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Remember our James Connolly through protest and action - 2pm, Sat 15th May
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event notice 
Tuesday May 11, 2010 12:25
by éirígí PRO - éirígí
Smash the Nama Republic protest!
Anglo Irish Bank, Stephens Green,
2pm, Sat 15th May
All Welcome - Bígí Linn
éirígí is to mark the ninety-fourth anniversary of James Connolly’s execution with two public events in Dublin city over the weekend of May 15 and 16. The first will be an anti-NAMA protest outside of Anglo Irish Bank on Stephen’s Green in the city centre at 2pm on Saturday May 15. This will be followed with a commemorative wreath-laying ceremony in Arbour Hill at 12noon on Sunday May 16.
Announcing the weekend’s events Rúnaí Ginearálta éirígí Breandán Mac Cionnaith said, “This is the fifth year that éirígí have marked the anniversary of the execution of James Connolly and the other leaders of the 1916 Rising. Over the course of the upcoming Connolly weekend éirígí will hold an internal meeting to discuss policy and strategy as well as the anti-NAMA protest and wreath-laying ceremony. This mix of political theory, action and commemoration represents a fitting memorial to the legacy of James Connolly.
“In previous years éirígí’s commemoration in Arbour Hill has formed the centrepiece of the Connolly weekend. This year, however, we are breaking with that tradition and making the protest at Anglo Irish Bank the main focus of the weekend’s events. In the context of the current economic catastrophe we believe that there could be no more fitting tribute to the memory of James Connolly than the organisation of resistance to NAMA, the bank bailout and the savage cutbacks of the Dublin government. Connolly himself was a firm believer in the street politics of protest and demonstration.
“I would encourage republicans and socialists from across the country to join our protest at Anglo Irish, to bring the politics of Connolly out of the graveyard and onto the streets. In particular I would implore the tens of thousands of unemployed young people who have been abandoned by the Dublin establishment to join our protest, to become politically active and take back control of their own country.”
On April 24 scores of people joined a demonstration in support of six éirígí activists who staged a symbolic occupation of the headquarters of Anglo Irish Bank
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson has called for people to gather at Anglo-Irish
Bank on Saturday [May 15] in response to last night’s [Tuesday] attack on
demonstrators at Leinster House by Gardaí.
To mark the 94th anniversary of James Connolly’s execution, éirígí has organised
the demonstration against the bank bail-out and anti-social cuts outside
Anglo-Irish Bank’s headquarters at Stephen’s Green, Dublin. Three weeks ago, a
number of éirígí activists occupied the bank in protest at the Dublin
government’s bail-out of the business class.
Leeson said: “Last night’s attack on peaceful protestors outside Leinster House
highlights, yet again, the attitude of the Twenty-Six County establishment
towards those who are not fortunate enough to be a member of the golden circle.
“People have a right to protest and they have a right to engage in acts of civil
disobedience given the nature of the crisis we are facing.”
Leeson continued: “The time for polite discussion about the economic crisis
Ireland is facing is well and truly over. While bankers, developers and a
whole coterie of business people have been protected by Leinster House
politicians, working people have paid the price. This is not a sustainable
situation.
“On Saturday, we can send a message to the business class and their servants in
Leinster House that they can no longer get away with their acts of theft
without facing the direct action of an angry and united people.”
Saturday’s demonstration will assemble at Anglo-Irish Bank, St Stephen’s Green,
Dublin at 2pm.
Anglo-Irish Bank Demo, Dublin – Saturday 15th
éirígí spokesperson Daithí Mac An Mháistír will be the main speaker at
Saturday’s demonstration at Anglo-Irish Bank headquarters in Dublin.
Belfast musician Pól MacAdaim will also be performing at the St Stephen’s Green
protest, which will begin at 2pm.
To mark the 94th anniversary of James Connolly’s execution, éirígí has organised
the demonstration against the bank bail-out and anti-social cuts. Three weeks
ago, a number of éirígí activists occupied the bank in protest at the Dublin
government’s bail-out of the business class.
Enough is enough – now is time for civil disobedience and mass protest. éirígí
is calling for all those who want to fight back to join us at Anglo-Irish Bank
on Saturday.
Bígí linn - All welcome
Protesters now on roof of Anglo.
Tons of cops gathering.......
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