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 Friday August 23, 2002 14:07 by Libertarians against Nice chekovfeeney at yahoo dot com
 Founding meeting for National Campaign Details and dates of the founding meeting of the libertarain campaign against the Nice Treaty Anarchist and libertarian groups and individuals from all across Ireland are meeting in Dublin on Saturday 7th September to found a campaign against the Nice Treaty. This follows on from local discussion that have already taken place in Dublin, at Ecotopia, the anarchist summer camps etc and on the Irish anarchism list. At this stage it looks like the campaign will include the WSM, ASF, AF, Cork Anarchist Alliance and individuals from RTS, Gluseacht and other groups and individuals involved in the Grassroots Gatherings. Discussions to date indicate that the probable basis of the campaign will be on the following points, although the exact wording etc is to be worked out. No to capitalist globalisation Up to now the right have made most of the running with the No vote. We see a need for a libertarian No campaign that argues for a No vote on a libertarian basis. This is not just about defeating the referendum it is also about making the defeat a progressive one rather then one based on the sort of racist rhetoric that so far has dominated the debate. So we strongly encourage all anarchists and libertarians in Ireland, north and south, to attend this meeting. It will take place at 14.30 hours in the Teachers Club, 35, Parnell Square, Dublin on Saturday 7th September. We don't want a campaign where some group turns up at the first meeting with the campaign posters and leaflets already printed out. So please bring along draft posters and ideas for the campaign. A draft leaflet for discussion will be prepared on the Irish Anarchism list in the week before the meeting on the basis of drafts emailed to that list. So if you want to take part in that process be sure to join Irish Anarchism. This draft will then be amended at the meeting itself. We hope to print and distribute tens of thousands of leaflets in the run up to the referendum, again the number that we do will depend on your involvement. For more details or to add items to the agenda or if you can't make the meeting but want to receive any material produced please contact Chekov at chekovfeeney@yahoo.com or ring/SMS us at 087 7939931. To take part in the ongoing discussion about the anarchist campaign email irishanarchism-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Various anarchists have already begun working on the referendum, and already there are some web pages up and some more in preparation. This includes the page at http://struggle.ws/about/nice.html which now includes some detailed briefing documents on the Nice treaty as well as links to the various official documents and other relevant articles. If you know of material that should be linked from that page or other Irish libertarian pages on Nice please email details of them to revolt@newmail.net. Again the founding meeting will be at 14.30 hours in the Teachers Club, 35, Parnell Square, Dublin on Saturday 7th September. Make sure YOU are there! |
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Jump To Comment: 4 3 2 1Chekov
Socialist Party members have better things to be doing with their time than putting up "10 things to hate about...." lists
1. This is not a duplicate post, it is the first time it has been posted, the time and place for the meeting were only decided yesterday. So what the hell are you talking about?
2. Why do you assume that the '10 reasons to hate' posts were posted by anarchists. From my reading of the threads I'd guess that they were put up by SP members.
3. This type of thing, an announcement of a campaign meeting with an article describing it is the very type of thing that belongs on the newswire. I don't think you'll find anywhere on the newswire an anarchist arguing that anybody, whether SWP, SF or whoever, should not be allowed to post details of meetings like this to the newswire.
4. Lots of anti-anarchist spam has been on the newswire for example the song about Bakunin, see:
http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=8736 In my opinion the editors are slower to remove spam that is anti-anarchist because they know that there are various people such as yourself who consider anything resembling an open publishing service to be an anarchist conspiracy. Freedom just doesn't sit well with some people
5. The complaints about stuff on the newswire from anarchists has generally been about stuff that is spam, long articles available elsewhere on the net, stuff not relevant to Ireland, etc. The political position of the post has not been an issue.
Groundless charges of this type of selective anarchist censorship are designed to cow the editors into implementing the type of censorship that you want. Hopefully it won't work. By the way, have you been complaining about all the other spam on the newswire or do you just object to anything by anarchists, whether or not it is spam?
I see the hawks at indymedia have a blind spot when it comes to duplicate postings. Its OK if its an Anarchist one for the rest of us its delete, delete, delete. Then ago its criteria for the 10 reasons to hate series was also totally inconsistent. I suppose its the same with cops everywhere...
my advice is go along, i dropped in on the grassroots gathering things these guys had going, it was really good, very positive people, very vibrant, check it out, i intend to, can you bring anything you think might be good to the campaign, leaflets for example