Sligo - Event Notice
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Sligo Protest
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Wednesday April 28, 2010 22:35
by Union Member
Bail out Jobs & Services, Not Banks
Sligo Workers Alliance have organised a protest at Jimmy Devins Fianna Fail TD offices on John Street, Sligo at 12 noon on Saturday 1st May.
They've lined their pockets while taking from ours...
All welcome to come and share their ire.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30Looking forward to attending this protest.Its about time ordinary people stood up and exposed hypocrites like Devins ,who have voted in the Dail to cut the pay of public sector workers,social welfare payments and health services etc,while at the same time pumping billions of taxpayers money into zombie banksHis vote helps keep a lame duck government in power,they have no mandate for their monetarist policies.the sooner they are removed from office and a general election called the better.
Where are the Lisbon Jobs?that Jimmy and Zanu FF promised.
Got this link on Facebook about the protest
http://eirigisligeach.blogspot.com/2010/04/may-day-prot....html
Hope there is a good turn out for this. Will there be any speeches at this?
Mayor Mc Garry hopefully as first citizen will attend this protest,and make the first speech.
i dont think Mayor Jimmy or any Labour party people would have the nerve to turn up to this
Jimmy Mc Garry is a lifelong staunch Union member ever since his messenger boy days in Tohers.His party colleagues Veronica Cawley is another stalwart of Trade Unionism as is the Euro/representative for Connaught/Ulster Susan O,Keefe.As both Veronica and Susan aspire to win a Dail seat for Sligo/NL at the next election at Devins expense, its in all their interests to attend.
I know they are hughie but they are also all supportive of the trade union leadership and the sell out by ICTU which this demo and campaign are against
Melissa if what you say is true they should be ashamed of themselves,as anyone who advocates and supports the ICTU sell out are traitors of the Working Class.Unfortunately I am not surprised as only this week Labour invited a right wing former Pee Dee TD May Sexton to join its ranks.
Thats right hughie they do support the deal. Ask them yourself.
As far as i know there will be no speakers or at least no political speakers. And if there are there should not be
There was a decent enough turn out at the protest.
About 50-60 people turned out and picketed the office of Devins FF TD for about 40 minutes.
It was a good natured event with some singing and chanting, plenty of media interest.
It is the start of something anyway.
Que se vayan todos!
I believe the IRSP were prevented from having a banner at today's protest. Can anyone confirm if that is the case. Thats what one of the young IRSP lads told me
It was agreed at the organising meeting to keep the event political party free.
Rhona, do you know will that exclude speakers with political affiliations at future events? Were the IRSP told not to use their banner today? Was that what happened?
Members of political parties joined the protesters,prominent was Declan Bree and members of his Connolly Forum who afterwards held a ceremony to honour that great Sligo man Ald John Lynch.Sinn Fein were represented by Chris Mc Manus,local election candidate Seamie O,Boyle and Cake Scanlon the former Green GE candidate were also present,I also saw members of Eirigi and SWP.the vast majority were ordinary decent Trade Unionists disgusted with the Zanu/FF Government and its local representatives.Needless to say our Illustrious Mayor Jimmy Mc Garry and his Labour party colleagues Veronica Cawley and Susan O,Keefe were conspicous by their absence.
Some photos
I dont understand why people had a problem with an IRSP banner at this rally. There were banners from all sorts at all the May Day rallies around the country, Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Derry etc . Is sligo the only may day rally to ban such banners? Censorship?
Delighted with the protest. Please organise more. We all need to get up off our arses
I don’t think anyone was prevented from displaying banners. As far as I know it was agreed at the meetings of the Alliance leading up to the protest that only trade union placards and banners would be used at this event and that party political banners would not be displayed.
Joan, the young lads from the IRSP were prevented from having their banner at the protest. All around the country people marched to mark May Day with their banners and placards of their trade unions, political parties etc. What is the problem with it in Sligo? The more the merrier I say
Well done to the organizers. And well done on the issue of the banners from “political groups”. As an active trade unionist I certainly wouldn’t have joined in the protest if it was to be hijacked by a group like the IRSP especially given their record with regards to the drugs trade and other criminal activities I don’t think any decent person would wish to be associated with them in any way.
Not what could potentially divide us.
At this particular time, regardless of how you feel about the presence or absence of particular banners, flags or whatever, try to focus on what unites those of us who are disenchanted with the current goverment.
There is strength in Unity and this has to remembered.
As Hughie pointed out in an earlier thread the failure of the Labour Party to get even one member out on the protest speaks volumes about them. They have three councillors and a general election candidate and not one of them bothered to turn up to show their support for the public sector workers. John McCarrick, who was Jimmy McGarry’s Director of Elections is in fact asking SIPTU members to vote in favor of the Governments Croke Park deal.
Shame on Labour in Sligo. Larkin and Connolly must be turning in their graves!
Hi folks, as one of the people involved in organising the Sligo Workers Alliance protest on May Day, I just wanted to say its good to hear some positive feedback. The purpose of the group is to bring people together in a common interest (dissatisfaction with the Goverment) we welcome anyone that wants to be involved but we dont want to be hyjacked by any political party, thats because it could end up excluding people based on their own political views. As you can see from the pics we are a diverse group. We want to include, public, private, union, non-union and unemployed workers and the families of those groups. Any suggestions on how to make it a bigger success would be welcome. If you can try to encourage your friends/family to get involved next time, that would be great. Thanks.
I think Saturdays protest was a success. The turnout for me was better than I expected.
We now need to build on that. I dont believe there was any attempt by any organisation or politician to "hi-jack" this event (whatever that actually means). This sort of stuff is petty and should be left aside.
The reality is that we wont defeat this administration and reverse the cuts squabbling over such issues. We also wont win at the negotiating table.
Theonly way we will win is by sustained action in the workplace and on the streets. Saturday was a good start. Now we need to keep the momentum going and step it up a gear.
Sorry Gerry, no offence intended, certainly was not intimating that anyone had tried to hyjack the protest, I was responding to earlier questions as to why political banners were not displayed. It is understood that Unity is key here so no petty remarks were intended or made.
Backbench ZanuFF Deputies like Devins and his fellow gombeen Eamon Scanlon ,who by their unconditional support for the government in the Dail ,voting for every draconian measure that inflicts hardship on the Old ,the Sick,the Low Paid and the Unemployed,while at the same time protecting their Galway Tent pals by throwing Billions of Euros into rogue Banks to bail out their Speculator Builder and Developer friends.Make no mistake that the Blueshirt and Labour so called alternative will do no different if they were in power.They are fooling nobody?.
L - SWA , my comments werent directed at yourself. Apologies if you thought they were. They were directed at some of the divisive comments being posted by a number of contributors, in particular that of "CPSU and proud of it".
As I said earlier we now need to step up the campaign and build on the momentum from Saturday. Personal or political grievances people have with individuals or political organisations have no place in a campaign like this.
Agreed.
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