Social Democrats and Atheism

Orion · 18-11-2015 4:18pm

mahoganygas wrote: »

Plenty from other parties too....

Some yes - but this thread is about the Social Democrats.

robindch wrote: »

No offence to the organizers who have nothing but my fullest support - but honestly! - this is the third demonstration in the last couple of weeks against discrimination that's happened in Dublin and it's the third one I've heard about with less than 24 hours to go. Or in this case, that it's just happened - and I'm sitting a five minute walk from the Dail!

Where's the viral campaigning!? :rolleyes:

I saw it mentioned on Facebook and Twitter last week. Maybe you're following the wrong people

robindch · 18-11-2015 4:30pm

Orion wrote: »

Maybe you're following the wrong people

I keep my twitter for Ukrainian coverage :rolleyes: fb and here for more normal interests!

Might be useful to let people know the groups and accounts involved as there are other people who'd like to drop by to these events as they happen.

ta!

Orion · 18-11-2015 4:55pm

Atheist Ireland and Irish Atheists on Facebook. Random people on twitter - human rights and activists.

expectationlost · 18-11-2015 5:06pm

donspeekinglesh wrote: »

Social Democrats Supporting Pluralism in Education

http://us11.campaign-archive2.com/?u=98563bc2f53bc670a2442d07f&id=3407ecd273

Speaking ahead of today’s demonstration on School Pluralism at Leinster House the Social Democrats have pledged support to the campaign for equality in Education by stating that in a modern democracy, it is not acceptable that a child could be refused a place in a local school on the basis of religion.

many would claim we already have pluralism in Education, but its Catholic dominated, we need secularism in Education

how would party which is bound to get even less TDs then labour got in 2011 get any movement on this?

Hotblack Desiato · 18-11-2015 9:27pm

Nothing anywhere on boards about it. Nothing on AI's website. Nothing on Mr. Panicker's email list. Nothing on ET's mailing list.

mahoganygas · 18-11-2015 10:08pm

Try Education Equality's Facebook page and mailing list.

Hotblack Desiato · 18-11-2015 11:16pm

Never heard of them. Don't do facebook and never will. Yes we exist :rolleyes:

expectationlost · 19-11-2015 9:58pm

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Never heard of them. Don't do facebook and never will. Yes we exist :rolleyes:

Education Equality is a newly founded organisation that is aiming to achieve equality in the education system for all children regardless of religion.

can you not look at this page https://www.facebook.com/Education-Equality-1641922236078221/?fref=ts
Education Equality Membership Application Form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1g6QpEolMQ5Y_EfRKZaFTdvq2IWRLUtdgJhue-IhLNTI/viewform

By ticking this box and submitting this application form, I agree to Education Equality's objectives as set out in the Mission Statement and to Education Equality's Constitution and data protection policy

so I asked what is Education Equality's objectives as set out in the Mission Statement and Education Equality's Constitution and data protection policy?

they said they put them on the website later / email them to me...

expectationlost · 19-11-2015 10:01pm

labour's ciara conway https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1676463642624080&id=1641922236078221 and lots of others, there must be an election on the way
lucinda creighton

The deputy promised to speak against the School Admissions Bill on account of its failure to remove religious discrimination in schools admissions

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1676543942616050

seems he lodge it to oireachtas petitions committee http://petitions.oireachtas.ie/online_petitions.nsf/Published_Petitions_EN/39A327A993B3068780257F010039834F?OpenDocument&type=published+petition&lang=EN&r=0.58609903105211 which is good thing as long as he fulfilled the "previous efforts" criteria and they say its been dealt with elsewhere

Pherekydes · 19-11-2015 10:04pm

expectationlost wrote: »

labour's ciaron conway

...he lodge it...

Ciara Conway and she.

Zamboni · 19-11-2015 10:16pm

The guy who organised this petition is a dad and a barrister.
He does not have declared support of Atheist Ireland.
He does not have declared support of Educate Together.
He does not have a boards.ie account (that I know of - if you do, hi paddy).
He is not a trained campaigner and media savvy person.

He is a guy who gave a **** about a topic, pulled a finger out of his arse, pulled off 20,000 signatures, got hours of national TV and Radio coverage, got inches of press coverage over the past 6 months.
He even got me getting signatures on Grafton Street and I'm a lazy **** :pac:.

The guy has done more than any politician or an entire A+A forum, or some useless Atheist Facebook group in the past six months for equality in education.
He gave the even lesser organised Rupesh Panicker a massive dig out for his Walk for Eva campaign that some of the posters here attended.

Bravo Paddy

There is an official organisation that expectation just mentioned that fully support Paddy.

They have a newsletter subscription form here.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1g6QpEolMQ5Y_EfRKZaFTdvq2IWRLUtdgJhue-IhLNTI/viewform

Peregrinus · 20-11-2015 2:35am

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Never heard of them. Don't do facebook and never will. Yes we exist :rolleyes:

But how will anybody know we exist?

robindch · 21-11-2015 10:31am

Zamboni wrote: »

The guy has done more than any politician or an entire A+A forum, or some useless Atheist Facebook group in the past six months for equality in education.

I would remind you that A+A is a discussion forum, not an activist forum - that's the domain of the forum on atheist.ie.

FWIW, A+A has raised a number of issues to national level, and at least one issue to international level - despite doing as little social media campaigning as possible, and most of the time, none at all.

expectationlost · 22-11-2015 8:02pm

Education Equality http://educationequality.ie/

shall we make this the election campaigning and promises thread?

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