Over 30 years of anarchist writing from Ireland listed under hundreds of topics
Cork: Government Tax Put In The Bin!
Date: Sun, 2012-02-26 17:36
In Cork the mobilisation for the National Day of Action against the Household and Water Tax saw a lively and noisy crowd of over 500 hundred march through the centre of Cork City. At the rally beforehand members from some of the local areas involved in the Campaign in Cork took advantage of the open mic forum to explain why they opposed the tax. Speakers from Farranree, Bishopstown and Cobh declared their intention not to register or pay the tax. The fact that the tax is unjust and will rise sharply in a short period of time was highlighted. It was also pointed out that the proposed Water Tax which will follow shortly on the heels of the Household Tax is also a major threat. The proposed Water Tax in itself will be a major burden and one that will hit the majority households harshly.
Household Tax Campaign welcomed by County Mayo locals - Campaign Grows in Mayo
Date: Sun, 2012-02-26 15:30
As part of the National Day of Action activists from various towns and villages across Co.Mayo gathered in Castlebar on Saturday to host an information stall in the county town center. The mood from passers by was one of defiance and fear. The vast majority of people stated the had not registered and do not wish to do so.
Mayo marches against school closures - 1000's demonstrate in Castlebar
Date: Sun, 2012-02-26 15:23
Anger at threatened closure of smaller rural schools
Thousands rallied and marched through the streets of Castlebar on Saturday 25th to protest the governments plan to further destroy rural life by closing small schools.
Dangerous, false & misleading ‘legal advice’ on household tax exposed as fake
Date: Sat, 2012-02-25 11:56
An email which has been circulating widely and has appeared on facebook and on many other social media sites, claiming to be from McCann Fitzgerald solicitors has been exposed as being fake. The email claims that people won’t get a bill for the household tax because “the charge is a statute”. It goes on to claim that because the tax is a statute it “only carries the force of law upon you if you consent to it” and that “If you do not consent [it] cannot affect you in any way whatsoever.”
UNITE union back non payment of household tax
Date: Fri, 2012-02-24 20:48
"The UNITE trade union has formally pledged its support to the Campaign against the Household Charge. It will urge its members not to register and support national and local protest movements where it has a density of members around the country. - "The following comes from the UNITE circular today 24/2/12
Community Anger Against Household Tax at meeting in Cabra
Date: Fri, 2012-02-24 17:36
A lively and energetic meeting took place in the local community hall in the Dunard estate in Dublin 7 on Wednesday night. The meeting was addressed by Councillor Cieran Perry and local resident and campaigner Dermot Sreenan about the upcoming Household Tax and the campaign against it.
Bernadette: One women's journey from mass protest to hunger strikes to the peace process
Date: Fri, 2012-02-24 16:26
The end of the 1960’s in northern Ireland were a unique time when, as elsewhere around the world, mass popular protest emerged onto the streets with ordinary people doing extraordinary things. The unique circumstances of northern Ireland and the particular form the state backlash took there resulted in a military conflict that lasted some 30 years and dominated politics on the entire island and to a much lesser extent in Britain. Although tens if not hundreds of thousands of people made this history it can also be told as the history of some of the prominent individuals involved, including the Irish republican socialist activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.
Garda caught on film smashing windows of Erris residents car at Shell roadblock
Date: Thu, 2012-02-23 13:05
Shocking video has emerged of a Garda attack on a local resident, John Monagahan, at a roadblock the police were operating on behalf of Shell. The video shows the car being stopped at the roadblock and then you can hear the Garda smashing in the drivers window of his car with a baton before threatening to pepper spray him. John had just left his home some 500m away.
‘Protests Work’ says Minister: How the DEIS Cuts were reversed at Primary Level
Date: Thu, 2012-02-23 10:54
Following his announcement that many of his proposed cuts to teacher numbers in schools serving areas of social disadvantage are to be reversed, Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairi Quinn, has admitted that protests work and that he reversed his decisions because of the huge protests faced by himself and his colleagues on the government backbenches.
“…in relation to the area where all the pressure was coming from and all the protests was [sic] coming from …. I reflected on the impact on those schools….and I reversed that decision,” he said.
Hundreds attend Action on X meeting in Dublin to demand Abortion Legalisation in Ireland
Date: Wed, 2012-02-22 11:35
A meeting calling for abortion legalisation in Ireland, at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin, was filled to capacity last night as hundreds crammed into the room. The meeting marked 20 years from the X-case and the failure of all the political parties in the years since to legislate for the limited abortion provision required by the X-case court judgement. The clear message was that it was time for Action on X.
The first speaker, journalist Vincent Brown described the long fight for abortion rights in Ireland, from the so -called 'pro-life' referendum in 1983, to the X-case in 1992 and the referendums afterwards.