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Our Story, by the Rossport 5
Our Story by The Rossport 5 is available from independent bookshops in Ireland. In Britain ask for the book at your local bookstore. In north America the book will be available in the Spring. The book will be available online from mid-January, and through Amazon and eBay.
Small World Media is an independent publisher. Specialising in culture and community, SWM is Irish-centered, based in Cork, Dublin and Wicklow, with offices in England, Mexico, Slovenia and the USA.
Set up by media professionals and book trade specialists, SWM aims to publish four books in its first year 2007 and eight in 2008.
SWM will also publish the quarterly journal ISLAND, which will be the company flagship with its emphasis on Irish culture and community, on quality words, pictures and design, and a programme to encourage new writers of literature - poetry, prose and essay.
This will take SWM's total titles in its first two years of operation to 20. SWM will engage in extensive marketing, promotional and publicity campaigns for each of its titles, work with other agencies and groups to host readings and discussions, and generally raise awareness of Irish writers and their work.
Part of ISLAND's function will be poetry and prose readings, initially every month and eventually every week in venues all over the country.
Island can be ordered directly via Booksteps:
booksteps.ie/bks/showbk2.php?bookid=7597Cheques payable to Small World Media:
SMALL WORLD MEDIA
Knocknaquirk
Magheramore
County Wicklow
smallworldeditorial@googlemail.com
- island Journal Vol 1 No 1 Summer 2006:
island launched Summer 2006 as a quarterly journal
in the Summer 2006 issue of island:
• DERRY CHAMBERS reviews The Wind That Shakes The Barley and interviews its English director Ken Loach
• GRATTAN PUXON finds the Travellers at Dale Farm under threat of ethnic cleansing
• DEIRDRE CLANCY witnesses hunger in the Cathedral
• CD STELZER reveals the truth behind the rendition flights at Shannon
• MARY OMALLEY writes about the Shannon stop
• HARRY BROWNE explains the Pitstop Ploughshares
• DEBRA JAMES has something to say about Coillte and land
• ERIK VALENCIC goes to the east of hell
• MARTINA QUINN talks to a man who beat the State
• DERRY CHAMBERS has words with the EPA
• CD STELZER meets a Texan and a senator with peace on their mind
• MARK GARAVAN reveals whats next for the people of Rossport
• + JOHN MONAGHAN chronicles the Rossport campaign in pictures
• CHRIS LAWLOR delves into the history of Dunlavin
• BARRY FINNEGAN explains why resistance to GMOs has not gone away
• AIDAN OCONNOR learns why Neil Horan risks his life to get his religious message across
• PEADAR KIRBY discusses globalisation
• MAJELLA MCCARRON reads Ken Saro-Wiwas diary
• PETRA MADILL goes in search of stray cats
• JOHN OLEARY explains why place is so important
• MARTINA QUINN learns about community education in Limerick
• AYNIA BRENNAN takes a close look at nature
• MURIEL LUMB on a hard rain thats gonna fall
• MIKE WAGSTAFF gets to the heart of the matter
• + Shelter, a new short story, by DES HOGAN
• + new writing from NILMINI FERNANDO
• + verse by LIZ MELLON
• + the rant by CHRISTINA GAELHART
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Island can be ordered directly via Booksteps"
booksteps.ie/bks/showbk2.php?bookid=7597Requests for subscriptions should be sent to:
smallworldeditorial@googlemail.comBasic Sub: €40 for 4 issues
Special Sub (Friends of Island): €200 for 12 issues and the choice of four paperback books from a selection of 16 books valued between €15 and €25 to a total value of approximately €80.*
*The books on offer now are one from Our Story by The Rossport 5, €12, No Global by Robert Allen, €19.95, or one from the Booksteps online catalogue
Cheques payable to Small World Media:
SMALL WORLD MEDIA
Knocknaquirk
Magheramore
County Wicklow
Trade enquiries to
087 955 1504 (Ireland)Outside Republic of Ireland:
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07816 146 567 (Britain)
Sterling area: Basic £30 Special £146
Euro (not Ireland) area: Basic €56 Special €264
Dollar area: Basic $71 Special $336
Swiss area: Basic CHF87.50 Special CHF412
Rest of the World area: equivalent of €56 for basic sub and €264 for special sub - Incineration & Why It Must Stop!
NB: The site has also been produced as a CD. This is a multimedia presentation, with more graphics as well as a soundtrack, and is available for sale. Within the UK the CD costs £10 [sterling] including p&p. International orders will be at £15 including p&p. Order via tim_decenter2. 50% of sales will be split between continued update of the material and maintainence of the BlueGreenEarth Collective's websites.
The aim of the incineration website is to explain how municipal waste incineration has been adopted by local authorities in the UK, and why it is an unsafe practice that must cease.
Throughout the last two decades County Councils throughout the UK have had to address a continuing problem - what to do with domestic waste.
