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Dublin - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 Occupy Dame Street - Oct 8th - Bring tent
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Tuesday October 04, 2011 02:51 by Jimmy Billings
Occupy Dame Street October 8th #OccupyDameStreet is one of dozens of sister occupations in the current movement initiated by Occupy Wall Street (occupywallst.org). This is a peoples initiative unaffiliated to any political parties. Like OWS, this is a "leaderless resistance movement" with people of many nationalities, backgrounds, genders and political persuasions. We will utilise tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, akin to scenes of peaceful resistance in Tahrir Square during the Egyptian Uprising - part of the wider Arab Spring. |
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http://www.irishleftreview.org/2011/10/04/occupydamestr...-2pm/
Actions around the world: http://www.occupytogether.org/ + map: http://map.15october.net/
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The American Revolution is underway, #occupywallstreet takes it to the belly of the beast (Indymedia Ireland feature)
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100645
Cornell West speaking at the peoples assembly at #occupywallstreet day 11:
“There is a sweet spirit in this place. I hope you can feel the love and inspiration, of those sly stone called “everyday people” who take a stand with great courage and compassion because we oppose the greed of Wall street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats who squeeze the democratic juices out of this country and other places around the world. I am so blessed to be here, you got me spiritually breakdancing on the way here, cuz when you bring folk together, all colours, all cultures, all genders, all sexual orientation, the elite will tremble in their boots. And we will send a message that this is the US FALL responding to the Arab Spring, it is going to hit Chicago, Los Angelas, Phoenix Arizona, and A town itself, moving on to detroit, its gonna hit apalacha, hit the reservations with our red brothers and sisters, martin luther king will smile in the grave, saying were moving step by step to what he called a revolution, dont be afraid to say REVOLUTION. We wanna transfer of power from the oligarchs, to ordinary citizens, with the poor children of all colours, and the orphans and the widows, and the elderly, and the working folk, if we connect the prison industrial complex with the military industrial complex and the wall street oligarchy complex and the corporate media multiplex. I want to thank you, its a blessing to be a small part of this magnificant gathering, this is the general assembly consecrated by your witness and your body and your mind.
vid: Dr. Cornell West - We the People Have Found Our Voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H31XN8zgXlI
Dame St is but 1 node of the #GLOBALREVOLUTION
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Dr. Cornell West - We the People Have Found Our Voice
a few people i know are interested in headin in. any suggestions on what to bring , any idea how long we are staying or is it totally spontaneous and we are hoping that decisions will be made democratically there and then
Really pleased that this is being organized.
Hope it follows the same powerfully peaceful lines that #occupyWallStreet is following. Look forward to it.
#OccupyDameStreet by night
http://www.boomingback.org/2011/10/occupydamestreet-by-....html
Protest held outside Central Bank
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/1008/....html
photos - Occupy Dame Street, 8 Oct 201
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lusciousblopster/sets/7215...4883/
vid - Occupy Dame Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUpTKmjBdAU
Live stream - http://www.livestream.com/OccupyDameStreet
Heres to the crazy ones... Occupy Dame Street
"one of the best days of activism possibly in my life"
oiche mhaith
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Occupy Dame Street
I have been waiting for you young people to stand up and well done every one of you, thank god you're moving at last, and we the 99% are going to sock it to the 1%, its about time we let them know they can not get away with this and we will find an answer amongst ourselves, it will emerge what to replace this shit sytem, ROCK ON!!!
WE ARE THE 99%
WE ARE THE 99%
WE ARE THE 99%
WE ARE THE 99%...
Occupy Dame Street: Day One (much thanks to Dave Donnellan)
http://www.vimeo.com/30239170
Occupy Dame Street: Thank god you're moving at last
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Thank god you're moving at last
At least 50 people camped overnight last night on Dame Street. Up to 100 were participating or watching the general assembly meeting today at 3p.m. About a dozen large and small tents in situ plus a central sheltered area. Gardai saying they don't have a problem with the occupation as long as it stays non-violent and doesn't obstruct access to the Central Bank or the pavement. Plenty of consensus decision-making meetings happening, and various sub-groups set up for food, construction, media, security, health, coordination.
Short blog posts:
http://lusciousblopster.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-dam....html
http://lusciousblopster.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-dam....html
http://lusciousblopster.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-dam....html
Photos and a couple of videos available here (link is also in post above, more photos and video from Day 2 have now been added)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lusciousblopster/sets/7215...4883/
Day two of protest outside Central Bank
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1010/1....html
There has been a series of live streams from #OCCUPYDAMESTREET and the archived recordings can be viewed at the bottom section at link http://www.livestream.com/OccupyDameStreet
Blog and web posts
TWITTER links: #OccupyDameStreet
Vids
Heres to the crazy ones...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2xuSHdjZ00
#OccupyDameStreet - Day 3
Heres to the crazy ones...
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A superb video of Dame Street yesterday.
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Dole TV Costello - Rap outside central bank
lads @ Occupy Dame Street, no doubt its already been great, love to be there with ye physically, but cant, so am in support from afar.
