Archive for the ‘Financial Crisis (September 2008 onwards)’ Category
Anglo Bond Payment; Carnival of Resistance, 23- 25 January
[Supported by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions.]
From the organisers’ facebook page:
( http://www.facebook.com/events/280892235299369/ )
You are cordially invited to the ‘Carnival of Resistance’ which runs from January 23rd to 25th. This event will take place at the former Anglo Irish Bank HQ on Stephens Green, and is designed to highlight the payment of E1.25 billion to the unsecured bondholders, of said bank.
The event has been organized by a collection of groups and individuals opposed to the payment, by Irish tax-payers, of debts owed by private banking corporations.
It is being supported by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions, who have called for a united front of all those opposed to the payment of these bonds.
The bondholders took a risk in investing in Anglo and their investment backfired, this is a private matter between the bank and its investors. It has nothing to do with the Irish people as such. We see no reason why we should cover these losses.
Over the course of the 3 days there will be live music with performances by (among others) The Barley Mob, members of Kila and the Fibbs.
Occupy University will be hosting a series of lectures over the course of the 3 days at 1.30 and 5.30. Among those speaking are John Bissett, Conor McCabe and Michael Taft.
* This is a family-friendly protest and we encourage members of the public to bring their children and enjoy the Carnival atmosphere.
With:
Spectacle Defiance Drummers-
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001791734951
Happy City Samba-
http://www.facebook.com/groups/61341416728/
Street Fest
streetfest.ie
MUSIC AND SPEAKERS
Line up:
MONDAY
———–
10-11am
Jesse Rodriguez
11-12pm
The Velvetones –
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Velvetones/241855982512119?sk=wall
12-1pm
Speaker
John Bissett
1-2pm.
DJ Mark Q
2-3pm
The Mistaken Dreams-
http://www.facebook.com/themistakendreams?ref=ts&sk=wall
3-4pm
Kila’s Eoin Dillon-
http://www.facebook.com/pages/K%C3%ADla/105670592800357?ref=ts&sk=info
4-5pm
Twin Headed Wolf-
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Twin-Headed-Wolf/112786932136037
5-6pm
Speaker
6-7pm
Elk –
http://www.facebook.com/elkmusic
7-8pm
Platonic Sex Act-
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Platonic-Sex-Act/178252615549850
8pm
Teepee sessions with
Peter Pureheart-
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=510968150&sk=wall
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
TUESDAY
________
10-11am
Jambo and Jonny Boy-
http://www.facebook.com/AthCliathRecords
11-12pm
Chase
12-1pm
Speaker
Mick O’ Reilly
1-2pm
The Animators-
http://www.facebook.com/TheAnimatorsIreland?ref=ts&sk=app_151503908244383
2- 3pm
DJ Guilty Boy
3-4pm
The McVeigh Sisters –
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ardua/113011932115279?sk=wall
4-5pm
Rufus Coates & the Blackened Trees-
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rufus-Coates-the-Blackened-Trees/243289912381557
5-5:30pm
Jupiter & The Infinite –
https://www.facebook.com/onthedole1?sk=wall
5:30-6pm
Speaker
Conor McCabe
6-7pm
King Modo-
http://www.facebook.com/pages/KING-MODO/225595432109?ref=ts&sk=app_178091127385
7-8pm
Rise of the Hippies-
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rise-of-the-Hippies/287971137910241?ref=ts&sk=wall
8-9pm
The Fibbs –
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Fibbs/118665698154831?sk=wall
9pm
Teepee sessions with
Peter Pureheart –
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=510968150&sk=wall
G Star
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
WEDNESDAY
___________
10-11am
P-Starz-
https://www.facebook.com/pages/P-Starz/201319099992?sk=wall
11-12pm
Explosions on the Runway
12-1pm
Speaker
Michael Taft
1-2pm
Barry Krishna –
https://www.facebook.com/barrykrishnamusic?sk=info
2-3pm
Trap Door-
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Trap-Door/28087421417?ref=ts&sk=app_2405167945
3-4pm
Garry O’Brien –
https://www.facebook.com/garryobrientunes?sk=wall
4-5pm
Eritrea-
http://www.facebook.com/pages/E-r-i-t-r-e-a/124235187661263
5-6pm
Speaker
Siohhan O’Donohue
6-7pm
General assembly
7- 8pm
The BaRLey Mob –
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-BaRLey-MOB/117200281625659?ref=ts
8-9pm
New Secret Weapon-
https://www.facebook.com/thensw
9pm
Teepee sessions with
Twin Headed Wolf-
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Twin-Headed-Wolf/112786932136037
Raven,
Helen Keller Experience
The Ghost of Captain Boycott and the Ladies’ Land League Stalks the Kenny-Gilmore Household Tax
The Dublin North TD Clare Daly (Socialist Party, United Left Alliance) has written a thoughtful article on the Household Tax
http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-why-the-household-charge-is-a-gateway-tax/
which we have reproduced in full below.
