a piece for Hermès handbags stocked in Brown Thomas. When the exclusive accessories sold out disappointed customers were forced to add their names to the waiting l
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Naming the Shameless
 The onset of recession might have been expected to ensure that those jaded ideas that got us into this mess might be set aside. In reality, however, the end of the boom only appears to have strengthened the authority of neoliberal doctrines. Hugh Green maps out the strategic poverty of public discourse in Ireland during the crisis...
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