1916 callout.

by another one of many Tue Apr 04, 2006 03:40

and/or design and post.

by l Tue Apr 04, 2006 21:15

black shamrocks, banners & balloons. there will be no state photo op.

by johnkelly - none Wed Apr 05, 2006 16:18 johnkellytwo at hotmail dot com

Well done for your initiative. James Connolly wrote an article entitled "Our Dissappearing Liberties" in 1915. In it he illumimated the insidious removal of civil liberties by the British Government using the pretext of WW1 and "DORA" Defence of the Realm Act. We need to place the issue of DCC's ILLEGAL ban on notices of public meetings in OUR city, centre stage. I was at a meeting last night about the way forward for the left, some good ideas were put forward, but frankly if what purports to be "the left" cannot regain a basic core right guaranteed by the Constitution, such as placing a notice of a public meeting or assembly in our capital city in 2006, then all the talk and print will be no more than hot air and ink.

A Press Conference should be called by all groups on this base line rights issue. ICCL and the Human Rights Commission should be in attendance, along with all those oppossed to this illegal blanket ban on noitices of public meetings or assemblys.
EXPOSURE is kernel otherwise DCC will continue with their illegal, subtle and totally EFFECTIVE removal of such notices simply because they have a political agenda and motive in doing so. Their excuse furnished about "litter" is as you all well know as much rubbish as comes out of their mouths as the trash about their "committment to developing a recycling infrastructure".

Its wake up and smell the coffee time for our basic human rights. Lets get them back with the fortitude of the men and women of 1916.

by .. Wed Apr 05, 2006 18:30

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raining shamrocks

by young anarchist Wed Apr 05, 2006 18:57

Good luck to all who try to confront the state during the parade, I'll be in baldonnel confronting the our complicity in imperialist wars. One struggle many locations.

by black anarchy Thu Apr 06, 2006 05:14

Can somebody please answer me this simple few question.
Whats is happening easter weekend exactly?
I know Sinn Fein are having their march on the saturday 15th april.
What is happening on the sunday and what is happening on the monday?

I read two different articles, one said that the state, military style march is on easter monday, is this wrong?
Either way, i will be coming up to dublin that day, car full of lads to shout abuse at bertie and the garda!

by l Thu Apr 06, 2006 14:04

according to the govt. website they're doing a military parade, wreath laying and reading of the proclamation frm 11:45 am on sun. 16th, starting from Dublin Castle and ending on Parnell St. sinn fein are doing a demo on sat & republican sinn fein have a demo on the sun. i think.

other than that on sun. 16th there will probably be people from anti-racism groups, shannon demilitarisation campaigners etc. cos the citizens of this republic are not being treated equally, do not have control of our resources and are currently unable to make majority democratic decisions on the military use of our airports or involvement in resource wars.

sun.16th can be the launch for a call for a referendum on the military use of irish airports and airspace.
referenda are often forced on the people. this time the people can force one. the judicial route has already failed on this one with the courts refusing to intervene in what they call government foreign policy. constitutional challengers have been told that irish neutrality is 'aspirational'. A referendum may be the most direct route. let the people decide.

by dont forget Thu Apr 06, 2006 14:48

There's a march on Baldonnel too!

by Seán Thu Apr 06, 2006 16:47

The first picture is excellent

by Niall Harnett. Thu Apr 06, 2006 21:40

What's happening on Easter Sunday is that the government is marching with an army to the GPO to redeclare and reproclaim the democracy fought for by citizens of this country, while fighting citizens of this country who are fighting for democracy.

You've got some fuckin nerve Bertie Ahern and your crew.

by Seán Ryan Fri Apr 07, 2006 00:22

Bertie pretends to lead a government that is representative of a pluralist society. Of course every action taken by him and his clique is an affront to plurality.

Look at the levels of dissent in this country.

They're digging up Tara. The very soul of our heritage and the seat of our history.

They want to jail 5 guardians of the Constitution, who uphold the fact that we the people of Ireland see the well being of the family as being primal in our concerns and that financial considerations exist in the first place to assert this primacy and not to destroy it. Fuck Shell and fuck Bertie.

They sign our names in blood for every death and injury caused by this genocidal war on 'terrorism.'

The make a mockery of the spirit and the primal law of the preamble of our constitution. All law that follows the preamble should be tempered by it. This is why it exists to begin with.

And I haven't even truly begun to get started.

And they do it for silver.

Theirs is but one way.

And that's the weakness.

I wholeheartedly support the idea of multiple demonstrations. Bertie needs to control demonstrations, ie. the Gardaí. So if there are multiple demonstrations, it becomes more costly and awkward to police. Diversity and and an ability to act independantly and yet in unison is the personification of our preamble and it is the nullification of conformity and slavery.

Pissing on the people of Ireland and the rest of the planet is about to become quite unprofitable. And quite unfashionable.

by - Fri Apr 07, 2006 01:10

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quite unfashionable

by l Fri Apr 07, 2006 01:38

highlighting US military use of Baldonnel. for more info on critical mass to baldonnel and action s there on sun. 16th see under events. meeting 1pm at heuston station. viva diversity!

by dissenter Fri Apr 07, 2006 18:15

simply in relation ito the article, of course the government is excluding the voices of the others, its reading out the original proclamation because that's what its commemorating, the 1916 rising which incidentally was a struggle for self-determination and democracy. so why can't that be respected? why do people have to protest at this event? this is meant to be a day of remembrance not a day of showing up wherever ministers make a public appearance to shout at them.

by Elaine Sat Apr 08, 2006 01:46

Hummm

The original Proclamation still hasn't been enacted you know. Look around you ...

"Cherish all the Children of the nation equally?"

I recently saw a video taken at the GNIB where an Irish born child (of Nigerian parentage) aged around 4 years was in tears, because his 18 year old Bother was deported. Incidentally the child's Mother, who has residency, was in tears too, her family torn apart. We are making victims of these children because we do not cherish them equally.

"We hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State"

Tell it to the Judge (Mangan) and the politicians who have sold out our Neutrality for vested interests. Who allow our airports to be used by the U.S. Military in return for foreign investment, and criminalise and falsely arrest those who stand up and protest. Tell it to those illegally rendered, tell it to the Iraqi people.

"We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland"

Except, of course the Natural Resources which we will give away in back rooms to foreign business men in return for the ubiquitous brown envelope. Say no more - nod nod, wink wink. Don't even ask for a receipt - you know the answer already.
Look at the Rossport situation for further proof.
That ownership of Ireland extends to our heritage ... except when it doesn't. See recent and ongoing Hill of Tara campaign. Where the beleaguered commuters in Meath have been put in the invidious position of having to accept the only solution to their commuting dilemma offered by our short sighted / long pocketed Government; That of paying exorbitant tolls to Halliburton for the privilege of driving over their own heritage. Once destroyed - never recoverable. No sign of a rail link there in the immediate future, which would obviate the need for the tolled motorway in the first place. But then there's no profit in railways anymore, no backhanders either.

"In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty"

Why would this one be any different - except of course that now we have to acknowledge that the foot on the back of our neck (at least in the Republic) is not that of a vengeful foreign foe. But the new Anglo elite; the golden circle; the 'usual suspects' of future tribunals; our own.

>this is meant to be a day of remembrance not a day of showing up wherever ministers make a public appearance to shout at them.

I will be there to remember, that once in our Country there were Women and Men of vision. Who guaranteed "religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens" A Government that declared "its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally, and oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien Government, which have divided a minority from the majority in the past."

Then, when I see the sorry, corrupt to the core and miserable excuse for a Government we have landed ourselves with 90 years later, I see the same type of "alien Government" referred to in the Proclamation. If we have to stand in the street and shout at them to remind them of that fact, then that is what we will do!

And by the by, we will still have time to get the bus to Baldonnel too!

by Barry - 32csm Sat Apr 08, 2006 03:45

sad to see the total lack of concern about the occupation of the north when talking about 1916. 1916 was about total Irish sovereignty and an end to foreign dominion, not about as much autonomy as Britain will allow us to have . If you think the boot of a vengeful foe isnt anywere near your neck I suggest you consult the families of the Dublin Monaghan victims and ask them about that . It was only a few years back when a British colonial consul , Mo Mowlam , was threatening the citizens of the south that blood would be flowing through the streets of their capital if they didnt drop their claim to sovereignty over the national territory Irish people dont control their own country , they are forced to practice colonial politics which are in direct contradiction with the very ideas of national sovereignty and democracy .

Bush and Blairs end of Iraq invasion summit was held in co Down , an insult to our entire nation . Imperialist bases directly operate on our national territory . Foreign intelligence services operate and indeed have murdered Irish people all over the 32 counties in the last 35 years with successive governments collaborating with them and direct Irish police assistance . British paramilitary police jobs are advertised and recruited for all over the 26 cos . Irish water resources are being sold off to private capital in the northern territory as well . There is nothing democratic about any of that , simply no sovereignty for Ireland . It is an extremely blinkered approach in my view to view the issues of the theft of resources off the west coast and the use of Shannon as a military base as seperate issues to the occupation of the north and the political system accross the island which supports and enables it to happen . All issues are directly and fundamentally tied in to the issue of national sovereignty . They cannot be divorced from that concept . And neither can 1916 . Irish sovereignty was what it was all about , from start to finish . It is as fundamentally wrong for the parties of the left and far left to misrepresent that position as it is for Ahern and his gang to misrepresent it .

You have no right to your resources only a sovereign right . You have no right to your neutrality only a sovereign right . And you have precious little sovereignty because your governemnts operate on a system which accepts Irish sovereignty is subordinate to other interests .

Wouldnt like to think the establishment view prevails on this issue and not the others . If you have no sovereign right to your resources and neutrality then what right do you have to them ? Why is shannon bad and RAF Aldergrove or Ballykelly not so bad ? Im not having a dig Id just like people to think about that .

by Seán Ryan Sat Apr 08, 2006 07:29

I'll have a go at answering that Barry. Please remember I'm only talking for myself, so if I mess it up don't tar us all.

I wan't a 32 county Ireland.

But the concept of sovereignty is obliterated should I act as a dictator. Just like it is obliterated by our traitors in Dublin, who act without Irish direction.

Tactically speaking, the 6 county questions that need to be asked and answered would split activists right down the middle in my opinion. For most of us who'll be in Dublin come Easter Sunday, sovereignty will be about achieving it rather than acting like it exists. Personally the only sovereignty I recognise in this country is my own opinion and I'd not expect the folks in the 26 counties to confuse my idea of personal sovereignty with national sovereignty and I'd expect a less favourable response from the 6 counties. We don't have sovereignty in the 26 counties so we cannot offer it to the 6. This is not to say that the 32 county question is either unimportant or that I'm unaware of it. Let me put it this way to you. I won't be asking to see your passport come Easter Sunday, if you're calling yourself Irish, that's good enough for me. Let's go show our government what we think and then let us let the people decide what it is that they are. That's unification and that's sovereignty. Fuck politics, that's what divides us.

It's an arrogant way to look at it surely. But it allows me to focus very specifically on one thing at a time, without having to fight multiple fronts.

I stand for the right of any Irish person to call themselves Irish or for that matter to refer to themselves in any other fashion they choose.

I think the ultimate way to achieve unification is to show the people of the 6 counties, that being Irish is something to be proud of. To show them that Ireland can be a place of sovereignty and contentment. I cannot dictate this to anyone because presently it isn't true, it's a joke. For me the 6 counties would be a very high priority issue if Ireland actually was a sovereign nation. One must have it (other than in a personal sense of it) before one can offer it. For me a 32 county Ireland must come from people choosing to be Irish, rather than being forced or for that matter being denied.

I hope you don't see this as some wishey washy delegation of either duty or nationality. I think if you and I focus on what we do rather than what we wan't as end goals, that the road we march come Easter Sunday will be the same one. Let us achieve national sovereignty before we presume to decide what it means for everyone. Of course this is not to say that I'll ever believe a war will sort this 32 county question out. War has never sorted anything out. Tis time to change the rules and the game. That way it'll be winnable.

by Fellow Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:49

Elaine is right. This is an alien government hijacking the 1916 rising for votes and continued power. Power they will use to fuck you. Democracy is their enemy, self-determination means nothing to them. They are not remembering any such thing, they are attempting to seal their political future, that's all.

The 1916 risers and all the volunteers would spit at this parade from the roof of the GPO and from the streets. They can't, so we should.

by john Kelly - CFSD Sat Apr 08, 2006 17:44

Like it or not most people do not be reading Indymedia, its a brilliant resource and fair play to all involved, but the bottom line is there is no substitute for alerting the broadest possible mass of people to issues, as the effectiveness of THE POSTER ! That is why there is in place a blanket ban on NOTICES INFORMING people of public meetings or events in 2006. Rock bands, Hollywood, etc, recogonise the POWER OFTHE POSTER so does the Government and DCC and how subtle and how EFFECTIVE their little illegal ban is and the bulk of the populace will not know about it and that is just fine and dandy for the dear leaders, they know the media circus will keep the populace preoccupied with all sorts of trash ,while bottom line civil rights are whittled away. So please shout it from the rooftops etc" ALL NOTICES OF PUBLIC MEETINGS OR ASSEMBLYS ARE BANNED NOT IN 1916 BUT RIGHT NOW " or whatever variant conveys the truth effectively.