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Cork Anti Household Tax meetings February 20th to 25th
Date: Tue, 2012-02-14 10:35
St Lukes Monday 20th Ambassador Hotel Military Hill 8pm
Blackpool Monday 20th Blackpool Community Centre 8pm
Youghal Tuesday 21st Red Store, North Main st 7.30pm
Newmarket Tuesday 21st O'Keeffe Memorial 8pm
Farranree Wednesday 22nd Community Centre Pophams Rd. 8pm
All organised by Campaign Against the Household and Water Tax
Occupy Belfast host performance poet Catherine Brogan
Date: Mon, 2012-02-13 17:56
Political poet Catherine Brogan returned home last Friday night to a successful event hosted by Occupy Belfast. Local poets, artists and singers performed at the free event in the ‘people bank’ to a receptive and enthusiastic audience eager to listen to poetry with a political message.
Cork: Maghaberry Prisoner Solidarity Protest
Date: Mon, 2012-02-13 17:51
Protest in solidarity with all republican prisoners in Maghaberry Prison, Co Antrim. The prison regime is failing to implement the 12th of August agreement with the prisoners. The issues at the heart of the dispute are controlled movement and strip searching.
3pm Daunt Square Cork Saturday 18th February
Organised by Prisoner Solidarity Group (Cork)
Cork Anti Household Tax meetings February 20th to25th
Date: Mon, 2012-02-13 17:50
St Lukes Monday 20th Ambassador Hotel Military Hill 8pm
Blackpool Monday 20th Blackpool Community Centre 8pm
Youghal Tuesday 21st Red Store, North Main st 7.30pm
Newmarket Tuesday 21st O'Keeffe Memorial 8pm
Farranree Wednesday 22nd Community Centre Pophams Rd. 8pm
All organised by Campaign Against the Household and Water Tax
Cork Anti-Households Tax meetings 13th to 17th February
Date: Mon, 2012-02-13 14:22
Fermoy Tuesday 14th Fermoy Community Youth Centre 8pm
Hollyhill and Shanakiel Tuesday 14th St. Vincents Hurling and Football Club, Blarney Road 8pm
Macroom Wednesday 15th Castle Hotel 8pm
Mallow Thursday 16th Hibernian Hotel 8pm
Douglas Thursday 16th Nemo Rangers 8 30pm
Bishopstown Friday 17th Bishopstown GAA 8pm
Charleville Friday 17th Charleville Community Centre 8pm
Gurranabraher Friday 17th The Hut 8pm
Carrigaline Friday 17th Carrigaline Community Centre 8pm
Belfast: What is direct action and can it deliver change?
Date: Mon, 2012-02-13 11:07
Occupy activist and WSM member, Sean Matthews, will be holding a teach-in on the strategy of direct action, the theory behind it and various direct action tactics.
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Thursday 16th Feb at 6pm in The People's Bank. 94 Royal Avenue
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Thousands March in Cork to Support Vita Cortex Workers
Date: Mon, 2012-02-13 11:00
An estimated 5,000 people marched in the streets of Cork yesterday to show their support for the former workers of the Vita Cortex factory, who have spent nearly 60 days occupying their former workplace as part of a struggle to get their former boss Jack Ronan to pay a €1.2m redundancy package that had been promised to them since last September. The march, organised by the Cork Council of Trade Unions, left from Connolly Hall on Lapp's Quay and concluded at the plaza at the southern end of Grand Parade, via Parnell Place and Patrick St.
Further momentum gathers in Cork household tax campaign
Date: Fri, 2012-02-10 16:01
Following on the successful meeting in the Imperial hotel in January the CAHWT in Cork has been running a series of local meetings around the city and county. Turnout has been positive at the these meetings and local groups have got up and running distributing literature, running stalls and organising for protests. On Tuesday 7th meetings saw over 80 people attending in Blarney, 70 plus in Carrigtwohill and 30 in Passage West. On Wednesday 80 people packed a meeting in Ballyvolane on Corks' northside, on thursday over 60 people gathered in Ballyphehane Community centre and 90 in Glanmire. Every meeting saw dozens sign up as members and pledge support for activity.
Noam Chomsky on Intellectual Property - kicking away the ladder
Date: Fri, 2012-02-10 15:03
"Once the corporations gain the benefit of the public paying the costs and taking the risks, they want to monopolize the profit. And the intellectual property rights, they’re not for small inventors. In fact the people doing the work in the corporations, they don’t get anything out of it, like a dollar if they invent something. It’s the corporate tyrannies that are making the profits, and they want to guarantee them."
Dublin demonstrates against ACTA & SOPA but it is about more than just downloading
Date: Fri, 2012-02-10 14:21
Dublin last weekend saw about 400 people take part in a demonstration against the intention of Seán Sherlock, the Labour Party Minister for Research and Innovation to bring into law a requirement for Irish internet service providers to block access to sites that allow the downloading of copy righted material. This is a similar law to the SOPA and ACTA laws that Hollywood & music industry lobbyists tried unsuccessfully to force through the US Congress. A second demonstration is to take place this Saturday.