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Caroline Håkanson

1981 Irish hunger strike

The 1981 hungerstrike was the result of the five year long protest by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest started out as the "blanket protest", when the Britsh gouvernment stoped giving the paramilitary prisoners status as warrior/political prisoners. In 1978 it became the "dirty protest" and prisoners refused to wash and covered the walls of their cells with excrement. The prisoners aim was to re-establish their political status by securing what were known as the "Five Demands":

* The right not to wear a prison uniform.
* The right not to do prison work.
* The right of free association with other prisoners, and to organise educational and recreational pursuits.
* The right to one visit, one letter and one parcel per week.
* Full restoration of remission lost through the protest.

In 1980 this lead to the first hungerstrike. Seven prisioners participated and it lasted for 53 days.

The second hungerstrike was in 1981 and was a fight between the prisoners and the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Bobby Sands, one of the stirkers, become a Member of Parlament during the strike and became famous around the world. After ten men had died because of the hungerstrike, including Booby Sands, the huger strike was called off.

The hunger strike was the driving force that enabled Sinn Féin to become a mainstream political party.


It's sick tha the gouvernment let it go that far. I can undestand that they might not agree with what the prisioners wanted but it's so increadibly redicilous and stupid to let ten of them die before anything happens. All the prissioners wanted was basic stuff and the gouvernment was so stubborn that they let ten of them die. That's just stupid...

I'm truthful

Is it really lying, if it's something you're just hiding. You haven't got any questions about it or anything like that but at the same time you haven't said anything about it either. Is that lying?

It can't be lying, right? Because lying is when you say something that's not true. But by not saying anything at all... That can't be lying.

Confused

Have you ever prommised yourself something? Could be whatever. But you have told yourselft that you're not gonna do it. You hold on to it. You don't do it and you feel good about not doing it. Really good. Maybe you're even proud of yourself. Like "Wow, I actually didn't do it.". And still after a while you end up doing it anyway. Even though you've said to yourself that you weren't going to do it.

Why do people do that? I don't get it. How could some things be so persuasive that even though you might even have prommised yourself you weren't going to do it you still end up doing it?

If it's a person that persuaded you, does that mean that person is stronger than you? It can't do, right? Because you can be a person that never give in to pearpressure but you're talking to a person that means very very much to you or they are someone you look up to. And if you are talking to a person like that, that messes with your mind and then you can't compare your mind's strenth with that person because their coolness, or whatever, make your mind all crasy. So it doesn't mean that your minds strength are any weaker that the other person's, right? Right?

Hope not...

Success for me

What is success for me?

For me success haven't got to do with being rich and stuff like that. Sure, that could be one aspect of beng successfull. Like Bill Gates, he is successfull in a money-success way. But for me it's about mental success, with other words how you feel. Or, not feel. It's hard to explain. What I mean is e.g. that you accomplich something, like get a MVG on a really hard test.

But that's not really the explanation I was after. It's more that you get to where you want. It doesn't have to be in a money or work situation, it could be but it doesn't have to be.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that for me success is when you accomplish something/get to where you want to be, whatever it may be, and it makes you feel good. Like a mental success.


Bye, for now!

Memory from this schoolyear

For those who know me, it's no news that I want to be a stand up comedian. But what most people don't know is why, or who it was that influenced me to want to become one. The man that did that is Johan Glans. He is, according to me, the best stand up comedian... well, ever! And it has been one of my biggest dreams to tell him that, that he has influenced me. I don't know why I wanted to tell him that, but I just wanted him to know and I wanted to tell him that in person, even though he had no idea of who I am.

On my 16th birthday, the 25th of July 2008 one of my presents was to go and see him. Live! Front seat. I almost couldn't believe it, that I in one month and one day would actually se Johan Glans live.

And so the day come. The 26th of August 2008. There was two stand up comedian doing their act before Johan Glans and when the second man got of the stage I felt a nervousness building up inside of me. There was a man introducing Johan Glans. And there he was! Johan Glans, in person. The real deal. Because I was so close to the stage I could almost feel the wind from him as he walked by me. He did his act and it was so funny! I couldn't believe I had actually seen him doing his stand up live. He went of the stage and walked away and I was so happy. But that's not the end...

A few minutes later my mom said to me "Look, he's standing in the bar." I turned around and she was right, he was standing in the bar, talking to some girls. My mom told me to go talk to him and I knew that if I didn't I would regret it so much, later. So I did, I went up to him but he was still talking to those girls. I waited and waited... and waited. When they were finally done I said his name and he turned to me. While he had been talking to the girls I had planned what I would say and the words actually came out right. I told him that he was a big rolemodel/idol of me and that he is the reason I want to be a stand up comedian. I thought he would say something like "So?" but he didn't. He was so nice and he sounded really supprised and happy that I told him that, he gave me his autograph, on a paper he had in hip backpocket (so cool!!!) and he also wrote on the paper: Hi Caroline, good luck with the standup. He gave me the paper and I asked if I could get a hug, and I got one. He is by the way a really good huger. He said "So I'll meet you on stand up meetings/nights in a few years." I laughed and said "Yeah, you'll see me on that stage in a couple of years." We said good bye and I felt a really strong feeling of happiness. It was one of the most happiest moments of my life. I had met Johan Glans.



Have a nice day!

/Caroline



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