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Anglo Bond Carnival: Dublin Council of Trade Unions urges unions and union members to support

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The Dublin Council of Trade Unions has circulated the following letter to its delegates and affiliated trade unions:

19th January, 2012.

To each DCTU delegate,  General Secretary or Senior Official

Dear Colleague,

A portion of the unsecured debt amounting to €1.25 billion will be handed over to ANGLO IRISH/IBRC bank on Wednesday 25th January 2012.  How much budget pain could this sum solve?

This event should not pass withuout a protest.

A group called Occupy Anglo/IBRC, a loose offshoot of Occupy Dame Street are organising such a protest.

IT WILL BEGIN ON MONDAY 23rd JANUARY FROM 7 am to 5pm AT ANGLO IRISH BANK, ST. STEPHEN’S GREEN AND WILL CONTINUE ON 24th AND 25th JANUARY.

This will be a peaceful protest outside the bank and will include talks, teach-ins and music.

We urge all members to participate at some point during these three days.

Yours sincerely,

Sam Nolan

Correspondence Secretary

Letter ends

[Facebook page of Carnival organiser: http://www.facebook.com/events/280892235299369/]

Written by tomasoflatharta

Jan 23, 2012 at 11:52 am

Anglo Bond Payment; Carnival of Resistance, 23- 25 January

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[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

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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

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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

Written by tomasoflatharta

Jan 23, 2012 at 11:29 am

The Ghost of Captain Boycott and the Ladies’ Land League Stalks the Kenny-Gilmore Household Tax

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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

https://tomasoflatharta.com/2011/12/14/joe-higgins-warns-enda-kenny-mass-boycott-of-new-household-tax-in-2012/

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.

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.

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