The Kartels, The Dukes & Special Guests Saturday, November 13 at 7:30pm Scotts Bar Dun Laoghaire People Before Profit Fundraiser Gig: Featuring live music from

FEES WILL HURT WORKING FAMILIES NOT THE SUPER-RICH

In a statement the People Before Profit Alliance (PBPA) has said it will participate in today’s national student demonstration against government plans to re-introduce student fees.

PBPA  rejected as “cynical; and “dishonest” government propaganda on the issue of fees and said that proposals to double third level registration fees or at some point to fully re-introduce student tuition fees will hurt working families not the super-rich.

PBPA said that the way to deal with unjustifiable subsidies to the super-wealthy was to dramatically increase income tax for those earning in excess of €100,000 and impose other wealth taxes, rather than introduce fees which would only hurt working families whose incomes were marginally over the thresholds to qualify for third level grants.

PBPA said education was a right not a privilige and that students were showing the way in taking to the streets against the government’s unjust and suicidal economic policies.    

Cllr Richard Boyd Barrett of the People Before Profit Alliance said: “Today’s protest is a vitally important. If the government gets away with doubling the registration fees or fully reintroducing tuition fees, it will once again be hard-working families that will pay the price not the super-wealthy as they falsely claim.

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.

  Otis lift strikers are on their third day of industrial action against their employer Otis who have chosen to impose compulsory redundancies rather than

In a statement, Cllr Richard Boyd Barrett has said the failure of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Co Council and the HSE to deal with a rat infestation affecting Council tenants in Dun Laoghaire was totally unacceptable.

Tenants along a row of Council houses on Desmond Ave in Central Dun Laoghaire have been plagued with rats for several weeks but measures taken by the Council and the HSE have failed to address the problem.

Tenants who have children in their homes are particularly terrified and already very young children have encountered rats jumping out of bins in the communal lane at the back of the row of Council houses.

In desperation, some tenants have even taken to trying to kill the rats by hand using skewers forks and shovels.

Cllr Boyd Barrett has contacted the Council to tell them that the measures taken to date to deal with the infestation have not worked and that immediate action is required.

Cllr Richard Boyd Barrett said:
“This situation is totally unacceptable. Council tenants should not have to put up with these intolerable conditions. The Council, as landlord, and the HSE, as the health and safety authority, have an obligation to sort this problem out immediately.

While no-one should have to put up with this, it is particularly worrying that children are encountering these rats and their safety is being put at risk. Young children – as young as 2 years old – have been in the lane, when rats jumped out from behind bins – terrifying them. Something has to be done about this straight away.

Families and supporters of the Cherry Orchard Hospital campaign today escalated their protest action tomorrow by placing pickets on the hospital from 10am to 1pm.