All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is a fantastic documentary covering the life of photographer and activist Nan Goldin. The main thread details her work campaigning against the Sackler family, the owners of OxyContin producer Purdue Pharma. Using her power as an artist with exhibitions in renowned museums like the Met to protest with the group she co-founded P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) on their grounds, creating greater focus and publicity on the Sackler family and their responsibility in the OxyContin crisis in America.
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A motion calling for the introduction of abortion services to the SU Sexual Health Clinic was passed at a recent SU Council meeting.
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The Good Friday Agreement established power-sharing in Northern Ireland in the wake of prolonged conflict, arguably bringing about a cross-community consensus for the foundations on which peace would rest. The Agreement acknowledged that Northern Ireland is part of the UK whilst the principle of consent element of the Agreement means that a United Ireland is able to take place if a majority of people in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland want it to. Both sides of the community were taken into account by a mechanism which allows for the Assembly to be elected every five years, but only so long as parties on both sides of the divide participate. A stop-start nature of the Assembly and Executive has ensued and 25 years since the Agreement was signed, these institutions aren’t functioning.
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