WHATS THE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE TO THE CUTS?

Speaker: Eamonn McCann, Author and Journalist

Date: Wed 3rd Nov. 7.30pm

Venue: Culturlann, Falls Road Belfast.

The Con-Dem Comprehensive Spending Review of 20th October declared the worst attack on public services and the welfare state since its establishment.

The Tories are gearing up for class war – they want to make working people pay for the crisis caused by their rich friends in banking.

Further restrictions on housing benefit for under- 35s, coupled with those already contained in the June budget, will mean even more people faced with homelessness.

LAST SATURDAY PROTEST SUCCESSFULLY ‘KIDNAPS’ 46A AND BRINGS IT BACK THROUGH FARM

Residents of the Monkstown Farm and Stradbrook areas will assemble outside Dun Laoghaire Co. Council this evening (Mon Nov 1st) at 4.50pm to protest at the removal of the 46a bus from the Monkstown Farm area and other cuts to the 4a and 746 bus services.

Dublin Bus representatives will attend the Council’s transport area committee tonight to discuss local bus services and the new city-wide Dublin Bus network review, which will see 90 buses removed from the city fleet leading to cut backs in a wide range of areas across the city.

Dublin Bus’s attendance at tonight’s meeting follows the recent passing of a motion proposed by Cllr Richard Boyd Barrett (People Before Profit Alliance) condemning the cuts and calling for Dublin Bus to be brought before the Council.

Tonight’s protest is the latest of a series of protests in an on-going campaign by local residents aimed at forcing Dublin Bus to restore the 46a to Monkstown Farm and reverse the cuts to the 4a and 746 services.

Lat Saturday (Oct 30th), more than 100 residents – many of them elderly – surrounded two 46a’s at Kill O the Grange, preventing them following the new 46a route and escorting them for 2km along their traditional route through Monkstown Farm.

These Saturday protests are set to continue over the coming weeks. The campaign has now also collected almost 2000 signatures on a petition calling for the reversal of the cuts to local bus services.