Protest held outside Central Bank (Dublin)

[struggle4progress]

Source: Irish Times

GENEVIEVE CARBERY

About 80 people have gathered outside the central bank in Dublin as part of an “Occupy Dame Street” protest.

The movement is in solidarity with the mass “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations taking place in New York since last month in protest against financial greed.

Dublin protesters have listed their demands that the IMF and EU “stay out” of Irish affairs, that ordinary people do not repay bank debt, that there be reform of the political system for “real participatory democracy” and that oil and gas reserves of the coast “be return to the people”.

As with protesters in the US, they say they are defending 99 per cent of the population against the richest 1 percent ...

Read more: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/1008/breaking91.html

[me b zola]

1. This truly is a world wide movement

And it has to be. The 1% has made the world their playground to the detriment of the 99% of the rest of us.

Solidarity

[Voice for Peace]

2. may the wind be at their backs

[elleng]

3. THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING!!!

:bounce:

[provis99]

4. all this started by a frustrated college grad in Tunisia who committed suicide.

I guess a single ordinary man really can make a difference.

[Little Tich]

5. More Info from their site:

OCCUPY DAME STREET: Press release (03/10/2011)
.by Occupy Dame Street on Monday, October 3, 2011 at 2:45pm.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.

Now is the time for the spirit of the revolt in Tahrir Square to spread to other major cities and financial districts around the world. It is the duty of those of us living in western capitalist states to take up the fight against the endlessly greedy bankers and political & financial elites who cause so many problems for not only people at home, but the entire world. Chris Hedges put it well in this quote, and it goes for all of us in the West, not just America:

■"There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil. Either you taste, feel and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy. Either you are a rebel or a slave."

Our demand in Ireland is that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Central Bank (ECB) 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 grandchildren pay for this mess 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 the people. Our demand is for real, participatory democracy - where the people's interests come first, where the people decide what happens.

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http://facebook.com/OccupyDameStreet

http://twitter.com/OccupyDameStr

http://youtube.com/OccupyDameStreet

http://livestream.com/OccupyDameStreet

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The demonstration is tiny by OWS standards, but it's a genuine grassroots movement that wants to wrest away some of the political power from the Big Money.

[workinclasszero]

6. Occupy EVERYTHING!

World wide...yippie!!:toast: