Goverment ban DGN march - protest GPO 6pm Saturday

dublin | summit mobilisations | news report Friday April 30, 2004 11:56 by Joe

Gardai plans as revealed on Primetime last night show that the government has decided to effectively ban the Dublin Grassroots Network march on Farmleigh. Organisers have reacted by calling a protest against the ban for 6pm Saturday at the GPO on O’Connell st. This is the same time as the original march was due to start.

Last nights Primetime revealed that the Gardai have been ordered to occupy the march assembly point (Parkgate st) with riot police. It also revealed that any attempt to march down the quays to this point will be attacked by uniformed Gardai at each bridge in order to try and reduce the numbers on the march and that any who made it to Park Gate street will be attacked by the riot squad.

The government is too smart to publicly declare that the march is banned but if it has ordered Gardai to attack people who even try to assemble to march. This clearly constitutes a de facto ban but one the government are afraid to honesty announce.

This march was too be a peaceful but noisy demonstration to Farmleigh house where the EU leaders are meeting. Protest the ban, turn up at the GPO on O’Connell st, Saturday at 6pm