Workers Solidarity Movement

Occupy Cork invites everyone opposed to the current austerity regime out in force on Saturday, Dec. 3rd. Similar actions on this date will be co-ordinated with Occupy camps in Dublin, Waterford and Galway. A solidarity action from Occupy Belfast has also been proposed. Assembling outside the opera house at Emmet Place at 1:30pm, we will march down the quay, up Patrick St. and down South Mall, back to Emmet Place. There we will hold a general assembly at which anyone can speak.

In the face of the looming budget of December 6th, we are calling on all people who feel that this situation is unjust and who are seeking positive change to stand together – to march, dance, shout, sing – on the streets of Cork, our streets. We plan to get out in numbers and hold as colourful and powerful a demonstration as we can possibly muster up, in the city centre on Saturday afternoon.

Our plan is to meet at Emmet Place, outside the Opera House at 1:30pm, to leave at 2pm heading along the quay, up St. Patrick St., down Grand Parade, past the Occupy Cork camp on South Mall and right down South Mall and along the quay back to Emmet Place again. We will end the march with a space for music, theatre and performance; and above all, a voice for all - whoever wishes to speak will be heard. Let’s assemble in Cork City, organise and express ourselves.

Cork Community Art Link have already offered to facilitate creative workshops in prop, puppet, placard and banner making and also in street theatre and performance in their space at 107 Shandon Street. They will be available from 10-6pm, Friday 25th and 12-6pm, Saturday 26th, for some initial sessions, while more times will be added throughout next week in the build-up to Saturday. If you or your friends, family, community group or co-workers have an idea for a message you want to get out there before the budget, then they can facilitate.

We, the people experiencing this recession first-hand should be the ones out on the streets asserting our dignity, our defiance, our creativity and our collective power. Whatever your colours, get out and fly your flag, raise your banner – this demo needs no political agenda other than to state that we will no longer accept this kind of treatment lying down.

If you have the will to start thinking about alternatives, then together we have the capacity to make them happen. If you're tired of politics being reduced to the same party agendas then get in touch and come out on December 3rd.

We know that no one demonstration is going to fix all of these issues, but it can be a step towards creating a more just society. Let’s make this gathering a landmark in that process!

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