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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 11:39 AM
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Protest held outside Central Bank (Dublin)
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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
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