At the early stage, theres much cynical shite to be dealt with, dont mind them, you'll get there, just look at Occupy Wall Street to see how it mushroomed. Theres 2 articles i want to share with ye, the first is from the early days in porta del sol, where it all kicked off in Spain, small at first, but then soon it turned into the Spanish Revolution... its an article from ZNet by andy price, he talks about how many "spectators" came to view the odd goings on, both locals and tourists alike, but soon, they got the basic ideas and soon were participating... and it grew and grew.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
1 - From Arab Spring to Spanish Summer: The Protests Continue (Z.Net)
2 - Occupy Wall Street ends capitalism's alibi (The Guardian)
From Arab Spring to Spanish Summer: The Protests Continue
http://www.zcommunications.org/from-arab-spring-to-span...price
2 - Occupy Wall Street ends capitalism's alibi (The Guardian)
directed at the early days of wall st..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011...-york
Photostreams
Occupy Dame Street, 8 Oct 2011
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lusciousblopster/sets/7215...4883/
luscious blopster
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lusciousblopster/622396911...ream/
WSM photos on FB
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.29573201711928...ype=3
Occupy Dame Street : UNFUCK THE WORLD
Occupy Dame Street : WE ARE YOUR CRISIS
#OccupyDameStreet - Night Two
http://www.boomingback.org/search/label/#OccupyDameStreet
''It always seems impossible until its done.'' - Nelson Mandela
#OccupyGalway - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Galway-OccupyGalwa...49700
RTÉ maintain minimal coverage of the brave people camping out on the plaza of the Central Bank:
'Occupy Dame Street' protest continues
http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1010/damestreet.html
MORE VIDS
national debt clock on the wall of the Central Bank of Ireland
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Occupy Dublin
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Occupy Dublin First Night 09/10/11
Here is South America before social movements forced the restructuring of an illicit debt burden (the defaults) the IMF told Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile etc. etc. to give away their energetic resources. In Argentina three years before the collapse the "government" privatized the oil company to Spanish multinational Repsol, also financial as well as other natural resources were "sold" (for debt) at ridiculous prices. The newly discovered fossil fuel resources in Ireland are Irish (duhh)... They should never have been private. Take them back! Great idea! it will help to regenerate the economy and put the country back on its feet while protecting the coast from dangerous private oil development imposing a state monitored and implemented safety standard.
Good luck on Dame Street, let the IMF know how welcome they are !!!
Nobody noticed ye.
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I would agree with you 100% about the Republic of Ireland taking back all of our untapped oil and gas recourses which were "given away" by unconstitutional skulduggery, "legal corruption" (so called), and so on: provided of course that they are firmly but gently taken back by peaceful, lawful, and constitutional means.
Article 10 of Bunreacht na hEireann (the written Constitution of the Republic of Ireland) very clearly states that "All natural resources ... belong to the State". For all those who might not yet know, the full text of Article 10 reads as follows:
"All natural resources, including the air and all forms of potential energy, within the jurisdiction of the Parliament and Government established by this Constitution and all royalties and franchises within that jurisdiction belong to the State subject to all estates and interests therein for the time being lawfully vested in any person or body."
Worth noting also are the following two matters:
"BP's (British Petroleum's) office had been disrupted for a second day Thursday as Russian bailiffs (accompanied by armed police) looked for a broad range of documents requested in a $3 billion lawsuit by investors in the oil company's Russian joint venture."
"Credible reports suggest the untapped oil and gas resources of the Republic of Ireland -- which appear to have all, or almost all, already been "given away" (unconstitutionally) apparently -- to have a value in the region of 5.4 trillion Euros."
The two excerpts immediately above have been copied from the following location:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/PresidentialHopefuls/...Euros
What Protest? Nobody noticed ye.
Somebody put up a link to the Irish Times article, and it was also on RTE Radio.
And hundreds if not thousands of people pass by that space every day.
You might not have noticed it, but other people did.
Some outreach to the homeless might be good - the peace camp outside Parliament in Westminster changed the lives of some homeless people, who became active in that event.
There hasnt been any real attempt to reach out to the homeless since Street Seen disappeared five or six years back. Many of them need a safe space to stay at night - they're real people and they have just as much a say, if not more, in the rip off that the banker culture performed on society.
Good luck with it.
Currently the #OccupyDameStreet action is main news in Ireland. On the web version of the Irish Times, the main picture is of the occupied space outside central bank and it links to an article stressing the protest as Anti-capitalist and also includes a good 3 minute film with soundbites from different people there on the ground;
Group vows to continue Dublin protest
Anti-capitalist protesters encamped at Central Bank will stay for 'as long as it takes' to effect change
Occupy Dame Street (Irish Times vid)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir-ZXUOe2sM
Meanwhile RTE radio did a very good 3.5minute radio interview with some of the protesters this morning, they came across very well as sincere, angry, hopeful, focused and energised by the time already spent over the last 3 days in the occupation:
'Occupy Dame Street' protest continues
http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1010/damestreet.html
Ailbhe Conneely reports on the ongoing Occupy Dame Street protests (3-5min audio report)
http://www.rte.ie/news/morningireland/player.html?20111...2C257
Occupy Dame Street group camp out at Central Bank
http://www.newstalk.ie//2011/news/occupy-dame-street-gr...bank/
includes 39 second audio clip
Outside of Ireland, #occupydamestreet has made it to Dutch media:
http://nos.nl/artikel/300754-occupy-wall-street-ook-in-....html
Related blogpost about the media goings on from one of the protesters: #OccupyDameStreet - I've got a list of demands!
http://www.boomingback.org/2011/10/occupydamestreet-ive....html
#OccupyDameStreet action is main news in Irish Times
TV3 interview #OccupyDameStreet
a bit of theatre about thieves and their SWAG
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Occupy Dame Street (Irish Times vid)
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY: European Commission subject of playful protest over bailout
Central Bank camp protesters vow to keep going
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1011/1....html
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY: main photo on todays Irish Times (#OccupyDameStreet - Day 4)
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY: European Commission subject of playful protest over bailout
#occupydamestreet - Some beautiful moments + People are amazing!!!
Another great article from UNKIE DAVE on his blog: BOOMING BACK:
#OccupyDameStreet - Jazz Hands
http://www.boomingback.org/2011/10/occupydamestreet-jaz....html
Occupy 'x' arrives in Ireland with Occupy Dame street (WSM analysis)
http://www.wsm.ie/c/ireland-occupy-dame-street
****** important news to dissemenate: ********
DISINFORMATION TROLL AT ‘WE ARE CHANGE’ FACEBOOK PAGE
http://occupieddublin.tumblr.com/post/11313327268/disin...-page
[Mod note: we have been contacted by "we are change"]
[they state that this post was NOT actually written by "we are change". ]
[it was mistakenly reposted. The original author was apparently somebody called "occupy dublin".]
