Goatpie
23rd May 2011, 19:41
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=226001514076751
Hi. My names Andrew and like many people me age I don't want much from life, just to get a good job when I graduate in doing something I like. However, it's madness atm. Look, I know a lot of you like me don't read the newspapers. We don't watch RTE's bullshit or TV3 news etc. but we know things are getting out of hand with college fees too high, and your parents mortgages crippling their lives. The ECB is going to hike interest rates again, which without being boring, is why we need to leave the euro so we can protect homeowners. I know many people tune out and just watch Jedward and get on with their lives as best they can, because hey what else can ye do, right?
But I just want to say that it doesn't have to be like this. You don't have to agree with my politics to feel injusticed atm. I mean grants are being cut very heavily, many of you probably can't afford health insurance or the dentist and have to help family members pay their bills with any spare cash you find. Yes we has an election, but everything is still the same. Politicians still fly in jets, live on 6 figure wages and expenses at our expense driven round in bloody chariots to boot whilst you and I, future workers hopefully, see increases in suicides, depression, drug usage, domestic violence, health problems, mental health problems, youth drug usage due to poverty etc. 5'000 Irish people die every year from inequality and suicides are over double what they were three years ago.
But we can change this. A little country about 1'000 miles north of us called Iceland protested for 10 months and got a referendum on the unfair and cruel bank bailout forced on them. Spain has more unemployed people than the whole of Ireland's population. Ireland has more people out of work than the whole of Iceland's population. We all face the same problems, and as we speak Spain and Italy and Greece are fighting back via revolution.
Now just to finish I know it's not always easy to take things seriously as Irish people naturally probably all hate politicians-at least thats my view of the problem. But we dont need politicians to make our own choices. And the choice we now face is do we let the Gardai and the taxmen kill innocent people(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nM04G7eIiw&feature=youtu.be) or do we stand up for our rights with our friends from Spain, Greece, Portugal, Italy and Iceland? Please, please make a stand and don't wait for me by any means. I've exams all this week, but I'll be holding a demonstration from 1-4 p.m. at the Spire, the heart of our capital by the GPO and Jim Larkins statue, which could be our tahrir square. I am willing to give what money I can spare to ensure a sustained democratic campaign of protest is held until we have our referendum, justice, equality, and our country back. The choice is yours. Please stand with me.
Hopefully it will pick up and get a good attendance.
Hi. My names Andrew and like many people me age I don't want much from life, just to get a good job when I graduate in doing something I like. However, it's madness atm. Look, I know a lot of you like me don't read the newspapers. We don't watch RTE's bullshit or TV3 news etc. but we know things are getting out of hand with college fees too high, and your parents mortgages crippling their lives. The ECB is going to hike interest rates again, which without being boring, is why we need to leave the euro so we can protect homeowners. I know many people tune out and just watch Jedward and get on with their lives as best they can, because hey what else can ye do, right?
But I just want to say that it doesn't have to be like this. You don't have to agree with my politics to feel injusticed atm. I mean grants are being cut very heavily, many of you probably can't afford health insurance or the dentist and have to help family members pay their bills with any spare cash you find. Yes we has an election, but everything is still the same. Politicians still fly in jets, live on 6 figure wages and expenses at our expense driven round in bloody chariots to boot whilst you and I, future workers hopefully, see increases in suicides, depression, drug usage, domestic violence, health problems, mental health problems, youth drug usage due to poverty etc. 5'000 Irish people die every year from inequality and suicides are over double what they were three years ago.
But we can change this. A little country about 1'000 miles north of us called Iceland protested for 10 months and got a referendum on the unfair and cruel bank bailout forced on them. Spain has more unemployed people than the whole of Ireland's population. Ireland has more people out of work than the whole of Iceland's population. We all face the same problems, and as we speak Spain and Italy and Greece are fighting back via revolution.
Now just to finish I know it's not always easy to take things seriously as Irish people naturally probably all hate politicians-at least thats my view of the problem. But we dont need politicians to make our own choices. And the choice we now face is do we let the Gardai and the taxmen kill innocent people(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nM04G7eIiw&feature=youtu.be) or do we stand up for our rights with our friends from Spain, Greece, Portugal, Italy and Iceland? Please, please make a stand and don't wait for me by any means. I've exams all this week, but I'll be holding a demonstration from 1-4 p.m. at the Spire, the heart of our capital by the GPO and Jim Larkins statue, which could be our tahrir square. I am willing to give what money I can spare to ensure a sustained democratic campaign of protest is held until we have our referendum, justice, equality, and our country back. The choice is yours. Please stand with me.
Hopefully it will pick up and get a good attendance.