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Speakers' Square: Pre-Election Day Special Event!

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Saturday June 05, 2004 11:23

by Anonymous

This Sunday

Speakers Square - Cearnóg na gCainteoirí
Pre-Election Day Special Event
6 Sunday June 2pm to 6pm http://freespeech.community.ie

Location: Templebar Square
Who: Politicians & "Normal" People (i.e. You!)

FIRST TIME EVER EVENT IN THE ELECTORAL HISTORY OF IRELAND
.
Be There.

This Sunday, June 6th, Local and European election candidates from many of the Political Parties will converge on the Speakers Square in Temple Bar to talk about their candidacy, the upcoming referendum and other issues they are passionate about.

This is the first time such an event has occurred in the electoral history of Ireland and is the only chance the voting public will get to hear party representatives orate, challenge and debate with other candidates in an open forum.

There are at any one time five speaking podiums on the square, which will allow
for participating candidates to be divided by their constituencies.

Those who have agreed to speak are:

Ivana Bacik (EU) - Mary Lou Mac Donald (EU) - Orla Farrell (Nth Ctrl) - Dathaí Doolin (Sth Est) - Willie Hamilton (Nth Ctrl) - Robbie Sargent (Sth Ctrl) - Paddy Burke (Nth Ctrl) - Tony Smithers (Sth Ctrl) - Dermot Lacey (Sth Est) - Ciarán Mac Anraí (Ctrl) - Eric Burn (Sth Ctrl) - Sinéad Pembrooke(Sth Est) - Sean Kenny (North Central) - Gearóid Ó Maol Mhichíl (Sth Ctrl) - Denis McIntyre (Nth Ctrl) - Patricia McKenna (EU) - Ryan Meade - Tony Williams (Sth Est) - Tommy Simpson -Naoise Ó Muirí (Nth Ctrl) - Terry Connoly (Sth Est) - Dan Sullivan (Nth Ctrl) - Bríd Smith (Sth Ctrl) - John Barry(Sth Est) - Richard Boyd Barrett(SW) - Eoin Ryan(EU) - Eion Dubsky (EU) - Kristina Mc Elroy (Sth Ctrl) and
others added everyday....

Candidates yet to be contacted
Gary Keegan(Sth Est) - Michael Donnelly(Sth Est) and others

Those who are yet to confirm
Prionsias de Rossa (L)
Royston Brady (FF)
Phil Kearney (GP)
Evlyn Burn (FF)
Paul Mac Caulis (PD)
Brian Tector (FG)
Wendy Hedderman (PD)
Larry O Toole (SF)
Pat Bunce (FF)

The event will kick off at 2.30pm and will continue throughout the day
till around 6 or 7pm.

ALL are welcome to speak - politicians or normal people.

Those wishing to have their names added to the list or those wishing to speak, please contact....

Rossa Ó Snodaigh 086 8260860
E-mail: rossaosnodaigh@hotmail.com
Web: http://freespeech.community.ie
http://www.indymedia.ie

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Comments (4 of 4)

this is so inspiring.

by :-)iosaf

Sat Jun 05, 2004 13:04

it's cool. Fair play. encantada. Free Speech.(I'm particularly delighted to read there's still someone out there who'll use such open space to mumble indecipherable nonsense about the Black and Tans! I wonder does anyone still care about Cromwell?)

Reassuring Isoaf

by Ciaron - Dublin Catholic Worker & Pitstop Ploughshares

Sat Jun 05, 2004 14:21

On the 10th. anniversary of the first Gulf War I jumped into the moat (empty) in front of British Parliament (quite a drop!) and chose the statue of Cromwell ( as a symbol of British genocidal pactices past & present) to kneel in front of, with my back to while addressing media and tourists above. I had a photo of an Iraqi child around my kneck as a symbolof the sanctions.

Refused to walk and was carried pretty clumnbsily by 4 older type cops, who keapt giving me grief about being a "16 stone man worried about starving children" (Cynicism remains the 5th. column of the establishment!)

They informed that I had "offended the speaker of the house and that Pariament was both a court & a palace" before casting me into a medieavel type cell- without frisking me, so I made quite a few mobile phone calls before the battery ran out (why do I keep forgetting to charge the thang before deomstrations). Oh well...see ya Sunday. maybe we can have a "Don't Vote - It Only Encourages Them!" box?

ask this question on my behalf

by pc

Sat Jun 05, 2004 18:33

to the councillors why souhld we vote for them if they have no power?

im my hols im going outside having a bbq i don't care

not many electees turned up

Mon Jun 07, 2004 16:21

so its says in the indo

they'll probably say they were busy campaigning elsewhere...

nevermind good project keep it going...
ideas hmm...

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