Elsewhere, in the US, unfortunately there has been more violence last night, this time Boston:
A few interesting reads:
MORE PHOTOS
MORE VIDS FROM #OccupyDameStreet
Music
#OccupyDameStreet - October 8 - Make a difference
#OccupyDameStreet - with its funny fancy fone yokey
#OccupyDameStreet - we are the young
#OccupyDameStreet - we are the old
#OccupyDameStreet - we are the punky
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#occupydamestreet (madamk)
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#OccupyDameStreet 8th Oct 2011 (SOUNDMIGRATION)
Hi from #OccupyDameStreet - thanks to whoever set up OccupyDameStreet Free Wi-Fi : http://www.facebook.com/OccupyDameStreet
(last few photos)
#OccupyDameStreet - We are the women
#OccupyDameStreet - Strictly no alcohol
#OccupyDameStreet - We are the artists and musicians
#OccupyDameStreet - We are being listened to by RTE
#OccupyDameStreet - We are the hungry being fed by people of Dublin
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Occupy Wall Street : David Rovics
The IT are such shills.
check out the 5 point plan drawn up by Scottish economist James Gibb Stuart which is based on the plan he advised Malaysia on which successfully saved that country from the South East Asian implosion
Revised timetable of talks at #OccupyDameStreet
http://occupieddublin.tumblr.com/post/11321226457/revis...treet
Tues 2:30 James R on rebellious media conference
Tues 3:30 Harry Browne on Shannon Peace Camp
Tues 5:00 Conor McCabe on history of IFSC as tax haven
Tues 6:00 Michael Albert on US occupy movements
Wed 2:30 Mick O’Reilly on progressive solutions to the crisis
Wed 3:30 Gavan Titley on racism, neoliberalism & the EU financial crisis
Wed 8:00 The Mighty Stef
Thurs 3:30 Helena Sheehan on the new left: remembering & reflecting
Thurs 5:00 Michael Taft on how finance eats the real economy
Thurs 9:00 Gramaphone disco
Fri 4:00 Richard M on a brief history of the 15-M movement
Fri 5:00 Eamonn C on a brief history of Indymedia
subject to change, check link, come add your own events, gigs, workshops.... stuff can work at same time...
LIVE STREAM on for all this, now showing nice morning music, view it at http://www.livestream.com/occupydamestreet
Revised timetable of talks at #OccupyDameStreet (DAY 5)
Irish Americans in New York, Irish Central readers, show massive support for Occupy Dame Street protesters
TWEET: From a total of 2,650 votes, 88 % of the readers said they supported #OccupyDameStreet. http://bit.ly/qcKjOl @Storyful #NYC
http://twitter.com/#!/soundmigration/status/124059671458873344
Related:
Niall O'Dowd wrote this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_O%27Dowd
Irish Central: 88% of Irish Americans New Yorkers, IrishCentral readers, said they supported #OccupyDameStreet
Response to @ElectricHack @thenext100k @mrs_bopp @the_small_thing and all other begrudgers and those who wish to slate or prevent this #IrishRevolution from spreading....
on the #OccupyDameStreet channel on TWITTER http://tinyurl.com/68rfca9
Regarding your typical sort of claims, such as, http://tinyurl.com/6y79g88 :
I ask you, do you not think that the "serious political thought" of the following is not important:
Cornell West, Manuel Castells, Salman Rushdie, Micheal Albert, Joe Stiglitz, Chris Heges, David Rovics, Deepak Chopra, Michael Moore, Amy Goodman, Niall O'Dowd, Noam Chomsky, Roseanne Bar, Slavoj Žižek, Gideon Rachman, Richard Wolff, Arun Gupta... (list is endless... just look a bit for yourselves)
And with that, id request that rather than just slagging off (which is very easy to do) that you offer your positive and constructive views on how things can be improved. We are all the 99%, leave the baggage aside, come down to #OccupyDameStreet, offer your views, engage in discussion, engage in debate if thats whats needed for you, learn and share, allow others to do likewise... Thats why all this stuff is working, thats why so many beyond the "normal crowd" are joining, adding their views, being energised, becoming hopeful again, taking action.... trying to change their worlds
For vids, audios, links to articles about all those who have been out in support of the occupations in Spain, Wall Street, Dublin... see some of the following articles here:
And lastly, especially for our Tipp couple; @thenext100k (Right-wing revolutionary, Grumpy, opinionated, counter-cultural http://evertb.wordpress.com ) and @mrs_bopp (Wexford born mother of 5 living in Coolbawn, Co. Tipperary + Independant candidate for North Tipp http://www.katebopp.com ) the 2 articles I have requested they read:
"Serious political thought" @ #OccupyDameStreet: Micheal Albert
"Serious political thought" @ #OccupyWallStreet: Noami Klein
"Serious political thought" @ #OccupyWallStreet: Slavoj Žižek
"Serious political thought" @ #OccupyWallStreet: Cornell West
"Serious political thought" @ #OccupyWallStreet: Joe Stiglitz
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Chris Hedges on #OccupyWallStreet (RT news)
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#OccupyDameStreet 8th Oct 2011 (SOUNDMIGRATION)
I warmly commend the people involved and hope to visit in the near future, however, while the analysis on the economics is spot on there is no mention of the environment. Of course Ireland, US, UK are tax havens and international mega capital are pulling the strings. The analysis has to go deeper. No point having an economy if we don't have a biosphere. It would look like the living Hell that is Star Trek, where Nature has become a hologram or projection.
Bet the place is full of litter after the ecologists thankfully go away and are forgotten about by the rest of us.
Your above statement is indicative of why I cannot support the #Occupy movement.
Any differening opinion gets slated & is unacceptable to this movement.
