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Dub: Anti Deportation Ireland Fundraiser
Date: Wed, 2012-09-26 11:44
Anti Deportation Ireland is having its campaign launch in October. In order to build a strong resistance, it needs funds for this. On Saturday 29th September they will be having a night of music, dancing and fun from 21:00 until 03:00 at the Semora Spraoi Social Center suggested donation 8e waged, 5e unwaged.
Dub: March for Choice
Date: Tue, 2012-09-25 11:45
Dublin March for the International Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion! Gather at the Spire and march to Merrion Square. This is a celebration of being pro-choice! A day of being pro-choice and proud, speaking up and speaking out, making our voices heard. Come and celebrate with us!
Dub: Film Screening: Dub: Film Screening: X is for Anonymous & other pro-choice shorts
Date: Mon, 2012-09-24 12:51
Making Change with Art and Film: Irish Premiere of ‘X is for Anonymous’ headlines a programme of selected short films and works on Choice followed by a discussion with film-makers and participants facilitated by Katie Gillum, Disposable Film Festival.
Screen for Choice
7.30pm Friday 28th September
Decriminalisation of Abortion Action Global Day 2012
Due to increasing numbers of attendees, we've had to move Screen for Choice to its fancy new home, Filmbase in Temple Bar. So, to recap:
FRIDAY, 7:30PM AT FILMBASE IN TEMPLE BAR. See you there!
The United Left Alliance and the Campaign Against Household & Water Taxes – inside, alongside or trying to control?
Date: Mon, 2012-09-24 11:20
On Wednesday last, 19th September, the United Left Alliance held a press conference at which it announced “plans to launch a public campaign of resistance to property tax and austerity”. For those of us who have been working alongside ULA members for over 12 months now to build the broad-based Campaign Against Household & Water Taxes (CAHWT), this announcement came as something of a surprise. CAHWT already is a ‘public campaign of resistance to property tax’ so why do the ULA (who are part of CAHWT) feel the need to ‘launch’ something that already exists?
Victories for Anti Household Tax Campaign Show Importance Of Local Organising
Date: Sat, 2012-09-22 15:28
Anti Household Tax campaigners have this week had 2 major victories against government and County Council attempts to bully people into registering for the hated tax. In Clare, following a week long campaign which culminated in a protest march to the Council offices on Friday (21st), the Council were forced to publicly back down from threats to withhold or delay third-level grants from students whose families are refusing to pay the household tax.
Where next for Occupy Belfast as they occupy second building?
Date: Sat, 2012-09-22 15:20
On the anniversary of the Wall Street occupation which sparked a global movement and captured media attention, Occupy Belfast acquired a second building. A statement released on the groups Facebook page reads ‘members of the Occupy Belfast Movement took a step towards expanding the movement’s reach by taking control of a multi-unit residential property in an undisclosed location in Belfast.
Dublin Luas drivers vote overwhelmingly for industrial action
Date: Thu, 2012-09-20 19:01
Luas tram drivers in Dublin have voted by a massive 93% margin for industrial action. The drivers, members of SIPTU, balloted this week following their rejection of 2 Labour Court recommendations in a dispute about rest days and shift lengths. (see previous story http://www.wsm.ie/c/dublin-luas-drivers-ballot-industrial-action-sept2012).
Reproducing sectarianism in republican clothes - The Proclamation misses the mark
Date: Tue, 2012-09-18 16:05
The new republican newssheet ‘The Proclamation’ produced by the Sean MacDiarmada Ardoyne branch of the republican umbrella group '1916 societies' exposes much of the contradictions implicit in the politics of the republican movement today. In the front page article it asks the question 'Where is Our Leisure Centre?' The article goes on to contrast facilities in the working class catholic & protestant areas of Belfast.
FG Wilson axes 760 jobs while doubling its profits
Date: Mon, 2012-09-17 10:16
The major job losses will affect Belfast and Larne which is already struggling with decades of under-investment and high employment. FG Wilson has received a staggering 12 million in various state handouts via the quango Invest NI, and last year doubled its pre-tax profits to £7.8m. Caterpillar’s share price rose by 1.2% after the announcement on Thursday. According to one inside source who spoke to the Belfast Telegraph ‘That 1.2% rise would have kept the people they were going to sack in a job,” (1)
Lively protest against household tax in Dun Laoghaire
Date: Mon, 2012-09-17 10:06
About 25 members of the Dun Laoghaire area Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes (CAHWT), joined by some friends from the Bray campaign, held a lively protest in the rain outside Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council's monthly meeting on Monday night (10th September).