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Has violence triumphed at Dublin Food Co-op?
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Sunday June 12, 2011 19:36 by Dave Moore davecorcra at yahoo dot ie
Today marks three months since the Dublin Food Co-op received a complaint of ‘physical assault and violent aggression’ on the premises. Despite the seriousness of the charge, the directors’ collective response was feeble in every respect, leaving those who reported the incident out in the cold. At the time, I listened carefully to details from both of the members who reported being on the receiving end – plus another witness who hasn’t even been asked for their account. All three, while still shaken, explained what happened with a high level of consistency. This was serious stuff and it was vital to the Co-op’s integrity that it was dealt with decisively and transparently. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Again I will say there is a whole other side to this. As I understand it, perhaps one of the only two people involved in this incident (apart from others who tried to intervene), which as I understand it resulted in no injury whatsoever to anybody would be the very person whose place it would have been to investigate and bring this forward - have they chosen not to? There is an alternative view of this incident and the atmosphere and series of events that led to this heated incident between two individuals. Did you witness the event? What is the exact nature of the assault? From accounts I have heard to call it a violent incident is overly dramatic. If the main person who might be a complainant wants to bring this forward, they would be in a position to do so, let's put it that way.
persistant rantings by one peeved individual about an unsubstantiated allegation are a now becoming tiresome. Indymedia is a marvellous thing but there are clear drawbacks to an approach of letting anyone at all write anything without verification or substantiation in any way. I would suggest that rather than sniping and sneering from the sidelines and hoping to see signs of the co op falling into chaos without you, either bring forward some evidence or a complaint of some kind to the Gards or stop it and go away. The spreading of Doom and Gloom stories about "how awful the co op has suddenly become (since I threw my dummy out)" amount simply to a position of wishing the food co op to fail which, when people visit they will find is not happening, as I said before, nice people buying and selling wholesome, fairly traded and organic goods in a very relaxed atmosphere. Long may this remain. Indymedia is a great thing but as with any other media we must not automatically believe everything we read.
Sean, your aggressive, angry tone, name calling and desire to silence someone over serious concerns isn't likely to give anyone reassurance that all is healthy and happy at the Dublin Food Co-op.
If one or more complaints have been put, then any well-run community organisation should have policies and procedures to resolve them with fairness (i.e. hearing all sides of the story), due speed and transparency. It shouldn't become something for the Gardai to sort out, now or in the first place.
For this to become 'dirty washing' on Indymedia speaks volumes of how badly this has been handled.
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