You claim to be "all inclusive" but refuse to accept anyone who does not support your political dogmas.
You claim to represent "the 99%" while you clearly don't.
You refuse to accept that while I dissagree with your means & goals that we still have the same enemy.
Your arguments are well intended but will achieve little. The assumption that a few people in tents are going to make the bankers and politicians aware that there is dissent with their actions is utterly mornonic.
They already know that the majority of people object strongly to their action but they DON'T CARE!
There are other movements for change that have been going on for much longer than the #occupy movement but which have chosen a less public path as they strive for maximum effectiveness and minimum exposure.
If you're really interested in open discussion read article and feel free to respond: http://evertb.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/occupymymind/
Just a little video to prove me point...
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Embedded video Youtube Video
Ignorance puts a smile on the faces of the Robber Barons and is the lubricant for the business as usual, human as consumer, Nature-loathing culture we live in.
I support any protest that attempts to point the finger at where it should be pointed, however, the analysis has to go much deeper. The liberated worker-as-consumer is as less threatening to the real status quo as is the current situation.
200 Species(estimate) go extinct everyday! One day Homo Sapiens will follow.
Rational Ecologist, it needs to be deepened. As a transitioner, I outlined my points on that at this post: Transtioning from OIL DEPENDANCE to local RESILIENCE, through peaceful REVOLUTIONARY action
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100645#comment284367
Since then, Ive found and posted in support and to build on that argument, as posted above (easy to miss):
A Post Carbon Memo to Occupy Wall Street: We Need A Post-Growth Economy, For Nature & People
http://www.postcarbon.org/blog-post/523782-memo-to-the-...ent-a
RELATED VID: Richard Heinberg's Peak Everything - Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybRz91eimTg
look forward to your response. Also, please outlined a strategy you feel we should take and a best case scenario youd like to see us get to. What groups you working with, whats your view on the KLIMAFORUM dec.
Regards, Dunk
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Richard Heinberg
#OccupyDameStreet is a people’s movement, which stands in solidarity with and is inspired by nearly 1000 sister occupations in the evolving global movement initiated by the people of Iceland, Greece, Spain, and Tunisia. We use tactics of non-violence akin to the scenes of peaceful resistance in Tahrir Square and Wall Street. This is a diverse people’s initiative, unaffiliated with any political parties. We are the 99%. We stand together against political and economic corruption. We stand for equality and social justice. This is a "leaderless resistance movement" with people of many nationalities, backgrounds, genders and political persuasions.
We say to the people of Ireland: if you have ever looked for an opportunity to engage in realistic change, this is the platform. Now is the time when the spirit of the revolt is spreading to other major cities and financial districts around the world. It is the duty of everyone to stand together against the endless greed and corruption on which our financial system is based.
We reject the complete control of the European Central Bank (ECB) in dictating our economic policy. Our demand is that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stay out of our affairs. We do not want their influence or control. Our demand is that the private bank debt that has been socialised and burdened upon the population of the country who had nothing to do with it be lifted. We will not pay and let our children and their children pay for this crisis that private banks and bondholders have caused. It is their problem, not ours. Our demand is that the oil and gas reserves off our coast that were criminally handed away to private corporations be returned to sovereign control. Our demand is for real, participatory democracy - where the people's interests come first, where the people decide what happens.
We do not claim to have a complete list of solutions. We believe, however, that the process is just beginning. The more participation we can build, the more power our decisions will carry. We invite any person to join us, but we ask that they leave their political party at the door.
http://www.occupydamestreet.org | http://www.facebook.com/OccupyDameStreet | #occupydamestreet
http://www.occupydamestreet.org/?p=21
occupydamestreet.org : YOU ARE US
As people like former US President Abraham Lincoln very clearly and correctly (in my opinion) realised, it is "government of the people, by the people, for the people" (i.e. genuine democracy) that humanity desperately needs: and NOT "government of the corrupt ruling elites, by the corrupt ruling elites, for the corrupt ruling elites" (i.e. cleverly concealed debt-slavery and tyranny) of the kind which the Republic of Ireland, together with all (or almost all) other nations of the world are at present saddled with: thanks in very large part to the "Global Banking Cartel", and their "Invisible Global Government".
"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
The above excerpt -- written by Abraham Lincoln, who himself shortly afterwards "gave the last full measure of devotion", thanks to an assassin's bullet in the back of the head -- has come from:
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeche...g.htm
Its early yet, but by christ, they're hurling mighty: The Mighty Stef @ #occupydamestreet tinyurl.com/6l5wyxm @OccupyDublin #Globalchange
#OccupyDameStreet support TWEET @ http://tinyurl.com/6yo2859
web - http://www.themightystef.com
vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iBjL-JLCkY
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The Mighty Stef/Occupy Dame Street (night 5)
Some coverage on TV3 midweek program that wasn't too bad (for the MSM!)
A reporter mingled with the camp and interviewed two articulate supporters. Fair play lads! ;-)
http://tv3.ie/3player/show/192/41086/1/MidWeek
The bit in question is 24'30" in on the main clip
you must first endure an advertisement for 30 seconds. After that the main clip appears and you can then click on the bar at the bottom to skip the first item and go directly to the clip that matters
which is around the 24' 30"mark. Enjoy!
(The rest of the show is just some guff about the Amanda Knox case)
Guardian article on #occupydamestreet:
Occupy Dame Street: Irish bank protesters stage well-mannered sit-in
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/12/occupy-dame...T9038
Occupy Dame Street - Day 4, Public Assembly (vid)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMdDJqcNCkA
Occupy Dame Street: Day Four (mike albert and activist from the occupation kitchen, thanks to dave donnelan)
http://vimeo.com/30405312
Rabble asks: What do passers by think of #occupydamestreet?
http://www.mixcloud.com/rabble/rabble-asks-what-do-pass...reet/
And lastly, yet another super installment from UNKIE DAVE, see his many posts on his blog...
