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1% Network find the pot of gold on Shewsbury road
Date: Mon, 2010-11-01 12:12
Saturday 30th October saw the WSM take part in the latest 1% Network event, an after dark Halloween Treasure Hunt around Dublin's exclusive Shewsbury and Ailesbury roads taking in the mansions of multi millionare bankers, developers and financers as well as the HQ of Allied Irish Bank and the 32 million in tax avoidance of the luxury Four Seasons hotel. The tour was led off by a vampire capitalist accompanied by a contingent of Zombie bankers and developers and ghost estates with the vampire showing how much wealth was present at each stop and explaining the contacts between the 1%, the media and the government that enabled them to make hundreds of millions during the tiger. The tour was accompanied by uniformed Gardai and a car of special branch political police. The 1% network is a coalition of socialist groups including the WSM, eirigi, ISN and Semora Spraoi formed to highlight the fact that the richest 1% own 34% of the wealth.
Climate Change - Radio Solidarity Program 7
Date: Fri, 2010-10-29 13:37
An issue that’s been put on the back burner since the economy has fallen through the plug hole. We talk in Program 7 of Radio Solidarity to two women Jerrieann Sullivan and Molly Walsh who’ve been to the forefront of activism in ensuring that this issue has not disappeared off the agenda. They’ve both been involved in the recent Climate Camps amongst other campaigns and actions.
Halloween Treasure Hunt to visit homes of Bernard McNamara, Dermot Gleeson and others - press release
Date: Thu, 2010-10-28 16:49
“Brian Lenihan might claim that there is no pot of gold to be had from the wealthy. We intend to show him otherwise” - Gregor Kerr, 1% Network spokesperson
The 1% Network has announced details of the route of its Halloween Treasure Hunt, due to take place on Saturday evening, 30th October. Among the venues which the event will visit are the homes of well-known developer Bernard McNamara and former AIB chairman Dermot Gleeson.
€15 billion of cuts not necessary if wealthy made to pay their share
Date: Thu, 2010-10-28 16:43
Announcing their support for Saturday’s 1% Network ‘Halloween Treasure Hunt’, anarchist organisation Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM) has said that the government’s proposed €15 billion of cuts would not be necessary if the wealthy were “made to pay their share.”
Benefit Table Quiz
Date: Wed, 2010-10-27 17:35
Table Quiz to help defray legal costs of Mary Kelly, who took action against US war planes at Shannon airport.
Spailpin Fanach, South Main Street, Cork 8pm
Organised by the Independent Workers Union
Cork: Kropotkin the Anarchist Prince - Winter Talks Solidarity Books
Date: Wed, 2010-10-27 17:31
Winter Talks Series Solidarity Books
Number 6
Kropotkin the Anarchist Prince
Jim McLaughlin who has taught political and social geography for many years will deliver this talk on the thought of this extremely groundbreaking thinker.
8pm Solidarity Books 43 Douglas Street, Cork
Winter Talks Solidarity Books
Date: Wed, 2010-10-27 17:20
Winter Talks Series Solidarity Books
Number 4
Labour Militancy 1917-1923 Conor Kostick
Conor Kostick will speak on the subject of his ground breaking book, Revolution in Ireland , Popular Militancy 1917-1923. The book has been republished by Cork University Press this year. Conor lectures in history in Trinity and is aformer editor of Socialist Worker.
8pm Solidarity Books, 43 Douglas Street, Cork
Winter Talks Solidarity Books
Date: Wed, 2010-10-27 17:14
Winter Talks Series Solidarity Books Cork
Number 3
The Spainish Revolution James O'Brien
8pm Solidarity Books , 43 Douglas Street Cork
Figures show 33,000 Irish millionaires still own assets worth €121 billion - Yes there is a pot of gold!
Date: Tue, 2010-10-26 13:27
Confirmation that a large amount of wealth remains concentrated in the hands of a tiny number of Irish people has come from an analysis of figures by Tom O’Connor, Lecturer in Economics in Cork Institute of Technology. O’Connor has analysed the figures contained in the Bank of Ireland’s ‘Wealth of the Nation’ report which stated that there were 33,000 millionaires in Ireland in 2006. The total ‘net worth’ of these individuals (i.e. excluding the value of their principal residences and allowing for any borrowings) in 2006 was €156.21 billion.