Young People Must Vote For Real Change

Unprecedented attacks on young people must be reversed
The People Before profit Alliance today called on young people to vote for real change next Friday.Recent months have seen unprecedneted attacks on our youth. These include savage cuts to our education system and hikes in student registration fees and the slashing of social welfare payments by 50% to for those our under 20. There have also been cuts in community facilities and drug treatment services. On top of all this escalating unemployment will mean many of our young people are being deprived of any hope of a better future. The bail out of the banks and creation of NAMA will leave them saddled with debt for decades.
People Before Profit in candidate in Ballybrack, Hugh Lewis, who is 25, said “My generation grew up believing that a better future lay ahead for us, and it can be."
 
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June 1, 2009

TRALEE: Asylum System Protest this Saturday

Asylum Seekers in Tralee are unhappy with their treatment and their facilities and the quality of their lives in the town’s asylum hostels.They and their supporters are calling a demonstration which will assemble at The Square, Tralee@ 11.30am Saturday 30th May, and then travel to protest outside one of the hostels (for operational reasons this hostel will be specified later).

"Tralee Refugee Asylum and Migrant Voices" in association with "People Before Profit Alliance" invite you to join them at The Square @ 11.30am Saturday 30th May 2009.

Asylum seekers and Refugees live amongst us but are not fully accepted by our society. Their treatment by the state, and suspicion and resentment among some members of the general population marginalises them.

Those with significant education and qualifications are left to rot; they should instead be allowed to contribute their skills to their new country. Those without skills are denied adult education.

Many hostel residents suffer from health problems. Denied a fully realised existence they are subject to stress and depression.

They are given poor quality meals and of a type that is outside of their culture.

They have been subject to outright racist abuse from the very people who have a Duty of Care towards them.

Those asylum seekers who try to voice their complaints, or represent their community, are quickly moved to other hostels.

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May 29, 2009

Videos of Launch of People Before Profit’s ‘Alternative Economic Agenda’ Document & more

On Tuesday 28th April People Before Profit Alliance launched the ‘Alternative Economic Agenda’ Document & at a press conference on Wednesday May 20th a group of left, environmental and independent councillors and activists called on the public to vote for candidates in the local elections who offer a genuine alternative to the failed policies of the establishment parties.

Click on images below to watch speeches by Cllr Chris O’Leary (Ind, Cork), Richard Boyd Barrett (People Before Profit Alliance, Dun Laogahire), Vincent Browne (Journalist & Broadcaster), Cllr Catherine Connolly (Ind, Galway) and more.

        

Cllr Chris O’Leary                                 Richard Boyd Barrett

      

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May 29, 2009

Time To End Church Control of Schools, Hospitals and Social Services

  • Religious Orders Must Acknowledge Guilt and Responsibility
  • State Must Take Action To Recover Taxpayers Monies Paid To Religious Orders
  • Time To End Church Control of Schools, Hospitals and Social Services

The People Before Profit Alliance has today called on the eighteen religious orders identified by the Ryan Report as culpable of gross maltreatment of children to fully acknowledge their guilt and responsibility.

A spokesperson for People Before Profit said, "We are profoundly shocked by the behaviour of the religious orders, who are now further compounding the abuse they perpetrated by their brazen refusal to re-open a deal which they negotiated in bad faith."

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May 27, 2009

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