#OccupyDameStreet - So You Say You Want a Revolution
http://www.boomingback.org/2011/10/occupydamestreet-so-....html
TV3 interview at http://tv3.ie/3player/show/192/41086/1/MidWeek
Go to 24'30"
#OccupyDameStreet - Day 7 - wishlist
#OccupyDameStreet - October 15 callout for mass action to sort the shite
#OccupyDameStreet - Day 6 general assembly
#OccupyDameStreet - Every Day - livestreams to the world
#OccupyDameStreet - Day 5 - Lads message to Ireland; leave your apathy and cynicism behind
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Occupy Dame Street: Day Four
More posts and commentry about #occupydamestreet:
Getting ready for tomorrows international day of action...
Ireland:
15 October - United for Global Change vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y3X2VFruLM
2011 international road to dignity image:
Moving towards a peaceful ‘war of manoeuvre’ in a global class warfare
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/moving-towards-a-peaceful...10/06
Oct 15 Dublin - 2pm Garden of Rememberence > Occupy Dame Street
We are the 99% - Occupy Dame St
Oct 15 Cork - 14.00 @Bishop Lucy Park - Marching on to South Mall
To Exit from Economic Disaster.... HIT THE STREET Oct 15th
2011 international road to dignity image: all building up toward tomorrow
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Occupy Dame Street - Day 4, Public Assembly
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Occupy Dame Street - Trad session - Early Day Five
Yesterday, rabble hooked up one of our contributors with a dodgy recorder. He spent twenty minutes lurking around the edges of #occupydamestreet, catching vox pops with those passing by. In total our very own Paddy Gorman interviewed around 17 people. They ranged from the homeless, to students, culchies, old school Dubs, local business people and an Egyptian that was in Tahir square. Have a listen and see how people on the street are reacting to the jazz hands...
Listen at: http://www.mixcloud.com/rabble/rabble-asks-what-do-pass...reet/
'Occupy' camps force debate on finance system
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/1015/1....html
by PATRICK SMYTH
An Irishman's Diary
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/1015/1....html
FRANK MCNALLY
Meanwhile from #OccupyDameStreet to #OccupyNAMA...
Squatter sets up home in NAMA ghost estate
http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/squatter-sets-up-home-in....html
Jayzis, havent seen this much Anit-Capitalist talk in the Times in a long long time, maybe the times are indeed a-changin'
Irish activists hope for swelling of ranks
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/1015/122....html
Guerrilla journalism finds newsprint still occupies a central role
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/1015/122....html
..the term is 'hedging one's bets'.
They learned it in hedge school, when they were pumping the property pages and pocketing profitably with one hand, and posturing liberal concern with the other.
Just as the moniker 'Irish' masks their Tory/Unionist core.
Classic PD Janus-faced stance.
You can be sure they had their well heeled salaries stashed in the same hedge-funds to balance their portfolios with insurance for the predictable inevitable as they milked it to the peak, and drained it to the dreg.
But as you say, could indicate the way they are sniffing the breezes of change.
"The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity." (Former United States President Abraham Lincoln)
There is a very big problem though, in that any politician who tries to put this very simple and socially benign approach into practice, is very likely -- it would seem -- to end up "getting the bullet" (literally!!): as did Abraham Lincoln.
When former President John F. Kennedy tried to do the same kind of thing, 100 years or so after Abraham Lincoln, he also ended up with fatal bullet wounds to his head.
The above worry aside, there is no good reason whatsoever why any government (including the Republic of Ireland) should not produce its own debt free and interest free currency: for its own responsible purposes.
Related links:
"The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing" (hence the bullets?):
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/CelticParty/10August2...l.htm
"Bailout by IMF (Republic of Ireland)":
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/CelticParty/29January...l.htm
I support #OccupyDameStreet - post this on your Facebook wall. Make it your Facebook profile image. Let's keep getting the message out there.
I support #OccupyDameStreet
‘Occupy’ protest movement spreads from #OccupyDameStreet to distant corners of Ireland...
Galway
International ‘occupy’ protest movement spreads to Galway
http://www.galwaynews.ie/22157-international-%E2%80%98o...alway
The latest group to join in the international protest which began on Wall Street in the heart of America’s financial district battled gale-force winds and torrential rain in flimsy tents on Eyre Square since they set up camp on Saturday.
At one stage at the height of the 60km-per-hour winds it looked like the protest would be called off after the main shelter – a gazebo – was blown down on Monday morning.
The group retired for what was labelled an urgent meeting in Richardson’s pub but at the time of going to press the group, which is living in about six tents, continued to tweet and post messages on Facebook...
Occupy Galway #OccupyGalway http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Galway-OccupyGalwa...49700
Discussion on the The Galway Advertiser facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/GalwayAdvertiser/posts/10150361...HOTOS
Some pics from Occupy Galway by Mike Shaughnessy.http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150362805771...ype=1
They also got donations of books on the disaster that is the Irish financial crisis from vinnie of charlie byrnes bookstore...
A LIST OF ALL THE ITEMS THE CAMPERS NEED: Pallets Tarp Sand bags Cardboard Sleeping Mats Yard Brush First Aid Kit Cable Ties Plastic Cups, Plates, Spoons Tables Generator Barrel Stationary Gas Bottles Towels Dry clothes
#OccupyGalway: battling gale-force winds and torrential rain in flimsy tents on Eyre Square
#OccupyGalway: tough and determined
#OccupyGalway: we are the 99%
#OccupyGalway: donations of books on the disaster that is the Irish financial crisis from vinnie of charlie byrnes bookstore
#OccupyGalway: no support or sympathy from the Galway Advertiser
Good on ye, however, the choice of books doesn't fill me with optimism. We don't need a more decent form of Capitalism, we need and end to exploitation of humans and the natural world. The analysis must go much, much deeper. The no-growth, nature-healing future is the only alternative. I applaud anyone who gets off their ass and does something, however, we must be certain what is the vision for the future. Even a more benign version of our culture will kill the planet, albeit a bit slower.
