Laois - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970
Thursday January 01 1970
Free Speech/Anti-War Gig at Electric Picnic
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Wednesday August 30, 2006 16:26
by Freeeeeeeeeeeee - Temple Bar Soapbox Crew
Free Speech - Use it or Lose it!
Rossa (Kila), Ciaron (Pit Stop Ploughshare) & Robbie (Majority World) will be bringing anti-war and free speech vibe to Electric Picnic this weekend in the Leviathon Think Tank Tent
http://www.electricpicnic.ie/html/leviathan.html
Friday Sept 1st. (after the Poetry Slam) 7pm ish
Saturday Sept 2nd. 4.15pm - 5.45pm
Sunday 4.14pm - 5.45pm
Event is sold out so tell ya friends who are going!
Check the blackboard outisde the tent for topics
Check link below for background etc...........
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Jump To Comment: 1(I think it's a good idea for people who post events notices to put up a comment/report on the event....as many folks who would have like to have been at it mightn't have made it and would like to hear how it went!)
The Temple Bar Street Speakers had 3 sessions in the Leviathon Tent at last weekend's Electric Picnic.
Ciaron O'Reilly was solo on Friday night discussing the war and further nonviolent resistance to demilitarise Shannon Airport.
On Saturday and Sunday afternoons, Ross O'Snodaigh spoke about the "Why Don't the Irish Speak their Own Language?", Robbie Synott on wide range of social ills of modern Ireland and Ciaron O'Reilly on Irish Complicity in the war on Iraq and further nonviolent resistance following the acquittal of the Pit Stop Ploughshares. www.peaceontrial.com
The setting did not have the intimacy and the vibe of soapbox speaking, but audience pariticpation (and gratefully their was a lot of it!) was facilitated by a roaming mike. Those who gathered enjoyed it. The Leviathon tent people were happy with it.
Soapbox speaking ran every Sunday for over two years 2003-5 in Temple Bar. JD's move to Hungary and Rossa's move to the country and the lack of other political groups to appreciate its significance and commit to it sees it present reduced to a sporadic occurence.
Free sppech-use it or lose it!
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