July 16th 2PM - Demonstration against EU/IMF - Garden of Remembrance

by Kieran O'Sullivan - Personal Capacity Thu Jun 09, 2011 13:00

We need more than just a march where we all listen to speeches and go home. We should take the example form Egypt and Spain and set-up a permanent "camp" in the heart of Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick etc. We can start with Dublin and go from there depending on the size.

I would suggest that there would be a roster so that people can live their lives as well.

The protest on 16th July needs to be the starting point for this and we should announce the "camp" before the protest.

To start with we can set it up on the island in O’Connell Street and see where it goes from there.

Anyway hope other people agree.

by Tatiana Fri Jun 17, 2011 20:58

Good point, Kieran! That's what we need.

Will there be any blocks (e.g. anarchist block) or will it be general protest?

by Rita Fagan - Community Activist Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:19 ritafaganfrc at eircom dot net

Community Cuts
Come out and join the Enough Campaign on Saturday 16th July. Meet us in Parnell Square for 2pm. Become a movement of grassroots warriors who refuse to allow our communities lose their hope or resistance.


Our Communities have been targeted for over three years now. The National Community Development Programme a unique programme in Europe was dismantled in December 2010. Fourteen Community Development Projects closed in January 2009. The Community Workers Co OP and many other Networks funding was taking away recently 2011. Sharp cuts to Community Projects have meant numbers of highly skilled people have been let go.

All these sharp cuts have had the capacity to rip the hearts out of very venerable communities in all kind of ways. Our people are hurting and are being driven into despair. For many, the Celtic Tiger was a mangey cat. They were not part of the big party that has led them to having to pay for the cleaning up of this cruel mess.

Choices are being made and these choices are not the ones that shape a fair and just society. The Axe is being taken out again in the coming December budget. When the Government cuts we all bleed, but some more then others. We have got to collectively defend our communities and our sector. It took us over twenty years to build our critical infrastructure it will only take twenty seconds to wipe it out. We must fight back, what is happening is unfair, unjust and unnecessary.

Come out and join the Enough Campaign on Saturday 16th July. Meet us in Parnell Square for 2pm. Become a movement of grassroots warriors who refuse to allow our communities lose their hope or resistance.

La Lucha Continua
Rita Fagan
Community Activist.

by W. Finnerty Sat Jul 16, 2011 10:59

Wishing all concerned the best of luck regarding this afternoon's event.

Very correctly (in my view), former US President John Adams believed that "Politics is the Science of human Happiness - and the Felicity of Societies depends on the Constitutions of Government under which they live." (This quote has been copied from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Government)

At the heart of John Adam's beliefs:

"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it."

"John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States (1797–1801). Hailing from New England, Adams, a prominent lawyer and public figure in Boston, was highly educated and represented Enlightenment values promoting republicanism. A Federalist, he was highly influential and one of the key Founding Fathers of the United States."

The above excerpt has come from the following location: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams

Related link: http://www.humanrightsireland.com/Dail31TDs/Group1of2/15July2011/Email.htm