Day four and we're ready for more. We got a good mention from Neil Prenderville on 96fm and we maybe live on air again this morning.
Occupy Cork Protest on South Mall
http://cork.studenty.me/2011/10/16/occupy-cork-protest-...mall/
Occupy Cork protesters are this weekend copying their counterparts on Wall Street, Times Square and capitals around the world by setting up a protest camp at the war memorial at the bottom of South Mall. The Occupy Wall Street protests are evidence of anger amongst some sections of American society at their government’s inability to deal with the recession and the perception of strong links between the White House and corporate America. Eighty cities across America, European capitals and now Dublin, Cork and Galway have all witnessed a range of protests from riots to peaceful occupation of prominent public areas.According to Occupy Cork, on Saturday about 1,000 protesters met at Bishop Lucey Park before marching to South Mall where Cork’s banks are concentrated. By Sunday lunchtime, roughly twenty protesters remained camped around the war memorial.
Photos: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.28798082455454...ype=1
email them at
OCCUPY CORK CAMP ESTABLISHED IN CITY CENTRE PARK (C103 News)
http://www.c103.ie/news/news-item.aspx?arti_guid=71c457...61efe
A new movement, calling itself 'Occupy Cork' has taken up residence at a makeshift campsite in Cork City centre and says the site is open to anyone who feels let down by the political and financial establishment. The group has set up a small 'tented village' in the Peace Park on the corner of the South Mall and the Grand Parade, and describes itself as peaceful, entirely independent and with no hidden agendas.Organiser, Liam Mullaney, says they will hold two public meetings a day which are open to all, and in which anyone can participate.Liam Mullaney says the camp is entirely peaceful, and will not engage in the kind of violence that broke out in Rome, over the weekend.The 'Occupy Cork' organisers say they will also teach people to set up and run their own campsites in other areas.
Repeated at: PROTESTORS TAKE UP RESIDENCE ON SOUTH MALL IN CORK.(96FM News)
http://www.96fm.ie/news/news-item.aspx?arti_guid=5744d6...03c2d
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/occupycork
On Thursday, Conor McCabe, author of Sins of the Father, will give two talks at the Occupy Cork site.
TUE 18/10/11 OCCUPY CORK EVENTS
- 1PM PUBLIC ASSEMBLY
- 2PM HISTORICAL WALKING TOUR OF CORK
- 5PM NUTRITION TALK 6PM PUBLIC ASSEMBLY
- 7PM TALK ON TAXATION BY UCC LECTURER KIEREN KEOHANE
- 9PM TALK ON THE ANTI-HOUSEHOLD TAX CAMPAIGN
A talk given at Occupy Cork on Sunday 16th of October by Cathal Larkin of the Workers Solidarity Movement.
https://docs.google.com/a/travel-bound.co.uk/document/d...en_GB
The Financial Crisis and Capitalism:
Hello everybody and welcome to this talk called The Financial Crisis and Capitalism.We all know that greedy, corrupt bankers caused the financial crisis, right? Wrong. This is a bad explanation. Of course, there are greedy, corrupt bankers; but there is a lot more to the crisis than that.I always find it funny how people who think capitalism is a fine economic system talk about greedy bankers causing the crisis. Strange because greed is supposed to be the driving force of capitalism. By each individual selfishly pursuing wealth, we get the best end result for everyone – that's the theory. And it's supposed to concur with our selfish human nature....
brief mention on CNN at http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-689947?ref=feeds%2Flatest
Occupy Cork LIVESTREAM at http://www.livestream.com/occupycork
#OccupyCork - Go On De Rebels
#OccupyCork: @1000 take to the streets of the PEOPLES REPUBLIC
#OccupyCork: tent city put up at the war memorial at the bottom of South Mall
#OccupyCork: General Assembly dealing with whatever issues arose from those present
#OccupyCork: night time at the war memorial at the bottom of South Mall
Here's the text of Helena Sheehan`s speech last Saturday at Occupy Dame Street.
http://www.irishleftreview.org/2011/10/16/occupy-dublin...olen/
Occupy Dublin: Take back the world they have stolen from us
When you have lived a long life, you will find that the years blur together, but some years stand out. 2011 will be a stand out year.
For some of us active on the left for many years, we have been asking what would it take for people to rise up. There has been every reason to rise up. Every form of exploitation has flourished.
Redistribution from below to above has intensified beyond anything ever imagined. Transferring private debts into public ones as been an absolutely stunning move. Financial capital has attacked, not only the lives and livelihood of the working people of the world, but even industrial capital. Industrial capital at least produces something. Hedge funds, short selling and such financial instruments produce nothing and take everything. They are parasitic upon the only real sources of wealth: natural resources and human labour. They contribute nothing.
How could people just take this? How could they allow the 1% to rob and rule the 99%? Why has such stepped-up class struggle from above not been met by class struggle from below?
*** Related vid: Occupy Dame Street & Real Democracy Now march and people's assembly2011 has been the year when vast numbers came out and said no. They have come out, we have come out, to take back the world they have stolen from us. From Tunisia to Egypt to Spain to Chile to the USA and many places in between. Now here. Iceland and Greece, of course, were already out in front, shaming us. But not now. We are on the streets and squares of almost 1000 cities in 82 counties on 6 continents today. There is something happening here. Most of these are new people, people new to protest, although the old ones, waiting and working for this to happen, are part of it too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vopI4ERCvck
Helena Sheehan @ Occupy Dublin: Take back the world they have stolen from us
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Helena Sheehan @ Occupy Dublin: Take back the world they have stolen from us
I am looking for answers to the above question. I am all for the leftist critique and we've always known that the strings are pulled by a few to the disadvantage of the many. What is not clear is what does the possible future look like? I really want to get more involved, however, from what I am seeing thus far, the analysis does not go far enough. Can someone outline the picture of the future you want to bring in to existence? I fear that it will be one of greater redistribution of wealth, which is welcome, but could be ecologically no better or even worse than what we have. I really want to be part of this so please see my questions in the postive way they are meant. Thanks and stay warm and dry!
