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1% network
Articles about the richest 1% in Ireland who own 34% of the wealth and the work of the 1% Network formed to highlight this fact
What was the 1% Network?
Date: Mon, 2015-06-15 16:03
The 1% Network was an attempt to create an anti-capitalist network in Ireland to fight austerity. It arose after the unsuccessful attempt by Garda to prevent the anti-capitalist bloc march down to a Right to Work protest outside Dail Eireann.
Failing to unveil Capitalism at Occupy - Paulo Freire’s Theoretical Framework
Date: Fri, 2012-12-07 13:19
The Occupy movement may have come into our lives just over a year ago with a bang but it went out months later with a whimper. Cathal uses the benefit of hindsight to look at the phenomenon as it manifested itself on these shores and what anarchists could have done to make it work better. The difficulties as Cathal argues did not lie in making arguments for democracy has been the case in so many other campaigns but in that the occupiers “didn’t see this conception extending to the realm of economic production” and in developing the 99%/1% analysis into a deeper class analysis. Recognising problems with current modes of consciousness raising, he utilises Paulo Freire’s pedagogical framework in an attempt to subject “our own political strategies, methodologies and theories to critical scrutiny”.
Kenny and Gilmore merely Puppets On A String of wealthy 1%
Date: Fri, 2011-03-11 16:41
Despite appalling weather conditions, members of the 1% Network gathered outside the Central Bank in Dublin’s Dame Street on Thursday evening (10th March) to highlight the fact that, despite the change in government the wealthy 1% still “pull the strings”.
The evening’s events began with a symbolic sealing off of the Central Bank with crime scene tape. This was done to highlight the fact that it is “a symbol of no-regulation capitalism and unbridled greed,” said Brian Leeson, 1% Network spokesperson.
Central Bank to be cordoned off as Crime Scene; Members of elite 1% see government politicians as Puppets On A String
Date: Tue, 2011-03-08 21:34
The 1% Network has announced plans for a Street Theatre and Music event and an Open Meeting during which the Central Bank in Dublin’s Dame Street will be cordoned off as a crime scene.
Wealthy Elite announce plans to celebrate “business as usual”
Date: Wed, 2011-03-02 11:20
Members of Ireland’s wealthy elite have announced plans to meet outside the Central Bank in Dublin’s Dame Street on Thursday 10th March at 6p.m. to celebrate the fact that it’s “business as usual now that the election is out of the way”.
Dub: Street Theatre, Music & 1% network Open Meeting
Date: Thu, 2011-02-24 11:06
The 1% Don't Need to Stand In Elections - Whoever Forms The Government We'll Still Be pulling The Strings'
The election will be over, the new government will be formed. But what will have changed?
The 1% elite will still own 34% of the wealth.
10 March · 18:00 - 19:00
Location : Central Bank, Dame Street, Dublin 2
Wealthy Elite will still have political power after election
Date: Tue, 2011-02-22 13:18
No political party would be allowed to take power on a platform of taking their riches from the wealthy 1%. Their huge wealth gives them political power. The power and wealth cannot be taken from the elite through the ballot box, it can only happen by a massive social upheaval.
Derry: POSTPONED Anarchism, the rich and the struggle against the cuts down south
Date: Fri, 2010-12-17 12:13
DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTPONED TILL THE NEW YEAR
The population of the south have just been subjected to the toughest austerity budget that western Europe has seen in 30 years. Yet the tax hikes that targeted the low paid and those on average income actually saw the richest 1% gain! Someone earning only 15,000 euro could be paying nearly 6% more tax but someone whose income is a million will be paying 6% less tax.
Dáil Vote will not give IMF/ECB deal political legitimacy – 1% Network Press Release
Date: Wed, 2010-12-15 11:49
The 1% Network has sharply criticised the government for claiming that a vote by Dáil Éireann to approve the IMF-ECB deal would give it ‘political legitimacy’.
The 1% get richer while we get poorer - 1% Network speech at the Dáil
Date: Tue, 2010-12-07 17:52
As part of the budget protests at the Dáil Dec 7th 2011 Andrew Flood gave the following speech for the 1% Network at the left bloc rally. "If we wish to build a new society based on equality and real democracy, we need to find a way to take political power as well as economic wealth away from that 1%"
