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#OccupyIreland, 6 camps and building... Dublin, Cork, Galway, Belfast, Waterford...Letterkenny..

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | feature author Monday November 07, 2011 00:46author by T Report this post to the editors

OccupyIreland network is giving hope where previously there was none.

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The Occupy movement has grown steadily in the past 4 weeks in Ireland. It is part of the global Occupy movement. As to what it is about is best summed up by the OccupyGalway statement:

Occupy Galway is part of the international movement against austerity measures imposed on ordinary people around the world. We are all part of the 99% who, so far, have been subject to economic inequality and social injustice from the 1% who control the world's resources. We, the 99% demand:
1 - The removal of the IMF and ECB from all Irish financial affairs;
2 - That the national debt imposed on Irish people from the bank bailouts be lifted;
3 - The return of Irish resources (gas, oil, forestry) to the people of Ireland;
4 - Real particpatory democracy.

THIS IS NOT A RECESSION, IT'S A ROBBERY!!!

The OccupyIreland has come about as a result of the OccupyWallStreet movement and this in turn was inspired by the massive Square Occupations that took place in city squares in cities all over Spain this summer and these in turn were inspired by the occupation of Tahir Square in Cario by millions of Egyptians who had lived under a brutal dictatorship for the past 30 years.

While the Egyptians removed the face of the system, Mubarack; they still have to remove the system itself which is the military corporate kleptocracy that still dominates all aspects of Eygptian economic life.

We in the colonial war-mongering West are only waking upto the fact that now the IMF has arrived vulture like to our own shores they are merely doing what they have done for decades in the rest of the world. And that is largely to plunder and destory it and channel all the resources to the 1% at the top.

As the World has now reached the limits to growth in terms of resources, there is less to go around. And for the rich and powerful 1% to maintain their piece of the cake which is no longer growing they have launched a new Class War. This started at least a decade or more ago but now that the global financial crisis has hit with full force, it is becoming more evident to even those who traditionally took no interest in global politics.

The new Class War unlike the old where industrialists fought against their workers, in this new guise, it is the financial parasitic layer who
don't even produce anything that are sucking the life out of humanity itself. Indeed a cancer has afflicted the globe and people are waking up to it.

The penny is also beginning to drop that this financial crisis is less a crisis and more a case of just one big giant robbery of the people and everything they have fought for and achieved over the past 150 years. The real crisis is whether the 99% can defeat the 1% or whether the 1% will impose neo-fuedalism on the 99%.

This is not a military fight because the powerful have all the firepower and resources at their disposal. This is the type of fight they want
and will try and engineer. The fight is in fact a fight to educate the people everywhere and get them to wake up and realize what is happening
and to recognise that only collectively can the power of the 99% be realized so they have to work together otherwise as is the case now, through divide and conquer and distraction, we are ruled and fooled. We have to understand how the system is structured and how it defines the rules of the game and change those rules in our favour. One of these rules relates to money itself and is neatly summed up in this quote from Mike Ruppert:

Until you change the way money works, you change nothing.


In this podcast 'Recovering economist' Richard Douthwaite, author of Growth Illusion, Short Circuit and The Ecology of Money, explains exactly how the private banking, debt-based monetary system -- the basis of all national currency systems -- leads to the destructive and desperate need for economic growth. The money system has demands at suicidal odds with the planet's finite resources. The mechanics of the money system are so simple it's almost infuriating. And yet so underappreciated.
Podcast here:

or can be found here: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/21580


We the 99% are the people who in fact run the entire system every day. We do all the working, building, fixing, teaching, educating, policing, fighting and creating.


And so the OccupyIreland movement is growing. Today (Sun Nov 6th), OccupyDameStreet is going 4 weeks!.

Occupy Dame Street (Dublin) #OccupyDameStreet
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100658

Occupy CORK #OccupyCork
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100751

Occupy Galway #OccupyGalway
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100770

Occupy Belfast
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100808 br>
Occupy Waterford #OccupyWaterford
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100841

Occupy Letterkenny #OccupyLetterkenny
http://www.facebook.com/OccupyLetterkenny

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   get latest #occupyireland news from the TWEET machine     TWITTER-er    Mon Nov 07, 2011 16:50 
   Happy Birthday Occupy Dame Street - ye are all fuc*ing legends, thanks and respect. ROCK ON!!!     Dunk    Mon Nov 07, 2011 17:23 
   #OccupyDameStreet Wishlist + livestream channel     #OccupyDameStreet    Mon Nov 07, 2011 19:28 
   So let the music keep your spirits high - #OccupyDameStreet Part 1     music @ Occupy Dame Street    Mon Nov 07, 2011 20:24 
   So let the music... #OccupyDameStreet Part 2 - Jinx Lennon     music @ Occupy Dame Street    Mon Nov 07, 2011 20:49 
   So let the music... #OccupyDameStreet Part 3 - Billy Bragg     music @ Occupy Dame Street    Mon Nov 07, 2011 21:22 
   So let the music... #OccupyDameStreet Part 4 - Michael Franti     Music @ Occupy Dame Street    Mon Nov 07, 2011 21:35 
   So let the music... #OccupyDameStreet Part 5 - Barley Mob     Music @ Occupy Dame Street    Mon Nov 07, 2011 21:51 
   So let the music... #OccupyDameStreet Part 6 - A bit of trad + a little french ditty     Music @ Occupy Dame Street    Mon Nov 07, 2011 22:11 
 10   So let the music... #OccupyCork Part 1 - Paddy Nash, Billy brag + A bit of trad     Music @ Occupy Cork    Mon Nov 07, 2011 22:54 
 11   short report from the Galway camp     wageslave    Tue Nov 08, 2011 07:37 
 12   Ods occupied by swp     martin    Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:58 
 13   I want to help with the Limerick side     Anthony Kinneen    Fri Nov 11, 2011 14:23 
 14   @Martin     opus diablos    Fri Nov 11, 2011 15:29 
 15   paranoid     martin    Sat Nov 12, 2011 19:34 
 16   splits     opus diablos    Mon Nov 14, 2011 13:16 
 17   A cafe and a new kitchen ... whee heh!     Dave    Fri Nov 18, 2011 23:43 
 18   Solidarity from Occupy London and former Philly top cop arrested at Occupy NYC     Ciaron    Sat Nov 19, 2011 09:20 
 19   Total waste of time.     Cat Shannon    Sun Nov 20, 2011 12:17 
 20   I demand..     opus diablos    Sun Nov 20, 2011 13:08 
 21   "the press always approves"     Justin Morahan    Sun Nov 20, 2011 15:28 
 22   new press?     opus diablos    Sun Nov 20, 2011 18:42 
 23   Remarkable scenes of nonviolent resistance to in the face pepper spraying at Occupy U.C. Davis, Cal     Ciaron    Mon Nov 21, 2011 10:40 
 24   FRANCE 24 TV Report of November 20th 2011     W. Finnerty    Fri Nov 25, 2011 18:44 
 25   Collaboration and Solidarity     AidoF    Sat Nov 26, 2011 18:49 
 26   Recording of Occupy Limerick from Saturday 3/12/'11     MO'C    Tue Dec 06, 2011 16:10 
 27   Christy Moore in Dame Street     Dave    Sun Dec 11, 2011 12:59 
 28   thats just your party political opinion.     lefty    Sun Dec 11, 2011 16:16 
 29   OCCUPY PADDY'S DAY     camp evicted 3am    Thu Mar 08, 2012 11:09 
 30   All Occupy camps now in ireland dismantled     Occupy Galway fan    Wed May 23, 2012 19:32 


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