Upcoming Protests

pog it

I sincerely hope this thread does not get locked as I am genuinely wanting to find out about ANY protest in relation to walking away from the bailout and/or calling for a referendum on it.

I know there have been small protests on calling for a referendum before but I want to hear of any new protests coming up, in light of the Morgan Kelly article in the Irish Times at the weekend. There should be bigger turnouts.

If anyone has any info, please please post it up.

P.S. Don't want any posts in the vein of 'why protest' etc. I am posting this thread to find out WHAT protests are coming up.

PatsytheNazi

pog it wrote: »

I sincerely hope this thread does not get locked as I am genuinely wanting to find out about ANY protest in relation to walking away from the bailout and/or calling for a referendum on it.

I know there have been small protests on calling for a referendum before but I want to hear of any new protests coming up, in light of the Morgan Kelly article in the Irish Times at the weekend. There should be bigger turnouts.

If anyone has any info, please please post it up.

P.S. Don't want any posts in the vein of 'why protest' etc. I am posting this thread to find out WHAT protests are coming up.

Well the ones that I have seen mainly on the protests that I have attended have been United Left Alliance, Sinn Fein, Labour Youth, Eirigi etc. Sure their was the big trade union protest before Xmas, but it says it all when David Begg of the ICTU got up to speak and the crowd understandably heckled him. Seen the same with Jack O'Connor of SIPTU outside Leinster House.

( the Unions are as respondcible for this economic debacle as any FF TD in my opinion. E.g. as well as bankrupting the country with deals on grossly overpaid Public Service, Begg for instance was on the Central Bank board during the period of economic madness 2002 - 2008 and never said a word about the wrecklessness going on ).

Permabear

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PatsytheNazi

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" Most of the bailout money actually goes to fund state spending, " Wrong, most of the 'bailout' money is going to the Gamblers (otherwise called the bond holders) in Britain, Germany and France.

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pog it

Hi Permabear, yes it's undoubtedly a huge problem for us that there is no entity standing up for the rights of the ordinary taxpayer and those who are ultimately getting screwed here. I realise welfare and public sector pay recipients have their own respective problems but welfare payments are just too high, as is public sector pay, and these people need to put their country first. The rest of us are sick of it. I know lots of people in both categories and even the long term welfare recipients somehow feel entitled to this crazy amount of free welfare money.

Effectively the old and new governments are buying the country off but the remaining 3 million of us need to stand up and fight against this.

Is there any entity other than the leftists and unions who can make a stand? It's impossible for an individual like me to do it alone

20Cent

There are loads of groups out there, wethecitizens.ie , 2nd-republic.ie , advocating change and reform. Unfortunately the only one able to get 50,000 + people on the street seems to be the unions. If you can find a group you agree with then maybe join that. Otherwise you need to start your own I guess.

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pog it

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It's at times like this that you realise how insane that is. There is no political party standing up for the average taxpayer.

the_syco

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It seems the public workers can down tools, and strike. If I downed tools, and eveyone in my team went on strike, I'd wonder would the private sector jobs be still there when I came back? I doubt it...

Boulevardier

There is a "manifestation" being held outside the Dail this Thursday evening (12th May) from 5.30 to 7.30 by a group called, I think, the Repudiate the Debt Campaign. I do not know who is behind this.

The Waltzing Consumer

Boulevardier wrote: »

There is a "manifestation" being held outside the Dail this Thursday evening (12th May) from 5.30 to 7.30 by a group called, I think, the Repudiate the Debt Campaign. I do not know who is behind this.

That would be the Communist Party of Ireland, in other words, the people who work in the Connolly Bookshop.

Slydice

there was plenty of protests during the years when they could've meant something

very few people cared was my impression

pog it

Slydice wrote: »

there was plenty of protests during the years when they could've meant something

very few people cared was my impression

Believe me, I was in those protests during the celtic tiger years. And I wrote letters into both national and local papers about the unsustainable pace of development that was going on- at the time. I had one old person come up to me at my mother's removal and say sombrely 'I read your letter' and who then went silent. I was too gripped by grief to say something like 'What did you think of it'? But my feeling was they didn't agree with what I'd said.

I'm so so disappointed with the level of complacency here. There just aren't enough people who care enough.

Knight990

pog it wrote: »

I'm so so disappointed with the level of complacency here. There just aren't enough people who care enough.

Unfortunately it's part of the modern Irish political scene. We used to be a people who would fight for different things, but's nowadays it's simply "ah sure someone else will do it". It is a bit sad.

We all saw what could happen if we work together during the last General Election, which was in my opinion one of the greatest acts of Irish teamwork in half a century. Just my view though.

Hopefully now that people have seen the power of protest, any future issues might garner more than the usual few people with flags and maybe a loudspeaker between them.