No-one stole the world from us. It's not theirs and never was ours. We live on it and have a relationship to/with it but do not own or possess it. That is the language of Capitalism and worries me. I don't mean to be a pedant(can't help it). Thanks again
rational ecologist, for the 2nd time, a personal response was given to you at http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100658&comment_limit=0&...84651 please view that and respond... thanks
Must be impending old age. I did see that and am very happy to see it. I would like to see the ecological message as part of the main message. Thanks for pointing that out. I will be supporting this movement in any way I can. Thanks again for that.
The article above wrongly cites America and 'Occupy Wall Street' as the start of the current movement -
'current movement initiated by Occupy Wall Street (occupywallst.org)'.
It wasn't OWS - it was the Indignados (or May 15th) movement in the Placa del Sol in Madrid, quickly followed at Placa Catalunya in Barcelona, that kick-started it. Then a host of other Spanish cities and sites throughout Europe, in solidarity with the Spanish indignados. The start was May 15th.
Occupy Wall Street is a spreading of that same protest (which itself was obviously encouraged by the Arab uprisings in Spring) and the protests in Dublin etc. are a further spreading.
http://blogs.ft.com/the-world/2011/10/americas-indignad...uVwdO
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/12/madrid-demo...=SRCH
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/20/occ...enery
and
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/20/occ...anity
Well worth reading.
If the Occupy Dame Street is to achieve anything beyond any other brief, "horizontal" network that disappears after a couple of months (cf. Real Democracy Now, 1% Network, Social Solidarity Network, and so on), it needs to come up with a plan - and maybe one (small) objective to work towards.
Capitalism does well because it is terrifyingly organised. But I dont think I ever saw anything approaching what you could call Project Management amongst left groups in Ireland. No timespan of activity, no arc of actions, no delegation of tasks (again this could be related to the tyranny of structurelessness, where leaders do actually exist, but are unwilling to acknowledge it themselves for ideological reasons), no definitive 'end' or 'result' (good or bad) declared at the end of a project, just drift...
I think Occupy Dame Street is a good thing - its opening up a space for debate and discussion.
But it will grow stale, quick. Especially when the clocks go back and the rain kicks in, hard.
Martin McGuinness : I do support the Occupy Dame Street group and I actually met with some of their members on Monday morning. If you look in my pghoto album " The Campaign Trail" you will see a photo of me meeting them. I also met some members of the Cork group at UCC"
(not sure about the photo, is it in fact with the #occupycork lads, road looks bit smaller, maybe someone can clarify)
#OccupyDameStreet March + Billy Bragg secret solidarity gig
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100761
Billy bragg will be marching with Occupy dame street from garden of remembrance at 2pm saturday. After he'll be perform at a secret location, come to the march to find out!! Or for those that cant make it, watch online via the livestream at http://www.livestream.com/OccupyDameStreet Billy was on newstalk radio today and mentioned his support for occupy dame street.... :-)
**** Other press about OCCUPY DAME STREET:
Great Daily Kos: Occupy-Dame-Street-Dublin,-Ireland- A-Photo-More-Diary-Please-Check-it-Out
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/13/1025915/-Occup...t-Out
Martin McGuinness : I do support the Occupy Dame Street group and I actually met with some of their members on Monday morning.
#OccupyDameStreet March + Billy Bragg secret solidarity gig
Dear occupy Dublin, you are beautiful. Never doubt that what you are doing is important and relevant and makes a great difference. You give us a chance to see how the world can be if we only want it enough. We are the future and we refuse to pay for theirs any longer...
dlúthpháirtíochta (solidarity as gaeilge)
BILLY bragg reading out a message of solidarity from the OCCUPY LONDON, written by writer and activist Laurie Penny.
He sang the following tunes,
1 - Which side are you on
2 - There is power in a union
3 - The Internationale
Occupy Dame Street ft BillyBragg : Intro + Which side are you on (with a little early tek sound problem)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urmxj4Ee-WM
Occupy Dame Street: Billy Bragg singing 'There is power in a union' 22nd October 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQzfmwJw-fQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AL8_ElpStg
Wider reports of his free secret solidarity gig:
A Selection of Videos from Saturday’s #OccupyDameStreet March (Irish left review)
http://www.irishleftreview.org/2011/10/24/selection-vid...arch/
OccupyDameStreet March 22 October 2011 (indymedia ireland)
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100795
Billy Bragg at Occupy Dame Street
http://dublinopinion.com/2011/10/23/billy-bragg-occupy-...reet/
Laurie Penny article on Z-NET: Occupying Wall Street
http://www.zcommunications.org/occupying-wall-street-by...penny
+ original with plenty comments: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2011/10/...ridge
Billy Bragg free secret solidarity gig at Occupy Dame Street, Saturday 22nd October 2011
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Billy Bragg singing
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Billy Bragg singing
Stop The Billion Dollar Heist: #OccupyDameStreet and Real Democracy Now! March
Indymedia event notice: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100819
facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=281129408576284
Thousands of people marched supporting #OccupyDameStreet and Real Democracy Now! Ireland from the Garden of Remembrance to the site of the ongoing occupation at the Central Bank plaza on Dame street on Saturday 22nd of October. We will again gather at 2pm at the Garden of Remembrance on 29th of October and march to the site of the Dame Street occupation.
Stop The Billion Dollar Heist:
On November 2nd 2011, next Wednesday, a $1,000,000,000 bond comes due at Anglo Irish Bank. This bond is unsecured, unguaranteed, a bond we have absolutely no obligation to pay.
http://thechatteringmagpie14.blogspot.com/2011/10/billi....html
We call on supporters of #OccupyDameStreet to spread the word about this widely. The media will not do it for us. Let’s become our own media and grow this movement. We are the 99%. We have the power. We need to exercise it.
