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national / bin tax / household tax / water tax Thursday October 09, 2003 20:25 by imc editorial
 FROM THE NEWSWIRE:"In the light of today’s decision to jail ten Anti Bin Tax campaigners, the Fingal Anti Bin Tax Campaign calls for Saturday’s Dublin Council of Trade Unions Anti Bin Tax - Anti Jailings demonstration (Assemble 12 noon Parnell Square and march to Mountyjoy Jail) to be made into a massive show of opposition. We call on the trade union movement to pull out all the stops to ensure this is the case. We call on ordinary people the length and breadth of the country to travel up to join this protest. To jail ordinary residents for a peaceful protest on their own streets while millionaire crooks and tax evading T.D.’s go free shows the massive double standard in the legal system in this country. The ten jailings, mothers and grandmothers among them, represents the most significant attack on the right to protest seen in this country in a generation. In particular, they represent an attack on the right of working class people to protest- farmers, middle class professionals and other sections of society would never to treated in this way. Saturday’s protest will be an anti- Government protest. This Government made the laws, this Government promoted the bin tax; they will suffer very real consequences as a result of the jailings today." Initial Reactions from groups involved in the campaign Opinion: Acts of Resistance and The Bin-Tax Dublin Council of Trade Unions: Motion and Details of Saturday March
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dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Wednesday October 01, 2003 16:44 by Activist
A meeting between several activists from several different local campaigns and political groups has called for a protest on Thursday evening at the Grangegorman depot, starting at 5 pm, during the city-centre commercial collection runs. This has since been endorsed by the steering committee. Campaign chairman, Dermot Connolly, announced it to an enthusiastic reception at the rally outside the Dail on Tuesday evening.
The government knows that opposition to the tax is so strong that they can't take on all areas at once. So they've started non-collection only in areas where the campaign is weak, slicing up the city like salami.
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dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Tuesday September 23, 2003 23:56 by No Bin Tax
Mick O'Reilly and ATGWU strongly criticise Begg and ICTU on Bin Charges StanceReports from Dundrum/Ballybrack Meetings: 25th Sept Discussion of Trade Unions and Bin Tax Campaign Stoneybatter Solidarity Blockade Report: 25th Sept Comprehensive series of reports on High Court proceedings: Weds 24 Sept GARDAI HAVE arrested a further 12 anti-bin tax campaigners in Fingal. Three were arrested in Clonsilla and a further nine - including a husband and wife - were arrested in the Huntstown area. Two of those arrested appeared before the high court this afternoon, the rest are due to appear tomorrow. This is the latest Council manoeuvre against the Anti-Bin Tax Campaign. This follows the 5,000 strong solidarity demonstration outside Mountjoy Prison last night (Mon 22nd Sept), where Joe Higgins and Clare Daly are detained.
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dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Monday September 22, 2003 01:59 by Editorial Group
 The Campaign against Bin Charges in Dublin continued ouer the weekend of 20th/21st September with a number of protests taking place in local areas in response to the jailing of Joe Higgins and Clare Daly. Bertie Ahern was also heckled at a Robert Emmett Commemoration on Saturday by anti Bin Charges campaigners. A major protest is planned for the evening of Monday 22nd starting at the Garden of Remembrance at 7.30 pm.
Jailings will only intensify the protests against the Bin Tax: Latest Fingal Anti-Bin Tax Campaign Press Release
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dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax Wednesday September 10, 2003 15:19 by Dermot Sreenan
The initial battles are over and now finally the war has begun. After being beaten on every front and with non-payment still remaining very high, Fingal council became the first one to try and implement their new tactic of non-collection of the rubbish. This is something they've had to wait to implement because it took new laws to be railroaded though the dail for them to be able to start this withdrawal of services.As I write this morning (Sept 10th) there are eight different trucks which are blockaded into various estates in the north Dublin area known as Fingal. The campaign is stating that either all the bags of rubbish are picked up or none of them shall be picked up. This is a vital couple of weeks for the campaigns.
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