Over 50 people turned out to a launch meeting for the People Before Profit campaign for the Carlow-Kilkenny bye election due in May. The bye election was caused by the departure of Phil Hogan to a plum job in the EU Commission.
Tonight around 200 people took part in an emergency protest, supported by the Irish Anti War Movement & Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign in solidarity with
Protest in Solidarity with Freedom Waves at 6pm today
A protest will take place at 6pm at the Spire, O’Connell St., Dublin in solidarity with the MV Saoirse and Tahrir intercepted by the Israeli navy 48 miles from Gaza.
Richard Boyd Barrett TD calls on the Irish government to intervene immediately and to demand the safety of passengers aboard the MV Saoirse.
At 10.58 am (Irish time) Dr. Fintan Lane, who is aboard the MV Saoirse, alerted the the Irish Ship to Gaza campaign here in Dublin via satellite phone to say that two Israeli warships were rapidly approaching the MV Saoirse and Canadian boat the MV Tahrir.
At approximately 11.15am the ship had radio contact from the Israeli’s demanding to know their destination and after that there has been no communication with the MV Saoirse.
Richard Boyd Barrett TD calls on the Irish government to intervene immediately and to demand the safety of passengers aboard the MV Saoirse. People Before Profit Councillor Hugh Lewis from Ballybrack in Dublin (pictured below).
In late June the Irish Ship to Gaza will set sail along with a dozen or so other ships from across the globe as part of Freedom Flotilla 2. The Flotilla is an international effort to undermine the stranglehold that the Israeli state continues to force upon the 1.5 million Palestinian people that reside in Gaza.
People Before Profit Councillor Hugh Lewis will be one of 25 passengers sailing on the Irish ship the ‘Saoirse’. The ship will carry passengers from many different political and cultural backgrounds and represents the deep solidarity that Irish people have for the people of Gaza and the suffering of the Palestinians. Israel’s blockade of the Strip has grown increasingly stringent since Hamas won the Palestinian Legislative Council elections in January 2006. Fuel, electricity, imports, exports and the movement of people in and out of the Strip have been choked off, leading to life-threatening problems of sanitation, health, water supply and transportation.
IRISH ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT
Press Release – August 26th
-ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT TO OPEN BOOK OF CONDOLENCES THIS WEEKEND FOR VICTIMS OF BLAIR’S WARS.
-MAJOR MOBILISATION UNDERWAY FOR PROTEST DURING BLAIR DUBLIN VIST
The Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) has announced it will open a book of condolences this weekend in Dublin for the victims of Tony Blair’s military actions and foreign policies in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.
The book of condolences will be gathered in Dublin’s city centre in the coming week as part of the preparations for a major demonstration on Saturday September 4th during Mr Blair’s visit to Dublin to launch his memoirs.
The book of condolences will be located near Eason’s, as this is where Mr Blair is due to hold the book-signing event on the morning of September 4th.
The demonstration on that day will assemble at 11.00am at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, before marching to Eason’s where Tony Blair’s book signing event will be taking place.
The protest will focus on Tony Blair’s key role in launching the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and devastated both countries.
It will also focus on Blair’s complicity – both as Prime Minister and now as EU envoy to the Middle East – with the war crimes and human rights abuses committed by Israel against the Palestinians.
The protest will also highlight the continued complicity of the Irish government with the wars launched by former US president George Bush and Mr Blair – in allowing US troops to use Shannon airport and through the direct involvement of a small number of Irish troops in the Afghan conflict.
Major victory for pro-Palestine boycott campaign: Dublin City Council passes
anti-Veolia motion
Dr David Landy of the IPSC welcomes the vote as a significant development
The international Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement yesterday evening scored a major victory as Dublin City Council
passed a resolution calling on the City Manager not to sign or renew any contracts with French multinational Veolia[1] – the operators of the LUAS
who have also tendered for the Metro North project[2]. Veolia operate Israeli rail, bus and waste services in the illegally occupied West Bank,
making them complicit in Israel’s contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Indeed, Veolia has a direct involvement in building the infrastructure of apartheid in Israel/Palestine.
Supporters and members of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign held a vigil in support of the motion outside Dublin City Hall yesterday evening as the motion was being discussed.
The resolution, tabled by Cllr Joan Collins (People Before Profit), was passed by unanimously at the sitting of Dublin City Council yesterday
evening (May 10th 2010) and is an important statement of solidarity with Palestine by the elected representatives of a European capital city. This
solidarity mirrors the deep empathy that exists throughout Irish society for the Palestinian people and the widespread revulsion at the behaviour of the
apartheid Israeli state.
An alliance Vote No to Lisbon of 15 groups jointly launched their campaign for a No vote to the Lisbon Treaty today. The new alliance
Over 1,000 protesters gathered in Dublin Saturday 3rd January as others gathered across Ireland in Galway and Cork. The protests were organised by the Ireland
The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign has called a National Demonstration in solidarity with Gaza for this Saturday 3rd January @ 1pm. The protest will begin
Revelations about Eamonn Casey point yet again to the gross hypocrisy of the Bishops.These are mostly elderly males who think they have every right to
Calls For Broad Mobilisation To Face Down Far-Right Terror Campaign The riot and arson in Coolock today is another shocking development driven by far right
On the back of the recent election results in France, where the French left united around radical demands and came out on top, People Before
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