It is the responsibility of the local authority to keep our domestic waste off the street. In the past much of this waste was sent to landfill. However, a combination of the lack of new landfill sites, and increasing awareness of the environmental hazards of landfill, has resulted in a need to find alternatives.
Councils needed a solution that was affordable, and wanted one that allowed them to forget about the problem. Waste incineration seemed the perfect answer. Private tender meant that the local authority officers could wash their hands of day to day involvement in organizing disposal; large incinerators meant minimal amounts of land had to be found; and incineration was thought to be "clean".
However, the waste that was burnt was massively under-regulated. And over the last two decades it has become increasingly apparent that it most certainly is not clean.
Although the pollution from incinerators appears to have gone down greatly as world environment regulations have been tightened, the kind of pollution produced has altered. These "new" pollutants, and the viable alternatives, are the subject of the site. Data has been collated from various sources, including Robert Allen's Waste Not, Want Not, Guests of the Nation, No Global and The Dioxin Wars; Theo Colborn's [& John Myers and Dianne Dumanoski's] Our Stolen Future: How Man-Made Chemicals are Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence & Survival, and Paul Connett's work for CANK.
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Robert Allen is the author of Dioxin War: Truth & Lies About A Perfect Poison, Pluto Press, London/Ann Arbor/Dublin and University of Michigan, US, published in July 2004. Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com.
Book Description
This is a book about Dioxin, one of the most poisonous chemicals known to humanity. It was the toxic component of Agent Orange, used by the US military to defoliate huge tracts of Vietnam during the war in the 60s and 70s.
It can be found in pesticides, plastics, solvents, detergents and cosmetics. Dioxin has been revealed as a human carcinogen, and has been associated with heart disease, liver damage, hormonal disruption, reproductive disorders, developmental destruction and neurological impairment.
The Dioxin War is the story of the people who fought to reveal the truth about dioxin. Huge multinationals Dow and Monsanto both manufactured Agent Orange. Robert Allen reveals the attempts by the chemical industry, in collusion with regulatory and health authorities, to cover up the true impact of dioxin on human health. He tells the remarkable story of how a small, dedicated group of people managed to bring the truth about dioxin into the public domain and into the courts - and win.
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Robert Allen is the author of No Global: The People of Ireland versus the Multinationals, Pluto Press, London/Ann Arbor/Dublin, published in April 2004. Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com.
Book Description
Ireland's economy has seen phenomenal growth since the 1990s, as a result of an earlier decision by the state to chase foreign investment, largely from US corporates. As a result, manufacturers of raw chemicals, pharmaceuticals and highly dangerous substances came to Ireland, where they could make toxic products free from the strict controls imposed by other nations.
Robert Allen's book reveals the consequences to human health and the environment of the Irish state's love affair with the multinational chemical industry. The cost to Irish society was a series of ecological and social outrages, starting in the 1970s and continuing into the 2000s.
No Global is a lesson for countries who seek to encourage multinationals at the expense of the health their population and the delicate nature of their ecosystems. It is also a heart-warming record of the successful campaigns fought by local people to protect themselves and their environment from polluting industry.
island Journal Vol 1 No 1 Winter 2006/2007:
island is a new publication written by and for people involved in communities across Ireland, and abroad
island focuses on the myriad community struggles that embrace emotional, ethical and moral issues as well as social, environmental and ecological campaigns and protests
island reports, investigates and analyses these issues and how they are affecting and changing communities
island debates the common threads that are uniting communities in struggle against undesirable development
island highlights methods of empowerment and engagement among the people in both rural and urban Ireland
island features the ways in which inspired communities and empowered individuals are coming together to share their art in the form of ballad, prose, song, theatre and verse
in the Winter 2006/2007 issue of island:• DONALD MAHONEY talks to Kila and profiles singer Roana O Snodaigh & piper Eoin Dillon
• DEIRDRE CLANCY profiles Eva Gore-Booth
• CD STELZER uncovers the plane truth about the cargo airlines used by the US military
• MARTINA QUINN on the outreach workers who care for the elderly in rural areas
• ROBERT ALLEN talks to mother Linda Fitzpatrick and Indaver boss John Ahern about the battle of the burn
• ERIK VALENCIC goes to the east of hell, in the second part of his journey
• JIM PAGE describes how he came to write Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette
• MAGGIE RONAYNE reports on community opposition to the Ilusu dam
• MICHEAL O SEIGHIN & CAITLIN UI SEIGHIN explain how the Rossport resistance began
• RAMOR RYAN has a tale or two to tell from the vanquished pier
• ROBERT ALLEN talks to Gary Cusack at Dublin's Mulligans
• MARTINA QUINN on the start of the Ranelagh arts festival
• DERRY CHAMBERS & DERIDRE CLANCY talk to the last of the volunteers
• CHRIS LAWLOR on the history of Dunlavin
• NINA LOPEZ & MAGGIE RONAYNE on the C21st revolution in Venezuela
+ books reviews & fiction
+ regular columns
