Mayday - don't be intimidated - give a hand to build the protests

dublin | summit mobilisations | opinion/analysis Monday April 19, 2004 11:45 by 1 of DGN

The government continues to spread insane scare stories about the Mayday protests and Gardai harassment of people publicising the events has stepped up. They want to scare you into staying at home. You can accept this or you can fight back by not only turning up at the protests over the weekend but by also helping to publicise them.

In originally planning the protests we expected the Fianna Fail/PD government to run plenty of scare stories in the press. So to get the actual message of why we are protesting and what we are planning out we printed 50,000 leaflets, which are now being distributed door to door across Dublin. (There are 390,000 households in the 4 Dublin counties).

Below are some of the leafleting sessions organised over the next five days. One or two are probably near you. Each will last a little over one hour. Turn up, give a hand and show that you will not be intimidated.

You can also print out posters from the event from http://struggle.ws/eufortress/help.html, the leaflet text can be read at http://struggle.ws/eufortress/why.html

Monday 19th April 7pm
Pearse st area
Meet 7pm SHARP at entrance to Pearse street Dart/Train station

Tuesday 20 April 7pm
Stoneybatter
Meet 7pm SHARP at Parkgate street entrance to Phoenix Park

Tuesday 20 April 7pm
Fairview
Meet 7pm SHARP outside 'The Stand'

Wednesday 21 April 7pm
Cabra/North Circular road
Meet 7pm SHARP at Hanlons Corner (outside Hanlons pub on North Circular road)

Wednesday 21 April 7pm
Rathmines
Meet 7pm SHARP outside Rathmines library

Thursday 22 April 4.30pm
Dart
Meet outside Tara street Dart station from 4.30

Thursday 22 April 7p,
Drumcondra
Meet 7pm SHARP outside Quinns pub

Friday 23rd April
Dart
Meet from 4.30 pm outside Connolly train/Dart station.