– No drink, no drugs, no party political banners or flags and no violence – will also apply to this demonstration.
Another little vid from last week: crowd dancing to "The Rocky Road to Dublin"
Stop The Billion Dollar Heist: #OccupyDameStreet and Real Democracy Now! March
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Last Saturdays crowd dancing to "The Rocky Road to Dublin"
Haircut?
Scalp the Trillionaires.
Ger O'Nimo.
#occupyireland now has 5 #occupy sites:
#OccupyDameStreet (Dublin)
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100658
#OccupyCork
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100751
#OccupyGalway
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100770
#OccupyBelfast
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100808
#OccupyWaterford
http://tinyurl.com/6zk72wa
***
And a few n the "mulling stage"
#OccupyLimerick
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Limerick/124724250...65546
#OccupyLetterkenny
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Letterkenny/304068...09753
#Occupy-Clare
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Clare/122672794503162
#occupyireland now has 5 #occupy sites
Messages from ODS campers on the FB page:
#occupydamestreet Out with the messiness in with the peeps who can pull this place back together. No point arguing about intellectual political issues if there is not a solid occupation. Saturday 9 to 3 is a work day barnraising session. No more festival tents. We need batteries with stuff to run laptops : canvas tents : people to take on security shifts at night. Bring your own work crew. Lets what needs to be done. If rossport can keep it going then Dublin certainly can. please spread widely
Occupy Dame Street - Birthday Celebration - 4 Weeks
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=195808560495552Come join us on Saturday the 5th of November #occupydamestreet will hold a Barn Raiser and 'Birthday Party' to celebrate and build on four weeks of continuous occupation of the Central Bank Plaza.
To mark the occasion #occupydamestreet will call together all of those who have participated in the occupation to date.
A 'Barn Raising' will take place from 9am onward where the infrastructure of the camp will be solidified and developed. The birthday party involving, a large group of artists exhibiting, music, an open mic for entertainers, kazoos, reunions and a big cake will take place between 2.30 and 5.30pm.
After the party #occupydamestreet will hold, as is usual at the site of the occupation, a general assembly at 6pm. The assembly will focus on reflecting on the past and future of the occupation.
Lets
The Freedom Project at Occupy Dame Street
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Freedom-Project-at-Oc...=info
A little art project in a big city
What does FREEDOM mean to you? Lets think long term. Lets think towards the world we would like to see exist. Down here at Occupy Dame Street we are looking to get people involved in many different ways. We are hoping to brighten up the place and also to see the people of Ireland (and everywhere else!) getting inspired and creative! We would like to see lots of thought-provoking and inspiring artwork hanging around the big grey bank.
To get involved in the project, please create a painting or picture of what freedom means to you or your idea/interpretation of freedom. The paintings can be on wood (mdf wood is good, you can buy it for less than €10 in woodies or bnq and get it cut to whatever size you want) or canvas panels, any size, any medium (pen/marker/paint/grafitti/mosaic/collage/mixed media).. whatever makes you happy. Please varnish them back and front with varnish from a hardware store as they will be hanging outdoors. (we haven't had time to build an art gallery yet :) write your name on them too, if you like.
You can drop them to the camp in person, or post them to occupy dame street, central bank plaza, dublin city, ireland. please suggest this to all your friends, even people in other countries, as it is a good way to let people have an input and support us, even from far away. Don't feel like you have to be a wonderful artist to take part, everyones input is welcome and valid...including children (we would love to see some childrens art included in the project)! We also hope to have some creative days at the camp where people can come down, get together and create some artwork onsite. In this respect, donations of mdf wood, canvas panels and paint will be very welcome. Lets create a better future together, starting by sharing our dreams of FREEDOM ♥
Occupy Dame Street: Day Twenty-One
Another great vid from Dave Donnelon at http://vimeo.com/31301133 was posted on imc-ie and generated much discussion, debate, infighting between different groups of the left, about the SWP and whether they respect the "non-political part" call by OCCUPY and how they fit into it and work with the different people who have been mucking in and making this thing happen from the start, the thread is now closed, but captures much of the delicate nature of building a movement...Occupy Dame Street: DayTwenty One (the scrap thread)
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100821**** Earlier in the occupation there was more cracking music:
Occupy Dame Street: Day Eighteen
Michael Franti live and uncut on Occupy Dame Street.
Franti brought 15 minutes of pure sunshine to Dame Street after the wettest day on camp so far.http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100801
vid at http://vimeo.com/31126499
Occupy Dame Street: Day Thirteen
Occupy Dame Street - Birthday Celebration - 4 Weeks... COME AND PARTY....
The Freedom Project @ #occupydamestreet
Jinx Lennon @ #occupydamestreet - gig by megaphone
Jinx Lennon @ #occupydamestreet - gig by megaphone, guitar too
Michael Franti@ #occupydamestreet : 15 minutes of pure sunshine to Dame Street after the wettest day on camp so far.
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Occupy Dame Street: DayTwenty One (the scrap)
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Michael Franti live and uncut on Occupy Dame Street.
'Occupy Dame St' protest camp dismantled by gardaí
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0308/....html
The "Occupy Dame Street" protest camp site outside the Central Bank in Dublin has been dismantled by gardaí.
The encampment was established last October as part of the global anti-capitalist "Occupy" movement.
Gardaí moved in on the camp at 3.30am and dismantled and removed a number of structures and tents on the site as protesters were held back.
As many as 100 gardaí were involved in the operation, and Dame Street was cordoned off from Trinity College to George's Street. The area was cleared and then cleaned by council workers.
The move comes following recent calls on the protesters to leave the Central Bank plaza ahead of the St Patrick's Day parade.
A protest is planned at the site for later today.