In a previous article on this site
some recommended reading gives us a flavour of Irish Resistance in Mayo during the Nineteenth Century.
A question was asked
Is “Enda Kenny, the Mayo Deputy, the New Captain Boycott?”
Women organised independently through the Ladies’ Land League, which was more radical than than its male equivalent – Anna Parnell was among its leaders :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Catherine_Parnell
Offices were given to the ladies but little help. The women held public meetings and encouraged country women to be active in withholding rent, in boycotting and in resisting evictions. They raised funds for the League and for the support of prisoners and their families. They distributed Land League wooden huts to shelter evicted tenant families and by the beginning of 1882 they had 500 branches, thousands of women members and considerable publicity.
Read the rest of this entry »
Vincent Browne Vs the Troika: Transcript and Broadcast; Street Protest at Department of Education
Two Worlds Collide
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/01/19/vincent-browne-vs-troika-the-transcript/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px43eINU2OM&feature=youtu.be&t=5m3s
It’s a knockout!
The body language is eloquent.
On Vincent’s TV3 late night news show (Thursday January 19) the policy of paying billions to unsecured bondholders is linked to the the DEIS mass demonstration outside the Department of Education earlier in the day.
Two Worlds Collide, Cosy EU Commission Office, Angry Marlborough Street Protest, Same Day
United Left Alliance leaflet on Vita Cortex
Distributed at the SIPTU Vita Cortex protest, Dáil Eireann, Thursday 12th January 2012
cf. http://siptuactivist.wordpress.com/
TEXT of leaflet:
VITA CORTEX: SOLIDARITY CAN WIN
The slogan outside the Vita Cortex factory says it all: €2.5 million for three company directors. No redundancy pay for 32 workers with 847 years service.
Vita Cortex is a company that was asset stripped by its owner Jack Ronan. He is involved in a web of of companies and has claimed that money for the redundancy should come from one that is controlled by NAMA. For their part NAMA disagrees. meanwhile workers, who have put in 40 years service in some cases, had to occupy over Christmas just to get basic redundancy payments.
The workers initial demand was for 2.9 weeks redundancy pay for every year’s service. That modest sum was the going rate throughout the Vita Cortex group. But the company wants to treat workers like disposable hankies and just throw them out the door. Read the rest of this entry »
United Left Alliance TD’s, part of the Dáil Technical Group – Irish Times Review
For a change, the Irish Times report is fair to the left-wing outsiders.
Debate occurred on this site after the February 25 2011 General Election on whether Luke “Ming” Flanagan could be grouped within the left – we presume that argument is over now. Ming has sided with the United Left Alliance comrades on a variety of key issues since his election in Roscommon-South Leitrim – is the west awake for the left?
The article is discussed on the Cedar Lounge Revolution Site :
http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/speaking-about-the-independents-of-the-left/
Ming Flanagan gets this mention: we are told the Independent TD for Roscommon-South Leitrim who has in the past proudly advertised his fondness for the odd cannabis joint
orbits in this area, but is less clearly explicitly left-wing and therefore perhaps more sensibly regarded as being a sometime fellow traveller on some but not all issues.
Occupy and the Tasks of Socialists by Pham Binh
The Occupy movement is not as marginal as its Dublin manifestation might suggest. Here an American socialist participant, Pham Binh, long an advocate of the broad new left approach, reflects on how socialists are relating to Occupy in the US:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/occupy-and-the-tasks-of-socialists/
Joe Higgins Warns Enda Kenny – Mass Boycott of New Household Tax in 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKdjUMB1JGA&feature=player_embedded
Enda Kenny, the Mayo Deputy, the New Captain Boycott?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott
A flavour of Irish Resistance in Mayo during the Nineteenth Century : Read the rest of this entry »
Tomás Ó Flatharta 