where's the Bush protest in Dublin?

souter

Is there any protest march planned for Dublin this Saturday? Maybe some of the subversive agitators who are believed to lurk in the interweb could point me in the right direction.
thanks,
Souter

seamus

http://www.dontcountusin.com/

It's a site run by labour, in case you have problems with them, but it has the info.

souter

Cheers Seamus. There only appears to Parnell Sq on Friday and Dromoland on Saturday.

Getting to Clare on a weekend is bad enough without a 11km exclusion zone, trigger happy spooks and wannabe CI5 guardai, so I may have to settle for shouting at the TV as usual.

A pity, as I was hoping to take my wee shaver on his first march. Where's the renta-mob when you need them?

therecklessone

Might be more here.

http://irishantiwar.org/index.adp

souter

A c'mon lads, there must be *something* happening in Dublin on Saturday - you'd need a lot of buses to get 100,000 to Drumoland.
PS I'm not a cop honest

Akrasia

There will be a IAWM/SWP march in Dublin on Friday which the cynic in me believes is especially designed to distract attention away from the Protests that are planned for Friday and Saturday in Clare.

Anybody who is serious about opposing Bush (and who is able to free enough time to get to Shannon) Should come to Limerick on Thursday. We have a Peace Camp set up there and we need a number of people to help us Establish our main Peace camp Closer to Shannon. We will be holding various kinds of protests on the friday and Saturday while the Commander of the worlds richest military is electioneering on our soil.

Details of how to get to the Camp are Here

Akrasia

For anybody interested in the politics of Anti-Globalisation/Peace activism in Ireland, there are several main factions.

1. SWP, socialist Workers Party. They control the Irish anti War movement as a front organisation (ie: the organisation claims to be independent, but all actions and decisions come directly from the SWP HQ)

2. S.P. (socialist party) Sinn Fein, NGO's (eg Peace and Neutrality Alliance) the Labour party, the Greens...
Moderates that have a policy of opposing damaging policies through the political system, by lobbying td's writing letters, court action etc. They usually affiliate with IAWM/SWP as they share the same aim of 'Building a mass movement' which usually has the effect of limiting short term actions which 'damage the movement.

3. Grassroots/libertarian action, Platform activists, Anti-War Ireland, concerned individuals.
This faction favours empowering individuals and organising in a democratic way. There are some central principles. 1. Solidarity! (don't publically condenm the honest actions of others. Don't assume that your preferred tactics are the only legitimate ones and that everybody else is misguided)
2. Democracy. Every Activist and individual has a right to full and equal say in all decisions that affect them.
3. Direct action. Libertarians don't think we should have to ask people to act on they behalf, especially when they know that those who would act have a specific agenda in opposition to theirs.

IAWM are running the 2Stop Bush" campaign that has all the media attention while Grassroots and AWI are running the "AmBush" campaign in Shannon.