Water Charges Conference - Strategies for Resistance

dublin | bin tax / household tax / water tax | event notice Wednesday February 26, 2014 22:32 by pbp

Brid Smith on behalf of People Before Profit will hold a major conference on the politics and strategies related to resisting water privatisation. Speakers will include activists from Bolvia to Paris -places where mass action succeeded in beating the corporations and winning safe public water supply.

From October 2014, you will have to pay for your water. The bills will arrive a few months later in January and they will amount to about €300 a year. You are already paying for a water service through central taxes. But the government wants to reduce public spending on water in order to make you pay directly. This is, therefore, a double tax – for something you have already paid for. The water bills will come on top of property charges and many other tax hikes. If we do not stop them BEFORE they are introduced, they will rise each year. One economist, for example, has calculated that they will rise to €630 a year. The average water charge in Britain is also over €500 a year. The whole idea of charging for water is unjust. Water is not an optional extra – or a consumer choice. Like the air we breathe, water is one of the essentials for human life. We can live sixty to seventy days without food, but without water we will die within three to seven days depending on the climate. It should not be turned into a commodity from which large corporations will profit.

More background information is available at: http://www.bridsmith.net/against-water-charges/

Venue
Gresham Hotel, O' Connell Street, Dublin 1

When:
Saturday 5th April, 11 am to 5 pm

Get in contact to book your place

Contact Brid at: 087 9090166
Email: brid.smith@dublincity.ie